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A59874and by what right a particular Prince can challenge this Authority?
A59859And are we the greater Schismaticks, because we justifie our Separation, by laying the Fault on the Corruptions and Innovations of the Church of Rome?
A59859And why not involving Papists as well as Protestants?
A59859H. Do the Prelatical Protestants of Great Britain and Ireland refuse Communion with, or deny Communion to, any Church on Earth, without a Cause?
A48200Does 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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A59826How many Discontents, think you, may arise between the Nobility and Gentry, who attend the new Court?
A59826Or what if she should scruple it hereafter, and place her Father in his Throne again?
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A59884And if there be Order and Government among the Angels themselves, Why should we think that there is nothing like this among glorified Saints?
A59884And when the Church is at ease and rest from without, how often is it rent and torn in Pieces with Schisms and Heresies?
A59884The care of Mens Souls is itself a mighty Trust, and Who is sufficient for these things?
A59884and what Christian doubts, whether Heaven be a happier Place than this World?
A59884what different things are these?
A35872How came that impudent Dr. of Divinity into your Company?
A35872I would only know which way you would confer that Power upon him; for why should not I convey it as well as you?
A35872What a parcel of Rogues are assembled together here?
A59805And could any thing in the World be more easie than this, which no man could feel?
A59805And if ye do good to them that do good to you, what thank have ye?
A59805How 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?
A59805How 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?
A59882And shall we not pray for such a King, who is the very light of our eyes, and the breath of our nostrils?
A59882And 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?
A59832And what is this but a Readiness and Forwardness to do Good?
A59832But how far must we Relieve these Poor?
A59832If you enquire, What the Natural Measure of this Charity is?
A59832Must we give as long as we have any thing to give, and make our selves the Objects of Charity?
A59832This, 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?
A59832and what we can spare?
A59897But some may say, How can this be?
A59897But what is this towards influencing the Whole, or the Major part of the Nation?
A59897If it be Demanded, On what Account our Ancestors, Three or Four Hundred Years ago, should Choose a King for us?
A59897Let 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?
A59880And why then should we not all unite in such Princes, and forget all former Quarrels?
A59880How came they to be his Soveraign, and He their Subject?
A59880It was a Sarcastical Question of Pilate to the Jews, Will ye crucifie your King?
A59880Return, O Lord, how long?
A59880What Law or Rule made such an Example or President as this?
A59880why should we still divide into Parties, when the Throne is of no Party, and will admit of none?
A70177And did not Arrius in like manner derive his blasphemous perswasions touching Christ, from the same poisoned fountain?
A70177Can 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?
A70177Where had Paulus Samosatenus his blasphemous infusions but from Plotinus?
A70177and if there be one, whether he can be a deceiver?
A70177or whether God may ▪ not sometimes permit Impostors to work Miracles for the tryal of our Faith?
A5987645, 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?
A59876But what Authority is this?
A59876But what is danger to that man, who is in a greater danger by the neglect of his Duty?
A59876But what is this Power which Christ hath given to his Ministers?
A59876Is it not the duty of us all, as we are able, to instruct, exhort, reprove one another?
A59876May not every Christian do the same?
A59876This command Christ gave to Peter, and repeated it three times; Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more then these?
A59866For is it Lawful for an English Man during these Church divisions among us, never to Worship God in any Publick and Religious Assemblies?
A59866If it be not, Pray what is it, that makes any Church Sound and Orthodox?
A59866If it be, upon what account is it Lawful, to separate from a Sound and Orthodox Church?
A59866Is that a sound and Orthodox part of the Catholick- Church, which has nothing sinful in its Communion?
A59866Nay does not that Man Separate from the whole Catholick Church, who Separates from any Sound part of it?
A59866Never to Pray, nor Hear, nor receive the Lords Supper together?
A59866What middle state now shall we find for these Men, who will neither continue in the Church, nor allow themselves to be out of it?
A59866and may we not by the same reason separate from the whole Catholick Church, as from any Sound part of it?
A59892But do not the Angels then thus Worship God in Heaven?
A59892But 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?
A59892But what is it to praise God?
A59892Does he praise God best, who composes the best Anthems, or Sings them best?
A59892Does it consist merely in the Harmonious Melody of Voices, and Musical Instruments?
A59892If there be no force in Musick to give a Good or Bad Tincture to the Mind, Why do any men complain of Wanton Songs?
A59892Is it only to sing aloud, and to make a joyful noise to God?
A59892Why then should any Man think Musick improper for the Worship of God?
A59891And what Thoughts and devout Passions became us then, which are not still on this Day the proper Exercise of our Devotion?
A59891And what is the meaning of this?
A59891But this is the great difficulty; Who shall reveal this Secret to us?
A59891How shall we distinguish between the Corrections of God, and the Wickedness of Men?
A59891Is not God the same still?
A59891Now was all this, do you think, calculated only for Sixty six?
A59891That none can stay his hand, or resist his will, or say unto him, What doest thou?
A59891What could the Fire of London teach us Thirty three Years ago, which it does not teach a wise man still?
A59887In speaking to which words, I shall Inquire, What may be called the doings of the Lord?
A59887Shall Tribulation, or Distress, or Persecution, or Famine, or Nakedness, or Peril, or Sword?
A59887That the Joys of Paradise are not greater than a Crown?
A59887This may be thought a very needless question; for are there any Events, Good or Evil, which are not God ● s doing?
A59887What it is to be dumb, and not to open our Mouths?
A59887What may be called the doing of the Lord?
A59887Who then Shall jeparate us from the love of Christ?
A5987811. v. For mine own sake, even for mine own sake will I do it; for how should my name be polluted?
A59878And he saith unto them, Why are ye so fearful, O ye of little faith?
A59878Hath God forgotten to be gracious?
A59878Is his mercy clean gone for ever?
A59878doth his promise fail for evermore?
A59878hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
A71020Do these men imagine, they can never be tempted to lust, unless they daily see and converse with beautiful Women?
A71020Or, What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
A71020What hurt was it for a Man, who was Hungry to relieve his Hunger?
A71020or 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?
A71020or 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?
A59787And what can be urg''d more against us in respect of Transubstantiation?
A59787But are these the true and only Grounds of the Doctrine of that Holy Mystery?
A59787But, Sir, to be short, What relation has this to the present Parallel of the Trinity and Transubstantiation?
A59787Convert, Do n''t you believe the Doctrine of the Trinity?
A59787Say you so, my Friend, then why must I believe the Trinity?
A59787The Sacramental Body of Christ is cloathed with the Species of Bread, is it so in Heaven too?
A59787for not believing Transubstantiation as well as the Trinity?
A59787if not, how is the same Body at the same time, with and without the Species of Bread?
A59787what if I will believe neither?
A59792And if we can see which is this Church, what need we guess at it by marks and signs?
A59792Can not we distinguish between the Christian Church, and a Turkish Mosque, or Jewish Synagogue, or Pagan Temple?
A59792Can not we, without all this ado, distinguish a Christian from a Turk, or a Jew, or a Pagan?
A59792For is not the Catholick Church visible?
A59792I see a company of men who call themselves a Church, and this is all that I can see; and is this seeing a Church?
A59792So that there are many things to be proved here, before we are ready for the Notes of the Church?
A59792That you''l say is visible it self, for we see a Christian Church in the World; but what is it I see?
A59792When you ask a Papist for Notes of a true Church, he answers to that question, Which is a true Church?
A59792When you ask a Protestant, What are the Notes of a true Church?
A59792and that by such marks and signs too, as are matter of dispute themselves?
A598833dly, This is the wounded Spirit, and such a wounded Spirit, who can bear?
A59883Away all ye vain Delights will such a man say, what have I to do with Pleasure, when Torments, everlasting Torments, must be my Portion?
A59883But a wounded spirit, who can bear?
A59883Can he be wanting in his care of us, or in good will to us, who made us?
A59883Can he mistake our Condition, who knows our Frame?
A59883Can we our selves, or the kindest Friend in the World, chuse better for us than God?
A59883Do we suspect his Wisdom, or his Goodness?
A59883Had we rather be miserable for ever, than suffer some present want and pain?
A59883The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit, who can bear?
A59883What Courage can any Man have against Himself, against the Wounds and Disorders of his own Mind?
A59883What is it we desire, but to be happy?
A59883and if God intends our happiness in his severest Corrections, why should we complain?
A59898And are not the Decrees of such a Council then the Doctrine of the Church?
A59898And if not, Are not such false Judgments, or erroneous Decrees, the Acts of the Judge, or of the Church still?
A59898But 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?
A59898But who shall be Judge of this?
A59898But, I beseech you, When are General Councils Infallible?
A59898Does a Judge cease to be a Judge, or the Church to be the Church, when they pronounce false?
A59898For is not the Church of Rome the Church still, since it decreed the Deposing Doctrine?
A59898Is not the Sentence, which a Judge pronounces by the Authority of a Judge, a Judicial Act, though it be contrary to Law?
A59898Or, are they a Church, and no Church, at the same time?
A59898Who is the Keeper of this C ● tholick Tradition?
A59898and is not a General Council, the Representative of the Church of that age, wherein this Council is held?
A59895A Fanatick, a true Protestant Plot?
A59895And can these men then think to pull down and to set up Princes at their pleasure?
A59895And why should we not unite in this Church?
A59895It is demonstrable, we can unite no where else; and is it a desirable state, to be perpetually strugling and contending with intestine Commotions?
A59895Shall we then unite with the different Sects and Parties of Christians, which are among us?
A59895Shall we unite in Popery?
A59895Who can without horrour consider, what a distracted face of things we had seen at this day, had this Plot taken effect?
A59895by what Mark or Test, they would have distinguished Friends from Enemies?
A59895shall it be called Persecution for Religion, to punish Traitors, or to keep under a factious and turbulent Spirit?
A59895to be hating, reviling, undermining, each other?
A59895who knows, who should have acted his part in that Tragedy?
A59869And has there been sufficient satisfaction given the Nation about it to this day?
A59869But why descend so low as to except poor Hunt the Fisherman?
A59869In a word, what other Christian Prince is the Great Turk''s Ally and Confederate in this War?
A59869Was not the Administration of Justice, and the greatest Military Trusts put into the hands of Papists?
A59869Was not the Dispensing Power set on foot for those purposes?
A59869Was there no Ecclesiastical Commission set up, no Popish Chappels, Monasterys and Convents erected and endowed contrary to Law?
A59869Were not the Bishops sent to the Tower, and Tried in Westminster- Hall, for their Humble Petition to him against reading the Declaration?
A59869Were there not in the late Reign open and bold attempts made against the Laws, the Liberties, and the Religion of these Kingdoms?
A59869Were there not visible grounds of suspition concerning the Birth of the pretended Prince of Wales?
A59869Who else has hindered the success against the Common Enemy, and the enlarging the bounds of the Christian Empire?
A59869Who encourages him to continue the War, after so many Fatal Defeats, which may probably prove the ruin of his whole Empire?
A59869Who invited the Turk into Europe?
A59869Will 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?
A59869With whom are all the Princes of Europe at War but with Him?
A59820Did the Heathens then worship no inferior gods?
A59820Do we then make void the Law through Faith?
A59820How easily might the Devil reply, Is this indeed your infallible Opinion, and the judgment and practice of your Church to serve God onely?
A59820Is this a Prayer to Gorgonia to intercede for him with God?
A59820That therefore we may pray to Saints?
A59820The 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?
A59820Why do we desire the Prayers of good men here on earth?
A59820Why do we pray for one another?
A59820did those who worship ped so many several Gods, look upon them all as supreme and absolute?
A59820do you not also serve and worship St. Paul and St. Peter, and the Virgin Mary, besides a great many other obscure and doubtful Saints?
A59820does this Father any where assert in plain terms that it is lawful to pray to Saints departed?
A59820if it be, is a degree of Worship a part of Worship?
A59820or were they so senseless as to give supreme and soveraign worship to inferior Deities?
A59833How easily was it driven out without a blow?
A59833Is it thus that you curse not the King, no not in your heart?
A59833What a silly poor feeble thing is Popery in its proper Colours?
A59833Whom do you arraign when you say that Oath ought never to have been made?
A59833and do you thus overcome evil with good?
A59833and what though the King to whom I swear goes about to destroy the Law?
A59833by 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?
A59833did he make or enact it himself?
A59833is it thus that you commit your self and your cause to him that judgeth righteously?
A59833is it thus that you heap Coals of Fire upon the Head of your Enemy?
A59833is therefore my swearing Allegiance to him, swearing to things inconsistent?
A59833or am I perjured if I refuse?
A59833or 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?
A59833or was it not made and enforced in the good days of Queen Elizabeth, and his Grandfather King James the First?
A59833or was the exacting that Oath any part of the Accusation laid to the Charge of Charles the Martyr?
A59803And how could so innocent a person die, but by the Hands of Vnjust and Tyrannical Powers?
A59803And the Cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?
A59803But how then sh ● ll the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
A59803For indeed can any thing be plainer than our Saviour''s Answer?
A59803For, can the Apostle be thought absolutely to condemn Resistance, if he makes it only unlawful to resist, wh ● n we want power to conquer?
A59803How now does David behave himself in this extremity?
A59803Now, why should he entertain these men, but to defend himself against the Forces of Saul?
A59803Therefore?
A59803They ask him whether it were lawful to pay Tribute to Caesar?
A59803What course does he take to secure himself from Saul?
A59803Wherefore?
A59803is it lawful to give Tribute to Caesar, or not?
A59789And do they scruple to do so now?
A59789But he saies, The Bishop is still a Misrepresenter, in charging these sayings of private Doctors upon the Church; But where does he do that?
A59789But how the dispute should be carried on upon these Terms, otherwise then by giving him the Lye back again, I do not comprehend?
A59789But what if Dissenters Misrepresent the Church of England, does this prove that the Church of England Misrepresents the Church of Rome?
A59789Does the settlement of the Church consist in external Ceremonies?
A59789For did not the Dissenters themselves do so in the late times of Reformation?
A59789Have I not plainly proved, that we are not Misrepresenters in the strict and proper notion of Misrepresenting?
A59789Or 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?
A59789That we do not charge the Church of Rome with any matter of Fact, with any Doctrines or Practices which she does not own?
A59789What says the Accomodator to all this?
A59789What''s the matter now?
A59789Yes, He saies, He( that is, the Papist) must believe; but does he say, The Church says thus, or only Stapleton?
A59819But are not all the Members of Christ mystically united to him?
A59819But can not the Catholick Church meet and act by its Representatives, as Kingdoms and Common- wealths do?
A59819But how then is the whole Church but one Body?
A59819But you''ll say, can wicked men then be Members of Christ''s mystical Body?
A59819Did all the Christians in the World, who are the Catholick Church, ever intrust them with this Power?
A59819Did they ever resign up their Faith into the hands of their Bishops?
A59819Has every visible Church this Authority?
A59819Is Christ divided?
A59819The stabbing Question, as the Church of Rome thinks, to the Reformed Churches is, Where was your Church before Luther?
A59819Thus the Catholick Church is an Infallible Teacher of Faith: for who dares say, that the Catholick Church can fail, or err in Fundamentals?
A59819and can there be such a mystical Union between Christ and bad men?
A59819or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
A59819shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot?
A59819was Paul crucified for you?
A59819what then?
A59819which is to condemn the whole Catholick Church of Error or Heresie; who dares separate from the Catholick Church?
A59808And of what good use such a Faith can be to us?
