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.
| identifier | question |
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| A39212 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 was it therefore to be done before the same,( as the Millinaries would have it?) |
| A39212 | But if God should faile either Abraham, or any of his seed in this respect, how did he then keep his covenant? |
| A39212 | Return, O Lord, how long? |
| A39212 | Then well may they eat and drink and take their pleasure: for who knoweth of any felicity or pain he had before? |
| A42821 | But cui fini? |
| A42821 | But why should Mr. L. be so extreamly angry at me for my taxing him with pilfering from Mr. Gresham, and concealing his Name? |
| A42821 | Can you with the Satyre in the Fable, blow hot and cold in a breath so handsomely? |
| A42821 | Do you confess that you have received Manuscripts, and assistance in Judgement,& c. and yet in the same Epistle deny it? |
| A42821 | How, Mr. L? |
| A42821 | The question then in short is, Whether Mr. Gresham, or L. be the prime Author of that work? |
| A42821 | Well, but if it be not L''s, how( may some say) do you prove it to be Mr. Greshams? |
| A42821 | What thinks Mr. L. now? |
| A42821 | and thence for to threaten a destruction of the world by fire? |
| A42821 | — When as we know by assiduous experience, that( almost) every hot Evening produceth such miraculous( what shall I call them?) |
| A25382 | AS Adam sléeping securely in his transgression, had great néed of that Trumpet from GOD, to rowze him from the sléep of sin, Adam ubi es? |
| A25382 | Adam where art thou? |
| A25382 | Can we not remember? |
| A25382 | He is verus Iudex& Iustus, he is a true and upright Iudge? |
| A25382 | Is our memory so short? |
| A25382 | Nay, what madnesse is in us, that we can not be converted with all the preaching that is so often and continually preached amongst us? |
| A25382 | Nay, who shall escape damnation here? |
| A25382 | O Lord who shall escape amercing here? |
| A25382 | O how many causes of wéeping and dolefull crying shall those miserable wretches then have? |
| A25382 | O where is any such Conversion in these our dayes? |
| A25382 | To morrow, some wil say, I will a Convert be, O when tell me I pray, shall I this morrow see? |
| A25382 | What carelesnesse? |
| A25382 | What drowsinesse is in us? |
| A25382 | What shall I more say? |
| A25382 | What will move a man to consider of himselfe, and of his accompting day, if this will not? |
| A25382 | Wherefore, holy men of God urge still the time present? |
| A25382 | Whose life hath it bettered? |
| A25382 | Yet, nothwithstanding the Gospell hath béen long taught amongst us, the sound thereof hath filled our eares, but whose heart hath it pierced? |
| A25382 | or have we drunke so much of the River of forgetfulnesse? |
| A58814 | ''T is true indeed, the passage from one to t''other is commonly very painfull and grievous; but what of that? |
| A58814 | And what though that state, and the laws and customs of it be in a great measure unknown to me? |
| A58814 | Can any Physick be nauseous or distastfull, that is prescribed to recover us into such an happy immortality? |
| A58814 | Can any thing be unwelcome to us that is in order to so blessed an end? |
| A58814 | For God''s sake consider, Sirs; What is there in this world that ye are so fond of it? |
| A58814 | For how much pains do we ordinarily take upon far less hopes? |
| A58814 | For shall we receive so much good at the hands of God as everlasting life implies, and not be contented to receive some evil? |
| A58814 | how can we faint in our Christian race when we see the Crown of Glory hang over the Goal? |
| A58814 | what in the other, that ye are so afraid of it? |
| A61415 | And why should it not? |
| A61415 | For this would be to deceive You after the manner of the False Prophets of old? |
| A61415 | How few desire in earnest to avoid Temptation? |
| A61415 | LET us examine our ways, and consider impartially, What the Religion of most Men is? |
| A61415 | Nay, who almost is there, that takes not the Devil''s Office out of his Hand, and is not himself a Tempter both to himself and others? |
| A61415 | That his Blessed Will should be universally Obeyed? |
| A61415 | That his Kingdom should be advanced and inlarged? |
| A61415 | Who shews by his forsaking sin that he desires so much as he should do the forgiveness of it? |
| A61415 | for example; How few of our Ladies and Gentlewomen, do or will understand, that a Voluptuous Life, is Damnable and prohibited to them? |
| A39838 | 43. how much more bright shall Christ shine, who will appear in the strength of his own glory? |
| A39838 | And if it will be thus, what is there hid that shall not be made manifest, that it may have its reward? |
| A39838 | Behold he comes with Clouds, and every eye shall see him: The Royal Chariot then of this Judge will be a Cloud: But what kind of Cloud think you? |
| A39838 | But with what Weapons will he wage War? |
| A39838 | Had it been askt where dwells such a one, the answer would have been, he is dead; where his Wife? |
| A39838 | Is it in the wishes of you the Inhabitants of this place, whose habitations are yet standing, that they should not partake of Londons punishment? |
| A39838 | Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my Treasures? |
| A39838 | Is this day coming? |
| A39838 | Or like that little Cloud in the days of Elias, no bigger at first then a mans hand, which increasing brought rain to the parched Earth? |
| A39838 | Ought not this to be stiled a Great day? |
| A39838 | Suffer me here a little to expostulate; If powerful Herod fear''d him lying in the Manger, will he not be much more fear''d sitting upon his Throne? |
| A39838 | Tell me, if you are able, what a Night that will be? |
| A39838 | Then is there a day, that the Lord hath appointed to judge the world in? |
| A39838 | To contract, will this Day of the Lord which is coming, be a great and terrible or dreadful day in so many respects as you have heard? |
| A39838 | and he said, who art thou Lord? |
| A39838 | and if so, what will an Eternal night be? |
| A39838 | and the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest; and he trembling, and astonished, said, Lord what wilt thou have me to do? |
| A39838 | dead; where his Children? |
| A39838 | dead; where his Man; his Maid? |
| A39838 | how shall I appear before the Great God of Heaven, whom I have deny''d, when Simeon but a man will not look on me? |
| A39838 | if he frown, how will God look upon me, when I come before his Tribunal? |
| A39838 | of the Acts, that after he was dismounted he heard a voice, saying, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
| A39838 | such a one as was that, which defended the Israelites from extremity of heat in the day, and gave them light by night? |
| A39838 | who ever saw at any time such a Convention, such a Meeting, such an Assembly? |
| A39838 | would you not have Iccobod written upon all that you can call Beautiful and Glorious? |
| A39838 | would you that your Bethel( in which through God ● s goodness ye are assembled at this time) should never be turn''d into Bethaven? |
| A02194 | Adam where art thou? |
| A02194 | Doest not thou see that god hath taken thee in hand, and hath laide a heauie iudgement vpon thee? |
| A02194 | How common( alasse) this sinne of swearing is, who knoweth not? |
| A02194 | How shall these flinty heartes looke for one dramme of mercy at the daye of iudgement? |
| A02194 | Howe then shall those griping vultures make an account, that haue by oppression vndone their brethren? |
| A02194 | If Haman could not abide the angrie countenance of King Ahasuerosh: how shalt thou( O wicked man) abide the angrie countenance of this frowning iudge? |
| A02194 | If wee vse our tongues to this purpose, then may wee truely say with the Poet, Lingua quid melius? |
| A02194 | Immò horum numerus numero non clauditur vllo: Yea the number of them is not to bee numbred) whither( I say) shalte thou desire to runne? |
| A02194 | Quid peuna lenius? |
| A02194 | Sathan, But tell mee, why God will not heare the prayer? |
| A02194 | Signatures: A- F, G⁴(-A1, blank?). |
| A02194 | What account shall the cursing and ● anning tongue giue, that Cruelly, Disdainfully, and Despightfully speaketh against his neighbour? |
| A02194 | What accoūt shal the swearer giue, that hath not one word in his mouth but it is guarded with an execrable oath? |
| A02194 | What gaynest thou by that? |
| A02194 | What is better then the tongue? |
| A02194 | What is harder then a stone, and what is softer then the water? |
| A02194 | What is lighter then a feather? |
| A02194 | What is worse than the tongue? |
| A02194 | What shall I doe, O whither shall I tu ● ne me, when the Lord commeth to iudgement? |
| A02194 | Where is now the Epicure, that thinketh there is no iudgment at all? |
| A02194 | Where is now the heretique that confoundeth particular iudgement? |
| A02194 | Where is now the ignorant Papist that dreameth of Purgatory? |
| A02194 | and hee that fondly thinketh that there is Limbus patrum, and Lymbus puerorum? |
| A02194 | and what is shorter thā the seed ● ill? |
| A02194 | and where are these that imagin of a place of ab ● ade, betweene Heauen and Hell? |
| A02194 | and where shalte thou wish to hide thy selfe from this terrible iudge? |
| A02194 | if the iust shall scarce bee saued, where shalte thou( poore wretch) appeare? |
| A02194 | or doest thou think that any vgly person shall bee suffered there? |
| A02194 | or what hath the pomp of riches done vs good? |
| A02194 | quid diuitiarū copia? |
| A02194 | quid dubitas? |
| A02194 | quid milt ● breuius? |
| A02194 | that is, Goe forth O soule, goe forth, why art thou afraid? |
| A02194 | thou hast serued Christ these seuentie yeares,& art afraid now to depart? |
| A02194 | what hath pride profited vs? |
| A02194 | what shall thee be two iudgements executed? |
| A02194 | why doubtest thou? |
| A01451 | A blasphemous worde belked against the spirit of God, is both accomptable and vnpardonable ▪ according to this saying of our Sauiour? |
| A01451 | Again, dost thou consider the Iudge, and dost not consider the Aduocate? |
| A01451 | Againe, what is the cause that thy domesticall and ordinarie fire goeth out? |
| A01451 | All ye that are thirstie, come vnto the waters: The same he will proclaime at the standard in the ayre: Come yee blessed: And why? |
| A01451 | Also the bodies of the Saints must be in a place: but what place shall they haue, if they haue not a place in the worlde? |
| A01451 | And as Iohn himselfe saieth to the Pharisees, and Sadduces: Who hath forewarned you to flie from the anger to come? |
| A01451 | And by that which Paul saith: Doe ye not know that the saints shall iudge the world? |
| A01451 | And therewith? |
| A01451 | And why? |
| A01451 | Another question would be touched though wee will not vndertake fullie to determine it: Whether wee shall know one another in heauen? |
| A01451 | Art thou afraide( saith Ambrose) that thy Iudge will be vnmercifull? |
| A01451 | Art thou thus wise for thy worldly wealth, and wilt thou not haue as good vnderstanding for thy sauing health? |
| A01451 | As 〈 ◊ 〉 said, Lo, I am almost dead, what is then this birthright t ● ● ee? |
| A01451 | But how shall they be shocked and bundled vp? |
| A01451 | But tell mee what thou wouldest haue there? |
| A01451 | But when the Almightie seeketh with his Candle in his hand, how is it possible but that he should finde what he seeketh for? |
| A01451 | But when the sonne of man commeth, shall he find faith on the earth? |
| A01451 | But wil be alwaies sleepe? |
| A01451 | But yet it is verie strange, that this fire should burne, and not consume? |
| A01451 | Comest thou to torment vs before the time? |
| A01451 | Cou ● tous man I aske thee whether thou goest? |
| A01451 | Euerie mans worke shall bee made manifest, if our expectation of the iudgement hath not due effect? |
| A01451 | For haue not Princes ● wordes from age to age been ouer- drunken with the blood of the godly? |
| A01451 | For if it were not a matter vndoubted, to what purpose is it that it is thus described? |
| A01451 | For the great day of his wrath is come, and who can stand? |
| A01451 | For what haue they be serued that they should be so punished? |
| A01451 | For what is the hay or gréeue herbe in comparison of man? |
| A01451 | For what is your life? |
| A01451 | For what should he say? |
| A01451 | For wouldest y ● haue riches? |
| A01451 | He saith of them as Duke Ioab said to Abner in effect: Knowest thou not that it 〈 ◊ 〉 bitternes in the latter end? |
| A01451 | How glorious thē shall our faces bee, when we shall bee made the Sonnes of God and liue for euer with him? |
| A01451 | Howe doe they woorke in thee? |
| A01451 | If God respecteth not our workes in this worke: from whence say they doe wee draw this difference of the recompence? |
| A01451 | If not any idle word may be borne with, how shall oaths and cursed speaches, which are as common as stones in the street be borne with? |
| A01451 | If righteousnesse and iudgement shall bee the preperation of his seate, what is the preheminence of Gentrie before others, before that heauenly seate? |
| A01451 | If such be the terror of his comming, who shall abide the terror of his iudging? |
| A01451 | If the holy Citie of Ierusalem sha ● l be scorched with lights and bu ● ● ing ● orches: how shall Babylon the place of confusion bee searched? |
| A01451 | If there be such a decl ● ● ation in the vppermost parte, what shall we say of this lowe ● ● ost rome, but that it is in a verie weake taking? |
| A01451 | If therefore in that day, which is a day of Iustice, the elect tremble, what shal sinners doe? |
| A01451 | Is it not because thou feedest it not with combustible matter? |
| A01451 | Is not this great Babell? |
| A01451 | It was wisely laid togither of Esau, Loe I die,& what shal then the prerogatiue of my birth do me? |
| A01451 | Now good Christ ● an, whilest then reade these thinges, what thinkest thou of them? |
| A01451 | Now shall not all the louers of the world be confounded before him, who so loathed and reiected all the pleasures of this worlde? |
| A01451 | Now what profite is there( as Dauid saith) in our bloud, when wee goe downe to the pitte? |
| A01451 | Now who is not wrapped in the iudgement by this verdit? |
| A01451 | Rnow yee not that we shall iudge the Angels? |
| A01451 | Sarah her dead wembe was deliuered of a son: what are these but liuely images of the resurrection? |
| A01451 | Seeing all thinges must be desolued, what maner of men ought wee to be in holy conuersation and godlines? |
| A01451 | Shall he not say, what pro ● ● ● e is there in my blood, if I damne him whom I haue deliuered? |
| A01451 | The séed of liuing creatures, which is nothing else but a drop of misshapen humour, what substance doth it beget in progresse of time? |
| A01451 | Therefore what a huge destruction shall there be of the wicked, when hee commeth with such a royall armie of Angels with him? |
| A01451 | Thus shooting their fooles bolte: Where is the promise of his comming? |
| A01451 | What better witnesses would a man wish to haue for the eu ● ● ence of the case? |
| A01451 | What man knowing that hee is to liue in England will purchase and build in Spaine? |
| A01451 | What partes doth it produce, as hands, feete, eares, eies, head and such like in their kinde? |
| A01451 | When he shall be in his domination, not one: one kingdome of Egipt as Ioseph, but ouer all the kingdomes of the worlde? |
| A01451 | When should this fore denuntiation of Christ sake effect? |
| A01451 | When the Apostles put forth the question to Christ: Lord wilt thou at this time restore the Kingdome to Israel? |
| A01451 | Where shall those that haue persecuted him in his members then appeare? |
| A01451 | Who doth not now shake and quake at the remembrance of such erquisite iudgement? |
| A01451 | Wouldest thou haue pleasures? |
| A01451 | and Peter to be crucified? |
| A01451 | and all these thinges come vppon vs, yet Quousque Domine, how long shall these punishments be vpon vs? |
| A01451 | and who shall endure when he appeareth? |
| A01451 | beheaded? |
| A01451 | consider what Iudge thou hast? |
| A01451 | for it shall be as Iob saith, How should a man compared vnto God bee iustified? |
| A01451 | how shal they not be at their wittes end? |
| A01451 | how should it not be stored with all kinde of wisdome? |
| A01451 | if there were not a reuersion of times wherein they might be glorified? |
| A01451 | rockes, rackes, flees, and what not? |
| A01451 | that is of a victorious prince wilt thou proue a paltrie companion? |
| A01451 | the Saints of God from time to time by all exquisite torments to be tortured? |
| A01451 | wherefore Malachi crieth out of that day, saying: Who may abide the day of his comming? |
| A65985 | Am I alone of what''s my own no Master or ● o Lord? |
| A65985 | And what a ● e Riches to be doted on? |
| A65985 | And what are Friends, but mortal men, as we? |
| A65985 | And who can tell what may become of thee, Or where thy Soul in one days time may be? |
| A65985 | And yet no space to seek Gods face, and turn to him in truth? |
| A65985 | Art thou of force his power to withstand? |
| A65985 | As in a Dropsie, drinking drought beg ● ts: The more he drinks, the more he still requires? |
| A65985 | Because the Lord was good, hast thou been evil, And taken part against him with the Devil? |
| A65985 | But what''s the time from the worlds prime unto this present day, If we thereby Eternity to measure should assay? |
| A65985 | But who can tell the plagues of Hell, and torments exquisite? |
| A65985 | Can God delight in such a sight as sinners Misery? |
| A65985 | Can any thing from him concealed be, Who doth the hidden things of darkness see? |
| A65985 | Can it agree with equitee? |
| A65985 | Canst thou account sin sweet, and yet confess That, first or last, it ends in bitterness? |
| A65985 | Canst thou by might escape out of his hand; Dost thou intend to run out of his sight, And save thy self from punishment by flight? |
| A65985 | Canst thou deny us once to try, or grace to us to tender, When he finds grace before thy face, that was the chief offender? |
| A65985 | Could you find time for vain pastime? |
| A65985 | Dost think to put him off with fair pretences? |
| A65985 | Du ● st you prophane and render vain so far as you were able, Those Mysteries? |
| A65985 | Durst you draw near without due fear unto my holy Table? |
| A65985 | For fruitless toys, and fading joyes that perish in the birth? |
| A65985 | For what is Beauty, but a fading Flower? |
| A65985 | For what is Honour? |
| A65985 | For why? |
| A65985 | Great Alexander, what''s become of thee? |
| A65985 | Had you good leisure for Carnal pleasure in days of health and youth? |
| A65985 | His Equity and Clemency are they not marvellous? |
| A65985 | How came your mind to be so blind? |
| A65985 | How can it be that God should see his Creatures endless pain? |
| A65985 | How cans ● thou bear to look him in the face? |
| A65985 | How canst thou hold from weeping flouds of tears, Yea, tears of bloud, I might almost have said, If such like tears could from thine eyes be shed? |
| A65985 | How canst thou live without tormenting fears? |
| A65985 | How canst thou rest an hour, ● r sleep a night, Or in thy creature comforts take delight? |
| A65985 | How could we fools be led by Rules so far beyond our ken, Which to explain, did so much pain and puzzle wisest men? |
| A65985 | How could we sin who had not bin? |
| A65985 | How could you bear to see or hear of others freed at last From Satans Paws, whilst in his jaws your selves were held more fa ● t? |
| A65985 | How du ● st you venture, bold guests, to enter in such a ● ordid hi ● e, Amongst my guests, unto those feasts that were not made for you? |
| A65985 | How durst you eat for spir''tual meat your bane, and drink damnation, Whilst by your guile you rendred vile so rare and great salvation? |
| A65985 | How o ● t have I s ● ood knocking a ● thy door, And been denied entrance evermore? |
| A65985 | How oft did I hypocrisie and hearts deceits unmask Before your sight, giving you ligh ● to know a Christians task? |
| A65985 | How oft did love you gently move to turn unto the Lord? |
| A65985 | How often hath my Spirit been withstood, Whenas I sent him to have done thee good? |
| A65985 | I once you knowledge gave, Clearness of sight, and judgement right; who did the same deprave? |
| A65985 | I ● upon one what''s due to none I frankly shall bestow, And on the rest shall not think best compassions skirt to throw, Whom injure I? |
| A65985 | If Warlike Force, which makes the World to quake, Then why is Julius Caesar perished? |
| A65985 | If Wealth or Scepters could Immortal make, Then, wealthy Croesus, wherefore art thou dead? |
| A65985 | If any one this Question shall unto me propound; What, have the years of sinners tears no limits or no bound? |
| A65985 | In v ● in do they to Mountains say, Fall on us, and us hide From Judges i ● e, more hot then fire, For who may it abide? |
| A65985 | In younger years, beyond your fears, what if you were surprised? |
| A65985 | Is sin a thing that must procure thee sorrow, And wouldst thou dally with''t another morrow? |
| A65985 | Is this aright his bounty to improve? |
| A65985 | Is this the fruit o ● Gods great pa ● ience, To wax more bold in disobedience? |
| A65985 | Like as of old, when men grew bold Gods threatnings to contemn,( Who stopt their ear, and would not hear when mercy warned them? |
| A65985 | Lord, why dost thou rej ● ct us now, who have not thee rejected, Nor utterly true sanctity and holy li ● e neglected? |
| A65985 | My Word was pure, the Rule was sure; why did you it forsake, Or thereon trample, and men''s Example your Directory make? |
| A65985 | Now what remains, but that to pains and everlasting smart Christ should condemn the sons of men, which is their just desert? |
| A65985 | O great Creator, why was our nature depraved and forlorn? |
| A65985 | O ● for desert of one small part the whole should off be set? |
| A65985 | O ● hear their groans or ruefull moanes, and still his wrath retain? |
| A65985 | O ● what is Pleasure, but the Devils bait, Whereby he catch ● th whom he would devour, And multitudes of Souls doth ruinate? |
| A65985 | Of man''s faln Race who can true Grace or Holiness obtain? |
| A65985 | Of streng ● hning seals, of s ● eetest meals have we so oft partaken? |
| A65985 | Oh, who can bear his indignations heat? |
| A65985 | On earth below where men did owe a thousand pounds and more, Could twenty pence it recompence? |
| A65985 | Or fathom it by depth of wit, or strength of memory? |
| A65985 | Or frown upon him for his good desert? |
| A65985 | Or if I am, how can you claim w ● at I to some afford? |
| A65985 | Or me accuse, who do refuse your selves to help and heal? |
| A65985 | Or that thy own transgressions are more In number, then the sands upon the shore? |
| A65985 | Or what great good can this our bloud bring unto the most High? |
| A65985 | Or wilt thou be eternally accurst, And''bide his vengeance, let him do his worst? |
| A65985 | Or wilt thou hide and cover thine offences? |
| A65985 | Or with vain toys thy self forgetful make How near thou art unto the burning Lake? |
| A65985 | Or''bide their pains o ● hell which are so great? |
| A65985 | Others argue, and not a few, is not God gracious? |
| A65985 | Stout Hannibal, Rome''s Terrour, known so far? |
| A65985 | Stout courages( whose hardiness could death and hell out- face) Are you as bold now you behold your Judge draw near apace? |
| A65985 | Then at the Bar arraigned are an impudenter sort, Who to evade the guilt that''s laid upon them, thus retort; How could we cease thus to transgress? |
| A65985 | Think you that I can not descry your hearts abomination? |
| A65985 | Think you to buy felicity with part of what''s due debt? |
| A65985 | Thou hangest over the infernal pit By one small thread, and car''s ● thou not a whit? |
| A65985 | Thus we believ''d; are we deceiv''d? |
| A65985 | To Angels good that ever stood in their integrity, Should they betake themselves, and make their suit incessantly? |
| A65985 | To Chr ● st their Judge? |
| A65985 | To God above, with hopes to move their greatest Enemee? |
| A65985 | To Heav''n? |
| A65985 | To gain the world what will it profit thee, And lose thy soul and self eternally? |
| A65985 | To wicked men, their brethren in sin and wickedness, Should they make mone? |
| A65985 | U ● to their Treasures, or to their Pleasures? |
| A65985 | Unto the place where whilome was their birth and education? |
| A65985 | Unto thy Name more glorious fame would not such Mercy bring? |
| A65985 | Unto thy lust shall he be made a drudge, Who thee, and all ungodly men shall judge? |
| A65985 | Victorious Pompey, Cesars Enemee? |
| A65985 | WHat mortal man can wi ● h h ● s span mete out Eternity? |
| A65985 | Was all my Word obscure and hard? |
| A65985 | What could you find, what could you mind that was of greater haste? |
| A65985 | What evil or injustice hast thou found In him, that might unto thy hurt redound? |
| A65985 | What gained David by his B ● thsheba? |
| A65985 | What gained Samson by his Dalilah? |
| A65985 | What good hath he withheld that might have wo ● thee? |
| A65985 | What if ere- while they were as vile and bad as any be, ● nd yet from all their guilt and thrall at once I set them free? |
| A65985 | What injury hath God Almighty done thee? |
| A65985 | What need I tell thee of thy crooked way, And many wicked wandrings, every day? |
| A65985 | What reason hadst thou to dishonour God, Who the ● with Mercies never ceast to load? |
| A65985 | What wilt thou do without an Advocate, Or plead, when as thy state is desperate? |
| A65985 | What, when your hands and feet are bound togethe ●, And you are cast into that Lake for ever? |
| A65985 | Where are the Scipio''●, Thunderbolts of War? |
| A65985 | Where was your strife to gain that life which lasteth evermore? |
| A65985 | Who can convert or change his heart, if God with- hold the same? |
| A65985 | Who can relate their dismal state, and terrours infinite? |
| A65985 | Who ever sought Heav''n as he ought, and seeking perished? |
| A65985 | Whom Death from us may quickl ● separate? |
| A65985 | Whom have they Crowned with Felicity When did they ever sati ● fie desire? |
| A65985 | Why chastenings and evil ● hings, why judgments so severe Prevailed not with them a jo ●, nor wrought an awful fear? |
| A65985 | Why cords of love did nothing move to shame or to remorse? |
| A65985 | Why promises of holiness, and new obedience, ● hey oft did make, but always break the ● ame to Gods offence? |
| A65985 | Why sinful pleasures and earthly treasures, like fools they prized more Then heavenly wealth, eternal health, and all Christs Royal store? |
| A65985 | Why so defil''d, and made so vild Whilst we were yet unborn? |
| A65985 | Why then did you your time foreslow, and slight your Souls welfare? |
| A65985 | Why warnings grave, and councels have nought chang''d their sinful course? |
| A65985 | Why, still Hell- ward, without regard, the boldly ventured, And chose Damnation before Salvation when it was offered? |
| A65985 | Why, when he stood off''ring his Bloud to wash them from their sin, They would embrace no saving Grace, but liv''d and di''d therein? |
| A65985 | Will you demand G ● ace at my hand, and challenge what is mine? |
| A65985 | Will you teach me whom to set free, and thus my Grace confine? |
| A65985 | Would it not raise thine endless praise, more than our suffering? |
| A65985 | Would you have griev''d to have receiv''d through Adam so much good, As had been your for evermore, if he at first had stood? |
| A65985 | Would you have said, We ne''r obey''d nor did thy Laws regard; It ill befits with benefits us, Lord, so to reward? |
| A65985 | Ye sons of men that durst contemn the threatnings of Gods word, How cheer you now? |
| A65985 | You had a season; what was your Reason such preciou ● hours to waste? |
| A65985 | You pray''d and wept, you Fast- days kept, but did you this to me? |
| A65985 | You say y''have bin, my Presence in; bu ●, f ● iends, how came you there Wi ● h Raiment vile, that did defile and quite disgrace my cheer? |
| A65985 | You that could preach, and others teach wh ● t way to life doth lead; Why were you slack to find that track, and in that way to tread? |
| A65985 | Your gold is dross, you ● silver brass, your righteousness is sin: And think you by such honesty Eternall life to win? |
| A65985 | Your selves into a pit of wo your own transgressions led: If I to none my grace had shown, who had been injured? |
| A65985 | can Mercy have the heart, To Recompence few years offence with Everlasting smart? |
| A65985 | can not his Mercy great,( As hath been told to us of old) asswage his anger''s heat? |
| A65985 | could that have clear''d the score? |
| A65985 | did patience you afford? |
| A65985 | for loose licentious mirth? |
| A65985 | how could we Hell avoid, Whom God''s Decree shut out from thee, and sign''d to be destroy''d? |
| A65985 | is God engag''d to give A longer time to such as love to live Like Rebels still, who think to stain his Glory By wickedness, and after to be sorry? |
| A65985 | might it please thee to release, and pardon us this day? |
| A65985 | no other knew but you might be elect: Why did you then your selves condemn? |
