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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A90390 | But what were the ten Commandements a figure or shadow of? |
A90400 | Friends, DO ye not see how often ye have been betrayed? |
A54054 | 1 sheet([ 1] p.) s.n.,[ London? |
A54054 | Art not thou yet what thou wast? |
A54054 | What have all these afflictions done towards the refining of thee? |
A54054 | when shall it once be? |
A35136 | 52. saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat? |
A35136 | And how can it be otherwise? |
A35136 | And not onely the Jews but many of his disciples said, This is an hard saying, who can bear it? |
A35136 | But because we dare not be so foolishly inquisitive, as to say, With what bodies shall they arise? |
A35136 | How can the wisdom of Man but judge that as foolishness, whose beauty and excellency is hid from its eye? |
A54057 | The cup which our Father gives us, shall we not drink it? |
A54057 | Why should ye go down to the pit in a Dream, and center in the Land of Misery? |
A54057 | Why should ye, who have once tasted of the goodness of God, become more miserable then the rest of the Sons of men? |
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A54050 | Can ye lengthen out the day of mercy? |
A54050 | Can ye limit God how long he should strive with you? |
A54050 | O why do ye harden your hearts? |
A54050 | why do ye hearken to the lusts, desires, temptations and counsels of the earthly mind, which in all Ages hath undone all that have listened thereunto? |
A54071 | Are ye of the house of Jacob? |
A54071 | Can any understand the things of the Spirit, or the words spoken by the Spirit concerning spiritual things, but by him? |
A54071 | IS not the Spirit, or Anointing, the great Gospel- Promise, and the great Gospel- Ordinance? |
A54071 | Is not he Truth and no lie, and the leader out of all lies and deceits into the truth, and the preserver of the mind and spirit therein? |
A54071 | Is there any possibility of being kept from Images and Idols, but by him? |
A54071 | WHat is the true Confession of Christ, even that Confession which ariseth from the knowledge which is Life Eternal? |
A54071 | Yea, who is it, at this day, who escapeth this snare, of calling evil good, and good evil? |
A54071 | are ye of the right Seed? |
A54071 | are ye of the true breathers after Gods holiness; after the Life and Righteousness of his Son? |
A54042 | How is this Unity interrupted? |
A54042 | How is this Unity preserved? |
A54042 | How may a man, whom the Lord hath exalted by gifts and services to him, be preserved from falling? |
A54042 | How may any such, as have fallen from an high and glorious state in the power and dominion of Life, be again recovered? |
A54042 | How may this Unity be recovered, if at any time decaying? |
A54042 | Is not this common to all mankind? |
A54042 | Is not this the lowest of all dispensations? |
A54042 | VVHat is Spiritual Unity? |
A54042 | What shall I say more? |
A54042 | Wherein doth this Unity consist? |
A54042 | s.n.,[ London: 1664?] |
A54055 | Ah poor land, what will this stiffe spirit,( which hath all along these times of trouble, repined at, and opposed the work of the Lord) bring thee to? |
A54055 | And is not the Lord able to carry on this work, further and further? |
A54055 | But alas, hast thou not set thy self against it from the very first? |
A54055 | Did he suffer them alwaies to be stopped in their progresse, and held in bondage by Episcopacy? |
A54055 | Hath there not been a sharp contention, between God and this Nation concerning this thing? |
A54055 | Look back with a single and honest eye, Hath it not been thus? |
A54055 | Nay, did he not at length break it down at their cries, and for their sakes? |
A54055 | Will nothing serve thy turn, but the enslaving of Gods heritage? |
A54055 | ],[ London? |
A54033 | But how shall we find this, may some say? |
A54033 | Do ye not think the Lord hath been at work, and is still at work? |
A54033 | Free from the base earthly, selfish nature and spirit, which man fallen from God, and the Glory wherein he created him, is degenerated into? |
A54033 | He that created man at first so glorious, in his own Image; is he not able to create him anew? |
A54033 | If I now testifie to you in Truth, of a Pearl, a heavenly Pearl, an everlasting Pearl; will ye not hear me? |
A54033 | If I tell you, your Heart is the Field, or Earth, wherein it is hid; will ye not consider of it? |
A54033 | If the Kingdom of God, and Righteousness of Christ, be to be revealed within; would ye not willingly learn to wait for it there? |
A54033 | If the everlasting Gospel be preached again, which contains true Tidings of Redemption from sin, will ye not listen after it? |
A54033 | In what way shall his Power appear, to bring down Unrighteousness, and to bring up Righteousness in the Spirits of People? |
A54033 | Oh, is not the Power of God, and the Life of Christable to restore man to this? |
A54033 | What shall the Lord do to awaken this Nation? |
A54033 | Ye desire outward liberty, and the enjoyment of your outward rights; would ye not be free inwardly? |
A54033 | ],[ London? |
A54033 | and beg of God that the Eye may be opened in you, which alone can see it, when it doth appear? |
A54023 | & who were the greatest persecutors then, but they who were most zealous for the form, both of the government and worship of the Church of England? |
A54023 | And where is the persecuting spirit next to be looked for, but in the forms which should next appear? |
A54023 | When he is driven but of Independency, whither should he run but into Anabaptism? |
A54023 | When he is driven out of Anabaptism, whither should he run but into a way of Seeking? |
A54023 | When he is driven out of Episcopacy, whither should he run but into Presbytery? |
A54023 | When he is driven out of Presbytery, whither should he run but into Independency? |
A54023 | Who were the best Preachers, and most eminent Christians in the Puritan daies? |
A54068 | Are we in a worse condition than Israel was, when the Sea was before them, the Mountains on each side, and the Egyptians behind pursuing them? |
A54068 | Hath he begun to break our bonds and deliver us, and shall we now distrust him? |
A54068 | If I should pray thus particularly for every one of you, would ye be offended with me? |
A54068 | It is briefly this, Why may not the power of Religion be permitted to flourish under you? |
A54068 | Now if in your hearts ye shall ask me, What it is to come into the Power of that Religion, which ye your selves profess? |
A54068 | What is man to the Lord? |
A54068 | can not the Government of God''s Spirit and your Government stand together? |
A54068 | what is his flesh to the Lord''s Spirit? |
A54074 | And now, who can read this Riddle? |
A54074 | Had he asked the Spirit, could the Father have denied him? |
A54074 | Now can the holy God be pleased with that Sacrifice which comes from the unclean Spring? |
A54074 | Now, what could man want, having the Spring of Life so near him? |
A54074 | Now, who will be wise? |
A54074 | The Fountain is unclean, the Root in him is corrupt; And who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? |
A54074 | What Reliques of Life are there in a Dead Man? |
A54074 | What Reliques of purity in a man wholly degenerated and corrupted? |
A54074 | What could he desire in the Purity, in the Life, which the Father of Life could have with- held from him? |
A54074 | What therefore doth the creature do to still this cry? |
A54074 | What wil become of all the fruit that flesh hath born, when God maketh bare, and cutteth down the root? |
A54074 | When he doth them with an evill heart, they are much more abominable, how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked minde? |
A54074 | Who will be saved by the Eternal Power? |
A54074 | and had he stood still a while in the Life, out of the Lust, could he have forborn asking the Spirit? |
A54074 | let him become a fool in the flesh: Who will be strong? |
A54062 | How can he which Governs aright under God, hurt that which is of God and for God? |
A54062 | Or how can he spare that which his Sword is given him to cut down? |
A54062 | Or whether they shall generally combine against him, and he be fain to overcome them, before he can Reign over them? |
A54062 | This turned the hand against them which had been for them, and how then could they maintain their standing? |
A54062 | V. How the Kingdoms of the Earth are to become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ? |
A54062 | When shall this be? |
A54062 | Whether he shall find the Kings and Powers of the Earth ready to receive him, and the Professors willing to submit themselves unto him? |
A54062 | Whether it be not by taking his yoak upon them, by submitting to his Laws, his Cords and Bands? |
A54062 | Whether the Lord be arisen to shake terribly the Earth or no( as was long ago prophesied he should? |
A54062 | Whether the Man- child is not then to be expected to be so born and brought forth as to rule all Nations with a rod of Iron? |
A54062 | Whether there ever can be any firm settlement again upon the old Foundations? |
A54062 | Whether this is not to be expected upon the recovery out of the Antichristian Apostacy? |
A54062 | by giving up whatsoever is unjust, unrighteous, harsh and oppressive, and coming under the Bands of Righteousness, Meekness, and Equity? |
A54062 | whether he shall find Faith on the Earth? |
A54025 | And do not evil seeds shoot up in the stead thereof, to the poisoning of their hearts and blemishing of their conversations? |
A54025 | And where is the Boaster here? |
A54025 | Are they not lost sheep indeed lost to God? |
A54025 | Doth it not contain and hold forth Eternal Life to man, upon his faith in an obedience to the spirit of God? |
A54025 | How will he seek them, and how will he find them out? |
A54025 | Now in this work of confounding, how can the leadings of God''s spirit be manifest and clear after the flesh, and to the fleshly understanding? |
A54025 | WHat is the Covenant of the Law? |
A54025 | What is the Covenant of the Gospel? |
A54025 | What will he do with them, when he hath sought after and found them out? |
A54025 | Where is the feeling of life? |
A54025 | Where is the zeal after and earnest seeking of the power of Religion? |
A54025 | and where is the presence of the shepherd among them? |
A54025 | have they not lost the holy, pure, sweet, meek, heavenly, tender, gentle nature of the sheep? |
A54025 | have they not lost the pasture and the fold, whereon they were wo nt to feed and wherein they were wo nt to lie down safe? |
A54025 | have they not lost the preserver of their souls from the devouring spirit? |
A54025 | lost to themselves? |
A54025 | nay, have they not lost the very seed of life, which the good husbandman did sow in them? |
A54025 | or where is he, who in this state, can throw a stone at another because of his transgressions? |
A54025 | others of them sick, and deeply wounded and languishing, not knowing where to meet with the good shepherd, nor how to make shift without him? |
A54025 | where is the love to one another in the living sence? |
A54025 | where is the nature of the sheep to be found in them? |
A54070 | And can any thing grow and thrive out of the Order and Wisdom of God? |
A54070 | And how doth he also endeavour to raise prejudices among the Begotten, that he may interrupt, and( if possibly) stop their building up? |
A54070 | And is not this present dispensation pure and living, and able to preserve both the Instructers and Instructed in the Lord? |
A54070 | And my Friends consider, Could the Lord carry on his glorious Work, in the hearts of his Children, without his judgements? |
A54070 | Besides, are there not many that have witnessed, and that can witness from God, that this is the dispensation which is to go through the whole earth? |
A54070 | Dost not thou set up the measure of Life in thee( if not another thing) beyond its place, state and growth? |
A54070 | Doth he not know the need of bowels and tenderness in them, and would be not especially furnish them therewith? |
A54070 | How doth the Enemy strive to prejudice the World against them, that there may be no begetting to God from amongst them? |
A54070 | Is it not of the Light, Life and Power of the Father, manifested in the Seed, and in the Soul through the Seed? |
A54070 | Is not the sence quick, and the love pure, where this is felt? |
A54070 | Nay, if thou couldst but retire to the pure measure that at first quickened thee, mightest not thou feel thy own fall? |
A54070 | Now doth it not concern every one to look up to the Lord, to guide his heart in searching, that he may truly understand his state? |
A54070 | What wouldst thou have, poor Soul? |
A54070 | When he hath brought forth that which will do the thing, why should he change it? |
A54070 | Yea, have they not bowels from, and in the Lord? |
A54070 | and doth not the eye that is open see, and acknowledge their bowels, and bless the Lord for them? |
A54070 | and shall it be laid aside in the beginning of its work? |
A54060 | After the Apostacy, doth not God renew his Commission, and send forth his Angel( for they are all but one) to preach his everlasting Gospel? |
A54060 | And this I may say concerning its appearance in this our Age, Was ever the like Unity known and brought forth since the dayes of the Apostles? |
A54060 | And were not they that did hearken and obey, commended? |
A54060 | But in a Case of doubt or difference, which shall be the Judge; the Measure of Life within, or the Testimony of others without? |
A54060 | But is not this a turning away from the measure of Life in a mans own vessel, to another mans measure? |
A54060 | Did not Christ give power of Government to his Apostles and Ministers, at the first publication of his everlasting Gospel? |
A54060 | Had they not power over them in the Lord? |
A54060 | Shall I judge, as I feel the thing, in the measure of my own Life? |
A54060 | WHether CHRIST, who is the Head, Lord, King,& c. hath not appointed a Spiritual Order and Government to be in his Church and Congregation? |
A54060 | Were there not some reliques of this Order and Government all along the Apostacy, in the true Church and Ministry thereof? |
A54060 | Why, or how so? |
A54060 | and have they not authority and gifts as well to build up as to plant? |
A54060 | and were not the other that were not subjected, but slighted them and their Ministry and Authority, testified against as disorderly and unruly? |
A54060 | s.n.,[ London: 1663?] |
A54038 | And he that will venture to break this, what but Deceit and Treachery can be expected from him? |
A54038 | And what is it that binds? |
A54038 | For what is the substance and intent of an Oath? |
A54038 | How out of the World? |
A54038 | Is not Christ the Truth, the Substance? |
A54038 | Is not he that is in Him, the New- Creature? |
A54038 | Is not the Confessing of God by a Christian, of more weight, than the Swearing by Him from a Jew or Heathen? |
A54038 | Is not this the Bond of the Gospel? |
A54038 | Now, O King, shall not God''s People be faithful and obedient to the Lord as well as to thee? |
A54038 | Was it useful in the Innocent state? |
A54038 | Were not all the Oaths and Shadows of the Law, to last till Christ the Substance came? |
A54038 | and doth not this seal Truth, and keep to Truth more firmly, than the Oath under the Law could? |
A54038 | doth He call them from having any being or commerce in the Earth, or in the World? |
A54038 | is it the shadow, or the substance? |
A54038 | is it the words of an Oath, or the sense and weight of the thing upon the spirit? |
A54038 | is not the intent of it to bind to the speaking or performing of Truth? |
A54038 | or, Whether Christ alloweth his Disciples to swear in solemn Cases, as Moses did allow his Disciples? |
A54038 | or, did God appoint it there, when man could not but speak Truth? |
A54038 | or, is it useful in the Redeemed Estate, where a greater Bond is received, and professedly held forth, than the Innocency of Mans Nature was? |
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A54056 | I say, what was wanting of all this on Gods part? |
A54056 | Is not the Spiritual City, House, or Temple which God builds, the Ierusalem or Temple of the new Covenant? |
A54056 | Is not the Spiritual Glory, the Glory? |
A54056 | Is not this the choice House to God? |
A54056 | So was not their circumcision a shadow of the circumcision which is to pass upon the Hearts of God''s chosen? |
A54056 | Their City Jerusalem a Tipe of the Jehovah- shammah? |
A54056 | Their Priests and Levites Tipes of the Spiritual Priesthood, which was to offer the pure offering and Spiritual Sacrifices among the Gentiles? |
A54056 | Was not their Canaan, or Holy- land, a type of the true Holy Spiritual rest which the faith gives entrance into? |
A54056 | Were not their Sacrifices types or representations of the Sacrifices of praise and of a broken Heart? |
A54056 | What could he have done more for his Vineyard, than he did do? |
A54056 | What doth this Covenant contain? |
A54056 | What should I say more? |
A54056 | When the day of Messiah dawns, shall not Moses his shadows fly away? |
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A54056 | the Land of Life and Righteousness, the true Land of rest to the living by Faith? |
A54056 | the circumcision of the Heart, the choice circumcision? |
A54056 | the inward Jew, the Jew indeed? |
A54056 | the offering up of praise and of a broken Heart, the acceptable Sacrifice? |
A54056 | what was wanting of Love, of Care, of Goodness, of Kindness, of Mercy, of Gentleness, of any thing that a People could desire of their God? |
A54049 | ? |
A54049 | And whom shall he make to understand Doctrine? |
A54049 | But did not Christ say the Gates of Hell should not prevail against his Church? |
A54049 | But did not this tend to destroy Satan''s Kingdom also? |
A54049 | But if that Eye be clear, who shall be able to blind thee? |
A54049 | Doth he effect this, and prevail likewise against the Witnesses? |
A54049 | How doth he wage the War against them? |
A54049 | How doth the Dragon and false Church prevail? |
A54049 | How doth the true Church prevail? |
A54049 | How many then of the inferior and common sort were then drawn aside? |
A54049 | How shalt thou see the Gospel, the Church, the Spirit, the things of God? |
A54049 | Now how long was this false Church to stand? |
A54049 | Now if the Eye be dark, if the Light which is in thee, be darkness, how great is that darkness? |
A54049 | Quest Hath there then been no visible true Church- state in the world since that time? |
A54049 | They could easily save themselves, turning about to avoid sufferings, and crying, Who is like unto the Beast? |
A54049 | What became of this Beast? |
A54049 | What doth the Dragon do then, to carry on his war against the witnesses? |
A54049 | What is the Wilderness, tell us, that the simple hearted, who long after the truth may know where to look for,& how to find the true Church? |
A54049 | Who is able to make war with him? |
A54049 | Whom shall he teach knowledge? |
A54049 | Why would God suffer him to do thus, seeing he hath all Power in his hands, and could have restrained him if he had pleased? |
A54049 | and had got the holy City under the feet of his worshippers? |
A54029 | 1. Who is the Worshipper, the acceptable Worshipper in the sight of God? |
A54029 | And where did they offer their Sacrifices? |
A54029 | Did they offer them in the old Jerusalem or at Samaria, or the Mountain where the Fathers Worshipped? |
A54029 | Hath it relation to any outward place? |
A54029 | How can the Spirit of the World but still turn against such, and Hate and Persecute them? |
A54029 | How doth God carry on his work in the converted Soul? |
A54029 | How is man Converted? |
A54029 | How long hath this been done, and how long is it yet to last? |
A54029 | How long shall it be thus? |
A54029 | In what Condition is the Conscience, before God works upon it? |
A54029 | Is a man then to expect such a thing as the Leadings of God''s Spirit in his Conscience? |
A54029 | Is only the tender Conscience then, fit to be wrought upon by God? |
A54029 | Is there such a day to be? |
