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A45478 | 1656?] |
A45478 | Man can not Know himself, how can he then Presume to Know, what God shall act, or when? |
A45478 | Or how, or where, or by what means, or why? |
A28518 | But shall we speak of our Old age? |
A28518 | Christ saith, When the Son of Man shall come, thinkest thou that he shall find Faith on Earth? |
A28518 | Nature came not into Man for Sins sake; wherefore should it then for the Regenerations sake fall away? |
A28518 | Ought not we justly highly to admire, that we were in our Mother, and knew her not? |
A28518 | What good doth a Wolf in the Sheepfold, that intendeth nothing but prey? |
A28518 | Whither will the Soul swing her self, being she her self is the Fountain of Etetnity? |
A28518 | Why doth the World stand gazing, and suffereth its Ears in Vain to be filled with the Stars? |
A28518 | Why goeth he about to teach the Spirit of this World in Man, which is in him afore? |
A28518 | Why should then also an Angels name be given to the outward fleshly Man, that lieth inclosed in the Anger of God? |
A28518 | and set forth its first youth, as if it had never been old? |
A28518 | that we have been such a long time blind in her, and now become seeing in the old age? |
A28518 | they were Angels, and yet became Devils: how then should it not be possible in a Man, who as yet beareth in him the Sin- mirror in the outward Flesh? |
A64763 | And what els I beseech you, is signified unto us in that poeticall Table of Prometheus? |
A64763 | But I beseech you, are not the faculties of this Spirit supprest in Man also, when the Organs are Corrupted, as it appeareth in those that are blind? |
A64763 | But here lyes the Knot: How can we possibly learn his Disease, if we know not the immediate Efficicent of it? |
A64763 | But who is he inter tot millia Philosophantium, that knows her Nature substantially, and the genuine, specificall use thereof? |
A64763 | Diseases may be Cur''d: But who''l reprieve Him that is Dead? |
A64763 | Et Quis didicit scribere in luctâ Lacrymarum,& Atramenti? |
A64763 | Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee thou shouldest not eat? |
A64763 | How am I rapt when I contemplate Thee, And winde my self above All that I see? |
A64763 | If this be more then They can do, it is Argument enough they know not what they oppose: And if they do not know; how can they judge? |
A64763 | It will be question''d perhaps what I am, and especially what my Religion is? |
A64763 | Now if I should question any Sect( for there is no Communion in Christendom) whither these later Intimations drive? |
A64763 | Quis emet Eugenium? |
A64763 | Quis scire Vniversi Harmoniam;& reviviscere denuò? |
A64763 | Quis super Hominem esse vult? |
A64763 | Sed quorsum hoc Veritati Testimonium, Vobis etiam astantibus, Quibus in propatulo est triplex illud Spiritus, Aquae,& sanguinis Martyrium? |
A64763 | What shall we do in this case? |
A64763 | When I consider, how I stray, Methinks''t is Pride in mee to Pray How dare I speake to Heaven, nor feare In all my Sinns to court thy Eare? |
A64763 | Wherefore also God gave him the the use of all his works, and in Paradise how familiar is He, or rather how doth he play with Adam? |
A64763 | Who told thee that Thou wast naked? |
A64763 | or if they judge, where is their Evidence to condemne? |
A64763 | why should I be asham''d to confesse it? |
A07786 | Aristotle beeing demaunded, considering we haue two eyes, wherfore all thinges which we behold, do not seem double to vs? |
A07786 | But thou that hast handes and vnderstanding, canst thou think that God hath not care and respect of thee? |
A07786 | Doost thou not think, that the most auncient and wisest Citties, are those that most dilligently& carefully doe honour the Gods? |
A07786 | Dooth it appeare to thee that thou hast any discretion, whereby thou makest apprehension or iudgment of these thinges? |
A07786 | For where or when did any other creature euer thinke or consider, that God was the Creator of the very best and greatest thinges? |
A07786 | One demaunds, how those things offered& apprehēded by the eye, or whether so euer it addresseth it selfe, are thereby perceiued? |
A07786 | Or by exercise gather strength, ability, and learning? |
A07786 | Or shun diuersitie of diseases? |
A07786 | Or what kinde else,( onely man excepted) dyd euer, or can giue honor to God? |
A07786 | Seemes it not then to thee, that man onely is( as a God) amongst all other creatures? |
A07786 | Tell me, which doost thou iudge to be workes of Fortune, or of reason and deliberation? |
A07786 | Thinkest thou that thine owne eye can see many thinges farre off,& that Gods eye doth not discerne them altogether? |
A07786 | VVhy howe canst thou thinke, but that they haue care and regarde of vs, seeing man is made onely( aboue and beyond al other creatures) to goe vpright? |
A07786 | and what thinkest thou of such, as manifestly doe appeare, that they are made for the benefite of men? |
A07786 | as much to say, as those workes that haue no certaine end, neyther are knowne wherfore they be made? |
A07786 | hauing eyes, eares, and a mouth bestowed vpon him? |
A07786 | more excellent, and out- going them both in body and minde? |
A07786 | or keep himselfe from cold, heate, famine, thirst,& other inconueniences? |
A07786 | or retain longer and more faithfully what- soeuer is to be vnderstood? |
A07786 | to fore- see many thinges intended to him, and to gouerne all other creatures vnder him? |
A51412 | And what does he, but pray? |
A51412 | And who is there being as I am, would go into the Temple to save his Life? |
A51412 | As 〈 … 〉 my Complaint to man? |
A51412 | But being now Converted, Does his Grace quite extinguish his Fi ● ry Nature,& Spirit? |
A51412 | But if Sanctified, if Light and Heat be put into them by the Baptism of Fire, How do the Excellencies of this Spirit Excel themselves? |
A51412 | Have you never a Brave Man among you to undertake this Great& Worthy affair? |
A51412 | How Disposed? |
A51412 | How Excellent, How Lovely and Desirable is it? |
A51412 | How Qua ● ified? |
A51412 | How many Brawls and Factions would it prevent? |
A51412 | How much does it conduce to Brethrens Living together in Unity? |
A51412 | Now if this Spirit be Unsanctifyed, t is a stoutness in evil: that will be ready to say,( with Pharoah) Who is the Lord? |
A51412 | Now when was this? |
A51412 | Now, was it the Souls of these men? |
A51412 | Or, the men themselves? |
A51412 | Shall I come unto you with a Rod; or in Love, and in the Spirit of Meekness? |
A51412 | Should such a Man as I Fly? |
A51412 | So, if we ask,[ What Spirit is he of?] |
A51412 | The Spirit of a man will sustain his Infirmity; ● ut a Wounded Spirit who can Bear? |
A51412 | Thus they Dreamt; and does the Scripture give any Countenance to such Fancies? |
A51412 | What Remedy now in the Case? |
A51412 | What is thy Request? |
A51412 | What will you? |
A51412 | What? |
A51412 | When was that? |
A51412 | Where( I wonder) does Iob so speak? |
A51412 | Who is there among you of all the People? |
A51412 | we mean, of what Temper, Inclination or Genius? |
A01210 | 2? |
A01210 | Againe, what is the Fall of Adam but only the wisdome of the Serpent and Fruit of the forbidden Tree? |
A01210 | Alas, shall death, sinne, and the Devill thus please us? |
A01210 | But onely the wisdome of the Flesh, which doth extoll it selfe against God, and desires to become a God unto it selfe? |
A01210 | But who can understand, gaine, finde, and brandish the same? |
A01210 | Is there any amongst all men who understand this? |
A01210 | Light with darkenesse? |
A01210 | Mens inventions, knowledge, and bookes? |
A01210 | Of the Tree of Life, vvhat it is? |
A01210 | The living among the dead? |
A01210 | The workes of reason against God? |
A01210 | VVho but my selfe is God? |
A01210 | What are all Sacraments, Assemblies, and Ceremonies? |
A01210 | What are the Decrees of Men? |
A01210 | What are the thoughts of the Flesh? |
A01210 | What death? |
A01210 | What is all the worship of Images and all false Religions? |
A01210 | What is sinne? |
A01210 | What is sinne? |
A01210 | What is that Beast of which Daniell writeth, which speaketh against the highest, and slayeth the Saints of God? |
A01210 | What is that Serpent who deceived Adam& Eva? |
A01210 | What is that many headed Monster, mentioned in the Apocalyps, whom the whole World doth worship? |
A01210 | What is that old Dragon, who ascends out of hel? |
A01210 | What is the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evill? |
A01210 | What the Devill? |
A01210 | What to have Bibles? |
A01210 | Wherefore are they so doubtfully distracted? |
A01210 | Wherefore doe they forge such wicked deceits, to deceive one another? |
A01210 | Wherefore doe they labour night and day to gett and heape up riches? |
A01210 | Wherefore doe they so warre upon one another( whether with right or injustice it matters not) and contend together for mine and thine? |
A01210 | Wherfore are they so forgetfull of the word of God, and so little esteeme his precepts and commandements? |
A01210 | Who can away with this? |
A01210 | Why doe they lye, cogg, and flatter one another? |
A01210 | and with his tayle drawes a great part of the Starres of Heaven after him? |
A01210 | shall wee alwayes thus seeke God in hell with the Devill? |
A01210 | what pride? |
A01210 | wise men are commended? |
A69592 | And in WHAT Body had he taken on himselfe, the SINNES of All Men? |
A69592 | And in what Body then hath he dyed to Sinne? |
A69592 | And then they need not expect further about any other womans seed; why did Eve then say when she bare Cain:* I have the Man the LORD? |
A69592 | But if this † Authour be Perfect, then is he neither Man nor Woman, How then doth he beget children of his Wife? |
A69592 | But who will now say of David, that he was not holy? |
A69592 | Else, why should he lay all SINNE upon one holy perfect Man? |
A69592 | Hath not Christ taken on him my Creature? |
A69592 | Hath not God turned the wisdome of the world into Foolishnesse? |
A69592 | Must all this now be holy? |
A69592 | Must it not as a Pipe give the Mercury to Good and Evill? |
A69592 | NOw may the Reader Ask, what is the strife or controversie in this place? |
A69592 | Now if Christ dwelt substantially in Adam and Eve, what need he then promise another substance to them? |
A69592 | Now if MARY had attained in the Faith, the highest Perfection, why not also David, and the Patriarchs? |
A69592 | Now if the Spirit of God did breath into him his Breath, viz: the living understanding Soul, how then was not God manifested in Man? |
A69592 | Seeing he was a Man after Gods Heart; who also will say, that his Murther and Adultery was without Sinne? |
A69592 | Shall we then beleeve without the power of the proof? |
A69592 | Sparrow, John, 1615- 1665? |
A69592 | WHAT Body became a Curse on the Crosse? |
A69592 | When now, will the Pipe know, when Gods Love- Will, will Pipe, or when his Anger- Will, will Pipe? |
A69592 | Where now, in this is the totall holinesse without blemish according to this* Authour? |
A69592 | and cause his fierce wrath to be shewn upon him? |
A69592 | and so Revenge himself? |
A69592 | how then hath he in my Flesh, slain Death, and quenched the Anger of God? |
A69592 | if she had before the substantiall womans seed manifested in her, why did she then hope for another? |
A69592 | where are the Councellours? |
A69592 | where are the Judges? |
A69592 | where are the Worldly wise Men? |
A69592 | † Where are the Scripture- Learned or Scribes? |
A47631 | 12 9. doth he suffer us to be overcome in temptation? |
A47631 | But how shall this excellent promise of GOD be effected? |
A47631 | Doe not my words doe good to him that walketh uprightly? |
A47631 | Doth the Lord permit us to temptation? |
A47631 | Hath GOD promised to pardon our sinnes? |
A47631 | Hath he promised us a Crowne and Kingdome? |
A47631 | He and his wife being both old; he thus( as accounting GODS promises vaine) answered, LORD GOD, what wilt thou give mee, seeing I goe childlesse? |
A47631 | He hath given us his Sonne, the Fountaine of all good things, what can he denie us then that may be for our good and comfort? |
A47631 | He that gave us CHRIST, how shall he not with him give us all things also? |
A47631 | He that hath performed the promise concerning CHRIST, wherein shall he faile? |
A47631 | How doth he trust in GOD for a Kingdome, that will not trust him for a crust of bread? |
A47631 | How sweet are thy promises unto my mouth? |
A47631 | If I pray for the salvation of another, I have no promise, how then can I pray in faith? |
A47631 | If any should demand, cui bono, for what use may such a Treatise serve, or what profit can redoūd to Christiās by it? |
A47631 | If we have an herbe in our garden that would ease our griefe, and we know it not, what are we the nearer? |
A47631 | Is it not a part of thy Covenant? |
A47631 | Is not the life more then meate, and the body then raiment? |
A47631 | It is a maine pollicie of the Divell, to lay siege, to the truth of GODS Word, Yea hath GOD, said? |
A47631 | Seest thou a man diligent in his businesse? |
A47631 | So if we know not the Promises, though they be in the booke, what are we the better? |
A47631 | The wicked hope he will change, where is the promise of his comming? |
A47631 | Therefore wee should imitate, the Athenians, shall I say? |
A47631 | They shall looke unto him, and 〈 ◊ 〉 to him, and their faces shall not be ashamed: What made them so confident in GODS mercies? |
A47631 | We should say with David, What am I, or what is my fathers house, that I should be raised hitherto? |
A47631 | Wee may retort this argument upon themselves: for where is it said to any by name, Sanctifie the Sabbath, sweare not? |
A47631 | What can be more Absolute? |
A47631 | What shall separate us from the love of CHRIST? |
A47631 | Where is it said by name( say they) to any man; Thou Peter or Iohn shalt be saved? |
A47631 | Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windowes? |
A47631 | Who shall lay any thing to the charge of GODS Elect? |
A47631 | Who shall lay any thing to the charge of GODS elect? |
A47631 | Why truth to Jacob and mercy to Abraham? |
A47631 | an immortall and eternall Inheritance, that can never be shaken nor taken from us, and shall not we labour to walke worthy of the s ● ne? |
A47631 | and shall we therefore provoke and grieve him every day more and more by our sinnes? |
A47631 | and yet the commandements belong to us, why not then the Promises, though not spoken to us by name? |
A47631 | have wee a multitude and magnitude of sinnes? |
A47631 | shall we thus requite the bounty, mercy, love and goodnesse of GOD? |
A47631 | who would spend to try a liberall friend? |
A52431 | Again at another time it utterly disowns it, as when it says, To whom then will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare unto him? |
A52431 | Again, whence is it that Truth is present in all places, and that independently upon our thinking or knowing? |
A52431 | And for what is all this? |
A52431 | And how can this be, but by my having a confuse glance of that Being in whom are all things, and who is All? |
A52431 | And if God be so intimately united to my Soul, how can I otherwise conclude but that''t is in him that I see all that I see? |
A52431 | And now is this a choice for a wise Man, for a Man of common Sense? |
A52431 | And shall that Being be Proud which was once nothing, and needs only a meer Negative to bring him to nothing again? |
A52431 | And that he could not, does not that Prayer of our Saviour argue, which he used in his Agony? |
A52431 | And what can all this be but the Essence of God as Exhibitive, the Ideal World? |
A52431 | And what is it that so suddenly augments it, when''t is beheld through a Telescope? |
A52431 | But much more, What is Man that he should so regard himself? |
A52431 | But now what is before Being it self? |
A52431 | But now what should afterwards diminish this Species, and what is become of those parts whereof it consisted, when it appear''d greater? |
A52431 | But says not the Scripture also the same? |
A52431 | But this Prayer of his, was not granted by the removal of the Cup, and may I not thence conclude that''t was impossible it should be removed? |
A52431 | But what is this to the disproportion between the highest particular Being, nay all the particular Beings that are or can be, and Being it self? |
A52431 | But, alas, what are such expedients as these to the Omniscience and Omnipresence of God? |
A52431 | But, now, how can this be, but by my having all things actually present to my mind? |