A59808But do we not understand what it is we believe?
A59808Do we not know what we mean, when we say, We believe in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost?
A59808Does it require any Philosophy to know how to eat, and drink, and sleep?
A59808For is there any difference between believing God, and believing a Divine Revelation?
A59808How then come they to charge us with believing Contradictions and Impossibilities?
A59808If then this Faith be so plainly contained in Scripture, what makes all this dispute about it?
A59808If we must believe with our Understanding, how can we believe things which we can not understand?
A59808Is Corn, or Fruit, or Herbs, the less nourishing or refreshing, because we know not how they grow?
A59808Is this World, or any thing in it, the less useful to us, because we can not conceive how God created all things of nothing?
A59808Nay, do not our Adversaries understand what we mean by it?
A59808Or because we do not understand the nature of Matter, nor how the several parts of Matter came by their different Virtues and Qualities?
A59808Or can comprehend how he can do and know all things; and be present in all places at once, without Extension, and without Parts?
A59808What Merit there can be in believing such Doctrines?
A59808What are the Arian, Socinian, Pelagian Controversies, but meer Philosophical Disputes, with which these Hereticks corrupted the Catholick Faith?
A59808What makes those, who profess to believe the Scripture, so obstinate against this Faith?
A59808Will not our Food nourish us, unless we understand how it is concocted, and turned into Chyle, and Blood, and Spirits?
A59790And therefore, every plain Text proves its own plainness?
A59790And was the whole Clergy then against the Reformation?
A59790And were not they Bishops in Communion with the Roman Church?
A59790And why does he not ask us to prove, That all Christians, whenever they communicate, are obliged to receive the bread?
A59790And will he then say, that Scripture and Reason are on the Socinian side?
A59790But have not the Socinians made shipwrack of Faith by following clear Scripture and Humane reason?
A59790But if this be our Religion, and the Religion of the Catholick Church, how come we to be Foreigners and Out- laws?
A59790But is not this Author very modest in his Requests, who would have us prove his own Calumnies, and spiteful Insinuations from Scripture?
A59790But now if we have invented and chosen nothing else, what then?
A59790But what is this to the Church of Rome, who has all publick Offices in an unknown Tongue?
A59790But who taught him to call a Vow against Marriage, a Vow of Chastity, when Marriage it self is a state of Chastity?
A59790But why does not our Religion consist in believing the true Catholick Faith contained in the ancient Creeds?
A59790Can there be any better proof, that the Scripture is clear and plain, than its own plainness?
A59790Do men want Scripture to prove, That Supreme Power is Supreme?
A59790For were not our English Bishops and Clergy as Zealous in the Reformation, as any Laymen?
A59790How do we lose our right to the Creed and Sacraments,& c. because we will allow of no new Inventions and Additions to it?
A59790If they be, how can he know that they have made shipwrack of Faith?
A59790In obeying all those holy Laws our Saviour has given us?
A59790In observing the Sacraments of his own Institution, and as he has instituted them?
A59790In worshipping God through the Mediation of Jesus Christ, according to the Rules of the Gospel?
A59790The true Apostolick Faith and Worship does certainly make us the mystical members of Christ''s Body, or else I desire to know, what does?
A59790This is all the Religion we own, and know no other; and why then is not this our Religion?
A59790Were not the German Reformers of the Clergy?
A59790Why does not the Catholick Faith and Worship, make us Members of the Catholick Church?
A46648And not to multiply Quaeries, will the dissenting Preachers, who have been Ordained by Schismatical Presbyters, submit to Episcopal Ordinations?
A46648Ask if such alterations should make a Schism in the Church, would it not prove of more fatal consequence than this Present Schism?
A46648Can 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?
A46648Do they know what will satisfie Dissenters?
A46648If for the sake of the Church, should it not be first enquired whether the Church desire it, and what Alterations she desires?
A46648If for the sake of the Church, why should any thing be altered which hath the general Approbation of the true Members of the Church?
A46648If 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?
A46648If these Alterations be not pretended to be necessary, enquire what the fitness and expediency of them is?
A46648Ought she not to be consulted in such matters as are intended for her advantage?
A46648Whether the known Character of some of the Leading men in this Commission be not reason enough to suspect the event?
A46648Whether they are intended for the sake of the Church, or, for the satisfaction of Dissenters, or to serve both these ends together?
A46648Whether they find any greater inclinations in them now to return to our Communion, then they have formerly had?
A46648Whether they ought not to have as tender a regard to the Members of our own Church, as to Dissenters?
A46648Whether when the House of Commons addressed to the King for a Convocation, it was not to prevent such a Commission as this?
A46648and are they sure that the Members of the Church of England will own such Presbyters?
A46648and whether the temper and practises of our Dissenters at this time give any such assurance?
A46648and who will be so hardy as to oppose what the Commissioners have done?
A46648or if they will not, will the People come into the Church without their Preachers?
A46648when there are such struglings between the different parties in religion, and such different interests of State to serve by them?
A59831And being asked again, Why they then used those Expressions of Three Substances?
A59831And then the Synod examined those who affirmed, That there was but One Substance in the Trinity, What they meant by it?
A59831But if one infinite Mind is true and perfect God, are not Three infinite Minds Three Gods?
A59831But supposing their Authority to be Just and Regular, there is another very proper Question, How far their Authority extends?
A59831But will they hence frame an Universal Rule, That nothing must be said of the Holy Trinity in the Plural Number, considered as Three?
A59831Does this Doctrine then of a real substantial Trinity, of three infinite Personal Minds, reproach or blaspheme the Deity?
A59831I beseech you against whom?
A59831In what sence then they are one Substance?
A59831Is it any Reproach then to the Ever Blessed Trinity to affirm, that each Person is by himself a distinct infinite Mind?
A59831Is 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?
A59831Is not God the Father an Infinite Mind or Spirit?
A59831Is not God the Son, the substantial Word and Wisdom of the Father, an Infinite Mind or Spirit?
A59831Is not an eternal, infinite Person true and perfect God?
A59831Now what Wickedness does this Doctrine of a real substantial Trinity, a Trinity of Three infinite personal Minds, teach us?
A59831Or whether by Three Hypostases they meant, as some other Hereticks did, Three Principles, or Three Gods?
A59831They ask us, Whether an eternal and infinite Mind be not ture and perfect God?
A59831Whether to the declaring and decreeing Heresy?
A59831Why may we not say that there are Three Gods as well as that there are Three Persons, or Three Minds?
A59831against Father, Son, or Holy Ghost?
A59831and if every eternal Person, as a distinct Person, be true and perfect God, are not Three such distinct Persons Three Gods?
A59831and is not each of these Divine Persons a distinct infinite Mind?
A59831and is this Blasphemy?
A59831does not an infinite Mind signifie all the Perfections of a Deity?
A59831is a Mode, a Posture, a Somewhat, without any name or notion belonging to it, the Object of Religious Worship?
A59831is an infinite Mind then a Term of Reproach and Blasphemy?
A59831or is it Blasphemy to say, what they are?
A59831or is this to be suffered in a Christian Church?
A59831or 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?
A59831whether they can distinctly worship, three Names, or Modes, or Somewhats, when there is but one real substantial Subject or Suppositum of them all?
A59822And what now does he answer to this?
A59822But can we deny, that the whole Divinity, the fulness of the God- head was incarnate, or dwelt in Christ?
A59822But 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?
A59822But is he so incarnate, as to be truly God- Man in One Person, as the Soul and Body are One Man?
A59822But is not each Person in the Trinity infinite Mind, Spirit, Substance?
A59822But is not this, in a true Catholick Sense, the Doctrine of the Realists also, as I observed before?
A59822But will this Author in good earnest allow, that God was incarnate in Christ, and that Christ was in One Person, both God and Man?
A59822Can a Being, who was never made, who has no Cause, no Beginning, have any End but it self?
A59822For, How can the Son be Consubstantial, or of the same Substance with the Father, if he be no Substance at all?
A59822Is God then only for the Sake of Creatures?
A59822Nay, do not some Realists venture to call them three Minds, Spirits, Substances?
A59822Or 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?
A59822Or, Whether he had any immanent Acts of Wisdom or Reason, before he made the World?
A59822Or, that the Arians owned Father and Son to have the same specifick Nature as Adam and Abel had?
A59822Then he askt them, Whether he had a natural Will?
A59822Theophanes askt Macarius and Stephen, Whether Adam had a reasonable Soul?
A59822Was one God a superfluous, needless Being, before he made the World?
A59822What is now become of his immanent Act, by which he tells us Original Mind must be Wise?
A59822What then?
A59822Why, you''ll say, is not every Person in the Trinity, by himself, in his own Person, true and perfect God?
A59822and what are such Three, but three Gods, if One infinite Mind and Spirit, be one God?
A59822or was the World from Eternity as well as God?
A59822that is, the personal Wisdom of the Father; for who ever disputed, whether immanent Acts were Personal, or no?
A59860And did they lose their Succession too, when they became Reformers?
A59860And is it possible to cure this without an infallible Interpreter of Scriptures?
A59860But do we not see how many Schisms and Heresies have been occasioned, by suffering every one to Expound Scripture for himself?
A59860By what means were men Converted to the Faith?
A59860Did the Reformation of those Abuses and Corruptions, which had crept into the Church, unchurch us?
A59860For, suppose the Church does expound Scripture by Inspiration, how shall we be assured that it does so?
A59860How do these Divisions and Heresies, which disturb the Church, prove, that no man can be certain of his Religion?
A59860How far we must depend on the Authority of the Church for the true sense of Scripture?
A59860How far we must depend on the authority of the church for the true sense of Scripture?
A59860How far we must depend on the authority of the church for the true sense of Scripture?
A59860How many Divisions and Sub- divisions are there among Protestants, who agree in little else, besides their opposition to Popery?
A59860How then shall they be tried?
A59860However be we Hereticks, or Schismaticks, or whatever they please to call us, how does this destroy our Orders and Succession?
A59860I would desire to know whether Christ and his Apostles Preach''d intelligibly to their Hearers?
A59860If 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?
A59860If the Scriptures be in themselves unintelligible, I would desire to know how the Church comes to understand them?
A59860If they did not, to what purpose did they Preach at all?
A59860If they did not, what reason have we to believe that they determined right?
A59860If they did, how come these Sermons to be so unintelligible now they are written, which were so intelligible when they were spoken?
A59860If they do not think this a good way, to what purpose are there so many Volumes of Controversie written?
A59860If this be not a good way to Convince a Heretick, why do they give themselves and us such an impertinent trouble?
A59860Is 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?
A59860Must we believe Contradictions, or must we dis- believe infallible Churches?
A59860Must we believe every Man, or every Church, which pretends to Inspiration?
A59860Whether it be Lawful to separate from a Church upon the Account of promiscuous Congregations, and Mixt Communions?
A59860Whether the Church of England can make out such a visible Succession?
A59860Whether the Church of England can make out such a visible succession?
A59860Whether the Church of England can make out such a visible succession?
A59860Whether these Councils took a sure and safe way to find out Truth?
A71019And are not you a very subtil Arguer?
A71019And 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?
A71019And will we not allow God himself a Power of Dispensing with Laws in hard Cases, without destroying the Authority of his Laws?
A71019As for your next Question, How does it appear?
A71019But 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?
A71019But 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?
A71019But must there be no standing Laws or Rules, because there may happen some hard and difficult Cases?
A71019But pray Sir, where do I assert this?
A71019But you will say, can we Communicate with a Church without Communicating with its Bishop?
A71019How does this oppose me, who assert the necessity of Church- Communion?
A71019I do own this; but what is my owning this, to the Independents?
A71019I pray, why so?
A71019If 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?
A71019Is not Church- Communion a necessary Duty, because it may so happen, that sometimes I can not Communicate with any Church?
A71019Is not this a wonderful sound Church?
A71019Is the Catholick Church then, and the Communion of Saints, no part of our Creed?
A71019Now Sir, is this true or false?
A71019Now what of all this will any sober Dissenter deny?
A71019Pray what comparison is there between the Church of England and Independency?
A71019The Case of mixt Communion: Whether it be Lawful to Separate from a Church upon the account of promiscuous Congregations and mixt Communions?
A71019What occasion did I give for this Censure?
A71019Where do I say, that no man is Obliged to be a Member of one Sound Church more than of another?
A71019Whether 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?
A71019and is not Schism destructive to these great Articles of our Faith?
A71019could they not Communicate with both, or either, without danger of Schism themselves?
A71019eng Atwood, William, d. 1705?
A71019of Sep. p. 306,& c. But what now is all this to me?
A71019or can we Communicate with a Schismatical Bishop, without Communicating in his Schism?
A71019when in the very next Paragraph he so earnestly exhorts them to Communion with the Church of England?
A26184For God''s sake, Sir, consider this, and think with your self, whether your Charity exceeds that of the Romish Church?
A26184How is this justifyable upon your Ground?
A26184Is not that Church guilty of Schism in such an Injunction, contrary to the nature of Catholick Communion?
A26184Nor I conceive doth our Church receive any adult Person, whom it does not believe to be a true Christian before?
A26184Pray, Sir, is it absurd to suppose, that there should be several such Churches in a City?
A26184Quid inde operatur?
A26184Whether 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?
A26184Whether if the Promise you mention be confin''d to the Apostles, as Church- Governors, it will not exclude the Civil Power?
A26184Whether the Civil Power did not make a lawful Reformation and Separation from the Popish Church in England?
A26184Whether to say ye are the Body, and ye are of the Body, be the same?
A26184Whether you do not appropriate that to the National Church, which belongs to the Catholick visible and invisible?
A26184or, was it as necessary to know which was in the right, as to know which is the True Religion?
A59900And what now does this Socinian say to this?
A59900But do I require any man to believe Contradictions?
A59900But does he consider, what the Consequence of this Argument is?
A59900But how will this Socinian, who rejects the Evidence of Sense, confute Transubstantiation?
A59900But must we not hearken to Reason when it finds Contradictions in what men affirm concerning God?
A59900But what is all this to my Sermon?
A59900Can he prove, that they ever deceive us with Qualities and Accidents without a Substance?
A59900Do I any where say, That we must always expound the Scripture to a literal Sense?
A59900For is there no way of knowing what is Bread, and what is Flesh, but by Revelation?
A59900How Soul and Body are United, which can not Touch each other?
A59900How Thought moves our Bodies, and excites our Passions?
A59900How a Spirit should feel Pain or Pleasures from the Impressions on the Body?
A59900How we Think and Reason?
A59900How?
A59900Is not this the proper object of Sense and Reason?
A59900Is there no difference between what Reason ca n''t conceive, comprehend, approve, and what the Reason of all Mankind contradicts?
A59900Nay, How we See and Hear?
A59900Nay, do I say, that there are any such Contradictions?
A59900Not believe Scripture?
A59900That when Christ is called a Way, a Door, a Rock, we must understand this literally?
A59900They 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?
A59900What is the meaning of their Expounding Scripture by Reason, not like Fools, but like Wise men?
A59900What naked Matter stripp''d of all Accidents and Qualities is?
A59900Whether the Pretences of contradicting Reason and Philosophy, and the vain Pretences to Philosophy, signify Reason and Philosophy?
A59900and of what good use such a Faith can be to us?
A59900hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
A59900what merit there can be in believing such Doctrines?
A59900where is the disputer of this world?
A59900where is the scribe?
A52608Are they not contradictory Terms, and therefore not to be applied to the self- same Substance in Number?