A54029 | Now that is the thing to be enquired into, What this capacity is, and who are the persons that are found in this capacity? |
A54029 | Or is it in the building, which God hath reared up in my heart by his Spirit? |
A54029 | Search the Scriptures: Were not they come to the new Jerusalem? |
A54029 | VVHat is the way of Conversion? |
A54029 | Was this the Worship of the former Christians, in the Apostles dayes? |
A54029 | What doth God make it, in his working upon it? |
A54029 | What is it that hardens the Conscience? |
A54029 | What is most necessary for a man to be vigilant in, that desires to have the work of Conversion go on in his heart? |
A54029 | What is the Worship, or what are the Sacrifices, which the true Worshippers offer up to God, in this holy place? |
A54029 | What is the season of offering up these Gifts? |
A54029 | What stains the Conscience? |
A54029 | When is a man Converted? |
A54029 | When shall this be? |
A54029 | Where doth my soul offer its private Worship to God? |
A54029 | Which is the place of VVorship? |
A54029 | Who is it that preserves the Conscience tender? |
A54065 | And now what is of man in all this? |
A54065 | And what spirit is it in you, that thus worketh in your minds? |
A54065 | But may not these be saved notwithstanding? |
A54065 | Doth not he that is spiritual and in the true sence, always finde God to work in him to will, when ever he willeth rightly and holily? |
A54065 | How comes this way to be hid from some that desire after the Lord, and to know his Truth as it is in Jesus? |
A54065 | How is Christ known, received and obeyed? |
A54065 | How is Justification received, kept and grown up in; and what is the Preservation out of Condemnation? |
A54065 | How is this Seed received? |
A54065 | Is the Liberty which the Son giveth, inferiour in this Life, in its kind, to the captivity and bondage of the Enemy, in its kind? |
A54065 | Is the will at any time his own? |
A54065 | Now is not this a Pearl? |
A54065 | VVHat is CHRIST? |
A54065 | VVHat is justifying or Justification with God? |
A54065 | What are its vertues, manifestations and operations? |
A54065 | What is it God justifies, and what is it he condemns? |
A54065 | What makes any of you own Truth at any time? |
A54065 | Which of them is stronger? |
A54065 | Who would not buy it? |
A54065 | Wouldst thou know what God requires of thee, what this or that is which appears in this or that sort as Truth, whether it be so or no? |
A54065 | and if he can not will of himself, can he do any thing of himself? |
A54065 | and whither doth he lead you by these workings and subtile reasonings? |
A54065 | is it not an inward, lively, powerful touch and demonstration of Gods Spirit? |
A54065 | is it not another thing, of a different nature from this? |
A54065 | nay is not this the Pearl indeed, the precious Pearl of price? |
A54065 | the Enemy to enthrall, or the Lord Jesus Christ, to set free from his Thraldom? |
A54065 | what makes you afterwards doubt and question? |
A54065 | where is the man that can boast before the Lord, who is thus saved? |
A54065 | who would not dig in the Field where this Treasure is hid, until he find it? |
A54065 | who would not sell all for it? |
A54073 | A sonlike spirit: It is naturall to the sonne, to be, like the father; but why? |
A54073 | But how may we know those who believe? |
A54073 | But what is this same receiving of Christ? |
A54073 | Christ doth especially allude to the Miracles that were in Nicodemus his eye; wer''t thou born of these? |
A54073 | Doest thou come to be a Disciple to learn the way to happinesse? |
A54073 | Hence men take up one practise to day, another to morrow; now acknowledge this or that for a truth, by and by it is false, then true againe; why? |
A54073 | If Christ was the light, what need he have such an one as Iohn to goe and proclaime it? |
A54073 | Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when hee is old? |
A54073 | The next words tell you, It is them that believe on his Name? |
A54073 | What is it to be born of the Spirit? |
A54073 | What is it to enter into the Kingdome of God? |
A54073 | What is meant by water? |
A54073 | What is meant by water? |
A54073 | What is the Kingdome of God? |
A54073 | What is this living water? |
A54073 | What it is to be born of water? |
A54073 | What it is to be borne of the Spirit? |
A54073 | What it is to be borne of water? |
A54073 | What this entring into the Kingdome of God is, which none none can doe, but that person which it born of water and of the Spirit? |
A54073 | Why, this is life eternall, to know thee the onely true God, and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent? |
A54073 | can he enter the second time into his mothers womb, and be borne? |
A54073 | can hee enter the second time into his mothers wombe and bee borne? |
A54073 | his own they receive him not; how comes it about that these receive him? |
A54073 | how may we know them? |
A54073 | is there any possibility of this? |
A54073 | or how come these persons to believe and receive him before others? |
A54073 | what is it to be a sonne? |
A54073 | what is it to have a Father? |
A54073 | what is this? |
A54073 | what need Iohn come to beare witnesse of him? |
A54073 | who are those persons that receive him? |
A54073 | wouldst thou enter into that state of blessednesse, that I come to preach? |
A54077 | ( the times and seasons of Forms, and the times and seasons of Life and Power?) |
A54077 | And if now the pains of thy body be so dreadful to thee, what will the tearings of thy soul be by the wrath of the Almighty? |
A54077 | And is not Reason a much more excellent thing, if it be guided by an inward Principle of Life? |
A54077 | Are the Papists, or Protestants, or any other sort of religious persons, found in this Love? |
A54077 | But Sense left to it self, without the guidance of Reason, how bruitish is it? |
A54077 | Do men grow weary of their Forms of Worship, and find them empty, and unsatisfactory to the hungry soul, that pants after life? |
A54077 | Do not all the old things pass away, and new things spring up from the Seed of Life, which God sows and preserves in the hearts of his by his Power? |
A54077 | Do they manifest by it their Discipleship to Christ, and the Power of Christ in them? |
A54077 | Doth not the Light of Life spring in the Love, and gather into the Love? |
A54077 | Is it a gift from God, bestowed on those whom he begets by the power of his Life? |
A54077 | Is it not Love from a principle of Life? |
A54077 | Is it not a travel out of the Enmity of the creature, into the Love of God? |
A54077 | Is it not cruel to require obedience in such cases, wherein the party hath not a capacity in him of obeying? |
A54077 | Is not Sense an excellent thing in man, if it be guided by Reason? |
A54077 | Is there such a thing as the Power of Religion sought after? |
A54077 | Nay, have there not been some touches and appearances of Life and Power, and of the true Love in some poor, weak, despised ones? |
A54077 | Nay, would they not destroy each other, if they could? |
A54077 | Now, who is wise to understand these things? |
A54077 | Or, is it a profession or worship of the nature of this world, which a man by natural parts and industry may attain to, as well as to other things? |
A54077 | VVHat is true Religion? |
A54077 | VVHether Laws made by Man, in Equity, ought to extend any further, than there is power in man to obey? |
A54077 | What is the sum and substance of the true Religion? |
A54077 | When God restoreth Religion and raiseth it up in power, whether then Forms and Wayes of Worship without the Power, must not needs wither and decay? |
A54077 | When the Power first appeared in the dispensation of the Gospel, did not all the shadows of Moses''s Ceremonies fly away and vanish before it? |
A54077 | Where the Power ariseth in any heart, what becomes of the man there, with all that springs from him? |
A54077 | Whether God will restore Religion again in the Power? |
A54077 | Who seeth what God is about to do in the world, and prepareth his heart for his administrations on the earth? |
A54077 | and whether he hath already begun it, and made any progress in it? |
A54077 | and whether the time be near, that God is about such a work? |
A54077 | or rather, do they not set up their several Forms, and maintain them in wrath and enmity against each other? |
A54077 | what becomes of all his Forms of Religion? |
A54077 | where is his former Worship? |
A54077 | where is his wisdom? |
A54077 | whether he hath such a work to do in the world? |
A54077 | who hath the Key to open the Mysteries of Life? |
A54077 | who knoweth the times and the seasons? |
A54028 | And is it not the property of this Light to convert to God? |
A54028 | Can Christ and his Light be separated? |
A54028 | Can any man receive his Light and be united thereto, and not receive him? |
A54028 | Can any man receive this and be united to this, and it not change his nature? |
A54028 | Can any thing convert fallen man to God, but Christ? |
A54028 | Can these, in this state, possibly understand Truth, or know the inward spiritual, precious appearances thereof, either in their own hearts or others? |
A54028 | Dost thou know the difference between reading the Scriptures with the vail on thee, and with the vail off? |
A54028 | Dost thou read the Scriptures with the unvailed eye? |
A54028 | Dost thou witness this Promise fulfilled to thee? |
A54028 | Doth not Christ enlighten every man that cometh into the World? |
A54028 | For how can it be otherwise, when the righteous Life is revealed and brought up into dominion in him? |
A54028 | For no man can confess Christ( how then can he receive him and walk in him?) |
A54028 | How may the Principle of Truth be discerned? |
A54028 | How may this Principle ● ● eed or Pearl) be purchased and possessed? |
A54028 | Now, where it is so, the Devil or Lust can find no place of entrance: and how then should they be able to sow their Seed and bring forth sin? |
A54028 | O consider seriously, is the vail done away from thee? |
A54028 | O this is an hard saying, who can bear it? |
A54028 | So that there may be a great outcry in the heart, Who can stand before this holy Lord God? |
A54028 | Was it the Law of works in the hand of Moses? |
A54028 | Well: how will God redeem her? |
A54028 | What Law was this, or what Law is this? |
A54028 | What is Sion? |
A54028 | What is the Principle of Truth? |
A54028 | What was that holy Covenant? |
A54028 | Who can bring the clean, pure Light of the Law, out of the unclean, impure reason of man? |
A54028 | Why should not the Israel of God hope to enjoy this? |
A54028 | Why so? |
A54028 | Would not God have all men to be saved? |
A54028 | and doth he not give to all, a proportion of the true Light whereby they may be saved? |
A54028 | concern? |
A54028 | dost thou read in the Anointing, in Christs Spirit, in the pure heavenly Wisdom of the divine Birth? |
A54028 | hath any thing power to convert to God, but his pure Law of Life? |
A54028 | or is it the Law of Faith in the hand of Christ? |
A54028 | s.n.,[ London: 1667?] |
A54028 | shall we be consuming with dying? |
A54028 | what should stand in the way of it? |
A54028 | who were the Israel that was to inherit this promise? |
A54028 | who were to be so redeemed? |
A54026 | And how can I blame others for judging thus of them, when I my self should be liable so to judge, if I did so look upon them? |
A54026 | And shall not these be the Lord''s? |
A54026 | And will not the Lord assist that Magistrate, who in his fear waits on him, and is not willing to spare the evil, and afraid to hurt the good? |
A54026 | But where is that man, who joyns with this Witness in him against the Evil, and not with the Evil against this Witness? |
A54026 | But will not this undermine Magistracy, and interrupt its punishing of evil- doers, if they should be thus tender and considerate? |
A54026 | Can a Dove persecute? |
A54026 | Can a Lamb persecute? |
A54026 | Can any hinder God from breathing his Spirit upon People, and from begetting them in the image and likeness of his Spirit unto Himself? |
A54026 | Can darkness chuse but fight to save its own dominions? |
A54026 | Can the Powers of the Earth withstand God any more now, than they could formerly? |
A54026 | Christ himself, when he asked the Jews, for which of his good works they stoned him? |
A54026 | Could the Jews think they did otherwise than well in desiring such a man as this to be put to death? |
A54026 | For what man can not pretend Conscience for what he does? |
A54026 | His spiritual Israel from the spiritual Egypt? |
A54026 | How did Amalek cause his name to be rooted out from under Heaven? |
A54026 | How did the Nations and mighty Powers of the Earth fall upon this account, one after another? |
A54026 | How many of his own People did Pharoah lose, and how did he break the strength and glory of his Kingdom, by persecuting God''s Israel of old? |
A54026 | If the case be knotty, yet if God give wisdom, hath the Magistrate cause to complain? |
A54026 | Is it not good to weigh and consider things reasonably, and then to chuse and hold fast to those Principles which appear most reasonable? |
A54026 | Shall He not break the Antichristian Yoak from their Consciences, that they may be free in spirit to serve the Lord? |
A54026 | The Children of God are as the Apple of his Eye: Who can touch them, and He not be deeply sensible? |
A54026 | The eye of man( in the fallen and corrupt estate) can not see aright: and mis- seeing, how can he chuse but mis- aim and mis- act? |
A54026 | VVhat man is there that hath not in him a Witness against that which is Evil? |
A54026 | What hath been set up all this night of the Apostacy, but Images of the true Worship? |
A54026 | Where is the man that would appear to persecure that which is good in men, or men because of their goodness? |
A54026 | Who can want Instruments to afflict the innocent and helpless, who can neither resist the evil which is offered them, nor harm that which offers it? |
A54026 | and mis- aiming and mis- acting, how can he attain his end? |
A54026 | and what compelling hath there been thereto?) |
A54026 | shall not He redeem and bring forth his People from the Land of Babylon? |
A54026 | shall not the same Spirit teach them to worship the Lord? |
A54026 | what man, but will say it is? |
A54069 | And is not every one wise in his own Eyes, and strong in his own Tower and fenced City? |
A54069 | But dost thou want power to begin the travel with? |
A54069 | But that which cries, how shall I get out of Egypt? |
A54069 | Dost thou walk in the light, which shineth upon thee in that dark land, to gather and lead thee out of it? |
A54069 | Hast thou begun thy travel? |
A54069 | Hast thou not light enough already to begin thy travel out of Babylon? |
A54069 | Have not every sort bent the Scriptures, in the Reasonings of their own Minds, and made them speak according to their own hearts Lusts? |
A54069 | How can Man do this? |
A54069 | How can they in the Wilderness but want that, which is to be possessed in the Holy Land? |
A54069 | Is there any uniting with God, or enjoying of God, but by his Spirit? |
A54069 | Is this true? |
A54069 | It is the unbeliever hangs back, and cries where shall I have power? |
A54069 | Man overlooks the Talent, joyns not his heart to it, brings not forth the fruits of Life to the giver, but cries he wants power, and what is he? |
A54069 | Now let men consider, will this stand before the Throne of God? |
A54069 | Now mark: Is it possible for any man to come to the Eternal Rest, that travels not the Path? |
A54069 | Or wilt thou not begin to come out, till the very glory and brightness of Sion shine upon thee? |
A54069 | What doth he require of Man? |
A54069 | What had become of Paul, if he had had Power to resist the buffettings of the enemy, as he desired? |
A54069 | Whether God be not so near to every man, as that possibly he may seek after him and find him? |
A54069 | and wheher God will fail to impute it to that man? |
A54069 | and whether his Divine Light let into him( being believed in and obeyed) will not purify him from the darkness, unbelief and disobedience? |
A54069 | can he cleanse his own heart? |
A54069 | can he kill his corruptions? |
A54069 | can he quicken himself? |
A54069 | dost thou want what proportion of power the Lord fees necessary for thee in thy present estate? |
A54069 | doth he not appear there by his Light,& in his Power? |
A54069 | is not this his plea, that he wants power? |
A54069 | is there any receiving of Gods Spirit, but within in the heart? |
A54069 | may he not do it? |
A54069 | or, whether he would have only some few of them to receive it and be Saved, and the rest to Perish? |
A54069 | what can he do? |
A54069 | which way shall I ever be able to pass through this intricate wilderness? |
A54069 | who shall bound his Spirit? |
A54069 | would not his fleshly part have remained in the exaltation, and not have been brought down? |
A54037 | All the thoughts, words and actions of man, what are they? |
A54037 | And here I am told, t is not my condition alone, but the condition of others also; yea of all men, Who can know it? |
A54037 | And yet is she not now thus laid open to the sight of every observing eye, and espied under all these by them that watch her? |
A54037 | Did not this appear to be the dress of Self, which she made use of, and threw off at pleasure? |
A54037 | Does he any wrong? |
A54037 | How comes this to pass? |
A54037 | How eagerly does he maintain the excellency of that which he commends, the worthlesness of that which he dispraises? |
A54037 | How many contentions are dangerously begun and chargeably maintained, meerly to humour a mans own will? |
A54037 | How many fleshly principles prevail in thee? |
A54037 | How much more when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? |
A54037 | How? |
A54037 | I say, Wilt thou judg another for murder? |
A54037 | Is he angry? |
A54037 | Is it not a strange thing, yet very common? |
A54037 | Is thy servant a dog? |
A54037 | Lord, What is man? |
A54037 | Oh there is a desperate root of wickedness in us all; Can you blame him to be at enmity with it? |
A54037 | See what all is, and must needs be, that flows from the man; from such a bitter fountain what can proceed, but it must be bitter? |
A54037 | Sure here is integrity, here is the naked Glory of God, and good of the Nation springing up: Who would think to find Self lie lurking close here too? |
A54037 | The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? |
A54037 | Then for his Actions, how highly does he think of them also? |
A54037 | Well, shall I tell thee what I think? |
A54037 | What base unworthy actings, unbeseeming men of honor or ingenuity, did Self put those noble spirits upon? |
A54037 | What canst thou acquit thy self of, that thou judgest another for? |
A54037 | What cost will a man be at to set up his own will? |
A54037 | What pains will a man take to maintain his own wisdom? |
A54037 | What wouldst thou think? |
A54037 | Wherefore have we fasted? |
A54037 | Who can know it? |
A54037 | Who can know it? |
A54037 | Who is there that looks not on the more hideous part of Evil, at least, as at a distance from himself? |
A54037 | Wilt thou condemn Antichrist? |
A54037 | Wilt thou judg another for Adultery? |
A54037 | Wilt thou judg another for fleshly principles, and fleshly actings? |
A54037 | Wilt thou judg another for murder? |
A54037 | Would you know what man is? |
A54037 | who can finde thee in thy cuning shifts, who canst lodg wickednes so secretly in thy heart, that thou thy self knowest it not to be there? |
A54047 | ( Is it not thus? |
A54047 | And hath it not been so? |
A54047 | And how could it be otherwise? |
A54047 | And what sort of persons were they who did most contend for, and were most pleased with these? |
A54047 | Are not the people of God in every change a despised people, and their integrity towards God still struck at? |
A54047 | Consider seriously in the sight of God( who looketh both forward and backward upon things with a true eye) whether it hath been thus or no? |
A54047 | Doth not the least child Light see it to be thus?) |
A54047 | Eightly, How came it about, that the supream Magistrate of this Nation, was made cheif head and governor of this Church under Christ? |
A54047 | Fifthly, What kind of Church Government was set up? |