A52431 | But, now, what Original can be so mean as to come from nothing? |
A52431 | Darest thou do works of Darkness in the presence of him who is pure Light, and in whom there is no Darkness at all? |
A52431 | Darest thou rush on when the Angel of God''s Presence stands in the way with a drawn Sword? |
A52431 | Divine Fountain of Love,''t is from thee I receive all my Love, and upon whom should I place it but upon thee? |
A52431 | First, What love or desire is, or wherein the general Nature of it does consist? |
A52431 | For I would fain know what they can mean else by the celebrated Glass of the Divinity? |
A52431 | For in what else can I see it, nothing being so intimately Presential to me as God? |
A52431 | For is it consistent with the Accuracy of Infinite Wisdom to mis- call any thing? |
A52431 | For what can we possibly conceive before Being it self? |
A52431 | For what is it that he chuses? |
A52431 | For what should support such Relations? |
A52431 | For where are these Universal Natures? |
A52431 | For, whereas every thing that is possible, is made the Object of the Divine Power, a nice enquirer may here demand, What do you mean by Possible? |
A52431 | Has this superadded Beauty all the Perfection of the first, or has it not? |
A52431 | I am but little and inconsiderable with thee, and what then should I be without thee? |
A52431 | If then this be not the Idea of God, wherein shall we fix it? |
A52431 | In relation to the first, if it be demanded, What it is to be an Irregular Lover? |
A52431 | Is Devotion a Rational thing, or is it not? |
A52431 | MY God, my Light, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou so regardest him? |
A52431 | Nay, is it a choice for a Man in his right Wits to make? |
A52431 | Nay, shall the presence of a Child divert thee from sinning? |
A52431 | Now what can this signifie but this Ideal World, or the Essence of God as variously exhibitive and representative of things? |
A52431 | Now who would desire a better Establishment of Platonic Ideas, than what Aristotle himself has here given? |
A52431 | Now, what can this one independing, and ever- present Nature be, but God? |
A52431 | O thou Circle of Excellency, thou endless Orb of Perfection, where shall I begin to love thee? |
A52431 | O, my God, why is not my Faith like thy Power? |
A52431 | Or what Beauty is there whose influence may vye with thine? |
A52431 | Or whither shall I go then from thy Presence? |
A52431 | Shall such a one deter thee from sin, and dash in pieces the frame of thy ill designs, and darest thou sin before thy God? |
A52431 | The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom then shall I fear? |
A52431 | The Psalmist says, Tremble thou earth at the presence of God, and darest thou sin in his Presence? |
A52431 | The fire that descends from Heaven, where should it be spent but upon the Altar? |
A52431 | The simple Essences therefore must exist eternally, if their Relations do? |
A52431 | This premised, I demand how a Child comes to understand the first Language which he learns? |
A52431 | Thou canst do all things; And why is my Faith limited? |
A52431 | Were a Man to beg an Estate, would one need a better demonstration of a Man''s being a Fool, than such a procedure as this? |
A52431 | What Temptation then can I have to leave thee? |
A52431 | What can this be but the Ideal World representing all the Essences of things? |
A52431 | Whence is it that''t is alike discern''d by different minds, and by the same mind at different times? |
A52431 | Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit? |
A52431 | Who can number the Lords Host? |
A52431 | Who made these Mutable Fairs, but the Immutable Fair? |
A52431 | Will a Man commit Murther in the open Court, before the Face of his Judge? |
A52431 | and where can that be but in the Mind of God? |
A52431 | says he, From the things which he has made? |
A52431 | that he should regard himself for that which is least of all his own, his Knowledge and Wisdom? |
A52431 | what shall I say unto them? |
A16739 | A litle, but if you like it, shall we speake of Poetrie? |
A16739 | Againe in talke, what Pye, chatters like a Scold? |
A16739 | Againe, what beast or b ● rd, but knowes his owne young? |
A16739 | And for appar ● ll, what Swannes feathers more neat then the Courtiers cloake and the Citizens gowne? |
A16739 | And now Meandro, shall I entreat you to deliuer your minde vpon this subiect? |
A16739 | And t ● uching generation, is not man euen at this day of the like substance? |
A16739 | Are not all these I say, with innumerable more, to be saide, sufficient proofes of the honour of man? |
A16739 | Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? |
A16739 | Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? |
A16739 | But are t ● ey no ● 〈 ◊ 〉 m ● ● t o ● th ● m? |
A16739 | Came not the Angell from heauen, to salute Abraham on the earth? |
A16739 | Did euer bird betray the Eagle, his king? |
A16739 | Doth not the Bird come downe from his highest pitch? |
A16739 | Father we will attend you, and glad when we may enioy you: what say you Meandro? |
A16739 | For apparell, how doth th ● ● wanne prune her feathers ● and how full of feathers is many a Slo ● ens fowle coate? |
A16739 | For neatnesse, how cleane kéepes the Bee her hiue, and ● ow fowle is many a Sluttes hous ●? |
A16739 | For ● ● ● st, touching his first s ● bstance, was hee not created of the ● ● me of the earth, then which, what can be worse imagined? |
A16739 | How many Histories are to be alledged, for the approouing of this truth ▪ yea, how many haue dyed for want and losse of theyr beloued? |
A16739 | How say you Antonio? |
A16739 | How vnworthy was he to be a king on the earth, that proued such a rebell vnto the king of ● ea ● en? |
A16739 | If a Phisition, will in stead of a preseruatiue, giue his patient a poysoned potion, is he not a kinde of diuell vnto man? |
A16739 | If a souldier for the gaine of a little mony, betray the trust of his Captaine, and make sale of his people, is he not a kinde of diuell vnto man? |
A16739 | In his bréeding, full of trouble, griefe, and sicknesse, to his bréder? |
A16739 | In his conception, is he not inf ● cted with corruption? |
A16739 | In summe, of what estate can that man or woman be, that some way shews not some such part of Indignity, a ● speakes not something in their dishonor? |
A16739 | Me thinkes peace were a better hearing, and valure is better to be séene in action, then argument: what sayes Meandro? |
A16739 | Me thinkes the sound of blood is hideous, and the terror of death is miserable: but shall we rather speake of peace? |
A16739 | No hurt, i ● you mistake not your selfe: But why do you growe into this humour? |
A16739 | Now for byrds, haue they not all a time of bréeding? |
A16739 | Now what Bees ● iue is so cleane, as the Merchants parlour, or the milke- maides dairy? |
A16739 | Shall we speake of Phis ● cke? |
A16739 | Shall we then discourse of Lawe? |
A16739 | Shall we then speake a litle of Beautie? |
A16739 | Shall we then talke of Astronomy? |
A16739 | Shall we then talke of hunting or h ● wking? |
A16739 | Shall we then talke of state matters? |
A16739 | Then S ● ● shall we talke of Vertue? |
A16739 | Then let vs beginne where we left this other day, to speake of the Dignitie or Indignitie of m ● n: what say you Maister Antonio? |
A16739 | True: for not only men haue no great pleasure in her, but the women are out of loue with her: and what shall we th ● n talke of her? |
A16739 | W ● at of that? |
A16739 | What Byrd can builde a neast lyke the Temple of Salomon? |
A16739 | What Crocodile so dangerous as the tongue of a Parasite? |
A16739 | What Lyon so stout, but Sampson could tame him? |
A16739 | What birds, and dogges? |
A16739 | What can be said? |
A16739 | What cunning hath nature taught the Spider in her webbe, while men by Art are faine to studie for lesse skill? |
A16739 | What dishonor it is to a King, to be vngratious to his subiect? |
A16739 | What shall I say? |
A16739 | What shall we haue a play? |
A16739 | What ▪ h ● e is not this, hée is not himselfe, and being this, wh ● t can be worse then hims ● lfe? |
A16739 | What, Ballades? |
A16739 | What, how litle she is esteemed in the worlde? |
A16739 | Why Sir, shall we speake of loue? |
A16739 | Why Sir? |
A16739 | Why, doo not you heare the Parasite begin the Prologue? |
A16739 | Why? |
A16739 | Yea, and perhaps a choppe on his necke, that may cost him his head: but what, shall we speake in rime? |
A16739 | an ● dooth not euery Cocke kéepe with his Henne? |
A16739 | and be they not obedient to his commaundement? |
A16739 | and came not Christ h ● mselfe from heauen, to saue sinners from hell? |
A16739 | and for knowledge, how many Fathers haue not only begot, but bredde theyr owne Children? |
A16739 | and how base a villaine is that begger, that makes an art of his rogery? |
A16739 | and how many a man, that God know is, knoweth not his owne childe, but labours to maintaine the fru ● te of an others pleasures? |
A16739 | and last of all his acknowledging of his God, to whome hee is onely bounde for all his goodnesse? |
A16739 | and may not all these excellencies in the wit of man, aboue all creatures, proue the honor of man? |
A16739 | and what Cockatrice so venemous, as the eye of a leaud womon? |
A16739 | and what Gyant so great, but little Dauid could conquere him? |
A16739 | and what Indignitie was in all the Iewes, that sought ● he death of the sonne of God? |
A16739 | and what Whale so rauenous, but Ionas could get out of him? |
A16739 | and what misery such, but Iacobs patience did endure it? |
A16739 | and what sorrowe at a buriall? |
A16739 | and, how many Kings haue bene betraied by trayterous Rebels, and supposed subiects, yea be theyr owne seruants? |
A16739 | as in loue woulde first make him lyke himselfe, and then neuer cease to bestowe his daily and hourely blessings vppon him? |
A16739 | but to answere more particularly to each point: In his generation, is not his substance of y ● strength and almost life of the foure elements? |
A16739 | came not Gabriell the Arch- angell, with a message to the blessed Virgin Mary? |
A16739 | do they not feare his eye? |
A16739 | his place a hou ● e of darknesse, and his li ● ertie conioyned to a limit? |
A16739 | how dishonorable were So ● ome, and Gomorrah, who with the fi ● ● h of their concupis ● ence would haue pr ● ● sed vpon the Angelles? |
A16739 | how vngratious is that Farmer, that starues the poore people, and féeds the Rats with his corne? |
A16739 | how vnhonest is that labourer, who will not worke for his wages? |
A16739 | how vnworthy is that Lawier that pleades against conscience for coyne? |
A16739 | how vnworthy is that Marchant that plaies ● anquerou ● without néed? |
A16739 | or Eagle make a wing with the wisedome of Iohn the Euangelist? |
A16739 | or Serpent more deadly, then a malicious woman? |
A16739 | or the fish the Whale, his king? |
A16739 | or why loues the horse the Ryder, but for his good keeping and managing? |
A16739 | speaks more sweetly, or liues so vertuously? |
A16739 | the Instruments of warre, the treatise of peace, the harmonies of Musique, and the ditties of loue, are they not the deuise of man? |
A16739 | the ayre to breathe by, and to fill with? |
A16739 | the beast, the Lyon, his king? |
A16739 | the water to ● óole, and wet with? |
A16739 | to proue it more truly ● olly, then like Aesops dogge, to loose a bone for a shadow, or worse, comfort for sorrow? |
A16739 | tremble at his voice? |
A16739 | was he worthy to be a seruant, that would be a villaine to such ● maister? |
A16739 | was not Eilas carried into heauen in a whirle- wind? |
A16739 | what Foxe more subtill then a knaue? |
A16739 | what Indignitie it is to Counsellour, to be either f ● i ● hlesse to his King, or carelesse of his commaund? |
A16739 | what Indignitie of a Crowne shewed Pharaoh, when in the swelling pride of his power, he would oppose himselfe against the 〈 ◊ 〉 o ● Kings? |
A16739 | what Indignitie was in Iudas to b ● tray his m ● ister, Christ Iesus? |
A16739 | what Indignitie was in those Princes that ston ● s the Prophets, the Embassadors of heauens Emperor? |
A16739 | what Sowe more filthy then a Sl ● t? |
A16739 | what Sparrowe more luxurious then a Whore? |
A16739 | what Toade more venemous then a Villain? |
A16739 | what a dishonor t is to a souldier to betray his trust, to an enemy? |
A16739 | what care hath the husbande for his wife in her childe- bedde? |
A16739 | what daunger so great, but Iosuah would attempt it? |
A16739 | what dishonour in a subiect, to be disloy ● ll to his Prince? |
A16739 | what sayes Antonio? |
A16739 | what solemnitie at a Christening? |
A16739 | what wolfe more cruell then a Tyrant? |
A16739 | which met in a little matter, forme so excellent a creature? |
A16739 | yea euen vnto the Elements, who had their workings in his creation, to be now at his commaundement: hath he not the fire to warme and to heate with? |
A53712 | 1. Who hath believed our report? |
A53712 | 7. and yet are not able to accomplish their designs: What torture do such poor creatures live in? |
A53712 | 9, 10. Who can know the heart? |
A53712 | A Sacrifice without an heart, without salt, without fire, of what value is it? |
A53712 | A deceiving and a deceived heart, who can deal with it? |
A53712 | Adoption is an especial fruit of it, and how great a priviledge is this? |
A53712 | And can we but be astonished at the power of that principle from whence it is, that they run headlong to their own destruction? |
A53712 | And do now the generality of Professors abide in this frame? |
A53712 | And doth this frame still abide upon them? |
A53712 | And how doth he exercise this merciful ability towards us? |
A53712 | And how little a portion of its deceitfulness is it that we have declared? |
A53712 | And what Promises are these? |
A53712 | And what can possible be more effectual for its ruine and destruction? |
A53712 | And what is the issue? |
A53712 | And what sayes he hereof? |
A53712 | And where doth this treasure lye? |
A53712 | Are we better than Lot, whose Righteous Soul was vexed with the evil deeds of ungodly men, and is thereof commended by the Holy Ghost? |
A53712 | Are we better than Noah, who had that testimony from God, that he was a perfect man in his Generation, and walked with God? |
A53712 | Are we more holy, wise, and watchful than David, who obtained this testimony, that he was a man after Gods own heart? |
A53712 | At least do they not prefer their ease, credit, safety, secular advantages before these things? |
A53712 | Be sober, be vigilant; and why so? |
A53712 | But how far are they appointed thus to carry them on, thus to build them up? |
A53712 | But is their course stopped, are their Principles altered? |
A53712 | But not to mention such open Apostates any farther, whose Hypocrisie the Lord Jesus Christ will ● ● ortly judge; how is it with the best? |
A53712 | But to what end and purpose doth he write these things to them, What do they teach, what do they tend unto? |
A53712 | But what and if oppositions and temptations do lie in the way, Satan and his instruments working with great subtilty and deceit? |
A53712 | But what is the end of these things? |
A53712 | But what need we look back or search for Instances to confirm the truth of this Observation? |
A53712 | But whence is it that they so do? |
A53712 | But why then will he have any thing more to do with them? |
A53712 | Can any one traverse the various mutability of his affections? |
A53712 | Did they not call the Sabbath their delight, and was not the approach of it a real joy unto their Souls? |
A53712 | Did they not contend earnestly for the Truth once delivered to the Saints, and every parcel of it? |
A53712 | Did they not long after the converse and communion of Saints? |
A53712 | Did we ever lose any thing by drawing nigh unto him? |
A53712 | Do the secret springs of acting and refusing in the soul, lie before the eyes of any man? |
A53712 | Do they find the same sweetness and relish in them as they have done of old? |
A53712 | Do you thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? |
A53712 | Doth any one know what will be the motions of the mind or will, in such and such conjunctions of things? |
A53712 | Doth he by any means take away their lives? |
A53712 | Doth he send his Angel to cut them off, like the Army of Senacherib afterwards? |
A53712 | Doth it set upon the soul? |
A53712 | Doth the Law of the mind command any thing as duty? |
A53712 | Doth this work the effect? |
A53712 | Enquire then how it is with your souls, what do you find of this Law, what experience have you of its power and efficacy? |
