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A59874 | and by what right a particular Prince can challenge this Authority? |
A59859 | And are we the greater Schismaticks, because we justifie our Separation, by laying the Fault on the Corruptions and Innovations of the Church of Rome? |
A59859 | And why not involving Papists as well as Protestants? |
A59859 | H. Do the Prelatical Protestants of Great Britain and Ireland refuse Communion with, or deny Communion to, any Church on Earth, without a Cause? |
A48200 | Does he not in a Letter lately Printed here, expresly say he has ruled so, as to give no occasion of Complaint to any of his Subjects? |
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A59826 | How many Discontents, think you, may arise between the Nobility and Gentry, who attend the new Court? |
A59826 | Or what if she should scruple it hereafter, and place her Father in his Throne again? |
A59826 | s.n.,[ London? |
A59884 | And if there be Order and Government among the Angels themselves, Why should we think that there is nothing like this among glorified Saints? |
A59884 | And when the Church is at ease and rest from without, how often is it rent and torn in Pieces with Schisms and Heresies? |
A59884 | The care of Mens Souls is itself a mighty Trust, and Who is sufficient for these things? |
A59884 | and what Christian doubts, whether Heaven be a happier Place than this World? |
A59884 | what different things are these? |
A35872 | How came that impudent Dr. of Divinity into your Company? |
A35872 | I would only know which way you would confer that Power upon him; for why should not I convey it as well as you? |
A35872 | What a parcel of Rogues are assembled together here? |
A59805 | And could any thing in the World be more easie than this, which no man could feel? |
A59805 | And if ye do good to them that do good to you, what thank have ye? |
A59805 | How many are there, who have some hundreds by them useless, which they would not, and could not with any reason grudge to lay up in a safe Bank? |
A59805 | How many are there, who would easily be perswaded to lend, were there such a safe Bank to receive it, who are very unwilling to give? |
A59882 | And shall we not pray for such a King, who is the very light of our eyes, and the breath of our nostrils? |
A59882 | And therefore to keep to my own Profession, I shall only desire these Persons to tell me, where there is any such distinction as this in Scripture? |
A59832 | And what is this but a Readiness and Forwardness to do Good? |
A59832 | But how far must we Relieve these Poor? |
A59832 | If you enquire, What the Natural Measure of this Charity is? |
A59832 | Must we give as long as we have any thing to give, and make our selves the Objects of Charity? |
A59832 | This, I think, I may take for granted; for what is the Grace and Vertue of Charity, but a Charitable Inclination, Disposition, Temper, Habit of Mind? |
A59832 | and what we can spare? |
A59897 | But some may say, How can this be? |
A59897 | But what is this towards influencing the Whole, or the Major part of the Nation? |
A59897 | If it be Demanded, On what Account our Ancestors, Three or Four Hundred Years ago, should Choose a King for us? |
A59897 | Let them tell me, if the Government did thereby Crumble into pieces, by what Right did our then Representatives, Erect another on the Ruins of it? |
A59880 | And why then should we not all unite in such Princes, and forget all former Quarrels? |
A59880 | How came they to be his Soveraign, and He their Subject? |
A59880 | It was a Sarcastical Question of Pilate to the Jews, Will ye crucifie your King? |
A59880 | Return, O Lord, how long? |
A59880 | What Law or Rule made such an Example or President as this? |
A59880 | why should we still divide into Parties, when the Throne is of no Party, and will admit of none? |
A70177 | And did not Arrius in like manner derive his blasphemous perswasions touching Christ, from the same poisoned fountain? |
A70177 | Can any thing be spoken or written in words so clear, which a perverse or prejudiced mind shall not be able to vex and force to another meaning? |
A70177 | Where had Paulus Samosatenus his blasphemous infusions but from Plotinus? |
A70177 | and if there be one, whether he can be a deceiver? |
A70177 | or whether God may ▪ not sometimes permit Impostors to work Miracles for the tryal of our Faith? |
A59876 | 45, 46. Who then is a Faithful and Wise servant, whom his Lord hath made Ruler over his Houshold, to give them meat in due season? |
A59876 | But what Authority is this? |
A59876 | But what is danger to that man, who is in a greater danger by the neglect of his Duty? |
A59876 | But what is this Power which Christ hath given to his Ministers? |
A59876 | Is it not the duty of us all, as we are able, to instruct, exhort, reprove one another? |
A59876 | May not every Christian do the same? |
A59876 | This command Christ gave to Peter, and repeated it three times; Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more then these? |
A59866 | For is it Lawful for an English Man during these Church divisions among us, never to Worship God in any Publick and Religious Assemblies? |
A59866 | If it be not, Pray what is it, that makes any Church Sound and Orthodox? |
A59866 | If it be, upon what account is it Lawful, to separate from a Sound and Orthodox Church? |
A59866 | Is that a sound and Orthodox part of the Catholick- Church, which has nothing sinful in its Communion? |
A59866 | Nay does not that Man Separate from the whole Catholick Church, who Separates from any Sound part of it? |
A59866 | Never to Pray, nor Hear, nor receive the Lords Supper together? |
A59866 | What middle state now shall we find for these Men, who will neither continue in the Church, nor allow themselves to be out of it? |
A59866 | and may we not by the same reason separate from the whole Catholick Church, as from any Sound part of it? |
A59892 | But do not the Angels then thus Worship God in Heaven? |
A59892 | But if the Temple- Worship be a fit Precedent for the Worship of Angels, Why may it not be a Precedent for the Worship of Christians? |
A59892 | But what is it to praise God? |
A59892 | Does he praise God best, who composes the best Anthems, or Sings them best? |
A59892 | Does it consist merely in the Harmonious Melody of Voices, and Musical Instruments? |
A59892 | If there be no force in Musick to give a Good or Bad Tincture to the Mind, Why do any men complain of Wanton Songs? |
A59892 | Is it only to sing aloud, and to make a joyful noise to God? |
A59892 | Why then should any Man think Musick improper for the Worship of God? |
A59891 | And what Thoughts and devout Passions became us then, which are not still on this Day the proper Exercise of our Devotion? |
A59891 | And what is the meaning of this? |
A59891 | But this is the great difficulty; Who shall reveal this Secret to us? |
A59891 | How shall we distinguish between the Corrections of God, and the Wickedness of Men? |
A59891 | Is not God the same still? |
A59891 | Now was all this, do you think, calculated only for Sixty six? |
A59891 | That none can stay his hand, or resist his will, or say unto him, What doest thou? |
A59891 | What could the Fire of London teach us Thirty three Years ago, which it does not teach a wise man still? |
A59887 | In speaking to which words, I shall Inquire, What may be called the doings of the Lord? |
A59887 | Shall Tribulation, or Distress, or Persecution, or Famine, or Nakedness, or Peril, or Sword? |
A59887 | That the Joys of Paradise are not greater than a Crown? |
A59887 | This may be thought a very needless question; for are there any Events, Good or Evil, which are not God ● s doing? |
A59887 | What it is to be dumb, and not to open our Mouths? |
A59887 | What may be called the doing of the Lord? |
A59887 | Who then Shall jeparate us from the love of Christ? |
A59878 | 11. v. For mine own sake, even for mine own sake will I do it; for how should my name be polluted? |
A59878 | And he saith unto them, Why are ye so fearful, O ye of little faith? |
A59878 | Hath God forgotten to be gracious? |
A59878 | Is his mercy clean gone for ever? |
A59878 | doth his promise fail for evermore? |
A59878 | hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? |
A71020 | Do these men imagine, they can never be tempted to lust, unless they daily see and converse with beautiful Women? |
A71020 | Or, What shall a man give in exchange for his soul? |
A71020 | What hurt was it for a Man, who was Hungry to relieve his Hunger? |
A71020 | or that it is not possible to despise the World with as much haughtiness and vanity of mind, as any Man has, who most admires it? |
A71020 | or that they can not love the World without living in a Court, and enjoying all the ease and luxury of a plentiful Fortune? |
A59787 | ( g) For what? |
A59787 | And what can be urg''d more against us in respect of Transubstantiation? |
A59787 | But are these the true and only Grounds of the Doctrine of that Holy Mystery? |
A59787 | But, Sir, to be short, What relation has this to the present Parallel of the Trinity and Transubstantiation? |
A59787 | Convert, Do n''t you believe the Doctrine of the Trinity? |
A59787 | Say you so, my Friend, then why must I believe the Trinity? |
A59787 | The Sacramental Body of Christ is cloathed with the Species of Bread, is it so in Heaven too? |
A59787 | for not believing Transubstantiation as well as the Trinity? |
A59787 | if not, how is the same Body at the same time, with and without the Species of Bread? |
A59787 | what if I will believe neither? |
A59792 | And if we can see which is this Church, what need we guess at it by marks and signs? |
A59792 | Can not we distinguish between the Christian Church, and a Turkish Mosque, or Jewish Synagogue, or Pagan Temple? |
A59792 | Can not we, without all this ado, distinguish a Christian from a Turk, or a Jew, or a Pagan? |
A59792 | For is not the Catholick Church visible? |
A59792 | I see a company of men who call themselves a Church, and this is all that I can see; and is this seeing a Church? |
A59792 | So that there are many things to be proved here, before we are ready for the Notes of the Church? |
A59792 | That you''l say is visible it self, for we see a Christian Church in the World; but what is it I see? |
A59792 | When you ask a Papist for Notes of a true Church, he answers to that question, Which is a true Church? |
A59792 | When you ask a Protestant, What are the Notes of a true Church? |
A59792 | and that by such marks and signs too, as are matter of dispute themselves? |
A59883 | 3dly, This is the wounded Spirit, and such a wounded Spirit, who can bear? |
A59883 | Away all ye vain Delights will such a man say, what have I to do with Pleasure, when Torments, everlasting Torments, must be my Portion? |
A59883 | But a wounded spirit, who can bear? |
A59883 | Can he be wanting in his care of us, or in good will to us, who made us? |
A59883 | Can he mistake our Condition, who knows our Frame? |
A59883 | Can we our selves, or the kindest Friend in the World, chuse better for us than God? |
A59883 | Do we suspect his Wisdom, or his Goodness? |
A59883 | Had we rather be miserable for ever, than suffer some present want and pain? |
A59883 | The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit, who can bear? |
A59883 | What Courage can any Man have against Himself, against the Wounds and Disorders of his own Mind? |
A59883 | What is it we desire, but to be happy? |
A59883 | and if God intends our happiness in his severest Corrections, why should we complain? |
A59898 | And are not the Decrees of such a Council then the Doctrine of the Church? |
A59898 | And if not, Are not such false Judgments, or erroneous Decrees, the Acts of the Judge, or of the Church still? |
A59898 | But does this Gentleman think, we have no other way of knowing the Doctrine of their Church, but by what they say, is the Doctrine of their Church? |
A59898 | But who shall be Judge of this? |
A59898 | But, I beseech you, When are General Councils Infallible? |
A59898 | Does a Judge cease to be a Judge, or the Church to be the Church, when they pronounce false? |
A59898 | For is not the Church of Rome the Church still, since it decreed the Deposing Doctrine? |
A59898 | Is not the Sentence, which a Judge pronounces by the Authority of a Judge, a Judicial Act, though it be contrary to Law? |
A59898 | Or, are they a Church, and no Church, at the same time? |
A59898 | Who is the Keeper of this C ● tholick Tradition? |
A59898 | and is not a General Council, the Representative of the Church of that age, wherein this Council is held? |
A59895 | A Fanatick, a true Protestant Plot? |
A59895 | And can these men then think to pull down and to set up Princes at their pleasure? |
A59895 | And why should we not unite in this Church? |
A59895 | It is demonstrable, we can unite no where else; and is it a desirable state, to be perpetually strugling and contending with intestine Commotions? |
A59895 | Shall we then unite with the different Sects and Parties of Christians, which are among us? |
A59895 | Shall we unite in Popery? |
A59895 | Who can without horrour consider, what a distracted face of things we had seen at this day, had this Plot taken effect? |
A59895 | by what Mark or Test, they would have distinguished Friends from Enemies? |
A59895 | shall it be called Persecution for Religion, to punish Traitors, or to keep under a factious and turbulent Spirit? |
A59895 | to be hating, reviling, undermining, each other? |
A59895 | who knows, who should have acted his part in that Tragedy? |
A59869 | And has there been sufficient satisfaction given the Nation about it to this day? |
A59869 | But why descend so low as to except poor Hunt the Fisherman? |
A59869 | In a word, what other Christian Prince is the Great Turk''s Ally and Confederate in this War? |
A59869 | Was not the Administration of Justice, and the greatest Military Trusts put into the hands of Papists? |
A59869 | Was not the Dispensing Power set on foot for those purposes? |
A59869 | Was there no Ecclesiastical Commission set up, no Popish Chappels, Monasterys and Convents erected and endowed contrary to Law? |
A59869 | Were not the Bishops sent to the Tower, and Tried in Westminster- Hall, for their Humble Petition to him against reading the Declaration? |
A59869 | Were there not in the late Reign open and bold attempts made against the Laws, the Liberties, and the Religion of these Kingdoms? |
A59869 | Were there not visible grounds of suspition concerning the Birth of the pretended Prince of Wales? |
A59869 | Who else has hindered the success against the Common Enemy, and the enlarging the bounds of the Christian Empire? |
A59869 | Who encourages him to continue the War, after so many Fatal Defeats, which may probably prove the ruin of his whole Empire? |
A59869 | Who invited the Turk into Europe? |
A59869 | Will they set aside the Pretences of the Prince of Wales, if the late Queen Mary( who is said to be with Child) in good truth bring forth a Son? |
A59869 | With whom are all the Princes of Europe at War but with Him? |
A59820 | Did the Heathens then worship no inferior gods? |
A59820 | Do we then make void the Law through Faith? |
A59820 | How easily might the Devil reply, Is this indeed your infallible Opinion, and the judgment and practice of your Church to serve God onely? |
A59820 | Is this a Prayer to Gorgonia to intercede for him with God? |
A59820 | That therefore we may pray to Saints? |
A59820 | The Objection is this: If God be so good, that he needs not such Prayers and Intercessions to move him to do good, Why do we pray for our selves? |
A59820 | Why do we desire the Prayers of good men here on earth? |
A59820 | Why do we pray for one another? |
A59820 | did those who worship ped so many several Gods, look upon them all as supreme and absolute? |
A59820 | do you not also serve and worship St. Paul and St. Peter, and the Virgin Mary, besides a great many other obscure and doubtful Saints? |
A59820 | does this Father any where assert in plain terms that it is lawful to pray to Saints departed? |
A59820 | if it be, is a degree of Worship a part of Worship? |
A59820 | or were they so senseless as to give supreme and soveraign worship to inferior Deities? |
A59833 | How easily was it driven out without a blow? |
A59833 | Is it thus that you curse not the King, no not in your heart? |
A59833 | What a silly poor feeble thing is Popery in its proper Colours? |
A59833 | Whom do you arraign when you say that Oath ought never to have been made? |
A59833 | and do you thus overcome evil with good? |
A59833 | and what though the King to whom I swear goes about to destroy the Law? |
A59833 | by no means: Am I bound by that Oath to be one of his Instruments that shall help him to subvert the Law, and enslave my fellow subjects? |
A59833 | did he make or enact it himself? |
A59833 | is it thus that you commit your self and your cause to him that judgeth righteously? |
A59833 | is it thus that you heap Coals of Fire upon the Head of your Enemy? |
A59833 | is therefore my swearing Allegiance to him, swearing to things inconsistent? |
A59833 | or am I perjured if I refuse? |
A59833 | or did the bloody Preachers of your Doctrine of Resistance in those days suppress any of his Crimes out of a tender regard to his Person or Credit? |
A59833 | or was it not made and enforced in the good days of Queen Elizabeth, and his Grandfather King James the First? |
A59833 | or was the exacting that Oath any part of the Accusation laid to the Charge of Charles the Martyr? |
A59803 | And how could so innocent a person die, but by the Hands of Vnjust and Tyrannical Powers? |
A59803 | And the Cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it? |
A59803 | But how then sh ● ll the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? |
A59803 | For indeed can any thing be plainer than our Saviour''s Answer? |
A59803 | For, can the Apostle be thought absolutely to condemn Resistance, if he makes it only unlawful to resist, wh ● n we want power to conquer? |
A59803 | How now does David behave himself in this extremity? |
A59803 | Now, why should he entertain these men, but to defend himself against the Forces of Saul? |
A59803 | Therefore? |
A59803 | They ask him whether it were lawful to pay Tribute to Caesar? |
A59803 | What course does he take to secure himself from Saul? |
A59803 | Wherefore? |
A59803 | is it lawful to give Tribute to Caesar, or not? |
A59789 | And do they scruple to do so now? |
A59789 | But he saies, The Bishop is still a Misrepresenter, in charging these sayings of private Doctors upon the Church; But where does he do that? |
A59789 | But how the dispute should be carried on upon these Terms, otherwise then by giving him the Lye back again, I do not comprehend? |
A59789 | But what if Dissenters Misrepresent the Church of England, does this prove that the Church of England Misrepresents the Church of Rome? |
A59789 | Does the settlement of the Church consist in external Ceremonies? |
A59789 | For did not the Dissenters themselves do so in the late times of Reformation? |
A59789 | Have I not plainly proved, that we are not Misrepresenters in the strict and proper notion of Misrepresenting? |
A59789 | Or as if we had Misrepresented them in this manner, when he had not, and can not give any one instance wherein we have done so? |
A59789 | That we do not charge the Church of Rome with any matter of Fact, with any Doctrines or Practices which she does not own? |
A59789 | What says the Accomodator to all this? |
A59789 | What''s the matter now? |
A59789 | Yes, He saies, He( that is, the Papist) must believe; but does he say, The Church says thus, or only Stapleton? |
A59819 | But are not all the Members of Christ mystically united to him? |
A59819 | But can not the Catholick Church meet and act by its Representatives, as Kingdoms and Common- wealths do? |
A59819 | But how then is the whole Church but one Body? |
A59819 | But you''ll say, can wicked men then be Members of Christ''s mystical Body? |
A59819 | Did all the Christians in the World, who are the Catholick Church, ever intrust them with this Power? |
A59819 | Did they ever resign up their Faith into the hands of their Bishops? |
A59819 | Has every visible Church this Authority? |
A59819 | Is Christ divided? |
A59819 | The stabbing Question, as the Church of Rome thinks, to the Reformed Churches is, Where was your Church before Luther? |
A59819 | Thus the Catholick Church is an Infallible Teacher of Faith: for who dares say, that the Catholick Church can fail, or err in Fundamentals? |
A59819 | and can there be such a mystical Union between Christ and bad men? |
A59819 | or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? |
A59819 | shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? |
A59819 | was Paul crucified for you? |
A59819 | what then? |
A59819 | which is to condemn the whole Catholick Church of Error or Heresie; who dares separate from the Catholick Church? |
A59808 | And of what good use such a Faith can be to us? |
A59808 | But do we not understand what it is we believe? |
A59808 | Do we not know what we mean, when we say, We believe in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? |
A59808 | Does it require any Philosophy to know how to eat, and drink, and sleep? |
A59808 | For is there any difference between believing God, and believing a Divine Revelation? |
A59808 | How then come they to charge us with believing Contradictions and Impossibilities? |
A59808 | If then this Faith be so plainly contained in Scripture, what makes all this dispute about it? |
A59808 | If we must believe with our Understanding, how can we believe things which we can not understand? |
A59808 | Is Corn, or Fruit, or Herbs, the less nourishing or refreshing, because we know not how they grow? |
A59808 | Is this World, or any thing in it, the less useful to us, because we can not conceive how God created all things of nothing? |
A59808 | Nay, do not our Adversaries understand what we mean by it? |
A59808 | Or because we do not understand the nature of Matter, nor how the several parts of Matter came by their different Virtues and Qualities? |
A59808 | Or can comprehend how he can do and know all things; and be present in all places at once, without Extension, and without Parts? |
A59808 | What Merit there can be in believing such Doctrines? |
A59808 | What are the Arian, Socinian, Pelagian Controversies, but meer Philosophical Disputes, with which these Hereticks corrupted the Catholick Faith? |
A59808 | What makes those, who profess to believe the Scripture, so obstinate against this Faith? |
A59808 | Will not our Food nourish us, unless we understand how it is concocted, and turned into Chyle, and Blood, and Spirits? |
A59790 | And therefore, every plain Text proves its own plainness? |
A59790 | And was the whole Clergy then against the Reformation? |
A59790 | And were not they Bishops in Communion with the Roman Church? |
A59790 | And why does he not ask us to prove, That all Christians, whenever they communicate, are obliged to receive the bread? |
A59790 | And will he then say, that Scripture and Reason are on the Socinian side? |
A59790 | But have not the Socinians made shipwrack of Faith by following clear Scripture and Humane reason? |
A59790 | But if this be our Religion, and the Religion of the Catholick Church, how come we to be Foreigners and Out- laws? |
A59790 | But is not this Author very modest in his Requests, who would have us prove his own Calumnies, and spiteful Insinuations from Scripture? |
A59790 | But now if we have invented and chosen nothing else, what then? |
A59790 | But what is this to the Church of Rome, who has all publick Offices in an unknown Tongue? |
A59790 | But who taught him to call a Vow against Marriage, a Vow of Chastity, when Marriage it self is a state of Chastity? |
A59790 | But why does not our Religion consist in believing the true Catholick Faith contained in the ancient Creeds? |
A59790 | Can there be any better proof, that the Scripture is clear and plain, than its own plainness? |
A59790 | Do men want Scripture to prove, That Supreme Power is Supreme? |
A59790 | For were not our English Bishops and Clergy as Zealous in the Reformation, as any Laymen? |
A59790 | How do we lose our right to the Creed and Sacraments,& c. because we will allow of no new Inventions and Additions to it? |
A59790 | If they be, how can he know that they have made shipwrack of Faith? |
A59790 | In obeying all those holy Laws our Saviour has given us? |
A59790 | In observing the Sacraments of his own Institution, and as he has instituted them? |
A59790 | In worshipping God through the Mediation of Jesus Christ, according to the Rules of the Gospel? |
A59790 | The true Apostolick Faith and Worship does certainly make us the mystical members of Christ''s Body, or else I desire to know, what does? |
A59790 | This is all the Religion we own, and know no other; and why then is not this our Religion? |
A59790 | Were not the German Reformers of the Clergy? |
A59790 | Why does not the Catholick Faith and Worship, make us Members of the Catholick Church? |
A46648 | And not to multiply Quaeries, will the dissenting Preachers, who have been Ordained by Schismatical Presbyters, submit to Episcopal Ordinations? |
A46648 | Ask if such alterations should make a Schism in the Church, would it not prove of more fatal consequence than this Present Schism? |
A46648 | Can we expect such fair dealing, such sedate and unbiassed councels, as( if ever) are necessary to alter or new- lay the foundations of a Church? |
A46648 | Do they know what will satisfie Dissenters? |
A46648 | If for the sake of the Church, should it not be first enquired whether the Church desire it, and what Alterations she desires? |
A46648 | If for the sake of the Church, why should any thing be altered which hath the general Approbation of the true Members of the Church? |
A46648 | If it be for the sake of the Church, will our Commissioners keep their eye upon the Primitive pattern which was the original Rule of our Reformation? |
A46648 | If these Alterations be not pretended to be necessary, enquire what the fitness and expediency of them is? |
A46648 | Ought she not to be consulted in such matters as are intended for her advantage? |
A46648 | Whether the known Character of some of the Leading men in this Commission be not reason enough to suspect the event? |
A46648 | Whether they are intended for the sake of the Church, or, for the satisfaction of Dissenters, or to serve both these ends together? |
A46648 | Whether they find any greater inclinations in them now to return to our Communion, then they have formerly had? |
A46648 | Whether they ought not to have as tender a regard to the Members of our own Church, as to Dissenters? |
A46648 | Whether when the House of Commons addressed to the King for a Convocation, it was not to prevent such a Commission as this? |
A46648 | and are they sure that the Members of the Church of England will own such Presbyters? |
A46648 | and whether the temper and practises of our Dissenters at this time give any such assurance? |
A46648 | and who will be so hardy as to oppose what the Commissioners have done? |
A46648 | or if they will not, will the People come into the Church without their Preachers? |
A46648 | when there are such struglings between the different parties in religion, and such different interests of State to serve by them? |
A59831 | And being asked again, Why they then used those Expressions of Three Substances? |
A59831 | And then the Synod examined those who affirmed, That there was but One Substance in the Trinity, What they meant by it? |
A59831 | But if one infinite Mind is true and perfect God, are not Three infinite Minds Three Gods? |
A59831 | But supposing their Authority to be Just and Regular, there is another very proper Question, How far their Authority extends? |
A59831 | But will they hence frame an Universal Rule, That nothing must be said of the Holy Trinity in the Plural Number, considered as Three? |
A59831 | Does this Doctrine then of a real substantial Trinity, of three infinite Personal Minds, reproach or blaspheme the Deity? |
A59831 | I beseech you against whom? |
A59831 | In what sence then they are one Substance? |
A59831 | Is it any Reproach then to the Ever Blessed Trinity to affirm, that each Person is by himself a distinct infinite Mind? |
A59831 | Is it false then, that each Person in the Ever- Blessed Trinity is by himself in his own Person a Distinct, Infinite Mind, Spirit, or Substance? |
A59831 | Is not God the Father an Infinite Mind or Spirit? |
A59831 | Is not God the Son, the substantial Word and Wisdom of the Father, an Infinite Mind or Spirit? |
A59831 | Is not an eternal, infinite Person true and perfect God? |
A59831 | Now what Wickedness does this Doctrine of a real substantial Trinity, a Trinity of Three infinite personal Minds, teach us? |
A59831 | Or whether by Three Hypostases they meant, as some other Hereticks did, Three Principles, or Three Gods? |
A59831 | They ask us, Whether an eternal and infinite Mind be not ture and perfect God? |
A59831 | Whether to the declaring and decreeing Heresy? |
A59831 | Why may we not say that there are Three Gods as well as that there are Three Persons, or Three Minds? |
A59831 | against Father, Son, or Holy Ghost? |
A59831 | and if every eternal Person, as a distinct Person, be true and perfect God, are not Three such distinct Persons Three Gods? |
A59831 | and is not each of these Divine Persons a distinct infinite Mind? |
A59831 | and is this Blasphemy? |
A59831 | does not an infinite Mind signifie all the Perfections of a Deity? |
A59831 | is a Mode, a Posture, a Somewhat, without any name or notion belonging to it, the Object of Religious Worship? |
A59831 | is an infinite Mind then a Term of Reproach and Blasphemy? |
A59831 | or is it Blasphemy to say, what they are? |
A59831 | or is this to be suffered in a Christian Church? |
A59831 | or when each of these Divine Persons is a distinct infinite Mind, is it Blasphemy to say, that three Divine Persons are three distinct infinite Minds? |
A59831 | whether they can distinctly worship, three Names, or Modes, or Somewhats, when there is but one real substantial Subject or Suppositum of them all? |
A59822 | And what now does he answer to this? |
A59822 | But can we deny, that the whole Divinity, the fulness of the God- head was incarnate, or dwelt in Christ? |
A59822 | But do they think that all the Catholick Fathers knew not how to find Three in the Trinity, till they taught them to tell three upon their Fingers? |
A59822 | But is he so incarnate, as to be truly God- Man in One Person, as the Soul and Body are One Man? |
A59822 | But is not each Person in the Trinity infinite Mind, Spirit, Substance? |
A59822 | But is not this, in a true Catholick Sense, the Doctrine of the Realists also, as I observed before? |
A59822 | But will this Author in good earnest allow, that God was incarnate in Christ, and that Christ was in One Person, both God and Man? |
A59822 | Can a Being, who was never made, who has no Cause, no Beginning, have any End but it self? |
A59822 | For, How can the Son be Consubstantial, or of the same Substance with the Father, if he be no Substance at all? |
A59822 | Is God then only for the Sake of Creatures? |
A59822 | Nay, do not some Realists venture to call them three Minds, Spirits, Substances? |
A59822 | Or how can any of these things be affirmed of, or applied to our Saviour, in regard of the Incarnate or inhabiting Logos, or reflex Wisdom? |
A59822 | Or, Whether he had any immanent Acts of Wisdom or Reason, before he made the World? |
A59822 | Or, that the Arians owned Father and Son to have the same specifick Nature as Adam and Abel had? |
A59822 | Then he askt them, Whether he had a natural Will? |
A59822 | Theophanes askt Macarius and Stephen, Whether Adam had a reasonable Soul? |
A59822 | Was one God a superfluous, needless Being, before he made the World? |
A59822 | What is now become of his immanent Act, by which he tells us Original Mind must be Wise? |
A59822 | What then? |
A59822 | Why, you''ll say, is not every Person in the Trinity, by himself, in his own Person, true and perfect God? |
A59822 | and what are such Three, but three Gods, if One infinite Mind and Spirit, be one God? |
A59822 | or was the World from Eternity as well as God? |
A59822 | that is, the personal Wisdom of the Father; for who ever disputed, whether immanent Acts were Personal, or no? |
A59860 | And did they lose their Succession too, when they became Reformers? |
A59860 | And is it possible to cure this without an infallible Interpreter of Scriptures? |
A59860 | But do we not see how many Schisms and Heresies have been occasioned, by suffering every one to Expound Scripture for himself? |
A59860 | By what means were men Converted to the Faith? |
A59860 | Did the Reformation of those Abuses and Corruptions, which had crept into the Church, unchurch us? |
A59860 | For, suppose the Church does expound Scripture by Inspiration, how shall we be assured that it does so? |
A59860 | How do these Divisions and Heresies, which disturb the Church, prove, that no man can be certain of his Religion? |
A59860 | How far we must depend on the Authority of the Church for the true sense of Scripture? |
A59860 | How far we must depend on the authority of the church for the true sense of Scripture? |
A59860 | How far we must depend on the authority of the church for the true sense of Scripture? |
A59860 | How many Divisions and Sub- divisions are there among Protestants, who agree in little else, besides their opposition to Popery? |
A59860 | How then shall they be tried? |
A59860 | However be we Hereticks, or Schismaticks, or whatever they please to call us, how does this destroy our Orders and Succession? |
A59860 | I would desire to know whether Christ and his Apostles Preach''d intelligibly to their Hearers? |
A59860 | If he says he learns this from Scripture; I ask him how he comes to understand the Scripture, and how he knows that this is the sense of it? |
A59860 | If the Scriptures be in themselves unintelligible, I would desire to know how the Church comes to understand them? |
A59860 | If they did not, to what purpose did they Preach at all? |
A59860 | If they did not, what reason have we to believe that they determined right? |
A59860 | If they did, how come these Sermons to be so unintelligible now they are written, which were so intelligible when they were spoken? |
A59860 | If they do not think this a good way, to what purpose are there so many Volumes of Controversie written? |
A59860 | If this be not a good way to Convince a Heretick, why do they give themselves and us such an impertinent trouble? |
A59860 | Is it not a Contradiction to common Experience, to say, that the sense of Scripture is plain and certain, when so few men can agree what it is? |
A59860 | Must we believe Contradictions, or must we dis- believe infallible Churches? |
A59860 | Must we believe every Man, or every Church, which pretends to Inspiration? |
A59860 | Whether it be Lawful to separate from a Church upon the Account of promiscuous Congregations, and Mixt Communions? |
A59860 | Whether the Church of England can make out such a visible Succession? |
A59860 | Whether the Church of England can make out such a visible succession? |
A59860 | Whether the Church of England can make out such a visible succession? |
A59860 | Whether these Councils took a sure and safe way to find out Truth? |
A71019 | And are not you a very subtil Arguer? |
A71019 | And that each Church was far enough from owning each others Members for their own — What should the poor Lay- Christians do in this divided State? |
A71019 | And will we not allow God himself a Power of Dispensing with Laws in hard Cases, without destroying the Authority of his Laws? |
A71019 | As for your next Question, How does it appear? |
A71019 | But do you indeed think, Sir, that the Dean believes a Man may be saved without Communion with any Church, when it may be had without Sin? |
A71019 | But may not a Lay- man preach the Gospel and gather a Church in a Heathen Country, where there is none of the Clergy to do it? |
A71019 | But must there be no standing Laws or Rules, because there may happen some hard and difficult Cases? |
A71019 | But pray Sir, where do I assert this? |
A71019 | But you will say, can we Communicate with a Church without Communicating with its Bishop? |
A71019 | How does this oppose me, who assert the necessity of Church- Communion? |
A71019 | I do own this; but what is my owning this, to the Independents? |
A71019 | I pray, why so? |
A71019 | If it may, which I suppose you will not deny, will you not then upon this account, make the Church you live in more guilty than the Independents? |
A71019 | Is not Church- Communion a necessary Duty, because it may so happen, that sometimes I can not Communicate with any Church? |
A71019 | Is not this a wonderful sound Church? |
A71019 | Is the Catholick Church then, and the Communion of Saints, no part of our Creed? |
A71019 | Now Sir, is this true or false? |
A71019 | Now what of all this will any sober Dissenter deny? |