A54047 | Fourthly, What kind of Worship was it, which was set up? |
A54047 | O England, England, can God alwayes suffer these things? |
A54047 | O weigh these things, look about thee, O England: O Rulers, Teachers, and People look about you? |
A54047 | Of persons changed in heart? |
A54047 | Of persons sensible of the fore going idolatry, and turned in their souls, minds, and spirits from dead Idols towards the living God? |
A54047 | Or did men frame up a Church Government by their wisdome, and put it into the hands of such, as might exercise it without, yea and against the Spirit? |
A54047 | Or was it a maintenance forced from the people, by that outward power which set up the Church? |
A54047 | Or was it for the pleasing and satisfying of the carnal part in people? |
A54047 | Or was not rather the heart of the Nation still inclined towards Popery, even while it was turning into a Protestant Church? |
A54047 | Seventhly, By what wisdome was the Common Prayer Book compiled and set up, and surplices, crosses, and other cerimonies injoyned? |
A54047 | Shall we not be Protestants in truth and uprightness of heart before the Lord? |
A54047 | Shall we not fear the Lord? |
A54047 | Shall we not obey the Lord? |
A54047 | Shall we not worship the Lord our God, who hath redeemed, and is redeeming our souls from death? |
A54047 | Sixthly, What kind of order was set up in this Church? |
A54047 | Therefore look back singly, and consider what the building was, and how it was reared up; and see whether it was of God, or no? |
A54047 | Thirdly, What kind of maintenance was set up for this Ministry? |
A54047 | Was it a Gospel maintenance? |
A54047 | Was it a pure spiritual Government? |
A54047 | Was it built up of a people truly converted to God? |
A54047 | Was it by the wisdome of Gods Spirit, for the building up of the spirits of his people in the faith? |
A54047 | Was it put into the hands of the spirit? |
A54047 | Was it that they should live of the Gospel, which can not but open mens spirits to the true Ministers thereof? |
A54047 | Was it the order of Christs Spirit, whereby the carnal wisdome of man might be quenched, and his spirit have scope? |
A54047 | Was it the true Gospel order? |
A54047 | Was it the worship of the Gospel, which is in spirit and truth? |
A54047 | Was this from Christs institution, or of mans wisdome and invention? |
A54047 | Were they materials fit to make up a true Church of? |
A54047 | Were they, for the generality, the stricter, or the looser sort? |
A54047 | What wouldst thou have of us? |
A54047 | Will not his hand at length be stretched forth against thee? |
A90392 | Again, Look into the tenor of your Call and Trust: Were ye ever entrusted herewith by the People? |
A90392 | And groan likewise for the liberty of the sons of God: for what do ye know but your Liberty may spring up with theirs? |
A90392 | And if things should yet devolve lower, into the great and confused Body of the People, is it likely they would keep their limits? |
A90392 | Are not such and such things evil? |
A90392 | Are there any Laws wanting? |
A90392 | Are there any Laws, Customs, or Encroachments burdensom? |
A90392 | But every one here will be ready to say, What is that Power which is proper to Parliaments? |
A90392 | But where are ye? |
A90392 | Can they submit to the Laws, Ordinances and Constitutions of man concerning their God, while an higher light is set up in them? |
A90392 | Can ye tell me, whence ye came, whither ye are going, where ye now are? |
A90392 | Did they chuse you for this end? |
A90392 | Do ye consider this? |
A90392 | Do ye understand your selves? |
A90392 | Doth PARLIAMENTARY POWER keep within its limits? |
A90392 | Have ye a Commission from them, I mean not formally, but so much as vertually, intentionally? |
A90392 | Have ye took notice what, this long season, hath been doing among you? |
A90392 | Having such advantage of Power in their hands, what is it which might not be done for publique good, if men had hearts, and were in a right way? |
A90392 | He also stirreth the mud in a Nation, and who then can settle it? |
A90392 | He speaketh Peace and Settlement to a Nation, and who then can speak Trouble or Disturbance? |
A90392 | He who wanteth deliverance, and knoweth not where to obtain it; what is more proper for him, then to groan and pant after it? |
A90392 | How can that be? |
A90392 | How is that? |
A90392 | How shall we resolve this fairly and clearly( resolve it indeed we may in our own Judgments and Consciences) when the limits of it are not determined? |
A90392 | Is it not worth more to recover the Liberty of a man? |
A90392 | Is it, or ever was it, the minde of the People? |
A90392 | Is not the Legislative Power as prone to intrench upon the Administrative? |
A90392 | Is there a Government wanting? |
A90392 | Shall I put you in minde? |
A90392 | The Nations of the Earth have still layn under Slavery, have not ye your selves felt it? |
A90392 | They called you to rectifie Government, that is clear enough; but did they call you to govern? |
A90392 | What charge will a man be at, in a Suit of Law, to recover a peece of Estate? |
A90392 | What man is it that judgeth not another? |
A90392 | Who would not, when he feels oppression, if he were able, thrust the Oppressor out of his seat? |
A90392 | Why what ground is there for this? |
A90392 | Would ye not creep out, and do ye think to creep out with ease? |
A90392 | and he that judgeth another thinketh himself free, at least in that respect wherein he judgeth another: but what is said here? |
A90392 | and in so doing, is it not likely to prove as afflictive? |
A90392 | and what is that work, which they are not fitted for, entrusted with, or appointed to? |
A90392 | do ye act like men? |
A90392 | doth not the person deserve to be judged for them? |
A90392 | or are ye led and driven up and down like brute Creatures? |
A90392 | what is that Power of a different nature, which will be so dangerous for them to assume? |
A90392 | what is their proper work? |
A90392 | who knoweth that? |
A54040 | & c? |
A54040 | 13? |
A54040 | 2 Is there such a state to be witnessed, as of the Maker to become the Husband? |
A54040 | 2. of seeking God daily, and delighting to know his wayes, as a Nation that did Righteousness, and forsook not the Ordinance of their God? |
A54040 | 4. Who is this that hath been afflict ● d, tossed with tempest and not comforted? |
A54040 | 5 Who is this, whose stones God layes with fair Colours, and her Foundations with Saphires? |
A54040 | 8.9? |
A54040 | And did not he act in the Father, and the Father in and through him? |
A54040 | And hath the Lord appeared to these, visited th ● se, built up these, comforted these? |
A54040 | And he that walks according to this rule, can he err in so walking? |
A54040 | And they who are taught by him to keep it( and do faithfully keep it) do they not inherit this Promise? |
A54040 | Are not these of the true Seed of Jacob( who prevail with the Lord for the blessing?) |
A54040 | Are there any now among the Sons of men, whose light hath risen in obscurity, and whose darkness hath become as noon- day? |
A54040 | Are there not many Professions and sorts of Professors at this day, who in Gods sight fall short of this state, and yet think highly of themselves? |
A54040 | Are they not the same which the Soul is to walk in? |
A54040 | But did God create him to destroy his heritage? |
A54040 | By whom do they gather together, who gather together against such a people? |
A54040 | Did he not walk in the Light of Gods Spirit? |
A54040 | Doth God require such fasting or praying of any man? |
A54040 | Doth not God teach his Children in the new Covenant to observe this fast? |
A54040 | Every tongue that riseth up in judgment against them, doth not the holy Tongue condemn? |
A54040 | Hath not God created the Waster to destroy? |
A54040 | How did Christ walk? |
A54040 | Is it inferior in nature to the Fast before mentioned? |
A54040 | Is it the Law- Sabboth, or the Gospel- Sabboth? |
A54040 | Is not the just mans path and his dweling place all one, even the Light of the Living, which he is both to walk and abide in? |
A54040 | Is not this the Heritage of the Servants of the Lord, in this our day? |
A54040 | Now, doth not he give forth a measure of the same Spirit, of the same Anointing, of the same Power to become Sons unto all his? |
A54040 | Or will God suffer him so to do? |
A54040 | They that keep Gods holy Sabboth, do they not delight themselves in the Lord? |
A54040 | Was not the Covenant of Life so adorned in the Apostles days? |
A54040 | Was not the Father alwayes with him? |
A54040 | Was not the fulness given him? |
A54040 | What are the Paths that are to be dwelt in? |
A54040 | What is the fast which God requireth, and will accept in all Ages? |
A54040 | What was the Transgression and the Sins which the Prophet was not to spare them in, but lift up his Voice like a Trumpet against them for? |
A54040 | Who can understand or learn the fast, but he that is taught of God? |
A54040 | and are not they to walk according to the measure of Light and Life they receive from him? |
A54040 | and do not such as come to this state( even to be married to the Lamb) partake more abundantly of his redeeming ● ower and holy Presence? |
A54040 | and doth not he limit him in the midst of his destroying work? |
A54040 | and doth not the Lord say( what ever men say to the contrary) that their Righteousness is of him? |
A54040 | and hath not he power over him? |
A54040 | and is she not so adorned now again? |
A54040 | and will he not be as tender of his spirit ● ● l Israel, in the day of his redeeming and delivering them? |
A54040 | do they not feel the pleasure of his Day, and of his Appearance in his day? |
A54040 | in Subjection to Gods Spirit? |
A54040 | or will the Lord accept such fasting or praying at any mans hand? |
A54040 | whose Windows God makes of Agates, and her Gates of Carbuncles, and all her Borders of Pleasant Stones? |
A90394 | ANd what if I should say, that this should be the course and progress of the Judgment? |
A90394 | And what are things at present? |
A90394 | And what brave Royal Heart would refuse to joyn issue with this request? |
A90394 | And who( or what) shall live when God doth this? |
A90394 | And yet what a continual inveterate enmity is there between these? |
A90394 | And yet who is more offended then the wise man? |
A90394 | Are they things that are, or things that are not? |
A90394 | Awake, awake O Sons of men, How long will ye love vanity? |
A90394 | But what is all this? |
A90394 | But where are you now, Sweet Anne? |
A90394 | But where dwells this Skill? |
A90394 | But who can read it? |
A90394 | Do you know the Lord, or his Love? |
A90394 | Does not Truth lie hid under the colour? |
A90394 | Hath not every one set up the Idols of his own heart, the stumbling block of his own iniquity before his eyes? |
A90394 | Have they a real, or an appearing existence? |
A90394 | He that can be content to please himself in escaping Hell, where others must scorch in unutterable torment, is he righteous? |
A90394 | How can any man desire to be Righteous, to be Perfect, if his end must be the same with him who is most imperfect and wicked? |
A90394 | How long will ye love shadows, and please your selves with them, as if they were the Substance? |
A90394 | How long will ye seek after lyes? |
A90394 | I know according to your present measure you do, and so do others according to theirs, but do you know by the true standing measure? |
A90394 | I who am unworthy of the esteem of a Servant, Do you know your self, that you call your self unworthy? |
A90394 | If the Light that is in thee be Darkness, how great is that Darkness? |
A90394 | Is it not time for you, O sons of Men, to look about you? |
A90394 | It is not the knowledg of the true God, at best it is but the knowledg of his likeness,( and alass, how little is there of this kind too?) |
A90394 | Or do we know whence these colours came, or what they are in their root? |
A90394 | Search all sorts of Christians, Where is he that knows the true Christ, the true way to God through Christ? |
A90394 | Search the course of Man throughout the whole World, Where is he who sees, knows, worships the true God? |
A90394 | Search the course of Man( Vain Man, or Religious Man) throughout the Scriptures, how finde ye him there? |
A90394 | Some questioned with me, whether I meant the act of Sin? |
A90394 | The Earth is sinking under thee, Thy Elements melting in thee, Thy whole Life and Being expiring; what wilt thou do? |
A90394 | The light whereby thou seest is darkness; What meanest thou to be so forward& confident in judging either thy self or others? |
A90394 | We see Good and Evil which colour the whole Creation; But do we see that Substance which is coloured with these? |
A90394 | What need any man care, what he thinks or does? |
A90394 | What should the creature do in Heaven? |
A90394 | What would you say to me? |
A90394 | Where is that eye that can see through it into Happiness? |
A90394 | Where is that that remains certain, after this sharp vehement shaking? |
A90394 | Who is so skilful as to understand the Characters either of Life or Death? |
A90394 | Who shall scape Hell, when all the unrighteous in the eye of man, when all the unrighteous in the eye of God, are cast into it? |
A90394 | Why gaddest thou then to change thy way? |
A90394 | You might be drawn forth to judg me wonderful deeply and clearly by your present eye, but can you or any else throughly resolve this? |
A90394 | You see the rottenness of your former foundation, are you sure you now build upon firm ground, upon the inmost Rock? |
A90394 | is it anywhere? |
A90394 | is there any such thing? |
A90394 | when wilt thou cease boasting of thy knowledg, and come indeed to know the Lord? |
A90394 | where dwells this Life, this Spirit, this Power? |
A90394 | where wilt thou shelter thy self? |
A90394 | why art thou so puffed up with thy knowledg? |
A54035 | ( And if there be Flesh and Bones in the mystery, is there not also Blood in the mystery?) |
A54035 | And can any that feel him within, deny him to be within, the strength of life, the hope of glory? |
A54035 | And is there not a Mount Sion under the Gospel, which is the substance of that figure? |
A54035 | And they that feel this within, do they not feel Christ within? |
A54035 | But what is the way of Peace, which neither the Prophane, nor any sort of Professors out of the life and power, ever knew or can know? |
A54035 | Can outward Blood cleanse? |
A54035 | Can this possibly be understood of outward Flesh and Bone? |
A54035 | Do ye love God? |
A54035 | Doth he herein do, as he would be done by? |
A54035 | Doth not God promise to sprinkle clean water upon his Israel in the new Covenant, and they shall be clean? |
A54035 | Doth not the live coal from the Altar, purifie and take away the iniquity? |
A54035 | How did God appear to you? |
A54035 | How did God gather you? |
A54035 | If he did not know Christ after the flesh, how did he know him? |
A54035 | Is it not that house, or heart, where the many Enemies are? |
A54035 | Is not the false or Antichristian Church, Flesh of Antichrists Flesh, and Bone of Antichrists Bone? |
A54035 | Is not the true Church, Flesh of Christs Flesh, and Bone of his Bone? |
A54035 | Is this a Christian Spirit: or according to the Law or Prophets, or Christs Doctrine? |
A54035 | Is this common Flesh and Blood? |
A54035 | Isaac Penington( who I suppose is an approved Quaker) asks this question, can outward blood cleanse? |
A54035 | Nay, doth not his Flesh make able to abide the devouring fire, and to dwell with the everlasting burnings? |
A54035 | Now consider seriously, are all these of one and the same nature? |
A54035 | Now, what is this Mountain? |
A54035 | O T. H. dost thou believe the eternal judgment, at the great day; not outwardly only in notion, but inwardly in heart? |
A54035 | O where''s that truth, or that knowledge of the Son, which makes free from him? |
A54035 | O where''s the faith that gives victory over the Enemys? |
A54035 | Oh, this was the joyful sound to our Souls, even the tydings of the arising of that inward life and power which could do this? |
A54035 | Q. BVt some may say, what appearance of the Great God and Saviour did ye want? |
A54035 | Shall ever the Church which is of Christs Flesh, be stripped naked and burnt with fire? |
A54035 | So that, what should we publish any new faith, or any new Doctrines for? |
A54035 | The Query runs thus, Can outward Blood cleanse the Conscience? |
A54035 | Was Abrahams offering his Son so pretious in Gods eye? |
A54035 | What is the Flesh of the spiritual Whore, which is to be stripped naked and burnt with fire? |
A54035 | What is the field? |
A54035 | What is this, which is like a little Seed, a Pearl,& c. And where is it to be found? |
A54035 | What pleasure is it to us to testifie against you? |
A54035 | Where is this to be felt, but within? |
A54035 | Where''s living in the spirit, and walking in the spirit, and in the pure light of the Lord, when he can not come? |
A54035 | Where''s reading of the Scriptures in that which gives to witness them, and which fulfils them in the heart? |
A54035 | Where''s the ability in the faith so to resist him, as to make him fly? |
A54035 | ],[ London? |
A54035 | and the God of peace his treading him under the feet of his Saints? |
A54035 | and to pour water on him that is thirsty, and Floods upon the dry grounds? |
A54035 | are your hearts circumcised to love God? |
A54035 | as if these words of mine( can outward Blood cleanse?) |
A54035 | can this be affirmed of common Flesh and Blood? |
A54035 | did ye ever feel it to be outward? |
A54035 | do I now deny or slight the outward? |
A54035 | is it not manifestly intended of Flesh and Bone in the Mystery? |
A54035 | is it not the World, and is not the World set in mans heart? |
A54035 | or are they of a different nature? |
A54035 | the Spirit of one nature,& the Water and Blood of another nature? |
A54035 | was there not a Mount- Sion under the Law, which was figurative? |
A54035 | what is the house, which is to be swept and the Candle lighted in? |
A54035 | what is the outwardly most exact litteral knowledge without this? |
A54035 | ye that are spiritual consider( can outward water wash the Soul clean?) |
A54035 | ye that have ever felt the Blood of sprinkling from the Lord upon your Consciences, and your Consciences cleansed thereby? |
A54024 | And now which way can deceit be so much as suspected here? |
A54024 | And which way shall he ever come to the Kingdome, which has lighted upon the wrong means? |
A54024 | But behold, a thick night of darknesse overspread the beauty of this? |
A54024 | But the seed of the Kingdome is little, and ye are great, how can ye enter into it? |
A54024 | Can not the spirituall eye see things in its kind? |
A54024 | Can ye mildly receive these gentle leadings? |
A54024 | Canst thou pray? |
A54024 | Canst 〈 ◊ 〉 see and judge naturall things in the naturall part? |
A54024 | Christ is descended into the lower parts of the earth, and ye are using means to ascend upwards in the wrong nature, how can ye meet with him? |
A54024 | Consider with your selves, hath that grown in your forms, or hath it been slain there? |
A54024 | Did God leave mans spirit at liberty to invent and form meanings of his words, and bind up his owne spirit from speaking further words afterwards? |
A54024 | Didst thou begin with sighs and groans, staying there, till the same spirit that taught thee to groan, taught thee also to speak? |
A54024 | Does the Scripture say he can doe nothing without the Spirit? |
A54024 | Dost thou ask this question from thy heart, in the simplicity, out of the fleshly wisdome? |
A54024 | He that doth ● ot understand what he is warned against, how is it likely he should be preserved by the warning? |
A54024 | He that knoweth not the mistery of iniquity working under a form of godlines, may not he easily be deceived with the mistery of iniquity? |
A54024 | He that knoweth not what is become of the true Church& ministry, and where to look for them, may not he easily own a fall Church and ministry? |
A54024 | How difficult doe you make the way to life, if not utterly impossible? |