A53712 | For what are the vain transitory pleasures of sin, in comparison of the exceeding recompence of reward which is proposed unto us? |
A53712 | Hast thou any spiritual duty to perform, and dost thou design the attaining of any communion with God? |
A53712 | Hath any one the perfect measure of his own light and darkness? |
A53712 | Hath he been a Wilderness unto us, or a Land of Darkness? |
A53712 | Hath he not bid us welcome at our coming? |
A53712 | Hath he not made thee, and established thee? |
A53712 | Hath it bounds fixed to its work? |
A53712 | Hath not the World, and self utterly ruined their Profession? |
A53712 | Have we not received from him more than heart can conceive, or tongue express? |
A53712 | He can knock them on the head, or break out their teeth, or chain up their wrath, and who can oppose him? |
A53712 | He is continually saying to us, Why will you die? |
A53712 | Here is the whole design and use of the Gospel briefly expressed, These things, saith he, I write unto you; what things were these? |
A53712 | How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God? |
A53712 | How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God? |
A53712 | How precious hath the Word been to them formerly? |
A53712 | How sensible of sin will they be for a season? |
A53712 | How will they cordially and heartily resolve against it? |
A53712 | How will they then mourn and weep under a sense of the guilt of it? |
A53712 | In supposition of sin, that we have sinned, is there no relief provided for our souls and consciences in the Gospel? |
A53712 | Is Christ crucified for sin, and shall not our hearts be crucified with him unto sin? |
A53712 | Is it not a little one? |
A53712 | Is it not strange that a man should not do that which he chuseth, willeth, liketh, delighteth in? |
A53712 | Is not he the Fountain and Spring of all our mercies, of all our desirable things? |
A53712 | Is not he thy Father that bought thee? |
A53712 | Is the Understanding or the Mind to be applyed unto any thing? |
A53712 | Is the Will to be engaged, there it is also in spiritual deadness, stubborness, and the roots of obstinacy? |
A53712 | Is their Zeal for God as warm, living, vigorous, effectual, solicitous, as it was in their first giving themselves unto God? |
A53712 | Is there any thing more required to enable us unto that which is good? |
A53712 | Is there the same conscientious tenderness of sinning abiding in many as was in dayes of old? |
A53712 | Is this a requital for Eternal Love, and all the fruits of it? |
A53712 | It is weary before it begins, and says, when will the work be over? |
A53712 | May it not be said, Gray hairs are here and there upon them, and they perceive it not? |
A53712 | May not the same duty performed in publick, or in the Family suffice? |
A53712 | Nay, hath not therein lyen all the rest and peace which we have obtained? |
A53712 | Now is there no difficulty to get the mind into such a frame, as to lay out it self to the utmost in this work? |
A53712 | Now what can be worse than this Law of sin? |
A53712 | Now what is it to be tempted? |
A53712 | Now what is, or what are these ends? |
A53712 | Or better than Hezekiah, who appealed to God himself, that he had served him uprightly with a perfect heart? |
A53712 | Or rather, is there not a common, slight, selfish frame of spirit in the room of it come upon most Professors? |
A53712 | Rivers of water run down our eyes because men keep not thy Law? |
A53712 | Secondly, Is mens delight in the Ordinances& Worship of God the same as in former days? |
A53712 | Shall we give entertainment unto that, or hearken unto its dalliances, which wounded, which pierced, which slew our dear Lord Jesus? |
A53712 | Such a suiting of objects, such a pretension of reasonings, such an appearance of things desirable? |
A53712 | The same love to the brethren? |
A53712 | They answer by Peter, Lord, to whom shall we go, thou hast the words of eternal life? |
A53712 | This is the humble frame of soul ▪ and how is this obtained? |
A53712 | This way, this course of walking, doth well enough with others, why may it not do so with us also? |
A53712 | To draw out, and make use of its stores and furniture of promises and experiences? |
A53712 | Upon the urgency of his great temptation, he recoils immediately into this frame of spirit; How, saith he, can I do this thing, and sin against God? |
A53712 | Was it not of old a burthen to their spirits to hear the Name, and wayes, and Worship of God blasphemed and profaned? |
A53712 | Was then that which is good( that is, the Law) made death unto me? |
A53712 | Were not their souls solicitous about the Interest of Christ in the World, like Eli''s about the Ark? |
A53712 | Wha ● need we be all out so strict in the observation of the Sabbath? |
A53712 | What ails then our foolish and wretched hearts, to harbour such a cursed secret dislike of him and his ways? |
A53712 | What course doth God now take to obviate their conceived sin? |
A53712 | What have we found in God in any of our approaches or addresses unto him, that it should be thus with us? |
A53712 | What iniquity have we found in him? |
A53712 | What is the reason of this? |
A53712 | What joy and delight have they had in attendance thereon? |
A53712 | What need this distinction in hearing? |
A53712 | What need we hear so often? |
A53712 | What now is the genuine tendency of this doctrine, of this discovery of grace, and what ought we to use it and improve it unto? |
A53712 | What now shall hinder them from doing what ever they have imagined to do? |
A53712 | What profit is it, say they, if we slay our Brother and conceal his blood? |
A53712 | What shall we say then, shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? |
A53712 | What spiritual wisdom do you stand in need of? |
A53712 | What strivings, struglings, and pleadings are there in the heart about them, especially against the spirituality of them? |
A53712 | What supplies of Grace, what assistance of the Holy Ghost will be hence also discovered? |
A53712 | What then shall be done in this case? |
A53712 | What use then ought we to make of this contemplation of the excellent unspeakable love of God? |
A53712 | Whence is it that men follow and pursue the world with so much greediness, that they neglect Heaven, and life, and immorrality for it every day? |
A53712 | Whence is it that some pursue their sensuality with delight, they will drink, and revel, and have their sports, let others say what they please? |
A53712 | Whence then is it that they do not all flourish and thrive accordingly? |
A53712 | Who can mention the treacheries and deceits that lie in the heart of man? |
A53712 | Why doth it oppose duty, so that the good we would do, we do not, either as to matter or manner? |
A53712 | Why doth it render the soul carnal, indisposed, unbelieving, unspiritual, weary, wandring? |
A53712 | Would you live as though there were no need of the Gospel? |
A53712 | Yea, are not men ready to say with them of old, What a weariness is it? |
A53712 | Yea, are not some come partly on one pretense, partly on another, to an open enmity unto, and hatred of the wayes of God? |
A53712 | Yea, do not many despise all these things, and look upon their own former Zeal, as folly? |
A53712 | You will say then, what shall we do, or how shall we observe this duty? |
A53712 | and are they not regardless of the things wherein they have formerly declared a singular concernment? |
A53712 | and could they not undergo manifold perils for the attainment of it? |
A53712 | are not almost all men grown cold and slack as to these things? |
A53712 | are there not decays and declensions to be found amongst them? |
A53712 | are they not grown weary, selfish in their Religion, and so things be indifferent well at home, scarce care how thy go abroad in the world? |
A53712 | are they not less concerned in them than formerly? |
A53712 | as though pardon of sin were to no purpose? |
A53712 | doth he bring a flood upon them to destroy them, as in the old world sometime before? |
A53712 | doth it carry them so far, and then leave them? |
A53712 | doth it severely rise up against any thing that is evil? |
A53712 | for the love and care of a Father, of a Redeemer, that we have been made partakers of? |
A53712 | have they grown, and made improvement in it? |
A53712 | how is this preserved? |
A53712 | how should we loath all its proposals, and say unto them, Get ye hence as an abominable thing? |
A53712 | or is there not a coldness and indifferency grown upon the spirits of many in this thing? |
A53712 | the same exact performance of private duties? |
A53712 | the same humility of mind and spirit? |
A53712 | the same readiness for the Cross? |
A53712 | the same self- denial? |
A53712 | to be clear, steady, and constant in its duty? |
A53712 | what humiliation, what self- abasement, what intensness in prayer, what diligence, what watchfulness doth this call for at your hands? |
A53712 | when God judged them for their sins and wantonness? |
A53712 | whose Habitation would not be ruined? |
A53712 | whose blood almost would not be shed, if wicked Men had power to perpetrate all their conceived sin? |
A53712 | why will you wither and decay? |
A49252 | 15. says the Apostle, shall I take the Members of Christ, and make them Members of an harlot? |
A49252 | 16. it is said there that a wise man feareth and departeth from evill, a wise man is jealous over his own heart, what followes? |
A49252 | 2. Who is the Lord( sayes he) that I should obey his voice? |
A49252 | 21. sayes Elijah the Prophet to the people, How long will you halt between two opinions? |
A49252 | 3. Who is that God( sayes hee) that shall deliver you out of my hands? |
A49252 | 3. it is said there, that for a long time Israel was without the true God; without God, how so? |
A49252 | A confident Challenge, in which he outbraveth Death, and all the powers of the Grave, O Death, where is thy sting? |
A49252 | And again, it argueth little judgement and consideration; Wherein is this life valuable? |
A49252 | And doest thou make no conscience of performing the vowes and covenants thou hast made with God? |
A49252 | And now what a dismall Text have I here to handle, and what a doleful tragedy am I now to act? |
A49252 | And there shall come in the last dayes scoffers, walking after their own lusts, saying, Where is the promise of his coming? |
A49252 | And therefore( beloved) I beseech you look to it, and examine your selves; is not God undervalued sometimes, when your lusts are set in the throne? |
A49252 | Are they atheists that doe neglect the duty of prayer? |
A49252 | Are they atheists that live a disorderly life, and walk in a course of wickednesse all their dayes? |
A49252 | Are you contentedly ignorant of Christ, and care not to know more? |
A49252 | Are you such men as are without the spirit of Christ? |
A49252 | Are you without Christ? |
A49252 | Are you without a hearing ear, and an obedient heart to the Word of Christ? |
A49252 | Are you without an unfeigned love to the person of Christ, or without a true and saving knowledg of Christ? |
A49252 | Art thou a luke warm and indifferent man in matters of Religion? |
A49252 | Art thou now in Christ? |
A49252 | Art thou tempted to Atheisme? |
A49252 | As it is with a man asleep in a ship, the ship may bring him home safe to the harbour, and yet he not know of it? |
A49252 | But here me thinks I hear some kind of people ready to object against me, and say, What, doe you go about to beat us off from our hopes of heaven? |
A49252 | But here some may object and say; What doe you tell us here in England, that wee are without God in the world? |
A49252 | But then again why is their being aliens to the commonwealth of Israel put in the second place? |
A49252 | Can we beleeve there is a heaven so excellent and glorious, and yet shun it? |
A49252 | Christ is full of grace and truth, Why? |
A49252 | Christ says to Saul; Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A49252 | Did you ever make a powerfull prayer unto God for him? |
A49252 | Did you ever see your misery without him? |
A49252 | Did you ever sigh, and sob, and cry mightily unto God for him? |
A49252 | Do you take greater industry, and complacency in the committing of sin, then ever you did in the performance of any holy duty? |
A49252 | Do you think that Christ fel from heaven, into your bosome whether you would or no? |
A49252 | Doe you labour still to resemble God in holinesse? |
A49252 | Doe you labour to be holy as hee was holy? |
A49252 | Doe you look on things after the outward appearance? |
A49252 | Does thy conscience never trouble thee after the commission of sinnes? |
A49252 | Doest thou any of these wayes entertain and harbour thoughts of Atheisme in thy heart? |
A49252 | Doest thou make impunity to be a provocation to impiety? |
A49252 | Doest thou place thy affections upon any thing in the world more then upon God? |
A49252 | Doest thou professe to know God, and in thy works deny him? |
A49252 | For the order of the words, Why is their being without Christ put in the first place of the Text, and their being without God put in the last place? |
A49252 | He judged the cause of the poore and needy, then it was well with him; was not this to know me, saith the Lord? |
A49252 | He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings; does not thy conscience tell thee O man, that thou dost not care for any command of Jesus Christ? |
A49252 | How came you by Christ then? |
A49252 | How doth God know? |
A49252 | How many are there that can say, they never goe to God upon their knees in secret, to beg for grace and mercy from God? |
A49252 | I am thy God all sufficient,( what then?) |
A49252 | If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passed away, and all things are become new; are you new creatures? |
A49252 | If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous doe? |
A49252 | Is hatred and contempt of the people of God, a badge of an atheist? |
A49252 | Let me ask you this question, Did you ever see an absolute necessity in your own souls, of getting an interest in Jesus Christ? |
A49252 | Let me ask you this question, How can you evidence that you have an interest in Christ, by your walking? |
A49252 | Now this being the case of every man, what shall we do? |
A49252 | O Grave, where is thy victory? |
A49252 | O Grave, where is thy victory? |
A49252 | O Grave, where is thy victory? |
A49252 | Or do you backslide from the wayes of Christ both in judgement, and in practise? |
A49252 | Sayes the young man to Christ, What shall I doe to inherit eternall life? |
A49252 | The High Priest was not upon pain of death to come to the Mercy- seat, unlesse he brought incense with him; now what does this signifie to us? |
A49252 | The strength of sin is the Law] How is that to be understood? |
A49252 | This challenge is illustrated by a Prolepsis or an Anticipation of an objection: some might ask, What is this sting of Death? |
A49252 | Thou that sayest thou hast an interest in Christ, let me ask you this question, How came you by your interest in Christ? |
A49252 | Though you do not do man wrong, yet doe you not your own souls wrong? |
A49252 | Though you pay every man his own, yet do you give God his own? |
A49252 | What are the characters of those men that are without any reall interest and propriety in God as their God, in a way of Covenant and relation? |
A49252 | What benefit will it be to thee, that you do no body else wrong, when you doe your own souls wrong? |
A49252 | What do you see in the world, or in the present life to make you in love with it? |
A49252 | What is it to be a stranger to the Covenants of Promise? |
A49252 | What is meant by the Covenants of Promise? |
A49252 | What is the difference between a covenant and a promise? |
A49252 | What is the difference between the Covenants and the Promise? |
A49252 | What is the meaning of this, the body is dead because of sinne? |
A49252 | What is this power of the Grave? |
A49252 | Why is it called the covenants of promise? |
A49252 | and beg the Father earnestly for him? |
A49252 | and doest thou carry in thy minde a forgetfulnesse of the day of Judgement? |
A49252 | and how shall we extricate our souls from such a labyrinth of endlesse horrour? |
A49252 | and humble, and meeke, and lowly as hee was? |
A49252 | are all your old sins passed away? |
A49252 | are such as these atheists? |
A49252 | are you not weary of misery and sin? |
A49252 | can he judge through the thick clouds? |
A49252 | can we hope for such an* incorruptible inheritance, and yet be afraid of it? |