A71019 | Pray what comparison is there between the Church of England and Independency? |
A71019 | The Case of mixt Communion: Whether it be Lawful to Separate from a Church upon the account of promiscuous Congregations and mixt Communions? |
A71019 | What occasion did I give for this Censure? |
A71019 | Where do I say, that no man is Obliged to be a Member of one Sound Church more than of another? |
A71019 | Whether any Obstack to Catholick Communion brought in by Men, may not be a means of depriving Men of it, as well as Covenant or Contract? |
A71019 | and is not Schism destructive to these great Articles of our Faith? |
A71019 | could they not Communicate with both, or either, without danger of Schism themselves? |
A71019 | eng Atwood, William, d. 1705? |
A71019 | of Sep. p. 306,& c. But what now is all this to me? |
A71019 | or can we Communicate with a Schismatical Bishop, without Communicating in his Schism? |
A71019 | when in the very next Paragraph he so earnestly exhorts them to Communion with the Church of England? |
A26184 | For God''s sake, Sir, consider this, and think with your self, whether your Charity exceeds that of the Romish Church? |
A26184 | How is this justifyable upon your Ground? |
A26184 | Is not that Church guilty of Schism in such an Injunction, contrary to the nature of Catholick Communion? |
A26184 | Nor I conceive doth our Church receive any adult Person, whom it does not believe to be a true Christian before? |
A26184 | Pray, Sir, is it absurd to suppose, that there should be several such Churches in a City? |
A26184 | Quid inde operatur? |
A26184 | Whether any Obstacle to Catholick Communion brought in by Men, may not be a means of depriving Men of it, as well as Covenant or Contract? |
A26184 | Whether if the Promise you mention be confin''d to the Apostles, as Church- Governors, it will not exclude the Civil Power? |
A26184 | Whether the Civil Power did not make a lawful Reformation and Separation from the Popish Church in England? |
A26184 | Whether to say ye are the Body, and ye are of the Body, be the same? |
A26184 | Whether you do not appropriate that to the National Church, which belongs to the Catholick visible and invisible? |
A26184 | or, was it as necessary to know which was in the right, as to know which is the True Religion? |
A59900 | And what now does this Socinian say to this? |
A59900 | But do I require any man to believe Contradictions? |
A59900 | But does he consider, what the Consequence of this Argument is? |
A59900 | But how will this Socinian, who rejects the Evidence of Sense, confute Transubstantiation? |
A59900 | But must we not hearken to Reason when it finds Contradictions in what men affirm concerning God? |
A59900 | But what is all this to my Sermon? |
A59900 | Can he prove, that they ever deceive us with Qualities and Accidents without a Substance? |
A59900 | Do I any where say, That we must always expound the Scripture to a literal Sense? |
A59900 | For is there no way of knowing what is Bread, and what is Flesh, but by Revelation? |
A59900 | How Soul and Body are United, which can not Touch each other? |
A59900 | How Thought moves our Bodies, and excites our Passions? |
A59900 | How a Spirit should feel Pain or Pleasures from the Impressions on the Body? |
A59900 | How we Think and Reason? |
A59900 | How? |
A59900 | Is not this the proper object of Sense and Reason? |
A59900 | Is there no difference between what Reason ca n''t conceive, comprehend, approve, and what the Reason of all Mankind contradicts? |
A59900 | Nay, How we See and Hear? |
A59900 | Nay, do I say, that there are any such Contradictions? |
A59900 | Not believe Scripture? |
A59900 | That when Christ is called a Way, a Door, a Rock, we must understand this literally? |
A59900 | They are not the supreme and absolute judges in matters of pure Revelation; But does it hence follow, that they can not judge of their proper Objects? |
A59900 | What is the meaning of their Expounding Scripture by Reason, not like Fools, but like Wise men? |
A59900 | What naked Matter stripp''d of all Accidents and Qualities is? |
A59900 | Whether the Pretences of contradicting Reason and Philosophy, and the vain Pretences to Philosophy, signify Reason and Philosophy? |
A59900 | and of what good use such a Faith can be to us? |
A59900 | hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? |
A59900 | what merit there can be in believing such Doctrines? |
A59900 | where is the disputer of this world? |
A59900 | where is the scribe? |
A52608 | Are they not contradictory Terms, and therefore not to be applied to the self- same Substance in Number? |
A52608 | But allowing now the way of speaking, used by Mr. Hooker, what a Riddle has he propounded? |
A52608 | But did the Father beget the Substance of God? |
A52608 | But do they reckon they have to deal only with Fools? |
A52608 | But how shall we conceive, that the Substance of God in the first Posture, or in Posture A, begat the same Substance of God( in Number) in Posture B? |
A52608 | But whither am I carried? |
A52608 | Can any one beget his own Substance? |
A52608 | Can the self- same Substance( in Number) be of none, and yet be of the Father; be unbegotten, and begotten too? |
A52608 | Do they not say, that the self- same Substance that is in the Father, is also in the Son? |
A52608 | Do they think that Scripture is to be interpreted contrary to it self? |
A52608 | Doth not the Doctor prevaricate? |
A52608 | Hath he ascribed to the Divine Essence, Properties, which he calleth Persons, that are not in it? |
A52608 | How many Rarities hath he boxed up, in a very little compass? |
A52608 | I might also ask the Cardinal, why he hath so much better Thoughts of Athanasius, than of Moses, and the Prophets? |
A52608 | I would know, how two other Persons can contribute to make him a perfect God, who without them is Almighty? |
A52608 | If Mr. Hooker could err about the Trinity; What will the Fanaticks and Trimmers say? |
A52608 | Is it not a Contradiction, a manifold Contradiction? |
A52608 | Is it not as much as to say, he was before he was? |
A52608 | Is it so? |
A52608 | Or have the three Persons but one only self- same Understanding, Will and Energy in Number, as there is but one self- same Substance in Number? |
A52608 | Or, that Divine Wisdom has made the Belief of Contradictions necessary to Salvation? |
A52608 | Shall we say, Reverend Hooker has mistaken, and missed his Sons( who are all the Church of England) into an Error concerning the Trinity? |
A52608 | Some one may say, but is not John''s Substance unbegotten, in respect of John''s Son James; tho it was begotten by Peter? |
A52608 | There is but one God, say the Holy Scriptures; where can be the Ambiguity of such usual and plain Words? |
A52608 | Well, shall we say then, that the three Persons are three distinct Substances; is it not plain Tritheism? |
A52608 | What can be more unthought or silly, for instance, than this vain Elusion? |
A52608 | What shall we do here? |
A52608 | Which( I pray) is more honourable, to own a clear and necessary Truth; or to set one''s self to darken and to obstruct it? |
A52608 | Why do our Opposers choose to maintain such extravagant Paradoxes, rather than acknowledg so easy and natural a Truth, as the Unity of God? |
A52608 | Will they not be apt to pretend too, he may have erred in his profound Dissertations and Discourses for the Rites and Discipline of the Church? |
A52608 | doth he not say these things, only to establish Unitarianism, so much the more strongly? |
A52608 | or in these, There is one God, and there is none other but He? |
A52608 | or would he have said, Thou shalt have none other God but ME? |
A59824 | And can we be contented to see England again the Seat of War? |
A59824 | And did they find any such Change in him, unless for the worse? |
A59824 | And have we so long disdained the thoughts of ● ubjection to France? |
A59824 | And is not the Church of England then in a hopeful state, which must be purged and reformed into Jacobite Principles, and by a Jacobite Spirit? |
A59824 | And is not this a great encouragement to any who have complyed with the present Government, to help these Men to Power again? |
A59824 | And shall Protestants after this, think of obliging such Princes by their Merits? |
A59824 | And shall we now so willingly stoop to the yoke, ● nd think it a great favour that they will vouchsafe to Conquer us? |
A59824 | Are they like having our Houses filled with Soldiers; or which is worse, burnt or plundered? |
A59824 | Are they like losing our Friends, our Fathers, Husbands ▪ or Children; by whose kindness or labours we subsisted? |
A59824 | But how heavy soever Taxes are, are they like a Civil War? |
A59824 | But however, what Comfort is this to Protestants, that he has better Inclinations, but is not his own Master? |
A59824 | But if the Necessity of his own Affairs could not obtain this from him, what must Protestants expect, if he return with Power? |
A59824 | Can any consideration make this lawful? |
A59824 | Can he make fairer Promises, than he did before? |
A59824 | For can any Prince have more Right to be King of England, than the Kingdom of England has to be England? |
A59824 | Has a French League been thought such a N ● tional ● rievance? |
A59824 | Has the ex ● e ● tation o ● it fired English spirits, and upon occasion filled our Armies and Navies, without need of Pressing or beat of Drum? |
A59824 | Has the pretence of a War with France been found such an excellent expedient to get Money of English Parliaments? |
A59824 | Have the Free born Subjects of England, no Natural, no Legal Rights? |
A59824 | Have we so detested the French Cruelties to Protestants? |
A59824 | I would ask them, What they would think themselves bound to do in such cases, were the late King upon the Throne again? |
A59824 | In a word, Are they like the Spoyls of Harvest, or the Desolation of a whole Countrey? |
A59824 | Is he less Zealous for Popery ▪ or grown more out of Conceit with Arbitra ● y Powe ●? |
A59824 | Is he more oblig''d now by his Protestant Subjects, than he was before? |
A59824 | Is there no such thing as Justice due to our selves, nor to our Fellow- Subjects? |
A59824 | Is this done out of Kindness to him or his Government? |
A59824 | Let the Rights of Princes be nev ● r so Sacred, have the rest of mankind no Rights, but only Princes? |
A59824 | Like the dread and terrors of an Enemies Army, or of our own? |
A59824 | Must not the Nobility and Gentry expect their share of Vengeance, as well as the Clergie? |
A59824 | O ● wi ● ● he be less able to make himself Arbitrary, and set up Popery when he returns a Conquerour? |
A59824 | To make him King, and all his Subjects French Slaves? |
A59824 | To set him upon the Throne, to drive all other Princes from theirs? |
A59824 | What should hinder him from being the sole and absolute Monarch of the West? |
A59824 | Whence then will they date their Merits? |
A59824 | Whether it be lawful for them to oppose him, and fight against him? |
A59824 | Whether they are bound in conscience to assist the late King if he return? |
A59824 | Will they be better Subjects hereafter? |
A59824 | Will they be content to take him the very same Man that he went away, and to serve him in his own way? |
A59824 | Will they deny him a Toleration for Papists, the repeal of the Test, the forfeitures, or surrenders of Charters, and a new Regulation of Corporations? |
A59824 | Will they dispute, nay, will they not declare his Dispensing Power, and approve his Eccl ● siastical Commissions? |
A59824 | Will they make his Will their Law? |
A59824 | Will they no more fill the Nation with the noise and fears of Popery and Arbitrary Power? |
A59824 | Will they read his Declaration, when he Returns? |
A59824 | Will they submit to his next Ecclesiastical Commission, and give up their Colledges and Churches to Priests and Jesuits? |
A59824 | Will they turn Papists themselves, or stand by patiently, and give leave to his Priests to pervert Protestants as fast as they can? |
A59834 | And does the Representer deny that they pray to Saints? |
A59834 | And does the Representer deny this? |
A59834 | And what is the authority of this Bishops character? |
A59834 | And what of that? |
A59834 | And why then are not Bellarmin''s Controversies as authentick a rule for the exposition of the Catholick Faith, as the Bishop of Condom''s? |
A59834 | At least, Is not the Church secured from making wicked and sinful Decrees? |
A59834 | But I will only ask this Reflecter one short Question, Why he rejects this Decree of Deposing Heretical Princes, or Favourers of Hereticks? |
A59834 | But I would ask him, Whether the Infallibility of the Church be an Article of Faith? |
A59834 | But does he deny, that the Church of Rome takes away the Cup from the People? |
A59834 | But does he worship Images or not? |
A59834 | But pray can he tell me, for what reason this is? |
A59834 | But what does he think of this being decreed by General Councils? |
A59834 | But why does he now complain of Misrepresentation? |
A59834 | But why is the Pope''s personal Infallibility put into the Character of a Papist Misrepresented? |
A59834 | Did he not dedicate them to Pope Sixtus V. and that with the Popes leave and good liking, Te annuente, as he himself says? |
A59834 | Does it make an actual Propitiation for our Sins? |
A59834 | Does not this make it the Doctrine of their Church? |
A59834 | Does the Council forbid such External Acts of Adoration, as Kneeling, Bowing, Offering Incense,& c. to be paid to Images? |
A59834 | Does the Council then deny, that the Worship which is paid before the Image, has regard to the Image? |
A59834 | For till it be determined, what the true Faith is, how can they curse or condemn Hereticks? |
A59834 | HEre the dispute between the Misrepresenter and Representer, is only this, Whether the Deposing Power be the Doctrine of the Church of Rome? |
A59834 | Had not Cardinal Bellarmin''s controversies as great an attestation as the Bishop of Condom''s Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church? |
A59834 | How comes Veron''s rule to be so Authentick, as to justifie any interpretation, which agrees with it? |
A59834 | I shall take it for granted, that it is, as the Reflecter says, but what then? |
A59834 | I would only desire to know, whether there be any such thing as External and Visible Idolatry? |
A59834 | If it be, my next question is, In what general Council it was defined? |
A59834 | Is it because he thinks the Doctrine of Deposing Heretical Princes, erroneous, or only because he do n''t like the Practice of it? |
A59834 | Is it not to Worship Images? |
A59834 | Is this charge true, or is it not? |
A59834 | Is this true or not? |
A59834 | May he not play tricks with the Catechism, and expound that by a private spirit, as well as the Council? |
A59834 | No, he says, He is so far from being guilty of this fault of interpreting the Council of Trent in his own sense? |
A59834 | Or will the Reflecter own such a freedom as the Answerer denies? |
A59834 | That he had no mind to tell us, and when he says nothing of it, how comes our Reflecter to know, that he limits it to their Prayers? |
A59834 | The Question is not, what a Papist believes, but what the truth of the thing is? |
A59834 | This he himself owns; Is it, that many who enter into this religious course of Life, live very irreligiously? |
A59834 | Well, and what is their intention in it? |
A59834 | Well, but what then is the meaning of all this pother and noise about this double Character of a Papist misrepresented and represented? |
A59834 | Wherein now does the Answerer appeal from the Declarations of their Councils, and sense of their Church, to External Actions? |
A59834 | Wherein then do we Misrepresent them? |
A59834 | Why are we so angry with what he calls the Misrepresentation, if it be true? |
A59834 | Why did not our Author appeal to his own character? |
A59834 | Why not as well the Infallibility of General Councils? |
A59834 | and how much inferiour is this to a Testimonial under the Popes hand? |
A59834 | how one comes to be matter of Faith, and not the other? |
A59834 | nay how does our Reflecter come to believe the Infallibility of a General Council? |
A59834 | not whether he believes Idolatry to be lawful, but whether he be not guilty of Idolatry in worshipping the Host? |
A59834 | not whether he believes the Host to be only Bread, but whether it be so or not? |
A59834 | or, what is the fault of it? |
A59788 | 15. does that signifie, that they must Preach the Gospel to Devils, as well as Men? |
A59788 | 9. which is as large an expression as all Creatures, must the Devil, who is one of Gods works be included or not? |
A59788 | And could any man do this, before Christ came, and preached in Person, and confirmed his Authority, by those many Miracles, which he wrought? |
A59788 | And had all this that success which might have been expected? |
A59788 | And if the world were saved for so long a time without a Saviour, why may it not for the remainder of its duration, be it more or less? |
A59788 | And will our Author deny that they are so? |
A59788 | But does our Author imagine it impossible for Men or Devils to sink into such a degenerate state, that the most powerful Motives can not work on them? |
A59788 | But let me seriously ask our Author, whether God be good to all his Creatures or not? |
A59788 | But the force of his Argument consists in the word Creature; but does not the Scripture use that word peculiarly for all mankind? |
A59788 | But where did I ever affirm, that Justice is not as natural to God, as Holiness and Goodness? |
A59788 | Did not God use various Methods for the recovery of mankind before the appearance of Christ in the world? |
A59788 | Did not the world, even the Jewish Church, continue very wicked? |
A59788 | Does he belive that God will forgive his sins, and bestow on him eternal Happiness? |
A59788 | Does not God complain of the unfruitfulness of his Vineyard? |
A59788 | Does not S. John tell us? |
A59788 | GOD is as ready to pardon the worst of Men,( and why not the worst of Angels?) |
A59788 | Has he not discovered those Mysteries which were concealed from ages? |
A59788 | Isaiah v. what could have been done more to my Vineyard, that I have not done to it: Did not God in these last days send his Son into the world? |
A59788 | Like Saul, who went to the Witch at Endor, when God would not hear him? |
A59788 | No difference between Gods speaking to the Fathers by the Prophets, and his speaking to us in these last days by his Son? |
A59788 | Nor the Glory of his Mercy in the Salvation of true Penitent Believers? |
A59788 | Now pray what is the fault of this Proposition? |
A59788 | Or that he does not serve his own Glory by it? |
A59788 | Well, we will at present be still so good- natured as to grant him all he would have, what then? |
A59788 | What can powerful Motives do on them? |
A59788 | What comfort is this to the Devil? |
A59788 | What is the meaning of a Dialogue, but to represent two Persons talking together? |
A59788 | What signified then his Methods of judgment and severity, of clemency and mercy? |
A59788 | What then is my fault? |
A59788 | Who ever said, that God does not permit sins? |
A59788 | Why could not T. D. have fairly debated the case upon my Principles, and left me to answer for my self? |
A59788 | all the apparitions of Angels, the giving of the Law, and exhortations of the Prophets? |
A59788 | and if men may by repeated acts of sin grow so hard and incurable, what shall we think of the Devils? |
A59788 | and will he say, that God required they should believe more than he had revealed to them? |
A59788 | has not he made a more perfect Revelation of Gods will, than ever the world had before? |
A59788 | is it that I say, that the belief of the being and Providence of God are the first Principles of all Religion? |
A59788 | is there no difference between those who are in a state of probation, and those who are actually condemned? |
A59788 | or can he prove that they had any more particular Revelations from God? |
A59901 | & c. And has not the Church of England as positively determined against them? |
A59901 | And as our Author observes, Cui bono, do men Appeal from one Fallible Creature to another? |
A59901 | And if it were a good substantial Protestant Church then, How comes it to be a Shadow now? |
A59901 | And where is the agreement then between the Two Churches? |
A59901 | And who ever said this, and where? |
A59901 | But are these of no account then in the Church of Rome? |
A59901 | But how does this make any thing more necessary to Catholick Communion, than the same Faith, the same Worship, the same Sacraments? |
A59901 | But is not the Church of England the same now that it was before that breach? |
A59901 | But is not this a clever way of flinging off all disputes about Doctrines and Opinions? |
A59901 | But is this Head then Infallible? |
A59901 | But still me- thinks there is a little difficulty, why there should be any Appeals at all to a Fallible Judge? |
A59901 | But what Check does he intend to give to this Insulting Talk of the Clergy? |
A59901 | But what course does our Author take to undeceive unwary Readers at this time, and to prove these Confuters of Popery to be Papists? |
A59901 | But what does he mean, when he says, that the Church Militant and Triumphant, is an Organized Body? |
A59901 | But why is it necessary there should be uniformity then in particular National or Diocesan Churches? |
A59901 | But why may not the last Appeal be made to any one else, as well as to the Catholick Pastor? |
A59901 | But why might not Cassandrians be reconciled to the Church, and Dissenters have their Liberty too? |
A59901 | Do any of these men then embrace any Doctrines of the Church of Rome? |
A59901 | For what does he think of Democracies, or Aristocracies? |
A59901 | For( says he) they say, there can be no one Catholick Communion, without one Catholick Government: But what does he mean by one Catholick Government? |
A59901 | Have they not defended the Church of England against all the little arts and shifts of the Church of Rome? |
A59901 | If the right of Appeals be grounded on Infallibility, why must we Appeal to those who are Fallible? |
A59901 | If they be so well disposed to a Cassandrian Peace, I pray, What hinders it? |
A59901 | Infallibility is that, which is only being less fallible, than some other fallible Creatures? |
A59901 | Is it no matter what our Opinions are, so we do but maintain the Popes Supremacy? |
A59901 | Not after all their softning representations to invite men into the bosom of the Church? |
A59901 | One superior Power over the whole Catholick Church? |
A59901 | That is, to what purpose do we Appeal from one Fallible Church to another, unless we can at last lodge our final Appeal in an Infallible Church? |
A59901 | That these men, who confute Popery, are not Protestants, but Papists? |
A59901 | That those unanswerable Books, which have of late been written against Popery, were not writen by the Clergy of the Church of England? |
A59901 | This may be true for ought I know; for who can tell but his& c. which is all he has added to the Original, may include an Universal Pastor? |
A59901 | What Organization is there in the Church Triumphant? |
A59901 | What is that then which he calls the unlucky mistake, and which the unwary Readers of Books are to be warned against? |
A59901 | What is the mistake then? |
A59901 | What? |
A59901 | When they are so fond of all new Converts, will they reject the Cassandrian Divines of the Church of England? |
A59901 | Who is the Supreme where all are equal? |
A59901 | Why should not all Causes in the first instance be brought before the Infallible Judge? |
A59901 | Why so? |
A59901 | Why truly, only that I say, that Petrus de Marca wrote in defence of the Liberties of the Gallican Church: and is not this the Title of his Book? |
A59901 | Wo n''t, they receive us upon these terms? |
A59901 | Yes, that he owns: What is my fault then? |
A59901 | and does not this infer, that they have a direct Authority over them in such matters? |
A59901 | is not a Church, though it be a particular Church, the Church of England, the Church of France, the Church of Spain? |
A39265 | And again, whether all the Members of that Church, be as one man unanimously agreed about it, or no? |
A39265 | And are single Fathers of more Credit than they? |
A39265 | And can its Testimony then possibly amount to any more than that Church''s bare Word? |
A39265 | And did not Irenaeus pretend a Tradition, descending from St. Iohn, that Christ was about fifty Years old when he was crucified? |
A39265 | And do the Papists accout either of these to be true? |
A39265 | And here I am at as great a loss as ever; for who shall judg for me, whether his Commands be needful for Spiritual ends or no? |
A39265 | And must we be Hereticks for not believing these so uncertain Traditions? |
A39265 | And will they yet produce it to convince us of the Authority by which alone we are both to receive and understand it? |
A39265 | Are Councils of any Credit more than the POPE''s Confirmation gives them? |
A39265 | But what are these manifest Scriptures at length? |
A39265 | But what saith Bellarmin? |
A39265 | Did it not Excommunicate every Priest that should Appeal to ROME? |
A39265 | Did not Clemens Alexandrinus call it an Apostolical Tradition, that Christ preach''d but one Year? |
A39265 | Do not they deny us a Iudgment of Discretion, whereby we should discern for ourselves, whether it speak fór or against their Church''s Authority? |
A39265 | Had not He and They one and the same Authority as POPES of ROME? |
A39265 | Have they not been even at Daggers drawing among themselves about it? |
A39265 | How must I now do to bear my self evenly betwixt two such Masters? |
A39265 | However if it so well deserve our Consideration, what''s become of our Forefathers? |
A39265 | I must obey the Infallible Iudg, or else be damn''d: And who is this Infallible Iudg whom I must obey? |
A39265 | If my dimsighted Reason help me to stumble into my Mother''s lap, may I yet think my self safe there? |
A39265 | Is it that of the First and purest Ages of the Church before POPERY was brought forth? |
A39265 | Is it the Testimony of all others in the World that profess Christianity? |
A39265 | Is the Controversie yet decided? |
A39265 | Is then the holy Scripture the Word of God or not? |
A39265 | Is there no Dispute in that Church about this Power? |
A39265 | Must our Faith be accounted defective and not entire, meerly because we do not believe what no Man can make us understand to co come from God? |
A39265 | Must we believe her without any more ado? |
A39265 | Nay, what if their Church it self can not tell them this? |
A39265 | Now what more can we desire, than to be made wise unto Salvation? |
A39265 | Or can any one promise me that it ever shall? |
A39265 | Or shall they be allow''d to over rule the Oral and Practical Tradition of the present Church of ROME? |
A39265 | The things which we find not in the Scriptures( saith St. Ambrose) how can we use them? |
A39265 | Was it given unto us of God to be the Rule of our Religion, that is, of our Faith, Worship, and holy Conversation, or was it not? |
A39265 | What course now in this Case can be taken by us? |
A39265 | What is it in any Religion, which can commend it before others to a man''s Choice, but its Truth and Goodness? |
A39265 | What is it then wherein our Faith is defective? |
A39265 | What more can be needful to direct us in the Way to Salvation, than what we may learn from the Scriptare? |
A39265 | What then can this Testimony be? |
A39265 | What then is it they say? |
A39265 | When the PAPISTS are pleas''d to ask us that unanswerable Question, as they account it, Where was your Religion before LUTHER? |
A39265 | Where are we now, after all this, to seek our Infallible Iudg? |
A39265 | Which of these now must I believe and obey? |
A39265 | Who I wonder shall now be thought fit to decide this Dispute? |
A39265 | Who is it then in this Church, to whose Iudgment I must submit? |
A39265 | Why should not that Church have the charity to forbear her Censures, till she have tried the strength of her Arguments? |
A39265 | Why then must we believe that the ROMAN Church hath this Sovereign Authority in Religion? |
A39265 | Why was the Council of Trent, contrary to the Custom of other Councils, so liberal of her Curses, and so sparing of her Reasons? |
A39265 | Will she abide by the Testimony of either Father or Council, if they speak not what she has taught them, or against what she holds? |
A39265 | Would not a Man suspect that they have no good Reasons to shew, who keep them so close? |
A39265 | Yea, What will become of the greatest part of the Christian World, who live and die out of their Communion? |
A39265 | Yet if I should dare to venture thus far, may I now have leave to take my rest here? |
A39265 | doth it not as well deserve the Consideration of the ROMANISTS, what is become of many of theirs? |
A59791 | 1st, I desire to know, whether he thinks the Doctrine of the Trinity to be defensible or not? |
A59791 | 3dly, How are Atheists concerned in the Disputes of the Trinity? |
A59791 | And is it not better that such Pamphlets should be in an hundred hands with an Answer, than in five hands without one? |
A59791 | And now can any Man tell, what Opinion this Melancholy Stander- by has of the Doctrines of the Trinity, and Incarnation? |
A59791 | And what is the hurt of this? |
A59791 | And when the Faith is publickly opposed and scorned in Printed Libels, ought it not to be as publickly defended? |
A59791 | And whether Christ and his Apostles intended to teach any more? |
A59791 | But I would desire this Author to tell me, whether we must believe Fundamentals with, or without Reason? |
A59791 | But did his Socinian Friends, who were such busie Factors for the Cause, tell him so? |
A59791 | But if these Dissentions be so great a blemish to the Reformation, whose Fault is it? |
A59791 | But is there no danger that the Church may be flung out of possession, and lose the Faith, if she do n''t defend it? |
A59791 | But it will be said, What shall we do? |
A59791 | But let them be never so good Men, as some of the Heathen Philosophers were, must we therefore tamely suffer them to pervert the Faith? |
A59791 | But pray, why should we not write against the Socinians? |
A59791 | But what is that? |
A59791 | But when this fit time is come( for I know not what he means by a fit place) what shall we do then? |
A59791 | But why is it so unseasonable in this Juncture? |
A59791 | Can we certainly learn from Scripture, Whether Christ be a God Incarnate, or a mere Man? |
A59791 | Did they print them, that no body might read them? |
A59791 | Do we then deny, that there are Three Persons and One God? |
A59791 | Does he think that they are no Christians, and ought not to be concerned for common Christianity? |
A59791 | For must we believe the Words or the Sense of Scripture? |
A59791 | However, were it so; is there no regard to be had to Hereticks themselves? |
A59791 | I would ask any man who talks at this rate about a Latitude of Faith, Whether there be any more than One True Christian Faith? |
A59791 | If ever it will be so, why is it not so now? |
A59791 | If it be not defensible, why does he believe it? |
A59791 | If this never will be Christian and Wholesome, what else is to be done to Hereticks in fit time and place, unless he intends to Physick''em? |
A59791 | If we can not, Why should we believe either? |
A59791 | Is not every Divine Person who is God, a Mind, and an Eternal Mind? |
A59791 | Is not the Eternal Spirit, which searcheth the deep things of God, as the Spirit of a Man knoweth the things of a Man, a Mind? |
A59791 | Is not the substantial Word and Wisdom of God a Mind? |
A59791 | Is not this their proper Work and Business? |
A59791 | Is this an Age to resolve our Faith into Church Authority? |
A59791 | Must we be afraid of defending the Faith of the Trinity, lest Atheists should mock at it, who already mock at the Being of a God? |
A59791 | Must we renounce Christianity, to keep out Popery? |
A59791 | Must we then turn all Socinians, to preserve the Reformation? |
A59791 | No, The Adversaries to the received Doctrine( Why not to the true Faith?) |
A59791 | No, our business is to prove it, and explain and vindicate it? |
A59791 | Or does he think, that the Defences made by Trinitarians expose the Faith more than the Objections of Socinians? |
A59791 | Or has Christ and his Apostles left it at liberty to believe what we like, and to let the rest alone? |
A59791 | Or how are we concerned to avoid scandalizing Atheists, who believe that there is no God at all? |
A59791 | Or whether they did not intend, That all Christians should be obliged to believe this One Faith? |
A59791 | Or would he himself believe such absurd Doctrines as they represent the Trinity in Unity to be, merely upon Church Authority? |
A59791 | Ought not they to satisfie themselves, that there is no force in the Objections, which are made against the Faith? |
A59791 | Pray what hurt have they done? |
A59791 | Renounce the Faith of the Trinity, for the sake of Peace? |
A59791 | Theirs who dissent from the Truth, or theirs who defend it? |
A59791 | To believe that the Eternal Word was made Flesh; or that Christ was no more than a Man, who had no being before he was born of the Virgin Mary? |
A59791 | Was there ever such a Reason thought of as this? |
A59791 | Well: What shall we do then? |
A59791 | Were they not dispersed in every Corner, and boasted of in every Coffee- house, before any Answer appeared? |
A59791 | What Faith is that which can subsist without a Foundation? |
A59791 | What Faith must we contend for, if not for Fundamentals? |
A59791 | What else can we dispute for, when Foundations are overturned? |
A59791 | What else is worth disputing? |
A59791 | What is the meaning of that Apostolical Precept, To contend earnestly for the Faith? |
A59791 | What purer Reformers were these? |
A59791 | What shall Christians do then, when Atheists, Infidels, and Hereticks, strike at the very Foundations of their Faith? |
A59791 | What shall we have left of Christianity, if we must either cast away, or not defend every thing, which Atheists will mock at? |
A59791 | What? |
A59791 | When Hereticks dispute against the Faith, must we be afraid of disputing for it, for fear of making a Controversie of Fundamentals? |
A59791 | Whether we must take Fundamentals for granted, and receive them with an implicite Faith, or know for what Reason we believe them? |
A59791 | Why does he let St. Austin escape, from whom the Master of the Sentences borrowed most of his Distinctions and Subtilties? |
A59791 | Why does he not accuse the Ancient Fathers and Councils, from whom the Schoolmen learnt these Terms? |
A59791 | Will he then give us leave to write and dispute against such Hereticks? |
A59791 | Will it ever be most Christian and most Wholesome, to dispute for the Faith against Heresie? |
A59791 | Will the World think that we are all of a mind, because there is disputing only on one side? |
A59791 | With respect to the Doctrine of the Trinity and Incarnation? |
A59791 | how long must we be silent? |
A59810 | And how does this change the Soul''s manner of subsisting, any more than the Body changes its manner of subsisting, when it is naked and cloathed? |
A59810 | And if the Soul be more perfect in a State of Separation, is not this a more perfect manner of Subsistence? |
A59810 | And is not an infinite and eternal Mind a Person? |
A59810 | And is not the Perfection of Nature, a natural Perfection? |
A59810 | And is not this so? |
A59810 | And what does he mean by the same Person, which the Man himself was, while living? |
A59810 | Are not all these Accounts, much more chargeable with Tritheism or Sabellianism? |
A59810 | Are they not English? |
A59810 | But are not Three infinite intelligent Persons, as much Three absolute, simple Beings and Essences, as Three Minds? |
A59810 | But does the Dean any where deny, That the Man, as consisting of Soul and Body, is a Humane Person? |
A59810 | But does the Dean pretend, That his Explication leaves nothing Mysterious in the Doctrine of the Trinity in Unity? |
A59810 | But does this profound Philosopher indeed think, that the Body either sins or suffers? |
A59810 | But if a Mind were not a Substance, what could it be else? |
A59810 | But is not a Humane Body part of the Person to whom it belongs? |
A59810 | But is not the Perfection of our Graces, the Perfection of Humane Nature? |
A59810 | But suppose Three Persons were Three distinct Substances, inseparably united in One: What then? |
A59810 | But the Soul by its original Designation is related to the Body; What? |
A59810 | But what are Three Relatives? |
A59810 | But what is this Compound which the Soul is essentially related to? |
A59810 | But what is this Homoousion, or Sameness of Nature? |
A59810 | Can there be a Trinity in Unity, unless there be a real and substantial Trinity? |
A59810 | Can they be One before they are Mutually- conscious, even in the order of conceiving it? |