A54024 | If all this be true, who can be saved? |
A54024 | Look about you, look about you, all sorts of devout professors, see where ye are: are you not dead in your forms? |
A54024 | Must be heat? |
A54024 | Must he deny himselfe and all his own righteousnesse, and duties, and hope only for salvation in the merits of Christ? |
A54024 | Must he meditate? |
A54024 | Must he pray? |
A54024 | Must he read? |
A54024 | Now how easie is it for a man to mistake here, and call this the truth? |
A54024 | Now the question is, which of these thy prayer is? |
A54024 | Now to meet with all the plagues here threatned, and to miss of all the blessednesse here promised, is it not a sad state? |
A54024 | Speak the truth in your own hearts, Can ye truly say, from a sercible feeling in the life, that that principle is still alive in you? |
A54024 | Therefore in the fear of that God who hath spoken this, and will make it good, let every one search who is the adder, who is the diminisher? |
A54024 | Wast thou ever able to distinguish the sighs and groans of the Spirits begetting, from the sighs and groans of thy own naturall and affectionate part? |
A54024 | What can it propose to be done, that he will not do? |
A54024 | What can the Scripture propose to be believed, that he will not believe? |
A54024 | What is fed by mens Scripture knowledge, but the earthly understanding? |
A54024 | What is that? |
A54024 | What then is that faith which is the gift of God, and which is distinct from this? |
A54024 | What this little thing, small like a grain of mustard- seed, can this be the glorious Christ, which the Scriptures have spoke so much of? |
A54024 | What would not a man doe, to avoid perpetuall extremity of misery on soul and body for ever, and to obtain a crowne of everlasting blessednesse? |
A54024 | When Moses said, thou shalt not adde nor diminish, was this to be any stop to the Prophets, in whom God should speake afterwards? |
A54024 | how camest thou to learn to pray? |
A54024 | is not the good old puritan principle( wherein once was true life in its measure) dead and buried there? |
A54024 | or didst thou gain the skill and abillity, by the exercise and improvement of thine, own naturall part? |
A54024 | shall I speake a little of the wares of Babilon? |
A54024 | the pearl lies hid in the field, and ye are gazing up to Heaven how can ye see it? |
A54024 | to what end hath God given it? |
A54024 | wast thou taught from above? |
A54024 | where is there an ear which can hear me? |
A54024 | whether it be thine own breath, or Gods breath? |
A54024 | whether it come from the renewings of the Spirit of life, or from thine own naturall part painted? |
A54045 | 1) Behold Heaven, and the Heaven of Heavens can not contain thee, how much less this House which I have built? |
A54045 | Again, Thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth Eternity( what is Eternity?) |
A54045 | And can not God be in Heaven and in Earth too, and also by his Spirit in the hearts of his people? |
A54045 | And in the Resurrection of the just and the unjust, shall not both the just and unjust see him who is the Judge? |
A54045 | And who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? |
A54045 | Are the rest of the Members equal with the Head? |
A54045 | Can not he judge, who hath the Anointing? |
A54045 | Did Christ come of the Jews according to the Flesh, and did he not come of Abraham according to the Flesh? |
A54045 | Did not he give them power so to do? |
A54045 | Did the Law of God, which was against Sin and the Devil, come from the Devil? |
A54045 | Did they not cast out Devils and do miracles, while he was on Earth? |
A54045 | Do the Quakers think to find Eternal Life in the Scriptures? |
A54045 | Doth Reason teach a man to mannage his body destructively and unreasonably, as the corrupt and unreasonable law of sin and death teacheth many men? |
A54045 | Doth not he call this tree the Serpent? |
A54045 | Doth not he that is a Child of God receive his Spirit? |
A54045 | Further p. 48. he saith,[ Who do you blind Quakers think should be judge of a Prophet that hath a Commission from God?] |
A54045 | Had Moses his Commission from the Serpent? |
A54045 | Hath the Head no preheminence in the Body? |
A54045 | He that knoweth the Nature and Spirit of God, knoweth God, though he be not able to measure or discern the utmost extent of his Beeing, which who can? |
A54045 | How could the Israelites understand what God was by this? |
A54045 | How often hath he affirmed his Judgment to be infallible and such as God himself could not reverse? |
A54045 | How taught? |
A54045 | I remember my grievous and bitter mournings to the Lord; how often did I say, O Lord, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A54045 | If the God- head Life suffered death, what power was left to raise it up again? |
A54045 | In this condition I wandered up and down from mountain to hill, from one sort to another, with a cry in my spirit, Can ye tell news of my Beloved? |
A54045 | Is God changable? |
A54045 | Is he God? |
A54045 | Is he one thing to day, and another thing tomorrow? |
A54045 | Is it such a strange thing that God should be in Heaven and in Earth also? |
A54045 | Is not the Earth his Footstool? |
A54045 | Is not the Enmity as expessly placed by God between the Serpent and the Woman, as between their Seeds? |
A54045 | Is not the Law holy, just and good? |
A54045 | Is this the defence about the glory of the new Jerusalem? |
A54045 | They spake and wrot as they were moved by the holy Spirit, and is not that a sufficient Commission? |
A54045 | Was not Christ in Heaven while he was hear on Earth, according to his own words? |
A54045 | Was not the Devil defiled, a corrupt tree, an Angel fallen from his habitation, before he tempted Eve and Adam to sin and fall? |
A54045 | Was that which tempted Adam, the tree out of which Moses his Commission came? |
A54045 | Was this holy Root they were broken from a wild Olive- tree? |
A54045 | Well then, how came this about? |
A54045 | What interpretation of Scripture is here? |
A54045 | What is he able to cast into Hell? |
A54045 | What is to be desired more then the new Covenant? |
A54045 | What kind of doctrine is this, that the very God- head Life suffered death, and so to make the Creator mortal like the Creature? |
A54045 | What saith the Apostle? |
A54045 | What was the Olive- tree the Jews were broken off from? |
A54045 | Where was this ever affirmed by them? |
A54045 | Whether shall I go from thy Spirit? |
A54045 | Yet again p. 48. he saith,[ Is not a true Prophet the Law- giver? |
A54045 | ],[ London? |
A54045 | and are not the feet present in the place on which they tread? |
A54045 | and can he never be any more what he was yesterday? |
A54045 | and did it come from an unholy root? |
A54045 | and he that waits, and fears, and goes on no further then his Captain goes before him, doth he not proceed safely? |
A54045 | and is not the Spirit of God able to judge in them that receive it? |
A54045 | and ought not every one to submit unto his Law?] |
A54045 | did they ever teach men so? |
A54045 | have they not very often faithfully testified otherwise? |
A54045 | is he Christ? |
A54045 | is he the only one? |
A54045 | is not this an absolute contradiction? |
A54045 | is there not another God another Judge? |
A54045 | is this the Wall and Bulwark? |
A54045 | or an holy Commission out of the Devil? |
A54045 | or whether shall I flee from thy Presence? |
A54045 | what do they feed in you? |
A54045 | what is it in you that relisheth them? |
A54045 | what satisfaction could they find in this answer of Moses, would this spirit say? |
A54045 | where doth he appear? |
A54045 | where doth he dwell? |
A54045 | why hast thou broken me to pieces? |
A54044 | 20. be not morall and perpetuall, as well as the other nine be, yea or no? |
A54044 | 20. then what law did he mean? |
A54044 | 4.24? |
A54044 | Again, was the law, which Moses administred to the Jews, a law of Liberty, or a law of bondage? |
A54044 | And he that is in the Spirit, and hath received the Law of Life from the Spirit, knovveth not Christ after the flesh, hovv much less Moses? |
A54044 | But may any of these Laws be broken? |
A54044 | But was there any thing of the ten words a shadow? |
A54044 | But what is the substance of the law which abides? |
A54044 | Did ye receive the Spirit? |
A54044 | Do they not all command abiding things? |
A54044 | How not according to that? |
A54044 | How not faultless? |
A54044 | How was it within them? |
A54044 | I say, what was wanting of all this on Gods part? |
A54044 | If God write them in the new Covenant, and in the new Tables, shal not I read them there? |
A54044 | If God write these things in the heart, are they not to be read there? |
A54044 | Is his law now to be read in the shadow, or with the outward eye, or to be looked for under the old mercy- seat of the outward tabernacle? |
A54044 | Is not the Spiritual City, House, or Temple which God builds, the Ierusalem or Temple of the new Covenant? |
A54044 | Is not the Spiritual Glory, the Glory? |
A54044 | Is not this the choice House to God? |
A54044 | Now consider seriously, whither should a believer go for this laws? |
A54044 | Now when was the time when Paul was alive without the Law? |
A54044 | Shall he give me an eye to read, and shall I not read therewith? |
A54044 | So was not their circumcision a shadow of the circumcision which is to pass upon the Hearts of God''s chosen? |
A54044 | The Pharisees demanded of him when the Kingdom of God should come? |
A54044 | Their City Jerusalem a Tipe of the Jehovah- shammah? |
A54044 | Their Priests and Levites Tipes of the Spiritual Priesthood, which was to offer the pure offering and Spiritual Sacrifices among the Gentiles? |
A54044 | Was it not when he was righteous, when he was whole? |
A54044 | Was not their Canaan, or Holy- land, a type of the true Holy Spiritual rest which the faith gives entrance into? |
A54044 | Was the law as it was administred by Moses, the Royall Law? |
A54044 | Were not their Sacrifices types or representations of the Sacrifices of praise and of a broken Heart? |
A54044 | Were ye children of the New Covenant? |
A54044 | What could he have done more for his Vineyard, than he did do? |
A54044 | What doth this Covenant contain? |
A54044 | What is the Royall Law? |
A54044 | What should I mention any more? |
A54044 | What should I say more? |
A54044 | When that is come, which it signified, is not its work at an end?) |
A54044 | When the day of Messiah dawns, shall not Moses his shadows fly away? |
A54044 | Why did ye not keep to your rule? |
A54044 | Why did ye not wait on the Spirit, and receive the Law from the New Jerusalem, from whence it issues forth to the family of believers? |
A54044 | Will God write in my heart, and will he not give me an eye to read? |
A54044 | and not one jot or tittle of it to pass so long as heaven and earth remain? |
A54044 | can there any just blame be found in any thing that proceeded from the Lord? |
A54044 | had ye a measure of faith given you? |
A54044 | or is it the Royall Law as it is administred by the Son, who is the King of Saints, and writes his law in their hearts as their King? |
A54044 | that they might not flie on the Sabbath, knowing that their flight would fall out more then thirty yeares after his death? |
A54044 | the Land of Life and Righteousness, the true Land of rest to the living by Faith? |
A54044 | the circumcision of the Heart, the choice circumcision? |
A54044 | the inward Jew, the Jew indeed? |
A54044 | the offering up of praise and of a broken Heart, the acceptable Sacrifice? |
A54044 | the other sacrificing for sin? |
A54044 | to which Covenant? |
A54044 | was there any sin in the Holy Law& Ministration of God by Moses? |
A54044 | were ye new creatures? |
A54044 | what is the Law of Liberty? |
A54044 | what was wanting of Love, of Care, of Goodness, of Kindness, of Mercy, of Gentleness, of any thing that a People could desire of their God? |
A54066 | And can the spiritual Jews, sing the spiritual Songs of spiritual Sion, in mysterie Babylon? |
A54066 | And do ye bear no burthen, kindle no fire, do no work on that his Day? |
A54066 | And do ye worship the Lord there on his own Day, which he hath spiritually made? |
A54066 | And what is the Church of the New Covenant? |
A54066 | And what is the Heavenly birth''s light? |
A54066 | And whether he can be safe in these respects, who either doth not understand or not observe the warnings given by the Spirit of the Lord therein? |
A54066 | Are all the walls of partition broken down, and is there nothing now between you, but of two are ye made one in that which uniteth? |
A54066 | Are ye not under the Law, but under Grace? |
A54066 | Did the true Church ever sit upon many Waters? |
A54066 | Do ye come up to the New- Jerusalem to offer your sacrifices there according to the institution of the Gospel? |
A54066 | Do ye indeed feed thereon? |
A54066 | Do ye know the Mountain of the Lord''s House, and the Lord''s House built and established by his own Holy Spirit and Power upon his own Holy Mountain? |
A54066 | Do ye know the Paradice of God, and the Tree of Life there? |
A54066 | Do ye live in the Spirit? |
A54066 | Do ye never warm your selves at any fire, or by any sparks of your own kindling? |
A54066 | Do ye walk in the Light of the Lord( as the Spiritual House of Jacob is to do?) |
A54066 | Have ye drunk of the Water of the Rock? |
A54066 | Have ye fed on the Manna dropt down from Heaven upon your Spirits therein? |
A54066 | Have ye gone through the exercises and tryals of the Wilderness? |
A54066 | Have ye known it an Hammer, a Fire, an Axe laid to the Root of the corrupt Tree? |
A54066 | Have ye known the great and terrible day of the Lord, wherein he ariseth to shake terribly the Earth? |
A54066 | Have ye really felt these things, or have ye been in the Dreams and Imaginings about them? |
A54066 | Have ye received the Spirit? |
A54066 | Have ye seen the Serpent lifted up, and felt the healing thereby? |
A54066 | Have ye witnessed the Pillar of Cloud by Day, and the Pillar of Fire by Night to be your Defence and Leader? |
A54066 | Have ye witnessed the effects of the great and terrible day of the Lord in your Spirits? |
A54066 | Have you passed through the Flaming Sword to the Tree of Life? |
A54066 | He then that readeth not, that hath not an ear to hear the words of this Prophesie, how can he keep what is written therein? |
A54066 | How are these Stones joyned together? |
A54066 | Is Antichrist destroyed, the Whore burnt, Flesh consumed, Man ceased from, both within and without? |
A54066 | Is every high Tower battered down, and every fenced Wall laid flat? |
A54066 | Is it not in nature and kind above the light of the first Adam? |
A54066 | Is it not the earthly mind, the fallen mind? |
A54066 | Is it not the light of the second Adam? |
A54066 | Is it not the seed of God, the Jews inward, the Children of the New Covenant? |
A54066 | Is not the birth of, and from the second Adam? |
A54066 | Not under the Enemy''s power, but under the Spirit''s power, out of the other''s reach, so that the wicked one can not touch you? |
A54066 | Root, Branches, Leaves and Fruit so cut down by it, as to cumber the ground no more? |
A54066 | The word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two- edged Sword, and what doth it do? |
A54066 | Upon what is this Church built? |
A54066 | VVhat was Paul? |
A54066 | Was it not the seed of Abraham, the outward Jews, the Children of the Old Covenant? |
A54066 | Was not the Church a gathering out of the Nations, into the Power and Life which the Nations persecuted? |
A54066 | Was the Church alwaies to be a gathered Company? |
A54066 | Were not they carnal that cryed up these one above another? |
A54066 | What is Apollos? |
A54066 | What is Cephas? |
A54066 | What is Paul? |
A54066 | What is the Church of God under the new Agreement or Covenant? |
A54066 | What is the birth? |
A54066 | What was Peter? |
A54066 | What was the Church of the Old Covenant? |
A54066 | Where is the seat of reasonings? |
A54066 | Whether it was not the great Love and Mercy of God, to warn the Churches of these things in the Book of the Revelations? |
A54066 | Whether the true Church did retain her Ministry outwardly, and her outward Ordinances, and way of worship of the outward Court after her scattering? |
A54066 | Why so? |
A54066 | Yea is the Lord alone exalted in your Spirits, and all other Dominion, Authority, Rule and Lordship put under? |
A54066 | and do ye know the corrupt Tree? |
A54066 | and do ye worship the Lord alone therein? |
A54066 | are ye truly united, so as to become one Spirit with the Lord? |
A54066 | or was there a possibility of their being scattered? |
A54066 | or whether the false Church, which appeared in her room as if she had been the true, caught up and appeared in the outwardness of these? |
A54064 | ( And where do they plant and set them?) |
A54064 | ( over the worldly nature and spirit within; over the worldly nature and spirit without also) can any other Faith give victory? |
A54064 | And art thou daily taught and fed by him there? |
A54064 | And do the Isles wait for it in vain? |
A54064 | And do they not then, plant pleasant Plants, and set strange Slips? |
A54064 | And dost thou know what the VVomb is, wherein the living Child is formed? |
A54064 | And doth not that give them to do also, and strengthen them with might in the inner man? |
A54064 | And hast thou been new- created and formed a Living Stone by him? |
A54064 | And is it not good that it should befal them? |
A54064 | And may not God in his just Judgment and sore Displeasure against them, leave them to themselves, and give them up so to do? |
A54064 | But what will the Harvest be in the Day of Inheritance, when they come to reap and inherit what they have planted and sown? |
A54064 | Can any but the Plants of God, the Plants of Righteousness, bring forth the fruits of Righteousness? |
A54064 | Christ faith, Blessed are the Pure in Heart; Do, or can any witness Purity of Heart before this washing? |
A54064 | DOst thou indeed know the new Covenant? |
A54064 | Do they not first forget the God of their Salvation, and become unmindful of the Rock of their Strength? |
A54064 | Dost thou abide with God therein? |
A54064 | Doth not that make them a willing People in the day of his Power? |
A54064 | Doth not the Holy One in the midst of the Spiritual Israel do this? |
A54064 | Doth not this Faith give Victory over the world? |
A54064 | Hast thou been abundantly satisfied with the fatness of God''s house, and hath he given thee to drink of the River of his Pleasure? |
A54064 | Hast thou been called and led to them? |
A54064 | Hast thou eat and drunk the Bread, Wine and Milk which those waters yield? |
A54064 | Hast thou experienced the true Hunger and Thirst after the Living Waters? |
A54064 | Hast thou inwardly felt the spiritual, powerful Gathering, by the mighty Arm and Power of the Lord, out of the sinful nature and state, into it? |
A54064 | Hast thou known his Appearance inwardly, as of a Living Stone? |
A54064 | Hath the Lord opened an Ear in thee to hear as the learned? |
A54064 | How come the Children of God, who are begotten of him, to obey his Commandments? |
A54064 | How come they to love? |
A54064 | How doth God cause the Children of the New Covenant to walk in his Statutes and keep his Judgments and do them? |
A54064 | How doth he dispossess him? |
A54064 | How doth he spoil his Goods and then garnish the House a new? |
A54064 | How may they be overcome? |
A54064 | In what Light do men build up a wall inwardly, and daub it with untempered Morter, to secure themselves from the wrath to come? |
A54064 | Is it a Fear taught by the Precepts of men, or a Fear springing from the Root of Life within? |
A54064 | Is it not by putting his spirit into them, and by the holy Virtue, Power and Operation thereof in them? |
A54064 | Is it not in the light of the fire and sparks of their own kindling? |
A54064 | Is it not of an heavenly, spiritual nature? |
A54064 | Is it not the Law of the spirit ● ife in Christ Jesus? |
A54064 | Is it not the Law which the Isles wait for? |
A54064 | Is it not the Word of Life within, which flames against Evil, and hammers down Evil? |