A52608But allowing now the way of speaking, used by Mr. Hooker, what a Riddle has he propounded?
A52608But did the Father beget the Substance of God?
A52608But do they reckon they have to deal only with Fools?
A52608But 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?
A52608But whither am I carried?
A52608Can any one beget his own Substance?
A52608Can the self- same Substance( in Number) be of none, and yet be of the Father; be unbegotten, and begotten too?
A52608Do they not say, that the self- same Substance that is in the Father, is also in the Son?
A52608Do they think that Scripture is to be interpreted contrary to it self?
A52608Doth not the Doctor prevaricate?
A52608Hath he ascribed to the Divine Essence, Properties, which he calleth Persons, that are not in it?
A52608How many Rarities hath he boxed up, in a very little compass?
A52608I might also ask the Cardinal, why he hath so much better Thoughts of Athanasius, than of Moses, and the Prophets?
A52608I would know, how two other Persons can contribute to make him a perfect God, who without them is Almighty?
A52608If Mr. Hooker could err about the Trinity; What will the Fanaticks and Trimmers say?
A52608Is it not a Contradiction, a manifold Contradiction?
A52608Is it not as much as to say, he was before he was?
A52608Is it so?
A52608Or 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?
A52608Or, that Divine Wisdom has made the Belief of Contradictions necessary to Salvation?
A52608Shall we say, Reverend Hooker has mistaken, and missed his Sons( who are all the Church of England) into an Error concerning the Trinity?
A52608Some one may say, but is not John''s Substance unbegotten, in respect of John''s Son James; tho it was begotten by Peter?
A52608There is but one God, say the Holy Scriptures; where can be the Ambiguity of such usual and plain Words?
A52608Well, shall we say then, that the three Persons are three distinct Substances; is it not plain Tritheism?
A52608What can be more unthought or silly, for instance, than this vain Elusion?
A52608What shall we do here?
A52608Which( I pray) is more honourable, to own a clear and necessary Truth; or to set one''s self to darken and to obstruct it?
A52608Why do our Opposers choose to maintain such extravagant Paradoxes, rather than acknowledg so easy and natural a Truth, as the Unity of God?
A52608Will 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?
A52608doth he not say these things, only to establish Unitarianism, so much the more strongly?
A52608or in these, There is one God, and there is none other but He?
A52608or would he have said, Thou shalt have none other God but ME?
A59824And can we be contented to see England again the Seat of War?
A59824And did they find any such Change in him, unless for the worse?
A59824And have we so long disdained the thoughts of ● ubjection to France?
A59824And 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?
A59824And is not this a great encouragement to any who have complyed with the present Government, to help these Men to Power again?
A59824And shall Protestants after this, think of obliging such Princes by their Merits?
A59824And shall we now so willingly stoop to the yoke, ● nd think it a great favour that they will vouchsafe to Conquer us?
A59824Are they like having our Houses filled with Soldiers; or which is worse, burnt or plundered?
A59824Are they like losing our Friends, our Fathers, Husbands ▪ or Children; by whose kindness or labours we subsisted?
A59824But how heavy soever Taxes are, are they like a Civil War?
A59824But however, what Comfort is this to Protestants, that he has better Inclinations, but is not his own Master?
A59824But if the Necessity of his own Affairs could not obtain this from him, what must Protestants expect, if he return with Power?
A59824Can any consideration make this lawful?
A59824Can he make fairer Promises, than he did before?
A59824For can any Prince have more Right to be King of England, than the Kingdom of England has to be England?
A59824Has a French League been thought such a N ● tional ● rievance?
A59824Has 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?
A59824Has the pretence of a War with France been found such an excellent expedient to get Money of English Parliaments?
A59824Have the Free born Subjects of England, no Natural, no Legal Rights?
A59824Have we so detested the French Cruelties to Protestants?
A59824I would ask them, What they would think themselves bound to do in such cases, were the late King upon the Throne again?
A59824In a word, Are they like the Spoyls of Harvest, or the Desolation of a whole Countrey?
A59824Is he less Zealous for Popery ▪ or grown more out of Conceit with Arbitra ● y Powe ●?
A59824Is he more oblig''d now by his Protestant Subjects, than he was before?
A59824Is there no such thing as Justice due to our selves, nor to our Fellow- Subjects?
A59824Is this done out of Kindness to him or his Government?
A59824Let the Rights of Princes be nev ● r so Sacred, have the rest of mankind no Rights, but only Princes?
A59824Like the dread and terrors of an Enemies Army, or of our own?
A59824Must not the Nobility and Gentry expect their share of Vengeance, as well as the Clergie?
A59824O ● wi ● ● he be less able to make himself Arbitrary, and set up Popery when he returns a Conquerour?
A59824To make him King, and all his Subjects French Slaves?
A59824To set him upon the Throne, to drive all other Princes from theirs?
A59824What should hinder him from being the sole and absolute Monarch of the West?
A59824Whence then will they date their Merits?
A59824Whether it be lawful for them to oppose him, and fight against him?
A59824Whether they are bound in conscience to assist the late King if he return?
A59824Will they be better Subjects hereafter?
A59824Will they be content to take him the very same Man that he went away, and to serve him in his own way?
A59824Will they deny him a Toleration for Papists, the repeal of the Test, the forfeitures, or surrenders of Charters, and a new Regulation of Corporations?
A59824Will they dispute, nay, will they not declare his Dispensing Power, and approve his Eccl ● siastical Commissions?
A59824Will they make his Will their Law?
A59824Will they no more fill the Nation with the noise and fears of Popery and Arbitrary Power?
A59824Will they read his Declaration, when he Returns?
A59824Will they submit to his next Ecclesiastical Commission, and give up their Colledges and Churches to Priests and Jesuits?
A59824Will they turn Papists themselves, or stand by patiently, and give leave to his Priests to pervert Protestants as fast as they can?
A59834And does the Representer deny that they pray to Saints?
A59834And does the Representer deny this?
A59834And what is the authority of this Bishops character?
A59834And what of that?
A59834And why then are not Bellarmin''s Controversies as authentick a rule for the exposition of the Catholick Faith, as the Bishop of Condom''s?
A59834At least, Is not the Church secured from making wicked and sinful Decrees?
A59834But I will only ask this Reflecter one short Question, Why he rejects this Decree of Deposing Heretical Princes, or Favourers of Hereticks?
A59834But I would ask him, Whether the Infallibility of the Church be an Article of Faith?
A59834But does he deny, that the Church of Rome takes away the Cup from the People?
A59834But does he worship Images or not?
A59834But pray can he tell me, for what reason this is?
A59834But what does he think of this being decreed by General Councils?
A59834But why does he now complain of Misrepresentation?
A59834But why is the Pope''s personal Infallibility put into the Character of a Papist Misrepresented?
A59834Did he not dedicate them to Pope Sixtus V. and that with the Popes leave and good liking, Te annuente, as he himself says?
A59834Does it make an actual Propitiation for our Sins?
A59834Does not this make it the Doctrine of their Church?
A59834Does the Council forbid such External Acts of Adoration, as Kneeling, Bowing, Offering Incense,& c. to be paid to Images?
A59834Does the Council then deny, that the Worship which is paid before the Image, has regard to the Image?
A59834For till it be determined, what the true Faith is, how can they curse or condemn Hereticks?
A59834HEre the dispute between the Misrepresenter and Representer, is only this, Whether the Deposing Power be the Doctrine of the Church of Rome?
A59834Had not Cardinal Bellarmin''s controversies as great an attestation as the Bishop of Condom''s Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church?
A59834How comes Veron''s rule to be so Authentick, as to justifie any interpretation, which agrees with it?
A59834I shall take it for granted, that it is, as the Reflecter says, but what then?
A59834I would only desire to know, whether there be any such thing as External and Visible Idolatry?
A59834If it be, my next question is, In what general Council it was defined?
A59834Is it because he thinks the Doctrine of Deposing Heretical Princes, erroneous, or only because he do n''t like the Practice of it?
A59834Is it not to Worship Images?
A59834Is this charge true, or is it not?
A59834Is this true or not?
A59834May he not play tricks with the Catechism, and expound that by a private spirit, as well as the Council?
A59834No, he says, He is so far from being guilty of this fault of interpreting the Council of Trent in his own sense?
A59834Or will the Reflecter own such a freedom as the Answerer denies?
A59834That 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?
A59834The Question is not, what a Papist believes, but what the truth of the thing is?
A59834This he himself owns; Is it, that many who enter into this religious course of Life, live very irreligiously?
A59834Well, and what is their intention in it?
A59834Well, but what then is the meaning of all this pother and noise about this double Character of a Papist misrepresented and represented?
A59834Wherein now does the Answerer appeal from the Declarations of their Councils, and sense of their Church, to External Actions?
A59834Wherein then do we Misrepresent them?
A59834Why are we so angry with what he calls the Misrepresentation, if it be true?
A59834Why did not our Author appeal to his own character?
A59834Why not as well the Infallibility of General Councils?
A59834and how much inferiour is this to a Testimonial under the Popes hand?
A59834how one comes to be matter of Faith, and not the other?
A59834nay how does our Reflecter come to believe the Infallibility of a General Council?
A59834not whether he believes Idolatry to be lawful, but whether he be not guilty of Idolatry in worshipping the Host?
A59834not whether he believes the Host to be only Bread, but whether it be so or not?
A59834or, what is the fault of it?
A5978815. does that signifie, that they must Preach the Gospel to Devils, as well as Men?
A597889. which is as large an expression as all Creatures, must the Devil, who is one of Gods works be included or not?
A59788And could any man do this, before Christ came, and preached in Person, and confirmed his Authority, by those many Miracles, which he wrought?
A59788And had all this that success which might have been expected?
A59788And 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?
A59788And will our Author deny that they are so?
A59788But 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?
A59788But let me seriously ask our Author, whether God be good to all his Creatures or not?
A59788But the force of his Argument consists in the word Creature; but does not the Scripture use that word peculiarly for all mankind?
A59788But where did I ever affirm, that Justice is not as natural to God, as Holiness and Goodness?
A59788Did not God use various Methods for the recovery of mankind before the appearance of Christ in the world?
A59788Did not the world, even the Jewish Church, continue very wicked?
A59788Does he belive that God will forgive his sins, and bestow on him eternal Happiness?
A59788Does not God complain of the unfruitfulness of his Vineyard?
A59788Does not S. John tell us?
A59788GOD is as ready to pardon the worst of Men,( and why not the worst of Angels?)
A59788Has he not discovered those Mysteries which were concealed from ages?
A59788Isaiah 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?
A59788Like Saul, who went to the Witch at Endor, when God would not hear him?
A59788No difference between Gods speaking to the Fathers by the Prophets, and his speaking to us in these last days by his Son?
A59788Nor the Glory of his Mercy in the Salvation of true Penitent Believers?
A59788Now pray what is the fault of this Proposition?
A59788Or that he does not serve his own Glory by it?
A59788Well, we will at present be still so good- natured as to grant him all he would have, what then?
A59788What can powerful Motives do on them?
A59788What comfort is this to the Devil?
A59788What is the meaning of a Dialogue, but to represent two Persons talking together?
A59788What signified then his Methods of judgment and severity, of clemency and mercy?
A59788What then is my fault?
A59788Who ever said, that God does not permit sins?
A59788Why could not T. D. have fairly debated the case upon my Principles, and left me to answer for my self?
A59788all the apparitions of Angels, the giving of the Law, and exhortations of the Prophets?
A59788and if men may by repeated acts of sin grow so hard and incurable, what shall we think of the Devils?
A59788and will he say, that God required they should believe more than he had revealed to them?
A59788has not he made a more perfect Revelation of Gods will, than ever the world had before?
A59788is it that I say, that the belief of the being and Providence of God are the first Principles of all Religion?
A59788is there no difference between those who are in a state of probation, and those who are actually condemned?
A59788or 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?
A59901And as our Author observes, Cui bono, do men Appeal from one Fallible Creature to another?
A59901And if it were a good substantial Protestant Church then, How comes it to be a Shadow now?
A59901And where is the agreement then between the Two Churches?
A59901And who ever said this, and where?
A59901But are these of no account then in the Church of Rome?
A59901But how does this make any thing more necessary to Catholick Communion, than the same Faith, the same Worship, the same Sacraments?
A59901But is not the Church of England the same now that it was before that breach?
A59901But is not this a clever way of flinging off all disputes about Doctrines and Opinions?
A59901But is this Head then Infallible?
A59901But still me- thinks there is a little difficulty, why there should be any Appeals at all to a Fallible Judge?
A59901But what Check does he intend to give to this Insulting Talk of the Clergy?
A59901But what course does our Author take to undeceive unwary Readers at this time, and to prove these Confuters of Popery to be Papists?
A59901But what does he mean, when he says, that the Church Militant and Triumphant, is an Organized Body?
A59901But why is it necessary there should be uniformity then in particular National or Diocesan Churches?
A59901But why may not the last Appeal be made to any one else, as well as to the Catholick Pastor?
A59901But why might not Cassandrians be reconciled to the Church, and Dissenters have their Liberty too?
A59901Do any of these men then embrace any Doctrines of the Church of Rome?
A59901For what does he think of Democracies, or Aristocracies?
A59901For( says he) they say, there can be no one Catholick Communion, without one Catholick Government: But what does he mean by one Catholick Government?
A59901Have they not defended the Church of England against all the little arts and shifts of the Church of Rome?
A59901If the right of Appeals be grounded on Infallibility, why must we Appeal to those who are Fallible?
A59901If they be so well disposed to a Cassandrian Peace, I pray, What hinders it?
A59901Infallibility is that, which is only being less fallible, than some other fallible Creatures?
A59901Is it no matter what our Opinions are, so we do but maintain the Popes Supremacy?
A59901Not after all their softning representations to invite men into the bosom of the Church?
A59901One superior Power over the whole Catholick Church?
A59901That 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?
A59901That these men, who confute Popery, are not Protestants, but Papists?
A59901That those unanswerable Books, which have of late been written against Popery, were not writen by the Clergy of the Church of England?
A59901This 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?
A59901What Organization is there in the Church Triumphant?
A59901What is that then which he calls the unlucky mistake, and which the unwary Readers of Books are to be warned against?
A59901What is the mistake then?
A59901What?
A59901When they are so fond of all new Converts, will they reject the Cassandrian Divines of the Church of England?
A59901Who is the Supreme where all are equal?
A59901Why should not all Causes in the first instance be brought before the Infallible Judge?
A59901Why so?
A59901Why 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?
A59901Wo n''t, they receive us upon these terms?
A59901Yes, that he owns: What is my fault then?
A59901and does not this infer, that they have a direct Authority over them in such matters?
A59901is not a Church, though it be a particular Church, the Church of England, the Church of France, the Church of Spain?
A39265And again, whether all the Members of that Church, be as one man unanimously agreed about it, or no?
A39265And are single Fathers of more Credit than they?
A39265And can its Testimony then possibly amount to any more than that Church''s bare Word?
A39265And did not Irenaeus pretend a Tradition, descending from St. Iohn, that Christ was about fifty Years old when he was crucified?
A39265And do the Papists accout either of these to be true?
A39265And 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?
A39265And must we be Hereticks for not believing these so uncertain Traditions?
A39265And will they yet produce it to convince us of the Authority by which alone we are both to receive and understand it?
A39265Are Councils of any Credit more than the POPE''s Confirmation gives them?