| A65985 | or how is his sin our Without consent, which to prevent we never had a pow''r? |
| A65985 | should they themselves apply? |
| A65985 | what is Sov''raignty, Whereto mens hearts so restlesly aspire? |
| A65985 | whither shall they for help or succour flee? |
| A65985 | why did you me reject? |
| A65985 | will you envy, and grudge at others weal? |
| A65985 | ● i d we not eat thy flesh for meat, and feed on heavenly cheer? |
| A65985 | ● nd shall we be cast off by thee, and utterly forsaken? |
| A41462 | Again, if God be a necessary Agent, I would fain be resolved how it comes to pass that we are not so too? |
| A41462 | All this is very true; but what do you infer from this Account? |
| A41462 | Amongst which, what will they say to this which happens almost every year? |
| A41462 | And all this together shall be my first Argument by which I recommend Discourse of Religion; what think you of this, Philander? |
| A41462 | And did not he confirm his report to us by undeniable Miracles? |
| A41462 | And have you drolled with us all this while, Sebastian? |
| A41462 | And now what think you, Biophilus, upon the whole matter: have I not acquitted my self in all the three things I propounded? |
| A41462 | And now, Dear Phil, what think you upon the whole matter? |
| A41462 | And now, Phil, what is become of that formidable Objection, as you and I thought it at first? |
| A41462 | And the first thing to our purpose which I remark is, the example of our Saviour,( and who can we better learn of?) |
| A41462 | And what more full, plain, compendious and higher Institution of Religion can there be than the Holy Scripture? |
| A41462 | And who can pretend to declare what God will do, unless he be pleased to reveal his intentions? |
| A41462 | And why not over a Glass of Wine, as well as by a Fire side? |
| A41462 | And why, I pray you, Dear Phil, should not Religion have its turn in our Conversation? |
| A41462 | Are all men Puritans when they are sick or upon their Death- Beds? |
| A41462 | Are our souls only given us for Salt to keep the Body sweet, or servilely to cater for our inferiour powers, and not rather to subdue and govern them? |
| A41462 | Are piety and Vertue things to be blushed at? |
| A41462 | Are they not Conventiclers? |
| A41462 | As how, I pray you, Sir? |
| A41462 | Biophilus, can any care be too great in such a concern? |
| A41462 | But how shall we dispose of our Estates here? |
| A41462 | But how then shall I treat you? |
| A41462 | But if it be an untraced Path, how shall a man find the way thither, if he have a mind to go? |
| A41462 | But let me now go a little higher, and what if we take in somewhat of the other World to sweeten the present Life? |
| A41462 | But then in the Name of Goodness, what need is there of any God at all, if a necessary Agent will serve the turn? |
| A41462 | But what are the staple Commodities of the Country? |
| A41462 | But what need is there of either of these? |
| A41462 | But what need this fright any man whilst he is alive, and may provide himself accordingly? |
| A41462 | But what need you be sollicitous for my Entertainment? |
| A41462 | But what would you have a man discourse about? |
| A41462 | But why do you smile, Philander? |
| A41462 | But why, I pray you, what is the cause that spiritual substance is not as intelligible as corporeal? |
| A41462 | But why, good Biophilus, should you not lie as fair towards the Doctrine which I am asserting, as towards the contrary? |
| A41462 | But will you go with me, Sebastian? |
| A41462 | But, I pray you, in what Longitude and Latitude is it situate, that a man may know where to find it, if he should have a mind to go thither? |
| A41462 | By your pardon, Biophilus, have I done you any wrong? |
| A41462 | Can Art do that? |
| A41462 | Can a man carry fire in his bosom( said the Wise man) and not be burnt? |
| A41462 | Can any man that observes the frail contexture of his Body, and the innumerable accidents he is subject to, think himself immortal? |
| A41462 | Can any thing seem troublesom that may at once secure us from all other troubles? |
| A41462 | Can it compare things together, gather the result, distinguish or pass a judgment upon appearances? |
| A41462 | Can you phansie that nothing could have been better nor worse than it is now? |
| A41462 | Come Sir, what will you drink? |
| A41462 | Come, Gentlemen, will it please you to draw near the Fire? |
| A41462 | Come, what good News is there stirring? |
| A41462 | Come, you are for serious things, what say you to a Game at Tables? |
| A41462 | Dear Sebastian, shall I tell you a plain truth? |
| A41462 | Did he not come into the world miraculously, and return thither again visibly? |
| A41462 | Did he not from thence send down admirable tokens of his Presence and Authority there, especially on the famous day of Pentecost? |
| A41462 | Do not you believe that Jesus Christ came from Heaven on purpose to make discovery to us of those celestial Regions, and to shew us the way thither? |
| A41462 | Do not you observe that nothing so much disparages a Picture as the presence of him for whom it was drawn? |
| A41462 | Do we yield the Cause to these half- witted Profligates? |
| A41462 | Do you think I will be put off with a stale Complement? |
| A41462 | Do you think that the frame of things could not possibly have been any otherwise than they are? |
| A41462 | Doth that deserve the odious Name of a Party which is the great and universal Concern of all Mankind? |
| A41462 | Doth your mind hold for the Voyage? |
| A41462 | Fate, do you call it? |
| A41462 | For shame let us be so far from being either cow''d or byass''d by such examples, that we resolve to make better where we can not find them? |
| A41462 | For tell me, is there any man so absurdly vain as to think he shall not dye? |
| A41462 | For what a sad creature is a man of no Religion at all? |
| A41462 | For what else do we take our measures of one another by? |
| A41462 | For why should a man put a cheat upon himself? |
| A41462 | For why should we abject our selves that have rational souls, an active vigorous Intellectual Spirit in us? |
| A41462 | Happily thought of, Fellow- Traveller, but will not Biophilus go with us too: what say you, Sir? |
| A41462 | Hath any man a great Estate in a Foreign Countrey, or a huge Patrimony in reversion, and never speaks of it? |
| A41462 | Hath any man a most important Cause sub Judice, and his Tryal drawing on, and doth he never think of it, or discourse his Case with his friends? |
| A41462 | Hath any man either a considerable Friend or a formidable Enemy, and never expresses himself concerning the one or the other? |
| A41462 | Have you wheedled me back again into the Subject I declined? |
| A41462 | How can a man want Company that hath an Angelical Nature within him, or need diversion that hath the whole World before him to contemplate? |
| A41462 | How can that be, Philander? |
| A41462 | How can there be any Civil Society with him that hath no Faith, that can neither trust nor be trusted? |
| A41462 | I know the Company you mean, though I confess I have not much acquaintance with them; but do you find it a melancholy thing to converse with the dead? |
| A41462 | I presaged what entertainment my News would have with you: What can it be to us, say you? |
| A41462 | I, but that is the Question, Sebastian, how shall I be assured that God hath any such intentions, or hath made any such declaration? |
| A41462 | If these things be so as you represent them, how comes it to pass that men unconcerned about Religion, dye as comfortably oftentimes as any others? |
| A41462 | If we would improve our selves in Vertue, what suren Rule can we have than the express Declarations of God himself? |
| A41462 | If you see any footsteps of wisdom or choice, any possibility that any thing should have been otherwise than it is, you forgo your necessary Agent? |
| A41462 | In a word, Why may not we begin a good fashion, rather than fall in with a bad one? |
| A41462 | In a word, why should he not so live as he must dye? |
| A41462 | In the first place let me ask you, What is the Name of this strange Country? |
| A41462 | In the name of God, what is it? |
| A41462 | Is God so inconsiderable a Being, that we dare not stand by him? |
| A41462 | Is eternal salvation become so trivial a thing, that we should be unconcerned about it? |
| A41462 | Is it able to infer from Premises, to remember things gone and past, and recal them to mind at pleasure? |
| A41462 | Is it not the very temper and constitution of our minds to be inquisitive of the future? |
| A41462 | Is not our mind large enough to embrace the whole World? |
| A41462 | Is not this able to employ it self, our time and our bodily Spirits too? |
| A41462 | Is nothing true but what is easie, nor possible but what is facile? |
| A41462 | Is that to be accounted the peculiar Shibboleth of a Sect which speaks a Good Man and a Christian? |
| A41462 | Is that to be made a mark of infamy which the best men in the World wear as a Badge of Honour? |
| A41462 | Is your famous Vrania in another World? |
| A41462 | May not we now adventure to talk of Religion without the danger of Phanaticism? |
| A41462 | Must a Sceptist be certainly damned, if there be a Judgment? |
| A41462 | Must our understandings lye fallow and barren unless they be continually stirred up by our senses? |
| A41462 | Must we needs deny every such thing to be, as is hard to understand? |
| A41462 | Must we, like dull Boys, tear out the Lesson that is difficult to learn? |
| A41462 | Nay, why should you not look upon it as greatly your interest, that there should be another World, and a Judgment at the end of this? |
| A41462 | No, no, Sebastian, I will go to Heaven, whatever come of it; what can discourage a man when Heaven is at Stake? |
| A41462 | Now if all, or but any part of this be true, who is so mad as to have no concern for this God, Religion and another World? |
| A41462 | Now what is all this but Praejudicium, a kind of anticipation of the Judgment to come? |
| A41462 | Now will you call this a recreation, or a rack and torture rather? |
| A41462 | Of whom do you mean? |
| A41462 | Or can you expect that he should send every day fresh Envoys, and that not only to whole Countries, but to every individual person too? |
| A41462 | Or if they could speak tolerable sense in some of those particulars, yet what natural account can be given of the raising of the dead? |
| A41462 | Or of that preternatural Eclipse at our Saviour''s Passion? |
| A41462 | Or rather, why if we attribute one Perfection, i, e. Eternity to him, why not all the rest, which seem to be inseparable from it? |
| A41462 | Or suppose it should be true, what can it be to us? |
| A41462 | Or to its light again when it intermitted, as in the latter instance? |
| A41462 | Or what restored it to its motion again when it was interrupted, as in the former instance? |
| A41462 | Or why may we not as well chear up our afflicted Friend with the comforts of Religion, as well as amuze or divert him with impertinent Stories? |
| A41462 | Or, to say no more, what if it pleases him to make Faith in some respects more difficult now than it was then? |
| A41462 | Remember your self, good Neighbour, are not you a Christian? |
| A41462 | Shall I be frighted with Death? |
| A41462 | Shall I be sollicitous for my estate and worldly accommodations, when I know, whether I go to Heaven or no, I must shortly leave them all behind me? |
| A41462 | Shall I crave of you to tell me the names of those two persons? |
| A41462 | Shall he not govern the World at all, unless he order it just as we would have him? |
| A41462 | Shall we be ashamed to owne God, when they defie him? |
| A41462 | Softly, good Biophilus, what reason is there for that hasty conclusion? |
| A41462 | That would be a pleasant experiment, but have you tryed it? |
| A41462 | This is a pretty piece of News you tell me: But I pray you( by the way) do you know any of these men well? |
| A41462 | This is the pinch of the business, what think you of it now, Philander? |
| A41462 | Well, I will consider of that at leisure, in the mean time tell us what is said to be the temper of the Air? |
| A41462 | What I shall we be mealy- mouth''d in a Good Cause, when they are impudent in a bad one? |
| A41462 | What State or Civil Government will be able to endure him, whom no Oaths can oblige or fasten upon? |
| A41462 | What an huge Leviathan is vulgar Opinion, that it should be able to oppose it self to the best reason of Mankind, and to God Almighty too? |
| A41462 | What colour or pretence in the world is there for imputing those admirable revolutions to Fate? |
| A41462 | What could intercept the Suns light when the two Luminaries were in opposition? |
| A41462 | What hinders but our Dishes of Meat may be seasoned with a gracious word or two about the Food of our Souls? |
| A41462 | What hinders but that a man may converse with himself, and never have better Company than when he is most solitary? |
| A41462 | What is it to exercise a little patience, when a man shall be crowned at last? |
| A41462 | What kind of Religions Conference is it you would be at? |
| A41462 | What natural Cause will they assign of the Suns standing still in Joshua''s time? |
| A41462 | What proof do you require of this? |
| A41462 | What reason can be given that pious men should not discourse as freely and favourily of holy things, as they or other men concerning common affairs? |
| A41462 | What security can there be, I say, in dealing with such a man, what sincerity in his friendship, what safety in his neighbourhood? |
| A41462 | What should discourage or hinder men from this course? |
| A41462 | What think I, say you? |
| A41462 | What think you of it, Philander, now you understand what Country it is I perswaded you to? |
| A41462 | What would I have more? |
| A41462 | What would you have more to justifie the matter of fact? |
| A41462 | What, shall we call God to an account of his Management? |
| A41462 | Where may a man find any such person as you speak of? |
| A41462 | Who can chuse but wish to live for ever, and would not be contented to dye once, that he might be out of the reach of Chance or danger for ever after? |
| A41462 | Who can prescribe to him what shall please him, or prescribe to us better than he that made us, and knows what is fit for us to do? |
| A41462 | Who knows the mind of man, but the spirit of a man which is in him? |
| A41462 | Who will be concerned about riches, or be much discomposed whether his temporal affairs succeed well or ill, that is provided for Eternity? |
| A41462 | Who would have expected Foreign News after such a Preface? |
| A41462 | Who would not gladly be at everlasting rest, and in an unchangeable Condition? |
| A41462 | Who would not run, strive, do or suffer any thing, and venture all upon such a wager? |
| A41462 | Who( say you) will discourse of Religion? |
| A41462 | Why do they not assasinate whom they please? |
| A41462 | Why may not the common Chat about News be elevated to the consideration of the good tidings of the Gospel? |
| A41462 | Why may there not be a God, and he only a necessary Agent, and then there is no danger of an after- reckoning with him? |
| A41462 | Why should I take pains to know, when by increasing knowledge, I should but increase my sorrow? |
| A41462 | Why should he be willing to dye as the beast dyes, and to abandon himself to the grave to rottenness and oblivion? |
| A41462 | Why should he take not only unprofitable, but vexatious pains? |
| A41462 | Why should not the testimony of the holy Scripture satisfie you? |
| A41462 | Why should not we remember we are men, and improve our best Talent, sharpen the sense of our minds, and enlarge and greaten our Spirits? |
| A41462 | Why should our lesser Concerns for this World, our secular business, be the only Subject of our Communication? |
| A41462 | Why should we think so meanly of our selves, as to follow only, and not to lead? |
| A41462 | Why should you say they are dead? |
| A41462 | Why then, I say, should a man think either so ill of God or of himself, as to be afraid or unwilling to fall into his hands? |
| A41462 | Why therefore should any man be fond of such an uncomfortable, nay, such a sottish and debasing opinion? |
| A41462 | Why, do you not understand me? |
| A41462 | Why, have you less charity for men of my temper, than for all the world besides? |
| A41462 | Will not Death affright you when it appears in all its dismal pomp? |
| A41462 | Will you go on with your preparations for it, as we were discoursing before? |
| A41462 | Will you not like the Israelites( you spake of even now) repent, and bethink your self of turning back when you encounter difficulty or danger? |
| A41462 | Will you not shrink when you shall come to be stript naked of all your worldly habiliments? |
| A41462 | Will you venture to shoot the Gulph that you may arrive at it? |
| A41462 | Would you have men enter into Disputes about Divine matters? |
| A41462 | You are pleasant Sebastian: but now that you and I are together, and under the rose too( as they say) why should not we drink somewhat briskly? |
| A41462 | You do not think it unlawful to use such diversion? |
| A41462 | You say well; but how shall this Case be decided? |
| A41462 | after all do you question whether it be possible to discourse piously? |
| A41462 | and into what shall they be resolved? |
| A41462 | and that a triffling captious Coxcomb can ask more Questions than a Wise man can answer? |
| A41462 | and what Commodities had we best to furnish our selves with to carry over with us? |
| A41462 | and, so to allude to the Modern Philosophy, fill up the void spaces of his Life with Celestial matter? |
| A41462 | can not men be merry and wise too? |
| A41462 | from whence should it come? |
| A41462 | how like a drowned Rat was Master such a one, says another? |
| A41462 | how wisely our Master looks when he hath got his dose, saith a third? |
| A41462 | if one sort be silly, must the other be mad? |
| A41462 | is it the pains and difficulty? |
| A41462 | is there any necessity that every man must be intoxicated one way or other? |
| A41462 | is there no middle? |
| A41462 | may not a Gentleman entertain himself and his time without the relief of Drinking and Gaming? |
| A41462 | of being exalted above all temptation, and secured against all possibility of apostasie? |
| A41462 | of being exempted from all weakness, silliness, passion and infirmity? |
| A41462 | of being out of the reach of Fate or Chance, out of the Sphere of Mortality, Sickness and pain, care and vexation? |
| A41462 | of the ravishing contentment of enjoying everlasting friendship? |
| A41462 | one thing fitted to another, and one subordinate to another, and all together conspiring to some publick end and use? |
| A41462 | or have they free will to determine their elections which way they please, even against the interest of their senses? |
| A41462 | or how should this Fellow have notice of it before all other men? |
| A41462 | or if they be mad, must these be drunk? |
| A41462 | or of unlearned mens speaking all kind of Languages in an instant? |
| A41462 | what a Dream have I been in all this while? |
| A41462 | what a venemous breath hath Common Fame, that it can change the nature of things? |
| A41462 | what vain Fools are we, that complain of plenty when we are rather straitned and in want? |
| A59835 | 2.4 ▪ which is very ill translated, for if they were cast down into Hell, how are they reserved for the Day of Judgment? |
| A59835 | And St. Peter, as you heard, that in the last Days there shall be Scoffers, saying, Where is the promise of his coming? |
| A59835 | And can we think then, that God will reward us for our Knowledge, or our Faith, and overlook all the Evils and Impurities of our Lives? |
| A59835 | And could God then intend any thing in revealing his Will to us, but that we should obey it? |
| A59835 | And do you not by this mean Natural Good or Evil? |
| A59835 | And how will this aggravate their own Condemnation, when they carry a long Train and Retinue of undone Souls to Hell with them? |
| A59835 | And if God damn Men only for their Ill- nature, will not all Mankind justifie the Righteousness of his Judgments? |
| A59835 | And if he gave the Law with the sound of a Trumpet, why not Judge the World with it too? |
| A59835 | And if this be so, what a terrible Account have some Men to make, which they never think of? |
| A59835 | And is it not necessary then to distinguish between good and bad Men? |
| A59835 | And is not a reasonable Creature as much bound to know his Duty, as he is to practise it? |
| A59835 | And is that a reason, why he should ask less? |
| A59835 | And is there not as much reason to aim at the highest Happiness we are capable of in the next World, as well as in this? |
| A59835 | And ought we not diligently to hearken to that Judgment, which Conscience passes on us? |
| A59835 | And should not this teach us to reverence the Judgment of Conscience as a Divine Sentence? |
| A59835 | And since you boast of your Power and Greatness, who made you so? |
| A59835 | And v. 22, 23. he tells us, That in that day( that is, the Day of Judgment,) many will say unto me, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy Name? |
| A59835 | And what Title have those to Grace and Mercy, who will shew none? |
| A59835 | And what is Uncharitableness but Ill- nature? |
| A59835 | And when God knows our most secret Sins, why should he not judge us for them? |
| A59835 | Are Adulteries, Fornications, Drunkenness, Gluttony, Prophaneness, Irreligion no Sins, when committed by Young Men? |
| A59835 | Are not Men in this World as fond of Happiness, as they are afraid of Misery? |
| A59835 | Are not poor Men able to give an account of their Actions, and why then should they not be called to an account for them? |
| A59835 | Are there not very knowing and believing Devils? |
| A59835 | Are they not reasonable Creatures, and able to understand, and give a reason for what they do? |
| A59835 | But besides this, does any thing do more Mischief in the World, than Words, as little as some Men make of them? |
| A59835 | But how shall we know this? |
| A59835 | But is not Christ in Heaven? |
| A59835 | But the Enquiry here is, why GOD judges all the World at once, and summons all Mankind together to receive their final Sentence? |
| A59835 | But then consider on the other hand, what a terrible thing will it be to be condemned by the Man Christ Jesus, the Saviour of the World? |
| A59835 | But was ever any such thing done yet? |
| A59835 | But what would you have such poor Men do? |
| A59835 | But you''ll say, how does the Resurrection of Christ from the Dead prove, that he is made the Judge of the World? |
| A59835 | Can any one give a reason why these Sins should damn a Man of Forty or Fifty, and be indulged in one of Twenty? |
| A59835 | Can there be a greater Contempt of God, then for Men to Deny his Being, to Reproach his Providence, to Ridicule his Worship? |
| A59835 | Consider farther, whether you can think it fitting, that God should suffer Young Men to live as they list, without judging them for it? |
| A59835 | Could he do any thing more for us, than redeem us from Death and Hell? |
| A59835 | Could he redeem us at a dearer rate, than with his own Blood? |
| A59835 | Do Men deal thus with one another? |
| A59835 | Do we think, that Man deserves any kindness, who will shew none? |
| A59835 | Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? |
| A59835 | Do you find any Disturbance in their Looks, any symptoms of an uneasie and frighted Imagination? |
| A59835 | Does it become the Wise and Holy Governour of the World to contribute so much to the debauching Mankind, as to indulge their youthful Lusts? |
| A59835 | Does not Faith and Knowledge make every sin we commit against Faith, and against Knowledge the more inexcusable? |
| A59835 | Does not a great Mind despise little things, and aim at what is great? |
| A59835 | Does not our Saviour tell us, That he who knows his master''s will, and does it not, shall be beaten with many stripes? |
| A59835 | Does the Gospel preach Merit to us, must we merit forgiveness by forgiving? |
| A59835 | For can it become a Wise and Holy God to grant Indulgence to Vice? |
| A59835 | For can there be a more certain evidence of the evil of Sin, than the Death of Christ? |
| A59835 | For how can Sinners be saved, but by Grace? |
| A59835 | For if we must be happy or miserable for ever, how can we content our selves to live in doubt and suspence, which of these shall be our Portion? |
| A59835 | For is not Man a reasonable Creature? |
| A59835 | For what could the Law do more than condemn the wicked, and reward the good? |
| A59835 | For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? |
| A59835 | For what is this World, and all the Greatness and Glory of it, to him who made it? |
| A59835 | For will any Man say, this is just? |
| A59835 | Has God given us Reason to be the Guide and Director of our Lives, and is it not a great Crime not to attend to it, not to improve and cultivate it? |
| A59835 | Has he made Vice infamous and contemptible, and will he cast no shame, no reproach on it? |
| A59835 | Has he then forgot his Agony and Bloody Sweat, his Cross and Passion? |
| A59835 | Have we Eyes in our Heads, and is it any Excuse to us, that we shut them, and lose our Way? |
| A59835 | How hard is it for Men to bear Greatness without Pride and Insolence? |
| A59835 | How many have they corrupted by their Examples, or Counsels, or some other way? |
| A59835 | How seldom is it seen, that Men who contract Habits of Wickedness in their Youth, ever get a perfect mastery of them, or prove seriously Religious? |
| A59835 | If God reward good Men, and punish wicked Men in this World, why should we think that he has reserved no Rewards or Punishments for them in the next? |
| A59835 | If he should acquit the Wicked, and bestow Heaven on them; or condemn any good Man to Hell? |
| A59835 | If it be not enough to entitle God to our Service, that he made us, shall we deny his Purchase too? |
| A59835 | If we will not reverence the Authority of God, yet how can we resist his Love? |
| A59835 | Is God less concerned in the Government of the World now, than he was in former days? |
| A59835 | Is God the God of the Iews, and is he not the God of the Gentiles? |
| A59835 | Is Pain and Sickness, Poverty and Disgrace, an Untimely or Infamous Death, a great punishment to Men? |
| A59835 | Is he less concerned to govern other Nations, than he was to govern the Iews? |
| A59835 | Is not this to accept the Persons of Men in Judgment? |
| A59835 | Is there any living in the World without judging of Men and Things? |
| A59835 | Is there any thing in the World more hateful to Mankind, or which all Men think more deserves punishment, than Ill- Nature? |
| A59835 | Is there any use of Knowledge, but to direct our Lives? |
| A59835 | It is very obvious to ask here, What is the Fault of this? |
| A59835 | It teaches us a great Indifferency to all the things of this World; but how unreasonable is that, if this World be our only place of Happiness? |
| A59835 | Know ye not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? |
| A59835 | Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? |
| A59835 | Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? |
| A59835 | Must we not distinguish between Vertue and Vice, and between good and bad Men? |
| A59835 | Must we not say, that he is a very bad Man, whom we see do very bad things? |
| A59835 | Nay, can they Apologize for themselves? |
| A59835 | No Man who believes a Future Judgement, makes any doubt of this, but that all shall be judged: For if any, why not all? |
| A59835 | Now has any such thing yet been done? |
| A59835 | Now is there any thing Good or Evil, but Vertue or Vice? |
| A59835 | Now what is to be said to these Men? |
| A59835 | Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? |
| A59835 | Or why God should expect less from us than from other Men, because we know more? |
| A59835 | Ought not the love of Christ to constrain us? |
| A59835 | Pleasures, which will cost him his Soul? |
| A59835 | Riches, I suppose, will be allowed to be another very improveable Talent, for what Good may not a rich Man do, if he have a Heart to do it? |
| A59835 | Shall we prove that poor Men shall be judged as well as rich? |
| A59835 | Since this is universally acknowledged, the onely question is, To what Cause to attribute these Fears and Rebukes of Conscience? |
| A59835 | That he should be fed and clothed, when he is in want, who would never feed and cloath others? |
| A59835 | That he should be forgiven, who would never forgive? |
| A59835 | The Servants of the Housholder, having informed their Master of what had happened, ask him, Whether they should go and gather up the Tares? |
| A59835 | Thus how impossible is it for God to punish all bad Men here, without punishing good Men in them? |
| A59835 | What a Hell is this to live in perpetual fear of Hell? |
| A59835 | What bad Man can hear these things without Terrour and Amazement? |
| A59835 | What but this can cool the Heats of Youth, and conquer all the Charms of Flesh and Sence? |
| A59835 | What but this can reduce that giddy Age within Bounds, and make them live by Rule? |
| A59835 | What could Mankind have desired more, had they had the choice of their own Judge, than to be judged by a Man? |