A54064 | May not men after they have kindled a fire and sparks; walk in the Light thereof? |
A54064 | Must not the Tree be good, before the Fruit can be good? |
A54064 | Must not the heart be changed, be made holy and righteous, before it can bring forth that which is holy and righteous? |
A54064 | O what a new Creation and Change within is witnessed, when this is done? |
A54064 | These are very weighty things, can any man be safe or happy without experiencing them? |
A54064 | VVhat are the Enemies of a Man''s House? |
A54064 | VVhat is the Answer of a Good Conscience towards God, when the soul is inwardly baptized and made clean? |
A54064 | VVhat is the Fear God puts into the hearts of the Children of the New Covenant? |
A54064 | VVhat is the Fire which takes hold of, and burns up the Lusts and Corruptions of the Heart? |
A54064 | VVhat is the House of the Strong- Man, where he dwells till he be dispossessed? |
A54064 | VVhat is the Law which God writes in the Hearts of the Children of the New Coenant? |
A54064 | VVhat is the Love of God''s Children? |
A54064 | VVhat is the Truth that makes free indeed, from the Law of sin and death? |
A54064 | VVhat is the precious Faith, which is the Gift of God, which none can obtain, but they that are born of God? |
A54064 | VVhat the Jerusalem above is, which is the Mother of all that are truly living? |
A54064 | VVhen shall Persons Light rise in obseurity,& their Darkness be as the noon- day? |
A54064 | VVhence doth it arise? |
A54064 | VVho can confess Jesus to be the Lord by the Holy Ghost? |
A54064 | VVho can dispossess him? |
A54064 | VVho is he, who when he falleth, shall arise again? |
A54064 | VVho must overcome them? |
A54064 | VVill not the Lord bring forth such an one to the Light, and shall not such an one behold his ● ighteousness? |
A54064 | Verse 10. WHo is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the Voice of his Servant, that walketh in Darkness and hath no Light? |
A54064 | When do men kindle a fire and sparks of their own? |
A54064 | Will any wall defend the soul from the over flowing storm of Wrath, but the wall of God''s Salvation? |
A54064 | Will not God cause them at length to lie down in sorrow? |
A54064 | Yea, doth not this befal some who fear the Lord, and are found in the holy reverence and obedience to him? |
A54064 | and after he hath sate in Darkness, the Lord shall be a Light unto him? |
A54064 | and how Christ is formed in all that are begotten, and born of, and live in his spirit? |
A54064 | hast thou heard and learned o the Father how to come to him, as to a Living Stone? |
A90402 | 2. Who is this that darkeneth Counsel by words without knowledg? |
A90402 | 3. Who is he that hideth Conncel without knowledge? |
A90402 | Ah poor man I why dost thou cozen thy self? |
A90402 | And lastly, Let me put this one thing more to thee; What Dispensation thinkest thou are we under at present? |
A90402 | And now what shall I say to you, my dear ones? |
A90402 | As touching the first, Whether we have attained to such a Dispensation, as we may walk on comfortably in? |
A90402 | But how come they to drink this wine? |
A90402 | But how knowest thou, O vain man, that it ariseth from any of these? |
A90402 | But tell me, O poor Soul, can not the natural understanding drink in all these things? |
A90402 | But what became of this glory? |
A90402 | But where is it now? |
A90402 | Can any else but he heal? |
A90402 | Can he heal? |
A90402 | Canst thou say that a present Oppression is not determined concerning thee by him who hath power to dispose of all things? |
A90402 | Dost thou not know it is against thine own Soul? |
A90402 | Doth thy Reason tell thee so? |
A90402 | Every man almost can tell what God means in every thing: this, God intends in this; this, in that: Is such a man afflicted so or so? |
A90402 | For the second, Whether we are to expect a Restoration of the the Primitive State, or no? |
A90402 | From whence did any true Life and Power flow at first, and whither is it now retired? |
A90402 | Had I not better fall a weeping over you? |
A90402 | Hath it thriven, or decayed? |
A90402 | How can any mans stomack forbear nauseating such kind of persons? |
A90402 | How carnal and defective in practise? |
A90402 | How come so many then to lose the lives of their spirits in such Relations? |
A90402 | How comest thou to be so subtle a Sophister? |
A90402 | How dark must it needs be, when the whole vision of God is become as a sealed book, that none, either unlearned or learned, can read any part of it? |
A90402 | How subject to be shaken in doctrine? |
A90402 | If these things be done to the green tree, what will become of the dry? |
A90402 | If thou labourest for Freedom with all thy might, and a greater power oppose, what wilt thou gain by the contest? |
A90402 | In what state hath it been? |
A90402 | In what state is it? |
A90402 | Is it alive, or dead? |
A90402 | Is it not gone? |
A90402 | Is not the glory of all sorts of men fallen? |
A90402 | Let me ask thee yet again, Whence this cure is to be expected, and can alone be had? |
A90402 | MY dear Heart, mine own Soul; what shall I call thee? |
A90402 | Nay, is it possible to be recovered? |
A90402 | O what a strange thing is love among Christians? |
A90402 | Or are we to expect any other state promised in the Scripture, and( as some say) experienced by themselves, which this is to give way unto? |
A90402 | Patience, Humility, Meekness of spirit,& c. where do they grow? |
A90402 | Thy love, what is become of it? |
A90402 | What Life and Vigour in Prayer? |
A90402 | What Sweetness, Meekness, Patience, Humility, Faith, Love,& c. did appear in Christians a while ago? |
A90402 | What a poor state were the Churches in, even in the Apostles times? |
A90402 | What inward searching of heart, and outward strictness of conversation? |
A90402 | What is there of these left within, in the heart, when there is such a general complaint, that they are not to be found in the lives of Professors? |
A90402 | What man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? |
A90402 | What, is your Religion of the right coyn? |
A90402 | Wherein two particulars would be distinctly considered, The thing it self, whether such a thing is to be or no? |
A90402 | Whether Religion hath not received a wound in the inward part of it, since this Contestation about outward things, and the outward part of Religion? |
A90402 | Whether have we attained that Light, that Life, that Power, by which we are to walk, and under which we may comfortably sit down? |
A90402 | Who comes near it? |
A90402 | Who hath required this at your hands? |
A90402 | Who is it that hath wounded? |
A90402 | Who is this? |
A90402 | Whom do ye embrace in your bosoms, your true Love, or a stranger? |
A90402 | Whom shall he teach knowledg? |
A90402 | Why do ye so often remove your eyes from one sort of men to another? |
A90402 | Why doth it not do it in Scotland, where it hath scope and power enough? |
A90402 | Will Independency or Anabaptism do it? |
A90402 | Will Presbytery do it? |
A90402 | and is not this a just occasion of lamentation? |
A90402 | and whom shall he make to understand Doctrine? |
A90402 | but what value have my tears above my words? |
A90402 | hath it the stamp of your King, or is it counterfeit? |
A90402 | how quickly will the unquenchable fire devour such stubble? |
A90402 | how will these stand against the tempest? |
A90402 | or who gave thee liberty to vent thine own Imagination concerning so intricate a passage as thine eyes never met with before? |
A90402 | that takes so much upon him, that will be opening the Counsels of God, and yet hath not knowledg? |
A90402 | what wilt thou do, when thou shalt meet with this Wo? |
A90402 | when that Spirit that breathed life into it shall not only withdraw from it, but blow sharply upon it? |
A90402 | when thou findest by sensible and undeniable experience that which thou thoughtest utterly impossible? |
A90402 | when thou shalt not only find thy glorious beauty a fading, but the Spirit of the Lord blowing upon it with a strong East wind? |
A54072 | ( Is it not more gloriously, in an inward way, then ever he was in the Temple in the outward Jerusalem, in an outward way?) |
A54072 | 2. Who makes War with the Lamb? |
A54072 | 4 Did the great red Dragon and his Army, never( in no respect) prevail in this Battel? |
A54072 | 6. Who are those that shall be hungry, when God''s Servants shall eat? |
A54072 | After what manner doth God arise inwardly and scatter his Enemies? |
A54072 | And after his Obedience to his Father, was he not cut off, though not for himself? |
A54072 | And after his cutting off, were not you made desolate? |
A54072 | And ashamed, when his Servants shall rejoyce? |
A54072 | And consider, who were the People in the time of the first Covenant? |
A54072 | And did he not do the will? |
A54072 | And doth not the Knowledge of the Lord cover his Land, his Earth, as the VVaters do the Sea? |
A54072 | And shall they not turn from all their Idols, to serve the living God? |
A54072 | And thirsty, when God''s Servants shall drink? |
A54072 | And what are the servants of the Lord, whom the Lord hath called by another Name, even a Name that ye never knew? |
A54072 | And what said David of old when God''s spirit and the holy vision was upon him? |
A54072 | And what should I say more? |
A54072 | And what was the people and foolish nation he would provoke them to Jealousie and Anger with? |
A54072 | And which is the City of God which they make glad? |
A54072 | And who were not a People, and who did not ob ● ain mercy, but were left out of the love and mercy of the first Covenant? |
A54072 | And who would grieve God''s Spirit, which is our Comforter? |
A54072 | Are they not the waters of the Messiah? |
A54072 | Are they not waters that flow out of the wells of salvation? |
A54072 | But how shall we find this, may some say? |
A54072 | But how should he feed them? |
A54072 | But who are the People that shall be gathered to him? |
A54072 | Christ said unto Peter, Lovest thou me more then these? |
A54072 | Did he not come in the prepared Body to do the will? |
A54072 | Did not God signifie by the Prophet Malachy, that he had no Pleasure in you, nor would accept an Offering at your Hand? |
A54072 | Did not the Messiah come at the set time, at the time set by the holy Spirit of prophecy? |
A54072 | Do not the Spiritual Israel draw spiritual water out of the wells of the Saviour, in the Dayes of the Messiah? |
A54072 | Do ye know the inward mountain, where the vail or face of the covering is destroyed? |
A54072 | Do ye not think the Lord hath been at work, and is still at work? |
A54072 | Doth not the vail lie still on your whole Nation? |
A54072 | Free from the base, earthly, selfish nature and spirit, which man fallen from God, and the Glory wherein he created him, is degenerated into? |
A54072 | He that created man at first so glorious, in his own Image; is he not able to create him anew? |
A54072 | How came David to pant so after the living God, like the Hart or Hind after the water- brooks? |
A54072 | How comes it about, that she shall not be moved? |
A54072 | How is God her Refuge and Strength, and present help in time of Trouble? |
A54072 | How is God in the midst of this City? |
A54072 | How is it manifest, that the great Gathering to Shiloh, was to be from among the Gentiles? |
A54072 | How is she built? |
A54072 | How is she founded and scituated? |
A54072 | How will God come to be exalted in the Heathen, and in the Earth? |
A54072 | If I now testifie to you in Truth, of a Pearl, a heavenly Pearl, an everlasting Pearl; will ye not hear me? |
A54072 | If I tell you, your Heart is the Field, or Earth, wherein it is hid; will ye not consider of it? |
A54072 | If the everlasting Gospel be preached again, which contains true Tidings of Redemption from sin; will ye not listen after it? |
A54072 | In what should he feed them? |
A54072 | In what way shall his Power appear, to bring down Unrighteousness, and to bring up Righteousness in the Spirits of People? |
A54072 | Is it not by the Light of his Day breaking forth and shining in them? |
A54072 | Is not This the Day wherein the holy Mountain is known and that nothing can hurt or destroy there? |
A54072 | Is not this the People, whom indeed God hath formed for himself, who shall shew forth his praise? |
A54072 | Oh, is not the Power of God, and life of Christ able to restore man to this? |
A54072 | Or quench that which kindles the pure Flame of Love and Life in our Hearts? |
A54072 | Question 1 WHO is the Lamb? |
A54072 | The Cry every where was, Who is like unto the Beast? |
A54072 | Then it shall be said no more, who can make War with the Beast? |
A54072 | VVas not this once gloriously fulfilled in the first Visitation of the Gentiles? |
A54072 | VVere they not the Gentiles? |
A54072 | VVere they not the Jews? |
A54072 | VVhere this Day breaks forth in any heart, doth it not bteak down and destroy the Kingdom of Darkness inwardly? |
A54072 | VVho obtained Mercy then? |
A54072 | VVho were they that moved God to Jealousie, and provoked him to Anger? |
A54072 | VVith what should he feed them? |
A54072 | WHich is the true Church, or the Gospel- Church, or he Church, according to the new Covenant? |
A54072 | Was it not from the quickning Virtue of this inward word, which Moses the man of God had directed the mind to? |
A54072 | Was not the Messiah promised to the Jews, to come of them, and to be appropriated to them? |
A54072 | Were it not worth the suffering of much, the denying of much, and the bearing of much Judgment to come to this? |
A54072 | Were the Jews then excluded? |
A54072 | What are the waters, which every thirsty soul is invited to? |
A54072 | What is it to come to these waters? |
A54072 | What is that Stilness, wherein God is known to be God; not outwardly in notion, but inwardly in the heart? |
A54072 | What is the Maintenance of the Ministers of Christ, or what is to be the Maintenance of the true Ministers under the Gospel? |
A54072 | What shall the Lord do to awaken this Nation? |
A54072 | What strength have they on their side, that make War against the Lamb? |
A54072 | What will the Lamb do, when this time is out? |
A54072 | When Babylon the great City falls, which made all Nations drunk with her spiritual Wine of Fornication? |
A54072 | Which are the Tabernacles of the most high, and which is the holy Place of those Tabernacles? |
A54072 | Which is the River, and what are the Streams thereof, which make glad the City of God? |
A54072 | Which is the true Gospel- Ministry, and who are the true Gospel- Ministers? |
A54072 | Who can make War with the Innocent, Righteous Lamb( who hath his sword in his Mouth) and with his tender- hearted, faithful Followers, and prosper? |
A54072 | Who is able to make War with the Beast? |
A54072 | Who was the married Wife, who was the Mother in the Dayes of the first Covenant? |
A54072 | Whose Eyes are alwayes darkned? |
A54072 | Why did such a stroke come upon you, as never before? |
A54072 | Why was she now to rejoyce and sing? |
A54072 | Why were ye made desolate? |
A54072 | Will not all such expectations fail you for ever? |
A54072 | Ye desire outward liberty, and the enjoyment of your outward rights; would ye not be free inwardly? |
A54072 | Yea, is not the Rest of the weary Soul, when 〈 ◊ 〉 comes hither, found to be very glorious? |
A54072 | after what manner, when the Enemy cometh in like a Flood, doth the Spirit of the Lord lift up a standard against him? |
A54072 | but who can withstand this Power? |
A54072 | was it not another Jerusalem, which is free, and the Mother of all the spiritual Children? |
A54072 | was it not the Jerusalem below; Who was then Desolate and Barren? |
A54063 | & shall they not be so also to him, who is in perfect Unity and Fellowship with God? |
A54063 | 69.21) Were not his Bones kept from being broken, according to the Paschal Lamb the Type? |
A54063 | 69.22,& c. What is their Table? |
A54063 | And is not this come to pass upon them? |
A54063 | But hath not man naturally a Light in the fallen Estate, which discovereth unto him Good and Evil? |
A54063 | But is not Light and Darkness, Good and Evil all alike to God? |
A54063 | Could he then chuse but set up the Shadows of the Law, in the stead of the Substance which was vailed therein? |
A54063 | Did the Prophets foretel that the Jews would put the Messiah to Death? |
A54063 | Did they not cast Lots for his Garments? |
A54063 | Doth not the Enemy speak inwardly also, and resemble his voyce? |
A54063 | How came Israel after the Flesh to be rejected? |
A54063 | How came he not to see the Spiritual Glory? |
A54063 | How came man to fall from this Estate? |
A54063 | How came this People to be the chosen People at first, and so long to continue such? |
A54063 | How can Darkness discover Darkness? |
A54063 | How could such a Temptation enter man, he being Pure and Holy, inclined to Good and against Evil, after the Image of his Creator? |
A54063 | How did God Try them in the Wilderness? |
A54063 | How did God deal with them in reference to the Land of Canaan? |
A54063 | How did God deal with them then? |
A54063 | How did God find them in Egypt upon this Tryal? |
A54063 | How did God find them in the Wildernesse? |
A54063 | How did God find them in their own Land? |
A54063 | How did God prepare them for the good Land? |
A54063 | How did God try them in Egypt? |
A54063 | How do these exercises puri ● ● and enlarge them? |
A54063 | How doth God exercise him towards Good and Evil, and correct him? |
A54063 | How doth God exercise the heart that is turned? |
A54063 | How doth God heal and bind up that, which he hath wounded and broken to pieces with his various and frequent exercises? |
A54063 | How doth God weaken the Creature under the Teachings and Chastisements of the Law? |
A54063 | How doth God wound him in the natural and corrupt State? |
A54063 | How doth it turn the heart from the darkness? |
A54063 | How doth or can the Enemy prevail over Persons in so Glorious an Estate? |
A54063 | How doth the Light enlighten? |
A54063 | How doth the Light work Redemption in its shining? |
A54063 | How far may Persons go, and yet be lyable to the Enemies snare? |
A54063 | How is Faith and Obedience here exercised? |
A54063 | How is Faith and Obedience here exercised? |
A54063 | How is Faith and Obedience here exercised? |
A54063 | How is man dark? |
A54063 | How is the Voyce of God known? |
A54063 | How long is this Desolation and Hardness to abide upon them? |
A54063 | How may Israel believe, and become subject to the Light? |
A54063 | How may old Israel enter into this Path, and so become new Israel? |
A54063 | How shall they be visited and gathered? |
A54063 | Is it not on the Writings of Moses and the Prophets? |
A54063 | Is man then in a fallen Estate? |
A54063 | Is man then mistaken in his Judgment of Good and Evil since the fall? |
A54063 | Is not the pure being untouched by Death and Destruction? |
A54063 | Is there any Scripture of the Prophets, which declareth that they should be thus blind and hard? |
A54063 | Is there then such a State of Safety, upon which the Enemy can not Intrench? |
A54063 | May not these drawings be quenched, and the Work of God stopped? |
A54063 | Quest, Are Egypt with the Wilderness and Canaan Spiritually as distinct Estates, as they were Litterally? |
A54063 | Quest, Can Man in the fall see his fallen Estate, and so seek after a recovery out of it? |
A54063 | The great Glory of God is hid in a little Seed, and how can the great Eye of the fleshly- wise see it? |
A54063 | This is an hard ● ● ss ● n, who can learn it? |
A54063 | WHat is the Gospel? |
A54063 | WHat was the Rise of that People the Jewes? |
A54063 | Was he not Betrayed by one of his own Table? |
A54063 | Was not Gall also given him, and Vinegar to Drink? |
A54063 | What are the several Estates or Conditions, wherein God exerciseth the Spirit of man in Faith and Obedience? |
A54063 | What did they do to him, not seeing his Glory? |
A54063 | What doth he do with it in the Wilderness? |
A54063 | What doth he do with it then? |
A54063 | What doth he do with it then? |
A54063 | What doth the Lord do with it there? |
A54063 | What frames of Spirit do they work the Heart or Mind into? |
A54063 | What is Spiritual Canaan, or the Heavenly- built State or State of the Gospel? |