A49252 | can you evidence it to your own souls, that ever since you were first born, you were new born? |
A49252 | do we count it a priviledge, or a misery, and a burden? |
A49252 | doth not God rule and governe and preserve the World? |
A49252 | hath God written the Sermons you have heard, not in your books, but in your hearts? |
A49252 | have you a promise or any ground in scripture for your hopes? |
A49252 | have you been ever washed with clean water, and those stains of sin and corruption wiped away from you? |
A49252 | how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? |
A49252 | is not God sometimes very low in your estimation, and other things set above him? |
A49252 | mark the next words) and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? |
A49252 | or are you obstinately ignorant, and wil not learn more? |
A49252 | or are you without a saving power derived from Christ, enabling you to mortifie your bosome lusts? |
A49252 | or doest thou distrust the providence of God in times of trouble and distresse? |
A49252 | or dost thou make no conscience of the performance of secret duties? |
A49252 | or one Scripture ground for it? |
A49252 | or rather do you not wrong God, and do him infinite indignities? |
A49252 | or the witnesse of the Spirit for it? |
A49252 | that in simplicity and godly sincerity, you have had your conversation here in this world? |
A49252 | that we shall enter upon it too soon? |
A49252 | thou wilt not forsake thy lusts, nor leave thy sins, and therefore what hast thou to do to meddle with my covenant of grace? |
A49252 | to be in the Armes of our beloved Jesus? |
A49252 | to fear an enemy so often vanquished by Christ and his Saints? |
A49252 | to have the company of the body, or the company of Christ? |
A49252 | what Prince would live uncrowned? |
A49252 | what heir would whine when hee is called to come and take the inheritance? |
A49252 | what thoughts have we of eternall life? |
A49252 | would you bereave us of our hopes and drive us into despair? |
A44699 | 5. with characters exactly corresponding to these of the Prophet) even the sure mercies of David? |
A44699 | Among these, what can be more clear and certain than this, that we have our hearts much set upon it? |
A44699 | And Secondly, How congruous and agreeable would this supposition prove to the Goodness of God? |
A44699 | And again, Is it not as good to be nothing, as to be, and do nothing? |
A44699 | And can we endure to live according to the former? |
A44699 | And do not our hearts then misgive? |
A44699 | And how unjust, to determine and inflict severe penalties for unavoidable and necessitated actions and omissions? |
A44699 | And if they see a nature extinct, capable of their state, what might they suspect of their own? |
A44699 | And is it agreeable to the goodness of God to put such a nature into any, and with- hold the suitable object? |
A44699 | And is not the love of God a higher natural Law than that of the body? |
A44699 | And is this indeed our case? |
A44699 | And let us but impartially debate the matter with our selves: Can we, in sober reason, think we were made only for such Ends as the most only pursue? |
A44699 | And shall the matter be thus given up as hopeless? |
A44699 | And that our Maker had overshot himself, and been guilty of an oversight, in giving us such a being? |
A44699 | And to what purpose was this so special Revelation by vision, if it were not to be understood truly, at least, if not yet perfectly and fully? |
A44699 | And what ingenuity would not blush to be guilty of it? |
A44699 | And what is the world the better? |
A44699 | And what then have we to do, but set our selves to our preparatory work? |
A44699 | And what? |
A44699 | And who can acquit himself of the one or the other, that lives not in some measure agreeably to the expectation of somewhat beyond this present life? |
A44699 | And who can think this a thing worthy of infinite and eternal Goodness? |
A44699 | And who, that hath open eyes, beholds not the dreadful instances and increase of this difection? |
A44699 | And ● re not our souls and our bodies( though united, yet) distinct things? |
A44699 | And 〈 ◊ 〉, Is not every thing 〈 … 〉? |
A44699 | And( a little to discuss this matter) what would we have to assure us? |
A44699 | Are those things great in their eyes, that are so in ours? |
A44699 | Are we more nearly 〈 ◊ 〉 to a piece of C ● ● y ▪ 〈 ◊ 〉 to the Father of our spirits? |
A44699 | As if we were impertinencies in the Creation, and had no proper business in it? |
A44699 | As if( with a loud and violent cry) they would assassinate and stifle this belief and hope, but not judg it? |
A44699 | As though our Creation had been a misadventure, a thing that would not have been done, had it been better thought on? |
A44699 | As, How contemptuously should we look upon that empty vanity of being rich? |
A44699 | But dare we not venture a little farther? |
A44699 | But how absurd were it so to treat the other Creatures, that act by a necessity of Nature in all they do? |
A44699 | But how little doth it signifie? |
A44699 | But how little would it agree with this design of the Divine Wisdom, to have made man only for this temporary state? |
A44699 | But if they do not justifie themselves, to what purpose is it further to press them with absurdities, that persist in constant self- contradiction? |
A44699 | But is there no way to get out of this unhappy Circle? |
A44699 | But what so great change as this can the nature of man admit? |
A44699 | But why not rather of the Universe? |
A44699 | Can we be happy in him whom we do not love? |
A44699 | Could so vast a sect be without an Head or Master, known and celebrated among men? |
A44699 | Do not we know this is the time and state of preparation? |
A44699 | Do we expect a vision or a voice? |
A44699 | Especially being increased and confirmed by its consciousness and sense of guilt? |
A44699 | For how highly justifiable and becoming is it, that we principally mind the state and things we were made for? |
A44699 | For is it so grateful a thing to observe the confused scramble and hurry of the world? |
A44699 | For upon the whole, let but the case be thus put: Is it not as good to do nothing, as to be busie to no purpose? |
A44699 | For what Tenet was ever more exploded and hooted at, than that practice is which alone agrees with this? |
A44699 | For what else is left us, since in our present state we behold nothing but vanity? |
A44699 | For who that is not so, if he only take notice of his own being, may not as certainly conclude the existence of a God, as that two and two make four? |
A44699 | Have we any pretence to think so? |
A44699 | How befitting is it to pass by all things with neglect, and betake our selves hither with this sense? |
A44699 | How can these but make it banish it self, and in a sullen enmity and despair perp ● tually fl ● e the Divine Presence? |
A44699 | How coldly and carelesly should we pursue; how unconcern''dly should we lose any thing that might intitle us to that Name? |
A44699 | How faint and languid would endeavours be after the knowledg of that God, whom I may but only know, and dye? |
A44699 | How is it courted and solicited and sued unto? |
A44699 | If the question were put, Wherefore did God make man? |
A44699 | If they do, how fatally are all things inverted in their depraved minds? |
A44699 | If we have not seen what the state of things is in the other world, are we not told? |
A44699 | Is it so much worth the while to live, to see a few more persons bow the knee? |
A44699 | Is this a likely way to procure love, and to captivate hearts into an affectionate and free obedience? |
A44699 | Less plausible Opinions find some Owner; Why is it not said, Who was the first Broacher of this? |
A44699 | May we not then be ashamed that they should discern our terrene dispositions? |
A44699 | Not in degree: for who sees not that the nature of man is capable of greater things than he here enjoys? |
A44699 | Now who can think the satisfying of these lusts the commensurate end of man? |
A44699 | Of how little use are the Politician, the States- man, the Senator, the Judg, or the Eloquent man? |
A44699 | Or can it enter into our souls to believe it? |
A44699 | Or how can we bear it, to live as if we came into the world by chance? |
A44699 | Or how little is the gain when the labour and travel of so many years is all vanished and blown away with the last puff of his dying- breath? |
A44699 | Or how should we savour the notion of an impure Deity taking pleasure to indulge the wickedness of men? |
A44699 | Or to have it written in their foreheads, These are the only ends they are capable of? |
A44699 | Or what imagination can be too absurd to have place in that mind that can imagine this Creation to be a casualty? |
A44699 | Or would not some or other of his proselyted disciples have preserved his name and memory, and transmitted them to posterity? |
A44699 | Ought the love of God to do nothing? |
A44699 | Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? |
A44699 | Since the blessed God himself is to be considered as the principal Agent and Designer in this enquiry[ Why hast thou made all men in vain?] |
A44699 | Such a Creature made to no purpose? |
A44699 | That have so little of solid and substantial beeing? |
A44699 | The noblest part of this inferior Creation brought forth into being without any imaginable design? |
A44699 | Therefore let us consider; Are we conscious of no unfitn ● ss for that blessed state? |
A44699 | To be associated with the H ● av ● nly Assembly of pure intellectual spirits? |
A44699 | To consort and joyn with them in their celebrations and triumphant Songs? |
A44699 | To dwell in the presence of the holy God? |
A44699 | To employ our utmost care to live, but to live for we know not what? |
A44699 | To extend power a little further? |
A44699 | To make another essay what pleasure sense can tast in some or other hitherto unexperimented Rarity? |
A44699 | To what purpose was it for him to live in the world a few years, upon this account only, and so go down to the place of silence? |
A44699 | Was it only for the hoped prosperity of his House and Family when he was gone? |
A44699 | What am I to pitch upon as my proper End? |
A44699 | What are we doing? |
A44699 | What can in this case be more natural to it, than to give up it self to eternal solitary wandrings, as a Fugitive from God? |
A44699 | What can more become us, if we reckon we have somewhat about us made for immortality, than to bestow our chief care upon that immortal part? |
A44699 | What censures, may we think, do they pass upon our follies? |
A44699 | What eye would not soon spy out the grosness of this absurdity? |
A44699 | What hovering shadows, what uncertain Entities are they? |
A44699 | What import or signification is there in this course, of a design for futurity? |
A44699 | What ingenuous persons would not blush to be always in the posture of an useless hang- by? |
A44699 | What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? |
A44699 | What matter were it what became of the world, whether it be wise or foolish, rich or poor, quiet or unquiet, govern''d or ungovern''d? |
A44699 | What more peculiar gusto this or that thing will afford? |
A44699 | What serious person? |
A44699 | What? |
A44699 | Who else can be the Author of so common a perswasion? |
A44699 | Who would not rather bless himself in a( more rational) neglect, and regardlesness of all humane affairs? |
A44699 | Who would not, upon the supposition of no higher, say with the Psalmist, Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? |
A44699 | Why hast thou brought forth into the light of this world such a sort of Creatures, that rather seem to be, than are? |
A44699 | Why have they the power of thinking? |
A44699 | Why is there so unaccountable a Phoenomenon? |
A44699 | With what solemnity are applications and addresses made to the Will of man upon all occasions? |
A44699 | Would he not have own''d it, and glory''d in it? |
A44699 | Would not men be ashamed to profess such a belief? |
A44699 | Would we not blush to profess it for a Principle, That there is nothing real that exceeds the sphere of our sense? |
A44699 | and account an unconcerned indifferency the highest wisdom? |
A44699 | and how are we concerned to lose no more time? |
A44699 | and not by the reason of men, but their lusts only? |
A44699 | and obliged to 〈 … 〉 there, rather than 〈 … 〉 in ● ● rior thing( at least) ● ow n ● ● rly soever united? |
A44699 | and see us come, so unwillingly, into their con ● ort, and happy state? |
A44699 | and so little deserve to be taken for realities? |
A44699 | and tell us we are unready? |
A44699 | and that too without trial or hearing? |
A44699 | and the fruit that remains, is to have it said by those that survive, There lies learned dust? |
A44699 | and the violation of whatsoever is Sacred, the most effectual propitiation? |
A44699 | and try the other Dish? |
A44699 | and which he hath made it desire, and therein encouraged it to expect? |
A44699 | given him such a mock- beeing? |
A44699 | he hath nothing to say? |
A44699 | not yet prepared to approach the Divine Presence, or to enter into the habitation of his Holiness and Glory? |
A44699 | or acknowledg him for a God whom they hope to over- power, and to prosper in a War against him? |
A44699 | or are we not to try our selves; and search for such characters in our own souls, as may distinguish and note us out for Heaven? |
A44699 | or even to recover such out of their lapses, and drowsie fits, that are not altogether so? |
A44699 | or love whom we will not know or be acquainted with? |
A44699 | or rather by mistake? |
A44699 | or signifie nothing to the inclining our mind ● to the so unspeakably better part? |
A44699 | or that have not so much left them of rational sensation, as to feel in their own minds the pressure of the very greatest absurdity? |
A44699 | or the next year than this? |
A44699 | or think of stealing a passage to Heaven in the dark? |
A44699 | or to be procured by affronts? |
A44699 | or to be the subject of any rational design or care? |
A44699 | or to renew the same relishes over again? |
A44699 | shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? |
A44699 | since there can be no pretence of any such 〈 ◊ 〉 union, than o ● a thing with it self? |
A44699 | that he should come into the world furnisht with such powers and endowments for this? |
A44699 | that if he be asked, Sir, what''s your business here? |
A44699 | that only serve to cheat one another into an opinion of their true existence, and presently vanish and confess their falshood? |
A44699 | then, what have we been doing all this while? |
A44699 | to affect to be ever enwrapt in its own darkness, and hidden from his sight, and be an everlasting tormentor to it self? |
A44699 | to be still hanging on, where he hath nothing to do? |
A44699 | to make supplications to the Wind, or propound articles to a Brute? |
A44699 | to whom contempt were a sacrifice? |
A44683 | ( How much more might it be said of all its inward parts?) |
A44683 | An enquiry whether it be possible the Creature can be actually infinite? |
A44683 | An& mundum fecit,& in mundo homines ut ab hominibus coleretur? |
A44683 | And I may add, when those appear but points, in comparison of his so much vaster work, how plainly doth that also argue to us the same thing? |
A44683 | And are not the Atheists Cavils as despicably silly against the Deity, and( consequently) Religion? |
A44683 | And as concerning the name, who made them dictators to all the world? |
A44683 | And besides, is that power somewhat or nothing? |
A44683 | And bethink our selves: But how came he to exist and be what he is? |
A44683 | And consequently that it is simply the most perfect? |
A44683 | And converse with that his creature sutably to the way wherein he hath made it capable of his converse? |
A44683 | And for the former, I would enquire; Is amplitude of essence no perfection? |
A44683 | And having done so, why might they not keep together? |
A44683 | And his power over me, and his goodness to me, are hereby supposed the same, which the only one God, truly hath and exerciseth towards all? |
A44683 | And how do we think to descry that, here, which may answer this common notion we have of a man? |
A44683 | And how grateful herein, and meritorious often are the assistent railleries of servile( and it may be mercenary) wits? |
A44683 | And however, wherein do we find a flame of fire more rational than a piece of ice? |
A44683 | And if none of these can be supposed; what doth their association signifie towards ratiocination? |