| A59835 | What difference is there between the Law and the Gospel, if they must still be judged according to their Works? |
| A59835 | What does St. Peter mean? |
| A59835 | What good Man does not long for this happy Day, for this Marriage of the Lamb? |
| A59835 | What is Faith good for, which does not renew and sanctifie us? |
| A59835 | What is Knowledge good for, which does not direct and govern our Lives? |
| A59835 | What is the meaning of this? |
| A59835 | What shall we say then to this matter? |
| A59835 | What tends more to corrupt Mens Lives then lewd and wanton Talk, as St. Paul tells us, That evil communication corrupts good manners? |
| A59835 | What would Sinners think, should they hear themselves condemned by God, every time they commit a known and wilful sin? |
| A59835 | When Men are able to work and get their own living, is Poverty an excuse for begging and living idly upon the Charity and Industry of other Men? |
| A59835 | When he could get nothing by it, but the pleasure and satisfaction of making us happy, and the glory of being the Saviour of Sinners? |
| A59835 | When he has bought us with a price, the inestimable Blood of his own Son? |
| A59835 | When you hear that any Man has done good or evil, is not the next question, What good or what hurt has he done? |
| A59835 | Who knoweth the power of his wrath? |
| A59835 | Who shall search the Records of Heaven for us? |
| A59835 | Who with these thoughts about him can relish such fatal Pleasures? |
| A59835 | Why do they envy them the short and perishing Contentments of this Life, when they are to suffer an Eternity of Misery? |
| A59835 | Why should they judge themselves, but in relation to some higher Tribunal, which will certainly judge them? |
| A59835 | Why 〈 ◊ 〉 much hast to prevent the Judgment o ● God by our rash, ignorant, uncharitable Judgments? |
| A59835 | Will Poverty excuse Sloth and Idleness? |
| A59835 | Will equal and impartial Justice allow, that when a Heathen and a Christian are equally wicked, the Christian shall be saved, and the Heathen damned? |
| A59835 | Will he reward us for that which deserves no Reward? |
| A59835 | Will irregular and furious Passions make a Man miserable? |
| A59835 | Will such Men find any Apologists? |
| A59835 | Would not the very Order of Nature complain of this, should the God of Nature have no regard to it? |
| A59835 | a confounding Shame, distracting and terrifying Fears, raging Anger, Malice, Revenge, great Perplexity, Solicitude, Anxiety of Thoughts? |
| A59835 | against his own inclinations, though he lose the Purchase of his Blood by it? |
| A59835 | am I not his Creature, and is he not my Soveraign Lord? |
| A59835 | am I not obnoxious to the Judgment of God? |
| A59835 | and can they be contented to be Witnesses of their Sufferings? |
| A59835 | and did not God give these Powers and Faculties to you, to direct and govern your Lives? |
| A59835 | and does he now condemn me to Hell, and deservedly too? |
| A59835 | and how then can good Men be present with the Lord after Death, if they do not immediately ascend into Heaven? |
| A59835 | and in thy Name done many wonderful works? |
| A59835 | and in thy Name have cast out devils? |
| A59835 | and in thy name cast out devils? |
| A59835 | and in thy ● ame done many wonderful works? |
| A59835 | and is any Minister too great to be corrected by his Prince, who made him so? |
| A59835 | and is he not then my Judge? |
| A59835 | and is it any Excuse then for a reasonable Creature, that he lived and acted without Reason, and a wise Consideration of things? |
| A59835 | and is this a reason why they should give none? |
| A59835 | and not punish us for that which deserves punishment? |
| A59835 | and prey upon the very Vitals of Religion? |
| A59835 | and the greater their Trust and Power is, have they not a greater account to give? |
| A59835 | and those who do, with what infinite difficulty do they do it? |
| A59835 | and what Works more worth our study, then the Divine Providence, and the wonderful Mysteries of God''s governing the World? |
| A59835 | and whether it be not a great neglect and fault in the Superior, if it be not done? |
| A59835 | and why should I expect that my Natural Lord and Judge will not judge me? |
| A59835 | and why then should not God ask a reason of them? |
| A59835 | are not all Ministers accountable to their Lord? |
| A59835 | are they not his Ministers and Servants? |
| A59835 | as if he could not influence the minds of Men, and govern their thoughts, and counsels, and passions, without an audible Voice from Heaven? |
| A59835 | did he not make you reasonable Creatures, that you might consider, and live by Reason? |
| A59835 | did he purchase Heaven for me? |
| A59835 | do you not mean, that he has done something very good or very hurtful to himself or others? |
| A59835 | for to what purpose then did he give''em? |
| A59835 | for what worse Judgment can they undergo than to be cast into Hell? |
| A59835 | had you not the power of Thinking, of Reasoning, of Considering? |
| A59835 | has God renounced his Authority, or is the exercise of it too troublesome to him? |
| A59835 | has all Israel, or the generality of the Iews been converted to Christianity? |
| A59835 | has he forgot that Love which brought him into the World, and which nailed him to the Cross, for the Salvation of Sinners? |
| A59835 | has he made us accountable Creatures, but to give no account? |
| A59835 | has he made us in subjection to himself, to exercise no authority over us? |
| A59835 | has he promised to raise our dead Bodies out of the Grave immortal and glorious, to bestow a Crown and Kingdom on us? |
| A59835 | how contemptible are Laws without a Sanction, or a Sanction without a Judge to dispense Rewards and Punishments? |
| A59835 | is not all power of God? |
| A59835 | must we purchase Heaven with our Money? |
| A59835 | nay, if Men are contented to live a short and a merry Life, what hurt is there in it, if death puts an end to them? |
| A59835 | not to provoke our Consciences to condemn us; to obey their Admonitions, and to reform at their Rebukes and Censures? |
| A59835 | or how is the whole World more unworthy of his care, than the Iewish Nation was? |
| A59835 | ought not God and Men to judge them for this? |
| A59835 | short and dying and vanishing Pleasures, which will end in eternal Pain? |
| A59835 | that God will accept Heathens, who are perfectly innocent and righteous, and never committed any sin? |
| A59835 | that he who died for Sinners, will condemn any Sinners whom he can save? |
| A59835 | then of being exposed to Shame in the General Assembly of Men and Angels? |
| A59835 | to be Rich without being covetuous or luxurious? |
| A59835 | to be devout Worshippers of GOD, when they themselves are adored and flattered by Men? |
| A59835 | to be more afraid of God than of Men, and yet to stand in more awe of Man than of God? |
| A59835 | to be prepossessed and prejudiced against the Severities of a Holy Life? |
| A59835 | to make a difference between the Men, when there is no difference in their Actions? |
| A59835 | to suffer their render Minds to be corrupted with the love and practise of Vice? |
| A59835 | what mighty Allowances God may make for their invincible Ignorances, and the unhappy Circumstances of their Education? |
| A59835 | when God shall bring to light all the hidden Works of Darkness? |
| A59835 | when Men by indulging their Lusts are grown fond of this World, and of bodily Pleasures, when are they likely to grow wise? |
| A59835 | when Men have nothing to live by but their Hands, is that a Reason why they should not work? |
| A59835 | when will they think it time to submit to God''s Government, and to obey his Laws? |
| A59835 | where shall we find another Saviour to deliver us? |
| A59835 | whether a wise Father, or a wise Prince, would not do this? |
| A59835 | who advances Princes to the Throne, and cloaths them with Glory and Majesty? |
| A59835 | who can dwell with everlasting burnings? |
| A59835 | who can live with devouring fire? |
| A59835 | who can tell, how little God will accept from those to whom he has given little? |
| A59835 | who made you to differ from the meanest Beggar? |
| A59835 | why they should be exempted from Judgement, and from giving an Account? |
| A59835 | will he not certainly effect what he intends? |
| A59835 | without Consideration? |
| A59835 | would he have delivered up Christ to Death for us, if he had not intended that Sinners should die without a Sacrifice? |
| A59835 | — Know ye not that we shall judge angels? |
| A27038 | 1. Who should be first served? |
| A27038 | 2. Who are his Angels? |
| A27038 | A merciful Judge will hang a man for a fault against man: By proportion then what is due for sin against God? |
| A27038 | All the death and calamity which you see in the world, comes from the anger of this merciful God: why then may not future misery come from it? |
| A27038 | And are Love and Delight such grievous things? |
| A27038 | And can you think that we should be for any one against our Maker and Redeemer? |
| A27038 | And can you think that you shall not hear of this again, and pay for it one day? |
| A27038 | And did it not seem as unlikely to you, that his word should be false? |
| A27038 | And did you not hear these things read to you in the Congregation by the Minister? |
| A27038 | And did you think so basely and blasphemously of God, that he would falsifie his word, lest such as you should suffer? |
| A27038 | And do you think the undermining enemies of the Church have not a special Design upon you in this point? |
| A27038 | And do you think you shall not hear of this? |
| A27038 | And how importunate should we all be with sinners for their Conversion, when we consider that themselves also must shortly be Judged? |
| A27038 | And if Christ be not obeyed, what a stir will conscience make? |
| A27038 | And if my will were not free, ● ow could I choose but sin? |
| A27038 | And is it not Reason, that it should go worse with contemptuous sinners, then with those creatures that never sinned? |
| A27038 | And is it not just with God to make these friends their familiars in Torment, with whom they entertained such familiarity in sin? |
| A27038 | And is not hell worse then the hardest way to heaven? |
| A27038 | And might you not have gone where a powerful Minister was with a little pains? |
| A27038 | And might you not have had a Bible your ● elves, and found them there? |
| A27038 | And must you not much more use diligence in much greater things? |
| A27038 | And now their time is past, what is it? |
| A27038 | And shall not the Judge of all the earth judge righteously? |
| A27038 | And should men be imitated, be they many or be they few, in such a course as this? |
| A27038 | And should not a matter then that so concerneth thy self, go neer to thy heart, and awake thee from thy security? |
| A27038 | And the Judge may thus expostulate with them,[ Did all these mercies deserve no more Thanks? |
| A27038 | And to be out of heaven is to be out of all Happiness? |
| A27038 | And was it wise or equal dealing to pref ● rr your lusts before that glory? |
| A27038 | And was not Heaven worth the enduring of a scorn? |
| A27038 | And were you not as earnestly perswaded by God to forsake sin and serve him, and yet that would not prevail with you? |
| A27038 | And what did God entice you with? |
| A27038 | And what the better was he? |
| A27038 | And whose threatning should you have chiefly feared? |
| A27038 | And why did you not hearken to God that ent ● ced you the other way? |
| A27038 | And why is this so? |
| A27038 | And why might not you have done so, if you had been as industrious as they? |
| A27038 | And why then might not godlyness have been your ease and recreation? |
| A27038 | And will you despise them all? |
| A27038 | And will you wilfully sin, and think to scape because God doth not hinder you? |
| A27038 | And yet wouldst thou now perswade the Judge that thou didst Love God above all? |
| A27038 | And yet you have his written word that speaks plainer then all these? |
| A27038 | Before you venture on them, enquire whether they will bear weight in Judgement, and be sweet or bitter when they are brought to tryal? |
| A27038 | But I have not Power of myself to do any thing that is good: What can the creature do? |
| A27038 | But Whither must they Depart? |
| A27038 | But alas ▪ If we should be so foolish and unjust, what good would it do you? |
| A27038 | But are you excusable if he do not? |
| A27038 | But did he not also give you Reason to govern that Appetite? |
| A27038 | But didst thou according ● y value him, and love him more? |
| A27038 | But didst thou regard it accordingly? |
| A27038 | But how shall Heathens be judged by the Law of grace, that never did Receive it? |
| A27038 | But how shall Infants be judged by the Gospel, that were uncapable of it? |
| A27038 | But if Christ have satisfied for my sins, and dyed for me, then how can I justly suffer for the same sins? |
| A27038 | But if men will not hear, and there be no remedy, who can help it? |
| A27038 | But seeing thou art also guilty of those special sins which he never shed his blood for, who shall deliver thee from that Accusation? |
| A27038 | But the last Question which must decide the Controversie will be, whether we have performed the condition of the Gospel? |
| A27038 | But what if the way to heaven had been harder then it was? |
| A27038 | But who be they that are ready? |
| A27038 | But why is it called a fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels? |
| A27038 | Can foolish sinners think to lie hid or escape at that day, that will now sin wilfully before their Judge? |
| A27038 | Can he not Awe them by Truth? |
| A27038 | Could not God requite your labour or sufferings? |
| A27038 | Could you expect that those should come to heaven, that would not believe there was such a state, but refused it, and preferred the world before it? |
| A27038 | Could you have taken no time from your rest, or eating or at other intermissions? |
| A27038 | Could you think with any Reason, that you should do so much for a life of a few years continuance and do no more for a life that shall have no end? |
| A27038 | DO you soundly Believe this Doctrine which I have preached to you? |
| A27038 | Dare you doubt of this which the God of Heaven hath so positively affirmed? |
| A27038 | Despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to Repentance? |
| A27038 | Did God hide these things from you? |
| A27038 | Did God make the world so easily? |
| A27038 | Did Gods word make Heaven and Earth? |
| A27038 | Did he not stand by you when you were in your cups, and lustful Pleasures? |
| A27038 | Did he not tell you of the danger, and offer you far better things, if you would obey him and despise those baits? |
| A27038 | Did not God also threaten you with everlasting Death, if you were not ruled by him? |
| A27038 | Did not God purpose also to manifest the Glory of his Remunerative Justice? |
| A27038 | Did the knees of King Belshazzar knock together with trembling, when he saw the hand- writing on the wall? |
| A27038 | Did you doubt of his will, or of his power? |
| A27038 | Did you joyn with the godly so far as they are all agreed? |
| A27038 | Did you know where was any better security to be had? |
| A27038 | Did you not feel pain and misery begin in this life? |
| A27038 | Did you spend no time in Recreation, nor Idleness, nor vain talking? |
| A27038 | Did you think God was no wiser then you, and understood not himself, because you understood him not? |
| A27038 | Didst thou attend diligently on the word in publike, and think of what thou heardest when thou camest home? |
| A27038 | Didst thou go to the Minister, or to others that could teach thee, and intreat them to tell thee the way to salvation? |
| A27038 | Didst thou pray daily for it to God? |
| A27038 | Didst thou use all the means thou couldest to get it? |
| A27038 | Do not you use to ask this of your own hearts? |
| A27038 | Do we desire this sad fruit of our Labours? |
| A27038 | Do you think this will not one day cost you dear? |
| A27038 | Doth any Repent when they come to Heaven ▪ that it cost them so dear to come thither? |
| A27038 | Doth it support them, and secure them ▪ And is not his word sufficient security for you to have trusted your souls upon? |
| A27038 | Especially when thou art every hour uncertain whether thou shalt see another hour, and not be presently snatch away by death? |
| A27038 | FOR the fourth particular; VVho will be the Accuser? |
| A27038 | FOR the seventh Head, VVhat will be the cause of the day to be enquired after? |
| A27038 | FOR the sixth particular, What Law is it that men shall be Iudged by? |
| A27038 | FOR the third point, Who are they that must be Judged? |
| A27038 | For he knoweth vain man; he seeth wickedness also, and will he not consider it? |
| A27038 | For how should it be? |
| A27038 | For the poor creature to stand before his Maker and Redeemer, to be Judged to Everlasting Joy or Torment? |
| A27038 | Friend, how camest ▪ thou in hither, not having on a wedding garment? |
| A27038 | From whom? |
| A27038 | God or man? |
| A27038 | God thought not all these too good for you, and did you think your hearts and services too good for him? |
| A27038 | God will make us Judge you,& witness against you: Can we absolve you, when the righteous God will condemn you? |
| A27038 | Hath God given you no means towards the cure of this disability, which you have neglected? |
| A27038 | Hath not God been merciful to thee, in bearing with thee so long, and offering thee Grace in the blood of Christ, till thou didst wilfully reject it? |
| A27038 | Have you not seen some of your neighbors, who were as ill educated as your selves, attain to much knowledge afterwards by their Industry? |
| A27038 | He served you with the weary labours of your fellow- creatures: and should you have grudged to bear his easie Yoak? |
| A27038 | He told you it was an enemy that tempted you: and would you hearken to an enemy? |
| A27038 | How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? |
| A27038 | How canst thou live merrily, or sleep quietly in such a Condition, as if thou shouldst dye in it, thou shouldst perish for ever? |
| A27038 | How could I be saved if Christ did not dye for me? |
| A27038 | How familiarly doth Satan use their tongues, in cursing, swearing, lying, ribaldry, backbiting, or slandering? |
| A27038 | How then can a little misery on earth prevent it? |
| A27038 | How then should thy heart be affected that seeth the hand- writing of God as a summons to his barr? |
| A27038 | I say, doth this man Believe that he is going to this Judgement? |
| A27038 | If I shall tell you what you must do for preparation, shall I not lose my labour? |
| A27038 | If any first demand, Whether the Evidence of their sin will not so overwhelm the sinner, that he will be speechless and past excuse? |
| A27038 | If any foolish Infidel shall say, VVhere shall so great a number stand? |
| A27038 | If you have the face to say, Lord, when did we see thee hungry? |
| A27038 | If you knew not better, who was it long of but your self? |
| A27038 | If you say, Why can not God find out a remedy for this sin, as well as he did for the first? |
| A27038 | If you trust God, shew any word of Promise that ever he gave you to trust upon, that ever an Impenitent, Carnal, Careless person shall be saved? |
| A27038 | Is death more terrible then Hell? |
| A27038 | Is it all one to wrong you, and to wrong the God of Heaven? |
| A27038 | Is man more dreadful than God? |
| A27038 | Is not he Better, and more Lovely then all these? |
| A27038 | Is not he worthy to go without it that thinks so basely of it? |
| A27038 | Is not that man even worse then mad ▪ that is going to Gods Judgement and never thinks of it? |
| A27038 | Is that a friend or a servant worthy to be regarded, that will disobey you, or betray you as oft as he is tempted to it? |
| A27038 | Is this a matter to be forgotten? |
| A27038 | Is this the thanks that God hath for his mercies? |
| A27038 | It was God that let loose the Devil to Tempt me; and he was too subtile for me to deal with: and therefore what wonder if I sinned, and were overcome? |
| A27038 | Look back man, upon thy heart and Life Hovv seldom and hovv neglectfully didst thou think of God? |
| A27038 | Look now upon all the course of thy life, and see whether thou didst live to me, or to the world and thy flesh? |
| A27038 | Look upon thy own heart now, and see whether it be a holy or an unholy heart; a spiritual or a fleshly heart; a heavenly or an earthly heart? |
| A27038 | MY next Question is, Whether are you ready for this dreadful Judgement when it comes, or not? |
| A27038 | MY next Question is, Whether you do ever soberly consider of this great day? |
| A27038 | MY next Question to you, is ▪ How are you affected with the Consideration of this day? |
| A27038 | Mans body will not endure so great labours as have no Intermission? |
| A27038 | Many a time did we intreat them to try whether they were Regenerate or not? |
| A27038 | May not God and Conscience witness, that it was because you cared not for knowledge, and would not be at the pains to get it, that you knew no more? |
| A27038 | Must God either be Ignorant of what you will do, or else be the cause of it? |
| A27038 | Must the raw unexperienced Learner despise his book or Teacher, as oft as in his ignorance he thinks he meets with contradictions? |
| A27038 | Nor Christ that came purposely from heaven to reveal them? |
| A27038 | Nor could reconcile his own words, because you could not reconcile them? |
| A27038 | O Sirs, what shift do you make to keep your souls from Continual Terrours, as long as you remain unready for Judgement? |
| A27038 | Or at least, did you not live neer some that could Read? |
| A27038 | Or didst thou not rather carelesly neglect these matters; and hear a Sermon as a common tale, even when the minister was speaking of Heaven or Hell? |
| A27038 | Or from a Thief or Murderer? |
| A27038 | Or if you could, yet it was Gods Law, and not mens faults, that was made the Rule for you to live by: Will it excuse you that others are bad? |
| A27038 | Or might you not have minded these things, even when you were about your labour, if you had but a heart to them? |
| A27038 | Or rather have death, which is nothing, as the just Reward of it? |
| A27038 | Or rather think him the more unfit for mercy? |
| A27038 | Or will you now set your selves with all your might, to make preparation for so great a day? |
| A27038 | See here thy own unholy soul, canst thou now say thou didst love me above all? |
| A27038 | Shall every man be false to God, that hath any bait to entice him from him? |
| A27038 | Should we lie, and say we did not? |
| A27038 | Sin is no Being: and shall men be damned for that which is nothing? |
| A27038 | Sirs, do you use when you are alone to think with your selves ▪ how certain and how dreadful it will be? |
| A27038 | Speak truth, man, in the presence of thy Judge, was thy heart and mind set upon it? |
| A27038 | THE next point in our method, is, to shew you, What will be the Evidence of the Cause? |
| A27038 | THE ninth part of our work, is to shew you, What are those frivolous excuses by which the unrighteous may then endeavour their defence? |
| A27038 | Tell me, is it so, or not? |
| A27038 | The like must be Remembred in the very manner of our Duties; How diligently should a Minister study? |
| A27038 | They that tryed them, found them the very Joy and Delight of their souls, and why could not you do so? |
| A27038 | They were your slaves and drudges, and you refused to be his free servants and his sons? |
| A27038 | Thou sure knewest that God was better then the world, and Heaven then earth; at least, thou wast told of it? |
| A27038 | Thou ● newest that the soul was better then the body, and everlasting life more to be regarded, then this transitory life? |
| A27038 | V. FOR the fifth particular, How will the sinners be called to the Barr? |
| A27038 | VVhat the Accusation, and what the Defence? |
| A27038 | W ● ll you not believe till you see or feel? |
| A27038 | Was it not a Gross sin, to love the world above God, and to neglect Christ that dyed for thee? |
| A27038 | Was it not also prepared for wicked men? |
| A27038 | Was there no more in Gods intention when he elected some, then the manifestation of the riches of his glorious grace? |
| A27038 | We must either condemn the Sentence of Jesus Christ, or condemn you: and is not there more reason to condemn you then him? |
| A27038 | Were not Ministers as earnest with you every week to repent and amend? |
| A27038 | What did men entice you with? |
| A27038 | What else have you to do, but to provide for everlasting? |
| A27038 | What if they threatned you with present Death? |
| A27038 | What if we tell you 20 years together that you must dye, will you not believe us, because you have lived so long and seen no death coming? |
| A27038 | What is this Divel that hath Angels? |
| A27038 | What matter can be mentioned with the Tongue of man of greater moment? |
| A27038 | What say you Sirs? |
| A27038 | What say you Sirs? |
| A27038 | What say you, Did not God tell you all this and much more? |
| A27038 | What was there but your own wicked hearts that should make such a life seem grievous to you? |
| A27038 | What would you have us say, if God ask us, Did you tell this sinner of the need of Christ, of the glory of the world to come, and the vanity of this? |
| A27038 | What? |
| A27038 | When was it prepared for them? |
| A27038 | Where the enquiry is made to be, whether they have fed and visited him in his members, or not? |
| A27038 | Whether their souls were brought back to God by Sanctification? |
| A27038 | Who are these? |
| A27038 | Why did you not so far then agree with them? |
| A27038 | Will you do no more than you have done hitherto? |
| A27038 | Will you resolve and promise in the strength of Grace, that you will faithfully and speedily endeavour to practise it, whoever shall gainsay it? |
| A27038 | Will you take this for a good Excuse from your children or servants, if they abuse you? |
| A27038 | Yea did not the very plain word which you heard read, tell you of these things? |
| A27038 | Yea further, answer as in the presence of God: Didst thou Obey so far as thou d ● dst know? |
| A27038 | Yea when he that dyed for you, will condemn you, shall we be more merciful then God? |
| A27038 | Yea, and to do you no good, when we know that lyes will not prevail with God? |
| A27038 | You forget what helps he afforded you to discover the wiles of Satan, and to vanquish the Temptation? |
| A27038 | You have Ministers at hand ▪ why do you not go to them ▪ and earnestly ask them ▪ Sir, What must I do to be saved? |
| A27038 | You have the Bible, and other good books by you: why do you not read them? |
| A27038 | You see not God: will you not therefore Believe that there is a God? |
| A27038 | You will then Remember, that to this end he both d ● ed, rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the Dead and the Living? |
| A27038 | You would be afraid now to meet him in the dark; what will you be to live with him in everlasting darkness? |
| A27038 | and can he not Govern it by true and righteous means ▪ what need God to say that which he will not do, to awe sinners? |
| A27038 | and could you not have procured them to read to you, or to help you? |
| A27038 | and did you obey as much as you knew? |
| A27038 | and did you pray daily that God would lead you into the Truth? |
| A27038 | and neglect him without whom you can not subsist? |
| A27038 | and never do him one hours hearty service, but meerly to seek thy carnal self, and live to thy flesh? |
| A27038 | and now and then bethink your selves soberly whether these are matters for wise men to make light of? |
| A27038 | and plainly tell it you? |
| A27038 | and serve thy flesh and lusts, though I told thee if thou didst so thou shouldst dye? |
| A27038 | and that he was fain to rule the world by a Lye? |
| A27038 | and the Revelation of his will to guide that Reason? |
| A27038 | and think much of all that thou d ● dst therein? |
| A27038 | and to banish all thoughts of returning to God, and to quench every motion that tendeth to their recovery? |
| A27038 | and to suffer vile sinful dust to despise his mercy, and abuse his patience, and turn all his Creatures against him, without due punishment? |
| A27038 | and to use means to sustain your own bodies and others, of purpose for this work, till it be happily done? |
| A27038 | and we are almost at the barr, and it is so short a time to this Assize, what soul that is not dead will be secure? |
| A27038 | and were you willing to know, even those Truths that called you out to self denyal, and that did put you on the hardest flesh displeasing duties? |
| A27038 | and what answer you mean to make at that day? |
| A27038 | and what you shall do? |
| A27038 | and where was any surer ground for your confidence? |
| A27038 | and whether the world will be then as sweet as now? |
| A27038 | and whether this be the best preparation for your Tryal? |
| A27038 | and whether time be no more worth to one that is so neer eternity, and must make so strict an account of his Hours? |
| A27038 | and will not promote it as far as is in their power? |