A59810 | Can they be One before they are in one another? |
A59810 | Do they signifie nothing? |
A59810 | Does he then mean, that it is essential to the Soul to live in an earthly Body? |
A59810 | Does the Father will any thing? |
A59810 | For does the Man and his Person die? |
A59810 | For if a Natural Self- conscious Sensation makes a Spirit One with it self, why should not a natural Mutual- conscious Sensation unite Three into One? |
A59810 | How is that? |
A59810 | Is it the same thing to be a part of the whole, and to be an Ingredient in a Compound? |
A59810 | Is the Father his Paternity, the Son his Filiation, and the Holy Ghost his Procession? |
A59810 | Is the Soul and Body mixed and blended together to make a Man? |
A59810 | Is there no difference between being a reasonable Creature, and being Peter or Iohn? |
A59810 | Is this Sameness of Nature then one single or singular Nature, which has but one single Subsistence? |
A59810 | Nothing, which we can not comprehend? |
A59810 | Now I desire to know by what Name you would call such a living Image? |
A59810 | Or ca n''t he understand them? |
A59810 | Or if he will call this a Difference, as if to differ in number and in Substance or Nature were the same thing? |
A59810 | Or is there any other mutual In- being of Minds, but Mutual- consciousness? |
A59810 | Pray what hurt have these seemingly innocent Words done? |
A59810 | Since then here is no Innovation made in the Faith, nor any alteration of the least term in it, what is the Fault? |
A59810 | That as a natural Self- consciousness makes One natural Person, so natural Mutual- consciousness should make a naral Trinity in Unity? |
A59810 | That it is odd and unnatural, that the Soul should live in the Body and out of the Body, and then return into the Body again? |
A59810 | That it is the Person that acts is certain; but where did he learn, That Personality is the Principle of all Action? |
A59810 | That they must be One, before they can know themselves to be One? |
A59810 | That, as the Ancients used to speak, this is no longer a wonderful distinction, and a wonderful Union? |
A59810 | To be One? |
A59810 | To be so? |
A59810 | Well, but the Soul has a natural Aptitude to live in a Body; and so it has to live out of the Body; and what then? |
A59810 | What does he mean by the Soul''s being an Ingredient in a Compound? |
A59810 | What does he mean by this? |
A59810 | What is that to the purpose? |
A59810 | What is the Divine Essence and Substance, but an infinite and eternal Mind? |
A59810 | What then? |
A59810 | What will he make of God at last, when the Divine Essence is an Attribute, and a Divine Person a meer Mode? |
A59810 | Whether Iohn would not as much feel himself to be Iohn, and Peter to be Peter as ever they did? |
A59810 | Whether Three Persons who feel themselves to be themselves, and not to be each other, are not Three really distinct Persons? |
A59810 | Why so? |
A59810 | Will it not hereby be much more apprehensible, how One of the Persons( as the common way of speaking is) should be Incarnate, and not the other Two? |
A59810 | Will not the Notion of Person it self be much more unexceptionable, when it shall be supposed to have its own individual Nature? |
A59810 | Will the Animadverter then venture to attribute any Personality to the Body, as he must do, if he makes it part of the Personality? |
A59810 | a Distinction without Separation, and an Unity without Singularity, and without Confusion? |
A59810 | and where is this Man that the Soul is essentially related to? |
A59810 | are not the Sun, its Light and Splendor, as much Three, but not so much One, as Three Conscious Minds? |
A59810 | not the Body I hope, for the Body is no more the Compound, than the Soul: Is it then the Man? |
A59810 | or who calls this the incompleat and the compleat State of the Soul? |
A59810 | or, when united to a Body, affirm, that the Soul is the whole Person? |
A59810 | so that it can not live without it, and never should live without it? |
A59810 | the Divine Nature repeated in its Image without multiplication? |
A59810 | — Will it be Tritheism and inconsistent with the acknowledged invioluble Unity of the Godhead? |
A59810 | † Deinde quis audeat dicere patrem non intelligere per semetipsum, sed per filium? |
A59811 | And are they not already concluded by the Articles, Liturgy, Homilies,& c. which he says our Adversaries can not alter? |
A59811 | And did the Dean charge him with any thing more? |
A59811 | And has not that School Divinity enough in it? |
A59811 | And how comes he to know his thoughts? |
A59811 | And if we may do this, Why is it not seasonable to do it now Hereticks are so busy in perverting the true sense of Scripture? |
A59811 | And then Calvin disliked it also; but so he did Episcopacy; and will he think that a sufficient ground to censure our Reformers for retaining it? |
A59811 | And whether that were a good reason not to dispute for the Being of a God, because Atheists denied it? |
A59811 | And who desires him to do more? |
A59811 | Are they not his Friends who move these Ancient Boundaries of Peace? |
A59811 | Basil did dye after one Council only had sat, did not the rest there named live and write after more Councils than one had sat? |
A59811 | But after all, How would this put an End to these Controversies? |
A59811 | But ca n''t he believe what Reason and Divine Revelation Di ● tate? |
A59811 | But can he never be sure of this in any Texts that have been Controverted? |
A59811 | But does a God Incarnate signify any more, but that he who is Incarnate is God? |
A59811 | But does he really think the Church desires no man to believe the Creeds, and particularly the Doctrine of the Trinity, but only not to oppose them? |
A59811 | But have we not whole Systems of Opinions now a- days made up into Confessions of Faith? |
A59811 | But if this were all, Do our Socinians observe this? |
A59811 | But is there not the same reason of it, as of those things that are? |
A59811 | But let us see how he makes it good, What then, do you think of a t ● cit connivance at their stay at home? |
A59811 | But must nothing be done, from whence bad men may take occasion to be Hypocrites? |
A59811 | But then I pray, what is the Latitude in an Vnit, considered as an Unit? |
A59811 | But then, What do you think of a tacit Connivance quietly to come to our Congregations? |
A59811 | But to what purpose are these Citations? |
A59811 | But what has he to answer this Authority? |
A59811 | But what is all this to the Publick Constitutions of a Church, and the Laws of Communion? |
A59811 | But what is this to our purpose? |
A59811 | But what of all this? |
A59811 | Can any thinking man say so? |
A59811 | Did he do that, only that he might have liberty to Ridicule and Expose it? |
A59811 | Doth she indeed hand them to us merely as her own Determinations? |
A59811 | For if I confess that God is Almighty in the most express terms that can be imagined, may I not for all that affirm, that he is not Just or Good? |
A59811 | For in this present Controversy what had he to do with their other Errors? |
A59811 | He could assign many words pitch''d upon from time to time, to guard the Faith and prick the fingers of Hereticks,& c. What then? |
A59811 | However, he is so great a Lover of Peace( why then does he quarrel so much with the Orthodox Writers, and the Church of England?) |
A59811 | I would ask him also, Whether he did not Address to all Learned Writers against the Socinians in this Conttoversy, as well as to the Dean? |
A59811 | If Dr. Sherlock does not argue well, must no body therefore write, that can argue better? |
A59811 | If his Hypothesis be unreasonable, is it therefore unreasonable to write in Defence of the Doctrine of the Trinity? |
A59811 | If our Author answers this too with a Why not? |
A59811 | Is it then to no purpose to teach men the Truth, because they may put upon us, and say they believe it when they do not? |
A59811 | Is it to no purpose to require men to profess their minds sincerely, because we can not always be sure whether they do or no? |
A59811 | Is not this agreeable to the common form of speech? |
A59811 | Nay, and is not what follows, Censuring our Litany and the Compilers of it? |
A59811 | No doubt but he has: What then? |
A59811 | Now what is this to the design of his Book, to persuade men not to Write in Defence of the Doctrine of the Trinity? |
A59811 | Now who can tell what he means by merely her Determinations? |
A59811 | Or do they contradict them? |
A59811 | Or is the Doctrine it self unreasonable? |
A59811 | Pray what''s the matter now? |
A59811 | Pray who are they that will not l ● t it rest? |
A59811 | They are only some Reflections on his Answer to an Objection started by himself in these Words, shall we tamely by a base silence give up the Point? |
A59811 | This he very roundly answers, and utterly confutes, with a short Why not? |
A59811 | Was the dispute, whether the Dean should write in defence of the Doctrine of the Trinity, or whether the Doctrine of the Trinity should be defended? |
A59811 | Why does not he first persuade them to comply thus far, before he desires us not to defend the Church''s Doctrine? |
A59811 | Why then may we not Write in Defence of the Doctrine of the Trinity, and show what is the true sense of Scripture in that Point? |
A59811 | Why then, Must they not be obeyed? |
A59811 | Will his Socinian Friends submit to it? |
A59811 | Will the Socinians be generally Converted any more than they are by Learned mens Writings now? |
A59811 | Will they admit Socinian Opinions? |
A59811 | Will they leave off making Proselytes to their Heretical Opinions? |
A59811 | Will they then not say a word against the Doctrine of the Trinity, nor endeavour to spread their Errors any farther? |
A59811 | Will this justify the writing of that Piece? |
A59811 | and the fittest persons a Committee chosen by that great and reverend Assembly? |
A59811 | must we all pass contentedly for Socinians in the eye of the world, and be afraid to say we are none? |
A59811 | or if they do, will he give us leave to Oppose them and Defend the Truth? |
A59894 | 27, 28,& c. But will God indeed dwell on the earth? |
A59894 | And are not his Commands the same to all Men? |
A59894 | And how are they more bound to give a reason of their profession and swearing their non- assent, than they are of their bare non- assent? |
A59894 | And if our reward be proportioned to our best actions, what redundancy of Merits can there be, when all the good we do, is so amply rewarded? |
A59894 | And is not that a pretty kind of publick Worship, which no body is bound to attend to, or joyn in? |
A59894 | And what shall those do who have no Books and can not read? |
A59894 | And where do we find these several Commands proportioned to Mens several Abilities? |
A59894 | And who ever dreamt, that Men are not bound to give a reason of their non- assent, and of their profession of non- assent? |
A59894 | And why then must this be charged upon our Articles? |
A59894 | Behold the Heaven, and Heaven of Heavens can not contain thee, how much less this house that I have builded? |
A59894 | But Cranmer was of this mind, by whom the Articles were devised; But how does that appear? |
A59894 | But all Abilities are not the same, how then can God''s Commands be so to all? |
A59894 | But did not I give him my reasons, why these words could not be understood literally of the natural Body and Blood of Christ? |
A59894 | But does this prove that they did not make this Recognition? |
A59894 | But how is this the Protestant Case? |
A59894 | But suppose this was not the Doctrine in King Edward''s days, what becomes then of his consequence? |
A59894 | But to what original then shall we attribute this custom of praying for the Dead? |
A59894 | But what is the matter with the Test? |
A59894 | But what is there besides Substance and Efficacy belonging to our Saviour''s Body and Blood? |
A59894 | But why does it not prove this? |
A59894 | Can it be a fault then to believe as Christ has taught, and to worship God as he has prescribed? |
A59894 | Do his Commands differ, as Mens Abilities do? |
A59894 | Do the communications of Grace and Spiritual life flow from the Body, or from the Spirit of Christ? |
A59894 | For if the Trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the Battel? |
A59894 | For if the most perfect Virtue be matter of Duty, and under Command, how is it possible, that any Man can do more than his Duty? |
A59894 | For, secondly, I would ask our Author, whether there be any Offices of Religion, which People are bound to attend to, and to joyn in? |
A59894 | How could the Gospel have been at first planted in the World upon these Principles? |
A59894 | How does a negative Article and non- assent come to be the same thing? |
A59894 | How does separation from the Church of Rome, and that no farther neither than she is Corrupt, come to be a separation from the Catholick Church? |
A59894 | How many several Gospels, and several Laws, then must we have? |
A59894 | How so? |
A59894 | How so? |
A59894 | If it be not, what need is there of Christ''s bodily presence in the Sacrament? |
A59894 | Is a Mediator of Intercession a Mediator? |
A59894 | Is it possible that the true Catholick Faith and Worship should ever be a Crime? |
A59894 | Is it the contact of his Body, that makes our bodies immortal, or the inhabitation of his Spirit in us? |
A59894 | Is the Eucharist then nothing but Jesus Christ? |
A59894 | Is the dispute about the terms wherein the Article is conceived, whether they be Negative or Affirmative? |
A59894 | Is this Argument only against inspired Tongues, or against the use of all unknown Tongues, among Persons who do not understand them? |
A59894 | Is this spoken only of Prophets too? |
A59894 | Is this the Doctrine of any of their Schoolmen, Canonists, or Divines? |
A59894 | Nay, will this Author venture to say, that the Eucharist is nothing but Jesus Christ himself? |
A59894 | Now I would desire to know, whether these are the natural effects of a corporal eating Christ''s natural Body? |
A59894 | Now if this be so, what need all this Dispute about Service in an unknown Tongue? |
A59894 | Now in the first place, I desire to know why there should be any such Divine Offices in publick Worship, which the People are not bound to joyn in? |
A59894 | Or would they still say, that there is an Intercessor of Redemption, and Intercessors of Intercession, and yet that there is but one Intercessor? |
A59894 | Our general Councils tell Protestants we pay no other honour to any creature, than what? |
A59894 | So likewise you, except ye utter by the Tongue words easie to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken, for ye shall speak into the Air? |
A59894 | Suppose this, the Question still is, Whether this Unity of the Church was a Christian Communion? |
A59894 | The Antinomians plead the Doctrine of the eleventh Article, as the Parent of their irreligion, and so they do the Scriptures: And what then? |
A59894 | The cup of Blessing which we bless, is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ? |
A59894 | The next charge is, that we condemn their Doctrines and their Rights; but do we condemn any thing which ought not to be condemned? |
A59894 | To return then a more direct Answer to our Author''s question, what there is besides Substance and Efficacy belonging to our Saviour''s Body? |
A59894 | Was all this matter of force too, and fear of the Praemunire, which was pardoned in Parliament, Anno 1531. three years before? |
A59894 | What glorious and triumphant Nonsence is here? |
A59894 | What is that Efficacy then, which he attributes to Christ''s natural Body, and supposes to be inherent in it? |
A59894 | What then is the Fault of the Church of England? |
A59894 | What then? |
A59894 | Who knows not this?) |
A59894 | Why can not she be a mystical Member of Christ in Catholick Unity, or a charitable part of the Catholick Church? |
A59894 | Why may we not pray in the Vulgar Tongue as well as interpret Prayers in a Vulgar Tongue? |
A59894 | Will he hence infer, that the Scriptures countenance Antinomianism, because they alledge Scripture for it? |
A59894 | and if he were, what is that to us, when there is no such thing in our Articles? |
A59894 | and what should detain him in Purgatory, who has an immediate right to Heaven? |
A59894 | and will a corporal eating of his Body communicate it to us? |
A59894 | believe that she has not erred, because of the Promise of Infalibility, or disbelieve the Promise because she has erred? |
A59894 | but however, what is all this to a Popish Purgatory? |
A59894 | do the People understand Latin Prayers, or do they not? |
A59894 | does the Council of Trent say so? |
A59894 | for a true Apostolick Faith and Worship does certainly make us the Mystical Members of Christs Body, or else I desire to know what does? |
A59894 | if it does not, how does he prove, that all Christians are bound to receive the Eucharist? |
A59894 | if we do it is indeed a fault; but if we do n''t, why are we blamed for it? |
A59894 | or whether there be any Authority in Church or State which can de jure forbid the doing it, and make it unlawful and irregular to do so? |
A59894 | than such an external respect as is due to the Bible? |
A59894 | that such a Doctrine is not taught in Scripture? |
A59894 | what need of distinguishing between extempore Prayers, and setled Forms of Divine Offices? |
A59894 | will he allow the Council of Trent to be expounded according to the Private opinions of every Bishop, that was in it? |
A59904 | 2dly, Can the submission of the King give a legal Right to the Crown, without the submission of the People? |
A59904 | 4ly, For has a Nation no Right, when the King is gone, to preserve themselves by making the best terms they can with the new Powers? |
A59904 | ? |
A59904 | And how does God settle the Crown on any Family by such Laws? |
A59904 | And what does he prove from this? |
A59904 | Are not Subjects bound to obey such Kings, as have God''s Authority? |
A59904 | But are there not several Rules about Right and Wrong, which extend to all Persons and Cases? |
A59904 | But for answer to this, in the first place I desire to know, what submission of the King it is, that gives a legal Right? |
A59904 | But here a Man might well demand of them; is there any Power here meant by the Apostle, which is not inherent in some Mens Persons? |
A59904 | But pray, what Sense does this make of what the Prophet Daniel says, That God changeth times and seasons, removeth Kings, and setteth up Kings? |
A59904 | But what would our Author prove from this? |
A59904 | But where do I say, that possession of Sovereign Power contrary to Law is Gods Authority? |
A59904 | But, says our Author, does not the nature of the thing sufficiently distinguish it? |
A59904 | By what wickedness? |
A59904 | Did I ever deny that it was lawful to submit to Athaliah, while she was possessed of the Throne, and Ioash, the true Heir, concealed? |
A59904 | Do we use to say, a Man may give his Estate to whom he will, when his Estate is entailed, and he can not alienate it from the Right Heir? |
A59904 | Does Providence and Government signifie only his Permission? |
A59904 | Does giving suppose an antecedent right in him to whom it is given? |
A59904 | Does giving to whomsoever he will, signifie, giving it only to those to whom the Law gives it? |
A59904 | Does he find in Scripture, that the Jews are condemned for submitting all this while to Athaliah? |
A59904 | Does not the Convocation allow Ioash to be the true Heir, while he was kept from the Crown, and Athaliah an Usurper, tho she reigned Six Years? |
A59904 | For indeed will any Man say, that God governs such a Kingdom, as is not governed by his Authority, or Minister? |
A59904 | For let me ask him, does God make Kings in England, or not? |
A59904 | For what are these Laws, which, he says, are made by the Divine Authority, and are our Rule? |
A59904 | For who that could possibly avoid it,( that is, where strict Duty does not oblige, nor irresistible Force constrain) would submit to such Men? |
A59904 | Grant all this, and what then? |
A59904 | He proceeds: But howev ● r, who Anointed? |
A59904 | He proceeds; But( saith the Doctor) if the Apostle had intended such a distinction; he ought to have said it in express words; and why so, I pray? |
A59904 | He was anointed indeed, but is anointing actual possession? |
A59904 | His Dominion and Government: What is the relation of a Subject to a King? |
A59904 | How did God himself require this at their hands? |
A59904 | How then does God invest any Prince with his Authority of Government, whom he does not immediately nominate, as he did in the Kingdom of Iudah? |
A59904 | I gave him a reason for it, which he is pleased to conceal; Why should we think the Apostle here intends a distinction unknown to Scripture? |
A59904 | If it will, how does the Royal Family come to lose their right by an usurped possession of their Throne? |
A59904 | If they be, I ask, Whether they do not oppose these Humane Laws to the Authority of God in making Kings by his Providence? |
A59904 | Is swearing Allegiance a submission and acknowledgment? |
A59904 | Is there any Magistracy without a Magistrate? |
A59904 | Must they ask leave of their Prince, whether they shall continue a Nation, when he is gone? |
A59904 | Now I would ask our Author, Whether the Laws of England, which entail the Crown, are not Humane Laws? |
A59904 | One who is possessed of the Throne without a legal Right? |
A59904 | Or how can the Power be resisted, unless the Party be resisted in whom it is seated? |
A59904 | Or what other submission they made, but a bare yielding to Force and Power? |
A59904 | Or would he prove, that the Israelites ought not to have submitted to the Moabites, but have had all their Throats cut by a vain opposition? |
A59904 | That in every Hereditary Kingdom the Legal Heir has a Legal right to the Crown, as well as in Iudah? |
A59904 | To avoid this, he will not call them Humane Laws, but Laws made by Gods Authority; but the Question is, Whether they are Humane or Divine Laws? |
A59904 | To this he answers, But is the Doctor sure, that Joash was actually possessed of the Throne? |
A59904 | To this he answers: Was not Athaliah in possession of the Throne, when Jehoiada anointed Joash? |
A59904 | To this our Author answers, Where is this Law of God, that commands us to obey Vsurpers? |
A59904 | Was it only by the Principles of Reason and Natural Justice, in setting the right Heir upon the Throne? |
A59904 | Were there no Learned Men in it? |
A59904 | What Authority is that, which must be obeyed and reverenced? |
A59904 | What is God''s Authority, which we must obey? |
A59904 | What other submission did the King, and Princes, and People of Iudah make to the King of Babylon, when they were carried away Captives to Babylon? |
A59904 | What then does he think of Mr. Calvin and Grotius, who have both passed for learned Men? |
A59904 | What thinks he of Bishop Overal''s Convocation? |
A59904 | Where is it ever affirmed in Scripture in express Terms, or deduced from thence by evident Consequence? |
A59904 | Whether they shall submit to a new Prince, when he can protect them no longer? |
A59904 | Will our Author condemn them for this submission? |
A59904 | Yes, there are; such is the Apostle''s Rule in this Chapter, to give to every one their due; but then the Question returns, What is their due? |
A59904 | and did I ever deny it? |
A59904 | and do they not by such a submission, according to the Laws of Nations, become the Subjects of the Conquerour, till they are retaken? |
A59904 | and how long must he reign afterwards with their consent, before he comes to be thoroughly setled as a lawful King? |
A59904 | and suppose he can prove it; what then? |
A59904 | and who Proclaimed him? |
A59904 | and who put him in Possession? |
A59904 | and, When it becomes a Duty to do it? |
A59904 | can not God make a King, without giving him Authority to do all that he has power to do? |
A59904 | did God resign his Government of Israel into the hands of the Aramites and Moabites, and quit his Right and Claim to the Government of them? |
A59904 | do they owe him Allegiance, when he has lost his Dominion? |
A59904 | for do they not refuse to obey a King, whom the providence of God has placed and setled in the Throne, upon a pretence that he is not King by Law? |
A59904 | for who doubts of this? |
A59904 | if he does( which I hope our Author will grant, or he renounces the jure divino with a witness) how does he make Kings? |
A59904 | not to prejudice wise and good Men against all Compliances? |
A59904 | or do Subjects continue Subjects, when he ceases to be King? |
A59904 | or does the Scripture, or Convocation do it? |
A59904 | or how long must the usurper reign before the people must consent to it? |
A59904 | or if the lawful King must die, or resign his Crown to settle the usurper, what need of so long a prescription? |
A59904 | that is, can one Relative subsist by its self, without its Correlate? |
A59904 | there is something of likeness between them, and what then? |
A59904 | therefore the possession of Sovereign power contrary to Law is God''s Authority; how does this follow? |
A59784 | ( which it is certain the daily and familiar use of such Pictures can not do) yet what is this to Prayer? |
A59784 | And do they not worship them? |
A59784 | And do we not then honour that Being most, to whom we pray oftenest? |
A59784 | And does not the Object terminate the Worship? |
A59784 | And how absurd is it to Represent him by an Image, when they know they can make no Image like him? |
A59784 | And how can the sight of a Picture raise our hearts to the Love of Christ? |
A59784 | And how does this contradict what I before asserted? |
A59784 | And what is that Worship which is due to them as separated from the Prototype? |
A59784 | And who are my Brethren? |
A59784 | And yet can no Man say unto him, Sir, why do you so? |
A59784 | Are not they the immediate and proper Objects of that Worship, which is given to them? |
A59784 | As if he were afraid to own, what the Faith of the Church is in this point? |
A59784 | But I beseech you, the memory of what does a Picture preserve? |
A59784 | But can men read their Prayers, as well as learn the Articles of their Creed, in a Picture too? |
A59784 | But did the Angel use it as a Prayer to the Virgin Mary? |
A59784 | But how unreasonable is this, when they know he is invisible, and would not be a God if he could be seen? |
A59784 | But is this the Work of the Carver, or the Painter, to make a God? |
A59784 | But it is worth enquiring how they do it; Do they intend the Worship they give to the Image for Christ? |
A59784 | But then what becomes of that Religious Worship which is given to the Virgin Mary, and Saints, in relation to God? |
A59784 | But what does he mean by this? |
A59784 | But what does he think of abstaining from Fornication, and from Meats offered to Idols, which are contained in the same Decree? |
A59784 | But wherein does the Misrepresentation consist? |
A59784 | But will our Protester say, that the Divine Law does forbid all swearing? |
A59784 | Can the Pencil, or the Knife, put Divinity into a Picture or Image? |
A59784 | Did Protestants separate from Papists, because they believed, that Papists thought Idolatry lawful? |
A59784 | Did the Angel tell them this too, as well as that she is Blessed among Women? |
A59784 | Do they abhor the Doctrines of Transubstantiation, Penances, Indulgences, Purgatory? |
A59784 | Do they abhor the Worship of Saints and Images, and the Host? |
A59784 | Do they not set up Images in Churches? |
A59784 | Does not this Worship, which is given to them, terminate in them, and not in God? |
A59784 | Does one exalt you more above the condition of creatures than the other? |
A59784 | For can this( if it be no more) be thought a sufficient foundation, for all that pompous worship of the Virgin Mary, and other powerful Saints? |
A59784 | For do they not say a great many Prayers, immediately directed to the Virgin Mary, and not at all directed to God? |
A59784 | For is not Prayer an act of Honour and Worship? |
A59784 | For what considering man can think it reasonable to worship a visible Image instead of an invisible God? |
A59784 | For what had the Author of the Misrepresentation to do with these Rules? |
A59784 | For what is it they intend by worshipping Images? |
A59784 | Hath it not been told you from the beginning? |
A59784 | Have all Mothers then such a natural Authority over their Sons, even when they are Soveraign Princes? |
A59784 | Have they a mind to see the God they Worship? |
A59784 | Have they not a great number of Saints, whom they worship with Divine Honours? |
A59784 | Have ye not heard? |
A59784 | Have ye not known? |
A59784 | Have ye not understood from the Foundations of the Earth? |
A59784 | How incongruous and absurd is it, to make a Picture or Image of that God who is invisible? |
A59784 | How long halt ye between Two Opinions? |
A59784 | If he undertake to expound the Catholick Faith, why does he not do it? |
A59784 | If not, why is their abhorring Idolatry, while they do the same things, that ever they did, a sufficient reason for a re- union? |
A59784 | In what sense then, you''l say, does the Scripture call Images Gods? |
A59784 | Is God the Object of that Worship, which they give to the Saints and Blessed Virgin? |
A59784 | Is it only because she is a Mother? |
A59784 | Is not their Ave Maria such a Prayer, and do they principally pray to God in those Prayers, which are immediately directed to the Virgin Mary? |
A59784 | It is indeed a great Honour to her to be the Mother of Jesus, but does this entitle her to that Worship and Homage, which is due to her Son? |
A59784 | May we not beg our Friends on Earth, to relieve our wants and necessities, as well as to pray for us? |
A59784 | Now I only ask, whether Prayer be not an Act of Religion, and a worship due to God? |
A59784 | Now what do all these Arguments signify against making a God? |
A59784 | Only I would gladly know of this Author, what he takes the judgment of the Church of England to be about the worship of Images? |
A59784 | Or is this the Ave Maria now in use in the Church of Rome? |
A59784 | Or what likeness will ye compare to him? |
A59784 | She is the happiest Mother among Women, but does this advance her above Angels and Arch- Angels? |
A59784 | That it is an infinite reproach to the Divine Nature and Perfections, to be represented by an Image: To whom will ye liken God? |
A59784 | The Answerer had asked, How the Council of Trent comes to be the Rule and Measure of Doctrine to any here( in England) where it was never received? |
A59784 | The Papist for one prayer he says to God, says ten to the Virgin Mary: Is this mis- represented? |
A59784 | The third Enquiry was, Whether the Authority of the Church be not as sacred in decrees of Manners, as in Articles of Faith? |
A59784 | Thus to proceed, When C worships A as B''s Proxy, in his name and stead, does he worship A or B? |
A59784 | To whom then will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare to Him? |
A59784 | Was it delivering a Message, or an act of Devotion? |
A59784 | Well, suppose this, how does this mend the matter? |
A59784 | What Authority general Councils have in decretis morum, or such matters as concern Discipline and Government? |
A59784 | What Relation is there between them? |
A59784 | What Worship is due to carved and polished Brass and Stone? |
A59784 | What change is there now in Papists, which was not before, that should now invite us to embrace their Communion? |
A59784 | What has the Mother of his Flesh to do, to intermeddle in the affairs of his Spiritual Kingdom, which she is not capable of managing? |
A59784 | What likeness? |
A59784 | When he was but twelve years old, he told his Mother, how was it, that ye sought me, wist ye not that I must be about my Fathers business? |
A59784 | When they pray to the Virgin Mary to pray to them, is this Prayer princ ● pally directed to God Almighty? |
A59784 | Whence then do they learn it? |
A59784 | Whether it be Idolatry or not? |
A59784 | Whether nothing be an Article of Faith, but what is decreed with an Anathema? |
A59784 | Whether the deposing Decree be a doctrinal Point, or only matter of Discipline and Government? |
A59784 | Why does he speak so cautiously? |
A59784 | Why may we not, if we please, follow Bellarmin, or Suarez, or Vasquez, or Cajetan, as well as Condom? |
A59784 | but is this to worship the Image? |
A59784 | for if they can make a God, what matter is it who their God be like, so he be a God? |
A59784 | if it be not, why do they pray to God? |
A59784 | if not, what change is there in them, that should invite us now to a reconciliation? |
A59784 | is not that a necessary Doctrine, and virtually contained in that Decree? |
A59784 | that any Protestant People are so silly as to think that Papists believe as bad of their own Religion, as they believe of it? |
A59784 | that is, Do they intend to worship Christ in that Worship they give to his Image? |
A59784 | when the Image has no Worship given it, but such as is proper to its self, considered as Christ''s Image, will they call this the Worship of Christ? |
A59784 | — To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal, saith the Holy One? |
A59903 | ( and that by such Marks and Signs too, as are matter of dispute themselves? |
A59903 | And does that make the Church of Rome, the Head of the Church? |
A59903 | And here he triumphs mightily; Is there such opposition then between Notes and Promises? |
A59903 | And how silly is it to think, that those must necessarily understand an Epistle best, to whom it was written? |
A59903 | And if the Ear shall say, because I am not the Eye, I am not of the Body, is it therefore not of the Body? |
A59903 | And if we can see, which is the Church, what need we guess at it by Marks and Signs? |
A59903 | And is it absurd to suppose that to be, which at the same time we confess to be? |
A59903 | And is not such a National Union of Churches a National Church? |
A59903 | And what follows from hence? |
A59903 | And what if they did believe so, are not others as much bound as they? |
A59903 | And what now is the hurt of this? |
A59903 | And what then? |
A59903 | And what thinks he of the misfortunes of some great Princes, who have been as zealous for the Church? |
A59903 | And yet how many things are there, whose Existence and Essence are known without Notes? |
A59903 | Antiquity is not Novelty, but a pretence to Antiquity may: for how old is the Council of Trent? |
A59903 | But Protestants think the first Question ought to be, What a true Church is? |
A59903 | But are not all the Churches the Universal Church? |
A59903 | But does the Discourser do this? |
A59903 | But have we grounds enough for such a Breach, as we have made? |
A59903 | But he says there are other Notes, which lead to the Discovery of a good Title; what then? |
A59903 | But how do all Christians come to be one Body in Christ? |
A59903 | But how shall I know half this Essence, true Faith? |
A59903 | But pray who told him, that Protestants do not place the Unity of the Church in Unity, but in Separation? |
A59903 | But pray, what does I signifie, when a Bishop, or Priest, or the Pope himself repeats the Creed? |
A59903 | But suppose Christians have not this mutual care one of another, do they cease to be Members of the same Body? |
A59903 | But then the difficulty will be, how all these Churches, which are united with themselves, but separated from one another, make one Catholick Church? |
A59903 | But what did his former state do? |
A59903 | But what do the Heathens see? |
A59903 | But what is all this to the purpose? |
A59903 | But what is this to the Discourser, who was not concerned to state this Point? |
A59903 | But what then? |
A59903 | But who are these Miscreants, that dare do such a Thing? |
A59903 | But why not upon Hereticks as well as Infidels? |
A59903 | But will he call this Answering? |
A59903 | But would this make a Pagan believe the Scripture? |
A59903 | Can not there be a National Church without Christ''s begging leave of Potentates to plant his Gospel among them? |
A59903 | Did King Iames the First own the Pope''s Supremacy? |
A59903 | Do they never talk of Heresy and Schism? |
A59903 | Do they then believe the Holy Catholick Church? |
A59903 | Does Church- History, or Oecumenical Councils, all Convocations and Synods declare, That the Scriptures are not intelligible in these matters? |
A59903 | Does this relate to the Efficacy of Doctrine, or to the Zeal of the Preacher? |
A59903 | For how can I find out any thing, without knowing in some measure what it is I find? |
A59903 | For will any learned Romanist deny, that there are several particular true Churches? |
A59903 | For, says he, the Question is which is the true Church? |
A59903 | He adds, It is not without something of God, that She keeps the name still: But how does She keep it? |
A59903 | He answers for them, that the Church is visible, for we see a Christian Church in the World; but says he, What is it I see? |