A44683 | And if one should give this account of the production of such a trifle, would he not be thought in jest? |
A44683 | And if some power be some being, what then is infinite power, is not that infinite being? |
A44683 | And if such means as these that have been mentioned should be thought necessary, I would ask, are they necessary to every individval person? |
A44683 | And if this were barely possible, how little doth that signifie? |
A44683 | And in another way than that of generation, how will any go about to make a soul? |
A44683 | And is he not perfectly blind, that sees not what violence is done to free reason in this matter? |
A44683 | And is not that capacity of the soul of man a real something? |
A44683 | And is the want of that the total sum of the Atheists misery at this hour? |
A44683 | And is there any comparison between that temporary transient occasional, and this steady permanent and universal discovery of God? |
A44683 | And no real Being is supposed besides? |
A44683 | And since many, we are sure, have thought and spoken unworthily of God, besides Epicureans, are all these to go into the account of Atheists? |
A44683 | And since they are suppos''d to be so much alike, how are the Mathematical Atoms to be distinguished from the Moral? |
A44683 | And suppose they had the free grant of all the matter between the crown of their head and the Moon, could they tell what to do with it? |
A44683 | And that all mankind, besides themselves, were enslaved fools? |
A44683 | And the disposing this great variety of particular Beings in it, into so exact and elegant an order? |
A44683 | And the sustaining and preserving it in the same state through so many ages? |
A44683 | And then how is it all things, when so great a number of things will be left excluded? |
A44683 | And then it being, however, still, but somewhat that is created or made, how can its Maker but be infinite? |
A44683 | And then to what purpose doth the discovery and acknowledgment of the Deity serve? |
A44683 | And then what rational inducement is wanting to Religion and the Dedication of a Temple? |
A44683 | And therefore by parity of reasons, why should not infinite being exclude finite?] |
A44683 | And what Miracles did he ever work to confirm the truth of his Doctrine in this matter? |
A44683 | And what doth most simple infiniteness import, but to have nothing for a boundary, or( which is the same) not to be bounded at all? |
A44683 | And what have Atheists whereof to glory? |
A44683 | And what if some one pair or other of these parts had been universally wanting? |
A44683 | And what if the composure of the body be so apt and useful, so excellent in its own kind; Is it so in every kind, or to all imaginable purposes? |
A44683 | And what if there be divers of them together? |
A44683 | And what is the capacity but a power that should sometime be reduced into act, and arrive to the exercise of reason it self? |
A44683 | And what is[ infinite,] but[ that which can never be travell''d through] or whereof no end can be ever arriv''d unto? |
A44683 | And what mortal man that hath reason enough about him to be serious, and to think a while, would not even be amaz''d at the Miracle of Nutrition? |
A44683 | And what other way can be devised? |
A44683 | And what place is there for complaint of inevidence in the latter? |
A44683 | And what shall they be? |
A44683 | And what should be the worshiper when our souls are thought the same thing with what should be the object of our worship? |
A44683 | And what should their reward be, when the natural tendency of their undertaking is to exclude themselves from the expectation of any in another world? |
A44683 | And what then, if we Jay aside that supposition( which only somewhat gratifies fancy and imagination) doth that alter the case? |
A44683 | And what then? |
A44683 | And what will they expect in this from them whose Temples and Altars they go about to subvert? |
A44683 | And what, doth it seem likely then that infinite being and power can therefore do just nothing? |
A44683 | And when they have fancied these to exist, is not that a mighty proof that they indeed do so? |
A44683 | And where is that Revelation? |
A44683 | And where is the flaw? |
A44683 | And whether there be not an incomparably greater number of most wild and arbitrary suppositions, in their fiction, than in this? |
A44683 | And who can number the instances that might be given besides? |
A44683 | And who was, therefore ever heard of, that did not acknowledge some or other infinite? |
A44683 | And who would not wish to live? |
A44683 | And why may not this be thought supposable? |
A44683 | And why must we so difference the object of omnisciency and omnipotency? |
A44683 | And why should not that be understood to signifie the knowledge of simply all things; as well as this the power of doing simply all things? |
A44683 | And will not that be the case if we suppose future contingencies to lie conceal''d from the penetrating eye of God? |
A44683 | And with as little prejudice to his felicity? |
A44683 | And, first, for the universality of it, why may we not suppose it already sufficiently universal? |
A44683 | Are they not to use their very senses about the matters of Religion? |
A44683 | Are we hence to expect Oracles, philosophical Determinations? |
A44683 | Are we not here infinitely out- done? |
A44683 | Are we yet any nearer our purpose? |
A44683 | Art thou not wishing thy self and all things into nothing? |
A44683 | As for instance, how comes it to pass that the several parts which we find to be double in our bodies, are not single only? |
A44683 | At quid Deo cultus hominum confert, beato,& nulla re indigenti? |
A44683 | At quomodo in his loquitur? |
A44683 | But besides, and more generally what proportion is there between a thought, and the motion of an Atom? |
A44683 | But by what right do they affix such an Idea to their petite and fictitious Deities? |
A44683 | But can that which is nothing do any thing? |
A44683 | But can you ever prove the Maker of the world had so? |
A44683 | But do we need to insist that all the rest of the world acknowledged no Gods, whom they did not also worship? |
A44683 | But here it may be demanded, is every misapprehension of God to be understood as a denial of his Being? |
A44683 | But how can every one have one before it? |
A44683 | But how shall they argue so, who while they acknowledge a God, deny man to be his creature? |
A44683 | But how wild an imagination were that of a finite being that were of infinite power? |
A44683 | But however I would demand of such as make this exception, whether they think there be any effect at all, to which a designing cause was necessary? |
A44683 | But if he persist and solemnly profess that thus he takes it to have been, would he not be thought in good earnest mad? |
A44683 | But if it be denied, what shall the pretence be? |
A44683 | But if it be not known, how can they tell but their distinguishing members are co- incident, and run into one? |
A44683 | But is it necessary this course shall be taken to make the world know there is a God? |
A44683 | But is plainly denied to be from him, whose being they would argue from it? |
A44683 | But shall it be said, he must in order to the creating such another world, locally move thither where he designs it? |
A44683 | But that because a straw lies in my way, I would attempt to overturn heaven and earth, what raging phrensie is this? |
A44683 | But there is nothing in matters of this nature, more strange than in the structure of the leg of a Flea? |
A44683 | But to regress a little, fain I would know what is this thing they call nature? |
A44683 | But what can our reason either direct, or endure, that we should so uncongruously misplace so magnificent attributes as these? |
A44683 | But what cause can( or ever did) he or his followers assign of God? |
A44683 | But what, his power without his being? |
A44683 | But what, therefore, is power the less for being infinite? |
A44683 | But what? |
A44683 | But what? |
A44683 | But why do they the more conveniently associate upon that account for this purpose? |
A44683 | But would strange and wonderful effects that might surprise and amaze you do the business? |
A44683 | But would we ever regard what they say whom we believe to speak by chance? |
A44683 | But yet, may not much be attributed to the convenient and well fenced cavity of the brains receptacle, or the more secret chambers within that? |
A44683 | By what art would they make a seed? |
A44683 | By what power, or by what art will they make a reasonable soul spring up out of nothing? |
A44683 | Can Subjects, remote from their Prince, sufficiently be assured of his existence? |
A44683 | Can we be sure there are men on earth? |
A44683 | Concerning which soul afterwards enquiring whether all ought not to account it God? |
A44683 | Did that cause other things to be? |
A44683 | Did this intelligent nature proceed from an unintelligent, as the whole and only cause of it? |
A44683 | Do these small threds sentire? |
A44683 | Do they need to be pent in? |
A44683 | Do they think it an easie enterprize? |
A44683 | Doth it signifie any thing, or is it of any value to the purpose for which it is alledg''d? |
A44683 | Doth this cause stand and fall with you? |
A44683 | Doth this temper so much befriend the exercise of Reason? |
A44683 | Either by detracting somewhat that belongs to it, or attributing somewhat that belongs not? |
A44683 | For hath every soul that hath ever existed or been in being been produced in this way by another? |
A44683 | For how impossible is it to be sure we have no untrue conception of a Being so infinitely, by our own confession, above all our thoughts? |
A44683 | For if there be no God, what am I? |
A44683 | For is it a necessary being? |
A44683 | For of what pre- existent substance are they made? |
A44683 | For since our knowledge of God ought chiefly to respect him in that forementioned relative consideration, and the enquiry what is God? |
A44683 | For taking notice of the existence of any thing whatsoever, some reason must be assignable, whence it is that this particular Being doth exist? |
A44683 | For then how can there be any finite? |
A44683 | For then there will be one without the compass of every one, And how is it then said to be every one? |
A44683 | For was the contrivance of these machines theirs? |
A44683 | For what can be at a greater, than that which is necessarily? |
A44683 | For what can be plainer than that, if all being sometime was not, and now some being is, every thing of being had a beginning? |
A44683 | For what can be the undertakers hope, either of success or reward? |
A44683 | For what can the pretence of evidence be in the former assertion? |
A44683 | For what can this signifie? |
A44683 | For what do they find here that can thus beyond all expectation improve them to so high an excellency? |
A44683 | For what else is left us to say or think? |
A44683 | For what is there to be said for their hypothesis, or against the existence of God, and the duness of Religion? |
A44683 | For what ways of proving it can be thought of, which the supposition it self doth not forbid, and reject? |
A44683 | For whence should it receive any accession to it self when it is supposed equally independent upon its fellows, as any of them upon it? |
A44683 | For which way would they go to work? |
A44683 | For who did ever, in that case, say the parents were the productive causes of that learning? |
A44683 | For who fees not that it is a matter of no greater difficulto converse with, than to make a reasonable creature? |
A44683 | For why will they acknowledge any necessary Being at all, that was ever of it self? |
A44683 | For, if it be said having nothing else to communicate, they communicate themselves, but what is that self? |
A44683 | For, since there can be no Wisdom, Power, or Goodness, which is not either original and self- essentiate, or derived and participated from thence? |
A44683 | Frequent? |
A44683 | Had not the whole frame of man besides been in vain? |
A44683 | Have we any way, besides that discovery, which the acts and effects of reason do make of a rational or intelligent Being? |
A44683 | How are they pent in whilst in the body? |
A44683 | How are they to be rang''d when for the affirmative? |
A44683 | How far have all attempted imitations in this kind fallen short of this perfection? |
A44683 | How great a misery had it inferr''d upon mankind? |
A44683 | How little would that contribute to pious and devout converses with God, that should certainly keep mens minds in a continual commotion and hurry? |
A44683 | How most commodiously all things are ordered in it? |
A44683 | How much greater and more absolute is the right which the parentage of our whole being challenges? |
A44683 | How should we even over- do the present business? |
A44683 | How were these thoughts in his mind? |
A44683 | How will they prove their Idea true? |
A44683 | I ask then, but can he not at the same time create thousands of worlds at any distance from this round about it? |
A44683 | I would here enquire why do you so pronounce? |
A44683 | If all that I am and have be from him, I can not surely owe to him less than all? |
A44683 | If every one could bring somewhat to a common stock, that might be serviceable to that purpose; how shall each ones proportion or share be imparted? |
A44683 | If so, whom can we undertake to assoil of Atheism? |
A44683 | If there be such advantage, why can it not be understood? |
A44683 | If they had taken one of these, to be their alone Creator, how much greater had their veneration and their homage been? |
A44683 | If this bespeak not an intelligent Agent, what doth? |
A44683 | If we consider the joynt encouragement that arises from so unlimited power and goodness? |
A44683 | If yea, whence came this impression, but from God himself? |
A44683 | Into what can we devise to resolve it? |
A44683 | Is it a created Being? |
A44683 | Is it any intelligent principle? |
A44683 | Is it flesh, or bloud, or bones that puts this stamp upon them? |
A44683 | Is it needful they be universal? |
A44683 | Is it not because they can not otherwise for their hearts tell how it was ever possible that any thing at all could come into being? |
A44683 | Is it not plain that he can with the same facility, continue the influence which he at first gave forth? |
A44683 | Is it that we think that can be less true now which was so gloriously evident to be true four thousand years ago? |
A44683 | Is it their peculiar magnitude or size that so far ennobles them? |
A44683 | Is it to be proved by Revelation? |
A44683 | Is it to exclude a necessary self- active being? |
A44683 | Is it written or unwritten? |
A44683 | Is there therefore nothing more of existent Being than there was before this production? |
A44683 | It is then some Being, and whose Being is it but his own? |
A44683 | It may possibly be here said in short; But what have we all this while been doing? |
A44683 | Knowable? |
A44683 | Many sorts of rare engines we acknowledge contrived by the wit of man, but who hath ever made one that could grow? |
A44683 | Maxims of State? |
A44683 | May we not now hope to have a rational sort of people among them, that is, those of the peculiar family or tribe? |
A44683 | Nay, if a thousand men were askt the same question, they would as undoubtingly say the same thing? |
A44683 | Now here I would further demand, is there any thing in this reason yea or no? |
A44683 | Now if such a continual iteration of these strange things were thought necessary, would they not hereby soon cease to be strange? |
A44683 | Now was it possible any thing should give that power that had it not any way? |
A44683 | Now, that we may proceed, what can felfessentiate, underived, Power, Wisdom, Goodness be, but most perfect Power, Wisdom, Goodness? |
A44683 | Or do they expect to find men indifferent in a matter that concerns their common Practice and Hope? |
A44683 | Or from effects? |
A44683 | Or how is it to be avoided, in somewhat or other to think amiss of so unknown and incomprehensibly excellent a Being? |
A44683 | Or is it imaginable it should never have met with contradiction? |
A44683 | Or is it that we can dis- believe or doubt the truth of the History? |
A44683 | Or is it the best way of making use of what God hath revealed of himself, by whatsoever means, not to understand what he hath revealed? |
A44683 | Or no tie unto love, reverence, obedience, and adoration, because the Author of my being comprehended not in himself all perfection? |
A44683 | Or shall it be said that the infiniteness of power is no hinderance but the infiniteness of Being? |