| A27038 | and would you have us bring your blood upon our own heads by a lye? |
| A27038 | are your minds taken up with these considerations? |
| A27038 | can we have any mercy on you, when he that made you will not save you, and he that formed you, will shew you no mercy? |
| A27038 | canst thou deny but thou didst love this world before me? |
| A27038 | from what? |
| A27038 | hovv carelessly didst thou serve him? |
| A27038 | hovv coldly didst thou vvorship him, or make any mention of him? |
| A27038 | how earnestly should he perswade? |
| A27038 | how fast it is coming on? |
| A27038 | how many a soul that is now in heaven or hell, within a 1000 years dwelt in the places that you now dwell in, and sate in the seats you now sit in? |
| A27038 | how shall I know whether I be ready or not? |
| A27038 | how speedily is it come? |
| A27038 | how unable then shall we be against Gods Sentence to Justifie you? |
| A27038 | how unwearyedly should he bear all oppositions and ungrateful returns? |
| A27038 | or might have done if you would? |
| A27038 | shall God, and his Ministers speak in vain? |
| A27038 | shall every Murderer or Thief escape hanging, because the Devil was too cunning for him in his Temptations? |
| A27038 | shall he escape by telling the Judge that his sin was Nothing? |
| A27038 | should you not have served him that so liberally maintained you? |
| A27038 | was not Gods word so plainly written, that the unlearned might understand it? |
| A27038 | was not Gods word sufficient Evidence? |
| A27038 | was not heaven worth your labor? |
| A27038 | were you afraid of being a loser by it? |
| A27038 | what is a little time when it is gone? |
| A27038 | what should be first sought after, Heaven or Earth? |
| A27038 | what should we say if he ask us, Did not you tell them the misery of their natural state; and what would become of them if they were not made new? |
| A27038 | when God is against you, whose side would you have us be of? |
| A27038 | when he that entrusted you with the care of your children and servants, shall call you to a reckoning for the performance of that trust? |
| A27038 | whether Christ and his Spirit were in them, or not? |
| A27038 | why might not that at least have been spent about heavenly things? |
| A27038 | why then did not these take as much with you as the other? |
| A27038 | will God punish one sin twice? |
| A27038 | will will you live to his dishonour who giveth you your Lives? |
| A27038 | will you abuse him, by whom it is that you are men? |
| A27038 | will you excuse your child or friend, if he would be false to you, upon as great enticements as these? |
| A27038 | will you not hear so loud and constant calls? |
| A27038 | will you not see so great a Light? |
| A27038 | will you speak to his dishonor, that giveth you your speech? |
| A27038 | will you therefore wrong God, because you see others wrong him? |
| A27038 | will you wrong him by his own creatures? |
| A27038 | with a little deluding fleshly pleasure for a few daies? |
| A27038 | would you have believed one from the dead that had told you he had seen such things? |
| A27038 | would you have the Jury or the Judge to take this for a good excuse? |
| A27038 | would you have us lye to God, and say we did not? |
| A27038 | would you spit in the face of your own Father, if you saw others do so? |
| A27038 | would you think it a good excuse, if the rest should do the like, because of their example? |
| A27038 | you are not troubled now at his presence ▪ and power your hearts, but will you not then be troubled at his presence, and tormenting power? |
| A27062 | 1. Who should be first served, God or Man? |
| A27062 | 11. yea when he that died for you will condemn you, shall we be more merciful than God? |
| A27062 | 12. and shall redeemed Sinners make light of them? |
| A27062 | 16. what then is he that sets light by Christ? |
| A27062 | 18. and would you have us bring your Blood upon our own Heads by a ● ie? |
| A27062 | 2. Who are his Angels? |
| A27062 | 25. where the Enquiry is made to be, whether they have sed and visited him in his Members or not? |
| A27062 | 29. then they cry out, Sirs, what shall I do to 〈 ◊ 〉 saved? |
| A27062 | 4. how unable then shall we be against God''s Sentence to justify you? |
| A27062 | 6. trembling and astonished Paul cries out, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? |
| A27062 | 9. and we are almost at the Bar, and it is so short a time to this Assize, what Soul that is not dead will be secure? |
| A27062 | A merciful Judg will hang a Man for a Fault against Man: By proportion then what is due for Sin against God? |
| A27062 | All the Death and Calamity which you see in the World, comes from the Anger of this merciful God: why then may not future Misery come from it? |
| A27062 | And can you think that you shall not hear of this again, and pay for it one Day? |
| A27062 | And could you think that it was the Will of God that you should mind your Bodies more than your Souls, and this Life more than that to come? |
| A27062 | And did it not seem as unlikely to you, that his Word should be false? |
| A27062 | And did you think 〈 ◊ 〉 basely and blasphemously of God, that he would ● sify his Word, lest such as you should suffer? |
| A27062 | And do you think you shall not hear of this? |
| A27062 | And if my Will were not free, how could I choose but sin? |
| A27062 | And is it not Reason that it should go worse with contemptuous Sinners, than with those Creatures that never sinned? |
| A27062 | And is it not just with God to make these Fiends their Familiars in Torment, with whom they entertained such Familiarity in Sin? |
| A27062 | And is not Christ worth the seeking? |
| A27062 | And is not Hell worse than the ● ● ardest Way to Heaven? |
| A27062 | And might you not have gone where a pow ● ● ful Minister was, with a little pains? |
| A27062 | And must you not much more use diligence in much greater Things? |
| A27062 | And now their time is past, what is it? |
| A27062 | And shall not the Judg of all the Earth judg righteously? |
| A27062 | And should Men be imitated, be they many, or be they few, in such a Course as this? |
| A27062 | And should not a Matter then that so concerneth thy self, go near thy Heart, and awake thee from thy Security? |
| A27062 | And the Judg may thus expostulate with them,[ Did all these Mercies deserve no more Thanks? |
| A27062 | And was it wise or equal Dealing, to prefer your Lusts before that Glory? |
| A27062 | And was not Heaven worth the enduring of a Scorn? |
| A27062 | And were you not as earnestly perswaded by God to forsake Sin and serve him, and yet that would not prevail with you? |
| A27062 | And what did God entice you with? |
| A27062 | And whose threatning should you have chiefly feared? |
| A27062 | And why did you not hearken to God that enticed you the other way? |
| A27062 | And why is this so? |
| A27062 | And why then might not Godliness have been your Ease and Recreation? |
| A27062 | And will you wilfully sin, and think to escape because God doth not hinder you? |
| A27062 | Are all that hear me this Day certain they shall be saved? |
| A27062 | Are you no more near or dear to your selves, than to make light of your own Happiness or Misery? |
| A27062 | Are you resolved to let them go? |
| A27062 | Are you turned your own Enemies? |
| A27062 | Are your Minds taken up with these Considerations? |
| A27062 | As a Man, what art thou but a Worm to God? |
| A27062 | At least it doth God no harm, and therefore why ● uld he do us so much harm for it? |
| A27062 | But I have not Power of my self to do any thing that is good: what can the Creature do? |
| A27062 | But are you excusable if he do not? |
| A27062 | But consider well, Was not God''s Word so plainly written, that the Unlearned might understand it? |
| A27062 | But how easily will God make them know the contrary? |
| A27062 | But how shall Heathens be judged by the Law of Grace, that never did receive it? |
| A27062 | But how shall Insants be judged by the Gospel, that were uncapable of it? |
| A27062 | But if Christ have satisfied for my Sins, and died for me, then how can I justly suffer for the same Sins? |
| A27062 | But if Men will not hear, and there be no remedy, who can help it? |
| A27062 | But seeing thou art also guilty of those special Sins which he never shed his Blood for, who shall deliver thee from that Accusation? |
| A27062 | But the last Question which must decide the Controversy will be, whether we have performed the Condition of the Gospel? |
| A27062 | But what if the Way to Heaven had been harder than it was? |
| A27062 | But when hear we such Questions? |
| A27062 | But whither must they depart? |
| A27062 | But who be they that are ready? |
| A27062 | But why is it called a Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels? |
| A27062 | Can foolish Sinners think to lie hid or escape at that Day, that will now sin wilfully before their Judg? |
| A27062 | Can we absolve you when the righteous God will condemn you? |
| A27062 | Can we have any Mercy on you, when he that made you will not save you, and he that formed you will shew you no Mercy? |
| A27062 | Can you do it better when Sin hath more hardned it, and God may have given thee over to thy felf? |
| A27062 | Can you escape without a Christ? |
| A27062 | Can you find fault if you miss of the Salvation which you slighted? |
| A27062 | Consider, 4. Who is it that sends this weighty Message to you? |
| A27062 | Could not God requite your Labour or Sufferings? |
| A27062 | Could you have taken no time from your rest, or eating, or at other Intermissions? |
| A27062 | Dare you doubt of this which the God of Heaven hath so positively affirmed? |
| A27062 | Depart: From whom? |
| A27062 | Depart: from what? |
| A27062 | Despisest thou the Riches of his Goodness, and Forbearance, and Long- suffering, not knowing that the Goodness of God leadeth thee to Repentance? |
| A27062 | Did God hide these things from you? |
| A27062 | Did God ● ake the World so easily? |
| A27062 | Did God''s Word make Heaven and Earth? |
| A27062 | Did he not stand by you when you were in your Cups and lustful Pleasures? |
| A27062 | Did he not tell you of the Danger, and offer you far better things, if you would obey him and despise those Baits? |
| A27062 | Did not Christ tell thee, One thing is necessary? |
| A27062 | Did not Christ tell you that if you were ashamed of him before Men, he would be ashamed of you before his Father and the Angels of Heaven? |
| A27062 | Did not God also threaten you with everlasting Death, if you were not ruled by him? |
| A27062 | Did not God purpose also to manifest the Glory of his remunerative Justice? |
| A27062 | Did not God tell you all this and much more; and plainly tell it you? |
| A27062 | Did the Knees of King Belshazzar knock together with trembling, when he saw the Hand- writing on the Wall? |
| A27062 | Did you doubt of his Will, or of his Power? |
| A27062 | Did you joi ● with the Godly so far as they are all agreed? |
| A27062 | Did you not feel Pain and Misery begin in this Life? |
| A27062 | Did you spend no time in Recreation, nor Idleness, nor vain talking? |
| A27062 | Did you think God was no wiser than you, and understood not himself, because you understood him not? |
| A27062 | Didst thou attend diligently on the Word in publick, and think of what thou heardst when thou camest home? |
| A27062 | Didst thou go to the Minister, or to others that could teach thee, and intreat them to tell thee the Way to Salvation? |
| A27062 | Didst thou pray daily for it to God? |
| A27062 | Didst thou use all the means thou couldst to get it? |
| A27062 | Do not some of your Consciences by this time smite you, and say, I am the Man that have made light of my Salvation? |
| A27062 | Do not the negligent Studies of some speak it out? |
| A27062 | Do not these make light of Christ and Salvation? |
| A27062 | Do not they make light of the Doctrine they preach, that do it as if they were half asleep, and feel not what they speak themselves? |
| A27062 | Do not those then make light of Christ and Salvation, that shun the mention of his Name, unless it be in a vain or sinful Use? |
| A27062 | Do not those then make light of Christ and Salvation, that think of them so seldom and coldly in comparison of other things? |
| A27062 | Do not you use to ask this of your own Hearts? |
| A27062 | Do we desire this sad Fruit of our Labours? |
| A27062 | Do you mean to set as light by Christ and Salvation as hitherto you have done? |
| A27062 | Do you not see by this time what a Case that Soul is in that maketh light of Christ and Salvation? |
| A27062 | Do you soundly believe this Doctrine which I have ● ached to you? |
| A27062 | Do you think that Christ shed his Blood to save them that continue to make light of it? |
| A27062 | Do you think this will not one Day cost you dear? |
| A27062 | Doth any repent when they come to Heaven, that it cost them so ● ● ear to come thither? |
| A27062 | Doth it not behove you beforehand to think of these things? |
| A27062 | Doth not that Soul make light of all these, that thinks his Ease more worth than they? |
| A27062 | Doth not the Carelesness of some Mens private Endeavours discover it? |
| A27062 | Doth not the continued Neglect of those things wherein the Interest of Christ consisteth discover it? |
| A27062 | Doth not the covetous and worldly Lives of too many discover it, losing Advantages for Mens Souls for a little Gain to themselves? |
| A27062 | Doth not their dead and drowsy Preaching declare it? |
| A27062 | For as to their own Glory, it is but a Smoak: what matter is it whether you live poor or rich, unless it were a greater Matter to die rich than it is? |
| A27062 | For he knoweth vain Man; be seech Wickedness also, and will be not consider it? |
| A27062 | For how should it be? |
| A27062 | For the fourth Particular, Who will be the Accuser? |
| A27062 | For the poor Creture to stand before his Maker and Redeemer, to be judged to everlasting Joy or Torment? |
| A27062 | For the seventh Head, What will be the Cause of the Day to be enqu ● ed after? |
| A27062 | For the sixth Particular, What Law is it that Men shall be judged by? |
| A27062 | For the third Point, Who are they that must be judged? |
| A27062 | Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having on a Wedding- Gar ● ent? |
| A27062 | God thought not all these too good for you, and did you think your Hearts and Services too good for him? |
| A27062 | God will judg impartially; why should not we do so? |
| A27062 | Hath God given you ● o means towards the Cure of this Disability, which you have neglected? |
| A27062 | Hath not God been merciful to thee in bearing with thee so long, and offering thee Grace in the Blood of Christ, till thou didst wilfully reject it? |
| A27062 | Have you found a better Friend, a greater and surer Happiness than this? |
| A27062 | Have you gone to them, and told them the Doubtfulness of your Case, and asked their Help in the judging of your Condition? |
| A27062 | Have you no Body to enquire of, that might help you in such a Work? |
| A27062 | He served yours with the weary Labours of your fellow- Creatures; and should you have grudged to bear his easy Yoak? |
| A27062 | He suffered more than Scorns for you: and could not you suffer a Scorn for him and yourselves? |
| A27062 | He that will come after me, let him deny himself? |
| A27062 | He told you it was an Enemy that tempted you: and would you hearken to an Enemy? |
| A27062 | How can I do this great Wickedness, and 〈 ◊ 〉 against God? |
| A27062 | How canst thou live merrily, or sleep quietly in such a Condition, as if thou shouldst die in it, thou shouldst perish for ever? |
| A27062 | How carefully should we consider what we do with our Riches, and with all that God giveth us? |
| A27062 | How could I be saved if Christ did not die for me? |
| A27062 | How often hath Christ warned us in the Gospel, that we be always ready, because we know not the day or Hour of his coming? |
| A27062 | How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation? |
| A27062 | How shall we sooner know a Man to be a Fool, than if he knows no difference between Dung and Gold? |
| A27062 | How then can a little Misery on Earth prevent it? |
| A27062 | How then should thy Heart be afffected that seeth the Hand- writing of God as a Summons to his Bar? |
| A27062 | How will these Despisers of Christ and Salvation be able one Day to look him in the Face, and to give an account of these Neglects? |
| A27062 | How will ye escape the Damnation of Hell? |
| A27062 | I say, doth this Man believe that he is going to this Judgment? |
| A27062 | If I shall tell you what you must do for Preparation, shall I not lose my Labour? |
| A27062 | If any foolish Infidels shall say, Where shall so great a Number stand? |
| A27062 | If not, when you know''t is the Will of Christ, and he hath told you such shall not enter into his Kingdom, do not you make light of him? |
| A27062 | If thou canst make thine own Heart willing, why is it not done now? |
| A27062 | If you have the Face to say, Lord, when did we see thee hungry? |
| A27062 | If you knew not better, who was it long of but your self? |
| A27062 | If you say, Why can not God find out a Remedy for this Sin, as well as he did for the first? |
| A27062 | If you will not be perswaded to this much, how can you say that you make not light of Christ and Salvation? |
| A27062 | If you will not, are not you Slighters o ● Christ and Salvation, that will not be perswaded soberly to think on them? |
| A27062 | In the Name of God, Brethren, I beseech you to consider how you will then bear his Anger which you now make light of? |
| A27062 | Is Death more terrible than Hell? |
| A27062 | Is Dives then any better than Lazarus? |
| A27062 | Is Man more dreadful than God? |
| A27062 | Is Self- love lost? |
| A27062 | Is it all one to wrong you, and to wrong the God of Heaven? |
| A27062 | Is it not God himself? |
| A27062 | Is it not your own? |
| A27062 | Is not everlasting Salvation worth more than all this? |
| A27062 | Is not he better and more lovely than all these? |
| A27062 | Is not he worthy to go without it that thinks so basely of it? |
| A27062 | Is not that Man even worse than mad, that is going to God''s Judgment, and never thinks of it? |
| A27062 | Is that a Friend or a Servant worthy to be regarded, that will disobey you, or betray you as oft as he is tempted to it? |
| A27062 | Is that a Man or a Corps that is not affected with Matters of this Moment? |
| A27062 | Is that a Man, or a Clod of Clay, that can rise and lie down without being deeply affected with his everlasting Estate? |
| A27062 | Is this a Matter to be forgotten? |
| A27062 | Is this the Thanks that God hath for his Mercies? |
| A27062 | It is no less than Miracles of Love and Mercy that he hath shewed to us: and yet shall we slight them after all? |
| A27062 | It was God that let loose the Devil to tempt me; and he was too subtile for me to deal with; and therefore what wonder if I sinned and were overcome? |
| A27062 | May not God and Conscience witness, that it was because you cared not for Knowledg, and would not be at pains to get it, that you knew no more? |
| A27062 | Methinks a Man that knoweth he shall be judged, should ask himself the question every day of his Life; am I ready to give up my Account to God? |
| A27062 | Must God either be ignorant of what you will do, or else be the Cause of it? |
| A27062 | Must the raw unexperienced Learner despise his Book or Teacher, as oft as in his Ignorance he thinks he meets with Contradictions? |
| A27062 | My next Question is, Whether are you ready for his dreadful Judgment when it comes, or not? |
| A27062 | My next Question is, Whether you do ever soberly consider of this great Day? |
| A27062 | My next Question to you is, How are you ● ffected with the Consideration of this Day? |
| A27062 | Nor Christ that came purposely from Heaven to reveal them? |
| A27062 | Nor could reconcile his own Words, because you could not reconcile them? |
| A27062 | O Lord, that Men did but know what everlasting Glory, and everlasting Torments are; would they then hear us as they do? |
| A27062 | O Sirs, if Men made not light of these things, what working would there be in the Hearts of all our Hearers? |
| A27062 | O Sirs, what shift do you make to keep your Souls from continual Terrors, as long as you remain unready for Judgment? |
| A27062 | Or Paul that heard and saw them? |
| A27062 | Or at least, did you not live near some that could read? |
| A27062 | Or didst thou not rather sin against that Knowledg which thou hadst? |
| A27062 | Or if you could, yet it was God''s Law, and not Mens Faults that was made the Rule for you to live by ▪ Will it excuse you that others are bad? |
| A27062 | Or might you not have minded these things ever when you were about your Labour, if you had but a Heart to them? |
| A27062 | Or rather have Death, ● ich is nothing, as the iust Reward of it? |
| A27062 | Or rather think him the more unfit for Mercy? |
| A27062 | Or will you now set your selves with all your Might, to prepare for so great a Day? |
| A27062 | Or will you shew that you are Slighters of Christ by neglecting them? |
| A27062 | See here thy own unholy Soul; canst thou now say thou didst love me above all? |
| A27062 | Shall every Man be false to God that hath any Bait to entice him from him? |
| A27062 | Shall every Murderer or Thief escape hanging, because the Devil was too cunning for him in his Temptations? |
| A27062 | Shall the God of Heaven speak, and Men make light of it? |
| A27062 | Should we lie and say we did not? |
| A27062 | Should you not have served him that so liberally maintained you? |
| A27062 | Sin is no Being: and ● ll Men be damned for that which is nothing? |
| A27062 | Speak truth, Man, in the Presence of thy Judg; was thy Heart and Mind set upon it? |
| A27062 | Tell me, is it so or not? |
| A27062 | The chief thing that God called you to, was to love him, and make him your Delight: and are Love and Delight such grievous things? |
| A27062 | The next Point in our Method is, to shew you, What will be the Evidence of the Cause? |
| A27062 | The ninth part of our Work is to shew you, ● hat are those frivolous Excuses by which the Vnrighteous may then indeavour their Defence? |
| A27062 | Then who will prove the Loser by thy Contempt? |
| A27062 | They that tried them found them the very Joy and Delight of their ● ouls; and why could not you do so? |
| A27062 | V. For the fifth Particular, How will the Sinners be called to the Bar? |
| A27062 | Wa ● not God''s Word sufficient Evidence? |
| A27062 | Was not Heaven worth your Labour? |
| A27062 | Was there no more in God''s Intention when he elected some, than the Manifestation of the Riches of his glorious Grace? |
| A27062 | Wat it not also prepared for wicked Men? |
| A27062 | Were you afraid of being a loser by it? |
| A27062 | What Gospel- Passages had Balaam? |
| A27062 | What Matter can be mentioned with the Tongue of Man of greater moment? |
| A27062 | What are these things you set so much by ▪ as to prefer them before Christ, and the saving of your Souls? |
| A27062 | What barbarous, yea devilish, yea worse than devilish Ingratitude is this? |
| A27062 | What did Men entice you with? |
| A27062 | What do they for Souls? |
| A27062 | What do you think when you repeat the Creed, and mention Christ''s Judgment, and everlasting Life? |
| A27062 | What if they threatned you with present Death? |
| A27062 | What is all the World to him, but as the Drop of a Bucket, as ● e Dust of the Ballance? |
| A27062 | What is this Devil that hath Angels? |
| A27062 | What need then is there that you should take heed lest this should prove your own Case? |
| A27062 | What say you Sirs? |
| A27062 | What say you, beloved Hearers, are you ready for Judgment, or are you not? |
| A27062 | What say you? |
| A27062 | What say you? |
| A27062 | What say you? |
| A27062 | What should be first sought after, Heaven or Earth? |
| A27062 | What should we say if he ask us, Did not you tell them the Misery of their natural State, and what would become of them if they were not made new? |
| A27062 | What think you now, Friends, of this Business? |
| A27062 | What this Sin of making light of the Gospel is? |
| A27062 | What was there but your own wicked Hearts that should make such a Life seem grievous to you? |
| A27062 | What will ● ● is Babler say? |
| A27062 | What wonder if for all that we can say or do, our Hearers still set light by Christ and their own Salvation, when the Apostles Hearers did the same? |
| A27062 | What would you have us say, if God ask us, Did you tell this Sinner of the need of Christ, of the Glory of the World to come, and the Vanity of this? |
| A27062 | What, will you abuse him by whom it is that you are Men? |
| A27062 | When the Gospel pierceth the Heart indeed, they cry out, Men and Brethren, what shall we do to be saved? |
| A27062 | When they are once pricked in their Hear ● for Sin and Misery, then they cry out, Men and Breth ● what shall we do? |
| A27062 | When was it prepared for them? |
| A27062 | Who are those? |
| A27062 | Whose Salvation is it that you make light of? |
| A27062 | Why Sirs, do you not care whether you be saved or damned? |
| A27062 | Why Sirs, if you had every one a Kingdom in your Hopes, what were it in comparison of the everlasting Kingdom? |
| A27062 | Why did you not ● o far then agree with them? |
| A27062 | Why then did not these take as much with you as the other? |
| A27062 | Why will you not judg now, as you know you shall judg then? |
| A27062 | Wi ● ● you therefore attend to the publick preaching of th ● ● Word? |
| A27062 | Will he then be worth ten thousand Worlds, and is he not now worth your highest Estimation, and dearest Affection? |
| A27062 | Will you do all this with Delight, not as your Toil, but as your Pleasure? |
| A27062 | Will you do no more than you have done hitherto? |
| A27062 | Will you do these things? |
| A27062 | Will you for the time to come esteem more of the Officers of Christ, whom he hath purposely appointed to guide you to Salvation? |
| A27062 | Will you for the time to come make Conscience of daily and earnest Prayer to God, that you may have a Part in Christ and Salvation? |
| A27062 | Will you for the time to come resolvedly cast away your known Sins at the Command of Christ? |
| A27062 | Will you not believe till you see or feel? |
| A27062 | Will you resolve and promise in the Strength of Grace, that you will faithfully and speedily endeavour to practise it, whoever shall gainsay it? |
| A27062 | Will you resolve to stick to Christ, and make sure this Work of Salvation, though it cost you all that you have in the World? |
| A27062 | Will you take this for a good Excuse from your ● hildren or Servants, if they abuse you? |
| A27062 | Will you use hereafter to go 〈 ◊ 〉 your Ministers privately, and solicite them for Ad ● ice? |
| A27062 | Would you have the Jury or the Judg to take this for a good Excuse? |
| A27062 | Would you have us lie to God, and say we did not? |
| A27062 | Yea further, answer as in the Presence of God; Didst tou obey so far as thou didst know? |
| A27062 | Yea, did not the very plain Word that you heard read, tell you of these things? |
| A27062 | You forget what Helps he afforded you to discover the Wiles of Satan, and to vanquish the Temptation? |
| A27062 | You have Ministers at hand; why do you not go to them, and earnestly ask them, Sirs, What must I do to be saved? |
| A27062 | You hear, Brethren, what will not serve the turn; will you now hear what Persons you must be if you would not be condemned as Slighters of Christ? |
| A27062 | You know well enough that Death levels all: what Matter is it at Judgment, whether you be to answer for the Life of a rich Man, or a poor Man? |
| A27062 | You would be afraid now to meet him in the Dark: what will you be to live with him in everlasting Darkness? |
| A27062 | and can he not govern it by ● ● e and righteous Means? |
| A27062 | and could you not have procured them to read to you, or to help you? |
| A27062 | and did you not hear these things read to you in the Congregation by the Minister, or might have done if you would? |
| A27062 | and did you pray daily that God would lead you into the Truth ▪ and did you obey as much as you knew? |
| A27062 | and how importunate should we all be with Sinners for their Conversion, when we consider that we our selves also must shortly be judged? |
| A27062 | and how they will shortly leave you ● and what mind you will be then of, and how you wil ● esteem them? |
| A27062 | and if you have not such of your own as are fit, 〈 ◊ 〉 Advice from others; and ask them What you shall do 〈 ◊ 〉 be saved? |
| A27062 | and might you not have had a Bible your selves, and found them there? |
| A27062 | and neglect him without whom you can not subsist? |
| A27062 | and the Revelation of his Will to guide that Reason? |
| A27062 | and to be the same Men after all this? |
| A27062 | and to save them that value a Cup of Drink, or a Lust, before his Salvation? |
| A27062 | and what is it that you neglect? |
| A27062 | and where was any ● rer Ground for your Confidence? |
| A27062 | and whether time be no more worth to one that is so near Eternity, and must make so strict an Account of his Hours? |
| A27062 | and why might not you have done so, if you had been as industrious as they? |