A59903 | He asks, whether the Church be not visible? |
A59903 | How came they then to determine them for Articles of Faith, by their own Authority, or by the Authority of Scripture? |
A59903 | How much is one grain of common Sense, better than all these Philosophical Subtilties? |
A59903 | How so, good Sir? |
A59903 | How then could the Churches of Ierusalem, of Antioch, of Corinth, of Ephesus, of Rome, be one Church? |
A59903 | How unworthy is it to opine the contrary? |
A59903 | I see a Company of Men, who call themselves a Church, and this is all, that I can see, and is this seeing a Church? |
A59903 | If by the Scriptures, how we shall know them without the Church? |
A59903 | If the Foot shall say, because I am not the Hand, I am not of the Body, is it therefore not of the Body? |
A59903 | If they be, why can not an honest and diligent Reader understand that which is intelligible? |
A59903 | Is Multitude and Division the same thing? |
A59903 | Is it visible at Sea which is the Royal Navy, when the Enemy puts up the English Colours? |
A59903 | Is not the Catholick Church visible? |
A59903 | Nay say I, not among Counterfeits; Is it visible at Sea, which is the Royal Navy, when the Enemy puts up the English Colours? |
A59903 | Now these points are either intelligibly taught in the Scripture, or they are not; if not, how does he know they are in the Scripture? |
A59903 | Now what has our Answerer to say to this, besides his Criticism of all, and some one? |
A59903 | Or is Unity inconsistent with Multitude? |
A59903 | Or say, that honest and diligent Readers can not understand them without the Authority of the Church? |
A59903 | Or take your words for such Notes of a Church, as you pretended to produce out of Scripture? |
A59903 | Or that a private honest diligent Reader can not understand them? |
A59903 | Or, can we know which Church is the Pillar of Truth, before we know what Truth is? |
A59903 | Or, is it the thing which is above our Comprehension? |
A59903 | Or, will any Protestant deny, that all true Churches are one Catholick Church, which we profess in our Creed? |
A59903 | Suppose this, what is this to knowing the Scripture by the Church, and the Church by the Scripture? |
A59903 | That the Faith and Communion of the Church was one, before it was divided: What then? |
A59903 | That they are the only true Church, because they are more zealous in propagating Christianity? |
A59903 | That which maintains its Unity against Heresy and Schism, or that which is most favourable to the Separation? |
A59903 | This I believe every Body will grant him, that the Church is not a Mathematical Body; but what hurt is there in Mathematical Unity? |
A59903 | To what purpose then were they writ? |
A59903 | Truly I can not guess, he says, the Dissenter scarce owns any such Distinctions, or very rarely what? |
A59903 | Was ever such Stuff put together? |
A59903 | Was he not then in favour with God too? |
A59903 | We are indeed then more beholden to the Church of Rome, than we thought for; but does the Church of Rome allow our Bishops, or our Liturgy? |
A59903 | We desire Unity, they shew us Universality: As if there could not be Unity in Universality? |
A59903 | Well, but how does he prove, that the true Church may be known before we know the true Faith? |
A59903 | Well, but what then? |
A59903 | What is it then that unites any Church to Christ but the true Faith and Worship of Christ? |
A59903 | What other Note is there of a good Estate, but a good Title? |
A59903 | What then do you say? |
A59903 | What then do you say? |
A59903 | What then is the Universal Church but All? |
A59903 | What think you, in the sense given? |
A59903 | What, are not the words perspicuous and intelligible? |
A59903 | Where has the Apostle any such Phrase? |
A59903 | Who are these They? |
A59903 | Who desires any Note to know the Sun by? |
A59903 | Who says, that the Church is visible, and may be known without disputable Notes? |
A59903 | Why may not the Church of England upon this Principle call her self the Catholick Church? |
A59903 | Why should the three parts be the Schismaticks, and not the fourth? |
A59903 | Why so, I pray? |
A59903 | Why so? |
A59903 | Why, is it impossible that all Churches should be united in one Communion? |
A59903 | Yes, he says, Universal enough, I confess, but where is the Unity? |
A59903 | and then resolve the authority of his wife into the authority of the Scripture? |
A59903 | but would any man talk at this rate, who remembers, that Christ was crucified, and his Church persecuted for three hundred years? |
A59903 | can not we distinguish between the Christian Church, and a Turkish Mosque, and a Iewish Synagogue?) |
A59903 | can not we without all this adoe distinguish a Christian from a Turk, or a Iew, or a Pagan? |
A59903 | does St. Paul, who reproves these Corinthians for their Schisms, shut them out of the Church for them too? |
A59903 | does he deny them to belong to the Church, when he directs his Epistle to the Church of God at Corinth? |
A59903 | for if three parts of the Church were divided from the fourth, why should a prudent Man charge so much the greater number with the Schism? |
A59903 | how then does her Authority keep them up? |
A59903 | nor own that there are any Heresies and Schisms? |
A59903 | or, how can I know what the Essence of any thing is by such Notes as are not essential? |
A59903 | or, which of these Churches, which are thus united with themselves( which it seems is Catholick Unity) is the One Church? |
A59903 | then where is your Communion with Luther''s or Calvin''s Disciples? |
A59903 | to know what Light, or Taste, or Sounds, Pain, or Pleasure is? |
A59903 | why then does he call them Heathens? |
A59850 | And can any thing in the World deserve more of our care and industry, than to obtain eternal Happiness, and to avoid eternal Misery? |
A59850 | And is not that a better Reason to be Religious without Hypocrisy, than to be of no Religion, to declare to all the World that we are not Hypocrites? |
A59850 | And what can be more noble than the end of Religion, which is not meerly to live happily a few Years in this World, but to be happy for ever? |
A59850 | And what would that Religious Emperour have thought, to have seen Christians in publick Assemblies pray sitting? |
A59850 | Are our Prayers concealed from us in an unknown Tongue? |
A59850 | Are there not a great many Religious Men, who are no Hypocrites? |
A59850 | But I would desire these Men to tell me what Point of Popery is still retained in the Doctrine, Government, or Discipline of our Church? |
A59850 | But besides these Schisms in the Church,( which S. Paul makes a great sign of carnality; For are ye not carnal? |
A59850 | But how unpardonable is it, for a Man to be false to his Oaths and Covenants? |
A59850 | But is there any Remains of Popish Worship in our Liturgy? |
A59850 | But is there indeed no difference between ▪ worshipping God in a sober and pious form of words, and worshipping a Graven Image? |
A59850 | But the Common- Prayer Book is Popish: I beseech you wherein; as it is a Form of Prayer? |
A59850 | But the most material Inquiry here is, What is a Publick Assembly for Religious Worship? |
A59850 | Can any thing be more reasonable, than that God should be worshiped and adored by those Creatures, whom his own Hands have made and fashioned? |
A59850 | Can not they be sincerely Religious, though Hypocrites be not? |
A59850 | Can not you serve God, at least as well at Church as you do at Home? |
A59850 | Consider then, what the proper work of a Reformer must be? |
A59850 | Did he give me a Tongue to talk of every Trifle, and never to be silent but where it ought to be most vocal, in the Praises of my Maker? |
A59850 | Do we not understand what we say, what Petitions we put up to God? |
A59850 | Do you find the Sacrifice of the Mass, or any Reliques of it in our Liturgy? |
A59850 | Does a Prince like a long extemporary Harangue, when his Subjects come to beg a Boone of him, or a short and well composed Petition? |
A59850 | Does the Apostle say, that there is any greater degree of worthiness required to receive the Lords Supper, than there is to pray to God? |
A59850 | First; How few are those who do examine the Reasons of their Separation? |
A59850 | First; Whether he do indeed separate from the Communion of our Parish Churches upon true Principles of Conscience? |
A59850 | For can an Immortal Being, who is to live Eternal Ages, be satisfied with such perishing Joys as wax old, and expire in half an Age? |
A59850 | For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal? |
A59850 | How frequent are the Exhortations to Christian Love and Unity? |
A59850 | How long shall this be in the Heart of the Prophets that prophesy Lies? |
A59850 | How long time will they take to teach a Countryman, who is not Book- learn''d, what a Symbolical Ceremony is? |
A59850 | How many Children have never been taught any other Catechism, than some flattering Complements, modish Oaths, and obscene talk? |
A59850 | How many have been instructed in prophane and impious Jests, and all the topicks of irreligious Wit? |
A59850 | How often do many men vary in their opinions of Preachers, and change their Churches, as their fancy changes? |
A59850 | Is it not a fit season for the applications of the Physician, when the Patient is dangerously sick of a mortal distemper? |
A59850 | Is it not a kind of renouncing our Covenant, when we refuse to own it by such publick solemnities, as he himself has appointed for that purpose? |
A59850 | Is it not a mighty affront to God, when he invites us to his Table, as those who are in Covenant with him, to live in so great a neglect of it? |
A59850 | No difference between signing Children with the sign of the Cross, and dedicating them to an Idol, or false God? |
A59850 | No difference between wearing a Surplice, and falling down to a Stock or Stone? |
A59850 | Now what use could there be for publick Ministers, unless publick Worship were a great and necessary Duty? |
A59850 | Now, how few are there of our Separatists, who understand any thing of this talk? |
A59850 | Or what shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul? |
A59850 | Secondly; Another Question I would propose to these Men, is, Whether they ever seriously consider the hainous nature of Schism? |
A59850 | So well might our Saviour ask that Question, What shall it profit a Man to gain the whole World, and to lose his own Soul? |
A59850 | Thus God argues, A Son honoureth his Father, and a Servant his Master: If then I be a Father, where is my Honour? |
A59850 | Very right; but not to dispute the particular meaning of that place, is not this true also of him, that hears or prayes unworthily? |
A59850 | Wast thou ever Baptized? |
A59850 | What can be more foolish, than to undermine our own Interest, to lay Trains of Misery for our selves, and to forfeit our present and future Happiness? |
A59850 | When you come to appear before me; Who hath required this at your hands, to tread my Courts? |
A59850 | Whether they Pollute the Communicants, and make Communion unlawful? |
A59850 | Whether they be only active or passive in it? |
A59850 | Will a Father reject the Petitions of his Child, if as often as his Wants require, he uses the same Words, when he asks the same thing? |
A59850 | a Covenant to which I owe all my hopes of Happiness, all the Good I now enjoy, and all that I expect? |
A59850 | and art not thou afraid to deal falsely and treacherously with thy God? |
A59850 | and how do they know that they have any reason themselves for what they do? |
A59850 | and if I be a Master, where is my Fear? |
A59850 | are there any Prayers to Saints or Angels, or the Virgin Mary? |
A59850 | for whereas there is among you Envying, and Strife, and Divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as Men? |
A59850 | for whereas there is among you envyings, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as Men? |
A59850 | or to understand how our Ceremonies are transformed into Sacraments? |
A59850 | or whether the Fault be theirs who enjoyn it? |
A59850 | or, whether the Parents, who dislike such a Ceremony, sin in submitting their Children to it, in Obedience to their Superiors? |
A59850 | the Bread which we break, is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ? |
A59850 | to pull up Root and Branch; to pull up the Wheat with the Tares? |
A59850 | whether the Child, who is signed with the sign of the Cross at Baptism, be ever the worse for it? |
A59850 | who can dwell with everlasting Burnings? |
A59793 | 21, 22, 23 v. Art thou called, being a servant? |
A59793 | And allow that saying of David to be Scripture still, Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord''s Anointed, and be guiltless? |
A59793 | And as for the new Covenant, where does that grant any new franchises and liberties to subjects? |
A59793 | And how could so innocent a person die, but by the hands of unjust and Tyrannical powers? |
A59793 | And the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it? |
A59793 | And what follows from hence? |
A59793 | And who were these powers St. Peter resisted? |
A59793 | But does not the Apostle expresly tell them, Ye are bought with a price, be not ye the servants of men? |
A59793 | But how should these subordinate Governours come by this power to resist their Prince? |
A59793 | But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? |
A59793 | But now is it likely, that if David had had any designe to have fortified Keilah against Saul, he would have been afraid of the men of the Citie? |
A59793 | But was the Doctrine of resistance more scandalous ▪ than the Doctrine of the Cross? |
A59793 | But what follows from hence? |
A59793 | But what is it they would prove from these words? |
A59793 | But what is this now to us? |
A59793 | But what now is all this to subjection to Soveraign Princes? |
A59793 | But would it not also have made more converts? |
A59793 | But you will say, What is this to such an absolute subjection to Princes as includes Non- resistance in it? |
A59793 | By him? |
A59793 | By what Law then? |
A59793 | Can there be no wise reason given, why God may advance a bad man to be a Prince? |
A59793 | Did his doing well, make it ill for us to do as he did? |
A59793 | Did they think this so scandalous a Doctrine, that they were afraid or ashamed to publish it to the world? |
A59793 | Does he set any narrower bounds or limits, than what the Heathen Princes challenged? |
A59793 | Does the Apostle exhort the Christians too to throw off the civil powers? |
A59793 | For indeed, can any thing be plainer than our Saviour''s answer? |
A59793 | For indeed, how can people, who have no power of Government themselves, give that power, which they have not? |
A59793 | For is the power of victorious Rebels and Usurpers from God? |
A59793 | For what authoritie has a wicked and persecuting Law? |
A59793 | For what does the discontent of the greatest Ministers signifie, who can raise no forces to oppose their Prince? |
A59793 | For what glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye take it patiently? |
A59793 | For when they had chose a King, did God cease to be the King of Israel? |
A59793 | How does it follow, that because Princes are chose by the people, therefore they derive their power from them, and are accountable to them? |
A59793 | How now does David behave himself in this extremity? |
A59793 | How then can you prove from the duty of praying for Kings, that it is in no case lawful to resist them? |
A59793 | My other question is this, Whether a Prince have any more authority to make wicked and persecuting Laws, than to persecute without Law? |
A59793 | Now how does the death of Christ, by expiating our sins, deliver us from subjection to our civil Governours? |
A59793 | Now what is it, that makes the person of a King more inviolable and unaccountable than other men? |
A59793 | Now why should he entertain these men, but to defend himself against the forces of Saul? |
A59793 | Or that Christ, when he made us free, did deliver us from the subjection of men? |
A59793 | Shall he who was so famous for miracles, who gave eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame? |
A59793 | Tell us therefore, what thinkest thou? |
A59793 | The Apostle tells us, that the King is supreme; but over whom is he supreme? |
A59793 | The Case of mixt Communion: Whether it be Lawful to Separate from a Church upon the account of promiscuous Congregations and mixt Communions? |
A59793 | Therefore? |
A59793 | This example Iezebel threatned Iehu with: Had Zimri peace, who slew his master? |
A59793 | What can be said more expresly against resistance than this? |
A59793 | What course does he take to secure himself from Saul? |
A59793 | What shall it profit a man, though he should gain the whole world, which is something more than a single Crown and Kingdom, and loose his own Soul? |
A59793 | Whence then does an illegal act or Judgement derive its authoritie and obligation? |
A59793 | Where the word of a King is, there is power; and who may say unto him, What dost thou? |
A59793 | Whether God can not by a great many unknown ways, determine the choice of the people, to that Person, whom he has before chosen himself? |
A59793 | Whether God does nothing, but what he does by an immediate power? |
A59793 | Whether he can not appoint and choose an Emperor, unless he does it by a Voice from Heaven, or sends an Angel to set the Crown upon his head? |
A59793 | Whether the Laws of God and Nature be not as sacred and inviolable as the Laws of our Country? |
A59793 | Which is the greatest and most merciless Tyrant? |
A59793 | Who are most likely to abuse their power? |
A59793 | Why he was born of mean and obscure parents, and chose a poor and industrious life, and an accursed and infamous death? |
A59793 | Will you lift up your hand against God? |
A59793 | Would this have offended Princes, and make them more implacable enemies to Christianitie? |
A59793 | a Covetous and Rapacious Prince, or an insolent Army, and hungry Rabble? |
A59793 | a Nero or Dioclesian, or a pitcht Battel? |
A59793 | an Hereditary Prince, or the People, who are fond of innovations? |
A59793 | an arbitrary and lawless Prince, or a Civil War? |
A59793 | and can any thing be a Doctrine of the Gospel, which is truly scandalous? |
A59793 | and did he not receive the Laws and Rules of Government from him? |
A59793 | and does our praying for them, make it unlawful to resist and oppose their unjust violence? |
A59793 | and how can this be maintained, but by a Revenue proportionable to the expence? |
A59793 | and how soon would this have made the Doctrine of Non- resistance useless and out of date, by making Christians powerful enough to resist? |
A59793 | and who gave it this authoritie? |
A59793 | are we not bound to pray for all our Enemies and Persecutors? |
A59793 | by God? |
A59793 | by whom? |
A59793 | can not we pray for any man, without making him our absolute and Soverain Lord? |
A59793 | did Oliver Cromwell receive his power from God? |
A59793 | does it hence follow, therefore we may resist and oppose them, if they do? |
A59793 | does not he know how to rule us? |
A59793 | for can the Apostle be thought absolutely to condemn resistance, if he makes it only unlawful to resist when we want power to conquer? |
A59793 | how does an illegal sentence pronounced by a Judge, come to have any Authoritie? |
A59793 | how to chuse a Prince for us? |
A59793 | is it lawful to give Tribute to Caesar, or not? |
A59793 | is not the Prince as much bound to observe the Laws of God and Nature, as the Laws of his Country? |
A59793 | or ask him, Why hast thou done so? |
A59793 | or of whose hands have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? |
A59793 | or whom have I defrauded? |
A59793 | or whose Ass have I taken? |
A59793 | some illegal Taxes, or Plunderings, Decimations, and Sequestrations? |
A59793 | that Non- resistance is no duty, because it may possibly be attended with evil consequences? |
A59793 | that our subjection to men is inconsistent with our freedom in Christ? |
A59793 | the Prince, or the people? |
A59793 | to be the slaves and Vassals, the scorn and the Triumph of insolent Tyrants? |
A59793 | was it impossible for Infinite wisdom to have laid a more glorious and triumphant scene of our redemption? |
A59793 | was not the King God''s Anointed? |
A59793 | was not their King Gods Minister and Vicegerent, as their Rulers and Judges were before? |
A59793 | was there no possible way, but the condescension and sufferings of his own Son? |
A59793 | were we born for this very end, to suffer death by Herods and Pontius Pilates? |
A59793 | what agreement is there between civil government, and publick Justice and a Tyrant? |
A59793 | what authoritie has any Prince to make Laws against the Laws of God? |
A59793 | wherefore? |
A59793 | which is the greatest oppression of the Subject? |
A59793 | which will destroy most mens Lives? |
A59793 | who is most likely to make a change and alteration in government? |
A59793 | who will devour most Estates? |
A59793 | whom have I oppressed? |
A59793 | will you cast off his authority and government too? |
A59816 | & c. have you crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts? |
A59816 | ( which is the thing to be proved) or is your nature changed? |
A59816 | 17. this new Creature is fed, cherisht, nourisht, kept alive, by the fruits of holiness; to what end hath God given us new hearts, and new Natures? |
A59816 | And is this the way, in which we must seek for Peace? |
A59816 | And what hath this to do with the Imputation of Christs Personal Righteousness to us? |
A59816 | As for instance, Dost thou object I am a great Sinner, and will Christ save me? |
A59816 | Behold Israel after the flesh, are not they which eat of the Sacrifice partakers of the Altar? |
A59816 | But I am afraid I shall fall away from God( afraid of it? |
A59816 | But I can not go to God by prayer to fetch comfort:( Comfort? |
A59816 | But how excellent is the Grace of Christs Person above the Grace of the Gospel? |
A59816 | But how shall a poor humbled Sinner know when he is called, that then he may come to Christ? |
A59816 | But is it the grief of thy heart, that thou canst not deny thy self? |
A59816 | But not to dispute about words, I am content it should only be a necessary way to Eternal Life: but what becomes of Christ then? |
A59816 | But they are such Laws as came upon us by occasion of sin, and therefore an innocent man can not be obliged by them: but why not? |
A59816 | But what are the bonds of this Union? |
A59816 | But what now if the Divine Nature it self have not such an endless, boundless, bottomless grace and compassion, as the Dr. now talks of? |
A59816 | But when the Soul is come to Christ, is this enough? |
A59816 | But why can not the righteousness of Christ do this more effectually, than the holiness of men? |
A59816 | Canst thou desire to have Christ upon any terms, though it be to be damned with him?) |
A59816 | Christ is life; is he weak? |
A59816 | Christ is the power of God, and the wisdom of God; hath he the sense of guilt upon him? |
A59816 | Dost thou desire to believe and to have Christ? |
A59816 | Doth this also so exactly answer the case of suretiship among men, that there is no need to insist upon the Illustration of it? |
A59816 | First, I wonder why this should be called the Union of Saints to Christ? |
A59816 | For nothing that ever was a Member, can be lost to Eternity; for is Christ divided? |
A59816 | Hast thou any will to it? |
A59816 | How can a Believer and Unbeliever, a Christian and an Idolater have right to a part of the same Sacrifice? |
A59816 | How so? |
A59816 | Is he not also of the Gentiles? |
A59816 | Is he the God of the Iews only? |
A59816 | Is it not great pity, they should be so abused? |
A59816 | Is not this to renounce Christ? |
A59816 | Israel, which followed after righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness; wherefore? |
A59816 | Lovely as a Pillar of Cloud and fire, lovely as Noahs Ark, lovely as any Serpent, yea as a brazen Serpent? |
A59816 | Nay further, if thou objectest, what have I to do with Christ? |
A59816 | Nay what do you think of the holy example of his life, which was no less necessary than his Laws? |
A59816 | Now what can learning Christ signifie? |
A59816 | Obedience and a holy life is for the glory of the Father, the Son, and holy Spirit: how so? |
A59816 | Peace of Conscience? |
A59816 | Received ye the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by the hearing of Faith? |
A59816 | That is, did God bestow his Spirit on you, while ye were Jews? |
A59816 | The Bread which we break, is it not the Communion of the body of Christ? |
A59816 | The Cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the Communion of the blood of Christ? |
A59816 | This Oneness and Conjunction are hard words still, and therefore to explain them, you must observe, that Christ and Saints are united, how? |
A59816 | This is fairly offer''d, but what proof have they for it? |
A59816 | To give them better laws, and more excellent promises, and more powerful assistances to do good? |
A59816 | To what purpose is the multitude of your Sacrifices? |
A59816 | What Peace I pray you? |
A59816 | What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols? |
A59816 | What communion hath light with darkness? |
A59816 | What concord hath Christ with Belial? |
A59816 | What do you think of those many Miracles, which he wrought for the confirmation of his Doctrine? |
A59816 | What do you think of training up his Apostles to succeed him in his Ministry as eye and ear witnesses of his Miracles and Doctrine? |
A59816 | What live a blameless, innocent, honest, smooth life, and yet live in some one sin or other? |
A59816 | What need is there of legal washings and purifications? |
A59816 | What need of this? |
A59816 | What part hath he that believeth with an unbeliever? |
A59816 | What pretty sense would this make of the Apostles Argument? |
A59816 | What then is to be done further in order to our closing with Christ by Faith? |
A59816 | What then must we do now? |
A59816 | Who can forbear being smitten with so lovely a Person? |
A59816 | Why so? |
A59816 | Why then must we at last fetch our Peace and security from our own duties and graces? |
A59816 | Yes, says the Doctor, Hast thou the sense of guilt upon thee? |
A59816 | and desirest thou rather than be separated from Christ, to close with Christ upon any terms? |
A59816 | and do never so much? |
A59816 | and the answer to this brings us to that great mark of sanctification; you must consider the effects of Faith, doth it purifie your heart? |
A59816 | and yet can we not be saved without walking in the ways of holiness? |
A59816 | and yet live in some one sin or other? |
A59816 | and yet suppose he did, a regenerate man may be in captivity to the law of sin, and pray what''s the difference? |
A59816 | but how comes this to pass? |
A59816 | can he lose a Member of his body? |
A59816 | did he take our flesh upon him, and not our sins? |
A59816 | do ye walk in newness of life? |
A59816 | do you bring forth fruit, as every branch in Christ( which is not rejected by him) doth? |
A59816 | do you not think, speak, act as you did before? |
A59816 | doth a poor mans reaching out his hand, merit an Alms? |
A59816 | doth it overcome the World? |
A59816 | doth it work by love? |
A59816 | doth the Active and Passive Righteousness of Christ both free us from guilt and punishment, and give us an actual right and title to glory? |
A59816 | doth this Election and Redemption suppose Holiness in us, or is it without any regard to it? |
A59816 | how shall we escape Hell, or get to Heaven, when we can neither expiate for our past sins, nor do any good for the time to come? |
A59816 | if any man be in Christ, he is a new Creature, are you then new Creatures? |
A59816 | is he bound to give thee greater, who doth not owe thee the least? |
A59816 | is it wrought by the Almighty Power of God? |
A59816 | is it, that we should kill ▪ them, stifle the Creature, that is found in us, in the Womb? |
A59816 | is not this to eke out the righteousness of Christ with our own? |
A59816 | is the state of your person changed from a Child of wrath to an Heir of Grace? |
A59816 | is this the way to enjoy Communion with God by our own righteousness? |
A59816 | is your Faith of the right stamp? |
A59816 | or is it such an easie, common, presumptuous, false Faith, as that which is in the generality of men? |
A59816 | or upon your Conversion to Christianity? |
A59816 | or why Christ should be called only the Saints Surety? |
A59816 | such as will make Christ ours? |
A59816 | that he fulfilled all Righteousness for us, and that his Righteousness is imputed to us, and so we fulfil the Righteousness of the law in him? |
A59816 | that we should be excited and quickned by the hopes of such great rewards? |
A59816 | that we should be restrain''d and govern''d by the fears of punishment? |
A59816 | that we should give him to the old man to be devoured? |
A59816 | the Answer is easie, whom did Christ come to save? |
A59816 | to make Christ our justifier, and our works our Saviour? |
A59816 | what becomes of free Grace then? |
A59816 | what hast thou to do with comfort? |
A59816 | who hath some wouldings and velleities to that which is good? |
A59816 | who is the only way, the truth and the life: is not the righteousness of Christ able to save us without an additional righteousness of our own? |
A59816 | whom doth God justifie but the ungodly? |
A59816 | why doth not all our Wisdom of walking with God consist in our Acquaintance with Christ? |
A59816 | why should he have to do with me; who have such an unholy, vile, hard, blind, and most wicked heart? |
A59816 | 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, what consent and harmony of mind to unite them into one fellowship? |
A59816 | 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, which signifies the same thing, what is there common to them both? |
A59905 | And so of the rest? |
A59905 | And what are these Modi subsistendi, by which the Divine Persons are distinguished from each other? |
A59905 | And what then? |
A59905 | And what then? |
A59905 | And why then should not Infidels as well have the benefit of this Principle, as Hereticks? |
A59905 | And yet I desire to know, why that may not be the Catholick Faith, and necessary to Salvation, which has always been matter of Controversie? |
A59905 | But I desire to know, what Articles of our Faith have not been controverted by some Hereticks or other? |
A59905 | But can any Creature be holy and perfect as God is? |
A59905 | But suppose the worst, how does this concern the Doctrine of the Incarnation? |
A59905 | But suppose then, that the Natural Construction of the Words import such a Sense, as is contrary to some evident Principle of Reason? |
A59905 | But was not the Son also with the Holy Ghost, and is not he too( according to the Trinitarians) God, or a God? |
A59905 | But what becomes of his beloved Socinus all this while? |
A59905 | But what if it be against a mans Conscience to profess it? |
A59905 | But what makes St. Gregory dispute thus nicely about the use of words, and oppose the common and ordinary Forms of Speech? |
A59905 | But when he thinks a second time of it, will he say, that the Church of God in Athanasius''s Age, was not of the same Faith with him? |
A59905 | But where in Scripture is the Word called God the Son? |
A59905 | But why does he confine this bowing the Knee to the last Iudgment? |
A59905 | Can any thing be more easie and obvious, and more agreeable to the Doctrine of the Trinity? |
A59905 | Could the Apostle mean by this Phrase, that they were baptized in the Name of Moses? |
A59905 | Did he in good earnest believe, that there is but One man in the World? |
A59905 | Did he never then hear of what we call Emanative Effects, which coexist with their Causes? |
A59905 | Do we say, a thing is coeternal and cotemperary with itself? |
A59905 | Does a Son necessarily signifie one who is begotten of two Parents? |
A59905 | Doth not a Man contradict himself, when the Term or Terms in his Negation, are the same with those in his Affirmation? |
A59905 | Doth, I say, the Holy Scripture compel us to this contradictory acknowledgment? |
A59905 | For are not these Questions of Faith, whether there be a God and a Providence, and whether Christ be that Messias, who came from God? |
A59905 | For does not his Reason equally extend to the Christian Faith it self, as to those Points, which have been controverted in Christian Churches? |
A59905 | For does our Author in earnest think, that God can not have a Son, unless he begets him, as one man begets another? |
A59905 | Has the Catholick Faith any such Priviledge as not to be controverted? |
A59905 | His first is, that of Iob; Will ye speak wickedly for God? |
A59905 | His next Proof is, that he humbled himself, and became obedient, which is all he cites; but what does he prove from this? |
A59905 | How can Three distinct Persons have but one Numerical Substance? |
A59905 | How did he become poor for our sakes, who was never rich? |
A59905 | How does a Human Soul discover its glory but by visible Actions? |
A59905 | How shall we then know, when the Apostle has respect to the words he quotes? |
A59905 | How? |
A59905 | I ask, whether the Son doth not, as he is a Son, derive both Life and Godhead from the Father? |
A59905 | I desire to know what is meant by being baptized in the Name of the Father? |
A59905 | I hope not all, for that is a very good Discourse, and I only wish for the Author''s sake, si sic omnia; but pray, what is the matter? |
A59905 | I will only ask this Author, Whether the Jews were baptized in the Name of Moses? |
A59905 | I would ask this Author, whether the Scripture compels him to believe but One God, in his Sense of it, that is, but One who is God? |
A59905 | If each Person must be God and Lord, must not each Person be Uncreated, Incomprehensible, Eternal, Almighty? |
A59905 | If it does not, why does he believe it, and insist so peremptorily on it, in defiance of the whole Catholick Church? |
A59905 | If they were not, let him tell me, how their being baptized into Moses comes to signifie their being baptized in the Name of Moses? |
A59905 | If this Inspiration be without God, in Creatures, who are inspired by him; how is it the Spirit of God? |
A59905 | If this be so, I desire to know, How the Spirit of God differs from his Gifts and Graces? |
A59905 | Is any Creature capable of the Government of the world? |
A59905 | Is it only to take him for our Instructor and Guide? |
A59905 | Is not the Sun the Cause of Light, and Fire of Heat? |
A59905 | Is not this like swearing Allegiance to the King, and to his Son, and to his Power, or to his Wisdom? |
A59905 | Not coeternal, for this also plainly intimates, that they are distinct: For how coeternal, if not distinct? |
A59905 | Now what of all this? |
A59905 | Or does our Author think, that no Atheist or Infidel, no unbelieving Jew, or Heathen, ever used reasonable diligence to be rightly informed? |
A59905 | Or is it to worship and obey him for our God? |
A59905 | Quae molitio, quae ferramenta, qui vectes, quae machinae, qui Ministri, tanti muneris suerunt? |
A59905 | Reason tells us, that Three Gods can not be One God, but does Reason tell us, That Three Divine Persons can not be One God? |
A59905 | So that all his Absurdities and Contradictions are vanished only into Nicodemus his Question, How can these things be? |
A59905 | So that the Holy Spirit receives the things of Christ; But how does he receive them? |
A59905 | Suppose this,( for I have forgot what his Demonstrations are, and have not the Book now by me) what is this to the Trinity and Incarnation? |
A59905 | That he knew not where Lazarus was laid, because he asks, Where have ye laid him? |
A59905 | That is, because they affirm these Divine Persons to be distinct, therefore they must say, they are numerically the same; and what then? |
A59905 | That is, the term God is affirmed of Three, and yet denied to belong to more than One; And is not this a Contradiction? |
A59905 | Therefore all these Articles make indeed but One Article, which is this? |
A59905 | Though a greater Extension can not be contained in a less, what is this to an infinite Mind''s being present every where without Extension? |
A59905 | Thus what can be a more pure and simple Act than Wisdom and Truth? |
A59905 | What becomes then of his Reason, which is as certain and evident as any Proposition in Euclid? |
A59905 | What impudence is this, to think to sham the World at this time a day, with such stories as these? |
A59905 | What is Justice and Goodness, but an equal distribution of Things, or a true and wise proportion of Rewards and Punishments? |
A59905 | What is perfect Power, but perfect Truth and Wisdom, which can do, whatever it knows? |
A59905 | What is the distinction between Essence, and Personality and Subsistence? |
A59905 | What shall be done unto Thee, thou lying Tongue? |
A59905 | What then? |
A59905 | What thinks he of the Nicene Fathers, who condemned Arius? |
A59905 | What( says he) shall we do here? |