A44683 | Or some other? |
A44683 | Or such as than which there can never be more perfect? |
A44683 | Or that any creature is so perfect as that none can be made more perfect? |
A44683 | Or was it guided by any such? |
A44683 | Or who are its vouchers? |
A44683 | Or will we adventure to be so assuming, as while we deny it to God that he knows all things, to attribute to our selves that we do? |
A44683 | Or with what right or pretence will they assume so much to themselves? |
A44683 | Or would it be thought a reasonable excuse of disloyalty, that any such persons should say they had never seen the King or his Court? |
A44683 | Quis cnim non timeat omnia providentem,& cogitantem,& animadvertentem,& omnia ad se pertinere putantem, curiosum& plenum negotii Deum? |
A44683 | So much would plainly conclude the sum of what we have been pleading for; and what can be plainer or doth require a shorter turn of thoughts? |
A44683 | So that here all will be summ''d up in this enquiry, whether Reason can agree to matter? |
A44683 | Somewhat or other there must be that when he is askt, is this the effect of skill? |
A44683 | That is to make any nourishable thing? |
A44683 | That it neither rises from nor is meer matter; whence it will be consequent it must have an efficient divers from matter? |
A44683 | That none of the pretended by- standers should disclaim the avouchment of it? |
A44683 | That the hand is divided into fingers? |
A44683 | That there is such variety and curiosity in the ways of joyning the bones together in that and other parts of the body? |
A44683 | That what can do nothing, can no more be the productive cause of another, than that which is nothing? |
A44683 | The refusal whereof, even Barbarian ingenuity would abhor, yea and brutal instinct condemn? |
A44683 | Theirs who beget them? |
A44683 | They are light, doth that mend the matter? |
A44683 | They are little, what doth that contribute? |
A44683 | They should therefore consider who gave them the understandings which they fear to use? |
A44683 | This signifies somewhat towards the keeping of state, but what doth it to the exercise of reason? |
A44683 | This therefore is our present theme, whether such things as these be capable of such, or any acts of reason yea or no? |
A44683 | This, rather than humble thy self, and beg forgiveness? |
A44683 | Upon what authority doth it rest? |
A44683 | Was all this without design? |
A44683 | We say, is it conceivable that mans knowing power should proceed from a cause that hath it not, in the same, or this more perfect kind? |
A44683 | What else but proud ignorance can hinder us from seeing that the more we know, the more there is that we know not? |
A44683 | What is this but to deny in particular what they granted in general? |
A44683 | What is this world( if we should suppose it still to subsist) without God? |
A44683 | What machine did ever man invent that had this power? |
A44683 | What so odd and uncouth composition can we form any conception of which we may not make exist at this rate? |
A44683 | What would the joy be worth in that hour, that arises from the hope of the glory to be revealed? |
A44683 | What would we think of such an appearance of God as that was upon Mount Sinai? |
A44683 | What( to instance in what seems so small a matter) if that little cover had been wanting at the entrance of that passage through which we breath? |
A44683 | What? |
A44683 | Whence it is that there are so unquestionable common notions every where received? |
A44683 | Wherefore if you ask, why can the work of making created being infinite never be done? |
A44683 | Wherefore there is no inconsistency between the infinite and finite beings? |
A44683 | Wherein then lies the great advantage these Atoms have by being in the body to their commencing rational? |
A44683 | Wherein were his Laws unequal? |
A44683 | Which though a well habited body( while the soul remains in this imprison''d state) do less hinder, yet how doth it help? |
A44683 | Who can say or think, when there can be so many sorts of creatures produced( or at least individuals of those sorts) that there can be no more? |
A44683 | Why are they in a state which they dislike? |
A44683 | Why not of omniscience as well? |
A44683 | Will we appeal to our faculties, to our reason it self? |
A44683 | Will we say such a Being, if he did actually exist, might ascertain us of his existence by some powerful impression of that truth upon our minds? |
A44683 | Will we say that meer humane shape is enough to prove such a one a man? |
A44683 | Will you say some kind of very glorious apparitions, becoming the majesty of such a one as this Being is represented, would have satisfied? |
A44683 | Would dreadful loud voices proclaiming him to be of whose existence you doubt have serv''d the turn? |
A44683 | Would it not rather have been pretended done in a corner? |
A44683 | Would they not presently, and with great amazement, confess an intelligent contriver and maker of this whole frame, above a Posidonius, or any mortal? |
A44683 | Would they not with the same impudence as you now do, say that all Religion were nothing else but Enthusiastical Fanaticism? |
A44683 | Yea, and what then? |
A44683 | Yea, but you must have pre- existent matter? |
A44683 | Yea, if he were only the entire Author of our own particular Being, how much more is that then the partial subordinate interest of an humane Parent? |
A44683 | Yea, or will tht once seeing, hearing, or feeling them suffice? |
A44683 | Yes, these are things that have( some way or other) the power of motion; and what can they effect by that? |
A44683 | Yet if that were admitted possible what will it avail? |
A44683 | Yet which of these is most subservient unto sense? |
A44683 | [ that an infinite body would exclude a finite; for where should the finite be when the infinite should fill up all space? |
A44683 | ad Pyth ● ci — Quae molitio, quae ferramenta, qui vectes, quae machinae, qui ministri tanti muneris fuerunt? |
A44683 | and ascribe the prime glory of the most excellent Being, unto that which is next to nothing? |
A44683 | and enable him sufficiently to reward it? |
A44683 | and hath such and such powers and properties belonging to it, as do occur to our notice therein? |
A44683 | and into what for another? |
A44683 | and is it only a casualty that it is not so? |
A44683 | and raze out impressions renew''d and transmitted through so many ages? |
A44683 | and say they knew of no such matter? |
A44683 | and that a few quirks of malapert wit will serve the turn to baffle the Deity into nothing? |
A44683 | and the sole judges of the propriety of words? |
A44683 | and these very notions which he opposes to each other, so as not to be confounded with his mind, and consequently with one another? |
A44683 | and to escape so unsupportable revenge? |
A44683 | and to trifle instead of giving a reason why things are so and so? |
A44683 | and unteach the world Religion? |
A44683 | and which may cut off all fear and danger of future calamity in this dark unknown state I am going into? |
A44683 | and which way would they inspire it with a seminal form? |
A44683 | and whither else will we? |
A44683 | and will have him and all things be by chance, or without dependence on any Maker? |
A44683 | are these the things that ultimately receive and discern the various impressions of objects? |
A44683 | as if our soul had no other act belonging to it, but that of willing? |
A44683 | as to make that so much narrower than this? |
A44683 | both where it is so immediately useful, or in the other things you would use for the service of that? |
A44683 | can it admit of rational demonstration? |
A44683 | could you have made such a thing as the stomach, a liver, an heart, a vein, an artery? |
A44683 | did he ever pretend to have seen any of these his vogued Gods? |
A44683 | dost thou know what thou sayest? |
A44683 | doth it because it includes it, therefore exclude it? |
A44683 | his Government grievous? |
A44683 | how for the negative? |
A44683 | into what mold or figure must it cast it self for one purpose? |
A44683 | is it a rational self? |
A44683 | is it a seed? |
A44683 | is it a thought? |
A44683 | is this altogether by chance? |
A44683 | or are they, by themselves, apart from this grosser body irrational? |
A44683 | or are we bound to to take their words for it? |
A44683 | or are you so very sure what the digestive quality is? |
A44683 | or can infinite power, even because it is infinite, do nothing? |
A44683 | or can they shew any product of humane device and wit, that shall be capable of vying with the strange powers of those machines? |
A44683 | or contribute to the sober consideration of things? |
A44683 | or did they take him for God, whom they believed to take no care of them, or from whom they expected no advantage? |
A44683 | or even defend the possibility of uncreated matter? |
A44683 | or how to manage it, so as to make it yield them one single flower, that they might glory in as their own production? |
A44683 | or if a good reason can be assigned for their difference, what shall be given for their agreement? |
A44683 | or if you are, and know what things best serve to maintain, to repair, or strengthen it, who implanted that quality? |
A44683 | or is every single Atom, that enters this composition, reason? |
A44683 | or is it a part? |
A44683 | or is it a principle of reason? |
A44683 | or is there no difference between being capable of reason and uncapable? |
A44683 | or no more than equal perfection with it self? |
A44683 | or of them as they were learned? |
A44683 | or that had in it a self- improving power? |
A44683 | or that such powers were not given on purpose for such operations? |
A44683 | or that there are things in the world capable of nourishment, or who would attempt an imitation here? |
A44683 | or was its cause only capable of intellectual perfection, but not actually furnished therewith? |
A44683 | or was the soul it self caused, and this its capacity uncaused? |
A44683 | or were the confining of this Being to the very minutest space we can imagine, no detraction from the perfection of it? |
A44683 | or what can it be understood to signifie? |
A44683 | or what is the reason of this your judgment? |
A44683 | or what is there in the properties assigned to this sort of Atoms that can bespeak it any of these? |
A44683 | or what they have not so much as thought of? |
A44683 | or when the assembly thinks fit to entertain it self with matters of this or that kind, what must be its different composure or posture? |
A44683 | or where will we fix the bounds of our censure? |
A44683 | or which they will judge impossible to have been otherwise produced than by the direction and contrivance of wisdom and counsel? |
A44683 | or who can certainly acquit himself? |
A44683 | shall I be the next hour nothing or miserable? |
A44683 | shall it be from the cause? |
A44683 | signifies, as it concerns us, what is the object of Religion? |
A44683 | so as against the rest of the world to name that God, from which they cut off the principal perfections wo nt to be signified by that name? |
A44683 | something, or nothing? |
A44683 | that is in the same kind, or in some more excellent and noble kind? |
A44683 | the Contemplative from the Active? |
A44683 | the Epicurean notion of him? |
A44683 | therefore you are as wise as your Maker? |
A44683 | those from the Political? |
A44683 | those so conveniently situate, one in so fitly opposite a posture to the rest? |
A44683 | to others, or to God himself? |
A44683 | to whom? |
A44683 | was Epicurus himself the common Oracle? |
A44683 | was that true before, which now your hard- la- boured dissent hath made false? |
A44683 | were they the Authors of this rare invention, or of any thing like it? |
A44683 | what Atoms are there to dispose to this sect more, and what to another? |
A44683 | what Joynt is not firm and strong in this little frame of discourse? |
A44683 | what business could then be followed? |
A44683 | what can an impression infer to this purpose that comes no one can tell whence or how? |
A44683 | what can be said or thought more absurd or void of sense? |
A44683 | what is lost from our cause by it? |
A44683 | what meant their Temples, and Altars, their Prayers and Sacrifices? |
A44683 | what shall be the medium? |
A44683 | what shall we suppose? |
A44683 | what should be the ground or pretence of doubt? |
A44683 | what then is his power? |
A44683 | what then, did this real something proceed from nothing? |
A44683 | when as yet he comprehended so much as to be the sole cause of all that is in me? |
A44683 | when so many things must concur that these actions might be performed by these organs, and are found to do so? |
A44683 | whence did it spring, or to what original doth it owe it self? |
A44683 | whence then came their capacity of observing, or of receiving such instruction? |
A44683 | where are my mighty demonstrations upon which one may venture? |
A44683 | where the studious Atoms may be very private and free from disturbance? |
A44683 | wherefore are they not full and satisfied? |
A44683 | who could intend the affairs of their callings? |
A44683 | who was appointed to inform the world in this matter? |
A44683 | why are not all things transposed in some minds, when such a posture of the Atoms as might infer it, is as supposable as any other? |
A44683 | why did he never tell men so? |
A44683 | why do they wish, and complain, is this God- like? |
A44683 | why is it not assigned? |
A44683 | why should we further spend our guesses what may possibly be said? |
A44683 | why what can this do? |
A44683 | will we think fit to say that all things we behold were as they are necessarily existent from all eternity? |
A44683 | would we not in any such case be determined rather by that which is more evident, than by what is more obscure? |
A44683 | wouldst thou have God out of being for this? |
A44683 | † And were this a fit means of ruling the world, of preserving order among mankind? |
A07666 | & c. Is not this a royall exchange and happy Mart? |
A07666 | 14. Who feares God feares not death: for what can he feare whose death is his hope? |
A07666 | 4. Who can put to silence the voyce of Desperation? |
A07666 | Againe, many Atheists say, It is in vaine to serue vse 3 God, and what profit is it that wee haue kept his commaundements? |
A07666 | All things now worke together for the best,& therfore, what, or who can seperate them from the loue of Christ? |
A07666 | Am I a sea, or a Whale- fish, that thou keepest mee in ward? |
A07666 | And Ieremie reproacheth those that say they are wise, Ye haue cast away the word of the Lord, and what wisedome is in you? |
A07666 | And albeit glory doe continue after the end of our life, yet what shall it auaile thee man, that hath no sence? |
A07666 | And can wee thinke that all this was for the feare of bodily death, which many of Gods children( yea, many wicked men) haue desperately despised? |
A07666 | And feeling the good( that death bringeth vnto vs) will not also desire to be dissolued, and to be with Christ? |
A07666 | And how much better art thou then a graine of corne? |
A07666 | And how often did holy Dauid( amidst the shadowes of Death) see life it selfe? |
A07666 | And if our momentany sufferings seeme long, how long shall that be which is eternall? |
A07666 | And is it not( trow you) a iust condemnation, if wee wretched men should be ashamed of him, who being the God of glory, was not ashamed of vs? |
A07666 | And not to forget the cares of this life: How doe they swarme about vs, like the Flyes of Egypt? |
A07666 | And should we desire to dwell here? |
A07666 | And therefore how shouldest thou enioy so good an exchange, except thou first corrupt and die? |
A07666 | And thou( O World)( which bewitchest so many to loue this life) what should I gaine, if I should serue thee? |
A07666 | And though my friends lament the losse of my life, yet can they not redeeme it: for what man is hee that liueth and shall not see death? |
A07666 | And what auayles it to seeke outward reliefe when thou hast thy executioner within thee? |
A07666 | And what great madnesse is it, for men( going actually to be iudged) thus in the way to prouoke their Iudge to anger, by continuall sinne? |
A07666 | And what man is hee, so strong in Faith, that can contayne himselfe in this pittifull tryall of deaths combat? |
A07666 | And what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him? |
A07666 | And what was the reason hereof that they still proceeded without any interruption? |
A07666 | And who being a traueller in forraine parts would not gladly hasten homewards? |