| A27062 | and will you make ● se of them for that end? |
| A27062 | and would you not believe Stephe ● that saw them? |
| A27062 | and yet wouldst thou now perswade the Judg that thou didst love God above all? |
| A27062 | and yet you have his written Word that speaks plainer than all these; and will you despise them all? |
| A27062 | and ● at he was fain to rule the World by a Lie? |
| A27062 | and ● ill you obey the Word of God in their Mouths? |
| A27062 | and 〈 ◊ 〉 not his Word sufficient Security for you to have ● usted your Souls upon? |
| A27062 | but how heartlesly do they make mention of Christ and Salvation? |
| A27062 | but will you not then be troubled at his Presence and tormenting Power? |
| A27062 | can he not awe ● em by Truth? |
| A27062 | can not Men be saved without so much ado? |
| A27062 | canst thou deny but thou didst love this World before me, and serve thy Flesh and Lusts, though I told thee if thou ● idst so thou shouldst die? |
| A27062 | did you know where was ● y better Security to be had? |
| A27062 | doth it support them, and secure them? |
| A27062 | how carelesly didst thou serve him, and think much of all that thou didst therein? |
| A27062 | how coldly didst thou worship him, or make any mention of him? |
| A27062 | how little do they when they are out of the Pulpit for the saving of Mens Souls? |
| A27062 | how many a Soul that is now in Heaven or Hell, within 100 Years dwelt in the Places that you now dwell in, and sat in the Seats you now sit in? |
| A27062 | how shall I know whether I be ready or not? |
| A27062 | how slightly do they reprove Sin? |
| A27062 | how speedily is it come? |
| A27062 | how to prepare for Death and Judgment? |
| A27062 | if we should be so foolish and unjust, what good would it do you? |
| A27062 | or from a ● hief or a Murderer? |
| A27062 | or will a despised Christ save you then? |
| A27062 | shall God and his Ministers speak in vain? |
| A27062 | shall he escape by telling the ● dg that his Sin was nothing? |
| A27062 | shall it appear in any good Uses that God calls you to be liberal in, according to your Abilities? |
| A27062 | shall the Poor find that you see more by Christ than this World? |
| A27062 | that ask of his Service, as Judas of the Ointment, What need this waste? |
| A27062 | that provide outward Necessaries so carefully for their Families, but do so little to the saving of their Souls? |
| A27062 | the Devils never had a Saviour offered them, but thou hast, and dost thou yet make light of him? |
| A27062 | we must be either against God or you; and can you think that we should be for any one against our Maker and Redeemer? |
| A27062 | we must either condemn the Sentence of Jesus Christ or condemn you: and is not there more reason to condemn you than him? |
| A27062 | what is a little time when it is gone? |
| A27062 | what is it that you run after? |
| A27062 | what need God to say that ● hich he will not do, to awe Sinners? |
| A27062 | what the Accusation, and what the Defence? |
| A27062 | when God is against you, whose side would you have us be of? |
| A27062 | why Flesh and Blood can not see them: You see not God: will you not therefore believe that there is a God? |
| A27062 | why might not that at least have been spent about heavenly things? |
| A27062 | will God punish one Sin twice? |
| A27062 | will you excuse your Child or Friend, if he would be false to you, upon as great Enticements as these? |
| A27062 | will you live to his Dishonour who giveth you your Lives? |
| A27062 | will you not hear so loud and constant Calls? |
| A27062 | will you not see so great a Light? |
| A27062 | will you read it daily? |
| A27062 | will you resolve t ● obey it whatever it may cost you? |
| A27062 | will you speak to his Dishonour that giveth you your Speech? |
| A27062 | will you therefore wrong God because you see others wrong him? |
| A27062 | will you wrong him by his own Creatures? |
| A27062 | with a little deluding fleshly Pleasure for a few Days? |
| A27062 | with what an Heart must a Minister preach when he remembreth that all the Words that he is speaking must condemn many, if not most of his Hearers? |
| A27062 | would they read and think of these things as they do? |
| A27062 | would you have believed one from the dead that had told you he ha ● seen such things? |
| A27062 | would you spit in the Face of your own Father if you saw others do so? |
| A27062 | would you think it a good Excuse if the rest should do the like because of their Example? |
| A27062 | yea, and to do you no good, when we know that Lies will not prevail with God? |
| A27062 | you have the Bible and other good Books by you; why do you not read them? |
| A44515 | 1.18, 19, 20. Who can grumble at Religion after all these advantages? |
| A44515 | And are these Christian vertues? |
| A44515 | And are these fit things to rejoyce in? |
| A44515 | And can a Christian have a good opinion of these houses, where so many have lost their vertue? |
| A44515 | And do not you think you are concern''d? |
| A44515 | And have not you sins enough of your own to answer for, but you must load other mens upon you too? |
| A44515 | And how dreadful must this make your account? |
| A44515 | And how foolish is that Apothecary, that writes glorious Names upon his Pots, when the rich drugs that are named, have no being in his Shop? |
| A44515 | And if it be so sad with her, before the Sentence be past, what trembling and horrour will invade her after it? |
| A44515 | And if the blind lead the blind, shall not they both fall into the pit? |
| A44515 | And is it worth losing Heaven, and eternal happiness for the sight of such jocular Shows? |
| A44515 | And is not possible for you to know it? |
| A44515 | And is not the greatest part of the World to be pityed, that can delight in nothing but what they can grasp and feel? |
| A44515 | And is not this infinitely better, than the Pleasures of Sardanapalus, of Dives, and other luxurious men? |
| A44515 | And is this fit to be done by Christians, who are to crucifie the Flesh with its lusts and affections? |
| A44515 | And is this such a bug- bear to fright you from your duty? |
| A44515 | And is this to walk after the Spirit, as we are commanded? |
| A44515 | And is your Christianity so fierce and violent, that it needs a bridle? |
| A44515 | And must it be made worse? |
| A44515 | And suppose natural Beauty allures and tempts voluptuous Men, must therefore more evil be added to the former? |
| A44515 | And therefore, 4. Who can harbour any hard Thoughts of Religion, because it debars us of disorderly sensual Delights? |
| A44515 | And what Cruelty is it, when God is resolved to revenge thy Quarrel, that thou wilt needs revenge it too? |
| A44515 | And what are the mighty advantages, men get by the representations of the Stage? |
| A44515 | And what doth this sport betray but a weak, soft, easie, vain and empty mind? |
| A44515 | And what if you do go but now and then, Doth your going but seldom justifie the action? |
| A44515 | And what if you lose something considerable by pleasing God? |
| A44515 | And what self- denial can there be, where we do not deny our selves in that, which is most pernicious to our better part? |
| A44515 | And whether he hath not minded his own business, more than his Masters? |
| A44515 | And why should not you raise your soul above the bubbles of external pomp? |
| A44515 | And will it not tend to thy everlasting confusion that thou hast had the Name of a Christian, and done nothing like a Christian? |
| A44515 | And wilt thou come without the Mark of thy Office before the great Shepherd, and Bishop of Souls? |
| A44515 | Are not the hearts of men in his hand, and doth not he turn them as streams of Water? |
| A44515 | Are the pleasures arising from hence, of that consequence, that they will counterballance so great a loss? |
| A44515 | Are these Divertisements for a Creature that holds his very Being of God, and is beholding to him for all the Blessings he enjoys? |
| A44515 | Are these fit Objects for thy Mirth? |
| A44515 | Are these momentary satisfactions of that value, that you would run the hazard of being for ever deprived of the beatifick vision for them? |
| A44515 | Are these the Christians, that are to go hand in hand together, to Gods everlasting Kingdom? |
| A44515 | Are these the Christians, that are to help one another to Heaven? |
| A44515 | Are these the graces that must make us glorious in the sight of God? |
| A44515 | Are these the lights, the shining, the burning lights, that are to light the ignorant Brother to the inheritance of the Saints in light? |
| A44515 | Are you afraid, Gods anger to you will not be great enough, except you add your Neighbours offences, to make his wrath the heavier? |
| A44515 | Art thou born of God, and canst thou degenerate from his Nature? |
| A44515 | As a King thou art to apppear before him, and wilt thou come in the posture of a miserable Vassal? |
| A44515 | As thou art a Christian, thou art a Son of God, and do''st thou express that filial disposition in thy gate, and looks, and face, and Life? |
| A44515 | Behold those pious Souls, that take a course contrary to that of the World; what makes them afraid of sinning? |
| A44515 | But being unwilling to be better informed, judge you, whether it will not agravate your Condemnation? |
| A44515 | But why should you mistrust him even in this present life? |
| A44515 | But why should''st thou wonder at the Change thou see''st in thy Friend? |
| A44515 | By giving thee opportunity of becoming a Christian, God hath made thee a King, and wilt thou run to the Bramble, and say, Come thou and Reign over me? |
| A44515 | Can any Hell be thought too much for such stubbornness? |
| A44515 | Can any man of reason think, that after all this mischief, they may be safely hugg''d and applauded? |
| A44515 | Can you or any man reconcile such darkness with light, such Idols with the Temple of God? |
| A44515 | Can you see how other Men by thinking arrive to Perfection, and will you lye groveling in the Dust? |
| A44515 | Can you see other Men run away with all the Comforts of the Gospel, and remain senseless? |
| A44515 | Can you see others carry away the Crown, and feel no Ambition in you? |
| A44515 | Can you see others get into the Pool of Bethesda before you, and recover, and are you fond of continuing lame, and blind, and poor, and miserable? |
| A44515 | Can you see others take away the Blessing of your Father from you, and be unmoved at the want of it? |
| A44515 | Could you by meditating make that Glory present to you, and will you neglect the Opportunity? |
| A44515 | Could you by musing and pondering bring Heaven into your Chambers and Closets, and will ye debarr your selves of that glorious Sight? |
| A44515 | Couldst thou have dealt worse with a Slave, or with an Enemy, than thou hast done with me? |
| A44515 | Couldst thou think, I would look on, and not set thy sins in order before thee? |
| A44515 | Did Christ come down from Heaven, and die, and spill his blood for you, that you might securely indulge your carnal Genius? |
| A44515 | Did he bleed, that you might grow strong in sin? |
| A44515 | Did he die, that you might cherish the lusts of the Flesh? |
| A44515 | Did he ever encourage such empty things? |
| A44515 | Did he sacrifice himself for you, that you might please your self with such fooleries? |
| A44515 | Did not I see thee at such a time, in such a place, in such a Garden, in such a Chamber playing the Rebel, and the Wanton? |
| A44515 | Did not I see thee conspiring against me? |
| A44515 | Did not I see thee treating with mine Enemies? |
| A44515 | Did such phantastick actions deserve so great a condescension? |
| A44515 | Did this condescension deserve, dost thou think, such affronts, and injuries, such contempt, and disobedience, as thou hast returned to me? |
| A44515 | Didst thou ever receive such Favours at any Man''s hand, as thou hast received at mine? |
| A44515 | Do not even wicked men confess so much, men who have been guilty of such crimes? |
| A44515 | Do not these evidently make this slave usurp Authority over her Mistress? |
| A44515 | Do not you see, do not you perceive, how sin grows upon you by frequenting these places? |
| A44515 | Do not you think, what have I done to day? |
| A44515 | Do they not look liker Mahomets Votaries, or Epicurus his Followers? |
| A44515 | Do you believe he spoke true? |
| A44515 | Do you ever examine your self at night about the actions of the day? |
| A44515 | Do you think such men are like to be his favorites? |
| A44515 | Do you thus requite his kindness? |
| A44515 | Do''st not thou quake, to think, that the Revenger of Blood is upon thy Heels? |
| A44515 | Does God expect thee at his Tribunal with the qualifications of a Child, and wilt thou appear before him as a Rebel? |
| A44515 | Does not this threatning fright you? |
| A44515 | Doest not thou remember the water that was sprinkled upon thy face in Baptism, nor the Sacrament whereby thy lips and tongue were blessed? |
| A44515 | Doth this put no sad thoughts into your mind? |
| A44515 | God designs thee to be his Priest; This is one of the Priviledges, that came by the Blood of Christ: But where are thy Sacrifices? |
| A44515 | Had you rather forfeit Gods savour, then these ludicrous transactions? |
| A44515 | Had you rather sin, then displease Men, or is a poor Creature more terrible to you, then he who thunders in the Heavens? |
| A44515 | Hadst not thou reason to prefer my Favour before the smiles of a transitory VVorld? |
| A44515 | Hadst not thou such base thoughts, such wicked intentions, such impure desires in such Company? |
| A44515 | Hath God no ways to make you amends for your losses? |
| A44515 | Hath he appeased the Almighties wrath for you, that you might spend your time in a Theatre? |
| A44515 | Hath he given his Son on purpose to adopt thee, and thinkest thou to present thy self before him in the shape of a Prodigal? |
| A44515 | Hath he no Glory, no Kingdom, no reward, no recompence to redintegrate your fortune? |
| A44515 | Have not I been delighted with seeing my neighbour abus''d? |
| A44515 | Have not the vices represented there in jest, been practised by the forward youth at home in good earnest? |
| A44515 | Have not you found a Joy stealing upon your Souls after such refreshing Considerations, as hath transported you even into love of Martyrdom? |
| A44515 | Have not you observed it? |
| A44515 | Have not you seen how they have remitted in their warmth, and how the holy fire that once burn''d in their breasts is gone out? |
| A44515 | Have they not deriv''d their boldness from these places? |
| A44515 | Have you protested in the presence of God and angels, that you will not meddle with them, and will you break your vow? |
| A44515 | Have you solemnly professed before the Congregation, that you will not have any affection for them, and do you make nothing of persidiousness? |
| A44515 | He is omnipotent; will a Painter be afraid of his Picture, or a Man of his Shadow? |
| A44515 | He looks upon them smilingly; and asks the Man who brought them, Whether his Master intended, that Cimon should be his Friend or his Servant? |
| A44515 | He who preached up the Doctrine of the Cross, could he have any liking to that, which is directly contrary to that Doctrine? |
| A44515 | He whose life was a perpetual selfdenial in the pleasures of this life, could he give the least colour, or shadow of approbation of them? |
| A44515 | How barbarous, how inhumane, is thy Joy? |
| A44515 | How can you discharge your conscience, to let your neighbour do evil without giving him an Item of Gods displeasure? |
| A44515 | How canst thou expect the performance of his Promises, while thou art so false to thy engagements? |
| A44515 | How contented have you been after such Exercises, or after some signal Self- denial? |
| A44515 | How could''st thou abuse a Friendship of that worth and value? |
| A44515 | How could''st thou undervalue a Favour of that importance and consequence? |
| A44515 | How did I deserve such preposterous doings at thy Hands? |
| A44515 | How justly may God look upon''t as presumption, to alter that Face which he thought fit to create in that shape it is of? |
| A44515 | How knowest thou whether God will after the Fact, give thee his holy Spirit to come to this Repentance? |
| A44515 | How many persons have I harden''d, and confirm''d in their sins by my example? |
| A44515 | How much lightness and vanity have I encouraged by my presence? |
| A44515 | How often doth he make it appear to the World, that where a mans ways please the Lord, he makes his very enemies to be at peace with him? |
| A44515 | How ridiculous is that Man, that hangs out a Bush, and yet hath no Wine to sell? |
| A44515 | How the Prospect of that future Judgment must be managed, that it may actually damp, and put a stop to these Carnal delights? |
| A44515 | How unlike thy self wilt thou appear before God, if thou come without these qualifications? |
| A44515 | How will you wish, that you had been in my condition? |
| A44515 | How would you take it, if a man should give you a box on the ear but now and then? |
| A44515 | I could withstand them now, why could not I have withstood them then? |
| A44515 | I do not deny, but Men may do worse, but what necessity is there for their doing that which is bad, to avoid that which is worse? |
| A44515 | I opened the Windows of Heaven, and look''d upon thee, when thou wast committing Fornication with such a Woman? |
| A44515 | If they that walk afer the Flesh can not please God, how can you hope to please him, while you allow your self in this work of the Flesh? |
| A44515 | If thou didst, how couldst thou be so ungrateful? |
| A44515 | If to God, why dare not you prefer his favour before the favour of Men, and be guided more by his Laws, then by the benevolence of dust and ashes? |
| A44515 | If you are, how can you run into the same temptation again, or go to a place where you will infallibly be tempted to the love of the World? |
| A44515 | If you come to the Lords Table one day, and run to a Play- house another, do not you destroy all, that you built the day before? |
| A44515 | If you come to the Supper of the Lord, there to profess your sorrow for loving the World, are you in good earnest sorry for it, or are you not? |
| A44515 | If you examine your self in this manner and find these effects, have not you reason to ask God forgiveness? |
| A44515 | If you have no courage to admonish them, what makes you appear there where you must be silent under the indignities offered to your Master? |
| A44515 | If you lose this World for his sake, is not the felicity of the next recompence enough? |
| A44515 | Is it not enough that natural Beauty is so dangerous? |
| A44515 | Is it possible to be his friend, and a friend to these vanities? |
| A44515 | Is it possible to live up to his precepts, and feed our eyes with these Shews? |
| A44515 | Is it so flaming that it wants this stolen water to quench it? |
| A44515 | Is it so hot, that it must have an extinguisher? |
| A44515 | Is not the World bad enough? |
| A44515 | Is not this fighting against your happiness? |
| A44515 | Is not this justifying the Players profession, and to make them think that you approve of their ludicrous vocations? |
| A44515 | Is not this making war against your soul? |
| A44515 | Is not this tempting young people to those extravagancies they should detest? |
| A44515 | Is not this the way to make her inamour''d with the World, from which a Christian is to run away, as much as he can? |
| A44515 | Is not this to be blind to the great design of the Gospel? |
| A44515 | Is not this to clogg your soul? |
| A44515 | Is not this to live in contradictions? |
| A44515 | Is not this to make your self odious to that God whose favour you expect in the last day? |
| A44515 | Is not this to shut the gates of mercy against you? |
| A44515 | Is not this to throw impediments in her way to felicity? |
| A44515 | Is the Stage likely to produce vigorous apprehensions of Gods grace and favour? |
| A44515 | Is the sight of a Comedy a probable means to make you live above the World? |
| A44515 | Is there any thing in all the History of his life, that may be said to countenance such doings? |
| A44515 | Is there any thing in the Gospel more plainly forbid, then conforming to the World? |
| A44515 | Is this a proper end of the mighty purchase he hath made? |
| A44515 | Is this a sight agreeable to the strait way, and the narrow gate, which leads to life? |
| A44515 | Is this decency to afford your presence in a place, where the most debauched persons assemble themselves for ill ends and purposes? |
| A44515 | Is this redeeming of your time to throw away so many hours upon fooling, and seeing mens ridiculous postures, gestures, and behaviours? |
| A44515 | Is this sobriety, to stand by and hear men curse and swear, and talk of things which should not be so much as named among Christians? |
| A44515 | Is this the return you make him for his sweat and agonies, for his sighs and groans, for his pains and all his labours? |
| A44515 | Is this the way to grow in grace, and to advance in goodness, and to abound more and more in the love of God, which your Christianity obliges you to? |
| A44515 | Is this to promote a lively sense of God? |
| A44515 | Moses grows impatient at the Waters of Meribah, who would not have done so that had to deal with so stubborn a People? |
| A44515 | Must I therefore slander and abuse a Man, because it is a less sin then to murther him? |
| A44515 | Must sin be therefore multiplied, and the sickly minds of carnal men, more and more distemper''d? |
| A44515 | O my Friends, are not these things to be considered by Gods servants? |
| A44515 | O my friends, said he, do you ask me, Where I have been? |
| A44515 | Of whom should he be afraid? |
| A44515 | Or art thou not afraid of that saying, that Dog must stand without? |
| A44515 | Or have you a peculiar exemption from that danger? |
| A44515 | Or how would you resent it, to have your good name taken away by a person, not always, but whenever his humour prompts him? |
| A44515 | Or to be a spectator of so many undecent and wanton gestures, postures, and actions, which in some Comedies make up the greatest part of the shew? |
| A44515 | Say you so? |
| A44515 | Shall men of no great sense of Religion complain of it, and shall a Christian do any thing, that may contribute toward the holding of them up? |
| A44515 | Shall those Passions rule over thee, which thy God hath given thee for Servants, and Handmaids? |
| A44515 | Should God call thee to Judgment O my Soul, this Night, or this Hour, art thou in a condition to appear before so great, so dreadful a God? |
| A44515 | Should God speak the word within a few Minutes, Come away, come away, and give an account of thy behaviour; how unprepared art thou? |
| A44515 | Sir, have you abjured these things in your Baptism, and dare you venter on them? |
| A44515 | So great is thy danger, and canst thou loiter? |
| A44515 | So near art thou to a tremendous Eternity, and Oh wilt not thou be clean? |
| A44515 | That Sin which makes thee merry, that Folly that cheers thy Spirit, what is it but Ingratitude to thy kindest Benefactor? |
| A44515 | The Hermit heard him, and replyed, Ay but Friend, What if there should be one? |
| A44515 | This stands to Reason, for except things be made visible to us, how shall they move or fright us? |
| A44515 | Thou art a Christian, but where is the Life of Christ that should be in thee? |
| A44515 | Thou art call''d to be faithful, and hast given thy Faith to God; wilt thou break thy Faith, and hope to be guiltless at this Bar? |
| A44515 | Thou art designed for a Citizen of the Celestial Jerusalem, and wilt thou appear before him as an Inhabitant of Hell? |
| A44515 | Thou art one of God''s Family, and wilt thou appear before him, as a Traitor? |
| A44515 | Thou art purchased by his Blood, and wilt thou live, as if that Blood had been spilt in vain? |
| A44515 | Thou art wash''d in the Laver of Regeneration, and canst thou wallow with the Swine in the Mire? |
| A44515 | Thou art within hearing of the Thunders, that come forth from the Throne of God, and do not thy Thoughts trouble thee? |
| A44515 | Thou hast known the way of Righteousness, and wilt thou with the Dog return to the Vomit? |
| A44515 | Thou must shortly appear before all the Host of Heaven, and art not thou got farther yet in Holiness? |
| A44515 | Thou seest the fatal Hand upon the Wall, and do not they Kness smite one against another? |
| A44515 | To whom have you greater obligations, to God or Man? |
| A44515 | We may put forced glosses upon the words, but doth not this look like the natural sense of them? |
| A44515 | What a Fool will you be then? |
| A44515 | What comfort can it be to me, that men think me charitable, when God sees, I give Alms to be seen of men? |
| A44515 | What did the Lord Jesus delight in, who lived upon Alms? |
| A44515 | What doest thou rejoyce in? |
| A44515 | What doth it avail me, that men say, I pray well, when God sees, I study to please the Company? |
| A44515 | What evil Spirit did possess thee to make light of these kindnesses? |
| A44515 | What feeds its preposterous longings more then these? |
| A44515 | What great matter is it, that men applaud me for a single Virtue, when God sees I am partial in my Obedience? |
| A44515 | What he hath done with the Creatures which have been given him for his use? |
| A44515 | What hurt doth the Penitent Mary Magdalen receive by the Evagelists recording, or our speaking of her former Whoredoms? |
| A44515 | What if it be so to Flesh and Blood? |
| A44515 | What if you do not think it to be sin, will your thinking so excuse you? |
| A44515 | What if you see it not with mortal Eyes? |
| A44515 | What is it but hardning other men in their sins? |
| A44515 | What is it but requiting the greatest Good with the greatest Evil? |
| A44515 | What is it, but contempt of him who keeps thy Soul in Life? |
| A44515 | What is your going to a Play- house, but giving Offence? |
| A44515 | What makes them afraid of running with their Neighbours into Riot? |
| A44515 | What makes them mourn? |
| A44515 | What makes them rejoice in Spirit; You see nothing, that they have reason to mourn for? |
| A44515 | What makes them, that they dare not do, what some of their carnal acquaintance and Relations do? |
| A44515 | What need''st thou grieve that Men abuse thee here, when thy Sovereign Master will grieve every Vein of the Reviler''s Heart in this day? |
| A44515 | What need''st thou seek Revenge, when thy Master, whom thou servest, is resolved to judge thy Cause in this Day? |
| A44515 | What need''st thou take notice of an Affront offer''d to thee, when thy God stands engaged to take notice of it with a Witness in this day? |
| A44515 | What pampers it more then such sights? |
| A44515 | What place can any Creature promise him, who doth what he pleases in all the Armies of Heaven, and among all the Inhabitants of the Earth? |
| A44515 | What will it profit me, that men call me Zealous; and Fervent, when God sees, that gain, and profit is the cause of it? |
| A44515 | What will it profit you to taste of all the Sweets of this World, if any thing can be called sweet in so much Misery? |
| A44515 | When God hath distinguish''d you from the ignobler Brutes, will ye be like the Horse and Mule, whose Mouths must be held with Bitt and Bridle? |
| A44515 | Where are you then? |
| A44515 | Whether every Man is bound to embitter his Carnal delights with this prospect? |
| A44515 | Whether every Man is bound to imbitter his Carnal delights with this Prospect? |
| A44515 | Who can find fault with it after this prospect of its benefits? |
| A44515 | Who can inferr from his Actions, or Behaviour, that this Man believes a Word of Scripture? |
| A44515 | Who can make this Judge happier than he is already? |
| A44515 | Who dares asperse that beauteous Virgin after such Fruits it bears? |
| A44515 | Who ever learned to abandon a sin, he is addicted to, by seeing its punishment on the Stage? |
| A44515 | Who sees not, that these sights are meer incentives to lust, and fewel to feed the impurer fire in our breasts? |
| A44515 | Who would conclude him to have lived in a Land where the Gospel is preach''d? |
| A44515 | Who would desire that which hath been a Sword and Arrow to others? |
| A44515 | Who would imagine, that this Man hath a rational Soul? |
| A44515 | Who would not esteem it? |
| A44515 | Who would not honour it? |
| A44515 | Who would not look upon it as a horn of plenty, and a treasury of the greatest comforts? |
| A44515 | Who would not maintain the honour of it, against all opponents? |
| A44515 | Who would not prize it? |
| A44515 | Who would not rise up in defence of it, when blasphemous Tongues would traduce, and revile it? |
| A44515 | Who would not speak well of it? |
| A44515 | Who would take the Wretch for a Disciple of the poor and afflicted Jesus? |
| A44515 | Who would think, he were created after the Image of God? |
| A44515 | Why do ye murmur against me when I bid you fast, and watch, and pray? |
| A44515 | Why dost thou delight in Apes and Peacocks, when thou hast the Creator of all these to rejoyce in? |
| A44515 | Why dost thou delight in Houses, when thou hast a House made without Hands to delight in? |
| A44515 | Why dost thou delight in a fading Beauty, when thou hast him that''s altogether lovely to delight in? |