A59905 | What? |
A59905 | Wherefore? |
A59905 | Why so? |
A59905 | Why the Soul can leave the Body, when the Body is disabled to perform the Offices of Life, but can not leave it before? |
A59905 | Will ye accept his Person? |
A59905 | and can God communicate infinite Wisdom and infinite Power to a Creature, or a finite Nature? |
A59905 | and can he conceive a Sun without Light, or Fire without Heat? |
A59905 | and knoweth the things of God, as the Spirit of a Man knoweth the things of a man? |
A59905 | and must not God then be represented by One, who is God? |
A59905 | and suffered him to have wrought Miracles, to cheat the world into this belief? |
A59905 | and talk deceitfully for him? |
A59905 | and why may not this be represented by his saying, Let there be Light? |
A59905 | and yet, can Light be without the Sun, or Heat without Fire? |
A59905 | are we obliged under the penalty of the loss of Salvation to believe it, whether we can or no? |
A59905 | because he voluntarily condescends below the Dignity of his Nature, does he forfeit the Dignity of his Nature? |
A59905 | but will he particularly intercede for us? |
A59905 | does not this require infinite Wisdom and infinite Power? |
A59905 | doth God require of any man an impossible Condition in order to Salvation? |
A59905 | is a meer Creature a fit Lieutenant or Representative of God in Personal or Prerogative Acts of Government and Power? |
A59905 | must not every Being be represented by one of his own Kind, a Man by a Man, an Angel by an Angel, in such Acts as are proper to their Natures? |
A59905 | not believe Scripture? |
A59905 | that Obedience is part of his Humiliation? |
A59905 | that is, can a Creature be made a true and essential God? |
A59905 | that is, could the Apostle mean, what he knew was not true? |
A59905 | that is, that the Sun should be without Light, and the Fire without Heat? |
A59905 | therefore he is not God? |
A59905 | therefore he is not God? |
A59905 | was the Word the Father? |
A59905 | when he cites the very words, as a Prophesie of Christ? |
A59905 | whether the Soul have parts, as the Body has, which answer to every part of the Body, and touch in every Point? |
A59905 | whether upon their supposition of his being a meer Man, if he had arrogated to himself to be God, God would have permitted this? |
A59905 | why innocent Beasts must die to expiate the sins of men? |
A59905 | will ye contend for God? |
A59899 | And I beseech you, what greater infallibility can any Church pretend to, than to have the World receive all her Decrees as infallibly true? |
A59899 | And are there no such Proofs to be alledged? |
A59899 | And does abstinence consist meerly in abstaining from Flesh? |
A59899 | And does not this destroy that Argument from the holiness and justice of God, that he will not forgive our sins, unless we forsake them? |
A59899 | And from that God, who sent his only begotten Son into the World to save Sinners? |
A59899 | And is not this reason enough for them to believe that when they are absolved by the Priest, without forsaking their sins, they are absolved by God? |
A59899 | And is not this what I said? |
A59899 | And is there any fault to be found with this so far? |
A59899 | And this is that use they serve in the Church of Rome: They assert the necessity of humane satisfactions; and what are these satisfactory works? |
A59899 | And what has he to say now? |
A59899 | And whether there can be any Divine Faith without an Infallible Iudge? |
A59899 | And will he say the Doctrine of the Trinity is such a Doctrine? |
A59899 | And yet does not St. Peter say it was so? |
A59899 | Are they necessary, before Absolution, to qualifie men to receive the pardon of their sins, as the signs and demonstrations of a sincere repentance? |
A59899 | Because the Church so expounds it: Is not this the true Resolution of the Roman Faith? |
A59899 | Because the Church tells me it is the Word of God; Wherefore do you believe this to be the sense of Scripture? |
A59899 | But did Christ expiate the sins only of true penitent and reformed sinners? |
A59899 | But did I say, that nothing can be proved but by such express Texts, as it is not possible to understand otherwise? |
A59899 | But do I any where say, that God ought to have done, what I believe he has not done? |
A59899 | But does this prove, that they teach them all necessary Truths, and nothing but truth? |
A59899 | But how do they teach this, by words or actions? |
A59899 | But however, where do I say, that God has not done that which I believe he ought to have done? |
A59899 | But pray, why not one word to ● he main case, that the Mass expiates those sins, for which the Sacrifice of the Cross made no Expiation? |
A59899 | But suppose this Mother be the Church, and he believes it only, because the Church hath taught him so, Has this man a divine and certain Faith? |
A59899 | But was not Christ''s telling them so a certain Reason? |
A59899 | But were not the Apostles certain of what Christ told them, when they acknowledged him the Son of God before he gave them certain Reason for it? |
A59899 | But what is the Calumny? |
A59899 | But what is this to my Question? |
A59899 | But what is this to reading Heretical Books? |
A59899 | But what tergiversation is here? |
A59899 | But when two men or two Churches differ in their opinions of things, can neither of them be in the right? |
A59899 | But, Is taming of the flesh, the curbing of sensuality, no reason at all for abstinence? |
A59899 | But, he says, when God by Ieremy praises the Rechabites for abstaining from Wine, was it because Wine was held by them to have a legal uncleanness? |
A59899 | Did he never hear of men, who have been hired to whip themselves for some rich and great sinners? |
A59899 | Did the Scribes and Pharisees, who were so fond of the Rites of Moses, own it to be a heavy Yoke? |
A59899 | Do Papists believe, what they think in their judgments, God has not revealed, or what they think, he has revealed? |
A59899 | Do other good Christian Prayers expiate sin? |
A59899 | Does he deny this? |
A59899 | Does he prove that men may be very knowing Christians without understanding the Reasons of their Faith? |
A59899 | Does he shew, that they teach all necessary Truths, and nothing but Truth? |
A59899 | Does it follow, that because all men, who desire pardon, desire not to be punished, that therefore they desire no more? |
A59899 | Does she infallibly know, that the certain Truth of Christian Religion is founded upon certain Reasons? |
A59899 | Does the Church of Rome infallibly know, that the Christian Religion is certainly true? |
A59899 | Does the Sacrifice of the Mass expiate sins, or not? |
A59899 | Doth Dr. Sherlock say, that the Jews could not be disputed into Faith, unless that Faith were infallible? |
A59899 | For if the Blood of Christ does not deliver us from the punishment of Sin, what security is this to a Sinner? |
A59899 | For what is it men are afraid of when they have sinned? |
A59899 | Has he confessed all the Nuns and Monks? |
A59899 | He answers, let it be so; but what follows here? |
A59899 | His next Question( or else I can not make three of them) is, By what Text doth God deliver this Injunction? |
A59899 | How is this contrary to Civil Charity and Moral Honesty? |
A59899 | I ask again ▪ Whether the evidence of Reason in expounding Scripture be a sufficient Foundation for a Divine Faith? |
A59899 | I ask once more, Whether the belief of the Scriptures themselves must not be resolved into the Authority of the Church? |
A59899 | I asked farther, why they call Purgatory, which is a place of punishment in the other World, a temporal punishment? |
A59899 | Is he sure of this? |
A59899 | Is here any breach of Moral Honesty in this? |
A59899 | Is it not that they shall be punished for it? |
A59899 | Is it not, that they may not be punished? |
A59899 | Is not this the great Reason they urge for the necessity of an Infallible Guide to prevent all Heresies and Schisms? |
A59899 | Is that the only means of applying his precious Bloud to us? |
A59899 | Is the Sacrifice of the Mass to obtain Grace for sinners, or to expiate sin? |
A59899 | Is the Spirit of God with neither of them? |
A59899 | Is there any Law in the Church of England, thus to punish men for reading Heretical Books? |
A59899 | Is there any word of Promise in the Gospel for this? |
A59899 | Is this Misrepresenting too? |
A59899 | Is truth on neither side? |
A59899 | May not all these be done, without sorrow for sin? |
A59899 | May not that argue the certainty of Faith, because some men agree to do ill? |
A59899 | Nay, why do they cheat people out of their Souls, and lull them into security by such void Absolutions? |
A59899 | No sure, not what they think Catholick: and why may not I use Heretical, as well as he use Catholick in the sense of the Church of Rome? |
A59899 | Now are not these satisfactory works? |
A59899 | Now rightly to understand this Matter, I would desire to know why they say God has bestowed Infallibility on the Church? |
A59899 | Now what does the Iesuite say to this? |
A59899 | Now what is the fault of this? |
A59899 | Or that they make them ever the wiser for their teaching? |
A59899 | Pray what Grace is obtained by the Sacrifice of the Mass for those who are dead? |
A59899 | Prophesie, Miracles,& c. What will no less evidence serve his turn? |
A59899 | Truly he had better have said nothing, than nothing to the purpose; for is God symbolically present in Heaven, or in the Souls of Men? |
A59899 | Was it not to prevent Heresies and Schisms? |
A59899 | Was this the Apostle''s meaning in those words? |
A59899 | We believe all that God hath revealed, and nothing else, is not all, that he hath revealed certain? |
A59899 | Well then, must we examine all Bishops and every particular Believer about this? |
A59899 | Well, How does our Jesuite confute this heavy Charge and perfect Slander? |
A59899 | Well, but what says Dr. Sherlock to give Protestants any certainty? |
A59899 | What difference is there betwxit mens using their private Iudgments to turn Papists, or to turn Protestants? |
A59899 | What do you own, that we only are to look on the Faith even as preached by Christ, to be necessarily infallible? |
A59899 | What does it prove the Scripture to be uncertain? |
A59899 | What does our Jesuite say to this? |
A59899 | What follows? |
A59899 | What is it, men desire, when they desire pardon? |
A59899 | Whereforedo you believe the Scripture? |
A59899 | Whether it be not necessary to believe this with a Divine Faith? |
A59899 | Whether this might not have been expected under a Dispensation of the most perfect Love? |
A59899 | Which was not, Whether a Divine Faith required a Divine Revelation, but whether there can be any Divine Faith without an Infallible Iudge? |
A59899 | Will he himself say this? |
A59899 | Will not good Fish and good Wine pamper the Flesh too? |
A59899 | and whether this be agreeable to the Doctrine of the Church of Rome, that every man may judge of the sense of Scripture by his own private Reason? |
A59899 | are not all their Offices full of such Prayers? |
A59899 | because the Church teaches, that they need not avoid venial sins? |
A59899 | but if they have not owned it, Have they never felt it neither? |
A59899 | but suppose they neither felt nor owned it, May it not be as intolerable as the Jewish Law? |
A59899 | but the necessity of an unerring Interpreter? |
A59899 | did I deny, that the Church of Rome paid any other Worship to God, but Sacrifice? |
A59899 | do I any where say, that God ought by necessary and infallible means to have prevented Schisms and Heresies? |
A59899 | do I put any sense or interpretation upon this action? |
A59899 | do both equally rely on their fancy? |
A59899 | do not these Principles remit all Christians to the silent Meetings of Quakers? |
A59899 | do not they Pray to God in the Name and Merits of the Saints? |
A59899 | do the Pope and a General Council infallibly know the Sentiments and Opinions of all the Christian Bishops and People in the World? |
A59899 | do they not, as he adds, take the Virgin Mary, Angels and Saints for Mediators to incline God to be good to peculiar persons? |
A59899 | exclude singing of Psalms? |
A59899 | have I misrepresented their Doctrine? |
A59899 | i ● h ● s int ● r ● st in the Court of Heaven can not do the less, how can 〈 ◊ 〉 do the greater? |
A59899 | is Thomas an honest man, because John is a knave? |
A59899 | is an implicite Faith no Doctrine of their Church? |
A59899 | is it the same thing to say, such a thing is not, and such a thing is not proved by such an Argument? |
A59899 | is not all this true? |
A59899 | is there no faithful and authentick Record of this Faith, from whence we may learn, what Christ and his Apostles delivered to the Church? |
A59899 | is this an infallible Conveyance of the Faith to depend upon the Tradition of Bishops and Christian People? |
A59899 | must certainty be necessarily found amongst them, because it is not found with us? |
A59899 | or is the Sacrifice of the Mass available for obdurate sinners, or for those only who are in a state of Grace? |
A59899 | or that such vile Wretches hope to be hea ● d by them, who could not reasonably expect, that Christ would hear them upon their own account? |
A59899 | or to be performed after the sin is forgiven, not to express our sorrow for sin, but to undergo the punishment of it? |
A59899 | that they do pray to Saints and the Virgin? |
A59899 | to forgive Sins, to give Grace, to allay Storms, to drive away Devils? |
A59899 | to say such a number of Ave- Maries for them? |
A59899 | whether any man can believe the Scriptures to be the Word of God without it? |
A59899 | which he calls another Misrepresentation; why then do they Pray so frequently and devoutly to them? |
A59899 | would their consent and agreement prove the certainty of the Protestant Faith? |
A59812 | 14. because we will not worship Saints and Angels, and Images? |
A59812 | And are you not sensible what a fallible thing Human Understanding is? |
A59812 | And has not God in several Ages given such Teachers to the World, Moses and the Prophets, Christ and his Apostles? |
A59812 | And how then can there be so many Teachers, if there be but one Judge? |
A59812 | And how then can you be sure that you are not? |
A59812 | And is not every Church in duty bound to preserve her Faith and Worship as pure and uncorrupt as she can? |
A59812 | And must we not resign up our Understandings to them? |
A59812 | And what advantages then has the Papist above the Protestant in the point of Certainty? |
A59812 | And what is this then but to take the Churches word for her own Infallibility? |
A59812 | And who knows to this day from whence the succeeding Popes have derived their Succession? |
A59812 | And why does not this agree with the Protestant Religion? |
A59812 | And why then is not the Church of England bound to do so? |
A59812 | And, how in the Communion of Saints? |
A59812 | As for instance, Whether the Sacrament of the Lord''s Supper be a Propitiatory Sacrifice for the Living and the Dead? |
A59812 | But do not all men say as you do, that they trust their own Understanding? |
A59812 | But does not every man, who is in an Error, think that he sees Truth? |
A59812 | But if the Priest have no such Judicial Authority to forgive Sins, what a fatal Mistake is it for men to rely on such an ineffectual Absolution? |
A59812 | But possibly it will be asked, What Authority then do we allow to Councils? |
A59812 | But pray, how shall I be sure of this? |
A59812 | But still the same Question returns, How you are certain of your Reason? |
A59812 | But suppose at present, that the generality of People can not do this, yet can learned men do it? |
A59812 | But what course did these Nicene Fathers take to confute the Heresie of Arius; did they not alledge the Authority of the Scriptures for it? |
A59812 | But what is this to the purpose, what the Cause of such Mistakes are? |
A59812 | But what then? |
A59812 | But who ever said, That no Assembly of men have power on Earth to bind the Conscience? |
A59812 | But you''l say, Are we not bound to believe infallible Teachers, whom we know to be infallible? |
A59812 | Ca n''t we believe One Church in the Creed, as well as the Church of Rome, notwithstanding all the Divisions of Christendom? |
A59812 | Can any thing be plainer, than the Institution of the Lords Supper in both kinds? |
A59812 | Can any thing be plainer, than what is evident to our very Senses, that Bread and Wine is not transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of Christ? |
A59812 | Can these Hereticks be confuted out of the Scripture, or not? |
A59812 | Do not the Protestant Churches do this without pretending to such an absolute Authority over mens Faith? |
A59812 | Do you ask that now, when I have referred you to such plain Texts of Scripture for the proof of it? |
A59812 | Do you not daily see how many men are mistaken? |
A59812 | Do you not see, that Reason it self is uncertain? |
A59812 | Does any man want an infallible Judge to make him certain of the sense of a plain Law, or any other intelligible Writing? |
A59812 | Does the Infallibility of the Pope make them all infallible? |
A59812 | First, As for Certainty; why can not we be certain of our Religion, as well as of other Matters, without an infallible Judge? |
A59812 | For Numbers, or Interest, or Zeal, or Authority? |
A59812 | For had true Antiquity been on their side, what need had they of spurious and counterfeit Authors to make some appearance of Antiquity with? |
A59812 | For how is this proved, That when there wants Evidence for our Faith, we must believe upon the Authority of a visible Judge? |
A59812 | For if we can know any one particular Book of Scripture without a Judge, why not the rest? |
A59812 | For if we will be Judges our selves of these matters, what Life or Capacity is sufficient? |
A59812 | For is every Priest the Judge into whose Authority we must resolve our Faith? |
A59812 | For let the Cause be what it will, if men are still mistaken, how do you know that you are not mistaken too? |
A59812 | For there are a good number of them, notwithstanding the Popes Supremacy, and some more for that Reason; Has not Christ appointed an Head of Unity? |
A59812 | For why should we be taught the Scripture, but that we may understand it; and to what end should we understand it, but to make it our Rule? |
A59812 | For, is the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Scriptures, or not? |
A59812 | Gregory 12. and Benedict 13. who were all Deposed by the Council of Constance, and Martin 5. chose? |
A59812 | Hold Sir, what is it we are to prove? |
A59812 | How I know that I understand? |
A59812 | How comes Submission to the Clergies Authority in here? |
A59812 | How comes this to pass? |
A59812 | How considerable? |
A59812 | How do Men differ in their Reasons? |
A59812 | How do you know that you are certain, or are not deceived in those things, of which you think your selves most certain? |
A59812 | How is the Church of England more concerned in this, than the Church of Rome? |
A59812 | If Christ hath appointed a Judge, whom we must in all things believe, what need of Teachers to instruct men in the Knowledge of the Scriptures? |
A59812 | If it be not there, how comes it to be an Article of our Faith? |
A59812 | If it could not then, and can not to this day be proved to be genuine, why is it received? |
A59812 | If not, why do we charge them with Heresie? |
A59812 | If the Church of Rome were convinced that she were guilty of such Errors, ought she not to reform her self? |
A59812 | If the Scriptures have no sense, but what the Judge gives them, what an impertinent trouble is it to study the Scriptures? |
A59812 | If there were, What Authority then had the Council to Depose them all, and chuse a Fourth? |
A59812 | If they may, how are such Heresies, being fathered on the Scriptures, an Argument against studying the Scriptures, and relying on their Authority? |
A59812 | If this proves any thing, it proves, That all the separate Communions of Christendom are not One Church; and what then? |
A59812 | If we can not know what is Canonical Scripture without a Judge, how shall we know whether there be a Judge? |
A59812 | If you ask whose Judgment ought to take place, the Judgment of the Church, or of every private Christian? |
A59812 | Is it any dishonour to God, any injury to Religion, that men pray with their Understandings? |
A59812 | Is it not possible to find out the true sense of Scripture, because some men put a false sense on it? |
A59812 | Is the Form of Baptism plainly contained in Scripture, to Baptize in the Name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost? |
A59812 | Is the Scripture of no use, because some men use it ill? |
A59812 | Let us consider, whether the Apostles would have rejected our Communion for those Reasons, for which the Church of Rome now rejects us? |
A59812 | May he not as easily choose his own Religion, and what Church he will live in Communion with, as which of these infallible Judges to follow? |
A59812 | Must they judge for themselves, or forsake one Church and chuse another without Judgment? |
A59812 | Nay, if the greatest Apostles were no more than Teachers, where is the Judge? |
A59812 | Now if the Judge of Controversies must be infallible, how does a visible Succession from the Apostles prove any Church to be infallible? |
A59812 | Now what greater assurance can we have in this case, than the harmony and consent of Scripture and Tradition, which confirm and justifie each other? |
A59812 | Now what need of both these? |
A59812 | Now what shall a doubting Protestant do, who has a mind to be as infallible as any of them, did he know where to find this Infallibility? |
A59812 | Or does it lessen the Mercies of God, or the hope of Sinners, to say, That God remits all future Punishments, when he remits the Sin? |
A59812 | Or how I know a good Reason when I hear it? |
A59812 | Or, if the Scriptures may be understood, and may be taught, what use is there of a Judge, unless it be to unteach what he has not a mind to? |
A59812 | Pray, why not? |
A59812 | Secondly, Suppose the Errors of the Church were not damnable, why might not the Church of England reform such Errors as are not damnable? |
A59812 | Suppose then we should grant, That the Pope, or Church of Rome were infallible, what advantage has a Papist for Certainty above a Protestant? |
A59812 | That I should dispute all the Points in Controversies between us? |
A59812 | Though Latin Prayers were lawful in English Congregations, who do not understand them, yet is it unlawful to pray in English? |
A59812 | Though we deny such a place as Purgatory, is not the fear of Hell as good an Argument to bring men to Repentance? |
A59812 | To believe it, because she says it her self; or to believe it because she makes the Scripture say it? |
A59812 | To what purpose is it to read and study the Scriptures, Fathers, and Councils, when they must not exercise their own Reason or Judgment about them? |
A59812 | Was there never a true Pope among all the Three? |
A59812 | We reject indeed the infallible Authority of the present Church of Rome; but what then? |
A59812 | Well, but if Christ hath not appointed a Judge of Controversies, what Certainty can we have of our Religion? |
A59812 | Well, but if there be no visible Judge of Controversies, how shall we arrive at any certainty in our Religion? |
A59812 | What Obligation are we under to own it? |
A59812 | What a miserable surprize will it be, for those who thought themselves pardoned by the Priest to be condemned by Christ? |
A59812 | What contrary Expositions of Scripture do they give? |
A59812 | What course must I take then? |
A59812 | What difference is there between taking the Churches word at the first or second rebound? |
A59812 | What do you mean, Sir? |
A59812 | What do you mean? |
A59812 | What is the Certainty of God, but those clear and bright Idea''s of Truth in the divine Mind? |
A59812 | What priviledge have the learned above the unlearned, when they must know, and believe no more than their Judge will let them? |
A59812 | When two Men differ in their Opinions, and oppose Reason to Reason, must not one of them be mistaken? |
A59812 | Who can interpret them, but this infallible Judge? |
A59812 | Why, they dispute his Authority: And has not Christ plainly given him this Authority? |
A59812 | Will you allow me then to interpret these Texts according to my own private Judgment? |
A59812 | Would St. Paul have rejected our Communion, because we will not worship God in an Unknown Tongue? |
A59812 | Yes; but other Bishops and Churches wo n''t submit to him ▪ How? |
A59812 | Yes; but they wo n''t see it: But is this inculpable Ignorance, or Pride and Faction? |
A59812 | and does this unman us? |
A59812 | and if it be not plain in the Scriptures, how can any man tell it is there, when it is not plain that it is there? |
A59812 | and what Certainty then in this Way? |
A59812 | and what care has Christ taken of the Unity of the Church? |
A59812 | how does this give her a greater Authority than other Churches, which have as visible a Succession as she? |
A59812 | not to Christs Vicar? |
A59812 | than St. Pauls discourse against Prayers in an unknown Tongue? |
A59812 | then they ask us, Where our Church was before Luther? |
A59812 | to know what kind of Evidence he may rely on as to Matters of Fact, which were done in a remote Country, or before he was born? |
A59812 | to understand the difference between true and false reasoning? |
A59812 | whether it be lawful to pray to Saints departed, and to make them our Advocates and Intercessors with God? |
A59812 | whether the Laity are not as much bound to drink of the Sacramental Cup as to eat of the Bread? |
A59840 | 12 Luke 16,& c. Thus how big are most men with projects and designs, which there is little hope should ever take effect, while they live? |
A59840 | And do we not daily see young men die? |
A59840 | And how could that be possibly known, if the trial of it had been reserved for an unknown state? |
A59840 | And if we be men, why should we despise the pleasures of the mind? |
A59840 | And is it not as necessary to repent of your sins to day, as ever it will be? |
A59840 | And is there any reason in the World to expect it should be otherwise? |
A59840 | And should not this make us very jealous and watchful over ourselves? |
A59840 | And what a blessed place then would this World be to live in? |
A59840 | And what a mean and contemptible Vice is Pride, whose subject and occasion is so mean and contemptible? |
A59840 | Are we fond of bodily Pleasures? |
A59840 | But you''ll say, Is there no place then for Repentance under the Gospel? |
A59840 | But you''ll say, To what purpose is all this? |
A59840 | Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of? |
A59840 | Do the Storms gather? |
A59840 | Do we not know, what the power of habit and custom is? |
A59840 | Do ye not all resolve to repent of your sins, and reform your lives, before ye die? |
A59840 | Do you think there are no pleasures proper to the Soul? |
A59840 | For can any Man be contented with a less degree of happiness, who knows there is a greater? |
A59840 | For why should a man come into this World, and afterwards be removed into another, if this World had no relation, nor subordination to the next? |
A59840 | For, 1. is any thing of more absolute necessity, than the Salvation of our Souls? |
A59840 | Hast thou at any time an ill prospect before thee of private or publick Calamities? |
A59840 | How are such men surprized, when any danger approaches? |
A59840 | How can any man be said not to live out half his days, if he lives as long as God has decreed he shall live? |
A59840 | How many die in the very act of Theft and Robbery? |
A59840 | How many others have perished in the very act of Adultery, or which is much the same, in quarrelling for a Strumpet, in the rage and fury of Lust? |
A59840 | If he must be judged according to what he hath done in the Body, how sad is his account, and how impossible is it for him to mend it now? |
A59840 | If men make such improvements in Wickedness in twenty or thirty years, what would they do in hundreds? |
A59840 | Is not Religion, and the care of our Souls, the work of every day, as much as eating and drinking to preserve our bodily health and strength is? |
A59840 | Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? |
A59840 | Many will say unto me at that day, that is, the Day of Judgment, when the Blessing is to be given, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? |
A59840 | Must we not pray to God every day, and make his Laws the rule of our actions every day, and repent of our sins, and do what good we can every day? |
A59840 | Nay, can we think, that he has given us the best things first, where we can only just tast them, and leave them behind us? |
A59840 | Or was there a more divine Inhabitant, which animated this earthly Machine, which gave life, and beauty, and motion to it, but is now removed? |
A59840 | The advice of the Psalmist is much better, What man is he, that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? |
A59840 | There has been a very warm Dispute about the Perseverance of Saints, Whether those who are once in a state of Grace, shall always continue so? |
A59840 | Thus what do Riches signifie, but to minister to the wants and conveniences and pleasures of the Body? |
A59840 | Upon what account then, says the Apostle, could those men die, who lived, between Adam and Moses, before the Law was given, which threatens death? |
A59840 | What Mariner is not glad that he has weathered all storms, and steered a safe course to his desired Haven? |
A59840 | What am I better than the poorest Man, who beggs an Alms, unless I be wiser and more vertuous than he? |
A59840 | What man would place his happiness in such enjoyments, which for ought he knows, he may be taken from to morrow? |
A59840 | When you are come within view of the promised Land, will you suffer your hearts then to fail you? |
A59840 | When you have out- rid all the storms and hurricanes of a tempting World for so many Years, will you suffer yourselves to be shipwracked in the Haven? |
A59840 | Who was made to contemplate the wonders of Nature and Providence, and to admire and adore his Maker? |
A59840 | Who would try, how long Death will delay its coming? |
A59840 | Who would venture the infinite hazards of a Death- bed- repentance? |
A59840 | Why should that be thought a sufficient reason for God to pardon, which we ourselves think no reason, in all other cases? |
A59840 | Will the Holy Spirit dwell in such a Temple as is defiled with impure Lusts? |
A59840 | Would any Father be at a great expence in educating his Child, only that he might die with a little Latine and Greek, Logick and Philosophy? |
A59840 | and in thy name cast out devils? |
A59840 | and in thy name done many wonderful works? |
A59840 | and is the spending our youthful strength and vigour in sin, likely to dispose and prepare us to be sincere Penitents, when we grow old? |
A59840 | and what great improvements do they make? |
A59840 | and yet how necessary is the service of such men in the World? |
A59840 | are not his days also like the days of an hireling? |
A59840 | are the Clouds black and lowring, and charged with Thunder, and ready to break over thy head? |
A59840 | are these the Riches, are these the Beauties and Glories of a Spirit? |
A59840 | are we not all made of the same mould? |
A59840 | are we ready to purchase them at any rate? |
A59840 | are you sure of having another day to repent in, if you neglect this? |
A59840 | can youth or beauty or strength secure us from the arrests of Death? |
A59840 | dost thou hope to take up an eternal Rest here? |
A59840 | for what hurt is it, if we do flatter ourselves a little more in this matter, than we have reason for? |
A59840 | for who then could be saved? |
A59840 | for would such men concern themselves to learn the Arts of living, who must die as soon as they have learnt them? |
A59840 | have we Souls that are good for nothing? |
A59840 | how do they enjoy themselves, and give life and spirit to the graver Age? |
A59840 | how little do we remember, how they past? |
A59840 | how little time would there be at the foot of the account, which might be called living? |
A59840 | how long he may sin on safely, without thinking of Death or Judgment? |
A59840 | how pleasant and diverting is their conversation, while it is innocent? |
A59840 | how soon do they pass away like a Dream, and when they are gone, how few and empty do they appear? |
A59840 | how the love of sin increases, with the repeated commission of it? |
A59840 | how would it overcast all the pleasures and comforts of life? |
A59840 | if we have Souls, why should we not reap the benefit and the pleasures of them? |
A59840 | is it because our Lives are uncertain, and we may die before to morrow? |
A59840 | is it because we see some men live to a great age? |
A59840 | is not God the Father of us all? |
A59840 | is not to day as proper a time to repent in, as ever you are likely to have? |
A59840 | is this World thy home, is this thy abiding City? |
A59840 | must we not all die alike, and lie down in the dust together? |
A59840 | no remission of Sins committed after Baptism? |
A59840 | of no use to us, but only to relish the pleasures of the Body? |
A59840 | or whether God will give him grace to repent, if it does? |
A59840 | thou must shortly remove thy dwelling, and then whose shall all these things be? |
A59840 | to lose all your triumphs and victories over the World and the Flesh? |
A59840 | what great things do they many times do? |
A59840 | what kindles this insatiable thirst of Riches? |
A59840 | what unreasonable abatements of life? |
A59840 | when Death comes within view, and shews his Sithe, and only some few sands at the bottom of the Glass? |
A59840 | when they see him ready to pronounce them blessed, and to set the Crown upon their heads? |
A59840 | where is thy sting? |
A59840 | where is thy victory? |
A59840 | whether Death will give him timely notice to repent? |
A59840 | whether after a long life of sin and wickedness, a few distracted, confused, and almost despairing sighs and groans will carry him to Heaven? |
A59840 | which may be your case for ought you know; and this I believe you are not very desirous to know; for how would this chill your blood and spirits? |
A59840 | who knows how miserable God can make bad men? |
A59840 | why must there be no end of adding House to House, and Field to Field? |
A59840 | why should he despise any part of himself, and that, as you shall hear presently, the best part too? |
A59840 | why should we be contented to lose any degrees of Glory? |
A59840 | why so much pains to put us out of conceit with the hopes of living long? |
A59840 | will you then murmur and rebel against God, and die in the Wilderness? |
A59853 | A whole Divinity made up of Three partial and incomplete Divinities? |
A59853 | And are they not Three who have all the Perfections of the Divine Nature? |
A59853 | And does not the Scripture, do not all Trinitarians, with the whole Catholick Church, own this? |
A59853 | And if this had not been the belief of the Catholick Church, what meant their Zeal against this Heresy? |
A59853 | And must this One Undivided Monad be in Three separate Localities, because it subsists in three distinct Persons? |
A59853 | And what is the Cons ● quence of this? |
A59853 | And what is there unintelligible in all this? |
A59853 | And what is to be done now? |
A59853 | And when the Arians objected against our Saviour''s saying, I am in the Father, and the Father in me; How can this be in that, and that in this? |
A59853 | And why may not Number then belong to the Divinity, though it be not quantum, have no Predicamental, that is, Corporeal Quantity? |
A59853 | And will any Trinitarian deny, That the Father is, the Son is, and the Holy Ghost is? |
A59853 | And yet I dare appeal to any man of a free and unbiass''d Reason in this Cause, What is that Natural Notion we have of One God? |
A59853 | Are Spirits united by Juxta- position of Parts, or Penetration of Dimensions? |
A59853 | Are there then as many peculiar Manners and Modes of Subsistence, as there are, or ever have been, or ever shall be, distinct Persons in the World? |
A59853 | But after all, Do these Fathers deny, that the Divine Nature is One Individual Nature? |
A59853 | But at this rate, what Divinity do we leave for the Son, and the Holy Spirit? |
A59853 | But ca n''t there be more than one of these Eternal, infinitely Wise, infinitely Good, and Omnipotent Natures? |
A59853 | But do not all Catholick Christians own, That there is but One Infinite, Inseparable, Undivided Nature, in Three Persons? |
A59853 | But does this make God True and Perfect Man? |
A59853 | But how can this be, if Person and Essence, Suppositum and Nature be the same, as it is in God? |
A59853 | But how can we learn God''s Love and Good Will to Mankind, from this Doctrine, if it be not true? |
A59853 | But how will this agree with the Notion of One Divinity, or One Individual Divine Nature? |