A54063 | What is the Estate of the Wilderness Spiritually? |
A54063 | What is the Work of Redemption? |
A54063 | What is the benefit of these Exercises upon the Soul? |
A54063 | What is the great danger in the Path of Life? |
A54063 | What is the way of safety, when God enlargeth the Territories of Life in the Soul, and causeth his Love and Grace to abound? |
A54063 | What is this Life, or how doth it first manifest it self in the darkness? |
A54063 | What then is the proper Estate and Condition of man in the fall? |
A54063 | What was his Estate before his fall? |
A54063 | What was the State of man in and since the fall? |
A54063 | What was the end for which God chose that People? |
A54063 | What was the result of God''s trying them under the Judges and Kings? |
A54063 | What was to befall the Jews for refusing the Day of their Visitation by the Messiah, and for the putting of him to Death? |
A54063 | What way is there of preservation here- from? |
A54063 | When do these exercises begin, and how long do they continue? |
A54063 | Where doth God find the heart, when he first visiteth it with his Light? |
A54063 | Wherein did his Glory and Blessedness consist? |
A54063 | Who can trust his Life with the Fountain, and lie open to what follows? |
A54063 | Who doth this Work, or who is Man''s Redeemer out of the Fall? |
A54063 | Why doth God thus exercise his Israel? |
A54063 | With what doth this Word or Redeemer redeem? |
A54063 | With what kind of things doth the Lord exercise the Spirits of his Israel, to bring their hearts into these and such other like precious frames? |
A54063 | and shall not the Creature, when it is Redeemed into him, be as he is? |
A54063 | can any thing stop God''s Creating Power? |
A54063 | for what Person hath been more hateful and hated than a Jew, who was once the Glory and Envy of all Nations? |
A54063 | how is man dead? |
A54063 | how then is the voyce of the Redeemer distinguished from him, who counterfeiteth the Shepherd and his voyce? |
A54063 | is his Soul or body dead as to their being? |
A54063 | or how else is it? |
A54063 | where and on what do they Feed? |
A54063 | why doth he lead them in such a knotty, and not in a more easie and ready way to the everlasting possession, and to the fulness thereof? |
A90395 | Ah wise flesh, whither wilt thou go? |
A90395 | And He said unto them, Can ye make the Children of the Bride- chamber fast while the Bridegroom is with them? |
A90395 | And are ye sure that Christ the Life of Christ, Salvation by Christ, are passed away? |
A90395 | And may ye not be met with for this? |
A90395 | And who can forbear weeping at the sight of this, who hath his eye opened to behold it, and hath any creaturely sense left in him? |
A90395 | And why may there not be a season for that perfection to discover it self, and be set up, as well as there hath been for this imperfection? |
A90395 | Are these the postures of death? |
A90395 | Are ye dead Sirs? |
A90395 | Are ye dead? |
A90395 | Are ye sure that Sin shall be thus lovely? |
A90395 | Art thou sure he can appear no otherwise then according to what thou expectest he will? |
A90395 | But canst thou measure the ways, thoughts or various appearances of that God whom thou thy self callest infinite and immeasurable? |
A90395 | But how can this be? |
A90395 | But how little doth he consider the weakness, the shallowness, the uncertainty of these principles? |
A90395 | But how suddenly is this changed, by Gods emptying him from vessel to vessel? |
A90395 | But shall it always be thus? |
A90395 | But shall it always be thus? |
A90395 | But what shall we seek? |
A90395 | But what should we seek in God; what should we seek of God? |
A90395 | But what will this avail? |
A90395 | But who durst resign up his righteousness in Christ, and go and lie in the grave with the wicked? |
A90395 | But who writes after this copy? |
A90395 | But why do I thus speak? |
A90395 | Can God be just in making Israel ashamed of Bethel, and suffer Moab to go on prosperously in worshipping Chemosh? |
A90395 | Can not thy Christ dye, and go away, in that which thou hast known, enjoyed, or hoped for of him? |
A90395 | Can ye consider what is now to be spoken? |
A90395 | Can ye make the children of the Bride- chamber fast while the Bridegroom is with them? |
A90395 | Can ye make the children of the Bride- chamber fast while the Bridegroom is with them? |
A90395 | Doth not the faine Life live subtilly in you, as did before, under a strange disguise? |
A90395 | Hath the dead man any such reasonings, such light, such principles in him? |
A90395 | How can the spurious brat of the Creature come to attain Eternal Life? |
A90395 | How can things fall out with one another, that differ not from one another? |
A90395 | How know you that? |
A90395 | How now Sirs? |
A90395 | I am of kin unto you, of your flesh and of your bone; My Life, my Spirit, my Substance is one with yours; why are we so strange one to another? |
A90395 | I can except against the person who judgeth, be he what he will: who art thou? |
A90395 | If God did not pass away in one Dispensation, how could he make way for the discovery of himself in another? |
A90395 | If not, why do ye hold it forth? |
A90395 | If sin could defile God, where were his holiness? |
A90395 | If the Creature it self be not substance, how can any thing else be so that comes from it; that hath what it hath, in and throught it? |
A90395 | Is it from true and original Light, that thou desirest and seekest for thine own Salvation, or from a self- ish Principle? |
A90395 | Is it not high time for thee to be taken down? |
A90395 | Is not the whole Creation under some Law, which judgeth sin in what kinde soever it be, and hath proportioned smart unto it? |
A90395 | Is that which thou hast attained, and hoped for, of such an enduring nature, that it can never pass away? |
A90395 | Is thy Faith, thy Love, thy Hope, thy Joy, any thing that thou hast, spiritual? |
A90395 | Look into thy Religion, is it indeed pure and undefiled? |
A90395 | May not the glory of these fall before a greater glory? |
A90395 | May not this Dispensation pass away? |
A90395 | May not ye your selves sin, and be met with for sin, though ye can acknowledg neither? |
A90395 | Nay are ye sure that it is so lovely at present, that ye make no bones of it in any kinde? |
A90395 | Not in that light, which streamed forth in you, or to you; but in that light which dwells in the Fountain? |
A90395 | O mourn with Jerusalem ye that truly love her: Was ever sorrow like unto her sorrow? |
A90395 | Pray how comest thou to be so exalted, as to come to judg another? |
A90395 | Shall God and the Creature ever thwart and cross, and never please one another, nor be pleased in one another? |
A90395 | Shall I tell you what my spirit in the dark saith concerning these things? |
A90395 | Speak ye these things wildly, or comprehensively? |
A90395 | Tell me, See ye these things in Original Light? |
A90395 | That which caused, and so heightened the difference between the Jews and the Gentiles, what was it but their Ordinances? |
A90395 | That ye will live before your time, is not this your sin? |
A90395 | The Jews knew Christ under the Law, and it was an excellent knowledg compared with any thing the Heathen had; but what became of that knowledg? |
A90395 | The Scribes and Pharisees murmured against his Disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with Publicans and sinners? |
A90395 | There was but one Adam, and yet this one was made into two, and out of these two, what thousands of generations have proceeded? |
A90395 | There was but one mass of Earth, and yet what multitudes of things were brought forth out of it? |
A90395 | Things so refracted, as appearing all to be good and in God, what excellency is there in this, what certainty is there in this? |
A90395 | This was the freedom Christ enjoyed,( Which of you convinceth me of sin? |
A90395 | Thou, who hast ever been judging, dost thou think thou shalt never come to judgment? |
A90395 | Was ever destruction and desolation like unto that which hath lighted on her? |
A90395 | Well, to draw to an end, What shall we say to the present state of things? |
A90395 | What do we all do? |
A90395 | What is like to be the issue? |
A90395 | What is the great cause of joy, indeed the whole cause of joy in and to the heart of the Church? |
A90395 | What, shall a few momentany varieties and contrarieties( fitted only for some present design) make perpetuall inroads upon everlasting Unity? |
A90395 | Where is the man that judgeth not himself, that judgeth not others; that justifieth not himself, that condemneth not others? |
A90395 | Who are those you would have seek? |
A90395 | Who knows either God, Christ, Faith, Love, Hope, Prayer, or any thing else, spiritually? |
A90395 | Why do the Disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the Disciples of the Pha ● irisees, but thine eat and drink? |
A90395 | Why may there not be a perfection in that very way, in that very kind, wherein imperfection hath hitherto appeared? |
A90395 | and when it doth pass away, is not all the glory and excellency of it rouled up like a scrole, and cast aside with it? |
A90395 | are they not all self- ish? |
A90395 | art thou his Lord? |
A90395 | do they not all rise, or sink, from self, and in reference to self? |
A90395 | if ye be, why do ye say ye are dead? |
A90395 | is it not self- ish at the very bottom? |
A90395 | is there any such knowledg in the grave? |
A90395 | nay, who can yet shew a glory equal with them? |
A90395 | or whither art thou leading? |
A90395 | what is the judgment worth that he passeth upon things? |
A90395 | what will then his total departure do? |
A90395 | where are ye? |
A90395 | where wilt thou stop? |
A90395 | who can speak, or act like them? |
A54059 | 23.8, 9, 10, 11. and said he, How can ye believe which receive honour one of another and seek not the honour that cometh from God onely? |
A54059 | 3 How may this Principle( Seed or Pearl) be purchased and possessed? |
A54059 | And are not the Priests and Bishops of that Whorish Woman, that is gon ● from the Husband Christ, who are to be silent? |
A54059 | And it is not the property of this Light to convert to God? |
A54059 | And was it not a Woman that was sent by Christ that first did preach his Resurrection to his Disciples? |
A54059 | And were not there many Males and Females to make up this Woman that had forsaken her Husband? |
A54059 | And what should Swine do with Pearls, whose Life is in Husks, and there they feed? |
A54059 | And what will ye do with that in Joel 2.28? |
A54059 | And when that his Children were destroyed, and his wife said to him, what, dost thou continue in thy Integrity still? |
A54059 | And wherefore is the Spirit of Prophesie given but to edefie the Church? |
A54059 | And whether or no he that remaines in the Heavens, be not also manifest in man, that is restored and lives, and walks, and reigns in him? |
A54059 | Can Christ and his Light be seprated? |
A54059 | Can any man receive his Light and be united thereto, and not receive him? |
A54059 | Can any thing convert fallen man to God, but Christ? |
A54059 | Can these, in this state, possibly understand Truth, or know the inward spiritual, precious appearances thereof, either in their own hearts or others? |
A54059 | Curse God and dye; he rebukes her, and calls her, A foolish woman: and said unto her, Shall I receive good of the Lord and not evil? |
A54059 | Dost thou read the Scriptures with the unvailed eye? |
A54059 | Dost thou witness this Promise fulfilled to thee? |
A54059 | Doth not Christ enlighten every man that cometh into the World? |
A54059 | For how can it be otherwise, when the righteous Life is revealed and brought up into dominion in him? |
A54059 | For no man can confess Christ( how then can he receive him and walk in him?) |
A54059 | For, would you own Christ if he had come in your day? |
A54059 | HAve any of you the same Spirit and Power as the Prophets and Apostles had? |
A54059 | Have not we had the Gospel all this time till now? |
A54059 | How many hundred thousand pounds in England is gained by the Scripture, and humane Authors joyned to it? |
A54059 | How may the Principle of Truth be discerned? |
A54059 | If I be a Father, where is my honor? |
A54059 | If Paul had stopt Women and Maids that had learned Christ, would not that have been against Joel''s Prophesie? |
A54059 | Is it she that is come to have Christ Head in her? |
A54059 | Is not Christ the Husband? |
A54059 | Is not he as well the Husband of the Males as of the Females, and of the Females as of the Males? |
A54059 | Is not his Church the Spouse of Christ? |
A54059 | Is not the Widdow without an Husband? |
A54059 | Now all ye learned ones, where is your Original? |
A54059 | Now if ye indeed know the Christ of God, tell us plainly what that is which appeared in the Body? |
A54059 | Now, where it is so, the Devil or Lust can find no place of entrance: and how then should they be able to sow their Seed and bring forth sin? |
A54059 | O consider seriously, is the vail done away from thee? |
A54059 | O this is an hard saying, who can bear it? |
A54059 | Or else were not the gift received in vain, if it were not to be used? |
A54059 | Or have you heard Gods voice, and Christs voice immediately fro ● Heaven, or are you some of them the Lord never sent, nor spake unto? |
A54059 | Or, may not Christ speak through the Woman, when he is Head over all? |
A54059 | Seeing you look upon your selves to differ from many, and to be above them, let us see wherein, and in what it is manifest? |
A54059 | Shall man that is born of a woman be Just? |
A54059 | So he that hath the Letter, let him speak the Letter, and he that hath the Life, let him speak the Life: What is the Husk to the Kernel? |
A54059 | So that there may be a great outcry in the heart, Who can stand before this holy Lord God? |
A54059 | WHat Woman is it that is not permitted to Speak in in the Church? |
A54059 | Was it the Law of workes in the hand of Moses? |
A54059 | Well: how will God redeem her? |
A54059 | What Law was this, or what Law is this? |
A54059 | What and where is that which must give the knowledge of God, is it within People or without them? |
A54059 | What are the Graves, and the Tombes, and the Sepulchres, and the Fowls of the Air, and the Nests they sit in, which Christ spake of? |
A54059 | What condition is Sion in, when God visits her to redeem her? |
A54059 | What did they travel about, or help him in? |
A54059 | What is Sion? |
A54059 | What is the Chaffe to the Wheat saith the Lord? |
A54059 | What is the Principle of Truth? |
A54059 | What say the Shepherds, Tentmakers, Physitians and Tolegatheres? |
A54059 | What, did every one that saw that Body, see the Father also? |
A54059 | Where is there a more profitable trade? |
A54059 | Whether ever any came to see so far as Balaams Ass, who saw the Angel of the Lord? |
A54059 | Whether or no you own Trembling and Quaking at the Word of God? |
A54059 | Who can bring the clean pure light of the Law, out of the unclean, impure Reason of man? |
A54059 | Why did Paul suffer Phillips Daughters to Prophesie? |
A54059 | Why should not the Israel of God hope to enjoy this? |
A54059 | Why so? |
A54059 | Would not God have all men to be saved? |
A54059 | ],[ London? |
A54059 | and doth he not give to all, a proportion of the true Light whereby they may be saved? |
A54059 | and had not they the Spirit of Prophesie? |
A54059 | and if it be to be used, Then must it not be for the service of the Church, for Edification, Exhortation and Comfort? |
A54059 | and when was this fulfilled, if it was not among the Apostles? |
A54059 | concern? |
A54059 | dost thou know the difference between reading the Scriptures with the vail on thee, and with the vail off? |
A54059 | dost thou read in the Anointing, in Christs Spirit, in the pure heavenly Wisdom of the divine Birth? |
A54059 | hath any thing power to convert to God, but his pure Law of Life? |
A54059 | if not, then why did Paul( that said, I suffer not a Woman to speak in the Church) allow of Women as his Fellow- Labourers and Helpers in the Gospel? |
A54059 | or is it she that is not come that length, but is learning, and so is to learn in silence? |
A54059 | or is it the Law of Faith in the hand of Christ? |
A54059 | or to cast him and his mother into the Manger in your Stables? |
A54059 | or what is the Chaffe to the Wheat? |
A54059 | shall we be consuming with dying? |
A54059 | was not Israel that went from her Spiritual Husband, called an Harlot, or a Whorish Woman? |
A54059 | were not they Prophetesses? |
A54059 | what should stand in the way of it? |
A54059 | what was that holy Covenant? |
A54059 | what was that labour and help? |
A54059 | whether that was not the Christ before it took up the Body, after it took up the Body, and for ever? |
A54059 | who were the Israel that was to inherit this promise? |
A54059 | who were to be so redeemed? |
A54059 | yet did not the Lord say to him, he had reserved so many Thousands that had not bowed the knee to Baal? |
A90388 | ( This is a faithful and true testimony, but who can receive it? |
A90388 | And what is their gathering into a Church, who were never gathered into the life, and setting up Ordinances and pastors? |
A90388 | But hast thou not read in the Spirit? |
A90388 | But how shall they keep from Idols, who know not the anointing, but think the revelations thereof are ceased? |
A90388 | But how shall they put on Christ, who have not put off the body of sin? |
A90388 | But who shall abide in his tabetnacle? |
A90388 | But why do ye strive and contend thus with the God of Jacob? |
A90388 | Can any worship God aright, before they be truly convinced of his will and way? |
A90388 | Did not the Saints formerly do thus? |
A90388 | Do not your hearts a little feel it? |
A90388 | Doth not the wisdom of that spirit which is out of the truth, guid you in your searchings after truth? |
A90388 | Enter into your hearts, O ye back- sliding children, is it not thus? |
A90388 | Hast thou read? |
A90388 | Have ye not seen, how no strength nor Council hath been able to prevail against them? |
A90388 | He that made the earth, will not ye let him have room therein for his people? |
A90388 | He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in? |
A90388 | How are they as sheep appointed for the slaughter, destinated to be devoured, crushed, and trodden under foot? |
A90388 | How blind were they from seeing their blasphemies, their calling of evil good, and good evil& c? |
A90388 | How can he avoid buying untried gold of Antichrist, or silver, or brasse, or wood, or stone, which his Merchants traffique for, and make idols of? |
A90388 | How long those 1260 dayes did last? |
A90388 | How may this be done? |
A90388 | If it be not good or acceptable, what is that that goes about to compel them? |
A90388 | If we were in your condition, would we be content to be let go on, and to be overtaken with this great destruction? |
A90388 | Is there light in Sion? |
A90388 | Is there simplicity of heart in Sion? |
A90388 | Is there true knowledge in Sion? |
A90388 | Must that counterfeit Queen stil sit on the Throne among you, and the true Princesse be made her servant? |
A90388 | Must they be subject to your wils? |
A90388 | Must they bow to your image? |
A90388 | Now what is her judgement? |
A90388 | Now what is the matter of all this great noise and fury? |
A90388 | Object: But hath all our Religion for these many ages, been Babylonish, and whoredom from the life? |
A90388 | Secondly, What spirit entred into these, when she fled out of them? |
A90388 | Shall not his soul be avenged on such a Nation as this? |
A90388 | Shall not the Lord visit for these things? |
A90388 | Sing, sing O inhabitant of Sion, dost thou not behold the Crown of pride going down apace? |
A90388 | That which is far of, and exceeding deep, who can find out? |
A90388 | Thirdly, What spirit is it directs men to these, since the true Church hath been fled out of them? |
A90388 | Thou strivest to keep off the strokes from the enemies of God, and smitest his dear ones, how can he spare thee? |
A90388 | Thus it shall be, can ye read it? |
A90388 | Thus the Jew in me was cast off, and the Gentile called: but who can read this? |