A39265But what are these manifest Scriptures at length?
A39265But what saith Bellarmin?
A39265Did it not Excommunicate every Priest that should Appeal to ROME?
A39265Did not Clemens Alexandrinus call it an Apostolical Tradition, that Christ preach''d but one Year?
A39265Do not they deny us a Iudgment of Discretion, whereby we should discern for ourselves, whether it speak fór or against their Church''s Authority?
A39265Had not He and They one and the same Authority as POPES of ROME?
A39265Have they not been even at Daggers drawing among themselves about it?
A39265How must I now do to bear my self evenly betwixt two such Masters?
A39265However if it so well deserve our Consideration, what''s become of our Forefathers?
A39265I must obey the Infallible Iudg, or else be damn''d: And who is this Infallible Iudg whom I must obey?
A39265If my dimsighted Reason help me to stumble into my Mother''s lap, may I yet think my self safe there?
A39265Is it that of the First and purest Ages of the Church before POPERY was brought forth?
A39265Is it the Testimony of all others in the World that profess Christianity?
A39265Is the Controversie yet decided?
A39265Is then the holy Scripture the Word of God or not?
A39265Is there no Dispute in that Church about this Power?
A39265Must 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?
A39265Must we believe her without any more ado?
A39265Nay, what if their Church it self can not tell them this?
A39265Now what more can we desire, than to be made wise unto Salvation?
A39265Or can any one promise me that it ever shall?
A39265Or shall they be allow''d to over rule the Oral and Practical Tradition of the present Church of ROME?
A39265The things which we find not in the Scriptures( saith St. Ambrose) how can we use them?
A39265Was 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?
A39265What course now in this Case can be taken by us?
A39265What is it in any Religion, which can commend it before others to a man''s Choice, but its Truth and Goodness?
A39265What is it then wherein our Faith is defective?
A39265What more can be needful to direct us in the Way to Salvation, than what we may learn from the Scriptare?
A39265What then can this Testimony be?
A39265What then is it they say?
A39265When the PAPISTS are pleas''d to ask us that unanswerable Question, as they account it, Where was your Religion before LUTHER?
A39265Where are we now, after all this, to seek our Infallible Iudg?
A39265Which of these now must I believe and obey?
A39265Who I wonder shall now be thought fit to decide this Dispute?
A39265Who is it then in this Church, to whose Iudgment I must submit?
A39265Why should not that Church have the charity to forbear her Censures, till she have tried the strength of her Arguments?
A39265Why then must we believe that the ROMAN Church hath this Sovereign Authority in Religion?
A39265Why was the Council of Trent, contrary to the Custom of other Councils, so liberal of her Curses, and so sparing of her Reasons?
A39265Will she abide by the Testimony of either Father or Council, if they speak not what she has taught them, or against what she holds?
A39265Would not a Man suspect that they have no good Reasons to shew, who keep them so close?
A39265Yea, What will become of the greatest part of the Christian World, who live and die out of their Communion?
A39265Yet if I should dare to venture thus far, may I now have leave to take my rest here?
A39265doth it not as well deserve the Consideration of the ROMANISTS, what is become of many of theirs?
A597911st, I desire to know, whether he thinks the Doctrine of the Trinity to be defensible or not?
A597913dly, How are Atheists concerned in the Disputes of the Trinity?
A59791And is it not better that such Pamphlets should be in an hundred hands with an Answer, than in five hands without one?
A59791And now can any Man tell, what Opinion this Melancholy Stander- by has of the Doctrines of the Trinity, and Incarnation?
A59791And what is the hurt of this?
A59791And when the Faith is publickly opposed and scorned in Printed Libels, ought it not to be as publickly defended?
A59791And whether Christ and his Apostles intended to teach any more?
A59791But I would desire this Author to tell me, whether we must believe Fundamentals with, or without Reason?
A59791But did his Socinian Friends, who were such busie Factors for the Cause, tell him so?
A59791But if these Dissentions be so great a blemish to the Reformation, whose Fault is it?
A59791But is there no danger that the Church may be flung out of possession, and lose the Faith, if she do n''t defend it?
A59791But it will be said, What shall we do?
A59791But let them be never so good Men, as some of the Heathen Philosophers were, must we therefore tamely suffer them to pervert the Faith?
A59791But pray, why should we not write against the Socinians?
A59791But what is that?
A59791But when this fit time is come( for I know not what he means by a fit place) what shall we do then?
A59791But why is it so unseasonable in this Juncture?
A59791Can we certainly learn from Scripture, Whether Christ be a God Incarnate, or a mere Man?
A59791Did they print them, that no body might read them?
A59791Do we then deny, that there are Three Persons and One God?
A59791Does he think that they are no Christians, and ought not to be concerned for common Christianity?
A59791For must we believe the Words or the Sense of Scripture?
A59791However, were it so; is there no regard to be had to Hereticks themselves?
A59791I would ask any man who talks at this rate about a Latitude of Faith, Whether there be any more than One True Christian Faith?
A59791If ever it will be so, why is it not so now?
A59791If it be not defensible, why does he believe it?
A59791If 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?
A59791If we can not, Why should we believe either?
A59791Is not every Divine Person who is God, a Mind, and an Eternal Mind?
A59791Is 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?
A59791Is not the substantial Word and Wisdom of God a Mind?
A59791Is not this their proper Work and Business?
A59791Is this an Age to resolve our Faith into Church Authority?
A59791Must 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?
A59791Must we renounce Christianity, to keep out Popery?
A59791Must we then turn all Socinians, to preserve the Reformation?
A59791No, The Adversaries to the received Doctrine( Why not to the true Faith?)
A59791No, our business is to prove it, and explain and vindicate it?
A59791Or does he think, that the Defences made by Trinitarians expose the Faith more than the Objections of Socinians?
A59791Or has Christ and his Apostles left it at liberty to believe what we like, and to let the rest alone?
A59791Or how are we concerned to avoid scandalizing Atheists, who believe that there is no God at all?
A59791Or whether they did not intend, That all Christians should be obliged to believe this One Faith?
A59791Or would he himself believe such absurd Doctrines as they represent the Trinity in Unity to be, merely upon Church Authority?
A59791Ought not they to satisfie themselves, that there is no force in the Objections, which are made against the Faith?
A59791Pray what hurt have they done?
A59791Renounce the Faith of the Trinity, for the sake of Peace?
A59791Theirs who dissent from the Truth, or theirs who defend it?
A59791To 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?
A59791Was there ever such a Reason thought of as this?
A59791Well: What shall we do then?
A59791Were they not dispersed in every Corner, and boasted of in every Coffee- house, before any Answer appeared?
A59791What Faith is that which can subsist without a Foundation?
A59791What Faith must we contend for, if not for Fundamentals?
A59791What else can we dispute for, when Foundations are overturned?
A59791What else is worth disputing?
A59791What is the meaning of that Apostolical Precept, To contend earnestly for the Faith?
A59791What purer Reformers were these?
A59791What shall Christians do then, when Atheists, Infidels, and Hereticks, strike at the very Foundations of their Faith?
A59791What shall we have left of Christianity, if we must either cast away, or not defend every thing, which Atheists will mock at?
A59791What?
A59791When Hereticks dispute against the Faith, must we be afraid of disputing for it, for fear of making a Controversie of Fundamentals?
A59791Whether we must take Fundamentals for granted, and receive them with an implicite Faith, or know for what Reason we believe them?
A59791Why does he let St. Austin escape, from whom the Master of the Sentences borrowed most of his Distinctions and Subtilties?
A59791Why does he not accuse the Ancient Fathers and Councils, from whom the Schoolmen learnt these Terms?
A59791Will he then give us leave to write and dispute against such Hereticks?
A59791Will it ever be most Christian and most Wholesome, to dispute for the Faith against Heresie?
A59791Will the World think that we are all of a mind, because there is disputing only on one side?
A59791With respect to the Doctrine of the Trinity and Incarnation?
A59791how long must we be silent?
A59810And 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?
A59810And if the Soul be more perfect in a State of Separation, is not this a more perfect manner of Subsistence?
A59810And is not an infinite and eternal Mind a Person?
A59810And is not the Perfection of Nature, a natural Perfection?
A59810And is not this so?
A59810And what does he mean by the same Person, which the Man himself was, while living?
A59810Are not all these Accounts, much more chargeable with Tritheism or Sabellianism?
A59810Are they not English?
A59810But are not Three infinite intelligent Persons, as much Three absolute, simple Beings and Essences, as Three Minds?
A59810But does the Dean any where deny, That the Man, as consisting of Soul and Body, is a Humane Person?
A59810But does the Dean pretend, That his Explication leaves nothing Mysterious in the Doctrine of the Trinity in Unity?
A59810But does this profound Philosopher indeed think, that the Body either sins or suffers?
A59810But if a Mind were not a Substance, what could it be else?
A59810But is not a Humane Body part of the Person to whom it belongs?
A59810But is not the Perfection of our Graces, the Perfection of Humane Nature?
A59810But suppose Three Persons were Three distinct Substances, inseparably united in One: What then?
A59810But the Soul by its original Designation is related to the Body; What?
A59810But what are Three Relatives?
A59810But what is this Compound which the Soul is essentially related to?
A59810But what is this Homoousion, or Sameness of Nature?
A59810Can there be a Trinity in Unity, unless there be a real and substantial Trinity?
A59810Can they be One before they are Mutually- conscious, even in the order of conceiving it?
A59810Can they be One before they are in one another?
A59810Do they signifie nothing?
A59810Does he then mean, that it is essential to the Soul to live in an earthly Body?
A59810Does the Father will any thing?
A59810For does the Man and his Person die?
A59810For 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?
A59810How is that?
A59810Is it the same thing to be a part of the whole, and to be an Ingredient in a Compound?
A59810Is the Father his Paternity, the Son his Filiation, and the Holy Ghost his Procession?
A59810Is the Soul and Body mixed and blended together to make a Man?
A59810Is there no difference between being a reasonable Creature, and being Peter or Iohn?
A59810Is this Sameness of Nature then one single or singular Nature, which has but one single Subsistence?
A59810Nothing, which we can not comprehend?
A59810Now I desire to know by what Name you would call such a living Image?
A59810Or ca n''t he understand them?
A59810Or if he will call this a Difference, as if to differ in number and in Substance or Nature were the same thing?
A59810Or is there any other mutual In- being of Minds, but Mutual- consciousness?
A59810Pray what hurt have these seemingly innocent Words done?
A59810Since then here is no Innovation made in the Faith, nor any alteration of the least term in it, what is the Fault?
A59810That as a natural Self- consciousness makes One natural Person, so natural Mutual- consciousness should make a naral Trinity in Unity?
A59810That 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?
A59810That it is the Person that acts is certain; but where did he learn, That Personality is the Principle of all Action?
A59810That they must be One, before they can know themselves to be One?
A59810That, as the Ancients used to speak, this is no longer a wonderful distinction, and a wonderful Union?
A59810To be One?
A59810To be so?
A59810Well, 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?
A59810What does he mean by the Soul''s being an Ingredient in a Compound?
A59810What does he mean by this?
A59810What is that to the purpose?
A59810What is the Divine Essence and Substance, but an infinite and eternal Mind?
A59810What then?
A59810What will he make of God at last, when the Divine Essence is an Attribute, and a Divine Person a meer Mode?
A59810Whether Iohn would not as much feel himself to be Iohn, and Peter to be Peter as ever they did?
A59810Whether Three Persons who feel themselves to be themselves, and not to be each other, are not Three really distinct Persons?
A59810Why so?
A59810Will 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?
A59810Will not the Notion of Person it self be much more unexceptionable, when it shall be supposed to have its own individual Nature?
A59810Will the Animadverter then venture to attribute any Personality to the Body, as he must do, if he makes it part of the Personality?
A59810a Distinction without Separation, and an Unity without Singularity, and without Confusion?
A59810and where is this Man that the Soul is essentially related to?
A59810are not the Sun, its Light and Splendor, as much Three, but not so much One, as Three Conscious Minds?
A59810not the Body I hope, for the Body is no more the Compound, than the Soul: Is it then the Man?
A59810or who calls this the incompleat and the compleat State of the Soul?
A59810or, when united to a Body, affirm, that the Soul is the whole Person?
A59810so that it can not live without it, and never should live without it?
A59810the 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?
A59811And are they not already concluded by the Articles, Liturgy, Homilies,& c. which he says our Adversaries can not alter?
A59811And did the Dean charge him with any thing more?
A59811And has not that School Divinity enough in it?
A59811And how comes he to know his thoughts?
A59811And 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?
A59811And 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?
A59811And whether that were a good reason not to dispute for the Being of a God, because Atheists denied it?
A59811And who desires him to do more?
A59811Are they not his Friends who move these Ancient Boundaries of Peace?
A59811Basil did dye after one Council only had sat, did not the rest there named live and write after more Councils than one had sat?
A59811But after all, How would this put an End to these Controversies?
A59811But ca n''t he believe what Reason and Divine Revelation Di ● tate?
A59811But can he never be sure of this in any Texts that have been Controverted?
A59811But does a God Incarnate signify any more, but that he who is Incarnate is God?
A59811But 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?
A59811But have we not whole Systems of Opinions now a- days made up into Confessions of Faith?
A59811But if this were all, Do our Socinians observe this?
A59811But is there not the same reason of it, as of those things that are?
A59811But let us see how he makes it good, What then, do you think of a t ● cit connivance at their stay at home?
A59811But must nothing be done, from whence bad men may take occasion to be Hypocrites?
A59811But then I pray, what is the Latitude in an Vnit, considered as an Unit?
A59811But then, What do you think of a tacit Connivance quietly to come to our Congregations?
A59811But to what purpose are these Citations?
A59811But what has he to answer this Authority?
A59811But what is all this to the Publick Constitutions of a Church, and the Laws of Communion?
A59811But what is this to our purpose?
A59811But what of all this?
A59811Can any thinking man say so?
A59811Did he do that, only that he might have liberty to Ridicule and Expose it?
A59811Doth she indeed hand them to us merely as her own Determinations?
A59811For 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?
A59811For in this present Controversy what had he to do with their other Errors?
A59811He could assign many words pitch''d upon from time to time, to guard the Faith and prick the fingers of Hereticks,& c. What then?
A59811However, he is so great a Lover of Peace( why then does he quarrel so much with the Orthodox Writers, and the Church of England?)
A59811I 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?
A59811If Dr. Sherlock does not argue well, must no body therefore write, that can argue better?
A59811If his Hypothesis be unreasonable, is it therefore unreasonable to write in Defence of the Doctrine of the Trinity?
A59811If our Author answers this too with a Why not?
A59811Is 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?
A59811Is it to no purpose to require men to profess their minds sincerely, because we can not always be sure whether they do or no?
A59811Is not this agreeable to the common form of speech?
A59811Nay, and is not what follows, Censuring our Litany and the Compilers of it?
A59811No doubt but he has: What then?
A59811Now what is this to the design of his Book, to persuade men not to Write in Defence of the Doctrine of the Trinity?
A59811Now who can tell what he means by merely her Determinations?
A59811Or do they contradict them?
A59811Or is the Doctrine it self unreasonable?
A59811Pray what''s the matter now?
A59811Pray who are they that will not l ● t it rest?
A59811They 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?
A59811This he very roundly answers, and utterly confutes, with a short Why not?
A59811Was 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?
A59811Why does not he first persuade them to comply thus far, before he desires us not to defend the Church''s Doctrine?