A59853 | But if God redeems us by a Man, however he be enabled by a Divine Power, Why is he said to give his Son for us? |
A59853 | But in good earnest, does any sober Christian want an Answer to this Argument? |
A59853 | But in what sense then can we say, That the Trinity is One God, or that Three Persons are One God? |
A59853 | But is not this a kind of Sabellian Composition of a God? |
A59853 | But now will any Catholick Christian say, that thus it is in the Ever Blessed Trinity? |
A59853 | But still what is all this to the Unity of God? |
A59853 | But suppose they could not distinguish them, does this prove that God is Incarnate in such men; or would it be a reason to worship such men as God? |
A59853 | But the Question is, In what sense the Scripture teaches that there is but One God? |
A59853 | But what becomes then of the Son, and Holy Ghost? |
A59853 | But what is this Brightness, and what is this Glory? |
A59853 | But what is this common Nature, which is seen by Reason? |
A59853 | But what possible Sense can we make of this? |
A59853 | But what room then does this leave for a Real Trinity of Persons, in this One, Simple, Uncompounded, Indivisible, Inseparable Nature? |
A59853 | But who ever thought of causes of Distinction and Unity in an Eternal Nature, which has no cause? |
A59853 | But, What it is that makes it One; or what the formal Conception of its Unity is? |
A59853 | Can Eternal Truth, and Infinite Wisdom in any thing vary from it self, to make two Eternal Truths, and Infinite Wisdoms? |
A59853 | Can any thing else give us so true and perfect a Character and Idea of each of them, as this does? |
A59853 | Can the Specifick Notional Unity of Human Nature, make three men one man, as the One common Divine Nature makes Three Persons One God? |
A59853 | Displicet cuiquam in Synodo Nicaena homousion esse susceptum? |
A59853 | Do not all the Christian Creeds teach us to profess our Faith in One God the Father, from whom the Son and the Holy Spirit receive their Godhead? |
A59853 | Do they mean, that there is but one Numerical Subsisting Nature common to all the Individuals? |
A59853 | Does the Father Will any thing? |
A59853 | Ergo inquis, das aliquam substantiam esse sermonem? |
A59853 | For what do these Fathers mean by a common Nature? |
A59853 | For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of man, which is in him? |
A59853 | For will we say, That the Trinity, or Three Persons, are but One Person? |
A59853 | Has God any Place; does he subsist in any thing but himself? |
A59853 | He must then partake of the Father: But what is that, and whence is it? |
A59853 | Here then we join issue with them, and desire them to shew us, what is impossible or contradictious in this Faith? |
A59853 | How there can be Three Incommunicable Persons, and Suppositums, and but One Nature, and that communicable to more than One? |
A59853 | Iam nunc quaeritur, quis quomodo utatur aliqua re& vocabulo ejus? |
A59853 | If I am asked not only Who but What the Three in the Ever- blessed Trinity are? |
A59853 | If the Unity of the Divine Nature be but a Notion, the Unity of God, the Unity of the Trinity, which is this One God, must be a meer Notion also? |
A59853 | If you inquire, what Spirit, and what Matter is? |
A59853 | In qua ● ffigie Dei? |
A59853 | Is it any thing more, than that there is and can be but One Eternal Self- originated Being, who is the Principle or Cause of all other Beings? |
A59853 | Is it because none is, or can be God, True and Perfect God, but he, who is God of himself, Self- originated and Unbegotten? |
A59853 | Is it such a direct Contradiction to Sense and Reason, to say, That there is alius,& alius,& alius, in the Trinity, but not aliud? |
A59853 | Is it the Son of God, that Eternal Word, which was in the beginning, was with God, and was God? |
A59853 | Is not the Son God? |
A59853 | Is not the Unity of God the fundamental Article of Natural Religion? |
A59853 | Is there any thing else which is common to them, but the Name and Nature of God? |
A59853 | Is this Extraordinary Power a Divine Subsisting Person, in the true and proper Notion of a Person? |
A59853 | Is this Extraordinary Power so united to Human Nature, as to become Man? |
A59853 | Let me then ask this plain Question: When Five hundred Men hear the same Man speak, do they all hear one and the same Voice, or Five hundred Voices? |
A59853 | Let our Socinian Adversaries tell us, what there is absurd, impossible, or contradictious in this Faith? |
A59853 | Non haben ● o autem filium cum ipse sum flius, quem ● do pater ero? |
A59853 | Now if this be true, what Apology can be made for them? |
A59853 | Now what is the meaning of this? |
A59853 | Now will any man say, That the One Divinity, or One Divine Nature, and One God, is a meer Notion? |
A59853 | Now, says he, in what Image of God, was he? |
A59853 | Or how can the Father, who is greater, be at all in the Son, who is less? |
A59853 | Or how much we must believe of them? |
A59853 | Or what wonder is it, that the Son should be in the Father, when it is written of us all, That in him we live, and move, and have our being? |
A59853 | Prolatus est Sermo Dei an non? |
A59853 | Quid agis Lot sancte? |
A59853 | Quid est enim Filius de eo quod Pater est? |
A59853 | So far he is in the right; but what is this different way? |
A59853 | That a Perfect, Living, Subsisting Image, should not be perfectly the same with its Prototype, from whom it receives its Being and Nature? |
A59853 | That the One Common Divinity is One and Common, only as One Common Humanity is, that is, that it is perfectly the same in all? |
A59853 | The Question then is, Whether we must not believe the Doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation? |
A59853 | The short Question is this; Whether a True, Proper, Divine Person was Incarnate, in the Incarnation of Christ? |
A59853 | Then, says he, he must be the Son of God by participation; what is it then he partakes of? |
A59853 | These are two very different Questions, and of a very different consideration, What God is? |
A59853 | This sounds well; but why does he not speak out, and tell us what this Form of God is? |
A59853 | Three in One Substance, and thrice Once Substance? |
A59853 | Thus what is the Unity of Energy and Operation, but the same Conscious Will and Power acting distinctly, but inseparably in Three? |
A59853 | Vacua& inanis res est sermo De ●, qui filius dictus est, qui ipse Deus cogneminatus est? |
A59853 | Was he a Human Person; or the Person of the Son of God appearing in Human Nature? |
A59853 | Well, But is not the Father then, in his own Person, True and Perfect God, and the Son True and Perfect God, and the Holy Ghost True and Perfect God? |
A59853 | Well, but what is this Essence of a Mind, and this Unity of Essence, which makes a Mind One? |
A59853 | Well: What is necessary to be believed concerning the Trinity? |
A59853 | Well; but are there not Individual Men then, as well as a Common Nature? |
A59853 | What difference between Three Substances, and tria supposita? |
A59853 | What is it then that subsists by it self? |
A59853 | What then was Christ''s Human Nature? |
A59853 | What then was wanting to make us Human Nature a Human Person? |
A59853 | When we profess to believe that there are Three in the Unity of the Godhead the next question is, What Three they are? |
A59853 | Whether the True Divine Nature subsisting in him, a True Divine Person? |
A59853 | Will they venture to say, That it is absurd or contradictious, that God should have a Son? |
A59853 | Would not Human Nature be as perfectly the same in Three Persons or Subsistences, as the Idea of Human Nature is one and the same in Three Minds? |
A59853 | Would they have taught, That the Divinity may be numbred, and yet is without Number? |
A59853 | and Who this God is? |
A59853 | and how then is this One Individual Nature? |
A59853 | and the Spirit God? |
A59853 | but one Universal Human Nature in all the particular men in the World? |
A59853 | but, Whether the Son and Holy Ghost were truly and really distinct Persons from the Father, as the Catholick Church always believed? |
A59853 | if God have no Eternal Son, and therefore did not give his Eternal Son to become Man, and to suffer and dye for us? |
A59853 | or, How many partial Conceptions are united in One Idea? |
A59853 | that is, Have not each of these Divine Persons all the Divine Perfections included in the Notion and Idea of God? |
A59853 | thought I; How is this applicable to the Unity of God? |
A59853 | ut inanis solida,& vacuus plena,& incorporalis corporalia operatus sit? |
A59853 | whether he be Consubstantial with the Father, or have only a Nature like the Fathers, but not the same? |
A59853 | whether he be true perfect God, in opposition to the most perfect created Nature, or be only a made and Creature- God? |
A59853 | whether there were any time, the least conceivable moment before the Son was? |
A59809 | ( How comes this guilt to be finite now? |
A59809 | Agreeably to St. Chrysostoms account of the words, as they are translated also by our Author, What is that Loaf? |
A59809 | And a little before: Are we then freed from this Obedience? |
A59809 | And can the grace of God be resisted? |
A59809 | And how is it possible, they should get the Robes of Christs Righteousness, till they are married to him? |
A59809 | And is not Pardon as properly opposed to Condemnation, as Absolution is? |
A59809 | And is not that then the original signification of the Name? |
A59809 | And may he not then require the intervention of a Sacrifice, and of a very meritorious one too, to purchase and seal his Pardon to Sincers? |
A59809 | And that those glorious Discoveries, which God hath made of these Perfections in Christ, are but a metaphorical Brightness of this Glory? |
A59809 | And what our Church attributes to this Faith in the Work of Justification? |
A59809 | And where is the Sanction of it? |
A59809 | And who gave it this Sanction? |
A59809 | And will he save and reward those who do obey for their obedience? |
A59809 | As for instance, he charges my Notion of Union to Christ with disserving holiness; Why, what is my Notion of Union? |
A59809 | But Baptism makes us complete members of the Church only under the notion of Catholick visible; How comes this to pass now? |
A59809 | But I would fain know what he means by neglecting or despising the Grace of God, is it to resist the grace of God, and to make it ineffectual? |
A59809 | But does he indeed speak as he means? |
A59809 | But does not this Imputation make it ours? |
A59809 | But how does this follow? |
A59809 | But how is it said then, Srait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life? |
A59809 | But pray whom or what do I scorn? |
A59809 | But pray why do they think so? |
A59809 | But pray why so? |
A59809 | But pray, who taught him to oppose the Light of Nature to the Gospel of Christ? |
A59809 | But suppose that we are so charitable as to hope that God may receive them, yet how does this make them members of the Catholick visible Church? |
A59809 | But the Doctor proceeds, But may we not, notwithstanding this Command, be justified and saved without this Holiness? |
A59809 | But was not Christ personally righteous with this Righteousness? |
A59809 | But what is this Socinian Notion of Justification? |
A59809 | But what will Mr. Ferguson say, if Mr. Calvin gives the very same account of the words, which I do? |
A59809 | But who told Mr. Ferguson that Christ is not the immediate Political Head of his Church, and that therefore there must be a Vicarious Head? |
A59809 | But why so much haste of declaring? |
A59809 | But why so pray? |
A59809 | Can it be inherent in him, and he not righteous by it? |
A59809 | Can it fail of its Effect? |
A59809 | Could he with any Confidence then cry out of Persecution, when he himself hath sounded the Alarm to it? |
A59809 | Did I ever affirm, that the Death of Christ did only ratifie and confirm the Covenant? |
A59809 | Did he not frequently interpose between God and the People, and by his intercessions divert his anger from them? |
A59809 | Did he so fulfil Righteousness for us, that he himself had no interest in it? |
A59809 | Do I make any spiteful Reflections upon mens Persons? |
A59809 | Do I not every where assert that Christs Death did procure and purchase, as well as seal the Covenant of Grace? |
A59809 | Do I tell merry Tales of them? |
A59809 | Do I transprose them, or dress them up in a fools Coat to be laught at? |
A59809 | Do they believe the Church of England to be infallible? |
A59809 | Do they think it a sufficient proof of the Truth of any Doctrine, that it is the Doctrine of the Church of England? |
A59809 | Does it not as much belong to a supreme and unaccountable Judge to pardon, as to absolve? |
A59809 | Doth this Election and Redemption suppose holiness in us? |
A59809 | First, What is meant by Faith in the Merits of Christ? |
A59809 | For did I ever assert, that an External Union to the visible Church did complete and perfect our Union to Christ? |
A59809 | For what reason then shall we serve God? |
A59809 | Hast thou been a Blasphemer? |
A59809 | Hast thou been a Murderer, an Adulterer, a Thief, a Liar, a Drunkard? |
A59809 | Have you a mind to teach People such Antichristian Pride, as to go about to make themselves fit for Christ, before they will close with him? |
A59809 | He did lay sins on him; When did he lay them? |
A59809 | How come they to be translated again from Christ, and laid upon this Person? |
A59809 | How does he prove this? |
A59809 | How then are they obnoxious to the Curse of the Law? |
A59809 | How then can we answer the demands of the Law with it? |
A59809 | If there be sinfulness in them, where then is their Peace? |
A59809 | If they attribute so much to the Judgment and Authority of our Church, is it not as good in one case, as it is in another? |
A59809 | In what sense then does our Church reject good Works, and attribute our Justification to Faith alone? |
A59809 | Is any thing the less ours, because it is not originally ours, but so by Gift? |
A59809 | Is it that we should kill them, stifle the Creature, that is formed in us in the Womb? |
A59809 | Is not the Promise of Pardon purchas''d and sealed with the Blood of Christ, absolutely necessary to encourage men to be good? |
A59809 | Is there no difference between Works which are imperfectly good, and Works which have no goodness in them? |
A59809 | Is there no difference then between an imputed, and an inherent and personal Righteousness? |
A59809 | Is this a needless enquiry? |
A59809 | Is this the way to cure the world of Atheism? |
A59809 | May it not confer a right, and lay an obligation to Communion with a particular Church, when we come where it is? |
A59809 | May we not imitate that which we can not equal? |
A59809 | Methinks he should consider, whose property it is so much to wonder: But what is the reason of this wonder? |
A59809 | Mr. Shephard begins thus, In what hast thou gone beyond them that think they are rich, and want nothing, who yet are poor, and miserable, and naked? |
A59809 | Must the Conscience be set free in matters of External Order and Government, but tied up in Doctrines and Opinions? |
A59809 | Must we make our selves beautiful before we are married to Christ, or receive all our beauty from him? |
A59809 | Must we reform our Lives, and lay aside our Opposition to God, and return to our Duty and Allegeance? |
A59809 | Nay, is not this an Argument that Baptism admits them into the Church, because such persons only are subject to the Censures of it? |
A59809 | Nay, the brightness of the Glory of God, and the Image of an infinite Spirit, which hath no shape? |
A59809 | No, that he rejected before; What then? |
A59809 | Or is it without any regard to it? |
A59809 | Or must they be false, or wholly rejected, because they are not a true Medium of knowledge in that sense, wherein the Gospel of Christ is? |
A59809 | Or should they teach men to trust wholly in the righteousness of Christ, without any righteousness of their own? |
A59809 | Or that it is Fruitful, or Effective of good things unto the Persons Beloved? |
A59809 | Or that it is Unchangeable? |
A59809 | Or what occasion had I to oppose it in this place? |
A59809 | Say you so Sir? |
A59809 | Should they cry down holiness, and preach up debauchery? |
A59809 | That he, who owns the Gospel of Christ as the only true Medium of knowledge, must be supposed to reject the Light of Nature? |
A59809 | That the Apostle rejects all Works, though they are separated from the notion of Merit? |
A59809 | That they do not differ in their Natures, Acts, and Effects? |
A59809 | That we should give him to the old man to be devoured? |
A59809 | That whatever he did as a man, he did as a Mediator? |
A59809 | The Righteousness of Christ imputed to us makes us righteous as Christ is, and what need is there then of any Righteousness of our own? |
A59809 | There St. Paul enquires by what means our Father Abraham was justified before God? |
A59809 | These are broken Cisterns, and what Peace is there in them? |
A59809 | Thus Christ is called Life, and can any one be an active Creature before there be life breathed into him? |
A59809 | To prove the oneness and identity, which intervenes between Christ, and single Believers? |
A59809 | To what end hath God given us new hearts, and new natures? |
A59809 | To which the Doctor answers, That we are not so to die for any one, as Christ died for us: But what of that? |
A59809 | We are thereby made the righteousness of God in him; if we be righteousness, where is our sinfulness to be charged upon us? |
A59809 | Well, Is there an Essential Unity then here meant betwixt Christ and Believers? |
A59809 | Were there any men who taught the People that Holiness would save them without the Merits of Christ? |
A59809 | What account will he now give of Renouncing the Communion of this Church? |
A59809 | What are those who partake of it? |
A59809 | What has he to object against this? |
A59809 | What is our finite guilt before it? |
A59809 | What subtilty is required in Children to understand these deep Points, and to comprehend the subtil and artificial Schemes of Orthodoxy? |
A59809 | What? |
A59809 | Where is this Law? |
A59809 | Whether Good Works may be said to be necessary to Justification or Salvation? |
A59809 | Who can say I have washed my hands? |
A59809 | Why could not he by all, understand all men of any knowledge and skill in the use of words, which some, and a great many, have not? |
A59809 | Why do they renounce Communion with us? |
A59809 | Why does he not correct the whole Gospel, the language of which is, He that continueth to the end shall be saved? |
A59809 | Why does not our Author correct our Saviour, for telling those new Converts, If ye continue in my words, then shall ye be my Disciples indeed? |
A59809 | Why then I have contradicted the Doctrine to which I have subscribed; if I have done so, it is very ill done of me, but what then? |
A59809 | Why then do they reject any of the Articles of our Church? |
A59809 | Why then this is a sufficient Answer to my Book: But I pray why so? |
A59809 | Why then, to place Justification in pardon of sin, is to make it not a proper but metaphorical Justification; and what then? |
A59809 | Will nothing satisfie the Law but perfect and unsinning Obedience? |
A59809 | Will the Father Elect, and the Son Redeem none but those who are holy, and reject and reprobate all others? |
A59809 | Would not our Author then change his Note, and repent of such Intimations as these? |
A59809 | Yes, for this is not a Gospel- Holiness, which is wholly owing to the Divine Grace: But does the efficient cause then constitute the nature of things? |
A59809 | Yes; But how far? |
A59809 | or that the Goodness of God confers an antecedent title on Sinners to Grace and Pardon? |
A59809 | will he damn those, who do not obey, for their disobedience? |
A71330 | 15, 16. or that he is so great and glorious a Being, that nothing in the World is a fit Representation of him: To whom then will ye liken God? |
A71330 | And consequently, whether the Doctrine of Purgatory be not a very great diminution of the Love of God, and the Grace of the Gospel? |
A71330 | And do we not still differ about them? |
A71330 | And does not every body now see, how improper unwritten Traditions are, to supply the Defects and Imperfections of the written Rule? |
A71330 | And if this be so contrary to the very notion of goodness and forgiveness among men, how comes it to be the notion of goodness and forgiveness in God? |
A71330 | And in that case, Which of the Fathers you must believe? |
A71330 | And is it any comfort to a Malefactor to be pardoned, and to be hanged? |
A71330 | And must I not submit my private Judgment, which all men allow to be fallible, to a publick infallible Judgment, which I know to be infallible? |
A71330 | And were you not sensible at the same time, that you were left to your own Reason and Judgment, when you turned Papist? |
A71330 | Are you got no farther than Reason yet? |
A71330 | Are you not sensible, that men do as little agree about your Reasons for Infallibility, as they do about any Protestant Reasons? |
A71330 | As for instance: When you ask these men, How you can be assured, that the Saints in Heaven can hear our Prayers? |
A71330 | Ask them again, How old this Complaint is, of Protestant Mis- representations of Popery? |
A71330 | Ask them again, whether they believe that God has made it impossible to the greatest part of Mankind, to understand the Christian Religion? |
A71330 | Ask them then, What greater assurance they have of their Faith, than we have of ours? |
A71330 | Ask them, How you shall certainly know what the Judgment of the Fathers was? |
A71330 | Ask them, What they mean by the uncertainty of the Protestant Faith? |
A71330 | Ask them, Whether the first Reformers charged the Church of Rome with such Doctrines and Practices as they were not guilty of? |
A71330 | Ask them, how those Christians understood their Religion, who lived before there were any of these Fathers& Councils? |
A71330 | But how does this prove, that the Bishop of Rome is Infallible? |
A71330 | But if such a man may go to Purgatory, why not to Hell? |
A71330 | But if you know the Reasons of your Conversion, I desire to know of you, What made you think, that you wanted Certainty in the Church of England? |
A71330 | But is this all that these words, Thou shalt have no other Gods before me, signifies? |
A71330 | Do not I know the Reasons alledged by you for the Infallibility of your Church, as well as you do? |
A71330 | Do these men remember what our Reformers suffered, for opposing Popery? |
A71330 | Does our Mediatour then need other Mediators to interceed with him for us? |
A71330 | For if you must not use your Reason, why does he appeal to your Reason? |
A71330 | For why should I Dispute with any man who uses such Arguments to convince me, as he himself does not think a sufficient Reason of Faith? |
A71330 | For will a wise man Dispute with one, who, he knows, banters him all the while? |
A71330 | God may make them Infallible, if he pleases, and if he pleases, he may not do it: and therefore our onely inquiry here is, What God has done? |
A71330 | He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father, and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? |
A71330 | How comes that to be love and goodness, which the Sinner receives no benefit by? |
A71330 | How then does this Author get rid of the first Commandment? |
A71330 | How you shall know what the true meaning of those words are, which they cite from them? |
A71330 | How you shall know whether this Father did not in other places contradict what he here says? |
A71330 | If any man should attempt to perswade you of this, ask him, Why then he goes about to dispute with you about Religion? |
A71330 | If he had liked the Mediation of Creatures, would he have given his own Son to be our Priest and our Mediator? |
A71330 | If his Interest in the Court of Heaven will not do the less, how can it do the great? |
A71330 | If not, what becomes of Purgatory? |
A71330 | If the Scriptures be for them, why should they be against the Scriptures? |
A71330 | If these Doctrines were not Defined by the Church, should you think these Arguments sufficient to prove them? |
A71330 | If they be not, of what use are they? |
A71330 | If they say he can not, ask them, how many Roman- Catholicks there are that understand Fathers and Councils? |
A71330 | If they say, they can not; ask them, With what confidence they pretend to prove that from Scripture, which they confess is not in it? |
A71330 | If they think the Scripture is as much for them, as we think it is for us, why dare not they venture this as well as we? |
A71330 | If they were not Infallible Expositors, how comes their Interpretation of Scripture to be so sacred, that it must not be opposed? |
A71330 | In short, can any Reason, any Authority of Scripture, or Fathers, be any Foundation for a Divine Faith, but onely the Authority of the Church? |
A71330 | In such cases our onely inquiry is, What God has done? |
A71330 | Is not their Faith wholly resolved into the Authority of the Church? |
A71330 | Is this the way to improve Knowledge, to destroy all the certain marks and characters of Truth and Error, and to leave no Rule to judge by? |
A71330 | Let me ask them again, Can they have a sufficient certainty, that these Reasons are good, without an infallible Judge? |
A71330 | Let them but ask them, Whether all the peculiar Doctrines of the Church of Rome can be proved by plain Scripture- evidence? |
A71330 | May not what you believe, be very certainly true, because some men believe the contrary? |
A71330 | Nay, Whether that can be a Gospel Doctrine, which represents the Love of God less than infinite? |
A71330 | Nay, how comes an Infallible Church to prescribe such a fallible Rule of interpreting Scriptures? |
A71330 | Now here is mention of fire indeed; but how does it appear to be the Popish Purgatory? |
A71330 | Now how shall you, who are an unlearned man, judge of such Disputes as these? |
A71330 | Now is it likely that the first Reformers should charge the Church of Rome wrongfully? |
A71330 | Now suppose this did relate to the Ark, What is that to the Cherubims? |
A71330 | Suppose that, and does Christ''s being with them, necessarily signifie, that he will make them Infallible? |
A71330 | Suppose the Protestant Faith were uncertain; How is the cause of the Church of Rome ever the better? |
A71330 | The inquiry then is, How we shall learn from Scripture, that there is such an infallible Interpreter? |
A71330 | They assert the necessity of Humane Satisfactions; And what are these satisfactory Works wherewith men must expiate their Sins? |
A71330 | They mightily contend for the Merit of Works; but what are their Meritorious Works? |
A71330 | This, I suppose, all men will grant: but then the difficulty is, What is an express Law? |
A71330 | What Books are spurious or genuine? |
A71330 | What a change does this make in the whole Gospel? |
A71330 | What is it men desire, when they desire Pardon? |
A71330 | What is it, men are afraid of, when they have sinned? |
A71330 | When they you hear any of these men declaiming about the uncertainty of the Protestant Faith, onely ask them, What they mean by the Protestant Faith? |
A71330 | Whether any man thinks himself perfectly forgiven, who is punished very severely, tho''not absolutely according to his deserts? |
A71330 | Whether this Father was not contradicted by other Fathers? |
A71330 | Whether those sins are perfectly forgiven, which shall be avenged, thô not with Eternal, yet with long Temporal Punishments in the next World? |
A71330 | Why then do they so quarrel at Peoples reading the Scriptures, and put them upon reading Fathers and Councils? |
A71330 | Will Reason ever make a man infallible? |
A71330 | Would their Consent and Agreement prove the Certainty of the Protestant Faith? |
A71330 | and from that God, who sent his only begotten Son into the World to save Sinners? |
A71330 | and those words, Drink ye all of this, to signifie, Let none drink of the Cup but the Priest who consecrates? |
A71330 | and what hope could they have, that at that time, when Popery was so well known, they should perswade the World to believe their Mis- representations? |
A71330 | and what the true sense of them is? |
A71330 | and whether there can be any Divine Faith without an Infallible Judge? |
A71330 | and why must the major part be always the wisest and best men? |
A71330 | be not the Curse of the Law? |
A71330 | but how if Hereticks should confute them? |
A71330 | did they cry out of Mis- representations, when they were charged with such Doctrines and Practices as these? |
A71330 | did they deny, that they gave Religious Worship to Saints, and Angels, and the Virgin Mary, to Images and Reliques? |
A71330 | does the Decision of the Church need to be confirmed by such Arguments? |
A71330 | does this prove the Church of Rome to be Infallible, because the Church of England is Fallible? |
A71330 | he who became man for us? |
A71330 | how long it has been discovered, that Popery has been thus Abused and Mis- represented? |
A71330 | if they say, that you must judge for your selves, ask them, whether this be the Doctrine of their Church, that private men may judge for themselves? |
A71330 | is Thomas an honest man, because John is a Knave? |
A71330 | is an infallible Interpreter? |
A71330 | is it not, that they may not be punished? |
A71330 | is it not, that they shall be punished for it? |
A71330 | is this a sufficient reason to turn Papists, because Protestants are uncertain? |
A71330 | is this the meaning of the word of God dwelling in us richly in all wisdom? |
A71330 | is this the way to give an answer to any one, who asks a reason of the hope that is in us? |
A71330 | must certainty necessarily be found among them, because it is not to be found with us? |
A71330 | or could you suppose, the Church had Defined the contrary, should you think the Arguments good still? |
A71330 | or did not alter his opinion after he had wrote it, without writing publick Recantations, as St. Austin did? |
A71330 | or did they defend them, and endeavour to answer those Arguments which the Reformers brought against them? |
A71330 | or rather was it not done to cure mens inclinations to commit Idolatry with Creatures and Images? |
A71330 | or what Protestant grants he did so, as this Author insinuates? |
A71330 | or what likeness will ye compare unto him? |
A71330 | or would they make a Speech to convince a Horse, that he is out of his way, and must take another Road, if he would return home? |
A71330 | that is, How a sinner, who is released from the Punishment of his sins, should be bound to suffer the punishment of his sins in Purgatory? |
A71330 | the loss of their Estates, their Liberties, their Lives, all the Vengeance of a blind and enraged Zeal? |
A71330 | were the first Reformers charged with these Mis- representations by their Adversaries in those days? |
A71330 | what can Faith signifie, but either the Objects of Faith, or the internal Assent and Perswasion? |
A71330 | what need Reasons and Arguments then, which can not work Faith in us? |
A71330 | where the High Priest is commanded to adore the Cherubims once a year? |
A71330 | whether his offering to dispute with you against the use of your Reason, does not prove him ridiculous and absurd? |
A71330 | whether it be not necessary to believe this with a Divine- Faith? |
A71330 | whether men can dispute without using their own Reason and Judgment? |
A71330 | whether the Articles of your Faith, that they are uncertain, or the Act of Faith, your internal Assent and Perswasion? |
A71330 | whether the Fathers be rightly quoted? |
A71330 | whether they can be convinced without it? |
A71330 | whether this do not resolve our Faith into a private Spirit, which they say, is the Protestant Heresie, and the foundation of Protestant uncertainty? |
A71330 | whether this might not have been expected under a dispensation of the most perfect love? |
A71330 | who lived a laborious and afflicted life for us? |
A71330 | who loved us so, as to give himself for us? |
A59893 | 11. v. For mine ow ● … sake, even for mine own sake will I do it; for how should my name be polluted? |
A59893 | 2dly, But the great Enquiry is, How the spirit of a man can sustain his Infirmities? |
A59893 | 45, 46. Who then is a Faithful and Wise servant whom his Lord hath made Ruler over his Houshold, to give them meat in due season? |
A59893 | 45, 46. Who then is a faithful and wise Servant, whom his Lord hath made Ruler over his Houshold, to give them meat in due season? |
A59893 | 4thly, This is the wounded Spirit, and such a wounded Spirit who can bear? |
A59893 | And could any thing in the World be more easie than this, which no man could feel? |
A59893 | And does it not become us to submit to him, and rather chuse to obey his Will than to suffer his Vengeance? |
A59893 | And has God made the Restraints and Punishment of Mens Lusts and Vices necessary, and will he not punish them himself? |
A59893 | And he saith unto them, Why are ye so ● … earful, O ye of little faith? |
A59893 | And if there be Order and Government among the Angels themselves, Why should we think that there is nothing like this among glorified Saints? |
A59893 | And if ye do good to them that do good to you, what thank have ye? |
A59893 | And is it not absurd and ridiculous then to laugh at believing? |
A59893 | And is this so unreasonable a thing, to suppose the other World present, which a very few Years, it may be a few Days, will make present to us? |
A59893 | And the first Step to this, is to destroy the Essential Differences of Good and Evil, to call Evil good, and Good evil; but how hard is it to do this? |
A59893 | And what Thoughts and devout Passions became us then, which are not still on this Day the proper Exercise of our Devotion? |
A59893 | And what is the meaning of this? |
A59893 | And what is this but a Readiness and Forwardness to do Good? |
A59893 | And when the Church is at ease and rest from without, how often is it rent and torn in Pieces with Schisms and Heresies? |
A59893 | And where is the Man that would be contented to live in such an Age? |
A59893 | Are there any other Natural Desires and Appetites which have no Natural Objects to answer them? |
A59893 | Are we a fit Match for infinite Power? |
A59893 | But a wounded spirit who ca ● … bear? |
A59893 | But do not the Angels then thus Worship God in Heaven? |
A59893 | But do we not understand what it is we believe? |
A59893 | But how far must we Relieve these Poor? |
A59893 | But if the Temple- Worship be a fit Precedent for the Worship of Angels, Why may it not be a Precedent for the Worship of Christians? |
A59893 | But is it either safe or honourable to venture future Miseries? |
A59893 | But is not God present in all place ● … to hear the Prayers of good Men, wh ● … call upon him? |
A59893 | But is not this a very strange Choice, to prefer what is absent and unseen, before what is present and sensible? |
A59893 | But supposing it were otherwise, is it not perfect Distraction to oppose our selves against God? |
A59893 | But this is the great difficulty; Who shall reveal this Secret to us? |
A59893 | But what Account do these Men give of the Origin of all things? |
A59893 | But what Authority is this? |
A59893 | But what is danger to that man, who is in a greater danger by the neglect of his Duty? |
A59893 | But what is it to praise God? |
A59893 | But what is this Power which Christ hath given to his Ministers? |
A59893 | But who can represent Eternity? |
A59893 | But yet, why should not that Evidence satisfie us for another World, which in a thousand Cases satisfies us in this? |
A59893 | But you''ll say, what is all this to God? |
A59893 | Can any Man perswade himself to reject the Credit and Authority of all Histories? |
A59893 | Can he be wanting in his care of us, or in good will to us, who made us? |
A59893 | Can he mistake our Condition, who knows our Frame? |
A59893 | Can meer Human Compacts and Governments either make or change the Reasons and Necessities of things? |
A59893 | Can the same Fountain send forth sweet water and bitter? |
A59893 | Can we make our selves happy whether he will or no? |
A59893 | Can we our selves, or the kindest ● … riend in the World, chuse better for ● … s than God? |
A59893 | Can we resist his Almighty Arm? |
A59893 | Certainly if Christ be ever present with us, it is in this Mysterious Supper: Why then do we fly from the Presence of our Lord? |
A59893 | Do these men imagine, they can ne ● … r be tempted to lust, unless they daily ● … e and converse with beautiful Women? |
A59893 | Do we not know what we mean, when we say, we believe in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? |
A59893 | Do we suspect his Wisdom, or his Goodness? |
A59893 | Does he praise God best, who composes the best Anthems, or sings them best? |
A59893 | Does it consist meerly in the Harmonious Melody of Voices, and Musical Instruments? |
