Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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A30368	But has this Scaramuchio no Shame left him?
A30368	Did the Parliament pretend by this Act to make any Decision in those two Points of Transubstantiation and Idolatry?
A30368	Had not the Convocation defined them both for above an Age before?
A30368	Oxon does, who is still true to his Old Maxim, that he delivered in Answer to one who asked him What was the best Body of Divinity?
A54166	Are they then fit to be trusted that are out of his Interest, and against the Liberty he is for, and the Nation wants and craves?
A54166	Is she then no more then a Party?
A54166	She says, she is afraid of Popery, because of its Violence, and yet uses Force to compel it; Is not this resisting Popery with Popery?
A54782	For why?
A54782	He appeals to all Men, whether Liberty of Conscience be any better, than a License for Anarchy and Confusion?
A54782	Surely, Rhadamanthus''s own Chaplain could not have preached more severe Divinity?
A54782	What are now become of all his Politick Let but''s?
A54782	Who would have been at the trouble of all this Rhetorick, had he known what would have followed?
A54782	— Quaere, Why this Counsel was not taken, since the Counsel was given so long before the Declaration came forth?
A54211	Again, can not a Law be made to fix Liberty of Conscience, that they shall as uneasily violate, as these the Church calls her Bulwark?
A54211	Again, pray, can she think that force becomes a Gospel Church?
A54211	But what is Faction if this be not?
A54211	But which way can she ensure it to them?
A54211	First, Can they with Honour or Conscience refuse what they have sought, or reject that by Declaration the Church of England will not allow by Law?
A54211	How could we assure our selves our next Heir would not turn; Ay, the Prince in Possession?
A54211	I say, what good will that do her, that must be the greatest Argument of the Force she fears they will use against her?
A54211	If conform, why just now?
A54211	If not before, why then now?
A54211	If now, why not before?
A54211	Is it not natural enough to expect at the hand of the King, that they will not, shall not have Liberty of Conscience?
A54211	Is it not taking Sanctuary in human Strength instead of divine Truth, that is al- sufficient to its own support?
A54211	Secondly, How are they assurd, while the Church of England is by Law secured, that by those very Laws they shall not be ruin''d in the mean time?
A54211	and that at any rate, they shall conform thorowly, that will not at an other time conform at all, When they do it now only to bob the Goverment?
A54211	if things are the same, why are not they?
A54211	need they this, if they design Force?
A54211	or were it worth their Labouring?
A54211	that it is not using against Popery what she accuses it for, and by it condemns her self?
A48008	Alas, what is it to Mr. Politick your Ghostly Father, that you shall lose by your Conviction 2000 l. a year?
A48008	At what hour Mass shall be, and what is the critical minute for Dinner, Supper, and Bed- time in a well ordered House?
A48008	Now this granted, That it is not Malum in se; how then can it be a Sin?
A48008	Now what excuse can we make for our obstinacy, in refusing to go to the Churches at times commanded?
A48008	What can be better than his own most solemn Excommunication to prove it?
A48008	Yet is not 2000 a year worth inquiring after, at least to know some small reason for parting with it?
A56393	And to the Question concerning the Eucharist, What is the Oblation and Sacrifice of Christ in the Mass?
A56393	But what Images do the Roman Catholiques worship?
A56393	Do they worship any Image or Symbols of False Gods, as the Supreuse Deities?
A56393	Or do they attempt to make a Similitude of the true God, or uncreated Divine Nature?
A56393	Tho we render it in the English Translation, Why are thy valiant Men swept away?
A56393	Why did your Apis fly, or that your beloved Calf desert you, because the Lord did drive him?
A56393	Why if they were nothing but Cherubins, are they so often in Scripture styled other Gods?
A56393	Why should he Sacrifice to them, when in the Law of Moses no Sacrifices were offered to the Cherubim?
A56393	Would he not vainly and absurdly have instituted this Mystery, and as we Frenchmen say, by false Representations?
A48813	And acts amazing by a Pesant''s Son, As by a Prince''s, ha ve they not been done?
A48813	And what would become of humane Commerce, if such Things multiplied?
A48813	If sense goes thus far with the plainest and most unthinking men, how much more doth Reason and rational Faith assure the thinking and intelligent?
A48813	Let a Man be Unprejudic''d, Unprepossess''d, and what the least Shade of Doubt could fall upon him in this Matter?
A48813	So that a man''s belief, that is within him, may be wel declared and testified, even as all matters of sence and of trust?
A48813	What Governour would accept such a Power as this of Christ''s?