| A44515 | Why dost thou delight in a little Gain, in Drops of Happiness, in Crums of Bliss, in shining Dust, when thou hast a Sea of Glory to delight in? |
| A44515 | Why dost thou delight in a morsel of Meat, when thou hast the Birth- right of eternal Glory to delight in? |
| A44515 | Why dost thou delight in the Rivers of Damascus, when thou hast the River of God''s Pleasure to delight in? |
| A44515 | Why dost thou delight in the Slavery of thy Lusts, when thou hast him, whose Service is perfect Freedom to delight in? |
| A44515 | Why dost thou delight in the Voice of a deceitful Siren, when thou hast him whose Voice comforts the Mourners of Sion to delight in? |
| A44515 | Why dost thou delight in the nether Springs, when thou hast the upper Springs of Mercy to delight in? |
| A44515 | Why dost thou delight in the shade of the Bramble, when thou hast the shadow of God''s Wings to delight in? |
| A44515 | Why doth he compare us to a City seated upon a Hill, if we shine not in darkness, or do not stand up among the drowned part of the World? |
| A44515 | Why must a sottish Lust and Passion engross thy desires, and my Law be cast behind thee? |
| A44515 | Why should we be afraid to call a spade, a spade? |
| A44515 | Why should ye be loath to labour, when to labour ye were born? |
| A44515 | Why should ye refuse to suffer when shortly you must die, and mingle with Dust? |
| A44515 | Why should you shut your eyes against a thing, as clear as the Sun? |
| A44515 | Why would''st thou lose that which I purchased at so dear a rate? |
| A44515 | Why would''st thou pollute that Soul, which I redeemed with mine own Blood? |
| A44515 | Why wouldst thou make thy Heart a habitation of Devils, which I intended for my Throne? |
| A44515 | Will not God revenge this breach, or canst thou think, he will let thee go unpunish''d for thy Treacheries? |
| A44515 | Will not this turn to better account at last than fleshly Lusts, which war against the Soul? |
| A44515 | Will the Judge ever take thee for his Sheep, when it''s evident, thou do''st not hear his Voice? |
| A44515 | Will you count it a Foe because it denies you the Sword which would kill you? |
| A44515 | Willful ignorance is as bad, as a known sin, and how easily might you know such doings to be sinful? |
| A44515 | Wilt not thou believe me, who look''d within the Curtains, and saw thy abominations? |
| A44515 | Wilt thou boast of being his Disciple, and art thou loth to follow his Example? |
| A44515 | With what conscience can you promise the Lord Jesus to follow him, when you intend to expose your self again to these temptations? |
| A44515 | With what eyes can you appear in the presence of that King of Kings, who have but a little before prostituted your Soul to the Devil? |
| A44515 | With what face dare you approach the Table of your Lord, who have been a spectator of such shews but a little before? |
| A44515 | Would any man that looks upon the jolly assembly in a Play- house, think that these are Disciples of the crucified God? |
| A44515 | and if you ask him forgiveness, how dare you run upon the same rock again? |
| A44515 | and if you do, doth not your presence at such shews, and your being pleased with them, fly into your face? |
| A44515 | and shall we encrease the danger by tricks and artifices? |
| A44515 | and what can that prohibition import, if conformity to the World in beholding these dangerous sights be not in a great measure meant by it? |
| A44515 | and what is it but contending with our Maker, and expostulating with the Potter, Why hast thou made me thus? |
| A44515 | and why could not I have thy Heart, and thy will and affections? |
| A44515 | are not these things at which they may justly tremble day and night? |
| A44515 | are the profane railleries, that are used there, fit preparatives for austerity of conversation? |
| A44515 | had God struck me dead in that place, how sad would my condition have been? |
| A44515 | hath not such a sin been pleasing to me? |
| A44515 | have not I been tickled with mens speaking ill of him? |
| A44515 | have you renounced them, and dare you fall in love with them? |
| A44515 | how can you have patience to let them talk at this rate? |
| A44515 | how can you hear it without reproving the men that do it? |
| A44515 | how could the Primitive Christians know these things to be sinful? |
| A44515 | how couldst thou find in thy Heart to afflict, and grieve me so often, who have endured such agonies already for thee on the Cross? |
| A44515 | how did I spend my time, might not I have spent it better, then at a Play- house? |
| A44515 | how dull in the work of meditation? |
| A44515 | how many vain and foolish thoughts have these sights sent into my mind? |
| A44515 | how slovenly and superficial in Gods service? |
| A44515 | if it will not suffer you to please your Flesh beyond what is necessary for it''s Subsistence, must it therefore be your Enemy? |
| A44515 | if you use the same means, why should not you fear the same unhappy influence? |
| A44515 | must people therefore increase temptations with artificial Beauty? |
| A44515 | or if you have some little regret upon your spirits, where is your tongue to speak for your friend? |
| A44515 | the Sacrifice of fervent Prayer, the Sacrifice of an humble contrite Heart, the Sacrifice of Praise, and delight in God? |
| A44515 | what doth it signifie, that men call me Religious, when God knows, I am an Hypocrite? |
| A44515 | when Religion is mock''d? |
| A44515 | when vertue is rendred odious? |
| A44515 | who would not vindicate it, when it is abused? |
| A44515 | why do not you keep out of their company? |
| A44515 | why wouldst thou forsake me, the Fountain of Living VVaters? |
| A44515 | will you sin against your knowledge, will you do that again, which will require a new repentance? |
| A44515 | will you sin willfully after this? |
| A44543 | 18, 19, 20. Who can grumble at Religion after all these advantages? |
| A44543 | A ● ● not these things at which they may justly tremble day and night? |
| A44543 | And are these Christian Virtues? |
| A44543 | And are these fit things to rejoyce in? |
| A44543 | And because he hath vouchsafed unto us Frankincense, and Wine, and Fire, must we therefore sacrisice to Idols? |
| A44543 | And can a Christian have a good opinion of these houses, where so many have lost their vertue? |
| A44543 | And do not you think you are concern''d? |
| A44543 | And have not you sins enough of your own to answer for, but you must transfer other mens upon you too? |
| A44543 | And how dreadful must this make your account? |
| A44543 | And how foolish is that Apothecary that writes glorious Names upon his Pots, when the rich Drugs that are named, have no being in his Shop? |
| A44543 | And if it be so sad with her, before the Sentence be past, what trembling and horror will invade her after it? |
| A44543 | And if the blind lead the blind, shall not they both fall into the pit? |
| A44543 | And is it not possible for you to know it? |
| A44543 | And is it worth losing Heaven, and eternal happiness for the sight of such jocular Shews? |
| A44543 | And is not the greatest part of the World to be pityed, that can delight in nothing but what they can grasp and feel? |
| A44543 | And is not this infinitely better, than the Pleasures of Sardanapalus, of Dives, and other luxurious men? |
| A44543 | And is this fit to be done by Christians, who are to crucifie the Flesh with its lusts and affections? |
| A44543 | And is this such a Bug- bear to fright you from your duty? |
| A44543 | And is this to walk after the Spirit, as we are commanded? |
| A44543 | And is your Christianity so fierce and violent, that it needs a bridle? |
| A44543 | And must it be made worse? |
| A44543 | And suppose natural Beauty allures and tempts voluptuous Men, must therefore more evil be added to the former? |
| A44543 | And therefore, 4. Who can harbour any hard Thoughts of Religion, because it debars us of disorderly sensual Delights? |
| A44543 | And what Cruelty is it, when God is resolved to revenge thy Quarrel, that thou wilt needs revenge it too? |
| A44543 | And what Self- denial can there be, where we do not deny our selves in that which is most pernicious to our better part? |
| A44543 | And what are the mighty Advantages men get by the Representations of the Stage? |
| A44543 | And what doth this sport betray, but a weak, soft, easie, vain and empty mind? |
| A44543 | And what if you do go but now and then, Doth your going but seldom justifie the action? |
| A44543 | And what if you lose something considerable by pleasing God? |
| A44543 | And what is it but contending with our Maker, and expostulating with the Potter, Why hast thou made me thus? |
| A44543 | And why could not I have thy Heart, and thy Will and Affections? |
| A44543 | And why should not you raise your soul above the bubbles of external pomp? |
| A44543 | And will it not tend to thy everlasting confusion that thou hast had the Name of a Christian, and done nothing like a Christian? |
| A44543 | Are not the hearts of men in his hand, and doth not he turn them as streams of Water? |
| A44543 | Are the pleasures arising from hence, of that consequence, that they will counter- ballance so great a loss? |
| A44543 | Are these Divertisements proper for a Creature that holds his very Being of God, and is beholding to him for all the Blessings he enjoys? |
| A44543 | Are these fit Objects of thy Mirth? |
| A44543 | Are these momentary satisfactions of that value, that you would run the hazard of being for ever deprived of the beatifick vision for them? |
| A44543 | Are these the Christians, that are to go hand in hand together, to Gods everlasting Kingdom? |
| A44543 | Are these the Christians, that are to help one another to Heaven? |
| A44543 | Are these the Graces that must make us glorious in the sight of God? |
| A44543 | Are these the lights, the shining, the burning lights, that are to light the ignorant Brother to the inheritance of the Saints in light? |
| A44543 | Are you afraid, Gods anger to you will not be great enough, except you add your Neighbours offences, to make his wrath the heavier? |
| A44543 | Art thou born of God, and canst thou degenerate from his Nature? |
| A44543 | As a King thou art to appear before him, and wilt thou come in the posture of a miserable Vassal? |
| A44543 | As thou art a Christian, thou art a Son of God, and dost thou express that filial disposition in thy Gate, and Looks, and Face, and Life? |
| A44543 | Behold those pious Souls, that take a course contrary to that of the World; What makes them afraid of sinning? |
| A44543 | But being unwilling to be better informed, judge you, whether it will not agravate your Condemnation? |
| A44543 | But why should you mistrust him even in this present life? |
| A44543 | But why should''st thou wonder at the Change thou see''st in thy Friend? |
| A44543 | By giving thee opportunity of becoming a Christian, God hath made thee a King, and wilt thou run to the Bramble, and say, Come thou and reign over me? |
| A44543 | Can any Hell be thought too much for such Stubbornness? |
| A44543 | Can any man of reason think, that after all this mischief, they may be safely hugg''d and applauded? |
| A44543 | Can you see how other Men by thinking arrive to Perfection, and will you lye groveling in the Dust? |
| A44543 | Can you see other Men run away with all the Comforts of the Gospel, and remain senseless? |
| A44543 | Can you see others carry away the Crown, and feel no Ambition in you? |
| A44543 | Can you see others get into the Pool of Bethesda before you, and recover, and are you fond of continuing lame, and blind, and poor, and miserable? |
| A44543 | Can you see others take away the Blessing of your Father from you, and be unmoved at the want of it? |
| A44543 | Can you, or any man reconcile such darkness with light, such Idols with the Temple of God? |
| A44543 | Canst thou hear these shrieks, and be unconcerned? |
| A44543 | Canst thou see this poor Creature lie in torments, and give no relief? |
| A44543 | Could you by meditating make that Glory present to you, and will you neglect the Opportunity? |
| A44543 | Could you by musing and pondering bring Heaven into your Chambers and Closets, and will ye debarr your selves of that glorious Sight? |
| A44543 | Couldest thou have dealt worse with a Slave, or with an Enemy, than thou hast done with me? |
| A44543 | Couldst thou think I would look on, and not set thy sins in order before thee ●? |
| A44543 | Did Christ come down from Heaven and die, and spill his blood for you, that you might securely indulge your carnal Genius? |
| A44543 | Did ever any Person oblige thee more than I? |
| A44543 | Did he bleed, that you might grow strong in sin? |
| A44543 | Did he die, that you might cherish the lusts of the Flesh? |
| A44543 | Did he ever encourage such empty things? |
| A44543 | Did he sacrifice himself for you, that you might please your self with such fooleries? |
| A44543 | Did not I see thee at such a time, in such a place, in such a Garden, in such a Chamber playing the Rebel, and the Wanton? |
| A44543 | Did not I see thee conspiring against me? |
| A44543 | Did not I see thee treating with mine Enemies? |
| A44543 | Did such phantastick actions deserve so great a condescension? |
| A44543 | Did this condescension deserve, dost thou think, such Affronts and Injuries, such Contempt and Disobedience, as thou hast returned to me? |
| A44543 | Didst thou ever receive such Favours at any mans hand, as thou hast received at mine? |
| A44543 | Do not even wicked men confess so much, men who have been guilty of such crimes? |
| A44543 | Do not these evidently make this Slave usurp Authority over her Mistress? |
| A44543 | Do not you see, do not you perceive, how sin grows upon you by frequenting these places? |
| A44543 | Do not you think, what have I done to day? |
| A44543 | Do they not look liker Mahomet''s Votaries, or Epicurus his Followers? |
| A44543 | Do you believe he spoke true? |
| A44543 | Do you ever examine your self at night about the actions of the day? |
| A44543 | Do you think such men are like to be his favorites? |
| A44543 | Do you thus requite his kindness? |
| A44543 | Does God expect thee at his Tribunal with the Qualifications of a Child, and wilt thou appear before him as a Rebel? |
| A44543 | Does not this threatning fright you? |
| A44543 | Dost not thou quake to think, that the Revenger of Blood is upon thy Heels? |
| A44543 | Dost not thou remember the water that was sprinkled upon thy face in Baptism, nor the Sacrament whereby thy lips and tongue were blessed? |
| A44543 | Doth this put no sad thoughts into your mind? |
| A44543 | For what is it wherein you were inferior to other Churches, except it be, that I my self was not burdensom to you? |
| A44543 | God designs thee to be his Priest; This is one of the Priviledges that came by the Blood of Christ ▪ But where are thy Sacrifices? |
| A44543 | God hath made Iron, must thou therefore murther men with it? |
| A44543 | Had God struck me dead in that place, how sad would my condition have been? |
| A44543 | Had you rather forfeit Gods favour, than these ludicrous transactions? |
| A44543 | Had you rather sin than displease Men, or is a poor Creature more terrible to you, than he who thunders in the Heavens? |
| A44543 | Hadst not thou reason to prefer my Favour before the Smiles of a transitory World? |
| A44543 | Hadst not thou such base thoughts, such wicked intentions, such impure desires in such Company? |
| A44543 | Hast thou no Mercy left? |
| A44543 | Hath God no ways to make you amends for your losses? |
| A44543 | Hath he appeased the Almighties wrath for you, that you might spend your time in a Theatre? |
| A44543 | Hath he given his Son on purpose to adopt thee, and thinkest thou to present thy self before him in the shape of a Prodigal? |
| A44543 | Hath he no Glory, no Kingdom, no reward, no recompence to redintegrate your fortune? |
| A44543 | Have not I been delighted with seeing my neighbour abus''d? |
| A44543 | Have not I been tickled with mens speaking ill of him? |
| A44543 | Have not the vices represented there in jest, been practised by the forward youth at home in good earnest? |
| A44543 | Have not you found a Joy stealing upon your Souls after such refreshing Considerations, as hath transported you even into love of Martyrdom? |
| A44543 | Have not you observed it? |
| A44543 | Have not you seen how they have remitted in their warmth, and how the holy fire that once burn''d in their breasts is gone out? |
| A44543 | Have they not deriv''d their boldness from these places? |
| A44543 | Have you protested in the presence of God and Angels, that you will not meddle with them, and will you break your vow? |
| A44543 | Have you renounced them, and dare you fall in love with them? |
| A44543 | Have you solemnly professed before the Congregation, that you will not have any affection for them, and do you make nothing of perfidiousness? |
| A44543 | He is omnipotent: Will a Painter be afraid of his Picture, or a Man of his Shadow? |
| A44543 | He looks upon them smilingly; and asks the Man who brought them, Whether his Master intended, that Cimon should be his Friend or his Servant? |
| A44543 | He that abstains from Cards and Dice, most certainly doth not sin, and who would not take the surest side of the Hedge? |
| A44543 | He who preached up the Doctrin of the Cross, could he have any liking to that, which is directly contrary to that Doctrin? |
| A44543 | He whose life was a perpetual selfdenial in the pleasures of this life, could he give the least colour, or shadow of approbation of them? |
| A44543 | How apt is the World to get between this tremendous Day, and my sight? |
| A44543 | How barbarous, how inhumane is thy Joy? |
| A44543 | How can you discharge your conscience, to let your neighbour do evil without giving him an Item of Gods displeasure? |
| A44543 | How canst thou expect the performance of his Promises, while thou art so false to thy Engagements? |
| A44543 | How contented have you been after such Exercises, or after some signal Self- denial? |
| A44543 | How couldest thou abuse a Friendship of that worth and value? |
| A44543 | How couldest thou undervalue a Favour of that importance and consequence? |
| A44543 | How couldst thou find in thy heart to afflict and grieve me so often, who have endured such Agonies already on the Cross? |
| A44543 | How did I deserve such preposterous usages at thy hands? |
| A44543 | How is it that thou wast not afraid to make thy Belly, thy Gold; thy Harlot, and such a great Man thy God? |
| A44543 | How justly may God look upon it as Presumption, to alter that Face which he thought fit to create in that shape it is of? |
| A44543 | How knowest thou, whether God will after the Fact, give thee his holy Spirit to come to this Repentance? |
| A44543 | How many innocent men wrong''d daily? |
| A44543 | How many parts of every day dost thou spend idly and foolishly? |
| A44543 | How many persons have I harden''d, and confirm''d in their sins by my example? |
| A44543 | How many vain and foolish thoughts have these sights sent into my mind? |
| A44543 | How much lightness and vanity have I encouraged by my presence? |
| A44543 | How often doth he make it appear to the World, that where a mans ways please the Lord, he makes his very enemies to be at peace with him? |
| A44543 | How ridiculous is that Man that hangs out a Bush, and yet hath no Wine to sell? |
| A44543 | How the Prospect of that future Judgment must be managed, that it may actually damp, and put a stop to these Carnal delights? |
| A44543 | How will you wish, that you had been in my condition? |
| A44543 | How would you take it, if a man should give you a box on the ear but now and then? |
| A44543 | How? |
| A44543 | I could withstand them now, why could not I have withstood them then? |
| A44543 | I do not deny, but Men may do worse, but what necessity is there for their doing that which is bad, to avoid that which is worse? |
| A44543 | I have Furies enough within: Ye damned Pleasures, whither have you brought me? |
| A44543 | I hope you do not question the duty, and if you believe it incumbent upon you, can you imagin, that in frequenting the Stage, you imitate his example? |
| A44543 | If a Treasure were to be had in such a place, and all about thee should be regardless of it, wouldst thou be as lazy as they? |
| A44543 | If they that walk after the Flesh can not please God, how can you hope to please him, while you allow your self in this work of the Flesh? |
| A44543 | If thou didst, how couldest thou be so ungrateful? |
| A44543 | If to God, why dare not you prefer his favour before the favour of Men, and be guided more by his Laws, than by the benevolence of dust and ashes? |
| A44543 | If you are, how can you run into the same temptation again, or go to a place where you will infallibly be tempted to the love of the World? |
| A44543 | If you come to the Lords Table one day, and run to a Play- house another, do not you destroy all that you built the day before? |
| A44543 | If you come to the Supper of the Lord there to profess your sorrow for loving the World; are you in good earnest sorry for it, or are you not? |
| A44543 | If you examine your self in this manner and find these effects, have not you reason to ask God forgiveness? |
| A44543 | If you have no courage to admonish them, what makes you appear there where you must be silent under the indignities offered to your Master? |
| A44543 | If you lose this World for his sake, is not the felicity of the next recompence enough? |
| A44543 | In Hell you''ll think, but it will be too late; there you''ll think, but your Thoughts will be your Torment? |
| A44543 | Is half an Hour, or a quarter of an Hour every Day, such a business, that thou canst find no time for it? |
| A44543 | Is it not enough that natural Beauty is so dangerous? |
| A44543 | Is it possible to be his friend, and a friend to these vanities? |
| A44543 | Is it possible to live up to his precepts, and feed our eyes with these Shews? |
| A44543 | Is it so flaming that it wants this stolen water to quench it? |
| A44543 | Is it so hot, that it must have an extinguisher? |
| A44543 | Is not the World bad enough? |
| A44543 | Is not this fighting against you ● happiness? |
| A44543 | Is not this justifying the Players profession, and to make them think that you approve of their ludicrous vocations? |
| A44543 | Is not this making war against you ● soul? |
| A44543 | Is not this tempting young people to those extravagancies they should detest? |
| A44543 | Is not this the way to make her inamour''d with the World, from which a Christian is to run away, as much as he can? |
| A44543 | Is not this to be blind to the great design of the Gospel? |
| A44543 | Is not this to clo ● your soul? |
| A44543 | Is not this to live in contradictions? |
| A44543 | Is not this to make your self odious to that God whose favour you expect in the last day? |
| A44543 | Is not this to shut the gates of mercy against you? |
| A44543 | Is not this to throw impediments in her way to felicity? |
| A44543 | Is the Stage likely to produce vigorous apprehensions of Gods grace and favour? |
| A44543 | Is the sight of a Comedy a probable means to make you live above the World? |
| A44543 | Is there any thing in all the History of his life, that may be said to countenance such doings? |
| A44543 | Is there any thing in the Gospel more plainly forbid, than conforming to the World? |
| A44543 | Is this a proper end of the mighty purchase he hath made? |
| A44543 | Is this a sight agreeable to the strait way, and the narrow gate which leads to life? |
| A44543 | Is this decency to afford your presence in a place, where the most debauched persons assemble themselves for ill ends and purposes? |
| A44543 | Is this redeeming of your time to throw away so many hours upon fooling, and seeing mens ridiculous postures, gestures and behaviours? |
| A44543 | Is this sobriety, to stand by and hear men curse and swear, and talk of things which should not be so much as named among Christians? |
| A44543 | Is this the return you make him for his sweat and agonies, for his sighs and groans, for his pains and all his labours? |
| A44543 | Is this to have the same mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus? |
| A44543 | Is this to promote a lively sense of God? |
| A44543 | Moses grows impatient at the Waters of Meribah; Who would not have done so that had to deal with so stubborn a People? |
| A44543 | Must I therefore slander and abuse a Man, because it is a less sin than to murther him? |
| A44543 | Must sin be therefore multiplied, and the sickly minds of carnal men, more and more distemper''d? |
| A44543 | O my Friends, are not these thing to be considered by God''s servants? |
| A44543 | O my Friends, said he, Do you ask me where I have been? |
| A44543 | Of whom should he be afraid? |
| A44543 | Or art thou not afraid of that Saying, that Dogs must stand without? |
| A44543 | Or have you a peculiar exemption from that danger? |
| A44543 | Or how would you resent it, to have your good name taken away by a person, not always, but whenever his humour prompts him? |
| A44543 | Or to be a spectator of so many undecent and wanton gestures, postures and actions, which in some Comedies make up the greatest part of the shew? |
| A44543 | Or, because thy Herds and Flocks are great, must thou therefore commit Idolatry with them? |
| A44543 | Say not, where are they to be found? |
| A44543 | Say not, who doth so? |
| A44543 | Say you so? |
| A44543 | Shall men of no great sense of Religion complain of it, and shall a Christian do any thing, that may contribute toward the holding of them up? |
| A44543 | Shall those Passions rule over thee which thy God hath given thee for Servants and Handmaids? |
| A44543 | Should God call thee to Judgment, O my Soul, this Night, or this Hour, art thou in a condition to appeat before so great, so dreadful a God? |
| A44543 | Sir, Have you abjured these things in your Baptism, and dare you venture on them? |
| A44543 | So great is thy danger, and canst thou loiter? |
| A44543 | So near art thou to a tremendous Eternity, and Oh wilt not thou be clean? |
| A44543 | Suppose thou didst live in a Street, where all the Men were Beggars and Vagabonds, would that be a Motive, to follow their unlawful Calling? |
| A44543 | That Sin which makes thee merry, that Folly which chears thy Spirit, what is it but Ingratitude to thy kindest Benefactor? |
| A44543 | The Hermit heard him, smiled, and replied, Ay, but Friend, What if there should be one, where are you then? |
| A44543 | There are innumerable Sins, which neither Prince, nor Magistrate can take notice of: How many Poor are oppressed? |
| A44543 | This stands to Reason; for except things be made visible to us, how shall they move or fright us? |
| A44543 | Thou art a Christian but where is the Life of Christ tha ● should be in thee? |
| A44543 | Thou art called to be faithful, and hast given thy Faith to God; Wilt thou break thy Faith, and hope to be guiltless at this Bar? |
| A44543 | Thou art designed for a Citizen of the Celestial Jerusalem, and wilt thou appear before him as an Inhabitant of Hell? |
| A44543 | Thou art one of God''s Family, and wilt thou appear before him as a Traytor? |
| A44543 | Thou art purchased by his Blood, and wilt thou live as if that Blood had been spilt in vain? |
| A44543 | Thou art wash''d in the Laver of Regeneration, and canst thou wallow with the Swine in the Mire? |
| A44543 | Thou art within a Bows- shot of the great Tribunal, and doth not thy countenance change? |
| A44543 | Thou art within hearing of the Thunders, that come forth from the Throne of God, and do not thy thoughts trouble thee? |
| A44543 | Thou hast known the Way of Righteousness, and wilt thou with the Dog return to the Vomit? |
| A44543 | Thou must shortly appear before all the Host of Heaven, and art not thou got farther yet in Holiness? |
| A44543 | Thou seest the fatal Hand upon the Wall, and do not thy Knees smite one against another? |
| A44543 | Thou standest upon the brink of Hell, and wilt not thou step back? |
| A44543 | To whom have you greater obligations, to God or Man? |
| A44543 | We may put forced glosses upon the words, but doth not this look like the natural sense of them? |
| A44543 | What a Fool will you be then? |
| A44543 | What comfort can it be to me, that men think me charitable, when God sees, I give Alms to be seen of men? |
| A44543 | What did the Lord Jesus delight in, who lived upon Alms? |
| A44543 | What dost thou rejoyce in? |
| A44543 | What doth it avail me, that men say, I pray well, when God sees, I study to please the Company? |
| A44543 | What evil Spirit did possess thee to make light of these kindnesses? |
| A44543 | What feeds its preposterous longings more than these? |
| A44543 | What great advantage can it be to me, that men say I am humble, when God sees pride in that very humility? |
| A44543 | What great matter is it, that men applaud me for a single Virtue, when God sees I am partial in my Obedience? |
| A44543 | What he hath done with the Creatures which have been given him for his use; And whether he hath not minded his own business more than his Masters? |
| A44543 | What hurt doth the penitent Mary Magdalen receive by the Evangelists recording, or our speaking of her former Whoredoms? |
| A44543 | What if it be so to Flesh and Blood? |