A59811Why 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?
A59811Why then, Must they not be obeyed?
A59811Will his Socinian Friends submit to it?
A59811Will the Socinians be generally Converted any more than they are by Learned mens Writings now?
A59811Will they admit Socinian Opinions?
A59811Will they leave off making Proselytes to their Heretical Opinions?
A59811Will they then not say a word against the Doctrine of the Trinity, nor endeavour to spread their Errors any farther?
A59811Will this justify the writing of that Piece?
A59811and the fittest persons a Committee chosen by that great and reverend Assembly?
A59811must we all pass contentedly for Socinians in the eye of the world, and be afraid to say we are none?
A59811or if they do, will he give us leave to Oppose them and Defend the Truth?
A5989427, 28,& c. But will God indeed dwell on the earth?
A59894And are not his Commands the same to all Men?
A59894And 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?
A59894And 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?
A59894And is not that a pretty kind of publick Worship, which no body is bound to attend to, or joyn in?
A59894And what shall those do who have no Books and can not read?
A59894And where do we find these several Commands proportioned to Mens several Abilities?
A59894And who ever dreamt, that Men are not bound to give a reason of their non- assent, and of their profession of non- assent?
A59894And why then must this be charged upon our Articles?
A59894Behold the Heaven, and Heaven of Heavens can not contain thee, how much less this house that I have builded?
A59894But Cranmer was of this mind, by whom the Articles were devised; But how does that appear?
A59894But all Abilities are not the same, how then can God''s Commands be so to all?
A59894But did not I give him my reasons, why these words could not be understood literally of the natural Body and Blood of Christ?
A59894But does this prove that they did not make this Recognition?
A59894But how is this the Protestant Case?
A59894But suppose this was not the Doctrine in King Edward''s days, what becomes then of his consequence?
A59894But to what original then shall we attribute this custom of praying for the Dead?
A59894But what is the matter with the Test?
A59894But what is there besides Substance and Efficacy belonging to our Saviour''s Body and Blood?
A59894But why does it not prove this?
A59894Can it be a fault then to believe as Christ has taught, and to worship God as he has prescribed?
A59894Do his Commands differ, as Mens Abilities do?
A59894Do the communications of Grace and Spiritual life flow from the Body, or from the Spirit of Christ?
A59894For if the Trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the Battel?
A59894For 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?
A59894For, secondly, I would ask our Author, whether there be any Offices of Religion, which People are bound to attend to, and to joyn in?
A59894How could the Gospel have been at first planted in the World upon these Principles?
A59894How does a negative Article and non- assent come to be the same thing?
A59894How 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?
A59894How many several Gospels, and several Laws, then must we have?
A59894How so?
A59894How so?
A59894If it be not, what need is there of Christ''s bodily presence in the Sacrament?
A59894Is a Mediator of Intercession a Mediator?
A59894Is it possible that the true Catholick Faith and Worship should ever be a Crime?
A59894Is it the contact of his Body, that makes our bodies immortal, or the inhabitation of his Spirit in us?
A59894Is the Eucharist then nothing but Jesus Christ?
A59894Is the dispute about the terms wherein the Article is conceived, whether they be Negative or Affirmative?
A59894Is this Argument only against inspired Tongues, or against the use of all unknown Tongues, among Persons who do not understand them?
A59894Is this spoken only of Prophets too?
A59894Is this the Doctrine of any of their Schoolmen, Canonists, or Divines?
A59894Nay, will this Author venture to say, that the Eucharist is nothing but Jesus Christ himself?
A59894Now I would desire to know, whether these are the natural effects of a corporal eating Christ''s natural Body?
A59894Now if this be so, what need all this Dispute about Service in an unknown Tongue?
A59894Now 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?
A59894Or would they still say, that there is an Intercessor of Redemption, and Intercessors of Intercession, and yet that there is but one Intercessor?
A59894Our general Councils tell Protestants we pay no other honour to any creature, than what?
A59894So 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?
A59894Suppose this, the Question still is, Whether this Unity of the Church was a Christian Communion?
A59894The Antinomians plead the Doctrine of the eleventh Article, as the Parent of their irreligion, and so they do the Scriptures: And what then?
A59894The cup of Blessing which we bless, is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ?
A59894The next charge is, that we condemn their Doctrines and their Rights; but do we condemn any thing which ought not to be condemned?
A59894To return then a more direct Answer to our Author''s question, what there is besides Substance and Efficacy belonging to our Saviour''s Body?
A59894Was all this matter of force too, and fear of the Praemunire, which was pardoned in Parliament, Anno 1531. three years before?
A59894What glorious and triumphant Nonsence is here?
A59894What is that Efficacy then, which he attributes to Christ''s natural Body, and supposes to be inherent in it?
A59894What then is the Fault of the Church of England?
A59894What then?
A59894Who knows not this?)
A59894Why can not she be a mystical Member of Christ in Catholick Unity, or a charitable part of the Catholick Church?
A59894Why may we not pray in the Vulgar Tongue as well as interpret Prayers in a Vulgar Tongue?
A59894Will he hence infer, that the Scriptures countenance Antinomianism, because they alledge Scripture for it?
A59894and if he were, what is that to us, when there is no such thing in our Articles?
A59894and what should detain him in Purgatory, who has an immediate right to Heaven?
A59894and will a corporal eating of his Body communicate it to us?
A59894believe that she has not erred, because of the Promise of Infalibility, or disbelieve the Promise because she has erred?
A59894but however, what is all this to a Popish Purgatory?
A59894do the People understand Latin Prayers, or do they not?
A59894does the Council of Trent say so?
A59894for a true Apostolick Faith and Worship does certainly make us the Mystical Members of Christs Body, or else I desire to know what does?
A59894if it does not, how does he prove, that all Christians are bound to receive the Eucharist?
A59894if we do it is indeed a fault; but if we do n''t, why are we blamed for it?
A59894or 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?
A59894than such an external respect as is due to the Bible?
A59894that such a Doctrine is not taught in Scripture?
A59894what need of distinguishing between extempore Prayers, and setled Forms of Divine Offices?
A59894will he allow the Council of Trent to be expounded according to the Private opinions of every Bishop, that was in it?
A599042dly, Can the submission of the King give a legal Right to the Crown, without the submission of the People?
A599044ly, 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?
A59904And how does God settle the Crown on any Family by such Laws?
A59904And what does he prove from this?
A59904Are not Subjects bound to obey such Kings, as have God''s Authority?
A59904But are there not several Rules about Right and Wrong, which extend to all Persons and Cases?
A59904But for answer to this, in the first place I desire to know, what submission of the King it is, that gives a legal Right?
A59904But 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?
A59904But pray, what Sense does this make of what the Prophet Daniel says, That God changeth times and seasons, removeth Kings, and setteth up Kings?
A59904But what would our Author prove from this?
A59904But where do I say, that possession of Sovereign Power contrary to Law is Gods Authority?
A59904But, says our Author, does not the nature of the thing sufficiently distinguish it?
A59904By what wickedness?
A59904Did I ever deny that it was lawful to submit to Athaliah, while she was possessed of the Throne, and Ioash, the true Heir, concealed?
A59904Do 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?
A59904Does Providence and Government signifie only his Permission?
A59904Does giving suppose an antecedent right in him to whom it is given?
A59904Does giving to whomsoever he will, signifie, giving it only to those to whom the Law gives it?
A59904Does he find in Scripture, that the Jews are condemned for submitting all this while to Athaliah?
A59904Does 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?
A59904For indeed will any Man say, that God governs such a Kingdom, as is not governed by his Authority, or Minister?
A59904For let me ask him, does God make Kings in England, or not?
A59904For what are these Laws, which, he says, are made by the Divine Authority, and are our Rule?
A59904For who that could possibly avoid it,( that is, where strict Duty does not oblige, nor irresistible Force constrain) would submit to such Men?
A59904Grant all this, and what then?
A59904He proceeds: But howev ● r, who Anointed?
A59904He 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?
A59904He was anointed indeed, but is anointing actual possession?
A59904His Dominion and Government: What is the relation of a Subject to a King?
A59904How did God himself require this at their hands?
A59904How 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?
A59904I 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?
A59904If it will, how does the Royal Family come to lose their right by an usurped possession of their Throne?
A59904If they be, I ask, Whether they do not oppose these Humane Laws to the Authority of God in making Kings by his Providence?
A59904Is swearing Allegiance a submission and acknowledgment?
A59904Is there any Magistracy without a Magistrate?
A59904Must they ask leave of their Prince, whether they shall continue a Nation, when he is gone?
A59904Now I would ask our Author, Whether the Laws of England, which entail the Crown, are not Humane Laws?
A59904One who is possessed of the Throne without a legal Right?
A59904Or how can the Power be resisted, unless the Party be resisted in whom it is seated?
A59904Or what other submission they made, but a bare yielding to Force and Power?
A59904Or 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?
A59904That in every Hereditary Kingdom the Legal Heir has a Legal right to the Crown, as well as in Iudah?
A59904To 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?
A59904To this he answers, But is the Doctor sure, that Joash was actually possessed of the Throne?
A59904To this he answers: Was not Athaliah in possession of the Throne, when Jehoiada anointed Joash?
A59904To this our Author answers, Where is this Law of God, that commands us to obey Vsurpers?
A59904Was it only by the Principles of Reason and Natural Justice, in setting the right Heir upon the Throne?
A59904Were there no Learned Men in it?
A59904What Authority is that, which must be obeyed and reverenced?
A59904What is God''s Authority, which we must obey?
A59904What 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?
A59904What then does he think of Mr. Calvin and Grotius, who have both passed for learned Men?
A59904What thinks he of Bishop Overal''s Convocation?
A59904Where is it ever affirmed in Scripture in express Terms, or deduced from thence by evident Consequence?
A59904Whether they shall submit to a new Prince, when he can protect them no longer?
A59904Will our Author condemn them for this submission?
A59904Yes, 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?
A59904and did I ever deny it?
A59904and do they not by such a submission, according to the Laws of Nations, become the Subjects of the Conquerour, till they are retaken?
A59904and how long must he reign afterwards with their consent, before he comes to be thoroughly setled as a lawful King?
A59904and suppose he can prove it; what then?
A59904and who Proclaimed him?
A59904and who put him in Possession?
A59904and, When it becomes a Duty to do it?
A59904can not God make a King, without giving him Authority to do all that he has power to do?
A59904did 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?
A59904do they owe him Allegiance, when he has lost his Dominion?
A59904for 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?
A59904for who doubts of this?
A59904if he does( which I hope our Author will grant, or he renounces the jure divino with a witness) how does he make Kings?
A59904not to prejudice wise and good Men against all Compliances?
A59904or do Subjects continue Subjects, when he ceases to be King?
A59904or does the Scripture, or Convocation do it?
A59904or how long must the usurper reign before the people must consent to it?
A59904or if the lawful King must die, or resign his Crown to settle the usurper, what need of so long a prescription?
A59904that is, can one Relative subsist by its self, without its Correlate?
A59904there is something of likeness between them, and what then?
A59904therefore 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?
A59784And do they not worship them?
A59784And do we not then honour that Being most, to whom we pray oftenest?
A59784And does not the Object terminate the Worship?
A59784And how absurd is it to Represent him by an Image, when they know they can make no Image like him?
A59784And how can the sight of a Picture raise our hearts to the Love of Christ?
A59784And how does this contradict what I before asserted?
A59784And what is that Worship which is due to them as separated from the Prototype?
A59784And who are my Brethren?
A59784And yet can no Man say unto him, Sir, why do you so?
A59784Are not they the immediate and proper Objects of that Worship, which is given to them?
A59784As if he were afraid to own, what the Faith of the Church is in this point?
A59784But I beseech you, the memory of what does a Picture preserve?
A59784But can men read their Prayers, as well as learn the Articles of their Creed, in a Picture too?
A59784But did the Angel use it as a Prayer to the Virgin Mary?
A59784But how unreasonable is this, when they know he is invisible, and would not be a God if he could be seen?
A59784But is this the Work of the Carver, or the Painter, to make a God?
A59784But it is worth enquiring how they do it; Do they intend the Worship they give to the Image for Christ?
A59784But then what becomes of that Religious Worship which is given to the Virgin Mary, and Saints, in relation to God?
A59784But what does he mean by this?
A59784But what does he think of abstaining from Fornication, and from Meats offered to Idols, which are contained in the same Decree?
A59784But wherein does the Misrepresentation consist?
A59784But will our Protester say, that the Divine Law does forbid all swearing?
A59784Can the Pencil, or the Knife, put Divinity into a Picture or Image?
A59784Did Protestants separate from Papists, because they believed, that Papists thought Idolatry lawful?
A59784Did the Angel tell them this too, as well as that she is Blessed among Women?
A59784Do they abhor the Doctrines of Transubstantiation, Penances, Indulgences, Purgatory?
A59784Do they abhor the Worship of Saints and Images, and the Host?
A59784Do they not set up Images in Churches?
A59784Does not this Worship, which is given to them, terminate in them, and not in God?
A59784Does one exalt you more above the condition of creatures than the other?
A59784For 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?
A59784For do they not say a great many Prayers, immediately directed to the Virgin Mary, and not at all directed to God?
A59784For is not Prayer an act of Honour and Worship?
A59784For what considering man can think it reasonable to worship a visible Image instead of an invisible God?
A59784For what had the Author of the Misrepresentation to do with these Rules?
A59784For what is it they intend by worshipping Images?
A59784Hath it not been told you from the beginning?
A59784Have all Mothers then such a natural Authority over their Sons, even when they are Soveraign Princes?
A59784Have they a mind to see the God they Worship?
A59784Have they not a great number of Saints, whom they worship with Divine Honours?
A59784Have ye not heard?
A59784Have ye not known?
A59784Have ye not understood from the Foundations of the Earth?
A59784How incongruous and absurd is it, to make a Picture or Image of that God who is invisible?
A59784How long halt ye between Two Opinions?
A59784If he undertake to expound the Catholick Faith, why does he not do it?
A59784If not, why is their abhorring Idolatry, while they do the same things, that ever they did, a sufficient reason for a re- union?
A59784In what sense then, you''l say, does the Scripture call Images Gods?
A59784Is God the Object of that Worship, which they give to the Saints and Blessed Virgin?
A59784Is it only because she is a Mother?
A59784Is 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?
A59784It 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?
A59784May we not beg our Friends on Earth, to relieve our wants and necessities, as well as to pray for us?
A59784Now I only ask, whether Prayer be not an Act of Religion, and a worship due to God?
A59784Now what do all these Arguments signify against making a God?
A59784Only I would gladly know of this Author, what he takes the judgment of the Church of England to be about the worship of Images?
A59784Or is this the Ave Maria now in use in the Church of Rome?
A59784Or what likeness will ye compare to him?
A59784She is the happiest Mother among Women, but does this advance her above Angels and Arch- Angels?
A59784That it is an infinite reproach to the Divine Nature and Perfections, to be represented by an Image: To whom will ye liken God?
A59784The 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?
A59784The Papist for one prayer he says to God, says ten to the Virgin Mary: Is this mis- represented?
A59784The third Enquiry was, Whether the Authority of the Church be not as sacred in decrees of Manners, as in Articles of Faith?
A59784Thus to proceed, When C worships A as B''s Proxy, in his name and stead, does he worship A or B?
A59784To whom then will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare to Him?
A59784Was it delivering a Message, or an act of Devotion?