A48813	What kind of Kingdom and Power is here allow''d in the mean time?
A48813	What must Christ, so closely importuned in it, suffer in the mean time?
A48813	Who would be afraid to Declare, and Profess, they Believe it so?
A48813	Why then should men bring the Scripture to the Engine, to torture it into the confession of what( as God speaks) never came into his heart?
A48813	or how can the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Prince of the Kings of the Earth, be such an Underling?
A48813	or serv two such Masters?
A44782	And are you so in love with Separation, as not to be mov''d by this Example?
A44782	Are you ready to stand in every Borough by Vertue of a Conge d''eslire, and instead of Election, be satisfied if you are Returned?
A44782	Besides, What all our Sable Cavalcade, To the Great DEAD, our Darkest Funeral Shade?
A44782	But whither am I carried with this Contemplation?
A44782	Do you believe less than you did, that there is Idolatry in the Church of Rome?
A44782	Have you enough considered what will be expected from you?
A44782	How you dare venture to lose, and what means you have to pay such great summs?
A44782	If you pay exactly, it will be enquired from whence the Money cometh?
A44782	Or ● ould her Allegiance be tainted by her re ● ● ● ● ing the sacred Person of her Sovereign, because he was impatient of delay?
A44782	The Juries are by the Law to be Exvicineto; And shall there be less care that the Representatives of the People be so too?
A44782	The World first admireth Men''s Wisdom for getting Money, and then raileth at them if they do not throw it away?
A44782	Thus, like the Eden Pair, Why is Truth drawn A Naked Beauty, in Transparent Lawn?
A44782	To conclude, the short Question will be, Whether you will join with those who must in the end run the same Fate with you?
A44782	What can more high, Than an Vnmercinary Greatness fly?
A44782	What is it to the Priest, if the deluded Zealot undoes himself in the Attempt?
A44782	What is there in this that is so Criminal, as to deserve the Penalty of that most singular Apophthegm, A Trimmer is worse than a Rebel?
A44782	What''s a poor Short- liv''d Pile of Crumbling Earth, A Mould''ring Tomb, t''Apollinary WORTH?
A44782	When it cometh to be the Question with such a Man, Whether he shall be Just to the Publick, or Cruel to his Family?
A44782	Where are the Men so distinguished from the rest of Mankind, that it is impossible for them to ● istake their Interest?
A44782	Whether regularly produced, or violently imposed?
A44782	Whether with or without the Concurrence of the People?
A44782	Who can foresee whether it will be from without, or from within, or from both?
A44782	Will you call these vain and empty Suspitions?
A44782	Would not this be an Argument to suspect them?
A44782	Yes, the True Mouruer''s in th''Historian Play''d: What''s Present Grief, but Past Delight Display''d?
A44782	have you been at all times so void of Fears and Jealousies as to justifie your being so unreasonably Valiant in having none upon this occasion?
A44782	her Funeral Tear?
A69685	All this looks like designed mistakes and traps; for should any man swear, unless he understand?
A69685	And are not Articles of Faith Ecclesiastical maters?
A69685	And are not the enemies of the King''s Supremacy content to swear in so far as is consistent with the Word of God?
A69685	And are not these Principles plainly taught in this Confession?
A69685	And are there not indeed many tyes on us as Men, as Christians, as Pastors, to procure, as far as in us lyes, the happiness of the Church, and State?
A69685	And did I not concur to bind the Landlords for their Tenants, altho I was mainly concerned?
A69685	And had they never said, or done more, does our Author think they had been found guilty of Treason?
A69685	And have I not always keept my Tenants in obedience to His Majesty?
A69685	And how can honest conscientious Church- men swear, they shall never endeavour to have this helped?
A69685	And if it was either inconsistent, or apprehended to be so, how could the Earl, or any honest man swear it in other terms, with a safe Conscience?
A69685	And if this were not so, how is it possible in Sense and Reason; that ever any Explication or Sense could solve the Scruples of a mans Conscience?
A69685	And is not this to swear we know not what?
A69685	And may not a Prince come to claim a Right to act Arbitrarily?
A69685	And ought not that to please his Highnesse, and the Council, that is accepted of God Almighty, and is all any Mortal can perform?
A69685	And therefore His Majesties Advocate desires to know to what the Earl of Argyle, or any man else, can be bound by this Test?
A69685	And vvhat can be more Depraving of a Law then to make it Pravam Legem?
A69685	And was not this Delivery enough?