| A44543 | What if there should be no other world, to what purpose is all this Rigor and Mortification? |
| A44543 | What if this mixt and promiscuous Dancing, be not expresly forbid in Scripture? |
| A44543 | What if you do not think it to be sin, will your thinking so excuse you? |
| A44543 | What if you see it not with mortal Eyes? |
| A44543 | What is it but hardning other men in their sins? |
| A44543 | What is it but requiting the greatest Good with the greatest Evil? |
| A44543 | What is it, but contempt of him who keeps thy Soul in Life? |
| A44543 | What is your going to a Play- house, but giving Offence? |
| A44543 | What makes them afraid of running with their Neighbors into Riot? |
| A44543 | What makes them mourn? |
| A44543 | What makes them rejoyce in Spirit? |
| A44543 | What makes them that they dare not do what some of their Carnal Acquaintance and Relations do? |
| A44543 | What need''st thou grieve that Men abuse thee here, when thy Sovereign Master will grieve every Vein of the Reviler''s Heart in that day? |
| A44543 | What need''st thou seek Revenge, when thy Master whom thou servest, is resolved to judge thy Cause in that Day? |
| A44543 | What need''st thou take notice of an Affront offer''d to thee, when thy God stands engaged to take notice of it with a Witness in that day? |
| A44543 | What place can any Creature promise him, who doth what he pleases in all the Armies of Heaven, and among all the Inhabitants of the Earth? |
| A44543 | What pleasure couldest thou take in doing that which cost me so many Sighs and Tears, and a bloody Sweat? |
| A44543 | What reason have we to believe that there is a day of Judgment? |
| A44543 | What will it profit me, that men call me Zealous and Fervent, when God sees, that gain, and profit is the cause of it? |
| A44543 | What will it profit you to taste of all the Sweets of this World, if any thing can be called sweet in so much Misery? |
| A44543 | What wise Man would stand upon a Precipice, when he can walk in a beaten Road? |
| A44543 | What? |
| A44543 | When God hath distinguish''d you from the ignobler Brutes, will you be like the Horse and Mule, whose Mouths must be held with Bitt and Bridle? |
| A44543 | Whether every Man is bound to embitter his carnal Delights with this Prospect? |
| A44543 | Whether every Man is bound to imbitter his Carnal delights with this Prospect? |
| A44543 | Whither shall I ● lee for remedy? |
| A44543 | Who can find fault with it after this prospect of its benefits? |
| A44543 | Who can inferr from his Actions, or Behaviour, that this Man believes a Word of Scripture? |
| A44543 | Who can make this Judge happier than he is already? |
| A44543 | Who dares asperse that beauteous Virgin after such Fruits it bears? |
| A44543 | Who ever learned to abandon a Sin he is addicted to, by seeing its punishment on the Stage? |
| A44543 | Who sees not, that these sights are meer incentives to lust, and fewel to feed the impurer fire in our breasts? |
| A44543 | Who would conclude him to have lived in a Land where the Gospel is preach''d? |
| A44543 | Who would desire that which hath been a Sword and Arrow to others? |
| A44543 | Who would imagine, that this Man hath a rational Soul? |
| A44543 | Who would not esteem it? |
| A44543 | Who would not honour it? |
| A44543 | Who would not look upon it as a horn of plenty, and a treasury of the greatest comforts? |
| A44543 | Who would not maintain the honour of it, against all opponents? |
| A44543 | Who would not prize it? |
| A44543 | Who would not rise up in defence of it, when blasphemous Tongues would traduce, and revile it? |
| A44543 | Who would not speak well of it? |
| A44543 | Who would take the Wretch for a Disciple of the poor and afflicted Jesus? |
| A44543 | Who would think, he were created after the Image of God? |
| A44543 | Why do ye murmur against me when I bid you fast, and watch, and pray? |
| A44543 | Why dost thou delight in Apes and Peacocks, when thou hast the Creator of all these to rejoyce in? |
| A44543 | Why dost thou delight in a fading Beauty, when thou hast him that''s altogether lovely to delight in? |
| A44543 | Why dost thou delight in a little Gain, in Drops of Happiness, in Crumbs of Bliss, in shining Dust, when thou hast a Sea of Glory to delight in? |
| A44543 | Why dost thou delight in a morsel of Meat, when thou hast the Birth- right of eternal Glory to delight in? |
| A44543 | Why dost thou delight in the Rivers of Damascus, when thou hast the River of God''s Pleasure to delight in? |
| A44543 | Why dost thou delight in the Slavery of thy Lusts, when thou hast him, whose Service is perfect Freedom to delight in? |
| A44543 | Why dost thou delight in the Voice of a deceitful Siren, when thou hast him whose Voice comforts the Mourners of Sion to delight in? |
| A44543 | Why dost thou delight in the nether Springs, when thou hast the upper Springs of Mercy to delight in? |
| A44543 | Why dost thou delight in the shade of the Bramble, when thou hast the shadow of God''s Wings to delight in? |
| A44543 | Why dost thou delight 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, when thou hast a House made without Hands to delight in? |
| A44543 | Why must a sottish Lust and Passion engross thy Desires, and my Law be cast behind thee? |
| A44543 | Why should we be afraid to call a spade, a spade? |
| A44543 | Why should ye be loath to labour, when to labour ye were born? |
| A44543 | Why should ye refuse to suffer when shortly you must die, and mingle with Dust? |
| A44543 | Why should ye seek after a soft and easie Life, when e''er long you''ll meet with it in Heaven? |
| A44543 | Why should you shut your eyes against a thing as clear as the Sun? |
| A44543 | Why wouldest thou lose that which I purchased at so dear a rate? |
| A44543 | Why wouldest thou make a mock of so great a Mercy? |
| A44543 | Why wouldest thou make thy Heart a habitation of Devils, which I intended for my Throne? |
| A44543 | Why wouldest thou pollute that Soul which I redeemed with mine own Blood? |
| A44543 | Why wouldest thou refuse this Treasure? |
| A44543 | Why wouldst thou forsake me, the Fountain of Living Waters? |
| A44543 | Will not God revenge this Breach, or canst thou think he will let thee go unpunish''d for thy Treacheries? |
| A44543 | Will not this turn to better account at last than fleshly Lusts, which war against the Soul? |
| A44543 | Will the Judg ● ever take thee for his Sheep, when it''● evident, thou dost not hear his Voice? |
| A44543 | Will you count it a Foe because it denies you the Sword which would kill you? |
| A44543 | Willful ignorance is as bad as a known sin, and how easily might you know such doings to be sinful? |
| A44543 | Wilt thou boast of being his Disciple, and art thou loath to follow his Example? |
| A44543 | With what conscience can you promise the Lord Jesus to follow him, when you intend to expose your self again to these temptations? |
| A44543 | With what eyes can you appear in the presence of that King of Kings, who have but a little before prostituted your Soul to the Devil? |
| A44543 | With what face dare you approach the Table of your Lord, who have been a spectator of such shews but a little before? |
| A44543 | Would any man that looks upon the jolly assembly in a Play- house, think that these are Disciples of the crucified God? |
| A44543 | Would not one think that they had never heard of the Cross, and that whoever their Master was, they were disciplined only to live merrily? |
| A44543 | Wouldst not thou find greater Profit in bestowing a few Minutes in Contemplation of that Judgment? |
| A44543 | and controuling his Art and Wisdom, while not content with the Countenance he hath given, we seek to appear in a better? |
| A44543 | and if you ask him forgiveness, how dare you run upon the same rock again? |
| A44543 | and if you do, doth not your presence at such shews, and your being pleased with them, fly into your face? |
| A44543 | and shall we encrease the danger by tricks and artifices? |
| A44543 | and what can that prohibition import, if conformity to the World in beholding these dangerous sights, be not in a great measure meant by it? |
| A44543 | are the profane railleries that are used there, fit preparatives for austerity of conversation? |
| A44543 | hath not such a sin been pleasing to me? |
| A44543 | how can you have patience to let them talk at this rate? |
| A44543 | how can you hear it without reproving the men that do it? |
| A44543 | how could the Primitive Christians, know these things to be sinful? |
| A44543 | how did I spend my time, might not I have spent it better, than at a Play- house? |
| A44543 | how dull in the work of Meditation? |
| A44543 | how slovenly and superficial in Gods service? |
| A44543 | if it will not suffer you to please your Flesh beyond what is necessary for it''s Subsistence, must it therefore be your Enemy? |
| A44543 | if you use the same means, why should you not fear the same unhappy influence? |
| A44543 | must people therefore increase temptations with artificial Beauty? |
| A44543 | or if you have some little regret upon your spirits, where is your tongue to speak for your friend? |
| A44543 | what is this but a mock- repentance, to go on in a circle of confessing and sinning, of sinning and confessing? |
| A44543 | what pampers it more than such sights? |
| A44543 | when Religion is mock''d? |
| A44543 | when vertue is rendred odious? |
| A44543 | who would not vindicate it, when it is abused? |
| A44543 | why do not you keep out of their company? |
| A44543 | will you sin against your knowledge, will you do that again, which will require a new repentance? |
| A44543 | will you sin wilfully after this? |
| A64979 | Against whom was it that you opened so wide a mouth? |
| A64979 | Alas? |
| A64979 | And are You the persons that once were so proud and sornfull? |
| A64979 | And could I rescue any of you out of Sathans hands, when he comes to seize upon his own? |
| A64979 | And could this agree with the state of perfection and happiness, in which all the just should be raised? |
| A64979 | And he said unto me, Son of man, Can these bones live? |
| A64979 | And if you were naturally blind, had not I eye- salve? |
| A64979 | And is this glorious King that Iesus Christ whom we heard so much spoken of when we lived upon the Earth? |
| A64979 | And is this the Saviour and Redeemer of the world? |
| A64979 | And let us alone, art thou come to destroy us? |
| A64979 | And was the favour and applause of men so desirable? |
| A64979 | And what likelihood of the darkning of the Sun, and falling of the Stars, and the passing away of the Heavens with a great noise? |
| A64979 | But who can conceive what the thoughts and complaints of the damned will be at their first entrance into the punishment of Hell? |
| A64979 | But who can utter the love which the Saints shall have unto God in Heaven? |
| A64979 | But who will be alive on this glorious day? |
| A64979 | Come forth all ye swearers, and profaners of the Name of God; Did you never read nor hear the third Commandement, which forbad this sin? |
| A64979 | Come forth all yee Persecutors of my Disciples; Was it not enough for you to mock them; but you must persecute them too? |
| A64979 | Concerning the manner of Christs second appearance, what tongue of Men or Angels is able to set it forth? |
| A64979 | Could we carry you up with us? |
| A64979 | Could you bribe and muzzle conscience, and lay it asleep whilst you took your pleasures? |
| A64979 | Could you contemn Gospel- promises; And are they so contemptible now in your eies, when now you see the accomplishment of them before you? |
| A64979 | Could you contentedly go to Hell for company? |
| A64979 | Could you disturb them in their service and worship of me, when they were praying for your conversion and salvation? |
| A64979 | Could you have desired more reasonable evidence of things done before your age? |
| A64979 | Could you laugh at Scripture- threatnings; And can you laugh now you are come to Execution? |
| A64979 | Could you melt in filthy sinful pleasures of the flesh, and not consider how you should consume in torments? |
| A64979 | Could you see no excellencie in Holiness, and the Divine Nature, in my Image, which was engraven upon them? |
| A64979 | Could you seek the ruine of such as were the best Friends of your souls? |
| A64979 | Couldst not thou have let me alone to lye still at rest in this sweet sleep? |
| A64979 | Did ever any Man of understanding laugh at the light of the Sun? |
| A64979 | Did not God allow you six daies for labour in your Callings? |
| A64979 | Did not Parents teach you when you were young? |
| A64979 | Did not he threaten to pour out his wrath upon irreligious families? |
| A64979 | Did not the morral Law, of which Sabbath observation was one precept, bind throughout all generations? |
| A64979 | Did the difficulties of duties discourage you, and therefore you would let them alone, though they were so necessary? |
| A64979 | Did they well, or ill, in staying till this time for their happiness? |
| A64979 | Did you never hear of my strict Injunction, that you should not swear at all in your discourses, but that your communication should be yea and nay? |
| A64979 | Did you not alienate affection, and separate neer friends by your standers? |
| A64979 | Did you not know that the Devil was the father of lies, and liars? |
| A64979 | Did you not know that the love of the world was inconsistent with the love of the Father? |
| A64979 | Did you not know that there were damnable Heresies, as well as other damnable sins? |
| A64979 | Did you not know that these were works of the flesh which would exclude you the Kingdome of Heaven? |
| A64979 | Did you not understand it was your duty to relieve the poor? |
| A64979 | Did you think that Sermons un- minded, un- remembred, which you did neither believe, nor were affected with, would be effectual to save you? |
| A64979 | Did you think that lip- prayers would ever be heard by God that searcheth and requireth the heart? |
| A64979 | Do not all things remain as they were since the Creation? |
| A64979 | Do not the Sun, and Moon, and Stars keep their constant course? |
| A64979 | Do yee not know that the Saints shall judge the World? |
| A64979 | Do you know whom yee persecuted? |
| A64979 | Do you love and desire Christs appearance? |
| A64979 | Do you love him for himself, for his own excellencies, his love ● liness, his love, and spiritual love- tokens? |
| A64979 | Do you sincerely and earnestly desire the presence of Christ and the breathings of his Spirit upon your hearts in his Ordinances? |
| A64979 | Doth God love those which are haters of him? |
| A64979 | Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead: if the dead rise not, why are they baptized for the dead? |
| A64979 | God will then justify you; who then shall condemn you? |
| A64979 | Had not ye Talents committed to you for my use and service, and what have you done with them? |
| A64979 | Had you not a sure ground and bottome for your faith in the Scriptures? |
| A64979 | Have you the same minde now, that Religion was but a fancy? |
| A64979 | Have 〈 ◊ 〉 neglected me through ignorance, is not your fou ● double, because you have neglected knowledge too? |
| A64979 | How fiercely will he speak unto them? |
| A64979 | How have our cursed hearts deceived us, and the devil deluded us? |
| A64979 | How should we know whether our desires after Christs coming be sincere? |
| A64979 | How sweet is this to a troubled conscience, and an oppressed spirit, ready to sinke under the burden of sin? |
| A64979 | How will you weep, and wail, and gnash your teeth? |
| A64979 | I have little enough for my self, and none to spare for you; and do you ask me for Oyle? |
| A64979 | I thought you would have shined and gone with us, when you shined so much in profession; and is your Lamp now gone cut, when the Bridegroom is come? |
| A64979 | I ● it not equal that you should reap that which you have sown, that you should gather and taste the bitter fruits of your own evil wayes? |
| A64979 | If Parents neglected to instruct you, had you not Ministers, who were ready to do it ▪ How is it that you have not learnt? |
| A64979 | If any profane Mockers shall scoff at this answer, and say, where is the Promise of his coming? |
| A64979 | If knowledge did not offer it self to you, why did you not seek after it? |
| A64979 | If the Iews were obliged to keep a day holy, were not the Christians much more? |
| A64979 | If the love between the soul and the body were so great, when the body was so vile, and the soul so sinful, what will it be when both are glorified? |
| A64979 | If you had been ambitious, should you not have been ambitious of the favour of the King of glory, which would have been so beneficial and lasting? |
| A64979 | Is Ephraim my dear son? |
| A64979 | Is not the Earth established upon sure foundations, and what likelihood of moving it and burning it, with the works which are upon it? |
| A64979 | Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed amongst my treasures? |
| A64979 | Is there any mercy for impenitents? |
| A64979 | Is there any pardon for unbelievers? |
| A64979 | Is this he who cloathed us when we were naked, even with the robes of his own righteousness? |
| A64979 | Is this the Advocate whom we made choice of, relied, and trusted upon f ● r life and salvation? |
| A64979 | Is this the Captain whose colours we wore, and under whose banner we fought? |
| A64979 | Is this the Master whom we followed, and whose work we were imployed about? |
| A64979 | Is this the company we must take up our eternal abode withall? |
| A64979 | Is this the issue of our pains and labour? |
| A64979 | Is this the wages of our sin? |
| A64979 | Is your Resurrection, and my appearance, but a fancie? |
| A64979 | Is your punishment eternallie in Hell, like to be bus a fancie? |
| A64979 | Know yee not that we shall judge Angels? |
| A64979 | Must not six of them with grief be deprived of her, who once was their Wife? |
| A64979 | O Death, where is thy sting? |
| A64979 | O Grave, where is thy Victory? |
| A64979 | O how dreadful will the shout, and the voice of the Arch- angel, and the sound of the last Trumpet summoning them to judgment be unto the eares? |
| A64979 | O how glad will they be that they have been counted worthy to suffer any thing for such a Saviour? |
| A64979 | O how sweet will the sound of Christ''s coming be unto them before they see him? |
| A64979 | O how terrible will this Judgment be unto you? |
| A64979 | O how will every joynt and member of the bodies of the wicked tremble, when they are raised again at the last day? |
| A64979 | O how will the terrours of the All- mighty flow in upon you? |
| A64979 | O what thunderings will there be in the aire at Christs second appearance? |
| A64979 | Sinners, the Judge of the whole world will appear, and can you sleep under the guilt of sin? |
| A64979 | That the righteous shall shine like the Sun, in the Kingdome of their Father; how then will the Sun of righteousness shine? |
| A64979 | The body to the soul, And hast thou found me out O my enemy? |
| A64979 | The execution of the Sentence, which Christ will pronounce upon you for your sins at the last day, will be in Hell: and do you know what Hell is? |
| A64979 | They were lights in the dark World, where they lived; what mock at Holiness? |
| A64979 | Was he indeed so great whose commands we disobeyed, whose threatnings we slighted, whose grace we abused, and whose wrath we dis- regarded? |
| A64979 | Was it not enough to persecute them with the tongue, but you must persecute them with the hand? |
| A64979 | Was it so excellent a person, who was described and set forth to us by Ministers in such superlative expressions, all which he exceeds? |
| A64979 | Was not shining with them in glory, at all desirable? |
| A64979 | Was not the Sabbath made for man, was it not his Priviledge to take that time for holy rest and worship? |
| A64979 | Was this the Saviour that was preached to us, and proffered to us? |
| A64979 | Were not the works of the Creation and Redemption worthy your memorial? |
| A64979 | Were they so foolish, which made so wise a choice? |
| A64979 | Were they so mean- spirited and contemptible? |
| A64979 | Were this truth more effectually believed, what a forwardness would there be in Christians to works of mercy? |
| A64979 | Were you never told that if you followed the inclinations, and obeyed the commands of carnal self, it would be to your ruine and destruction? |
| A64979 | Were you never told that swearers would fall into condemnation? |
| A64979 | What an affront did you offer to him hereby? |
| A64979 | What could you betray them like Judas for a piece of money, or out of malice which was worse? |
| A64979 | What dreadful frowns in his brow? |
| A64979 | What fruit doth all our labour and toile in the World now yield unto us? |
| A64979 | What profit did you get by your swearing? |
| A64979 | What scorn and contempt of them will they see in his face? |
| A64979 | What then will the multitude of the wicked be, when they are gathered together; in comparison with whom, the righteous are but few? |
| A64979 | When shall we hear the Trumpet sound and be gathered by the Angels from all the quarters of the Earth? |
| A64979 | When shall we put off this dust and corruption, and be cloathed with robes of immortality? |
| A64979 | When the Son of man cometh, shall he finde faith on the earth? |
| A64979 | When will the Lord Jesus come down, and show us his glory, and receive us to himself, that where he is, there we may be also? |
| A64979 | When you had tried the world, and found it vain and empty, would you still set your heart upon it? |
| A64979 | Who can express this eternity? |
| A64979 | Whom was it that you did flout and scorn? |
| A64979 | Why do you not laugh and fleer at the Saints now? |
| A64979 | Will the Lord Jesus Christ certainly and quickly appear to Judgment? |
| A64979 | Will the Lord Jesus Christ certainly and quickly appear to Judgment? |
| A64979 | Will the Lord Jesus Christ certainly and quickly appear to judgment? |
| A64979 | Will the Lord Jesus Christ certainly and quickly appear to judgment? |
| A64979 | With what face could you look upon him, when you are so black, and ● ilthy, and have such guilt upon your consciences? |
| A64979 | Would not you be glad to be numbred amongst them now? |
| A64979 | Would not your black and trembling joynts speak what you are? |
| A64979 | Would not your looks betray you to be none of our number? |
| A64979 | Yee Men of Galilee, why stand yee gazing up into Heaven? |
| A64979 | Yee fooles and blinde sots, do you know what you s ● oft at? |
| A64979 | You served the Devil, and fought under his banner against me and mine, and can be deliver you now out of mine hand? |
| A64979 | after heaving some vomit off of your stomack, would you again lick it up? |
| A64979 | after some sweepings and dressings would you open the door, and let in seven worse spirits to defile your hearts? |
| A64979 | after some tryal in show of me, did you prefer and make choice of the Devil before me? |
| A64979 | after some washing your selves, would you wallow in the mire again? |
| A64979 | after you seemed to be escapèd, were you again entangled? |
| A64979 | and are not we all hast ● ing towards those dark Chambers, where no ● eam of light doth shine, and nothing can be seen? |
| A64979 | and are you like to reap no litterness? |
| A64979 | and are you like to sustain no loss? |
| A64979 | and because he was patient, would you presume? |
| A64979 | and can such a God save and make you happy? |
| A64979 | and could you be content to have them blazed abroad? |
| A64979 | and could you hope for his lessing, if you did not worship him? |
| A64979 | and did not you think that the righteous God would condemn you much more? |
| A64979 | and did the Gospel straiten mens Priviledges? |
| A64979 | and did we shut our ear and our heart against him, and refuse all his gracious tenders which were made unto us? |
| A64979 | and did you not injure your selves a thousand fold more? |
| A64979 | and did you not think you should be called to an account for this sin? |
| A64979 | and doth not be with his Angels wait now for you, that they may drag you unto torments? |
| A64979 | and fools hate knowledge: Turn unto me, and I will pour out my Spirit upon you, and make know ● my words unto you? |
| A64979 | and had you no fear of God, no fear of future judgment to restrain you? |
| A64979 | and how do you think it should be done, but by your eternal punishment in Hell? |
| A64979 | and how exceeding loud will the sound of this last Trumpet be, when Christ comes to judge them which have broken this Law? |
| A64979 | and how will the body delight in the wonderful glories and shining excellencies which the soul hath attained since its separation? |
| A64979 | and if Christ would have come so quickly, would not he have been here before now? |
| A64979 | and if the day of first institution were changed, was the day and worship thereof laid aside, and ceased to be a duty? |
| A64979 | and if there was no worship of God at home, could not you have looked alroad? |
| A64979 | and if they speak, what language of Hell will there issue forth of their lips? |
| A64979 | and if you could not worship God more publickly, should not you have sought out retiring corners? |
| A64979 | and if you had no promise, could you think you should ever attain it? |
| A64979 | and if you have been fair in your outward carriage and converse, have you not had ● oul insides? |
| A64979 | and if you were privy to some real faults of others, should you not have concealed them? |
| A64979 | and inhabit these everlasting burnings? |
| A64979 | and is it unreasonable that you should be thrust into the place of burning for your contention? |
| A64979 | and is this the Hell which Ministers warned us to flie from? |
| A64979 | and is this the end of our hearing and fasting, and praying, and self- denial, and mortification, and the poor services we have done for the Lord? |
| A64979 | and is this the fruit of all the pleasures we have taken together? |
| A64979 | and must the whose World be summoned unto his Bar? |
| A64979 | and neglect the life and salvation of your precious souls? |
| A64979 | and should not you have been contened? |
| A64979 | and should you not have been afraid to touch my anointed ones, my lifted Souldiers? |
| A64979 | and that no Idolater shall have any admittance into the new Jerusalem? |
| A64979 | and that your bodies would become food for worms? |
| A64979 | and this the place of our eternal habitation? |
| A64979 | and was it unequal for him to take one day for his own worship? |
| A64979 | and was not holiness more worth your paines to get? |
| A64979 | and was not the death and damnation of your souls more to be avoided? |
| A64979 | and were there no Lions in the way to Hell? |
| A64979 | and were you so desirous to be like him? |
| A64979 | and were you so foolish as to engage in battel, where you might have known, you should certainlie be conquered at the last? |
| A64979 | and what a vast number would there be deciphered by these figures? |
| A64979 | and what account can you give? |
| A64979 | and what doth it, can it now profit you, that Men accounted you religious? |
| A64979 | and what senseless dreames then are your hopes of Heaven and Salvation, whilst you are going on in the way of sin to Hell, and destruction? |
| A64979 | and when a stiller voice was not heard, were you not called louder by God in his Iudgments? |
| A64979 | and when you expected perfection most, were not you more imperfect than before? |
| A64979 | and why do they thus affright us with Peales of Judgment? |
| A64979 | and will not your deceitful hearts still finde as plausible excuses till it be too late? |
| A64979 | and with what trembling will they stand amongst the meanest of their subjects, devested of all their power and dignity? |
| A64979 | and would not Christ then frown you away from our company? |
| A64979 | and would not the fruits have been sweet? |
| A64979 | and yet can you sleep securely now, as if you were not at all concerned? |
| A64979 | and yet could we see no form, nor comeliness in him, nothing for which we should desire him? |
| A64979 | and yet could you make it the chief business of your lives to feed your bodies? |
| A64979 | and yet could you shut the door against me, though you had so much need of me? |
| A64979 | and yet trould we needs run our selves into such flames? |
| A64979 | and yet when such times have come again and again, have you not deferred it still? |
| A64979 | and yet would not you set up Religion in yours? |
| A64979 | and yet would nothing wean your whorish heart from the love of the world? |
| A64979 | and yet would you lay the reines on the neck of your lusts? |
| A64979 | are all of you Saints, and Children of God? |
| A64979 | are there no ungodly ones gathered together into this place? |
| A64979 | are there not many here, whom the Lord Jesus Christ will come in flaming Fire to take vengeance upon? |
| A64979 | baptized? |
| A64979 | be unto us, for now the great day of the Lord is come, and who is able to stand? |
| A64979 | because he did not presentlie punish, did you dare him, and flie in his face to provoke his fury? |
| A64979 | but how did you dishonour God? |
| A64979 | but was it not a greater aggravation of them? |