A07666 | And why did I sucke the brests? |
A07666 | And why should the faithfull be affraide of Death, by which they are deliuered from the slauery of sinne? |
A07666 | And with what reason can we name Death sodaine, which euery day manifesteth it selfe to all our sences? |
A07666 | And, whom haue I in heauen but thee? |
A07666 | Are not fiue Sparrowes bought for two farthings? |
A07666 | Are they not eyes to the blinde, and feet to the lame? |
A07666 | Are they not fathers to the poore, and in so being, procure their blessing? |
A07666 | Are we ready to goe out of this world( as the Israelites out of Egypt? |
A07666 | Art not thou the same which hast dryed the Sea, even the waters of the great deepe, making the depth of the Sea a way for the redeemed to passe ouer? |
A07666 | Behold this world, how it shaketh, and is ready to fall, manifesting very shortly her vtter ruine: Wherefore thinkest thou not on God? |
A07666 | Bitternes caused death; but whence came the bitternesse? |
A07666 | But God heareth not sinners? |
A07666 | But O Lord suffer me not to die, before I begin to liue, nor to rot in the graue, before I be assured of my immortall inheritance in heauen? |
A07666 | But beleeuest thou that such a mans heart laughes with his face? |
A07666 | But from whence hast thou this hope? |
A07666 | But how should man be ignorant of his death, vnto whom all creatures and actions preach his mortalitie? |
A07666 | But how then should wee be saued from the death of sinne and condemnation? |
A07666 | But if any Physitian would take vpon him to make men liue euer in this world, what a multitude of Patients should he haue? |
A07666 | But if it be such paines to die, what shall be the torture and torment to be euer dying, and neuer dead? |
A07666 | But if we feare death, let vs seeke out the cause of this feare: are our sinnes the cause? |
A07666 | But if we follow our owne appetites, and delicate nicenesse( reiecting Gods pleasure) what can be easie? |
A07666 | But is thy soule sorrowfull vnto death? |
A07666 | But it is a miserable thing to die? |
A07666 | But see how many Legions of Diuels looke for thy soule, as Death for thy body? |
A07666 | But seeing it hateth the Children of God, why loue they such an enemy? |
A07666 | But the Law of thy God, accuseth and condemneth thee? |
A07666 | But the death of sinners is damnable? |
A07666 | But thou flatterest thy selfe with vaine hope? |
A07666 | But thou shalt be damned, saith the Diuell? |
A07666 | But thou shalt be swallowed vp of death? |
A07666 | But thy Faith is weake and ready to fayle thee? |
A07666 | But thy repentance is too late? |
A07666 | But to come to the tryall of afflictions( which is more proper to this place) how soone are the best men crushed and broken with the burden thereof? |
A07666 | But what madnes is this, to desire to know our end, of such as are ignorant of their owne? |
A07666 | But why will hee haue thy death so bitter and sharpe? |
A07666 | But will the forgetfulnesse of death preserue them from dying? |
A07666 | Can Death depriue him of Christ, which is all his comfort, ioy and life? |
A07666 | Can a woman forget her childe, and not haue compassion vpon the sonne of her wombe? |
A07666 | Can there be in him any want of wisedome, not to foresee the best? |
A07666 | Christ hath crucified our old man, and put to death our vice and corruption, and shall wee reuiue the same? |
A07666 | Christ hath triumphed ouer death, it bleedeth( as it were) and gaspeth vnder vs, and yet doe we tremble? |
A07666 | Could any punishment possible be sharpe enough for such a monstrous fact? |
A07666 | Demaund now, and behold, if Man trauell with childe? |
A07666 | Did not our Fathers eate the sowre grapes, and are not the teeth of their children set on edge? |
A07666 | Did the Apostles sing in Prison, and went away reioycing being whipped and scourged? |
A07666 | Doe we ouercome enemies without? |
A07666 | Doe wee flye? |
A07666 | Doe wee not see how many discommodities we vndergoe, and how ill this body of ours befitteth vs? |
A07666 | Doth the aduersarie vrge our debt? |
A07666 | Elisha could say to his seruant, Is this a time to take rewards? |
A07666 | Euen the sweetest of all flowers hath his thornes, and who can determine whether the scent be more delectable, or the pricks more perillous? |
A07666 | Faith is the foundation of our hope; for what can we hope for except we beleeue it? |
A07666 | Fearest thou to dye once, when thou dyest euery day by little and little? |
A07666 | For Faith is of things absent, of things hoped for, of things desired; and can wee desire any thing wee know not? |
A07666 | For how can there be satisfaction for our apostacie, but by our humilitie? |
A07666 | For if heauen be our country, what is this earth, but a place of banishment? |
A07666 | For if hee be rich that hath some thing, how rich is hee that is the maker and owner of all things, whom I enioy? |
A07666 | For in that man offendeth the Lord and creatour of all things, he offendeth also all the creatures together in him; whither therefore may he goe? |
A07666 | For shall it hale them forward to hell( like an executioner) and they not dislike it? |
A07666 | For what else doe we heare from the cradle, then lamentations& mourning for the dead? |
A07666 | For what great matters should we looke for in the graue, where rottennesse is our father, and wormes are our mother? |
A07666 | For what hath man committed which the Sonne of God, made man, hath not redeemed? |
A07666 | For what is it else to be dead, then to be no more aliue in the world? |
A07666 | For what is our miserie but to meete with his maiestie, except it be onely in the temple of mercie? |
A07666 | For what is this life but a heauie mierie way, clagging and tyring our feet and orher limbes? |
A07666 | For what knowest thou, whither tomorrow shall euer come? |
A07666 | For what man liueth and shall not see death? |
A07666 | For what shall not he see, who seeth him that seeth all things? |
A07666 | For why should a Christian man so feare the violence of Death, whose force is broken? |
A07666 | God willeth that he doth, and if thy will accord not with his, whether wilt thou blame of imperfection? |
A07666 | Hath he said, and shall not he doe it? |
A07666 | Haue wee had so many experiments of his loue, and should wee now doubt thereof? |
A07666 | He hath died for vs, that wee might liue no more to our selues, but to him which died for vs; which we must doe by faith? |
A07666 | He is the husband of his elect, and they his Spouse, who of right must defend and protect them, and therefore how can they miscarry? |
A07666 | He shall be saued? |
A07666 | Hee hath healed this water? |
A07666 | Hee which seeketh fonsuch friends, seeketh to God his assignes: for are they not his Deputies, to doe good to his Church and Children? |
A07666 | How acceptable therefore may death be, when in dying we sleepe,& in sleeping we rest from all the trauels of this toylesome life? |
A07666 | How did Death enter? |
A07666 | How did his enemies giue him vinegar to drinke, that reacheth out vnto vs the wine and Nectar of life and saluation? |
A07666 | How did sin appeare, and what is the strength of the same? |
A07666 | How doe they stretch out their hands with lamentable complaints? |
A07666 | How farre more deare and pretious then are the liues safetie, and estates of Gods children, Whose very haires are numbred? |
A07666 | How foolish are wee to feare a vanquished enemie? |
A07666 | How full of ignorance is the time of our infancie? |
A07666 | How many Crownes and Scepters lye pyled vp at the gates of Death? |
A07666 | How much better is it for thee to want a little hony, then to be swolne vp with a venemous sting? |
A07666 | How much better is it to want a little hony, then to be swolne vp with a venemous sting? |
A07666 | How often therefore is the Church of the Iewes incited in the Psalmes, to take vp this note of Praise( as the burden of their Song?) |
A07666 | How often( in this long Psalme) doth the Prophet stirre vp himselfe? |
A07666 | How sweet are thy promises vnto my mouth? |
A07666 | How truely may wee say of this our Dauid, thou art worth ten thousand of vs, yea worth a world of Angels? |
A07666 | How was hee proffered most bitter gall, that offereth to vs the heauenly Manna and food of our soules? |
A07666 | I meane, who is affraide to die, but such as haue no hope to liue eternally? |
A07666 | I say not of men, but of Cities and Empires themselues? |
A07666 | I will not feare in the euill day( saith the Prophet:) Is not the euill day the day of our end? |
A07666 | If God be on our side, who can be against vs? |
A07666 | If God had made Death, why did Christ weepe for Lazarus his death, for he ought not to mourne for that himselfe had made? |
A07666 | If God were the author of Death, how could hee but be the willer of the same? |
A07666 | If a golden prize be propounded to such as winne the race, and winne the goale; why step wee aside to follow flies and feathers in the ayre? |
A07666 | If diseases( which doe but make the way to death) be so dreadfull, what must the end and perfection of diseases be? |
A07666 | If he be the strength of our life, of whom shall wee be afraid? |
A07666 | If it be a moment, and a moment of so great importance, how is it passed ouer by worldly men so carelesly as it is? |
A07666 | If men forsake their own will,& submit themselues to Gods, what can be hard? |
A07666 | If our Iayle containe so great matters, what shall our Countrey and Kingdome doe? |
A07666 | If our birth allow vs to feede of bread in our fathers house? |
A07666 | If our comming in be with teares, is it a wonder that our going out be answerable? |
A07666 | If the Lord bee our light and saluation, whom shall we feare? |
A07666 | If the beginning of our being be the beginning of our paine, is it any maruell that such should be our ending? |
A07666 | If the departing out of this world, be an entrance into life; what is this world, but a graue wherein we are buried? |
A07666 | If the very remembrance of the ioyes of heauen so affect section 4 Gods Children, what will the fruition doe? |
A07666 | If there were so great Faith in the earth, as there is most sure reward in heauen, what loue should wee haue to the life to come? |
A07666 | If thou doe so great things for vs in our prison, what wilt thou giue vnto vs in our Pallace? |
A07666 | If thy enemies and thy friends be so well prouided for together in this life, what shall thy onely friends receiue in the life to come? |
A07666 | If to be deliuered out of the body, is to be set at liberty, what is this body else but a prison, a Iayle, and a dungeon? |
A07666 | If to enioy the sweet fellowship of God be the highest felicitie, why then to be kept from it, is it not the extreamest misery? |
A07666 | If wee will be Burgesses of heauen, we must be strangers to the earth: Where is the house of our Father, but in heauen? |
A07666 | In our tryals and temptations, we must first search out section 18 the cause, and ascend to God, pleading guilty, and crauing mercy at his hand? |
A07666 | Iobs children( so well brought vp by their Godly Father) were slaine by the ruine of a house, in a violent winde? |
A07666 | Is it not a wonder that so excellent a myrrour of nature should come to such a dishonourable, base, and loathsome estate? |
A07666 | Is my strength the strength of stones? |
A07666 | Is not this a goodly place, where teares and cares make their residence? |
A07666 | Is the Iudge become our Aduocate, and shall wee feare to goe forward to the throne of grace? |
A07666 | Is this house become a denne of theeues? |
A07666 | It is a filthy dunghill, couered with snow, faire without, and foule within: What channell is so filthy? |
A07666 | It is his place and office so to doe; Shall not the Iudge of all the world doe right? |
A07666 | It may be thou shalt liue long; wilt thou liue a long life and a wicked together, and be in danger to end thy life by a miserable and wretched death? |
A07666 | It ouer- floweth with dainties in the pining Desart of this world; Who is this that ascendeth from the Desart, flowing with delights? |
A07666 | It will requite vs as Nabal did Dauid: Who is the Sonne of Ishai that I should know him? |
A07666 | Let fooles( as they doe) make but a sport of sinne, and section 10 say with the old Epicures, What haue wee to doe with Death? |
A07666 | Let the world tosse and tumble how it list( as euer it doth) the rest of Gods children is pitched aloft, aboue the spheare of changable mortalitie? |
A07666 | Nay, rather section 11( saith Chrisostome) who is not against vs? |
A07666 | Now if the life be no more but a dreame of a shadow, what must we thinke of the glory of this world, which is shorter of continuance then mans life? |
A07666 | Now if this be no paine, why accuse we death of the paines( our life yeeldeth vs) at our departure? |
A07666 | Now simply not to be in the world, is it any paine? |
A07666 | Now what a ioy is it to consider the ioy of this most ioyfull day to all faithfull beleeuers in Iesus Christ, who shall be quit by proclamation? |
A07666 | Now who can complaine for being of such a condition, from which no man is excepted? |
A07666 | O arme of the Lord, rise vp as in old time, in the generations of the world; Art not thou the same that hast cut Rahab, and wounded the Dragon? |
A07666 | O good life( saith a holy Father) what a ioy art thou section 6 in the time of death? |
A07666 | O happy dying, and blessed death, which art made so gainefull vnto me; why should I feare thee which bringest all sorrowes and feares to an end? |
A07666 | O how loue I thy law? |
A07666 | O most blessed tabernacle? |
A07666 | O roaring Lyon, why doest thou fret and fume? |
A07666 | Of what impatiencie is it, not to endure that euill section 23 which together( with so many and mighty) is common vnto all men? |
A07666 | Oftentimes hath God knocked at the doore of our hearts, to put vs in minde of our mortalitie; for who hath not had experience of his declining nature? |
A07666 | Oh but thou seest what thou leauest in the world, but what after this life thou shalt inioy thou knowest not? |
A07666 | Oh how happy, and blessed is hee which with the onely desire and loue of eternitie pyneth away? |
A07666 | Oh miserable life how many deceiuest thou? |
A07666 | Oh( saith a holy Martyr) how loath is this loytering sluggard to passe forth, and goe forward in Gods path to heauen? |
A07666 | One demanding the proofe of another life, was asked section 2( for his answere) whether hee beleeued there was a God? |
A07666 | One rufully thus exclaimeth of Death: How quickly and sodainely stealest thou vpon vs? |
A07666 | Our dayes goe as an Eagle to her prey: and what are men but the prey of Death, which soareth after vs with an open mouth to deuoure vs? |
A07666 | Put thy trust in God, which is the helpe of our countenance, and our God? |
A07666 | Remember( I pray thee) that thou hast made mee as the clay; and wilt thou bring mee to dust againe? |
A07666 | Seeing hee hath broken the head of our enemie what should his taile so much trouble vs? |
A07666 | Seeing hee hath taken away our sinnes, what should any sorrow remaine amongst vs? |
A07666 | Seth liued nine hundred and twelue yeares, and after dyed,& c. And is not this a true table, most liuely representing our mortalitie and death? |
A07666 | Shall it arrest them, as a Serjeant, to appeare before their Iudge, and they not regard it? |
A07666 | Shall thy wondrous workes be knowne in the darke? |
A07666 | Shall we maintaine our Sauiours enemies, and giue life againe to these deadly poysons of our soules? |
A07666 | Shew mee( I say) the promise, and liue to morrow: But what doe I say? |
A07666 | Should not a people enquire at their God? |
A07666 | The Diuels doe challenge no good by Christ, but disclaime his mercies, person, and all his meanes: Oh what haue wee to doe with thee? |
A07666 | The Lord is on their side, and who can be against them? |
A07666 | The head will haue his members, God his elect, and Christ his redeemed, and where will hee haue them but in heauen where he is? |
A07666 | Their persons are odious, and how shall their actions be acceptable? |
A07666 | Then commeth the World, and will set abroach his section 3 baites: What wilt thou dye O man? |
A07666 | Therefore that we may be assured, that we truely haue and enioy these precious iewels of a sauing faith, and hope section 5 vnmoueable? |
A07666 | Therefore we reioyce( saith Paul of himselfe and the section 17 faithfull) in all our tribulations and afflictions, and why doe they reioyce? |
A07666 | Thinke wee to banish him his Countrey? |
A07666 | Thinke wee to imprison him? |