A59784Well, suppose this, how does this mend the matter?
A59784What Authority general Councils have in decretis morum, or such matters as concern Discipline and Government?
A59784What Relation is there between them?
A59784What Worship is due to carved and polished Brass and Stone?
A59784What change is there now in Papists, which was not before, that should now invite us to embrace their Communion?
A59784What has the Mother of his Flesh to do, to intermeddle in the affairs of his Spiritual Kingdom, which she is not capable of managing?
A59784What likeness?
A59784When 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?
A59784When they pray to the Virgin Mary to pray to them, is this Prayer princ ● pally directed to God Almighty?
A59784Whence then do they learn it?
A59784Whether it be Idolatry or not?
A59784Whether nothing be an Article of Faith, but what is decreed with an Anathema?
A59784Whether the deposing Decree be a doctrinal Point, or only matter of Discipline and Government?
A59784Why does he speak so cautiously?
A59784Why may we not, if we please, follow Bellarmin, or Suarez, or Vasquez, or Cajetan, as well as Condom?
A59784but is this to worship the Image?
A59784for if they can make a God, what matter is it who their God be like, so he be a God?
A59784if it be not, why do they pray to God?
A59784if not, what change is there in them, that should invite us now to a reconciliation?
A59784is not that a necessary Doctrine, and virtually contained in that Decree?
A59784that any Protestant People are so silly as to think that Papists believe as bad of their own Religion, as they believe of it?
A59784that is, Do they intend to worship Christ in that Worship they give to his Image?
A59784when 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?
A59903And does that make the Church of Rome, the Head of the Church?
A59903And here he triumphs mightily; Is there such opposition then between Notes and Promises?
A59903And how silly is it to think, that those must necessarily understand an Epistle best, to whom it was written?
A59903And if the Ear shall say, because I am not the Eye, I am not of the Body, is it therefore not of the Body?
A59903And if we can see, which is the Church, what need we guess at it by Marks and Signs?
A59903And is it absurd to suppose that to be, which at the same time we confess to be?
A59903And is not such a National Union of Churches a National Church?
A59903And what follows from hence?
A59903And what if they did believe so, are not others as much bound as they?
A59903And what now is the hurt of this?
A59903And what then?
A59903And what thinks he of the misfortunes of some great Princes, who have been as zealous for the Church?
A59903And yet how many things are there, whose Existence and Essence are known without Notes?
A59903Antiquity is not Novelty, but a pretence to Antiquity may: for how old is the Council of Trent?
A59903But Protestants think the first Question ought to be, What a true Church is?
A59903But are not all the Churches the Universal Church?
A59903But does the Discourser do this?
A59903But have we grounds enough for such a Breach, as we have made?
A59903But he says there are other Notes, which lead to the Discovery of a good Title; what then?
A59903But how do all Christians come to be one Body in Christ?
A59903But how shall I know half this Essence, true Faith?
A59903But pray who told him, that Protestants do not place the Unity of the Church in Unity, but in Separation?
A59903But pray, what does I signifie, when a Bishop, or Priest, or the Pope himself repeats the Creed?
A59903But suppose Christians have not this mutual care one of another, do they cease to be Members of the same Body?
A59903But then the difficulty will be, how all these Churches, which are united with themselves, but separated from one another, make one Catholick Church?
A59903But what did his former state do?
A59903But what do the Heathens see?
A59903But what is all this to the purpose?
A59903But what is this to the Discourser, who was not concerned to state this Point?
A59903But what then?
A59903But who are these Miscreants, that dare do such a Thing?
A59903But why not upon Hereticks as well as Infidels?
A59903But will he call this Answering?
A59903But would this make a Pagan believe the Scripture?
A59903Can not there be a National Church without Christ''s begging leave of Potentates to plant his Gospel among them?
A59903Did King Iames the First own the Pope''s Supremacy?
A59903Do they never talk of Heresy and Schism?
A59903Do they then believe the Holy Catholick Church?
A59903Does Church- History, or Oecumenical Councils, all Convocations and Synods declare, That the Scriptures are not intelligible in these matters?
A59903Does this relate to the Efficacy of Doctrine, or to the Zeal of the Preacher?
A59903For how can I find out any thing, without knowing in some measure what it is I find?
A59903For will any learned Romanist deny, that there are several particular true Churches?
A59903For, says he, the Question is which is the true Church?
A59903He adds, It is not without something of God, that She keeps the name still: But how does She keep it?
A59903He 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?
A59903He asks, whether the Church be not visible?
A59903How came they then to determine them for Articles of Faith, by their own Authority, or by the Authority of Scripture?
A59903How much is one grain of common Sense, better than all these Philosophical Subtilties?
A59903How so, good Sir?
A59903How then could the Churches of Ierusalem, of Antioch, of Corinth, of Ephesus, of Rome, be one Church?
A59903How unworthy is it to opine the contrary?
A59903I see a Company of Men, who call themselves a Church, and this is all, that I can see, and is this seeing a Church?
A59903If by the Scriptures, how we shall know them without the Church?
A59903If the Foot shall say, because I am not the Hand, I am not of the Body, is it therefore not of the Body?
A59903If they be, why can not an honest and diligent Reader understand that which is intelligible?
A59903Is Multitude and Division the same thing?
A59903Is it visible at Sea which is the Royal Navy, when the Enemy puts up the English Colours?
A59903Is not the Catholick Church visible?
A59903Nay say I, not among Counterfeits; Is it visible at Sea, which is the Royal Navy, when the Enemy puts up the English Colours?
A59903Now these points are either intelligibly taught in the Scripture, or they are not; if not, how does he know they are in the Scripture?
A59903Now what has our Answerer to say to this, besides his Criticism of all, and some one?
A59903Or is Unity inconsistent with Multitude?
A59903Or say, that honest and diligent Readers can not understand them without the Authority of the Church?
A59903Or take your words for such Notes of a Church, as you pretended to produce out of Scripture?
A59903Or that a private honest diligent Reader can not understand them?
A59903Or, can we know which Church is the Pillar of Truth, before we know what Truth is?
A59903Or, is it the thing which is above our Comprehension?
A59903Or, will any Protestant deny, that all true Churches are one Catholick Church, which we profess in our Creed?
A59903Suppose this, what is this to knowing the Scripture by the Church, and the Church by the Scripture?
A59903That the Faith and Communion of the Church was one, before it was divided: What then?
A59903That they are the only true Church, because they are more zealous in propagating Christianity?
A59903That which maintains its Unity against Heresy and Schism, or that which is most favourable to the Separation?
A59903This I believe every Body will grant him, that the Church is not a Mathematical Body; but what hurt is there in Mathematical Unity?
A59903To what purpose then were they writ?
A59903Truly I can not guess, he says, the Dissenter scarce owns any such Distinctions, or very rarely what?
A59903Was ever such Stuff put together?
A59903Was he not then in favour with God too?
A59903We 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?
A59903We desire Unity, they shew us Universality: As if there could not be Unity in Universality?
A59903Well, but how does he prove, that the true Church may be known before we know the true Faith?
A59903Well, but what then?
A59903What is it then that unites any Church to Christ but the true Faith and Worship of Christ?
A59903What other Note is there of a good Estate, but a good Title?
A59903What then do you say?
A59903What then do you say?
A59903What then is the Universal Church but All?
A59903What think you, in the sense given?
A59903What, are not the words perspicuous and intelligible?
A59903Where has the Apostle any such Phrase?
A59903Who are these They?
A59903Who desires any Note to know the Sun by?
A59903Who says, that the Church is visible, and may be known without disputable Notes?
A59903Why may not the Church of England upon this Principle call her self the Catholick Church?
A59903Why should the three parts be the Schismaticks, and not the fourth?
A59903Why so, I pray?
A59903Why so?
A59903Why, is it impossible that all Churches should be united in one Communion?
A59903Yes, he says, Universal enough, I confess, but where is the Unity?
A59903and then resolve the authority of his wife into the authority of the Scripture?
A59903but would any man talk at this rate, who remembers, that Christ was crucified, and his Church persecuted for three hundred years?
A59903can not we distinguish between the Christian Church, and a Turkish Mosque, and a Iewish Synagogue?)
A59903can not we without all this adoe distinguish a Christian from a Turk, or a Iew, or a Pagan?
A59903does St. Paul, who reproves these Corinthians for their Schisms, shut them out of the Church for them too?
A59903does he deny them to belong to the Church, when he directs his Epistle to the Church of God at Corinth?
A59903for 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?
A59903how then does her Authority keep them up?
A59903nor own that there are any Heresies and Schisms?
A59903or, how can I know what the Essence of any thing is by such Notes as are not essential?
A59903or, which of these Churches, which are thus united with themselves( which it seems is Catholick Unity) is the One Church?
A59903then where is your Communion with Luther''s or Calvin''s Disciples?
A59903to know what Light, or Taste, or Sounds, Pain, or Pleasure is?
A59903why then does he call them Heathens?
A59850And can any thing in the World deserve more of our care and industry, than to obtain eternal Happiness, and to avoid eternal Misery?
A59850And 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?
A59850And 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?
A59850And what would that Religious Emperour have thought, to have seen Christians in publick Assemblies pray sitting?
A59850Are our Prayers concealed from us in an unknown Tongue?
A59850Are there not a great many Religious Men, who are no Hypocrites?
A59850But I would desire these Men to tell me what Point of Popery is still retained in the Doctrine, Government, or Discipline of our Church?
A59850But besides these Schisms in the Church,( which S. Paul makes a great sign of carnality; For are ye not carnal?
A59850But how unpardonable is it, for a Man to be false to his Oaths and Covenants?
A59850But is there any Remains of Popish Worship in our Liturgy?
A59850But is there indeed no difference between ▪ worshipping God in a sober and pious form of words, and worshipping a Graven Image?
A59850But the Common- Prayer Book is Popish: I beseech you wherein; as it is a Form of Prayer?
A59850But the most material Inquiry here is, What is a Publick Assembly for Religious Worship?
A59850Can any thing be more reasonable, than that God should be worshiped and adored by those Creatures, whom his own Hands have made and fashioned?
A59850Can not they be sincerely Religious, though Hypocrites be not?
A59850Can not you serve God, at least as well at Church as you do at Home?
A59850Consider then, what the proper work of a Reformer must be?
A59850Did 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?
A59850Do we not understand what we say, what Petitions we put up to God?
A59850Do you find the Sacrifice of the Mass, or any Reliques of it in our Liturgy?
A59850Does a Prince like a long extemporary Harangue, when his Subjects come to beg a Boone of him, or a short and well composed Petition?
A59850Does the Apostle say, that there is any greater degree of worthiness required to receive the Lords Supper, than there is to pray to God?
A59850First; How few are those who do examine the Reasons of their Separation?
A59850First; Whether he do indeed separate from the Communion of our Parish Churches upon true Principles of Conscience?
A59850For 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?
A59850For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?
A59850How frequent are the Exhortations to Christian Love and Unity?
A59850How long shall this be in the Heart of the Prophets that prophesy Lies?
A59850How long time will they take to teach a Countryman, who is not Book- learn''d, what a Symbolical Ceremony is?
A59850How many Children have never been taught any other Catechism, than some flattering Complements, modish Oaths, and obscene talk?
A59850How many have been instructed in prophane and impious Jests, and all the topicks of irreligious Wit?
A59850How often do many men vary in their opinions of Preachers, and change their Churches, as their fancy changes?
A59850Is it not a fit season for the applications of the Physician, when the Patient is dangerously sick of a mortal distemper?
A59850Is 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?
A59850Is 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?
A59850No difference between signing Children with the sign of the Cross, and dedicating them to an Idol, or false God?
A59850No difference between wearing a Surplice, and falling down to a Stock or Stone?
A59850Now what use could there be for publick Ministers, unless publick Worship were a great and necessary Duty?
A59850Now, how few are there of our Separatists, who understand any thing of this talk?
A59850Or what shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul?
A59850Secondly; Another Question I would propose to these Men, is, Whether they ever seriously consider the hainous nature of Schism?
A59850So well might our Saviour ask that Question, What shall it profit a Man to gain the whole World, and to lose his own Soul?
A59850Thus God argues, A Son honoureth his Father, and a Servant his Master: If then I be a Father, where is my Honour?
A59850Very right; but not to dispute the particular meaning of that place, is not this true also of him, that hears or prayes unworthily?
A59850Wast thou ever Baptized?
A59850What 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?
A59850When you come to appear before me; Who hath required this at your hands, to tread my Courts?
A59850Whether they Pollute the Communicants, and make Communion unlawful?
A59850Whether they be only active or passive in it?
A59850Will 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?
A59850a Covenant to which I owe all my hopes of Happiness, all the Good I now enjoy, and all that I expect?
A59850and art not thou afraid to deal falsely and treacherously with thy God?
A59850and how do they know that they have any reason themselves for what they do?
A59850and if I be a Master, where is my Fear?
A59850are there any Prayers to Saints or Angels, or the Virgin Mary?
A59850for whereas there is among you Envying, and Strife, and Divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as Men?
A59850for whereas there is among you envyings, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as Men?
A59850or to understand how our Ceremonies are transformed into Sacraments?
A59850or whether the Fault be theirs who enjoyn it?
A59850or, whether the Parents, who dislike such a Ceremony, sin in submitting their Children to it, in Obedience to their Superiors?
A59850the Bread which we break, is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ?
A59850to pull up Root and Branch; to pull up the Wheat with the Tares?
A59850whether the Child, who is signed with the sign of the Cross at Baptism, be ever the worse for it?
A59850who can dwell with everlasting Burnings?
A5979321, 22, 23 v. Art thou called, being a servant?
A59793And allow that saying of David to be Scripture still, Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord''s Anointed, and be guiltless?
A59793And as for the new Covenant, where does that grant any new franchises and liberties to subjects?
A59793And how could so innocent a person die, but by the hands of unjust and Tyrannical powers?
A59793And the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?
A59793And what follows from hence?
A59793And who were these powers St. Peter resisted?
A59793But does not the Apostle expresly tell them, Ye are bought with a price, be not ye the servants of men?
A59793But how should these subordinate Governours come by this power to resist their Prince?
A59793But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
A59793But 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?
A59793But was the Doctrine of resistance more scandalous ▪ than the Doctrine of the Cross?
A59793But what follows from hence?
A59793But what is it they would prove from these words?
A59793But what is this now to us?
A59793But what now is all this to subjection to Soveraign Princes?
A59793But would it not also have made more converts?
A59793But you will say, What is this to such an absolute subjection to Princes as includes Non- resistance in it?
A59793By him?
A59793By what Law then?
A59793Can there be no wise reason given, why God may advance a bad man to be a Prince?
A59793Did his doing well, make it ill for us to do as he did?
A59793Did they think this so scandalous a Doctrine, that they were afraid or ashamed to publish it to the world?
A59793Does he set any narrower bounds or limits, than what the Heathen Princes challenged?
A59793Does the Apostle exhort the Christians too to throw off the civil powers?
A59793For indeed, can any thing be plainer than our Saviour''s answer?
A59793For indeed, how can people, who have no power of Government themselves, give that power, which they have not?
A59793For is the power of victorious Rebels and Usurpers from God?
A59793For what authoritie has a wicked and persecuting Law?
A59793For what does the discontent of the greatest Ministers signifie, who can raise no forces to oppose their Prince?
A59793For what glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye take it patiently?