A69685	And was there ever any loyal or rational Subject, that does, or can doubt, that this is the natural import of the Oath?
A69685	And what is this, but to avow, we hold our selves obliged to believe as the King believes?
A69685	And what then?
A69685	And where an Oath is granted to be ambiguous, can any man understand, unless, in want of the imposers help, he explain it for himself?
A69685	And wherefore?
A69685	And who can determine that?
A69685	And who can read this Paper, without seeing the King and Parliament reproached openly in it?
A69685	Are not such as were most forward, and active, in the Earl''s comdemnation, proportionally rewarded?
A69685	As to what our Author adds, That he is desirous to knovv in vvhat part of Europe such Qualities vvere ever allovved?
A69685	But first, I would gladly know, upon what head?
A69685	But how then?
A69685	But if we stand out, and refuse the Test, how shall the Credit and Honour of Authority be saved?
A69685	But was it therefore not delivered verbally in Council the day before?
A69685	But what of all this?
A69685	But what then, if this lessen their tentation, doth it not rather aggravat their injustice?
A69685	But who ever thought that these qualified Professions in the Covenant, condescended on by our Author, were the Covenanters guilt?
A69685	But why then doth not his own reason convince him, ● here the difference lyes?
A69685	Did it not plainly appear, at that time, that his principal pursuers were very bitter, malicious, and unjust to him?
A69685	For if it were not inconsistent with it self, and the Protestant Religion, why this Clause at all but it might have been simply taken?
A69685	For if that were possible to be the sense, what need he say at all, as far as it is consistent with it self?
A69685	For vvhat is a greater Limitation then to reserve to himself to be Iudge hovv far he is tyed?
A69685	Have I not shewed my zeal to all the ends of the Test?
A69685	Have not the best Cautions and highest Professions in the world been in like manner violate?
A69685	Have not thousands given no obedience yet even in law are guiltlesse?
A69685	How are these things consistent?
A69685	How then can it be imagined that I have any sinister design in any thing that I have said?
A69685	If Constantine had not interposed his Authority for suppressing the Arrian Heresie, what had become either of Government or Religion?
A69685	If it be asked, What, or where is the Protestant Religion?
A69685	If the Earl was truly guilty of these worst of crimes, Leasing- making, Depraving, and Treason, why should he not have died?
A69685	In what part of Europe was ever such a Test framed?
A69685	In what part of it was ever such an Explanation as the Earl''s, after acceptance, made a crime?
A69685	In what part of the whole world was ever such an Indictment contrived, and Judgment past?
A69685	Is not this consequence far more clearly deducible from the Councils emitting their Explanation?
A69685	Is not this to swear what no man living can assuredly know?
A69685	Must a Christian abstain therefore from saying the Lords Prayer?
A69685	Now, after all this, that treason should be so earnestly searched for, and so groundlesly found, in those words, Is it not strange beyond all example?
A69685	O ● how could they be punished for Perjury after this Oath?
A69685	Or against what alteration is the Government secured, since he is Judg of his own alteration?
A69685	Or would a Right so qualified satisfy the Obligation?
A69685	Or would he have us to believe, either that all Scotch Parliaments,( or, at least, the Last, by reason of an extraordinary assistance) are infallible?
A69685	Refused access to, or opportunity to speak with His Royal Highness, though it was often and much desired?
A69685	Shall both former services be forgot, innocence oppressed, and all rules of justice, and Laws of society and humanity for his sake overturned?
A69685	Shall his numerous family, hopeful children, his friends and creditors, all be destroyed?
A69685	Summarly imprisoned, without Bale, or Mainprise?
A69685	Then he asks, To vvhat the Earl is bound, if he be bound no further then he himself can obey?
A69685	This is not the meaning; but what if it were, and that indeed he coud not?
A69685	Was I not for offering proper Supplies to His Majesty and his Successor?
A69685	Were they not all Judges of the late edition, to wit, no more advitam, or culpam, as of old, but durante beneplacito?
A69685	What have we to do with such absurd, and incredible suppositions?
A69685	What ill is in them?
A69685	What mad inferences are these, You say, you will explain this Oath for your self, therefore you overturn all Government, and vvhat not?
A69685	and Allegiance?
A69685	and may not iniquity happen to be established by Law?
A69685	and that they are not bound not to make any alteration which they think good for the States?
A69685	could this sense be consistent with it, I''le make it as far as I can?
A69685	may not I, with Your Highnesses favour, have the time allowed by the Act of Parliament?
A69685	what the Magistrate can expect, or what way he can punish his Perjury?