A59893 | Does it require any Philosophy to know how to eat and drink and sleep? |
A59893 | For are there any Men in the World so senseless or impudent as to affirm, That what Mankind call Sins are Vertues, or what they call Vertues are Sins? |
A59893 | For can Self- love be the fruitful Parent of all Piety and Virtue, and the cause of all the Evil and Wickedness which is committed in the World? |
A59893 | For can any thing be more infamous than an Aversion to the Belief of Immortality? |
A59893 | For is there any difference between believing God, and believing a Divine Revelation? |
A59893 | Had we rather be miserable for ever, than suffer some present want and pain? |
A59893 | Hath God forgotten to be gracious? |
A59893 | How comes it to pass then, that when our Churches are crowded at Prayers or Sermons, the Table of the Lord is deserted? |
A59893 | How easily can he look us into Misery and Confusion? |
A59893 | How many are there, who have some hundreds by them useless, which they would not, and could not with any reason grudge to lay up in a safe Bank? |
A59893 | How many are there, who would easily be perswaded to lend, were there such a safe Bank to receive it, who are very unwilling to give? |
A59893 | How shall we distinguish between the Corrections of God, and the Wickedness of Men? |
A59893 | How then come they to charge us with believing Contradictions and Impossibilities? |
A59893 | IS Self- love then so dangerous a thing, as to make the Times perillous? |
A59893 | If it be reasonable to believe, is it not very unreasonable to demand any other Evidence than what belongs to Faith? |
A59893 | If then this Faith be so plainly contained in Scripture, what makes all this dispute about it? |
A59893 | If there be no force in Musick to give a good or bad tincture to the Mind, why do any Men complain of wanton Songs? |
A59893 | If we must believe with our Understanding, how can we believe things which we can not understand? |
A59893 | If you enquire, What the Natural Measure of this Charity is? |
A59893 | In speaking to which words, I ● … all, 1. enquire, What may be called ● … e doings of the Lord? |
A59893 | Is Corn, or Fruit, or Herbs the less nourishing or refreshing, because we know not how they grow? |
A59893 | Is Sense then the perfection of a reasonable Nature? |
A59893 | Is any thing in the World harder to be believed than this, which we can form no possible Notion of? |
A59893 | Is any thing more natural to Mankind, than the Desire of Immortality? |
A59893 | Is any thing so destructive to any State as Divisions and Factions at home? |
A59893 | Is his mercy clean gone for ever? |
A59893 | Is it not the duty of us all, as we are able, to instruct, exhort, reprove one another? |
A59893 | Is it only to sing aloud, and to make a joyful noise to God? |
A59893 | Is it possible for a Reasonable Creature to be happy, who separates himself from God? |
A59893 | Is not God the same still? |
A59893 | Is not Wisdom and Knowledge the perfection of the Understanding? |
A59893 | Is this World, or any thing in it, the less useful to us, because we can not conceive how God created all things of nothing? |
A59893 | May not every Christian do the same? |
A59893 | Must we give as long as we have any thing to give, and make our selves the Objects of Charity? |
A59893 | Nature teaches nothing of all this; and how then should they come to know it? |
A59893 | Nay, do not our Adversaries understand what we mean by it? |
A59893 | Nay, is it not the principal Part of it? |
A59893 | Next to the Fears of being miserable for ever, is there a more terrible Thought than falling into nothing? |
A59893 | Now was all this, do you think, calculated only for Sixty six? |
A59893 | Or because we do not understand the Nature of Matter, nor how the several parts of Matter came by their different Virtues and Qualities? |
A59893 | Or can compre ● … end how he can do and know all things ● … d be present in all places at once, ● … ithout Extension, and without Parts? |
A59893 | Or how is Mankind concerned in such Reasons as can be no Rule to them, unless they put off Humane Nature? |
A59893 | Or, What shall a ma ● … give in exchange for his soul? |
A59893 | Or, what hurt did Vertue ever do them, that they should call it evil? |
A59893 | Shall Tribulation, or Distre ● … or Persecution, or Famine, or Nakedness or Peril, or Sword? |
A59893 | That none can stay his Hand, or resist his Will, or say unto him, What dost thou? |
A59893 | That the Joys of Paradise are not greater than a Crown? |
A59893 | The Spirit of a Man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded Spirit who can bear? |
A59893 | The care of Mens Souls is it self a mighty Trust; and Who is sufficient for these things? |
A59893 | This command Christ gave to Peter, and repeated it three times; Simon, son of Ionas, lovest thou me more than these? |
A59893 | This may be thought 〈 ◊ 〉 very needless question; for are ● … here any Events, Good or Evil, which are not God''s doing? |
A59893 | This, I think, I may take for granted; for what is the Grace and Vertue of Charity, but a Charitable Inclination, Disposition, Temper, Habit of Mind? |
A59893 | To be unconcerned about the Happiness or Miseries of this Life, and to live upon unseen Hopes and Fears? |
A59893 | To demand the Evidence of Sense, or Demonstration, for pure matters of Faith? |
A59893 | What Age produces such Monsters as do not love themselves? |
A59893 | What Courage can any Man have against Himself, against the Wounds and Disorders of his own Mind? |
A59893 | What Excuse can we make for our Infidelity, if God give us such Evidence for another World, as wise Men think sufficient to act on in this? |
A59893 | What Merit there can be in believing such Doctrines? |
A59893 | What Times then can be prosperous and happy? |
A59893 | What are the Arian, Socinian, Pelagian Controversies, but meer Philosophical Disputes, with which these Hereticks corrupted the Catholick Faith? |
A59893 | What can not that God do, who made the World? |
A59893 | What could the Fire of London teach us thirty three Years ago, which it does not teach a wise Man still? |
A59893 | What hurt was it for a Man, who was Hungry, to relieve his Hunger? |
A59893 | What is Happiness, but such a State of Ease and Rest and Self- enjoyment, as is agreeable to our Natures? |
A59893 | What is Natural Reason, but the Reason of Humane Nature? |
A59893 | What is it we desire, but to be happy? |
A59893 | What is the Terror, Confusion, Amazement of a never dying Worm? |
A59893 | What is the secure Triumph of a never fading Crown? |
A59893 | What is to be said to these Men? |
A59893 | What it 〈 ◊ 〉 to be dumb, and not to open ● … ur Mouths? |
A59893 | What makes those, who profess to believe the Scripture, so obstinate against this Faith? |
A59893 | What may be called the do ● … ng of the Lord? |
A59893 | Who shall dwell with devouring fire? |
A59893 | Why then did he make us for such a Happiness? |
A59893 | Why then should any Man think Musick improper for the worship of God? |
A59893 | Will not our Food nourish us, ● … less we understand how it is concoct ● … and turned into Chile, and Blood, ● … d Spirits? |
A59893 | Will you prove, that Eternity is to be preferred before Time? |
A59893 | Will you then perswade them to prefer Eternal before Temporal Things? |
A59893 | Would not a wise Man in a Matter of such Consequence as this, be glad to know certainly what he must trust to, and to know the very worst of his Case? |
A59893 | Would not a wise Man in a Matter of such vast Consequence chuse to be safe? |
A59893 | You may easily guess what I mean: Is Communicating at the Lord''s Table any Part of the Christian Worship? |
A59893 | and can a reasonable Soul then find its compleat and perfect satisfaction in the Pleasures of sense? |
A59893 | and if God intends our happiness in his severest Corrections, why should we complain? |
A59893 | and is not this the perfection of a Reasonable Soul? |
A59893 | and was there ever any State- Faction without Self- love and private Interest at the bottom? |
A59893 | and will he be favourable no more? |
A59893 | but by what Arguments will you perswade, if Eternity it self can not perswade? |
A59893 | can any Man chuse better for himself, than God can? |
A59893 | do we know our Selves so well as he that made us; does not God know what Happiness he hath made us for? |
A59893 | doth his promise fail for evermore? |
A59893 | hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? |
A59893 | if not, how can it be its perfect Happiness? |
A59893 | is not the love of the best and most excellent Being the perfection of the Will? |
A59893 | or can so firmly believe it, as to give him any Security and Confidence in sinning? |
A59893 | or does he envy us the Happiness for which he made us? |
A59893 | or that it is not possible to ● … spise the World with as much haughti ● … ss and vanity of mind, as any ● … an has, who most admires it? |
A59893 | or who can tell, what it is, that makes it wise and just for a good God to forgive Sins? |
A59893 | that he can not either with or without such visible Appearances, speak to them, and talk as familiarly with them, as one Man converses with another? |
A59893 | that he will not punish the Breach of these Laws, when Human Governments find it necessary to do so? |
A59893 | to chuse a Vertuous Immortality, or the short and dying Pleasures of Sin? |
A59893 | to perswade our selves that Darkness is Light, and Light Darkness? |
A59893 | who shall dwell with everlasting burnings? |
A59893 | ● … he spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity: but a wounded spirit who can bear? |
A59835 | 2.4 ▪ which is very ill translated, for if they were cast down into Hell, how are they reserved for the Day of Judgment? |
A59835 | And St. Peter, as you heard, that in the last Days there shall be Scoffers, saying, Where is the promise of his coming? |
A59835 | And can we think then, that God will reward us for our Knowledge, or our Faith, and overlook all the Evils and Impurities of our Lives? |
A59835 | And could God then intend any thing in revealing his Will to us, but that we should obey it? |
A59835 | And do you not by this mean Natural Good or Evil? |
A59835 | And how will this aggravate their own Condemnation, when they carry a long Train and Retinue of undone Souls to Hell with them? |
A59835 | And if God damn Men only for their Ill- nature, will not all Mankind justifie the Righteousness of his Judgments? |
A59835 | And if he gave the Law with the sound of a Trumpet, why not Judge the World with it too? |
A59835 | And if this be so, what a terrible Account have some Men to make, which they never think of? |
A59835 | And is it not necessary then to distinguish between good and bad Men? |
A59835 | And is not a reasonable Creature as much bound to know his Duty, as he is to practise it? |
A59835 | And is that a reason, why he should ask less? |
A59835 | And is there not as much reason to aim at the highest Happiness we are capable of in the next World, as well as in this? |
A59835 | And ought we not diligently to hearken to that Judgment, which Conscience passes on us? |
A59835 | And should not this teach us to reverence the Judgment of Conscience as a Divine Sentence? |
A59835 | And since you boast of your Power and Greatness, who made you so? |
A59835 | And v. 22, 23. he tells us, That in that day( that is, the Day of Judgment,) many will say unto me, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy Name? |
A59835 | And what Title have those to Grace and Mercy, who will shew none? |
A59835 | And what is Uncharitableness but Ill- nature? |
A59835 | And when God knows our most secret Sins, why should he not judge us for them? |
A59835 | Are Adulteries, Fornications, Drunkenness, Gluttony, Prophaneness, Irreligion no Sins, when committed by Young Men? |
A59835 | Are not Men in this World as fond of Happiness, as they are afraid of Misery? |
A59835 | Are not poor Men able to give an account of their Actions, and why then should they not be called to an account for them? |
A59835 | Are there not very knowing and believing Devils? |
A59835 | Are they not reasonable Creatures, and able to understand, and give a reason for what they do? |
A59835 | But besides this, does any thing do more Mischief in the World, than Words, as little as some Men make of them? |
A59835 | But how shall we know this? |
A59835 | But is not Christ in Heaven? |
A59835 | But the Enquiry here is, why GOD judges all the World at once, and summons all Mankind together to receive their final Sentence? |
A59835 | But then consider on the other hand, what a terrible thing will it be to be condemned by the Man Christ Jesus, the Saviour of the World? |
A59835 | But was ever any such thing done yet? |
A59835 | But what would you have such poor Men do? |
A59835 | But you''ll say, how does the Resurrection of Christ from the Dead prove, that he is made the Judge of the World? |
A59835 | Can any one give a reason why these Sins should damn a Man of Forty or Fifty, and be indulged in one of Twenty? |
A59835 | Can there be a greater Contempt of God, then for Men to Deny his Being, to Reproach his Providence, to Ridicule his Worship? |
A59835 | Consider farther, whether you can think it fitting, that God should suffer Young Men to live as they list, without judging them for it? |
A59835 | Could he do any thing more for us, than redeem us from Death and Hell? |
A59835 | Could he redeem us at a dearer rate, than with his own Blood? |
A59835 | Do Men deal thus with one another? |
A59835 | Do we think, that Man deserves any kindness, who will shew none? |
A59835 | Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? |
A59835 | Do you find any Disturbance in their Looks, any symptoms of an uneasie and frighted Imagination? |
A59835 | Does it become the Wise and Holy Governour of the World to contribute so much to the debauching Mankind, as to indulge their youthful Lusts? |
A59835 | Does not Faith and Knowledge make every sin we commit against Faith, and against Knowledge the more inexcusable? |
A59835 | Does not a great Mind despise little things, and aim at what is great? |
A59835 | Does not our Saviour tell us, That he who knows his master''s will, and does it not, shall be beaten with many stripes? |
A59835 | Does the Gospel preach Merit to us, must we merit forgiveness by forgiving? |
A59835 | For can it become a Wise and Holy God to grant Indulgence to Vice? |
A59835 | For can there be a more certain evidence of the evil of Sin, than the Death of Christ? |
A59835 | For how can Sinners be saved, but by Grace? |
A59835 | For if we must be happy or miserable for ever, how can we content our selves to live in doubt and suspence, which of these shall be our Portion? |
A59835 | For is not Man a reasonable Creature? |
A59835 | For what could the Law do more than condemn the wicked, and reward the good? |
A59835 | For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? |
A59835 | For what is this World, and all the Greatness and Glory of it, to him who made it? |
A59835 | For will any Man say, this is just? |
A59835 | Has God given us Reason to be the Guide and Director of our Lives, and is it not a great Crime not to attend to it, not to improve and cultivate it? |
A59835 | Has he made Vice infamous and contemptible, and will he cast no shame, no reproach on it? |
A59835 | Has he then forgot his Agony and Bloody Sweat, his Cross and Passion? |
A59835 | Have we Eyes in our Heads, and is it any Excuse to us, that we shut them, and lose our Way? |
A59835 | How hard is it for Men to bear Greatness without Pride and Insolence? |
A59835 | How many have they corrupted by their Examples, or Counsels, or some other way? |
A59835 | How seldom is it seen, that Men who contract Habits of Wickedness in their Youth, ever get a perfect mastery of them, or prove seriously Religious? |
A59835 | If God reward good Men, and punish wicked Men in this World, why should we think that he has reserved no Rewards or Punishments for them in the next? |
A59835 | If he should acquit the Wicked, and bestow Heaven on them; or condemn any good Man to Hell? |
A59835 | If it be not enough to entitle God to our Service, that he made us, shall we deny his Purchase too? |
A59835 | If we will not reverence the Authority of God, yet how can we resist his Love? |
A59835 | Is God less concerned in the Government of the World now, than he was in former days? |
A59835 | Is God the God of the Iews, and is he not the God of the Gentiles? |
A59835 | Is Pain and Sickness, Poverty and Disgrace, an Untimely or Infamous Death, a great punishment to Men? |
A59835 | Is he less concerned to govern other Nations, than he was to govern the Iews? |
A59835 | Is not this to accept the Persons of Men in Judgment? |
A59835 | Is there any living in the World without judging of Men and Things? |
A59835 | Is there any thing in the World more hateful to Mankind, or which all Men think more deserves punishment, than Ill- Nature? |
A59835 | Is there any use of Knowledge, but to direct our Lives? |
A59835 | It is very obvious to ask here, What is the Fault of this? |
A59835 | It teaches us a great Indifferency to all the things of this World; but how unreasonable is that, if this World be our only place of Happiness? |
A59835 | Know ye not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? |
A59835 | Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? |
A59835 | Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? |
A59835 | Must we not distinguish between Vertue and Vice, and between good and bad Men? |
A59835 | Must we not say, that he is a very bad Man, whom we see do very bad things? |
A59835 | Nay, can they Apologize for themselves? |
A59835 | No Man who believes a Future Judgement, makes any doubt of this, but that all shall be judged: For if any, why not all? |
A59835 | Now has any such thing yet been done? |
A59835 | Now is there any thing Good or Evil, but Vertue or Vice? |
A59835 | Now what is to be said to these Men? |
A59835 | Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? |
A59835 | Or why God should expect less from us than from other Men, because we know more? |
A59835 | Ought not the love of Christ to constrain us? |
A59835 | Pleasures, which will cost him his Soul? |
A59835 | Riches, I suppose, will be allowed to be another very improveable Talent, for what Good may not a rich Man do, if he have a Heart to do it? |
A59835 | Shall we prove that poor Men shall be judged as well as rich? |
A59835 | Since this is universally acknowledged, the onely question is, To what Cause to attribute these Fears and Rebukes of Conscience? |
A59835 | That he should be fed and clothed, when he is in want, who would never feed and cloath others? |
A59835 | That he should be forgiven, who would never forgive? |
A59835 | The Servants of the Housholder, having informed their Master of what had happened, ask him, Whether they should go and gather up the Tares? |
A59835 | Thus how impossible is it for God to punish all bad Men here, without punishing good Men in them? |
A59835 | What a Hell is this to live in perpetual fear of Hell? |
A59835 | What bad Man can hear these things without Terrour and Amazement? |
A59835 | What but this can cool the Heats of Youth, and conquer all the Charms of Flesh and Sence? |
A59835 | What but this can reduce that giddy Age within Bounds, and make them live by Rule? |
A59835 | What could Mankind have desired more, had they had the choice of their own Judge, than to be judged by a Man? |
A59835 | What difference is there between the Law and the Gospel, if they must still be judged according to their Works? |
A59835 | What does St. Peter mean? |
A59835 | What good Man does not long for this happy Day, for this Marriage of the Lamb? |
A59835 | What is Faith good for, which does not renew and sanctifie us? |
A59835 | What is Knowledge good for, which does not direct and govern our Lives? |
A59835 | What is the meaning of this? |
A59835 | What shall we say then to this matter? |
A59835 | What tends more to corrupt Mens Lives then lewd and wanton Talk, as St. Paul tells us, That evil communication corrupts good manners? |
A59835 | What would Sinners think, should they hear themselves condemned by God, every time they commit a known and wilful sin? |
A59835 | When Men are able to work and get their own living, is Poverty an excuse for begging and living idly upon the Charity and Industry of other Men? |
A59835 | When he could get nothing by it, but the pleasure and satisfaction of making us happy, and the glory of being the Saviour of Sinners? |
A59835 | When he has bought us with a price, the inestimable Blood of his own Son? |
A59835 | When you hear that any Man has done good or evil, is not the next question, What good or what hurt has he done? |
A59835 | Who knoweth the power of his wrath? |
A59835 | Who shall search the Records of Heaven for us? |
A59835 | Who with these thoughts about him can relish such fatal Pleasures? |
A59835 | Why do they envy them the short and perishing Contentments of this Life, when they are to suffer an Eternity of Misery? |
A59835 | Why should they judge themselves, but in relation to some higher Tribunal, which will certainly judge them? |
A59835 | Why 〈 ◊ 〉 much hast to prevent the Judgment o ● God by our rash, ignorant, uncharitable Judgments? |
A59835 | Will Poverty excuse Sloth and Idleness? |
A59835 | Will equal and impartial Justice allow, that when a Heathen and a Christian are equally wicked, the Christian shall be saved, and the Heathen damned? |
A59835 | Will he reward us for that which deserves no Reward? |
A59835 | Will irregular and furious Passions make a Man miserable? |
A59835 | Will such Men find any Apologists? |
A59835 | Would not the very Order of Nature complain of this, should the God of Nature have no regard to it? |
A59835 | a confounding Shame, distracting and terrifying Fears, raging Anger, Malice, Revenge, great Perplexity, Solicitude, Anxiety of Thoughts? |
A59835 | against his own inclinations, though he lose the Purchase of his Blood by it? |
A59835 | am I not his Creature, and is he not my Soveraign Lord? |
A59835 | am I not obnoxious to the Judgment of God? |
A59835 | and can they be contented to be Witnesses of their Sufferings? |
A59835 | and did not God give these Powers and Faculties to you, to direct and govern your Lives? |
A59835 | and does he now condemn me to Hell, and deservedly too? |
A59835 | and how then can good Men be present with the Lord after Death, if they do not immediately ascend into Heaven? |
A59835 | and in thy Name done many wonderful works? |
A59835 | and in thy Name have cast out devils? |
A59835 | and in thy name cast out devils? |
A59835 | and in thy ● ame done many wonderful works? |
A59835 | and is any Minister too great to be corrected by his Prince, who made him so? |
A59835 | and is he not then my Judge? |
A59835 | and is it any Excuse then for a reasonable Creature, that he lived and acted without Reason, and a wise Consideration of things? |
A59835 | and is this a reason why they should give none? |
A59835 | and not punish us for that which deserves punishment? |
A59835 | and prey upon the very Vitals of Religion? |
A59835 | and the greater their Trust and Power is, have they not a greater account to give? |
A59835 | and those who do, with what infinite difficulty do they do it? |
A59835 | and what Works more worth our study, then the Divine Providence, and the wonderful Mysteries of God''s governing the World? |
A59835 | and whether it be not a great neglect and fault in the Superior, if it be not done? |
A59835 | and why should I expect that my Natural Lord and Judge will not judge me? |
A59835 | and why then should not God ask a reason of them? |
A59835 | are not all Ministers accountable to their Lord? |
A59835 | are they not his Ministers and Servants? |
A59835 | as if he could not influence the minds of Men, and govern their thoughts, and counsels, and passions, without an audible Voice from Heaven? |
A59835 | did he not make you reasonable Creatures, that you might consider, and live by Reason? |
A59835 | did he purchase Heaven for me? |
A59835 | do you not mean, that he has done something very good or very hurtful to himself or others? |
A59835 | for to what purpose then did he give''em? |
A59835 | for what worse Judgment can they undergo than to be cast into Hell? |
A59835 | had you not the power of Thinking, of Reasoning, of Considering? |
A59835 | has God renounced his Authority, or is the exercise of it too troublesome to him? |
A59835 | has all Israel, or the generality of the Iews been converted to Christianity? |
A59835 | has he forgot that Love which brought him into the World, and which nailed him to the Cross, for the Salvation of Sinners? |
A59835 | has he made us accountable Creatures, but to give no account? |
A59835 | has he made us in subjection to himself, to exercise no authority over us? |
A59835 | has he promised to raise our dead Bodies out of the Grave immortal and glorious, to bestow a Crown and Kingdom on us? |
A59835 | how contemptible are Laws without a Sanction, or a Sanction without a Judge to dispense Rewards and Punishments? |
A59835 | is not all power of God? |
A59835 | must we purchase Heaven with our Money? |
A59835 | nay, if Men are contented to live a short and a merry Life, what hurt is there in it, if death puts an end to them? |
A59835 | not to provoke our Consciences to condemn us; to obey their Admonitions, and to reform at their Rebukes and Censures? |
A59835 | or how is the whole World more unworthy of his care, than the Iewish Nation was? |
A59835 | ought not God and Men to judge them for this? |
A59835 | short and dying and vanishing Pleasures, which will end in eternal Pain? |
A59835 | that God will accept Heathens, who are perfectly innocent and righteous, and never committed any sin? |
A59835 | that he who died for Sinners, will condemn any Sinners whom he can save? |
A59835 | then of being exposed to Shame in the General Assembly of Men and Angels? |
A59835 | to be Rich without being covetuous or luxurious? |
A59835 | to be devout Worshippers of GOD, when they themselves are adored and flattered by Men? |
A59835 | to be more afraid of God than of Men, and yet to stand in more awe of Man than of God? |
A59835 | to be prepossessed and prejudiced against the Severities of a Holy Life? |
A59835 | to make a difference between the Men, when there is no difference in their Actions? |
A59835 | to suffer their render Minds to be corrupted with the love and practise of Vice? |
A59835 | what mighty Allowances God may make for their invincible Ignorances, and the unhappy Circumstances of their Education? |
A59835 | when God shall bring to light all the hidden Works of Darkness? |
A59835 | when Men by indulging their Lusts are grown fond of this World, and of bodily Pleasures, when are they likely to grow wise? |
A59835 | when Men have nothing to live by but their Hands, is that a Reason why they should not work? |
A59835 | when will they think it time to submit to God''s Government, and to obey his Laws? |
A59835 | where shall we find another Saviour to deliver us? |
A59835 | whether a wise Father, or a wise Prince, would not do this? |
A59835 | who advances Princes to the Throne, and cloaths them with Glory and Majesty? |
A59835 | who can dwell with everlasting burnings? |
A59835 | who can live with devouring fire? |
A59835 | who can tell, how little God will accept from those to whom he has given little? |
A59835 | who made you to differ from the meanest Beggar? |
A59835 | why they should be exempted from Judgement, and from giving an Account? |
A59835 | will he not certainly effect what he intends? |
A59835 | without Consideration? |
A59835 | would he have delivered up Christ to Death for us, if he had not intended that Sinners should die without a Sacrifice? |
A59835 | — Know ye not that we shall judge angels? |
A59814 | 13 ▪ How casual does all this appear to us? |
A59814 | And David said to Abishai, destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord''s anointed, and be guiltless? |
A59814 | And can there possibly be a more lovely Idea and Representation of Power than this? |
A59814 | And can we think then, that an infinitely wise Being, should be as unconcerned for the World, as the Ostrich is for her Eggs? |
A59814 | And does not this suppose weakness and want of Power, to want any thing else? |
A59814 | And have we any reason then to quarrel with God, only because we know not how he deals with the ignorant Heathens in the next world? |
A59814 | And he that formed the eye, shall he not see? |
A59814 | And he that teacheth man knowledg, shall not he know? |
A59814 | And if all these things can be wisely and justly done, how can the doing of any of these things be an Objection against Providence? |
A59814 | And is it not much more reasonable to suppose, that we mistake the Case; than to charge the Divine Providence with doing any thing hard or unjust? |
A59814 | And is the only Idea of a Happy Nature in the World, a reasonable Objection against Creating Goodness? |
A59814 | And thus the Scripture resolves the Sovereignty of God into Power: That none can stay his hand, or say unto him, what dost thou? |
A59814 | And to whom sware he, that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? |
A59814 | And what great things are attributed in Scripture to the Power of Prayer? |
A59814 | And what then? |
A59814 | And when they see all things happen thus evenly and regularly, will they then promise to believe a Providence? |
A59814 | And yet what does Trust in God signify, if we must not depend on him for those good things which we want, and desire, and trust him for? |
A59814 | And, Shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil? |
A59814 | Are not our Wants, and his own Essential Goodness, a sufficient Motive for him to give? |
A59814 | Are not the Natural Notions we have of the Divine Justice, a sufficient reason to believe, that God never does any thing but what is just? |
A59814 | Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? |
A59814 | Are there any greater Perfections, than Knowledge, and Wisdom, and Understanding, and Liberty of Choice? |
A59814 | As for Children: What greater obligation than this could be laid on them to avoid the evil Examples, and to imitate the Vertues of their Parents? |
A59814 | Behold my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life; how much more now may this Benjamite do it? |
A59814 | But I would gladly know whence they have this Notion of Creating Goodness, that it must make no Creature which can make it self miserable? |
A59814 | But can they tell what kind of Uniformity and Stability of Providence it is, would please them? |
A59814 | But does not every man know the difference between the good of the End, and the good of the Means? |
A59814 | But the present Enquiry is only this, Whether this be Human Reason, the natural Reason of Human Minds? |
A59814 | But what consequence is there in this, that God ca n''t be Holy, nor his Providence Holy, because Men are wicked? |
A59814 | But what is it that God ca n''t do, who has all Nature at his command? |
A59814 | But will any one say, that this is to govern men like men? |
A59814 | But would any man think this a good Argument against the Holiness of a Prince and his Government, that he has many Wicked Subjects? |
A59814 | But yet the Question is not, What use the World did make of this? |
A59814 | But, What use they might have made of it? |
A59814 | By how many seeming Accidents and casual Events was Ioseph advanced to Pharoah''s Throne? |
A59814 | Can he who hates all Wickedness, contribute any thing to make Men more wicked than otherwise they would be? |
A59814 | Can they then tell me, what it is that ca n''t be? |
A59814 | Casu, inquis? |
A59814 | Did God then intend that there should be no different ranks and degrees of men in the world? |
A59814 | Did he harden him against believing Moses, and those Miracles which he wrought in the Name, and by the Power of the God of Israel? |
A59814 | Did not God make Men and Angels as perfect as their Ideas? |
A59814 | Did they take him, and by wicked hands crucify and slay him by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God? |
A59814 | Do not men intend to supply some real or imaginary want in all the Injuries they do? |
A59814 | Do they mean every one who does a wicked action; or every impenitent and incorrigible sinner? |
A59814 | Do we think it any diminution to any man''s goodness, that he will not give, unless he be asked? |
A59814 | Does any good man think himself bound, tho he know our wants, to supply them without our asking? |
A59814 | Does any thing more become Creatures? |
A59814 | Does government signify destroying the nature of those Creatures which are to be governed? |
A59814 | Does not God know our wants before we ask? |
A59814 | Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? |
A59814 | For all these questions at last resolve themselves into this, How the Mind of man acts and determines it self? |
A59814 | For can a Holy God punish Sin with Sin? |
A59814 | For if Man be a meer Machine, who moves as he is moved, how can he deserve either Well or Ill? |
A59814 | For if it be the will of God that we should suffer such things, why should we be angry with the men who do them? |
A59814 | For is it not great perverseness to charge God with doing such things unjustly, as it is possible might be done for wise and just Reasons? |
A59814 | For is it possible for Absolute Power to want? |
A59814 | For making men Rich or Poor, Honourable or Vile? |
A59814 | For must we believe, That God will do every thing for us, which we trust in him to do? |
A59814 | For sending Peace or War, Plenty or Famine? |
A59814 | For translating Kingdoms and Empires? |
A59814 | For what does St. Peter say was done by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God? |
A59814 | For what is wanting on God''s part to make Man as happy as he can be here? |
A59814 | For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his Counsellor? |
A59814 | For would they have God reward every good man, and punish every wicked man, or reward and punish every man for the good and evil that he does? |
A59814 | For would you desire that every sin you commit should be immediately punished, without any time to repent, without any hope of Mercy? |
A59814 | Gird up now thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? |
A59814 | Has God any where promised to give us whatever we trust in him for? |
A59814 | Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days, and caused the day- spring to know his place? |
A59814 | Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? |
A59814 | Hath he smitten them, that is Israel, as he smote those that smote him? |
A59814 | Have they any such notion in their minds? |
A59814 | He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him and hath prospered? |
A59814 | He smote Israel, but not as he smote the Enemies of Israel; Or is he slain, according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? |
A59814 | He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? |
A59814 | He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? |
A59814 | How contrary to all the Notions we have of God, and his kind and gracious Government of his Creatures? |
A59814 | How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for ever? |
A59814 | How many Complaints does the Psalmist make against his Enemies, those who were wrongfully his Enemies? |
A59814 | How passionately does he pray for Protection against his Enemies? |
A59814 | How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? |
A59814 | I desire any man to tell me, how God, who is a Pure Invisible Mind, could possibly give a more visible Demonstration of his Presence and Power? |
A59814 | If the Wisdom of God be unsearchable, why should we not allow his Wisdom in Governing the World, to be as unsearchable as his Wisdom in Making it? |
A59814 | If then there be no fault to be found in the Idea of a Reasonable Creature, was there any defect in the Workmanship? |
A59814 | If we believe that infinite Wisdom and Goodness takes care of us, what need we know any more? |
A59814 | If we make him our Enemy, who can save us out of his hands? |
A59814 | In measure when it shooteth forth wilt thou debate with it? |
A59814 | Is any thing more casual than a Lot? |
A59814 | Is it possible there should be a happier temper of mind than this? |
A59814 | Is it that we observe such Events as we know not how to reconcile with the common Rules of Justice? |
A59814 | Is not the Idea of a Reasonable Being, and a Free Agent, the Idea of an Excellent and Happy Creature? |
A59814 | Is there any Happiness like the Happiness of a Reasonable Nature? |
A59814 | Is this the natural government of free Agents, to take away their liberty, and freedom of choice? |
A59814 | Job 31, 32,& c. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? |
A59814 | Mans goings are of the Lord, how then can a man understand his own ways? |
A59814 | May not God have very wise and just Reasons for lengthening some mens Lives, and for shortening others? |
A59814 | Must a Merchant confidently expect a safe and advantageous Voyage, if he trust in God for it? |