A07666 | This is his will, and who dare wrest it? |
A07666 | Thou Lord dost saue both Man and Beast, but how excellent is thy mercy( O God) to the children of men, that trust vnder the shadow of thy wings? |
A07666 | Thou that flowest with wealth, and gloriest in reputation, wilt thou know thy waight? |
A07666 | Thus wee see that the wicked are in hell liuing yet vpon the earth: but what is this to their hell hereafter? |
A07666 | Wee dye hourely, and as we grow our life decreaseth: for what is the beginning of Youth, but the death of Infancie? |
A07666 | What a dangerous Lethargie of the soule is this, when so many spectacles of mans mortalitie, before our eyes, can nothing moue vs? |
A07666 | What a dangerous course is it, neuer to awake Christ till the ship leake, and be in danger of drowning? |
A07666 | What a glory shall it be to behold that vniuersall Goodnesse, in whom are all good things? |
A07666 | What a wonder is this, that euery day we dye, and yet perswade our selues to liue for euer? |
A07666 | What account would one make of a stately building, if in case it should stand vpon a false foundation? |
A07666 | What cause haue wee then to shut our gates against the gaspe of Death? |
A07666 | What cost doe wee bestow vpon the haires of our head and beard? |
A07666 | What doe we oftner see with our eyes, then exequies and funerals of the departed; mourners weedes, and monuments of men deceased? |
A07666 | What glasse is so brittle and subiect to knockes and breaking as is this body of ours? |
A07666 | What is an infant but a bruit beast in the shape of a man? |
A07666 | What is more filthy then a man conceiued and borne in sinne? |
A07666 | What is the chaffe to the Wheate? |
A07666 | What man being farre from home, would not hasten to section 10 returne into his country? |
A07666 | What more Christian- like then a good and holy life? |
A07666 | What pleasure then shall wee haue, when we shall be in the company of Angels? |
A07666 | What pleasures are there amongst the inhabitants of heauen, which now feare death no more, and are sure to liue for euer? |
A07666 | What power haue I that I should endure? |
A07666 | What profit is it( say they) to walke in his wayes? |
A07666 | What profiteth it Homer, that now thou praise his Iliads? |
A07666 | What shall I say? |
A07666 | What should I speake of the shortnesse and swiftnesse of the same? |
A07666 | What then doe I say? |
A07666 | What then doe I say? |
A07666 | What then, wilt thou forgoe heauen, and yet escape hell? |
A07666 | What therefore shall I render to the Lord for himselfe? |
A07666 | What though they be vnpleasant? |
A07666 | What was this but a figure of Christ? |
A07666 | What will the wicked doe in the extremity of Gods iudgement? |
A07666 | What worlds of men are gone before vs? |
A07666 | What, are we all but grasse? |
A07666 | When Christ is the patterne( whose similitude wee beare) who can be discouraged vnder the Crosse? |
A07666 | When men forsake their owne wils, and submit themselues to Gods, what can be hard? |
A07666 | Where is safe and stedfast rest and assurednesse for the weake and wounded soule, but in the wounds of our Sauiour Christ? |
A07666 | Where should the members be, but where the head raigneth? |
A07666 | Where then shall we finde an infinite value, but in him who is onely and altogether infinite in himselfe? |
A07666 | Wherefore doe I behold euery man with his hands on his loynes, as a Woman in her trauell? |
A07666 | Wherefore hidest thou thy face? |
A07666 | Wherefore if our inheritance be that wee shall raigne as kings, why put we our selues in such slauerie of creatures? |
A07666 | Whereof commeth so great forgetfulnesse of almighty God, such negligence of preparing our selues to die? |
A07666 | Who are these that flie like a clowd, and as Doues to their windowes? |
A07666 | Who can be a Christian, and would not be like him, that would not die after him? |
A07666 | Who can hate man, whose nature and likenesse hee beholdeth in the humanity of God? |
A07666 | Who can make agreement with Hell and Diuels? |
A07666 | Who can put to silence the voyce of desperation? |
A07666 | Who is it then among vs( who feeling with S. Paul, the bondage of sin) would not also cry out with him; Who shall deliuer mee from this body of death? |
A07666 | Who is more dead then hee that carryeth fire in his bosome, sinne in his Conscience, and doth neyther feele it nor shake it out, nor tremble at it? |
A07666 | Who is the Almighty that wee should serue him? |
A07666 | Who loueth the shadow better then the substance? |
A07666 | Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen? |
A07666 | Who shall say, onely this people is wise; and what Nation is so great, that hath ordinances and lawes so righteous? |
A07666 | Who then can be discouraged with the afflictions of this life, or enuy at the wicked to see their ease and peace? |
A07666 | Who then shall condemne vs, or what Iudge shall daunt vs, sith God hath acquitted vs, and Christ( that was condemned) hath iustified vs? |
A07666 | Who therefore will not be glad to exchange for the better? |
A07666 | Who would not traffique with so good a Chapman? |
A07666 | Why did the knees preuent mee? |
A07666 | Why doe we daily pray, that Gods Kingdome may come, section 16 seeing we take such delight to remaine in the prison of this world? |
A07666 | Why doe wee not then keepe a continuall watch ouer our soules, since we know not at what houre Death will assaile vs? |
A07666 | Why dyed I not in the birth? |
A07666 | Why is a Clocke so often disordered, and out of frame? |
A07666 | Why is it that in a Campe, the most perillous section 15 actions and attempts are committed to the most couragious and valiant Souldiers? |
A07666 | Why perished I not when I came out of the wombe? |
A07666 | Why should not our bodies rise againe from the dust, as well as the seede sowne, harrowed, and hidden in the ground? |
A07666 | Why was I not hid as an vntimely birth? |
A07666 | Why? |
A07666 | Will God require bloud at the hand of man and beast, and shall he not require it at thine owne hand? |
A07666 | Will not hee dare to be an hypocrite, that durst be a villaine? |
A07666 | Will you steale, murther, and commit adultery, and sweare falsly, and come and stand before mee in this house, wherevpon my name is called? |
A07666 | Wilt thou deferre the matter, and thinke of it hereafter? |
A07666 | Wilt thou escape this dangerous poynt? |
A07666 | Wilt thou feare that once which is alwayes acted? |
A07666 | Wilt thou goe to heauen liuing in sinne as thou dost? |
A07666 | Wilt thou know how and in what sort thou fadest? |
A07666 | Wilt thou know the length of thy dayes? |
A07666 | Wilt thou then deliuer thy selfe out of this doubt? |
A07666 | Wouldest thou then willingly goe to heauen? |
A07666 | Yea, but God is vniust if hee bestow eternall life vpon malefactors? |
A07666 | Yet marke how wonderfully he is distempered in his passions, and taketh on? |
A07666 | Yet now( whiles God vouchsafeth meanes and time to liue) why doe we not prepare our selues in time? |
A07666 | a more strait prison he can not haue then his owne body, none more filthy, or more darke;& c. Will we kill him, and take him out of this world? |
A07666 | and all faces are turned into palenesse? |
A07666 | and amidst the pangs of death, is that a time to thinke of amendment of life? |
A07666 | and how shall they beleeue on him, of whom they haue not heard? |
A07666 | and how strangely hath hee compact them together? |
A07666 | and how well would they reward him? |
A07666 | and is not their remembrance as ashes vnder foote? |
A07666 | and is there of heauenly things any other true knowledge, then by faith grounded vpon the word of God? |
A07666 | and not desire to ascend on that ladder, which Iacob knew to be the gate of heauen? |
A07666 | and shall hee deliuer his soule from the hand of the graue? |
A07666 | and shall we wither like hay? |
A07666 | and that wee haue walked humbly before the Lord of hostes? |
A07666 | and thy righteousnesse in the land of obliuion? |
A07666 | and what is a young youth, but( as it were) a wilde vntamed Asse- colt vnbridled? |
A07666 | and what is an aged, heauy, and crooked old man, but euen a sacke and fardell stuffed with griefes and diseases? |
A07666 | and what is more cleane and beautifull then our Sauiour Christ conceiued by the holy Ghost? |
A07666 | and what is the beginning of to morrow but the death of to day? |
A07666 | and where of necessitie we must passe our daies with such companions? |
A07666 | and who is able to beare off the blowes of Gods displeasure? |
A07666 | appoynted for all eternitie, for himselfe and his friends to liue and raigne in for euer? |
A07666 | as the ground of faith is the word& promise; for why should we beleeue, but in respect of Gods promise? |
A07666 | but after this life finished, to dye in the Faith and feare of God, what more diuine? |
A07666 | but if his soule be disquieted, who dareth meete with the wrath of the Lord of hoasts? |
A07666 | can there be any want of power, not to effect the best? |
A07666 | canst thou tell how thou camest to be a stripling? |
A07666 | did we then feele any paine when we were not? |
A07666 | diseases within will also surprise vs? |
A07666 | either as infants that haue not seene the light? |
A07666 | for as much as he hath made all things become enemies vnto him? |
A07666 | for what can Sinne( the sting of Death) preuaile against vs, being pardoned in Christ? |
A07666 | for what firmenesse can be in the matter of flesh? |
A07666 | for who cast fire from heauen vpon his goods? |
A07666 | hath not their memory perished with their sound? |
A07666 | how canst thou delight thy selfe in feasting and banketting? |
A07666 | how canst thou desire so greedily to gather the prouision of this world, and be so forgetfull for the life to come? |
A07666 | how canst thou take here thy pastimes and pleasures? |
A07666 | how doubtfull is thy houre? |
A07666 | how heauy and vnweildy when we come to olde age? |
A07666 | how light and wanton are wee, growing to be striplings? |
A07666 | how many hath the earth swallowed vp, and the ayre choaked? |
A07666 | how rash and headlong in the time of our youth? |
A07666 | how secret are thy paths and waies? |
A07666 | how vniuersall is thy kingdome? |
A07666 | how will their hearts sustaine these anguishes? |
A07666 | let vs hate it: Is it for want of faith? |
A07666 | let vs repent and amend: Is it the loue of this world? |
A07666 | neuer to beginne to liue well, vntill wee be a dying? |
A07666 | or hath hee done it, and can not hee doe the same againe? |
A07666 | or how thou grewest to mans estate? |
A07666 | or is my flesh of brasse? |
A07666 | or procurement of life, but by suffering of death? |
A07666 | or putting him off, to put on the vile, and spotted garment of the flesh, by following the lusts thereof? |
A07666 | or thy faithfulnesse in destruction? |
A07666 | or what strength consisteth in such a weake subiect? |
A07666 | or when thou beganst to be an old man? |
A07666 | saying, Shall thy louing kindnesse be declared in the graue? |
A07666 | section 15 But how canst thou be perswaded of Gods fauour, who doth thus torment thee with sicknesse? |
A07666 | section 15 To one well resolued in these poynts, Death can be but sweet and agreeable to his minde: for what can hee feare, whose death is his hope? |
A07666 | section 2 Sathan first of all will thus be ready to assault vs. And art thou ready to dye O man? |
A07666 | section 20 Doth the Law indite vs of transgression? |
A07666 | section 3 Is it possible to forget whither wee are going? |
A07666 | section 4 But what speake I so much to true Christians, concerning the feare of Death, they hauing so many causes rather to imbrace the same? |
A07666 | section 4 Lastly, comes the Flesh( with trembling and quaking:) Why? |
A07666 | section 5 Who would be sorry to forsake this life, which can not but be most certain of eternall life? |
A07666 | section 7 And did not Iob see God( as they say) vnder Sathans cloake? |
A07666 | section 7 Marke well( saith one) what I say, that a man which repenteth not but at his latter end, shall be damned? |
A07666 | section 8 Dost thou perceiue( saith Ierome) when thou was made an infant? |
A07666 | section 8 Nothing better resembleth death then our sleepe, and when doe wee euer better rest then at that time? |
A07666 | section 9 What hurt is it to the inhabitant, to pull downe an old ruinous house, to build it vp againe, and make it more glorious? |
A07666 | shall bee deliuer his soule from the hand of the graue? |
A07666 | shall the foulenesse of his face, feare vs from his good conditions? |
A07666 | shall the hardnesse of the huske hinder vs from the sweetnesse of the kirnell? |
A07666 | should such a friend as it is be vnwelcome? |
A07666 | should we lust and long to liue in this loathsome, and laborious life? |
A07666 | should we take pleasure to remaine in this so dangerous estate? |
A07666 | should wee wish to tarry in this miserable wretchednesse? |
A07666 | since as the diseases are the malidies of the body, so Death it selfe the maladie of disease? |
A07666 | since what his power can doe, and what his wisdome seeth should be done, his loue no doubt hath done, because all are infinite? |
A07666 | that greater world, in whom all worlds are contained? |
A07666 | that whereas God had giuen them such liberty and freedome of all things, yet would not so much as obey him in this one? |
A07666 | the entrance of Manhood but the end of Youth? |
A07666 | the head will haue his members, the Bridegroome his spouse, God his elect, and Christ his redeemed; and where will he haue them, but where he is? |
A07666 | they answer, they can haue no assurance, for then how could they hope? |
A07666 | thou goest hence laden with euill deedes, and destitute of good? |
A07666 | vnlesse wee will fondly accuse the time, when as yet wee were not, of the paines wee felt at our birth? |
A07666 | what Elements hath he framed? |
A07666 | what better guide canst thou haue then him that dwelleth there? |
A07666 | what glorious heauens, and how wonderfull hath hee created? |
A07666 | what infinite Starres, and other Lights hath he deuised? |
A07666 | what is it else, but to be drowned in death? |
A07666 | what sight more lamentable? |
A07666 | what sinke auoideth out such loathsome geare, as doth mans body, by sundry meanes& waies? |
A07666 | what way will they take? |
A07666 | what would we doe if it were wholy to our tast and tallage? |
A07666 | when all things shall cause them to feare, and proclaime open vengeance against them? |
A07666 | when we shall see our blessed Redeemer with our eyes, and the infinite brightnesse of Gods diuine light? |
A07666 | where are the riches that pouerty hath not decayed? |
A07666 | where is the beauty that age hath not withered? |
A07666 | where is the pompe that time hath not wasted? |
A07666 | where is the strength that sickenesse hath not weakened? |
A07666 | where pale sicknesse, and sad old age haue taken vp their habitation? |
A07666 | where should the heart be, but where our heauenly treasure is placed? |
A07666 | where there is fire vnquenchable, to which ours is but Ice? |
A07666 | where there is nothing but the fellowship of Diuels and the damned? |
A07666 | which when thou art knowne and learned, art nothing; when thou art exalted, art but as smoake? |
A07666 | whither will they turne them? |
A07666 | who can desire the drosse of this world, but such as are ignorant of the true treasure& euerlasting ioyes in heauen? |
A07666 | who can so loue this life, but he that regardeth not the life to come? |
A07666 | who euer trusted in friends that euer could trust to himselfe? |
A07666 | who in his life time had no fellow nor equall? |
A07666 | who ouerthrew his house, and slew his children? |
A07666 | who stirred vp strangers to driue away his cattell, but Sathan himselfe? |
A07666 | who was euer more discontented then the wealthy? |
A07666 | who would be staied from the noble seruice of God, by the loue of so fond a trifle as this world is? |
A07666 | who would exchange it for heauen it selfe? |
A07666 | who would then contemne it for Gods cause? |
A07666 | whose helpe will they craue? |
A07666 | why art thou so vnquieted within vs? |
A07666 | why delight we to eate huskes prouided for the swine? |
A07666 | why followest thou not rather Iesus Christ thy Redeemer, who so ardently loues thee? |
A07666 | wilt thou dye O man? |
A07666 | wilt thou needes goe from them? |
A07666 | yea, how many thousands out of one field? |
A07666 | yet he died, and died for vs. Who would therefore liue, that knowes his Sauiour died? |