A90388 | V. What was that beast which came out of the Sea; to which the Dragon gave his power, his seat, and great authority? |
A90388 | Was it not here that the Dragon assaulted her, and from whence she fled into a desolate place and state? |
A90388 | Was not the outward Court( what is the outward Court under the Gospel, but the visible Church- state with the visible Ordinances thereof?) |
A90388 | Were not these the Conquerors spoils? |
A90388 | What are all the Churches, the Ministry, the Ordinances that appear out of the wilderness all this while, while the true Church is there? |
A90388 | What can Sion pretend to, which Babylon hath not in the resemblance? |
A90388 | What is become of it? |
A90388 | What is that Sea and those ships, wherein& wherewith the Merchants of the earth traded with Babylon, and were maderich by their traffique? |
A90388 | What is that song, which none could learn but the 144 thousand, which were not defiled with women, but remained Virgins? |
A90388 | What is the Lambs book of life? |
A90388 | What is the beasts mark, his name, his number? |
A90388 | What kind of drunkenness was it, wherewith the Kings and inhabiters of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of this cup? |
A90388 | What plottings and contrivings hath there been against them? |
A90388 | What that wilderness was whereinto she fled, where she had a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there 1260 dayes? |
A90388 | What was the purple and scarlet colours, and the gold and precious stones she was decked with? |
A90388 | What woman was that which was cloathed with the Sun, and had the Moon under her feet& c? |
A90388 | Whether it was the true Church or no? |
A90388 | Why do you provoke him against your own souls? |
A90388 | Wil ye stil force him to silence, and open Babylons mouth? |
A90388 | Will ye not suffer him to speak, but according to the Laws and orders of Babylon? |
A90388 | Wouldst thou enjoy God, saith she? |
A90388 | Yea, but thou whorish woman, did ever God appoint means wi ● hout his Spirit? |
A90388 | You, who had sweet tasts of God is he not become a stranger to you? |
A90388 | all our Churches, all our Ordinances, all our dutyes, all our Ministry,& c? |
A90388 | and how are the names of any so written in it, as to preserve them from the worship of the beast? |
A90388 | and how often may it be done? |
A90388 | and is there no ● also light in Babylon? |
A90388 | and is there not simplicity of heart among the inhabitants of Babylon? |
A90388 | and to what intent? |
A90388 | and what kind of riches was this? |
A90388 | and where is it? |
A90388 | and whether the true Church is anywhere else to befound all the time of the 1260 days, but in that place in the wilderness? |
A90388 | and whether they he yet expired? |
A90388 | and yet how many can speak great words of God and of Christ, who know not what belongs to the anointing? |
A90388 | are ye stronger then he? |
A90388 | can any be convinced without his light and Spirit? |
A90388 | can ye prosper? |
A90388 | can ye stop the Spirit of God from breathing upon them? |
A90388 | did not Antichrist get possession of the form? |
A90388 | did not the Wolves gather up the sheeps cloathing, and cloath themselves therewith? |
A90388 | did not the whore get the Spouses attire? |
A90388 | did not they meet with God here? |
A90388 | did not they serve and worship God thus? |
A90388 | given to the Gentiles, who trod under foot the holy City, all the while they were worshipping in the outward Court? |
A90388 | hast thou heard? |
A90388 | hast thou kept the things written in this book? |
A90388 | hast thou not heard the true sound of these things from the Spirit of life? |
A90388 | hast thou not kept the things written therein? |
A90388 | or in your own wisdom, and according to your owne understanding? |
A90388 | or will ye fal foul upon them, if they be obedient to the breathings and movings of his Spirit? |
A90388 | shall not the God of the spirits of all flesh, have the command of the spirits of his own people? |
A90388 | then happy art thou? |
A90388 | what divinations and inchantments have been used against them, even to blot out their name and remembrance from the earth? |
A90388 | what is this? |
A90388 | what prejudice can Jerusalem, or the inhabitants thereof bring unto you? |
A90388 | what their Merchandize? |
A90388 | what were those Merchants? |
A90388 | what will the Lord say this is, when he comes to judge? |
A90388 | who shall dwell in his holy hill? |
A90388 | will not both the houses of Israel be offended and stumble at it?) |
A90388 | will ye put the Lord to it to the very last, to try it out with you, whether he can defend his people and make way for their liberty? |
A90388 | wouldst thou have fellowship with him? |
A90388 | wouldst thou worship him aright? |
A54022 | 119. of Gods Word, Gods Law, his Testimonies, Precepts, Statutes, Judgements,& c. what doth he speak of? |
A54022 | 2dly, Consider, Whether the Testimonies of the Prophets concerning Christ were surer, then this immediate Voice from God himself? |
A54022 | 4thly, Consider, Whether Christs own Words, in the Flesh, to his Disciples, were surer then this Voice from the excellent Glory? |
A54022 | And any of the Gentiles, as this Word or Spirit of Life did work in them, did it not circumcise inwardly and save them also? |
A54022 | And doth not he Harden as he pleaseth? |
A54022 | And how could it be otherwise? |
A54022 | And how doth God give true Wisdom and Understanding? |
A54022 | And what are those right Statutes, which rejoyce the heart? |
A54022 | And what is it that hath striven with wicked men since, and that doth strive with wicked men still? |
A54022 | And what testimony is that, which makes wise the simple? |
A54022 | And what wickedness is so great, which the hardened man will not plead for, and be defending and justifying himself in? |
A54022 | And when he said, Thy Word is a Lamp unto my Feet, and a Light unto my Path: What Word did he mean? |
A54022 | And yet, is not this immediate testimony from the excellent Glory, greater then the testimony of John? |
A54022 | Are not these all things known within, and received within? |
A54022 | Can they find out the mystery of life, the Mystery of Gods Kingdom in this Age, any more then they could in former Ages?) |
A54022 | Can ye think that David did not know the Word and Commandment of Life within? |
A54022 | Consider 4thly, Whether any thing can convince of sin, but the Light of God''s holy Spirit shining in the heart? |
A54022 | Could any be saved, but thereby? |
A54022 | Did he mean the Letter or Law outward? |
A54022 | Did not God give up the Jews to hardness, after much striving with them? |
A54022 | Did not God write his Law in his heart? |
A54022 | Did not God''s Spirit strive with the old World? |
A54022 | Did not he witness the everlasting Covenant and the Law thereof, the new Law, the living Law, even the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus? |
A54022 | Did not the Spirit then work inwardly, redeem inwardly, save inwardly? |
A54022 | Did not the Word or Commandments nigh in the mouth and heart( to which Moses by Gods direction had turned their minds) enlighten and save inwardly? |
A54022 | Did the Shadows then save, or the Substance of Life vailed under them? |
A54022 | Doth he mean the Letter without, or the Word within? |
A54022 | Doth he not speak of the inward writing? |
A54022 | Doth he speak of the outward, or inward ministration of the word in the heart? |
A54022 | Doth not God put his fear within, in the heart? |
A54022 | Doth not God reveal his righteous Judgements within, against sin and iniquity? |
A54022 | First, who they are that have testified and testifie of this Light? |
A54022 | HOw doth the Mind come to be Enlighted, and the Candle of the Lord come to be set iup in the Soul? |
A54022 | HOw is the Light or Candle of the Lord diminished, and at length extinguished or put out in some? |
A54022 | Have not the Vessels of Wrath, who are fitted to destruction, a day of much long- suffering first? |
A54022 | He knoweth what and how great inward and spiritual Enemies Man- kind hath: doth he never make any discoveries of their Enemies to them? |
A54022 | He who is Light loveth Mankind: doth he never visit them with his love? |
A54022 | How can there be an inward Jew, an inward Circumcision, without an inward Law, inward Light, an inward Testimony? |
A54022 | How else could he walk thus in the Wayes of the Lord, as he expresseth, and keep himself from his iniquity? |
A54022 | How hath the witness of God been reached to in mens spirits? |
A54022 | How is Christ the Light of the World, or how was Christ the Light of the World? |
A54022 | How it cometh to be diminished or exstinguished in any? |
A54022 | How it cometh to be lighted, set up and and increased there? |
A54022 | I was also upright before him: and I kept my self from mine iniquity: What was that? |
A54022 | Is he not so in his inward and spiritual appearance? |
A54022 | Is he not the Universal Light, the Son of Righteousness, which enlighteneth the whole dark World? |
A54022 | Is it any less then the Water of Life, then the Blood of the everlasting Covenant, then the Word and Life of Truth within? |
A54022 | Is it not Flesh? |
A54022 | Is it not a surer Word of Prophesie, then this Relation or Testimony of the Apostles, of what they heard from the excellent Glory? |
A54022 | Is it not by the shining of his Light in the heart? |
A54022 | Is it not the inward testimony? |
A54022 | Is it not the same Light, only further revealed and shining in it''s glory, in the holy and pure place? |
A54022 | Is it not the same good Spirit? |
A54022 | Now God, who is Light, being so neer every man: doth he never shine upon them? |
A54022 | Now consider; If God be as tender of souls, as of the bodies of men; doth he not make provision for the soul, as well as for the body? |
A54022 | Now when David said, The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: What Law did he mean? |
A54022 | Now, it being thus, hath not God Mercy on whom he will? |
A54022 | That they had transgressed the Law, changed the Ordinance, broken the everlasting Covenant? |
A54022 | There was a time before the Law( for the Law was given by Moses) what saved then? |
A54022 | They also do no iniquity,& c. Had he no experience of these things himself? |
A54022 | They are Darkness: but doth he never appear in the darkness? |
A54022 | To what end did God forbear them, and cause his Spirit to strive with them? |
A54022 | WHat doth this Light do inwardly in the Hearts of those that receive it, believe in it and give up to it? |
A54022 | WHat is this Light which we so earnestly testifie of, and whereof we affirm, that all men are( or have been) in some measure enlightened by it? |
A54022 | Was he only so, as he appeared in that body of flesh? |
A54022 | Was it any thing but the saving Grace, the saving Light, the saving Spirit, the holy Anointing? |
A54022 | Was it not in that he was chosen to be the immediate Fore- runner and Preparer of the Way, and could point with his finger to the Messiah? |
A54022 | Was not David strong in the Lord and in the Power of his might? |
A54022 | Was not that it which had most power over him, and was most apt to entangle and ensnare him? |
A54022 | What doth Christ Fan with? |
A54022 | What doth he fan, and with what? |
A54022 | What is it also that inwardly resists and lusts against the Will and strivings of God''s Spirit? |
A54022 | What is it, that cleanseth the heart? |
A54022 | What is the Law, which converts the soul to God? |
A54022 | What it doth inw ● rdly in the heart? |
A54022 | What made him wiser then the Ancients, and then his Teachers, who knew and could teach the Law outward? |
A54022 | What saved under the Law? |
A54022 | What shall I say? |
A54022 | What should I multiply Scriptures for? |
A54022 | What this Light is, which we Testifie of, and what is the nature of it? |
A54022 | What words can be spoken more plain and full? |
A54022 | When, again, he saith, Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? |
A54022 | Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? |
A54022 | Why was John greater then the rest of the Prophets? |
A54022 | Would he not have the soul live, and would he not have the soul fed, as well as the body? |
A54022 | Would not God have had him believed and offered in the Faith, and been accepted as his brother was? |
A54022 | Would not God have had him come to a true sense and repentance? |
A54022 | ],[ London? |
A54022 | and how have the pillars of the old building been shaken? |
A54022 | and the clean fear, and the righteous Judgments? |
A54022 | and the pure Commandment, which enlightens the eyes? |
A54022 | and what is the nature of it? |
A54022 | did not he overcome the wicked one by the Power thereof? |
A54022 | did not the Word of God abide in him? |
A54022 | how could that be done? |
A54022 | how else could he become a man after Gods own heart? |
A54022 | not only with the Sons of God, who had corrupted themselves, but with the rest also? |
A54022 | of the Commandment in the heart? |
A54022 | of the Law in the heart? |
A54022 | of the testimony of Life there? |
A54022 | or how cometh that about? |
A54022 | or the Word nigh in the mouth and heart, which Moses had testified of and directed the Jews to, and he himself had been very well acquainted with? |
A54022 | or whither shall I flee from thy Presence? |
A54022 | that cleanseth the way? |
A54022 | where is the Disputer of this World? |
A54022 | where is the Scribe? |
A54041 | & c. many of the Jews said, he hath a Devil, and is mad, why hear ye him? |
A54041 | 23.33, Ye Serpents, ye Generation of Vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell? |
A54041 | 31. and made no question but they did well in doing of it, as appears by their answer to his demand; for which of his good works they stoned him? |
A54041 | 61. and who is there among professors, that can now bear it, or receive Christs own interpretation of it? |
A54041 | Abraham is dead, and the Prophets are dead, who makest thou thy self? |
A54041 | And among whom is his appearing to be expected? |
A54041 | And being not born of the wisdome, how could they justifie the wisdome? |
A54041 | And his Sisters are they not all with us? |
A54041 | And is this nothing to you, O ye Professors of this age? |
A54041 | And now let me put one Question to you; Where is the deceit of the ages after Christ to be expected? |
A54041 | And then for their teachers and expounders of the law, how exceeding bitter did be seem against them? |
A54041 | And why not the love of God? |
A54041 | And would not they suffer men to enter? |
A54041 | Are ye also deceived? |
A54041 | At other times, he answered not directly, but in Parables( and how offensive is this to mans wisdome, who requires a positive and direct answer?) |
A54041 | But have we been unsetled, since God hath fastned us on the living Foundation? |
A54041 | But to what purpose should I heap up any more instances? |
A54041 | But what shall I say to this generation? |
A54041 | But why should we wonder at these things? |
A54041 | By what authority dost thou these things? |
A54041 | Can I see the light of the Sun, Moon, or Stars,( or of any fire or candle) if I have not a natural eye, and if that natural eye be not open? |
A54041 | Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? |
A54041 | Can these two stand together? |
A54041 | Can this man be a true Prophet? |
A54041 | Did not their whole religion and worship much depend upon it? |
A54041 | Did not they teach the Law, and direct men to the Ordinances of God, and open the Prophets words to them? |
A54041 | Did not this( think ye) seem to them a very harsh charge? |
A54041 | Did the Jews deny Moses and the Prophets Writings, or Ordinances? |
A54041 | Doth not God chuse that which is weak, and mean, and contemptible, that his glory might the more appear? |
A54041 | Have any of the Rulers, or of the Pharisees beleeved on him? |
A54041 | He speaketh indeed boldly, and deep things,& c. as if he were the Christ; but how can he be he, seeing it is known from whence he comes? |
A54041 | His answer was, that he spake openly in the World, not in secret, why askest thou me? |
A54041 | How came they thus to err in vision, and stumble in judgment in so weighty a matter? |
A54041 | How could they bear this? |
A54041 | How could they observe what they taught without hearing them? |
A54041 | How could this possibly but be a great offence to them in that Spirit, and Litteral Wisdome from the Scriptures, wherein they stood? |
A54041 | How harsh and rough a reply might this seem? |
A54041 | How offensive must this Doctrine needs have been to them, going carnally to understand and reason about it? |
A54041 | How would such an answer pass now in these dayes, though the same life should speak it? |
A54041 | If the God of the World hath blinded that eye in you, what are all your treasures of wisdome and knowledg? |
A54041 | Is it likely that this is the Son of God, and that he did so many miracles by the power of God, and can not now save himself from the cross? |
A54041 | Is it not enough? |
A54041 | Is not his Mother called Mary? |
A54041 | Is not this a more likely way for him to steal upon the World, then if he appeared in the wise and learned ones? |
A54041 | Is not this the Carpenters Son? |
A54041 | Now how did they shut up the Kingdome of Heaven against men? |
A54041 | Now what is the reason of this? |
A54041 | Now which way could they understand this thing? |
A54041 | O several sorts of professors why will ye dye with the uncircumcised? |
A54041 | Or is it not rather to be expected, that under their crying up of these, they should hide their enmity against the life? |
A54041 | Read and consider, what more strict Ordinance of God under the Law, than the Sabbath? |
A54041 | Search and see who have been the persecuters among you, but they who have had the name of the Church and her Prophets? |
A54041 | Shall Christ come out of Galilee? |
A54041 | Shew unto us the cause, that we may see whether the same cause be not in us? |
A54041 | So can it be expected now, that the Deceivers of this age should deny the Apostles writings, or the practises therein mentioned? |
A54041 | The Jews fell by unbeleif; unbeleif of what? |
A54041 | Therefore see where ye are; Is the inward eye open in you? |
A54041 | To what purpose should I mention any more particulars? |
A54041 | Were not Abraham and the Prophets holy men? |
A54041 | What Persons are fittest for God to make use of, towards the recovery of his People out of the Apostacy? |
A54041 | What Prophet can I except? |
A54041 | What are all your hopes? |
A54041 | What became of our Fore- fathers in former ages? |
A54041 | What come from God, and be a breaker of his Ordinances? |
A54041 | What one Ordinance more conducing to the honour and worship of God? |
A54041 | What should I spend time in particular instances? |
A54041 | What sign shewest thou, that we may see and beleeve thee? |
A54041 | What was the reason? |
A54041 | What were all the Prophets and holy men before thee, thieves and robbers? |
A54041 | Who hath slain the Witnesses? |
A54041 | Who is the son of man? |
A54041 | With this Argument they pinched the Disciples, as is signified in that Query of theirs to Christ, Why then say the Scribes that Elias must first come? |
A54041 | Would not mens wisdome in this age, even hiss at such a thing? |
A54041 | Ye make it such a strange thing, that if Christ had been a Prophet, ye should not own him: why which of the Prophets was owned? |
A54041 | Yea, saith Stephen, which of the Prophets have not your fathers persecuted? |
A54041 | and Mat 21.15, 16. what a ridiculous, and vainglorious peice of pageantry would this seem to the fleshly wise eye? |
A54041 | and consider which way the Jews( in the state they stood) could understand such an answer as this, to rest sastified therewith? |
A54041 | and did not they keep the sayings of God? |
A54041 | and his Brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? |
A54041 | and how heavy things was he continually laying to their charge? |
A54041 | and were not these their cover, under which they persecuted Christ, and vented all their malice against him? |