A59814 | Nay, how can the Providence of God do this, without making men Vertuous and Vicious too, by Necessity and Fate? |
A59814 | Nay, indeed, how can any man hope and trust in God, when he has no assurance that he shall obtain what he hopes for? |
A59814 | Nay, is there any thing that deserves the name of Happiness besides this? |
A59814 | Nay, when the Wisdom of Providence is principally seen in the government of Fortuitous Events? |
A59814 | Nay, would not every man say, That this is the most Perfect and Absolute Form of Government in the world? |
A59814 | Now in answer to this, let us consider in the first place, Whether these Objections do not prove too much? |
A59814 | Now what an ill state were Mankind in, did not a Wise and Merciful Hand Govern what we call Chance and Fortune? |
A59814 | Now what can be more just than this, for God to suffer the Devil to blind those men who will not see? |
A59814 | Now what did God harden Pharaoh in? |
A59814 | Or does he need to be informed by our Prayers, what we would have him do for us? |
A59814 | Or does he want to be intreated and importuned? |
A59814 | Or does the Nature and Reason of Providence infer any such thing? |
A59814 | Or if he ask fish, will he give him a serpent? |
A59814 | Or what farther evidence would they have desired, that it was God who spoke to them? |
A59814 | Or whether it be a self- moving Being, and determines it self from the Principles of its own Nature, and its own free Choice? |
A59814 | Should every Sinner be punished in this world according to his deserts, what man is there so just and innocent as to escape the Divine Vengeance? |
A59814 | That is, Whether they do not equally destroy the Reasonableness of making any Prayers or Petitions to Men, as well as to God? |
A59814 | That is, does it prove any man to be mutable, to change only as a Wise and Immutable Rule requires him to change? |
A59814 | That the Rich and Prosperous shall always be Rich and Prosperous, and the Poor always Poor, and Beggars, and Slaves? |
A59814 | That there should be no distinction between Rich and Poor, High and Low, Princes and Subjects, the Honourable and the Vile? |
A59814 | The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear? |
A59814 | Then, said I, Lord, how long? |
A59814 | This no man can promise himself, who does not trust in God; for how is Providence concerned for them who expect nothing from it? |
A59814 | Thou knowest my down- sitting, and my uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off? |
A59814 | Thus Abraham reasoned with God, and therein spake the sense of Mankind; Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? |
A59814 | Upon what little unexpected things do the Fortunes of Men, of Families, of whole Kingdoms turn? |
A59814 | Vnderstand ye brutish among the people, and ye fools when will ye be wise? |
A59814 | We can not by searching find out God, we can not find out the Almighty to perfection: it is as high as heaven, what canst thou do? |
A59814 | Well then, who in the first place are these sinners whom they would have punished? |
A59814 | Well then: Would they have this rectified? |
A59814 | What Miseries could disturb Human life, were all men Just, and Honest, and Charitable, did they love one another as themselves? |
A59814 | What can be more accidental than this? |
A59814 | What can put Nature into such an universal disorder, but the same Divine Power which put it into order, and gave Laws to it? |
A59814 | What do all the Promises made to Hope and Trust in God signify, if they give us no security that we shall obtain our Desires of God? |
A59814 | What dreadful Apprehensions would this give Mankind of God, were this World nothing else but a Scene of Trouble and Misery? |
A59814 | What encouragement would this be to Sinners to repent and reform? |
A59814 | What hopes could they reasonably conceive of Pardon and Forgiveness, had they no experience of God''s goodness and patience towards Sinners? |
A59814 | What if God willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endureth with much long- suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction? |
A59814 | What is it then they find fault with in God''s making Angels and Men? |
A59814 | What it is that they would be pleased with? |
A59814 | What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? |
A59814 | What more likely way to gain the Favour of Princes and People, than a dextrous and skilful Application and Address? |
A59814 | What should supply mens wants, and increase Riches, but Wisdom and Understanding in Human affairs? |
A59814 | What this trust in God signifies: since it does not signify an assurance, that God will do what we desire, what is the meaning of it? |
A59814 | Where are they? |
A59814 | Where is the way where light dwelleth? |
A59814 | Whether Preservation be a continued Creation? |
A59814 | Whether there was no other possible way to save sinners; or whether this were absolutely the best? |
A59814 | Which made the Wise man conclude, Mans goings are of the Lord, how then shall a man understand his own ways? |
A59814 | Whither shall I go from thy Spirit, or whither shall I flee from thy presence? |
A59814 | Who hath resisted his will, and prospered? |
A59814 | Who is this that darkneth counsel by words without knowledge? |
A59814 | Why should we revenge our Sufferings on them, when we suffer by the Will of God? |
A59814 | Why so great a part of the world to this day have never heard of Christ? |
A59814 | Will you call Senseless Matter, nay, will you call Beasts happy? |
A59814 | Would not a Thief much rather chuse to find a Treasure, than to take a Purse upon the Road? |
A59814 | Would they have all mens Fortunes equal? |
A59814 | Would they prove, that God did not make the World, because he made Angels and Men, some of whom have made themselves Devils? |
A59814 | Would they think God too kind to bad men, or too hard and severe to the good? |
A59814 | Would we desire any thing else, or can we wish for any thing better than what infinite Wisdom and Goodness can do for us? |
A59814 | and as for darkness, where is the plaee thereof? |
A59814 | and give them all the happiness which belonged to their Natures? |
A59814 | and how then do the Sins of men come to be an Argument against the Holiness of Providence? |
A59814 | and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendred it? |
A59814 | and whether we must submit to the Providence of God in such a Change, by what means soever such a Change is brought about? |
A59814 | and who hath begotten the drops of the dew? |
A59814 | and why then should we desire, why should we fear any longer? |
A59814 | and will not that God, who has given us our Lives, and our Bodies, give us what is absolutely necessary for their support? |
A59814 | are not your ways unequal? |
A59814 | but, How long the sinner deserves to be punished? |
A59814 | canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season, or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? |
A59814 | canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? |
A59814 | canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, here we are? |
A59814 | declare if thou hast understanding, who hath laid the measure thereof, if thou knowest? |
A59814 | deeper than hell, what canst thou know? |
A59814 | does Nature teach them, that any thing can be without a Cause adequate to the Effect? |
A59814 | does this become God, to make a free Agent, and to govern him by necessity and force? |
A59814 | hath the rain a father? |
A59814 | have they any natural sensation that answers these words? |
A59814 | how long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? |
A59814 | how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? |
A59814 | how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? |
A59814 | how many secret Plots are discovered, when ripe for execution? |
A59814 | how many wicked Designs prove abortive? |
A59814 | itanè verò? |
A59814 | knowest thou the ordinances of heaven, or canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? |
A59814 | more honourable for God, or more secure for our selves? |
A59814 | or because so many men sin, and make themselves miserable, therefore God is not good in creating Man? |
A59814 | or did he intend that no poor men should be wise? |
A59814 | or hast thou known the treasures of the hail? |
A59814 | or whether they be two distinct and different Acts of Power, to Make, and to Preserve? |
A59814 | or who hath laid the corner stone thereof? |
A59814 | or who hath stretched the line upon it? |
A59814 | or would we have any thing which infinite Wisdom and Goodness does not think fit to give us? |
A59814 | out of whose womb came the ice? |
A59814 | quatuor tali jacti casu venereum efficiunt, num etiam centum venereos, si 400 talos ejeceris, casu futuros putas? |
A59814 | quidquam potest casu esse factum, quod omnes in se habeat numeros veritatis? |
A59814 | that any thing can be wisely made without a wise Cause? |
A59814 | that one contrary can produce the other? |
A59814 | that sensless, stupid Matter can produce Life, Sensation and Understanding? |
A59814 | that there should be no poor men as well as rich? |
A59814 | to chuse the quiet and silent Retirements of Woods and Deserts, or of the Grave, to avoid the trouble of serving God, or doing good to Men? |
A59814 | where are thy wise men? |
A59814 | wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? |
A59814 | whereupon are the foundations thereof fastned? |
A59814 | who knows how much evil bad men would do, had they no restraint? |
A59814 | who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the womb? |
A59814 | who would have been contented to live in such a world, to converse only with the Images of Death, and with noisome Carkasses? |
A59814 | why he had not his Oracles and Prophets in other Nations? |
A59814 | why should we punish them? |
A59814 | why should we revenge our selves of them? |
A59814 | — Therefore take no thought, saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be cloathed? |
A59907 | And Iesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride- chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? |
A59907 | And are they more quiet and peaceable, or less clamorous in their Complaints, than our Dissenters in England? |
A59907 | And can we flatter our selves then, that the removal of these Ceremonies would cure our Divisions? |
A59907 | And does not the experience of the late Times manifestly confirm this beyond all dispute? |
A59907 | And does the Church of England require any more? |
A59907 | And doth not our Church declare her Ceremonies to be things indifferent? |
A59907 | And has our Church been wanting in this, to give satisfaction to Dissenters? |
A59907 | And if it will not, why does he urge the evil and mischief of Divisions, to perswade the Church to part with these Ceremonies? |
A59907 | And if the People culpably will hear no others but Dissenters, is it better to let them hear none at all, than that they should preach to them? |
A59907 | And is Decency then a new burden, which Christ hath not imposed on his Disciples? |
A59907 | And is it not as fitting then to signifie one, as the other, by distinct and appropriate Habits? |
A59907 | And is it not more decent and orderly, that it should be so? |
A59907 | And is it not most proper to apply the remedy to the disease? |
A59907 | And was he not then in Communion with Christ and his Apostles? |
A59907 | And was it thought an act of meekness and gentleness to do so? |
A59907 | And was not that said to justifie their refusal to abate the imposition of the Ceremonies? |
A59907 | And were they not at liberty then to eat or not to eat? |
A59907 | And what charity is it to them, to discover their obstinacy and hypocrisie, and render them more inexcusable to God and men? |
A59907 | And yet may she suffer Schismaticks to preach, and allure men into a Schism? |
A59907 | And yet what is it that the King yielded under these necessities? |
A59907 | Are all these things, as used in the Roman Church, indifferent? |
A59907 | Are not private Christians subject to the Authority of the Church, and liable to be judged and censured by their Governours? |
A59907 | Are the Ceremonies of our Church decent circumstances of Worship, or are they not? |
A59907 | Are their Grossings and Exorcisms, and such- like Ceremonies, abused by the Church of Rome to the absurdest Superstitions, indifferent things? |
A59907 | Are there any such Rituals and Ceremonies in the Church of England, as have the least affinity with the Jewish Yoke? |
A59907 | But did Christ and his Apostles then intend that Christians should be always children? |
A59907 | But did our Saviour condemn the Pharisees meerly for binding these heavy burdens, and laying them upon mens shoulders? |
A59907 | But did they plead onely for the alteration of some disputable passages in the Liturgy, when Mr. Baxter himself drew up a new Liturgy? |
A59907 | But does our Reconciler know what a competition between two Laws means? |
A59907 | But does our Reconciler think this variety of posture at Prayer, an orderly and decent thing? |
A59907 | But does the Church of England lay any new burdens upon men? |
A59907 | But does the Dean say, that these Ceremonies were retained onely for their antiquity? |
A59907 | But has our Reconciler the face to say that they are shut out meerly for indifferent things, when they themselves give another account of it? |
A59907 | But how does it appear that this man who cast out Devils in Christ''s Name, did preach the Gospel too? |
A59907 | But how does it appear that this man who cast out Devils in Christ''s Name, was no Disciple? |
A59907 | But how does our Reconciler know this? |
A59907 | But how does that appear, that Christ does not require it? |
A59907 | But how does this concern our Dissenters? |
A59907 | But how does this prove that Church- Governours must part with the Rites and Ceremonies of Religion? |
A59907 | But is our Reconciler in good earnest? |
A59907 | But is the Kingdom of Christ then promoted by Schism? |
A59907 | But is there no difference between these two cases? |
A59907 | But must every one who believes these Ceremonies alterable, presently grant that they must be altered right or wrong? |
A59907 | But now if we apply this to the Rites and Ceremonies of publick Worship, what sence is there in this Argument? |
A59907 | But suppose he is as fond of a Strumpet as he is of his Mother, what would the Father do in that case? |
A59907 | But to whom must this be made as clear? |
A59907 | But was not our Reconciler asleep, when he tells us, that this man did not hold Communion with the Disciples? |
A59907 | But what a wide difference is there between the instances of a raised and perfect Vertue, and the decent Rites and Ceremonies of Worship? |
A59907 | But what ancient simplicity does he mean? |
A59907 | But what have we to do with the judgment of charity in this case? |
A59907 | But what if these three men did consent to such an Act, were they constituted the Representatives of the whole Body of Nonconformists? |
A59907 | But what is all this to the Church, which offers no contempt to the meanest Christian, much less to men of humble, and modest, and peaceable tempers? |
A59907 | But what is that to the purpose? |
A59907 | But what is the meaning of this? |
A59907 | But what is this to the Dean''s reason, That we do not break Communion with them for meer indifferent things? |
A59907 | But what is this to the Dispute about Ceremonies? |
A59907 | But what is this to the case of our Dissenters? |
A59907 | But what is this to the purpose? |
A59907 | But what limit can be set to Ecclesiastical Authority, if the Church exceed what is barely necessary to prevent confusion in religious Worship? |
A59907 | But what occasion had there been for this, though he had taken Wages of them, as he says he did of other Churches, to supply his necessities? |
A59907 | But what were these heavy burdens and grievous to be born, which the Pharisees bound upon mens shoulders? |
A59907 | But where does our Saviour say this? |
A59907 | But whether would the merciful Father let the Infant famish that would take food from none but his Mother? |
A59907 | But who told him this? |
A59907 | But why dost thou judge thy brother? |
A59907 | But why should Church- Communion be suspended upon such terms as are not necessary to Salvation? |
A59907 | But would such a Physician suffer such a humorsome Patient( could he hinder it) to go to a Quack or a Mountebank? |
A59907 | But yet let us suppose that our Saviour, out of condescention to the weakness of his Disciples, did not impose fasting on them, what follows hence? |
A59907 | But you will say, Were not these things indi ● ferent? |
A59907 | Can any thing be decent and fit to be done in any circumstances, which the Church has no Authority to do? |
A59907 | Can not men be saved who observe the Ceremonies of our Church? |
A59907 | Can not we expound meats, of their ordinary Diet in their private Families, without expounding Receive him that is weak ▪ by Let him dine with you? |
A59907 | Christ hath taken away the Yoke of Jewish Ceremonies, and has the Church of England put another Jewish Yoke on the Disciples necks? |
A59907 | Could he find nothing in the Dean and his Defenders tending this way? |
A59907 | Could not he have instructed them in the Will of God, without such a familiar conversation with them, as he knew gave great offence to the Pharisees? |
A59907 | Could they undertake that the rest of their Brethren should consent too? |
A59907 | Did Christ leave it at liberty then, whether his Disciples should worship God decently or not? |
A59907 | Did Christ, when he abrogated the Jewish Law, abrogate all Decency of Worship too? |
A59907 | Did he never read any thing in vindication of Ecclesiastical Authority, in commanding indifferent things? |
A59907 | Did he set up any distinct Church and Communion of his own? |
A59907 | Did not St. Paul testifie that he had declared the whole Will of God to them? |
A59907 | Did not some, both Jews and Gentiles, separate from each other upon these accounts, and disturb the Peace, and divide the Communion of the Church? |
A59907 | Did not this occasion great Heats and Animosities, Judgings and Censurings of one another? |
A59907 | Did they make Objections for the Dissenters, and then answer them; or did they answer such Objections as they found made to their hands? |
A59907 | Did they prescribe no Rules, or Orders, or Ceremonies of Worship? |
A59907 | Did they suffer any Christians to dispute their Authority in such cases? |
A59907 | Does Christ then give any authority to his Church, which she must not use? |
A59907 | Does it signifie any more than a Soveraign Authority to command, under the guilt of sin, if we disobey? |
A59907 | Does not such a general Rule for the Decency of Worship, require that there should be some particular Rules of Decency and Order prescribed? |
A59907 | Does not the Apostle expresly say, I know, and am perswaded by the Lord Iesus Christ, that there is nothing unclean of it self? |
A59907 | Does not the Church require an uniform posture at Prayer too? |
A59907 | Does not the Dean expound receiving the weak, by joyning together as Christians in the Duties common to them all? |
A59907 | Does our Saviour here speak of abrogating the Laws of Sacrifice for the sake of Mercy? |
A59907 | Does she require any new acts of Worship, which Christ has not required? |
A59907 | Does she require any thing more than what is necessary? |
A59907 | Does the Church require any more than Christ hath required? |
A59907 | Does the King in these words promise to alter the Constitutions of the Church, to abolish all Ceremonies,& c? |
A59907 | Does the appointment of some Ceremonies for the decent and orderly performance of Religious Worship, hinder the salvation of mens Souls? |
A59907 | Does the imposition of Ceremonies, in its own nature, shut men out of the Kingdom of Heaven? |
A59907 | Dost thou believe thou mayst eat indifferently of all meats? |
A59907 | For did not Christ, all the time he was on Earth, live in Communion with the Jewish Church? |
A59907 | For did not the Laws concerning clean and unclean meats, respect their ordinary Diet in their own Families? |
A59907 | For is it not a greater thing to give his Son for sinners, than to indulge them in some little Follies and Extravagances? |
A59907 | For what consequence is there in this? |
A59907 | For what is it to any man, what is it to the Church, whether I eat such meat or not, when I may lawfully do either? |
A59907 | For what is the meaning of judging another mans servant? |
A59907 | For whose sake shall the Church make this Experiment, with the loss of their own Orders and Constitutions? |
A59907 | For why must the Church be tyed up to what is necessary? |
A59907 | Had Christ no Disciples but those who followed him where- ever he went? |
A59907 | Had these Miracles been wrought onely in confirmation of his Mission, would not another day have served as well for that purpose? |
A59907 | Has he not made Obedience to our Rulers and Governours a necessary condition of Communion? |
A59907 | Has not Christ required that we should worship God decently? |
A59907 | Has our Reconciler never read Mr. Baxter''s Pleas for Peace, and those other venomous Pamphlets of late date? |
A59907 | Has the Church of England imposed any thing upon her People, but the Rules of Order and Decency? |
A59907 | Hast thou Faith? |
A59907 | Hast thou faith? |
A59907 | Hast thou faith? |
A59907 | He proposes this Question indeed to them, Is it lawful on the Sabbath- day to do good, or to do evil? |
A59907 | His two next Questions, Whether the Worship of God can not be performed decently and in order, without these Ceremonies? |
A59907 | How come the Ceremonies of our Church to be a Wall of partition? |
A59907 | How could any Jew scruple the lawfulness of fasting, which was so often commanded and recommended in their Law? |
A59907 | How do Children come to have any right to Baptism? |
A59907 | How does he then hence conclude any thing about repealing the Laws of Ceremonies and Rituals? |
A59907 | How is the Church more concerned to alter her Constitutions for the children of Schismaticks, than for their Schismatical Parents? |
A59907 | How many bitter Invectives were written against him? |
A59907 | How many unanswerable Books have been written in justification of the Constitutions and Worship of our Church? |
A59907 | How much then is a man better than a sheep? |
A59907 | I answer: Does our Reconciler then think that every thing that is the occasion of Discords and Divisions, must be removed? |
A59907 | I wonder what these men mean by the Dissenters yielding? |
A59907 | If St. Paul thought the observation of the Law so indifferent, why does he dispute so earnestly against it in this whole Epistle? |
A59907 | If any Church may, why not the Church of England? |
A59907 | If the Rulers of the Church be the proper Judges of this, how does our Reconciler come by this authority to judge his Judges? |
A59907 | If then I be a father, where is my honour? |
A59907 | If they must not command what is innocent, useful, and convenient, when those whom they ought to command, do not think it so? |
A59907 | Is Decency a thing valuable for it self, or onely as it is opposed to indecency? |
A59907 | Is Decency an unnecessary or unreasonable thing? |
A59907 | Is it a sin not to grant that indulgence which they are not forbid to grant by an express positive Law? |
A59907 | Is it possible for men to joyn as Friends and Brethren in such acts of Worship which they can not agree to perform in the same manner? |
A59907 | Is not Religion as much concerned in the Honour and Purity of the Ministerial Office, as in such oeconomical relations? |
A59907 | Is not the contempt of Ecclesiastical Authority, and the rude and unmannerly performance of religious Worship, as great a mischief as Divisions? |
A59907 | Is praying for the dead, as it is joyned with the Doctrine of Purgatory and Merit, in the Church of Rome, a thing indifferent? |
A59907 | Is the Sacrament of Extream Unction an indifferent thing? |
A59907 | Is the cause of Divisions in the nature of things, or in the minds of men? |
A59907 | Is this Authority for the good of the Church, or is it not? |
A59907 | Is this the onely Controversie, that Presbyterians, Independents, Quakers, and other Sectaries, have with the Church of England? |
A59907 | Must every thing which is alterable, be altered for no reason at all? |
A59907 | Must nothing be enjoyned, which is little in comparison of Love, and Peace, and Unity? |
A59907 | Must she alter her Laws as often as any Christians pretend to scruple them? |
A59907 | Must the Church alter the most prudent and wholsome Constitutions for the sake of every one, whom she does not believe a damned Hypocrite? |
A59907 | Must the Church appoint them to be observed, but command no body to observe them but those who please? |
A59907 | Must the Church part with her Ceremonies, for fear the occasion mens running into Schism, and being damned for it? |
A59907 | Must there be no Walls and Fences about the Church, this Vineyard and Fold of Christ? |
A59907 | Must there be no difference between the afflicted, and prosperous state of the Church? |
A59907 | Nay, can any thing be more comely and decent, than upon such solemn occasions to make such a solemn Profession of the Religion of the Cross? |
A59907 | Nay, this very thing in it self is extremely indecent: for what Order, what Decency can there be, where there is no one Rule of Worship? |
A59907 | Now I would ask our Reconciler one Question, Why all this will not hold as well in Civil as Ecclesiastical Government? |
A59907 | Now because God prefers true and real goodness before the externals of Religion, does it hence follow that there must be no external Worship? |
A59907 | Now do you indeed believe that this is the true state of your Case? |
A59907 | Now does not every body see that there is more in the conclusion, than there is in the premises? |
A59907 | Now is it possible for the Israelites to sacrifice the abomination of the AEgyptians before their eyes, and not give offence to them? |
A59907 | Now suppose all this, what care can be taken to prevent sin, which it becomes Governours to take, which is neglected by the Church of England? |
A59907 | Now supposing this to be true( which I have already proved not to be true) what is this to the Governours of the Church? |
A59907 | Now what affinity is there between this case and that of our Dissenters? |
A59907 | Now what relation is there between the Law of Moses, and the indifferent Circumstances or Ceremonies of Worship? |
A59907 | Now when these things are decent and fit, does it exceed the Authority of the Church to appoint them? |
A59907 | Or did they prescribe such Rules, without exacting obedience to them? |
A59907 | Or do we think to stop their mouths, and escape their reproaches and censures? |
A59907 | Or is it possible for him who kneels, and believes sitting to be a rude and unmannerly posture, not to be grieved or offended at him who sits? |
A59907 | Or must the Church be bound to alter her Constitutions at the instigation of some few busie undertaking Dissenters? |
A59907 | Or should we not be glad that others would bear with us in some lesser matters in which we by our judgments are constrained to differ from them? |
A59907 | Or that if any person scrupled these Laws, he would not insist upon it, but give them their liberty to worship God as they pleased? |
A59907 | Or will you say, that that is a Sacrifice, or that that meat is polluted which is offered to nothing? |
A59907 | Right; and therefore not an absolute and necessary Duty: otherwise, how does it appear that the Bishops Authority extends onely to Necessaries? |
A59907 | Sight and blindness are privatively opposite; but will you say, that man sees well enough, who is not blind? |
A59907 | Suppose Governours can satisfie their Consciences without such an express prohibition, what then? |
A59907 | Suppose the imposition of these Ceremonies be neither the cause of the Schism, nor the removal of them the cure of it, what then? |
A59907 | Suppose there be probable reasons on both sides, where yet it is necessary to act one way, what must be done in this case? |
A59907 | That he who believes kneeling at the Sacrament to be superstitious, should not judge and censure him whom he sees kneel, as guilty of Superstition? |
A59907 | The French Protestants indeed receive standing; but what is that to our Dissenters, who would no more receive standing than kneeling? |
A59907 | There is one Law- giver, who is able to save and to destroy; who art thou that judgest another? |
A59907 | They ask''d him, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but thy Disciples fast not? |
A59907 | They must not be perpetual, that is, they are alterable, when the wisdom of Governours sees fit; and who denies it? |
A59907 | This is a great fault, if the charge be good and just: but is the Church of England guilty of any such thing? |
A59907 | Thus it is in the commemorative Sacrifice of the Lords Supper: The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the bloud of Christ? |
A59907 | Thus it was with the Jewish Sacrifices: Behold Israel after the flesh, are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? |
A59907 | Was he not a Jew, and a Member of the Jewish Church? |
A59907 | Was it not sufficiently known, without a Bill of Fare, that the Jews did observe these Laws? |
A59907 | Was not the Law abrogated which made the di ● ference between clean and unclean meats? |
A59907 | Was there any moral goodness in Christ''s eating with Publicans and Sinners? |
A59907 | Was there any moral goodness in healing on the Sabbath- day, when there was no necessity for doing it just on that day? |
A59907 | Was there any moral goodness in his Disciples eating with unwashen hands? |
A59907 | Was there any moral goodness too in commanding the man whom he had cured, to take up his Bed and walk on the Sabbath- day? |
A59907 | Well says the Gnostick, what communion can there be with that which is not? |
A59907 | Well, but how does this Passage in the Irenicum countenance this reconciling designe? |
A59907 | Well, but if mens doubting be not an Argument that the thing whereof they doubt is doubtful, how shall we know what is doubtful, and what not? |
A59907 | Well, but suppose what he says to be true, what reason is this for altering our Ceremonies at this day? |
A59907 | Were this one Rule agreed on, what Peace and Vnity would soon follow? |
A59907 | What Communion then was he of? |
A59907 | What Law condemns the Ceremonies of the Church of England? |
A59907 | What correspondence is there between the Ceremonies of the Jewish Law, and the decent circumstances of Worship? |
A59907 | What destroys them? |
A59907 | What disturbance does the signe of the Cross, made with the gentle motion of the finger, cause? |
A59907 | What is it then? |
A59907 | What is my reward then? |
A59907 | What mighty trouble is it to kneel at the Sacrament? |
A59907 | What offence is a white Linnen garment to the eye? |
A59907 | What then is the fault? |
A59907 | What then? |
A59907 | What, not when Christ has given authority to enjoyn them? |
A59907 | What, were they all Hypocrites? |
A59907 | When these Divisions will not be cured by such condescension? |
A59907 | Whether any man in his wits can think it reasonable that mens private Fancies and Opinions should over- rule the Authority of Church and State? |
A59907 | Whether he were under a necessity of healing all that were sick? |
A59907 | Whether it be unreasonable to punish any man, because all men are unwilling to be punished? |
A59907 | Whether it is possible to maintain any Order or Government, without rejecting and censuring those who will not conform to it? |
A59907 | Whether the Ceremonies used by the Church of England, be not as decent and reverent as any other? |
A59907 | Whether we can worship decently and reverently, without some decent habits, postures, places,& c? |
A59907 | Who are thou that judgest another mans servant? |
A59907 | Why did St. Paul so severely chide the Galatians, who chiefly consisted of Gentile Converts, for their warping to the observation of the Law? |
A59907 | Why did he contend so earnestly even with St. Peter himself, in behalf of the Gentiles, to maintain their liberty from the Jewish Yoke? |
A59907 | Why did he not first ask the opinion of his Brethren and Superiours about it? |
A59907 | Why does he so diligently caution the Colossians both against Jewish and Pagan Superstitions, as contrary to the Doctrine of Christ? |
A59907 | Why is not that sufficient to make a man a Member of a Church, which is sufficient to carry him to Heaven? |
A59907 | Why may not spiritual advantages find place in our Worship, as well as what is barely necessary? |
A59907 | Why may not the Honour of God, and the external Beauty of his Worship, be considered in Religion, as well as the salvation of mens Souls? |
A59907 | Why must the Church part with these Ceremonies, which are of good use in Religion, to no purpose? |
A59907 | Why so? |
A59907 | Will our Reconciler now stand to this Proposition? |
A59907 | Will our Separatists conform now, if these Ceremonies are taken away? |
A59907 | Will our parting with some few Ceremonies, cure these Divisions which he so much complains of? |
A59907 | Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oyl? |
A59907 | Will you say, that there are any such Gods as the Heathens worship? |
A59907 | Would not our Reverend Bishops once have condescended to these terms of Vnion? |
A59907 | Yes, why not, for all this? |
A59907 | Yes, why not, so long as the Physician prescribed the Physick? |
A59907 | an obstinate refusal to obey such Impositions? |
A59907 | and has not Christ enjoyned this? |
A59907 | and is not that a sufficient justification of theAuthority which imposes? |
A59907 | and to give Laws to Conscience? |
A59907 | and would not pass upon us the s ● verest censures because we are constrained thus to differ? |
A59907 | are they tempted to renounce the Christian Religion by the Ceremonies of the Church of England? |
A59907 | between new and distinct acts, and the decent Modes of actions? |
A59907 | especially for men to sit at Prayers? |
A59907 | for the sake of Dissenters? |
A59907 | for what likeness can there be between these two cases? |
A59907 | if I be a master, where is my fear? |
A59907 | is it an original right of their own, or in the right of their Parents? |
A59907 | is it the imposition of these things? |
A59907 | must every man be left to do as he pleases? |
A59907 | must the Church determine this matter, or not? |
A59907 | or are they of such squeamish Consciences, that they can submit to an Antichristian Hierarchy, and an Antichristian Liturgy, but not to Ceremonies? |
A59907 | or is the bare Decency of Worship a Jewish Yoke? |
A59907 | or must repeal these Laws when any ignorant people refuse to submit to them? |
A59907 | or must she make no Laws about such matters, but suffer every Christian to worship God as he pleases? |
A59907 | or must there in every Congregation be two Ministers, and two Sacraments, one of the leavened, the other of the unleavened Communion? |
A59907 | or must they be enjoyned, and left indifferent at the same time? |
A59907 | or that the Church must make no Laws for the decent or orderly performance of it? |
A59907 | or to take Physick very hurtful and pernicious to him? |
A59907 | or will you say, That an Idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to Idols is any thing? |
A59907 | shall I come before him with burnt- offerings, with calves of a year old? |
A59907 | shall I give my first- born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? |
A59907 | that the Hospital or the Nursery should be the best Platform of Government in Church or State? |
A59907 | that the observation of such little things must not be enjoyned? |
A59907 | that they ought to pay such deference to their Superiours, as chearfully to obey them in all things which God has not expresly forbid? |
A59907 | the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? |
A59907 | the use of indifferent things? |
A59907 | to instruct people that they ought not to quarrel about such matters? |
A59907 | to save life, or to destroy it? |
A59907 | to the Dissenters, or to the Governours of the Church? |
A59907 | was there not one honest man among them? |
A59907 | were they things burdensom to the Conscience, which tempted men to forsake their Communion? |
A59907 | what is the other Duty then to which this must give way? |
A59907 | what then? |
A59907 | when will you be able to distinguish between a Defence and a demure Abuse? |
A59907 | when will you be wise? |
A59907 | when will you learn understanding? |
A59907 | why should we not forbear to condemn and censure them, whom God will absolve? |
A59907 | — Are not things indifferent, such as may be imposed or not imposed at pleasure? |
A59907 | — Why then should we who are commanded to be merciful, as our heavenly Father is merciful — reject them from Communion, whom God will receive? |