| A64979 | but were you not forward of your selves to the sin? |
| A64979 | but what would the whole World full of folios hold? |
| A64979 | but who could entice you to drink a potion which would kill your bodies? |
| A64979 | can I carry you all up with me in my armes? |
| A64979 | can be defend you against my rage and fury? |
| A64979 | can you slumber, when your judgment lingreth not, and your damnation slumbreth not? |
| A64979 | can your masters or fathers answer for themselves, or you? |
| A64979 | could I accept of your worship out of the way of my Ordinances and Institutions? |
| A64979 | could not God have trodden you under his feet, or crusht you as easily as you could do a flie, every time you profaned his Name? |
| A64979 | could not I have opened your eies? |
| A64979 | could not you have redeemed time from sleep and recreations, rather than have neglected Gods worship daily? |
| A64979 | could not you now wish that you had held on, and held out with them unto the end? |
| A64979 | could you be content to cast away and loose all your external services for want of sincerity, and an internal living principle? |
| A64979 | could you be diligent in your callings, to get a livelihood for your selves and families? |
| A64979 | could you be proud, when you had last Gods Image, and were so like unto foul devils? |
| A64979 | could you call other daies holy, which the Scripture gave no warrant for, and not observe that holy day which you were enjoined? |
| A64979 | could you delight so much to wallow in mire and dung? |
| A64979 | could you eat, and drink, and sleep, and not pray to God, which was more necessary than any thing which is m ● st necessary for your bodies? |
| A64979 | could you lift up the plumes, when you had such black feet? |
| A64979 | could you rationally desire firmer ground and footing for your faith? |
| A64979 | could you reasonably hope to enter into eternal rest, and keep a Sabbath in Heaven? |
| A64979 | could you s ● ● tter others before their faces, and alter your speech so much when their backs were turned? |
| A64979 | could you sleep in the day, in the day of grace? |
| A64979 | could you stand idle all the day long in the market- place? |
| A64979 | could you trifle away so many hours, when time was so preci ● us? |
| A64979 | could you with confidence have averred the same things to the persons themselves? |
| A64979 | could your sometimes could and formal services be counted worship? |
| A64979 | did I not stand in the gates to call upon you, How long ye simple ones will you love simplicity? |
| A64979 | did my spirit lead you, and act you in a way which my word did not allow of? |
| A64979 | did not God bring you into your Family- relation, and did he require no duty? |
| A64979 | did not God put the difference between them and you? |
| A64979 | did not I call you and stretch out my hand all the day long to you? |
| A64979 | did not I stand at the door of your heart, and wo ● hard for entertainment? |
| A64979 | did not be very well understand which way your heart went, when you seemed must devout? |
| A64979 | did not conscience check and rebuke you, when this lust first conceived in you? |
| A64979 | did not he design your ruine herby? |
| A64979 | did not he think of this day, and on purpose drew you to this sin, that you might be the more horriblie tormented? |
| A64979 | did not men condemn you? |
| A64979 | did not some sin ● ● st you p ● ins and labour? |
| A64979 | did not the Earth groan under such unprofitable burdens? |
| A64979 | did not the liquor please your appetite? |
| A64979 | did not yo ● love sin, and therefore shunned the light, which would have discovered it, and disturbed you in your wicked courses? |
| A64979 | did not you affront the highest Majesty by the mockery of your shew- worship? |
| A64979 | did not you fall into many ● ● ares duty, for want of the armour of prayer? |
| A64979 | did not you give God the lie by your unbelief? |
| A64979 | did not you hereby loose the benefit you might have had by the good things of others? |
| A64979 | did not you live upon Gods finding and b ● unty every day, and should not you have acknowledged your dependance? |
| A64979 | did not you lose the comfort of the good things you had, by this sin? |
| A64979 | did not you overtake the sin by your desires? |
| A64979 | did not you put a stop to the current of Gods goodness by your envy? |
| A64979 | did not you rack and torment your selves by your envy? |
| A64979 | did not you receive some blows and wounds by your contention sometimes; and yet would you not hearken to such rebukes? |
| A64979 | did not you s ● ● ill it in without perswasion? |
| A64979 | did not you think that all your services would rise up one day in judgment against you? |
| A64979 | did not you understand your duty? |
| A64979 | did not you wrest the Scriptures to your own destruction? |
| A64979 | did not you 〈 ◊ 〉 knowledge, and therefore dis- regarded it? |
| A64979 | did not your own consciences secretly condemn you for your unrighteousness? |
| A64979 | did not your own self- contradicting words condemn you? |
| A64979 | did you bury them in the earth? |
| A64979 | did you conceit that you might live above Ordinances in the World? |
| A64979 | did you disturb others peace by your contentions, and did you not disturb your own? |
| A64979 | did you do as you would be done by? |
| A64979 | did you excuse faults by your lies? |
| A64979 | did you finde good in back- biting, and speaking evil of others? |
| A64979 | did you finde no difficulty i ● the service of the devil, and your own lusts? |
| A64979 | did you gain reputation, by wounding others reputation, or rather did not you give occasion to others to speak as reproachfully of you? |
| A64979 | did you harm others by your lies so much as your selves? |
| A64979 | did you imagine to get into a higher forme, when you went forth of my School? |
| A64979 | did you indeed make your belly your God? |
| A64979 | did you never hear that Whorem ● ngers and Adulterers God would judge? |
| A64979 | did you not believe that God would cost down the mighty from their seats? |
| A64979 | did you not expect to hear of them again at the day of Iudgment? |
| A64979 | did you not foresee how naked and bare death would strip you of all? |
| A64979 | did you not foresee the turning of the wheel upon you? |
| A64979 | did you not hear of the young man, who had as much moral righteousness as you, and yet mist of Heaven, because he would not obey my other commands? |
| A64979 | did you not know many things to be false, which you spake to others disparagement? |
| A64979 | did you not know that both meat and belly would be destroyed? |
| A64979 | did you not know that the highest places on the earth were the most slippery places? |
| A64979 | did you not know, that except you repented, you would certainly perish? |
| A64979 | did you not know, that no unrighteous person should inherit the Kingdome of Heaven? |
| A64979 | did you not like the company well that joyn''d with you therein? |
| A64979 | did you not read it more plainly in the Word? |
| A64979 | did you not taste the bitterness of such a conversation, and yet would you persist therein? |
| A64979 | did you not understand the mysteries of his delusions? |
| A64979 | did you prefer the company of the wicked which were going Hell- ward, before the company of my people, which were going Heaven- ward? |
| A64979 | did you raise an uprore in your houses, and was not there a greater uproar in your hearts? |
| A64979 | did you repent of your repenting, and do you not now repent of your back- slidings? |
| A64979 | did you shew kindness to any by your lies? |
| A64979 | did you think if you gave Sathan one hold, that it would not be sufficient to undo you? |
| A64979 | did you think such faults would be winked at? |
| A64979 | did you think that food which perisheth could give happiness to a never- dying soul? |
| A64979 | did you think that lip- service, and bodily exercise would be accepted by him? |
| A64979 | did you think that the all- seeing, heart- searching God, judged according to outward appearance? |
| A64979 | did you think to merit Heaven by such works? |
| A64979 | did you think your selves wiser than my Ministers, so soon as you got a little glimmering of light? |
| A64979 | did you wrong others so much as you have hereby wronged your selves? |
| A64979 | do you love him upon a spiritual account? |
| A64979 | do you think you deserve a Crown of Glory for your civility, or morality? |
| A64979 | doth your courage faile you upon the sight of the Captain? |
| A64979 | especially at those who have drawn them into sin, how will they curse and ban one another? |
| A64979 | especially when they perceive how dreadful the misery is which they were hastning unto? |
| A64979 | for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still? |
| A64979 | had he eased you of the burdensome Ceremonies under the Law, and was the Sabbath so burdensome to you? |
| A64979 | had not you a greater master in Heaven, whom you should rather have obeyed? |
| A64979 | had not you the charge of their souls put into your hands? |
| A64979 | had our children and servants no need of religious educa ● ion? |
| A64979 | had the command of God no force with you? |
| A64979 | had the treasures in heaven no more worth in your account, that you should neglect and disregard them, and make choice rather of treasures on earth? |
| A64979 | had you a capacity for other knowledge, and not for this? |
| A64979 | had you an ear, and yet not hear, so as to learn ● had you an eye, and yet not see so as to understand? |
| A64979 | had you any business to do in your houses, of that consequence, as worshipping God in your houses? |
| A64979 | had you been humble, would you have been trumbled? |
| A64979 | had you been sensible of sin, would you have wanted words in confession? |
| A64979 | had you been sensible of your wants, would you have lacked expressions to make them known? |
| A64979 | had you ever more spight and malice against my people, than the Devil had against you, in setting you about persecution worke? |
| A64979 | had you need of such and such things for your families, and had you no need of Gods blessing? |
| A64979 | had you no need of those spiritual provisions, which God did use to deal forth on the Sabbath daies to them that waited upon him for them? |
| A64979 | had you not as great faults of your own? |
| A64979 | had you not commands, and encouragements to believe? |
| A64979 | had you not need of pardon for your sins, and my blood to wash you from your filthiness? |
| A64979 | had you not treasures opened before you, end would you not look after them? |
| A64979 | had you not your rickes given to you for this end? |
| A64979 | had you stuck close to my Ministry and Ordinances, would you have been so deluded? |
| A64979 | had you such mean thoughts of God, that you chose the world before him? |
| A64979 | had you such reason? |
| A64979 | had you time to spend about other things, i ● sports and sins, and not time to spend in getting knowledge? |
| A64979 | had your affections been set upon things above, would this sin have so much prevailed? |
| A64979 | hath our drunknness, and swearing, and whoring, and lying, and unrighteous dealing, such a dreadfull consequent as this? |
| A64979 | hath your moral righteousness been so perfect, that it hath had no flaw? |
| A64979 | have not others learnt, who were naturally as dull, and had as few helps, 〈 ◊ 〉 you? |
| A64979 | have not the best of your workes been sinful, in regard of the principal, and end, and manner of performance? |
| A64979 | have you committed many sins through ignorance, 〈 ◊ 〉 not this an aggravation of your sin? |
| A64979 | have you liked darkness so well, and is it not fit then that you should go to the place where there is blackness of darkness for ever? |
| A64979 | have you lived free from sin, in regard of the second Table of the Law, besides your breaches of the first? |
| A64979 | have you not hereby fastned the guilt of all your other sins upon your selves, which I was willing to take off from you? |
| A64979 | how bitter will its records be of sins? |
| A64979 | how can you escape, that have been guilty of disobedience to the Gospel? |
| A64979 | how earnest and importunate would they be with him for a pardon, if importunity would prevaile? |
| A64979 | how fiercely and horribly will they look one upon another? |
| A64979 | how is it that you would not be taught? |
| A64979 | how will their singing be turned into howling, and their joy into heaviness and dreadful terrour? |
| A64979 | how will they bless God for pardoning mercy? |
| A64979 | how will they rage and storm at one another? |
| A64979 | how will they value the blood of Christ, which was shed for the redemption of them? |
| A64979 | how will your consciences gnaw, and sting, and torment you? |
| A64979 | how will your spirits fail and sink within you, and hearts melt like drops of water? |
| A64979 | how would they cry and weep, intreat and beseech? |
| A64979 | how would they kiss his feet, wash them with their tears, and wipe them with their hairs? |
| A64979 | if my burden were heavy to a weak back, could not, would not I have put under my shoulder, and helped you to have born it? |
| A64979 | if my yoak were painful to an unaccustomed neck could not I have fitted your neck to it, and made it easie? |
| A64979 | if others would not pray with you, should not you have prayed alone by your selves? |
| A64979 | if so be that now sometimes they rejoyce, with glorious and unspeakable joy in believing, what will they do when they come to see him in his glory? |
| A64979 | if the dead rise not; why will any when they are going out of the world be baptized in the name of Chri ● t? |
| A64979 | if you are not such, you will wish you had been such at that time; but are you all such now? |
| A64979 | if you did not live like Christians, would you not live like Men? |
| A64979 | if you had cen overtaken, would you have been so often guilty? |
| A64979 | if you had had real love, would you not have covered them? |
| A64979 | if you had heartily loved the truth as it was in me, would you have been so deluded? |
| A64979 | if you had laid out your estates according to my prescriptions, might not you now have laid hold on eternal life? |
| A64979 | if you had loved them indeed, would not you have done it? |
| A64979 | if you had no faith, had you no reason neither, to keep you from intemperance? |
| A64979 | if you had not ability to pray at first with others, might not you have attained it, had you used to pray by your selves? |
| A64979 | if you had put your spirits under my government, would not I have conquered by my Spirit their inordinate motions? |
| A64979 | if you hid them by lies, from men, could you hide them from God, who searched your heart? |
| A64979 | if you should lay hold on us, would not the Angels snatch us out of your armes? |
| A64979 | if you sowe to the flesh, will not torment be the fruit hereof ● if you sowe sin, will not you reap Hell? |
| A64979 | if you would not celebrate the appointed Sabbaths on Earth? |
| A64979 | is a little Silver or Gold( now taken away from you) comparable to the loss of Heaven, and eternal glory? |
| A64979 | is he my pleasant childe? |
| A64979 | is it any ● lleviation of your grief and horrour that all your family is together? |
| A64979 | is not all your wealth consumed now? |
| A64979 | is the gain of the world comparable to the loss of your souls? |
| A64979 | might not family- prayer have prevented much sin and sorrow which you ● rought upon you? |
| A64979 | might not you have had more comfort in your relations, if you had daily engaged with them in the duties of Gods worship? |
| A64979 | might not you have prospered more in the world, if you had used to pray more in your houses? |
| A64979 | might you not as easily have spoken truth, as uttered falshood? |
| A64979 | might you not have had seats in Heavenly places if you had looked after them, and less after the other? |
| A64979 | might you not hereby have laid up for your selves a good foundation against this day? |
| A64979 | must not Gods Iustice be satisfied for your sins? |
| A64979 | must we then dwell in this devouring Fire? |
| A64979 | never distempered your selves with drink? |
| A64979 | never told any lies, nor uttered any slanders? |
| A64979 | never were lustful and wanton? |
| A64979 | not worship God either in your own houses, nor in his house; neither on the week- day nor Sabbath- day? |
| A64979 | or lay them up in a napkin? |
| A64979 | or rather was it not for your dishonour? |
| A64979 | or to see a little before you, to the day of your death, which would put a conclusion to all your sensual pleasures? |
| A64979 | or was it acceptation only with Men which you sought after? |
| A64979 | or would he do it, if it lay in his power? |
| A64979 | or would not Devils tear you away from us? |
| A64979 | shall those live with him, who have no likeness unto him? |
| A64979 | should not you have found sweetness and comfort in love, if you had laboured after, and lived in the exercise of this grace? |
| A64979 | should not you have rejoyced in their good things? |
| A64979 | shouldst not thou have been more wise, and provided better for thy self and me? |
| A64979 | sleep in the Harvest, which was so rich and plentiful, where you lived? |
| A64979 | that bitterness and sorrow would be the issue of flesh- pleasing? |
| A64979 | that cheared us when we were troubled, even with the comforts of his own Spirit? |
| A64979 | that every man should speak truth to his neighbour? |
| A64979 | that he abb ● rred lying lips? |
| A64979 | that he threatned to punish liars with the second death, and give them their portion in the lake of fire? |
| A64979 | that is, why are they that are dying, and given over for dead? |
| A64979 | that lust if it conceived would bring forth sin, and sin when perfected, would bring forth death? |
| A64979 | that reward you had, and can you expect any other reward, when you did not desire it, nor design it? |
| A64979 | that strengthned us when we were weak, even with his might and glorious power in our inner man? |
| A64979 | that the Lord would avenge himself upon you for this sin? |
| A64979 | that the higher you were lifted up in dignity, if your hearts were withall lifted up with pride, the lower and greater would be your fall? |
| A64979 | that washed us when we were defiled, even in the fountain of his own blood? |
| A64979 | that you must be born again, or else you could not be saved? |
| A64979 | that you must be holy, or else you could not be happy? |
| A64979 | the friend, the husband whom we loved? |
| A64979 | the worst of you may be such, if you seriously, diligently, and timely seek such a priviledge, but are you such yet? |
| A64979 | was I not willing? |
| A64979 | was it curiosity and elegancie of words, that God so much looked for? |
| A64979 | was it for your honour to swear by the Name of God? |
| A64979 | was it not an empty breath, an inconstant wind? |
| A64979 | was it not by reason of you that the wayes of truth were evil spoken of by evil Men? |
| A64979 | was not God good to you, and had not you reason to be thankeful? |
| A64979 | was not communion with God in Ordinances desirable? |
| A64979 | was not the fire of your tongues kindled by the fire of Hell? |
| A64979 | was not the knowledge of me, and my waies, worth the looking after? |
| A64979 | was not this the best use you could put them unto? |
| A64979 | was not your chiefest mirth amongst your Cups, and drunken Companions? |
| A64979 | was the way to Heaven so unpleasant, that you would walk no longer therein? |
| A64979 | was there a Lion in the way to Heaven? |
| A64979 | was there any thing in the world that did concern you more to know? |
| A64979 | was there no fear in you to restrain you? |
| A64979 | was there not sweetness mingled with the difficulty? |
| A64979 | were any of my servants so wearied with my service, with the hardest work I set them about, as you were wearied with your idleness, and doing nothing? |
| A64979 | were not the most difficult duties I required, for your own good, and so many priviledges, and the best work you could be employed in? |
| A64979 | were not those without prejudiced against my very wayes, because of your delusions, which made so forward a profession? |
| A64979 | were not you called to me by the voice of the Gospel? |
| A64979 | were not you melancholick and troubled, when your meetings of good- fellowship were disappointed? |
| A64979 | were not you subjects, and should not you have shown homage to your S ● veraign? |
| A64979 | were not you the renders and ● ● ● rers of my Church? |
| A64979 | were not you told, if you drew back, my Soul would have no pleasure in you? |
| A64979 | were the riches of grace of so small esteem, that you preferred earthly riches? |
| A64979 | were there none lived neer you, who would have been glad of your company in the worship of God, and way to Heaven? |
| A64979 | were there not pleasures of a higher nature, and sweeter relish attainable in life, if you had forgone and denied your selves unlawful pleasures? |
| A64979 | were they like to be obedient and faithful to you, if you did not teach them to be obedient and faithful ● nto God? |
| A64979 | were you angry with others without just cause, and was there not good reason that God should be angry with you? |
| A64979 | were you born for nothing, that ye lived so unprofitably, and were good for nothing? |
| A64979 | were you entited to it, And overtaken before you were aware? |
| A64979 | were you never forewarned, that such should have judgment without mercy, that did not shew mercy? |
| A64979 | were you never guilty of unrighteous dealing? |
| A64979 | were you never told that riches could not profit you in the day of wrath? |
| A64979 | were you not commanded to speak evil of none? |
| A64979 | were you not foretold of the wrath to come, and yet would you not flie from it? |
| A64979 | were you not pr ● ffered a Saviour, and yet would you not accept of him? |
| A64979 | were you not shown the way to Heaven, and would not you walk in it? |
| A64979 | were you not warned that Sathan sometimes appeared as an Angel of light? |
| A64979 | were you not warned to lay aside all envy and malice, if you would be Christians indeed? |
| A64979 | were you so blinde as not to see afar off before this day of Iudgment, when I should call you to an account? |
| A64979 | were you so forward to do him service? |
| A64979 | were your short pleasures comparable to an eternity of pain and misery? |
| A64979 | what a clattering of bones together in the coming of bone to his bone? |
| A64979 | what a number of figures in these Books? |
| A64979 | what can I do f ● r you at this time? |
| A64979 | what can I do for you now? |
| A64979 | what can I do for you now? |
| A64979 | what could you lie down and slumber, when you had so much work to do? |
| A64979 | what excuse can you finde for this sin? |
| A64979 | what heart can conceive the miseries, which God hath prepared for sinners in Hell? |
| A64979 | what heart can conceive the splendour thereof? |
| A64979 | what if you had been s ● ● ft at, and reproached for this? |
| A64979 | what if you had no example for it in your house, had you no precept for it in the Word? |
| A64979 | what joyes will they have, when they are entertained by the Angels? |
| A64979 | what pleasure did you find in your swearing? |
| A64979 | what shall I do for you now? |
| A64979 | what sweet greetings shall we have, and mutual congratulations of our old acquaintance in the flesh, who were with us acquainted with the Lord? |
| A64979 | what though some of you are blinde or lame, or maimed, or have your bodies filled with irksome pains, and weakned with long sickness? |
| A64979 | what though some of you have crooked and deformed bodies now? |
| A64979 | what though some of you live in poor and mean cottages; then you shall live in the glorious? |
| A64979 | what though wicked men separate you from their company, and think you unworthy of their fellowship? |
| A64979 | what though you are poor in the world? |
| A64979 | what tongue can express the future torments, which the damned shall endure? |
| A64979 | what would a whole folio hold: what then would a room full of folios hold? |
| A64979 | what, is your mouth stopt, and are you speechless now? |
| A64979 | when her stains are all washed off, and she is presented before him without spot, wrinkle, blemish, or any such thing? |
| A64979 | when otherwise we can not be faithful to you, nor to our Master, who hath sent us to declare these things? |
| A64979 | when they behold his beauty, and the transcendent excellencies which are in him, beyond whatever they could here imagine? |
| A64979 | when you are most secure, may not death be most neer? |
| A64979 | when you fancied a clearer light, were not you most full of darkness? |
| A64979 | when you felt such thorny cares, and piercing sorrows in your eager prosecution of this world, could not this damp and deaden your affection to it? |
| A64979 | when you never received injury from them; could you be so injurious to them? |
| A64979 | when you thought your selves must guided and acted by the spirit, was it not a spirit of delusion? |
| A64979 | where have you a promise of it? |
| A64979 | who can supply you now with Oyle? |
| A64979 | who is he that shall condemn? |
| A64979 | who shall see the Lord Jesus come in such glory? |
| A64979 | who will be the Spectators of these great things? |
| A64979 | whose eyes shall behold this blessed sight? |
| A64979 | why did not you learn of your selves? |
| A64979 | why do you hang about me with teares and weeping? |
| A64979 | will God, can God prove a lyar, to save you from the torments of Hell? |
| A64979 | will not Conscience tell you of some slips, some stumbles and falls, as to your external walking? |
| A64979 | will their esteem of you procure pardon and salvation for you? |
| A64979 | will they suffer for us? |
| A64979 | will you needs run into these burnings? |
| A64979 | will you not leave off sinning, until you have sinned your selves into Hell? |
| A64979 | will you sleep in sin until you are awakened in the midst of flames? |
| A64979 | will you trample Crowns under your feet, and slight future glory and happiness, which now is possible for you to obtain? |
| A64979 | will your moral righteo ● sness stand you now in any stead, when you are to give so strict an account? |
| A64979 | with what delight and joy will it first open its eyes upon those beautiful and glorious objects which vvill quickly present themselves to its vievv? |
| A64979 | with what great esteem will he receive and speak unto them, which have come out of great tribulation? |
| A64979 | would any sin against the Law have condemned you, had you turned from it, and yielded obedience to the Gospel? |
| A64979 | would not God have encouraged and rewarded you? |
| A64979 | would not God have helped you, had you been ● illing to have been helped? |
| A64979 | would not Heaven have been worth all the reproaches you could have undergone? |
| A64979 | would not I have proved a better master, had you been diligent in my service? |
| A64979 | would not Sermons have furnished you with matter and expressions, had you used to repeat them? |
| A64979 | would not a Crown and Kingdom, a weight of glory, and eternal pleasures, move you to undergo some difficulty? |
| A64979 | would not my work have brought wages with it? |
| A64979 | would not religion have found you imployment sufficient, if you had followed its direction? |
| A64979 | would not sighs and groans have been understood? |
| A64979 | would not the Scriptures have furnished you with expressions, had you used to read them? |
| A64979 | would not the favour and smiles of God have compensated the flou ● s and ● c ● rns of men? |
| A64979 | would not the load be too great for me? |
| A64979 | would not they easily have disproved you, and put you to shame? |
| A64979 | would not works of mercy have brought into you the best returns at last? |
| A64979 | would not you have been more fit for society? |
| A64979 | would not you have had more peace in your consciences? |
| A64979 | would not you have rejoyced if you had now been found in their society? |
| A64979 | would not you hereby have gained more credit in the world? |
| A64979 | would not your own good and happiness move you at all to diligence? |
| A64979 | would you be enticed to that, unto which a very Beast will not be forced? |
| A64979 | would you have come so often into the places and company where you fell into it? |
| A64979 | would you needs be bruits, and live as if you were all body, and had no soules of such high capacity? |
| A64979 | would you needs put your foot again into the snare, and binde your selves in fresh bonds of sin? |
| A64979 | you are rich in saith, and hope; what though you have no inheritance on earth? |
| A64979 | you call''d upon him sometimes to damn and sinke you; can you speake in that language now, now damnation is so near you? |
| A64979 | you have heard God''s terrible voice in the City, and that hath not awakened you; and will not Christ''s appearance to Judgment awaken you neither? |
| A64979 | ● ave not you brought their blood upon your heads? |
| A64979 | ● ave not you contracted to your selves the guilt of 〈 ◊ 〉 sins? |