A59793For when they had chose a King, did God cease to be the King of Israel?
A59793How does it follow, that because Princes are chose by the people, therefore they derive their power from them, and are accountable to them?
A59793How now does David behave himself in this extremity?
A59793How then can you prove from the duty of praying for Kings, that it is in no case lawful to resist them?
A59793My other question is this, Whether a Prince have any more authority to make wicked and persecuting Laws, than to persecute without Law?
A59793Now how does the death of Christ, by expiating our sins, deliver us from subjection to our civil Governours?
A59793Now what is it, that makes the person of a King more inviolable and unaccountable than other men?
A59793Now why should he entertain these men, but to defend himself against the forces of Saul?
A59793Or that Christ, when he made us free, did deliver us from the subjection of men?
A59793Shall he who was so famous for miracles, who gave eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame?
A59793Tell us therefore, what thinkest thou?
A59793The Apostle tells us, that the King is supreme; but over whom is he supreme?
A59793The Case of mixt Communion: Whether it be Lawful to Separate from a Church upon the account of promiscuous Congregations and mixt Communions?
A59793Therefore?
A59793This example Iezebel threatned Iehu with: Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
A59793What can be said more expresly against resistance than this?
A59793What course does he take to secure himself from Saul?
A59793What 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?
A59793Whence then does an illegal act or Judgement derive its authoritie and obligation?
A59793Where the word of a King is, there is power; and who may say unto him, What dost thou?
A59793Whether God can not by a great many unknown ways, determine the choice of the people, to that Person, whom he has before chosen himself?
A59793Whether God does nothing, but what he does by an immediate power?
A59793Whether 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?
A59793Whether the Laws of God and Nature be not as sacred and inviolable as the Laws of our Country?
A59793Which is the greatest and most merciless Tyrant?
A59793Who are most likely to abuse their power?
A59793Why he was born of mean and obscure parents, and chose a poor and industrious life, and an accursed and infamous death?
A59793Will you lift up your hand against God?
A59793Would this have offended Princes, and make them more implacable enemies to Christianitie?
A59793a Covetous and Rapacious Prince, or an insolent Army, and hungry Rabble?
A59793a Nero or Dioclesian, or a pitcht Battel?
A59793an Hereditary Prince, or the People, who are fond of innovations?
A59793an arbitrary and lawless Prince, or a Civil War?
A59793and can any thing be a Doctrine of the Gospel, which is truly scandalous?
A59793and did he not receive the Laws and Rules of Government from him?
A59793and does our praying for them, make it unlawful to resist and oppose their unjust violence?
A59793and how can this be maintained, but by a Revenue proportionable to the expence?
A59793and how soon would this have made the Doctrine of Non- resistance useless and out of date, by making Christians powerful enough to resist?
A59793and who gave it this authoritie?
A59793are we not bound to pray for all our Enemies and Persecutors?
A59793by God?
A59793by whom?
A59793can not we pray for any man, without making him our absolute and Soverain Lord?
A59793did Oliver Cromwell receive his power from God?
A59793does it hence follow, therefore we may resist and oppose them, if they do?
A59793does not he know how to rule us?
A59793for can the Apostle be thought absolutely to condemn resistance, if he makes it only unlawful to resist when we want power to conquer?
A59793how does an illegal sentence pronounced by a Judge, come to have any Authoritie?
A59793how to chuse a Prince for us?
A59793is it lawful to give Tribute to Caesar, or not?
A59793is not the Prince as much bound to observe the Laws of God and Nature, as the Laws of his Country?
A59793or ask him, Why hast thou done so?
A59793or of whose hands have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith?
A59793or whom have I defrauded?
A59793or whose Ass have I taken?
A59793some illegal Taxes, or Plunderings, Decimations, and Sequestrations?
A59793that Non- resistance is no duty, because it may possibly be attended with evil consequences?
A59793that our subjection to men is inconsistent with our freedom in Christ?
A59793the Prince, or the people?
A59793to be the slaves and Vassals, the scorn and the Triumph of insolent Tyrants?
A59793was it impossible for Infinite wisdom to have laid a more glorious and triumphant scene of our redemption?
A59793was not the King God''s Anointed?
A59793was not their King Gods Minister and Vicegerent, as their Rulers and Judges were before?
A59793was there no possible way, but the condescension and sufferings of his own Son?
A59793were we born for this very end, to suffer death by Herods and Pontius Pilates?
A59793what agreement is there between civil government, and publick Justice and a Tyrant?
A59793what authoritie has any Prince to make Laws against the Laws of God?
A59793wherefore?
A59793which is the greatest oppression of the Subject?
A59793which will destroy most mens Lives?
A59793who is most likely to make a change and alteration in government?
A59793who will devour most Estates?
A59793whom have I oppressed?
A59793will 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?
A5981617. 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?
A59816And is this the way, in which we must seek for Peace?
A59816And what hath this to do with the Imputation of Christs Personal Righteousness to us?
A59816As for instance, Dost thou object I am a great Sinner, and will Christ save me?
A59816Behold Israel after the flesh, are not they which eat of the Sacrifice partakers of the Altar?
A59816But I am afraid I shall fall away from God( afraid of it?
A59816But I can not go to God by prayer to fetch comfort:( Comfort?
A59816But how excellent is the Grace of Christs Person above the Grace of the Gospel?
A59816But how shall a poor humbled Sinner know when he is called, that then he may come to Christ?
A59816But is it the grief of thy heart, that thou canst not deny thy self?
A59816But not to dispute about words, I am content it should only be a necessary way to Eternal Life: but what becomes of Christ then?
A59816But 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?
A59816But what are the bonds of this Union?
A59816But what now if the Divine Nature it self have not such an endless, boundless, bottomless grace and compassion, as the Dr. now talks of?
A59816But when the Soul is come to Christ, is this enough?
A59816But why can not the righteousness of Christ do this more effectually, than the holiness of men?
A59816Canst thou desire to have Christ upon any terms, though it be to be damned with him?)
A59816Christ is life; is he weak?
A59816Christ is the power of God, and the wisdom of God; hath he the sense of guilt upon him?
A59816Dost thou desire to believe and to have Christ?
A59816Doth this also so exactly answer the case of suretiship among men, that there is no need to insist upon the Illustration of it?
A59816First, I wonder why this should be called the Union of Saints to Christ?
A59816For nothing that ever was a Member, can be lost to Eternity; for is Christ divided?
A59816Hast thou any will to it?
A59816How can a Believer and Unbeliever, a Christian and an Idolater have right to a part of the same Sacrifice?
A59816How so?
A59816Is he not also of the Gentiles?
A59816Is he the God of the Iews only?
A59816Is it not great pity, they should be so abused?
A59816Is not this to renounce Christ?
A59816Israel, which followed after righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness; wherefore?
A59816Lovely as a Pillar of Cloud and fire, lovely as Noahs Ark, lovely as any Serpent, yea as a brazen Serpent?
A59816Nay further, if thou objectest, what have I to do with Christ?
A59816Nay what do you think of the holy example of his life, which was no less necessary than his Laws?
A59816Now what can learning Christ signifie?
A59816Obedience and a holy life is for the glory of the Father, the Son, and holy Spirit: how so?
A59816Peace of Conscience?
A59816Received ye the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by the hearing of Faith?
A59816That is, did God bestow his Spirit on you, while ye were Jews?
A59816The Bread which we break, is it not the Communion of the body of Christ?
A59816The Cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the Communion of the blood of Christ?
A59816This Oneness and Conjunction are hard words still, and therefore to explain them, you must observe, that Christ and Saints are united, how?
A59816This is fairly offer''d, but what proof have they for it?
A59816To give them better laws, and more excellent promises, and more powerful assistances to do good?
A59816To what purpose is the multitude of your Sacrifices?
A59816What Peace I pray you?
A59816What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols?
A59816What communion hath light with darkness?
A59816What concord hath Christ with Belial?
A59816What do you think of those many Miracles, which he wrought for the confirmation of his Doctrine?
A59816What do you think of training up his Apostles to succeed him in his Ministry as eye and ear witnesses of his Miracles and Doctrine?
A59816What live a blameless, innocent, honest, smooth life, and yet live in some one sin or other?
A59816What need is there of legal washings and purifications?
A59816What need of this?
A59816What part hath he that believeth with an unbeliever?
A59816What pretty sense would this make of the Apostles Argument?
A59816What then is to be done further in order to our closing with Christ by Faith?
A59816What then must we do now?
A59816Who can forbear being smitten with so lovely a Person?
A59816Why so?
A59816Why then must we at last fetch our Peace and security from our own duties and graces?
A59816Yes, says the Doctor, Hast thou the sense of guilt upon thee?
A59816and desirest thou rather than be separated from Christ, to close with Christ upon any terms?
A59816and do never so much?
A59816and the answer to this brings us to that great mark of sanctification; you must consider the effects of Faith, doth it purifie your heart?
A59816and yet can we not be saved without walking in the ways of holiness?
A59816and yet live in some one sin or other?
A59816and yet suppose he did, a regenerate man may be in captivity to the law of sin, and pray what''s the difference?
A59816but how comes this to pass?
A59816can he lose a Member of his body?
A59816did he take our flesh upon him, and not our sins?
A59816do ye walk in newness of life?
A59816do you bring forth fruit, as every branch in Christ( which is not rejected by him) doth?
A59816do you not think, speak, act as you did before?
A59816doth a poor mans reaching out his hand, merit an Alms?
A59816doth it overcome the World?
A59816doth it work by love?
A59816doth the Active and Passive Righteousness of Christ both free us from guilt and punishment, and give us an actual right and title to glory?
A59816doth this Election and Redemption suppose Holiness in us, or is it without any regard to it?
A59816how 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?
A59816if any man be in Christ, he is a new Creature, are you then new Creatures?
A59816is he bound to give thee greater, who doth not owe thee the least?
A59816is it wrought by the Almighty Power of God?
A59816is it, that we should kill ▪ them, stifle the Creature, that is found in us, in the Womb?
A59816is not this to eke out the righteousness of Christ with our own?
A59816is the state of your person changed from a Child of wrath to an Heir of Grace?
A59816is this the way to enjoy Communion with God by our own righteousness?
A59816is your Faith of the right stamp?
A59816or is it such an easie, common, presumptuous, false Faith, as that which is in the generality of men?
A59816or upon your Conversion to Christianity?
A59816or why Christ should be called only the Saints Surety?
A59816such as will make Christ ours?
A59816that 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?
A59816that we should be excited and quickned by the hopes of such great rewards?
A59816that we should be restrain''d and govern''d by the fears of punishment?
A59816that we should give him to the old man to be devoured?
A59816the Answer is easie, whom did Christ come to save?
A59816to make Christ our justifier, and our works our Saviour?
A59816what becomes of free Grace then?
A59816what hast thou to do with comfort?
A59816who hath some wouldings and velleities to that which is good?
A59816who 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?
A59816whom doth God justifie but the ungodly?
A59816why doth not all our Wisdom of walking with God consist in our Acquaintance with Christ?
A59816why 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?
A59905And so of the rest?
A59905And what are these Modi subsistendi, by which the Divine Persons are distinguished from each other?
A59905And what then?
A59905And what then?
A59905And why then should not Infidels as well have the benefit of this Principle, as Hereticks?
A59905And yet I desire to know, why that may not be the Catholick Faith, and necessary to Salvation, which has always been matter of Controversie?
A59905But I desire to know, what Articles of our Faith have not been controverted by some Hereticks or other?
A59905But can any Creature be holy and perfect as God is?
A59905But suppose the worst, how does this concern the Doctrine of the Incarnation?
A59905But suppose then, that the Natural Construction of the Words import such a Sense, as is contrary to some evident Principle of Reason?
A59905But was not the Son also with the Holy Ghost, and is not he too( according to the Trinitarians) God, or a God?
A59905But what becomes of his beloved Socinus all this while?
A59905But what if it be against a mans Conscience to profess it?
A59905But what makes St. Gregory dispute thus nicely about the use of words, and oppose the common and ordinary Forms of Speech?
A59905But 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?
A59905But where in Scripture is the Word called God the Son?
A59905But why does he confine this bowing the Knee to the last Iudgment?
A59905Can any thing be more easie and obvious, and more agreeable to the Doctrine of the Trinity?
A59905Could the Apostle mean by this Phrase, that they were baptized in the Name of Moses?
A59905Did he in good earnest believe, that there is but One man in the World?
A59905Did he never then hear of what we call Emanative Effects, which coexist with their Causes?
A59905Do we say, a thing is coeternal and cotemperary with itself?
A59905Does a Son necessarily signifie one who is begotten of two Parents?
A59905Doth not a Man contradict himself, when the Term or Terms in his Negation, are the same with those in his Affirmation?
A59905Doth, I say, the Holy Scripture compel us to this contradictory acknowledgment?
A59905For are not these Questions of Faith, whether there be a God and a Providence, and whether Christ be that Messias, who came from God?
A59905For does not his Reason equally extend to the Christian Faith it self, as to those Points, which have been controverted in Christian Churches?
A59905For does our Author in earnest think, that God can not have a Son, unless he begets him, as one man begets another?
A59905Has the Catholick Faith any such Priviledge as not to be controverted?
A59905His first is, that of Iob; Will ye speak wickedly for God?
A59905His next Proof is, that he humbled himself, and became obedient, which is all he cites; but what does he prove from this?
A59905How can Three distinct Persons have but one Numerical Substance?
A59905How did he become poor for our sakes, who was never rich?
A59905How does a Human Soul discover its glory but by visible Actions?
A59905How shall we then know, when the Apostle has respect to the words he quotes?
A59905How?
A59905I ask, whether the Son doth not, as he is a Son, derive both Life and Godhead from the Father?
A59905I desire to know what is meant by being baptized in the Name of the Father?
A59905I 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?
A59905I will only ask this Author, Whether the Jews were baptized in the Name of Moses?
A59905I 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?
A59905If each Person must be God and Lord, must not each Person be Uncreated, Incomprehensible, Eternal, Almighty?
A59905If it does not, why does he believe it, and insist so peremptorily on it, in defiance of the whole Catholick Church?
A59905If they were not, let him tell me, how their being baptized into Moses comes to signifie their being baptized in the Name of Moses?
A59905If this Inspiration be without God, in Creatures, who are inspired by him; how is it the Spirit of God?
A59905If this be so, I desire to know, How the Spirit of God differs from his Gifts and Graces?
A59905Is any Creature capable of the Government of the world?
A59905Is it only to take him for our Instructor and Guide?
A59905Is not the Sun the Cause of Light, and Fire of Heat?
A59905Is not this like swearing Allegiance to the King, and to his Son, and to his Power, or to his Wisdom?
A59905Not coeternal, for this also plainly intimates, that they are distinct: For how coeternal, if not distinct?
A59905Now what of all this?
A59905Or does our Author think, that no Atheist or Infidel, no unbelieving Jew, or Heathen, ever used reasonable diligence to be rightly informed?
A59905Or is it to worship and obey him for our God?
A59905Quae molitio, quae ferramenta, qui vectes, quae machinae, qui Ministri, tanti muneris suerunt?
A59905Reason tells us, that Three Gods can not be One God, but does Reason tell us, That Three Divine Persons can not be One God?
A59905So that all his Absurdities and Contradictions are vanished only into Nicodemus his Question, How can these things be?
A59905So that the Holy Spirit receives the things of Christ; But how does he receive them?
A59905Suppose 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?