A54041 | and what will become of you? |
A54041 | and would Christ wish any to hear such men as these? |
A54041 | ask them that heard me; whereupon one of the Officers struck him, saying; Answerest thou the high Priest so? |
A54041 | because they did not follow him, and his new Doctrine? |
A54041 | being not born of the light, how could they know or own Christ, whose coming and appearance was in the light? |
A54041 | by what Faith? |
A54041 | did none of them find the door? |
A54041 | did not Abraham, Isaac, David, Moses,& the rest of the Prophets all commit sin, and were they servants of sin? |
A54041 | did the truth never come, till thou broughtst it? |
A54041 | do ye know the light within? |
A54041 | had not they the sayings of God? |
A54041 | how easily might they closeup the controversie, and by this very thing conclude him to be a false Prophet? |
A54041 | nay were they not very zealous for these? |
A54041 | or hath the enemy, by some of his artifices, drawn a vail over that eye, wherewith ye once saw in some measure? |
A54041 | was such a man as this fit to live? |
A54041 | was this shutting up the Kindome of heaven? |
A54041 | were they none of them Gods Sheep? |
A54041 | what good can ye expect from him? |
A54041 | what sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou dost these things? |
A54041 | who can forgive sins, but God alone? |
A54041 | whom of them can he deceive? |
A54041 | why will ye go down into the pit, among them that know not the Lord? |
A54041 | would not the wise professors of this age even hoot at it? |
A40330 | ( if they be, prove it by Scripture) Or are they not come up since the Apostacy? |
A40330 | ARE not all by Nature Darkness, and doth not the Light shine in Darkness, yea or nay? |
A40330 | And are they not labouring with all their might to Divide and Rend thy Inhabitants yet more and more? |
A40330 | And can he not turn them as he pleaseth? |
A40330 | And do you Feel and Witness that your Hearts are truly Enclined and Prepared towards the Work of the Lord? |
A40330 | And do you certainly know the Work which God requires at your hands? |
A40330 | And do you indeed see the true Leader, which is to lead in the Way and Work of the Lord? |
A40330 | And do you rightly understand the End of your coming into Power again? |
A40330 | And how did the Pride, and Glory, and vanity of this World become a burden to many of you in that day? |
A40330 | And how do the haughty vaunt themselves over the meek? |
A40330 | And how few of them have rightly Weighed and Considered the Causes for which the Lord hath brought or suffered so many Changes in the Land? |
A40330 | And how hath he appeared unto you, and shewed you the Darkness, Ignorance, and Idolatry that many of you were formerly in? |
A40330 | And how hath he opened a door of hope unto you,& given you a measure of faith( sometimes) concerning your Eternal Salvation? |
A40330 | And how have you felt his Tender Love sometimes opening your understandings, and drawing you into that which is good? |
A40330 | And how is Judgement turned backward? |
A40330 | And how oft hath he begotten loathings in you against those things that you saw( with his Light) to be evil? |
A40330 | And how oft hath he kindled a zeal in many of you against the works of the Devil? |
A40330 | And how soon did some of them turn for a Parliament again, when the Army turned out Richard? |
A40330 | And if he will do it without outward means ▪ can any resist his Will? |
A40330 | And is not the Lord the same? |
A40330 | And was not that Head and Lord Jesus Christ? |
A40330 | And what Idolatry is there, that many of them would not run into for their Bellies sake? |
A40330 | And when is the time, and where is the place, and what is the name of it( if not in this Life) that men shall be made free from sin? |
A40330 | And where was any of the true Apostles or Ministers of Christ, called Lord- Bishops or Arch- Bishops? |
A40330 | And why do you call those that name the Children, God- Fathers, and God- Mothers? |
A40330 | And will it not provide for its own Life and Liberty? |
A40330 | Are they not yet striving to kindle a Flame within thy Bowels? |
A40330 | But although these things, touching the holy Remnant, shall certainly be fulfilled in their Season? |
A40330 | But how few of them have so regarded the Out- goings of the Lord in all these things, as they ought to have done? |
A40330 | Can he not root out, and overthrow whomsoever he will? |
A40330 | Consider, Was it a Carnal Weapon that brought you in? |
A40330 | Did not these things arise since the Apostacy? |
A40330 | Did the true Apostles Practise these things? |
A40330 | Do you indeed know the Hand that brought you up thither? |
A40330 | Do you think that the Lord cast out Back- sliders, Hypocrites, and Vnfaithful men, to set up and establish Idolaters and open Prophane Persons? |
A40330 | From whom had all things their Original? |
A40330 | Hath God any Fathers or Mothers? |
A40330 | Hath not he the hearts of all Flesh in his Power? |
A40330 | Hath not the Lord divided them? |
A40330 | Have we known nothing of God all this time? |
A40330 | Have you not manifested your selves to be slighters of the Apostles Doctrine? |
A40330 | How dare you make a Sport of such things? |
A40330 | How did he overturn your Enemies before you which oppressed your consciences? |
A40330 | How did the Lord hear your cryes in that day, when many of you cryed unto him for deliverance? |
A40330 | How do you Dayly provoke the Lord against Your selves, and your King? |
A40330 | How hath he sometimes brought some of you into lowliness of mind, and given you to see the vanity of this world? |
A40330 | How have some of you cryed out and said, you had rather cease to live, than not cease to Sin? |
A40330 | How oft hath he brought you into a sensibleness of your Conditions? |
A40330 | How oft hath he smitten you for Sin, and broken you into Tenderness by his Power, when you have seen your loathsom state? |
A40330 | How oft would they Change again, and again? |
A40330 | Is his hand shortned? |
A40330 | Is not this the way to turn those things, that might have been Mercies to you, into Plagues and Judgements? |
A40330 | Is this the use you make of that which you say was God''s Mercy towards you? |
A40330 | Isaac Penington?]. |
A40330 | Or are they not come up in the night of Apostacy? |
A40330 | Or are you not ignorant of these Things? |
A40330 | Or did they confesse any more than one Head of the Church? |
A40330 | Or had they Organs and Singing Boys dressed in White, going, and Singing in their Worship? |
A40330 | Or if he will do it by outward means, can not he provide it himself, contrary to man''s expectation? |
A40330 | Or that to them there was any more than one Lord? |
A40330 | Or were these things Practised by the true Apostles? |
A40330 | Or where did they prophesie that it should afterwards be so among the Saints? |
A40330 | Or where was there any King in their time, called the Supream Head of the Church next unto Christ? |
A40330 | Or, have those who saw the Causes that provoked the Lord of Hosts thus to Act, lalaboured so to remove them as they ought to do( or might) have done? |
A40330 | Their god is their Belly; and who is it that many of them would not joyn unto, if thereby they might be upheld in Pride, Idleness and Fulness? |
A40330 | Were you not brought in without a stroke outward? |
A40330 | Who shall ever believe them? |
A40330 | Will not that which is for the freedom of the one, be for the bondage of the other? |
A40330 | You Wicked Workers, How dare you make Representations of Destruction and Ruine? |
A40330 | and are they not Practised amongst the Will- Worshippers, yea or nay? |
A40330 | and have they not been Practised by the Apostatised Christians, since the Antichrists went out from the true Apostles? |
A40330 | and how did he beget and quicken a Righteous Seed in you, which can not live but in his presence? |
A40330 | and how did he give you strength to walk when ye were lame, and inclined your hearts after that which he shewed unto you to be Good? |
A40330 | and how did he manifest his eternal Power and Righteous Judgement in you, against the body of sin? |
A40330 | and how much more ought these things to abound in the Spiritual Body, of which Christ is the Head? |
A40330 | and how tenderly did he hold forth his hand of Love, to lead you out of that which had made you miserable? |
A40330 | and that he should be suffered to speak any light vain words he pleaseth, even what he can invent, to stir up lightness and vain laughter among you? |
A40330 | and with what Bodies they shall come? |
A40330 | consider how the Members, even of the true natural Body, serve one another in Love; how does one cover another? |
A40330 | how did his Love reach unto you, when ye were Enemies unto him? |
A40330 | how do the rich oppress the poor, and draw them before the Judgement seats? |
A40330 | how have the new Governours, in almost every Change of late, cryed out of the Tyranny and great Oppression of those whom they did Succeed? |
A40330 | how oft hath he begotten true Tender desires, and breathings in you, after the Knowledge of his Will? |
A40330 | how plainly did he shew unto you the evil of your wayes, which had separated you from his presence? |
A40330 | how strong are the drawings thereof, and how pleasant is the Virtue of it? |
A40330 | is not this a horrible wickedness, that a man who hath his right natural senses, should be suffered to feign himself to be a Natural Fool? |
A40330 | or is it because they would keep the innocent in Prison, and are ashamed to bring them to an examination, having nothing justly to charge them withal? |
A40330 | who can declare the Glory of the Lord, as it shall be manifested in this Age? |
A40330 | whom will ye now flee unto for help? |
A54075 | & 7. but by what rule? |
A54075 | 7? |
A54075 | 9. is this blasphemy? |
A54075 | And come all ye Sects upon the earth, and Churches so called, that have been in the World for many ages, which of those two women are you of? |
A54075 | And do ye know where ye are, and what ye are doing? |
A54075 | And hath not this ministry converted many to God? |
A54075 | And how are they made Kings and Priests to God? |
A54075 | And how can these love God? |
A54075 | And is it not in relations, in Governments, in the execution of Laws? |
A54075 | And is not their rule the law of the spirit, the law which the spirit writes in their hearts? |
A54075 | And must not the law of righteousness and life be writ ther also, if it be able to deal with sin and death? |
A54075 | And though some of them are bad, yet are not many of them zealous and conscientious Preachers of the Word at this day? |
A54075 | And what can be the proper and full rule of Gods Sons and Daughters, but the light of the spirit of life, which they receive from their father? |
A54075 | And what do they minister from, but the literal part of the Scriptures, which killeth and can not give life? |
A54075 | And what is the love here in old England? |
A54075 | And what is their rule? |
A54075 | And where should man look first to meet with him, but in his first work upon him? |
A54075 | And who was it that was worshipped in all the world, that had power given him over all kindreds, and tongues and nations? |
A54075 | Are ye in the faith? |
A54075 | But are not the Scriptures the word of God? |
A54075 | But doth not the Scripture mention these things? |
A54075 | But hath there been no true Religion since the daies of the Apostes? |
A54075 | But is praying Idolatry, preaching Idolatry, singing Idolatry, Baptising of Infants Idolatry, breaking of bread Idolatry? |
A54075 | But let such consider, can a man be a Christian, and be out of that covenant, whereof Christ is the mediator? |
A54075 | But poor man having lost the life, what should he do? |
A54075 | But what is the common Christians hope? |
A54075 | But what is the rule now in the Apostacy? |
A54075 | But what is the worship now in the Apostacy? |
A54075 | Can I be an Idolater in practising that which they practised? |
A54075 | Can a man be brought back again to God by Christ, and yet be out of ▪ that covenant whereby Christ brings men back to God? |
A54075 | Can sin prevail in that heart, where the pure clean fear of God is placed by God to keep it down? |
A54075 | Can ye bear to hear it? |
A54075 | Can ye spy out the blasphemer? |
A54075 | Come let''s reason with you: who was your mother? |
A54075 | Did God refuse Cains sacrifice formerly, and can he accept any sacrifice, or worship now that''s offered in that nature? |
A54075 | Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unkind? |
A54075 | Doth not fornication defile, corrupt? |
A54075 | Doth the love of God refuse, or cast out the fear of God? |
A54075 | For a man to call himself a Christian, who is not, what is that? |
A54075 | For mark, who was it that got into the Temple of God? |
A54075 | He that hath the fountain of life in him, issuing up rivers of living water continually, hath he need to go forth to fetch in water? |
A54075 | How came they to know al things? |
A54075 | How comes the righteousnesse of the law, but by hearing and obeying the voice of the Law? |
A54075 | How did Christians formerly begin their Religion? |
A54075 | How was Christ made a King and a Priest? |
A54075 | I dare appeal to all honest hearts, Was there not a good thing stirring in you, when ye went into your Church forms? |
A54075 | If a man address himself to any worship of God without his spirit, hath he not confidence in the flesh? |
A54075 | If every one should be left to his own spirit, what confusion and uncertainty would this produce? |
A54075 | If he begin without the ving of his spirit, doth he not begin in the flesh? |
A54075 | Is Christ in you, and shal he not hold the reins, and rule? |
A54075 | Is it by the law of a carnal commandment? |
A54075 | Is not Christ in you? |
A54075 | Is not the Gospel the ministration of the spirit? |
A54075 | Is this the love of the righteous seed? |
A54075 | It is nigh, it is in the heart and in the mouth, to what end? |
A54075 | Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? |
A54075 | Look any wher among the Apostates from the Apostles spirit and doctrine, and see; Is selfe- love killed? |
A54075 | Nay have not many of them been Martyrs, and witnessed to the truth of God? |
A54075 | Now he that hath found the kingdom within, shal he look without, into words spoken concerning the kingdom, to find the lawes of the kingdom? |
A54075 | Now if he had not believed, if he had not received the gift, or not exercised the gift, could he have been righteous? |
A54075 | Now is not this a just and equall way of justification, O ye sons of men? |
A54075 | Now the other seeds spring up two wayes? |
A54075 | Now what is an Idol? |
A54075 | Now what was his rule? |
A54075 | See their Inquisitions, their wraths, their fire and fagot,& c. What is their love in New- England? |
A54075 | Shal the kingdom be in the heart, and the laws of the kingdom written without, in a book? |
A54075 | The righteousnesse of the Law speaketh on this wise, The man that doth those things, shall live in them: But how speaketh the word of faith? |
A54075 | They who are created a new in Christ, and become his Disciples, receive comfort from the spirit: but what is he to the world? |
A54075 | Was not Christs rule the law of the spirit, the law which the spirit wrote in his heart? |
A54075 | Were the heathens Temples, Altars, Priests, Sacrifices, and other inventions of theirs( in imitation of the Jews) Idolatrous? |
A54075 | What are these? |
A54075 | What hath become of all our fore- fathers? |
A54075 | What is a Christians rule, whereby he is to steer and order his course? |
A54075 | What is the love among the Papists? |
A54075 | What is the proper intent of the letter? |
A54075 | What is the true Christians hope? |
A54075 | What preaching on the one hand? |
A54075 | Wher is the law of sin writ? |
A54075 | Where did the Apostles, and Christians in those dayes, meet with the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in Christ? |
A54075 | Where is the wise? |
A54075 | Ye have a knowledge, a righteousnesse, an hope, a faith,& c. founded by your pretence to Scriptures, who can shake down these, say you? |
A54075 | and are not the inventions of the heathenish spirit, or Antichristian nature in man, are not they also Idolatrous? |
A54075 | and did not the Saints practise these things? |
A54075 | and in what womb was you bred? |
A54075 | and is not the word of God to be a Christians rule? |
A54075 | and is your honour and glory laid in the dust? |
A54075 | and shal he who hath received the spirit, run back to the letter to be his guid? |
A54075 | and the seed of whether of them are ye? |
A54075 | and what do they minister with, but their own understanding part? |
A54075 | and whom all that dwel upon the earth, worship? |
A54075 | are Persecutors and oppressors killed? |
A54075 | are these children of the day? |
A54075 | are these living stones, whereupon the true Church alone can be built? |
A54075 | by what law? |
A54075 | can man receive the light? |
A54075 | did they all perish? |
A54075 | did they ever from the beginning of the World to this day, attain the knowledge of the things of God? |
A54075 | did ye find it so? |
A54075 | did ye meet with the life and power there? |
A54075 | doth not John say, it was by the unction? |
A54075 | hath man free- wil? |
A54075 | have they been ever able to lead out of the Apostacy from the truth, into the truth again? |
A54075 | if he go on, without the spirits carrying on, doth he not proceed in the strength and confidence of the flesh? |
A54075 | is boasting and pride killed? |
A54075 | is covetousnesse killed? |
A54075 | is it not a love that can imprison or banish their brother, if he differ but a little from them in judgement or practise about their worship? |
A54075 | is it not a love that whips, stocks, imprisons, stones, jeeres? |
A54075 | is it not the measure of life which they receive? |
A54075 | is it not writ in the heart? |
A54075 | is not your way unequal? |
A54075 | is the love of pleasures killed? |
A54075 | nay did ye not lose it there, and become deader? |
A54075 | or by the power of an endles life? |
A54075 | or how may they feel any operation of him? |
A54075 | or is it Cains love which is in profession, in word, in shew; but not in deed and in truth? |
A54075 | or is it by the power of the same endles life? |
A54075 | or what wil thou say to the Lord, when he ariseth to plead the cause of the innocent? |
A54075 | shal the living spirit, that gave forth Scriptures, be present, and not have preheminence above his own words? |
A54075 | shal the living word be in the heart, and not the rule of the heart? |
A54075 | to call him a Minister of Christ, who is not, what is that? |
A54075 | to call that a Church which is not, what is that? |
A54075 | to call that faith which is not, that justification which is not,& c. what is that? |
A54075 | to call those the Ordinances of Christ which are not, what is that? |
A54075 | was it by the law of a carnal commandment? |
A54075 | was it not Antichrist? |
A54075 | was it not the Dragon? |
A54075 | was it not the Spirit of Satan? |
A54075 | was it not the fulness of life which he received? |
A54075 | were not yee your selves converted by it? |
A54075 | were ye not led into simplicity, hoping to meet with life and power there? |
A54075 | what have they done? |
A54075 | what is become of them all? |
A54075 | what running to the Magistrate on the other hand? |
A54075 | wher is the law of death writ? |
A54075 | where are the Councils? |
A54075 | where are the Synods? |
A54075 | where are the assemblies of divines? |
A54075 | where are the great Convocations? |
A54075 | where is the Disputer of this World? |
A54075 | where is the Scribe? |
A54075 | who brought you forth? |
A54075 | who can shew miracles and wonders like the false Prophets? |
A54075 | who can teach but the wise, learned, orthodox men, that have the arts, and know the original? |
A54075 | who of these two was it that brought you forth? |
A54075 | ye have made a great out- cry against him long, are ye willing now he should be put to death? |
A54075 | you that have appeared in the World, and for many ages, for the true spouse? |