A59905That he knew not where Lazarus was laid, because he asks, Where have ye laid him?
A59905That is, because they affirm these Divine Persons to be distinct, therefore they must say, they are numerically the same; and what then?
A59905That is, the term God is affirmed of Three, and yet denied to belong to more than One; And is not this a Contradiction?
A59905Therefore all these Articles make indeed but One Article, which is this?
A59905Though a greater Extension can not be contained in a less, what is this to an infinite Mind''s being present every where without Extension?
A59905Thus what can be a more pure and simple Act than Wisdom and Truth?
A59905What becomes then of his Reason, which is as certain and evident as any Proposition in Euclid?
A59905What impudence is this, to think to sham the World at this time a day, with such stories as these?
A59905What is Justice and Goodness, but an equal distribution of Things, or a true and wise proportion of Rewards and Punishments?
A59905What is perfect Power, but perfect Truth and Wisdom, which can do, whatever it knows?
A59905What is the distinction between Essence, and Personality and Subsistence?
A59905What shall be done unto Thee, thou lying Tongue?
A59905What then?
A59905What thinks he of the Nicene Fathers, who condemned Arius?
A59905What( says he) shall we do here?
A59905What?
A59905Wherefore?
A59905Why so?
A59905Why the Soul can leave the Body, when the Body is disabled to perform the Offices of Life, but can not leave it before?
A59905Will ye accept his Person?
A59905and can God communicate infinite Wisdom and infinite Power to a Creature, or a finite Nature?
A59905and can he conceive a Sun without Light, or Fire without Heat?
A59905and knoweth the things of God, as the Spirit of a Man knoweth the things of a man?
A59905and must not God then be represented by One, who is God?
A59905and suffered him to have wrought Miracles, to cheat the world into this belief?
A59905and talk deceitfully for him?
A59905and why may not this be represented by his saying, Let there be Light?
A59905and yet, can Light be without the Sun, or Heat without Fire?
A59905are we obliged under the penalty of the loss of Salvation to believe it, whether we can or no?
A59905because he voluntarily condescends below the Dignity of his Nature, does he forfeit the Dignity of his Nature?
A59905but will he particularly intercede for us?
A59905does not this require infinite Wisdom and infinite Power?
A59905doth God require of any man an impossible Condition in order to Salvation?
A59905is a meer Creature a fit Lieutenant or Representative of God in Personal or Prerogative Acts of Government and Power?
A59905must 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?
A59905not believe Scripture?
A59905that Obedience is part of his Humiliation?
A59905that is, can a Creature be made a true and essential God?
A59905that is, could the Apostle mean, what he knew was not true?
A59905that is, that the Sun should be without Light, and the Fire without Heat?
A59905therefore he is not God?
A59905therefore he is not God?
A59905was the Word the Father?
A59905when he cites the very words, as a Prophesie of Christ?
A59905whether the Soul have parts, as the Body has, which answer to every part of the Body, and touch in every Point?
A59905whether upon their supposition of his being a meer Man, if he had arrogated to himself to be God, God would have permitted this?
A59905why innocent Beasts must die to expiate the sins of men?
A59905will ye contend for God?
A59899And I beseech you, what greater infallibility can any Church pretend to, than to have the World receive all her Decrees as infallibly true?
A59899And are there no such Proofs to be alledged?
A59899And does abstinence consist meerly in abstaining from Flesh?
A59899And does not this destroy that Argument from the holiness and justice of God, that he will not forgive our sins, unless we forsake them?
A59899And from that God, who sent his only begotten Son into the World to save Sinners?
A59899And 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?
A59899And is not this what I said?
A59899And is there any fault to be found with this so far?
A59899And this is that use they serve in the Church of Rome: They assert the necessity of humane satisfactions; and what are these satisfactory works?
A59899And what has he to say now?
A59899And whether there can be any Divine Faith without an Infallible Iudge?
A59899And will he say the Doctrine of the Trinity is such a Doctrine?
A59899And yet does not St. Peter say it was so?
A59899Are they necessary, before Absolution, to qualifie men to receive the pardon of their sins, as the signs and demonstrations of a sincere repentance?
A59899Because the Church so expounds it: Is not this the true Resolution of the Roman Faith?
A59899Because the Church tells me it is the Word of God; Wherefore do you believe this to be the sense of Scripture?
A59899But did Christ expiate the sins only of true penitent and reformed sinners?
A59899But did I say, that nothing can be proved but by such express Texts, as it is not possible to understand otherwise?
A59899But do I any where say, that God ought to have done, what I believe he has not done?
A59899But does this prove, that they teach them all necessary Truths, and nothing but truth?
A59899But how do they teach this, by words or actions?
A59899But however, where do I say, that God has not done that which I believe he ought to have done?
A59899But 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?
A59899But 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?
A59899But was not Christ''s telling them so a certain Reason?
A59899But 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?
A59899But what is the Calumny?
A59899But what is this to my Question?
A59899But what is this to reading Heretical Books?
A59899But what tergiversation is here?
A59899But when two men or two Churches differ in their opinions of things, can neither of them be in the right?
A59899But, Is taming of the flesh, the curbing of sensuality, no reason at all for abstinence?
A59899But, 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?
A59899Did he never hear of men, who have been hired to whip themselves for some rich and great sinners?
A59899Did the Scribes and Pharisees, who were so fond of the Rites of Moses, own it to be a heavy Yoke?
A59899Do Papists believe, what they think in their judgments, God has not revealed, or what they think, he has revealed?
A59899Do other good Christian Prayers expiate sin?
A59899Does he deny this?
A59899Does he prove that men may be very knowing Christians without understanding the Reasons of their Faith?
A59899Does he shew, that they teach all necessary Truths, and nothing but Truth?
A59899Does it follow, that because all men, who desire pardon, desire not to be punished, that therefore they desire no more?
A59899Does she infallibly know, that the certain Truth of Christian Religion is founded upon certain Reasons?
A59899Does the Church of Rome infallibly know, that the Christian Religion is certainly true?
A59899Does the Sacrifice of the Mass expiate sins, or not?
A59899Doth Dr. Sherlock say, that the Jews could not be disputed into Faith, unless that Faith were infallible?
A59899For if the Blood of Christ does not deliver us from the punishment of Sin, what security is this to a Sinner?
A59899For what is it men are afraid of when they have sinned?
A59899Has he confessed all the Nuns and Monks?
A59899He answers, let it be so; but what follows here?
A59899His next Question( or else I can not make three of them) is, By what Text doth God deliver this Injunction?
A59899How is this contrary to Civil Charity and Moral Honesty?
A59899I ask again ▪ Whether the evidence of Reason in expounding Scripture be a sufficient Foundation for a Divine Faith?
A59899I ask once more, Whether the belief of the Scriptures themselves must not be resolved into the Authority of the Church?
A59899I asked farther, why they call Purgatory, which is a place of punishment in the other World, a temporal punishment?
A59899Is he sure of this?
A59899Is here any breach of Moral Honesty in this?
A59899Is it not that they shall be punished for it?
A59899Is it not, that they may not be punished?
A59899Is not this the great Reason they urge for the necessity of an Infallible Guide to prevent all Heresies and Schisms?
A59899Is that the only means of applying his precious Bloud to us?
A59899Is the Sacrifice of the Mass to obtain Grace for sinners, or to expiate sin?
A59899Is the Spirit of God with neither of them?
A59899Is there any Law in the Church of England, thus to punish men for reading Heretical Books?
A59899Is there any word of Promise in the Gospel for this?
A59899Is this Misrepresenting too?
A59899Is truth on neither side?
A59899May not all these be done, without sorrow for sin?
A59899May not that argue the certainty of Faith, because some men agree to do ill?
A59899Nay, why do they cheat people out of their Souls, and lull them into security by such void Absolutions?
A59899No 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?
A59899Now are not these satisfactory works?
A59899Now rightly to understand this Matter, I would desire to know why they say God has bestowed Infallibility on the Church?
A59899Now what does the Iesuite say to this?
A59899Now what is the fault of this?
A59899Or that they make them ever the wiser for their teaching?
A59899Pray what Grace is obtained by the Sacrifice of the Mass for those who are dead?
A59899Prophesie, Miracles,& c. What will no less evidence serve his turn?
A59899Truly he had better have said nothing, than nothing to the purpose; for is God symbolically present in Heaven, or in the Souls of Men?
A59899Was it not to prevent Heresies and Schisms?
A59899Was this the Apostle''s meaning in those words?
A59899We believe all that God hath revealed, and nothing else, is not all, that he hath revealed certain?
A59899Well then, must we examine all Bishops and every particular Believer about this?
A59899Well, How does our Jesuite confute this heavy Charge and perfect Slander?
A59899Well, but what says Dr. Sherlock to give Protestants any certainty?
A59899What difference is there betwxit mens using their private Iudgments to turn Papists, or to turn Protestants?
A59899What do you own, that we only are to look on the Faith even as preached by Christ, to be necessarily infallible?
A59899What does it prove the Scripture to be uncertain?
A59899What does our Jesuite say to this?
A59899What follows?
A59899What is it, men desire, when they desire pardon?
A59899Whereforedo you believe the Scripture?
A59899Whether it be not necessary to believe this with a Divine Faith?
A59899Whether this might not have been expected under a Dispensation of the most perfect Love?
A59899Which was not, Whether a Divine Faith required a Divine Revelation, but whether there can be any Divine Faith without an Infallible Iudge?
A59899Will he himself say this?
A59899Will not good Fish and good Wine pamper the Flesh too?
A59899and 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?
A59899are not all their Offices full of such Prayers?
A59899because the Church teaches, that they need not avoid venial sins?
A59899but if they have not owned it, Have they never felt it neither?
A59899but suppose they neither felt nor owned it, May it not be as intolerable as the Jewish Law?
A59899but the necessity of an unerring Interpreter?
A59899did I deny, that the Church of Rome paid any other Worship to God, but Sacrifice?
A59899do I any where say, that God ought by necessary and infallible means to have prevented Schisms and Heresies?
A59899do I put any sense or interpretation upon this action?
A59899do both equally rely on their fancy?
A59899do not these Principles remit all Christians to the silent Meetings of Quakers?
A59899do not they Pray to God in the Name and Merits of the Saints?
A59899do the Pope and a General Council infallibly know the Sentiments and Opinions of all the Christian Bishops and People in the World?
A59899do they not, as he adds, take the Virgin Mary, Angels and Saints for Mediators to incline God to be good to peculiar persons?
A59899exclude singing of Psalms?
A59899have I misrepresented their Doctrine?
A59899i ● h ● s int ● r ● st in the Court of Heaven can not do the less, how can 〈 ◊ 〉 do the greater?
A59899is Thomas an honest man, because John is a knave?
A59899is an implicite Faith no Doctrine of their Church?
A59899is it the same thing to say, such a thing is not, and such a thing is not proved by such an Argument?
A59899is not all this true?
A59899is there no faithful and authentick Record of this Faith, from whence we may learn, what Christ and his Apostles delivered to the Church?
A59899is this an infallible Conveyance of the Faith to depend upon the Tradition of Bishops and Christian People?
A59899must certainty be necessarily found amongst them, because it is not found with us?
A59899or is the Sacrifice of the Mass available for obdurate sinners, or for those only who are in a state of Grace?
A59899or 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?
A59899or to be performed after the sin is forgiven, not to express our sorrow for sin, but to undergo the punishment of it?
A59899that they do pray to Saints and the Virgin?
A59899to forgive Sins, to give Grace, to allay Storms, to drive away Devils?
A59899to say such a number of Ave- Maries for them?
A59899whether any man can believe the Scriptures to be the Word of God without it?
A59899which he calls another Misrepresentation; why then do they Pray so frequently and devoutly to them?
A59899would their consent and agreement prove the certainty of the Protestant Faith?
A5981214. because we will not worship Saints and Angels, and Images?
A59812And are you not sensible what a fallible thing Human Understanding is?
A59812And has not God in several Ages given such Teachers to the World, Moses and the Prophets, Christ and his Apostles?
A59812And how then can there be so many Teachers, if there be but one Judge?
A59812And how then can you be sure that you are not?
A59812And is not every Church in duty bound to preserve her Faith and Worship as pure and uncorrupt as she can?
A59812And must we not resign up our Understandings to them?
A59812And what advantages then has the Papist above the Protestant in the point of Certainty?
A59812And what is this then but to take the Churches word for her own Infallibility?
A59812And who knows to this day from whence the succeeding Popes have derived their Succession?
A59812And why does not this agree with the Protestant Religion?
A59812And why then is not the Church of England bound to do so?
A59812And, how in the Communion of Saints?
A59812As for instance, Whether the Sacrament of the Lord''s Supper be a Propitiatory Sacrifice for the Living and the Dead?
A59812But do not all men say as you do, that they trust their own Understanding?
A59812But does not every man, who is in an Error, think that he sees Truth?
A59812But 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?
A59812But possibly it will be asked, What Authority then do we allow to Councils?
A59812But pray, how shall I be sure of this?
A59812But still the same Question returns, How you are certain of your Reason?
A59812But suppose at present, that the generality of People can not do this, yet can learned men do it?
A59812But what course did these Nicene Fathers take to confute the Heresie of Arius; did they not alledge the Authority of the Scriptures for it?
A59812But what is this to the purpose, what the Cause of such Mistakes are?
A59812But what then?
A59812But who ever said, That no Assembly of men have power on Earth to bind the Conscience?
A59812But you''l say, Are we not bound to believe infallible Teachers, whom we know to be infallible?
A59812Ca n''t we believe One Church in the Creed, as well as the Church of Rome, notwithstanding all the Divisions of Christendom?
A59812Can any thing be plainer, than the Institution of the Lords Supper in both kinds?
A59812Can 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?
A59812Can these Hereticks be confuted out of the Scripture, or not?
A59812Do not the Protestant Churches do this without pretending to such an absolute Authority over mens Faith?
A59812Do you ask that now, when I have referred you to such plain Texts of Scripture for the proof of it?
A59812Do you not daily see how many men are mistaken?
A59812Do you not see, that Reason it self is uncertain?
A59812Does any man want an infallible Judge to make him certain of the sense of a plain Law, or any other intelligible Writing?
A59812Does the Infallibility of the Pope make them all infallible?
A59812First, As for Certainty; why can not we be certain of our Religion, as well as of other Matters, without an infallible Judge?
A59812For Numbers, or Interest, or Zeal, or Authority?
A59812For had true Antiquity been on their side, what need had they of spurious and counterfeit Authors to make some appearance of Antiquity with?
A59812For how is this proved, That when there wants Evidence for our Faith, we must believe upon the Authority of a visible Judge?
A59812For if we can know any one particular Book of Scripture without a Judge, why not the rest?
A59812For if we will be Judges our selves of these matters, what Life or Capacity is sufficient?
A59812For is every Priest the Judge into whose Authority we must resolve our Faith?
A59812For let the Cause be what it will, if men are still mistaken, how do you know that you are not mistaken too?
A59812For 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?
A59812For 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?
A59812For, is the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Scriptures, or not?
A59812Gregory 12. and Benedict 13. who were all Deposed by the Council of Constance, and Martin 5. chose?
A59812Hold Sir, what is it we are to prove?
A59812How I know that I understand?
A59812How comes Submission to the Clergies Authority in here?
A59812How comes this to pass?
A59812How considerable?
A59812How do Men differ in their Reasons?
A59812How do you know that you are certain, or are not deceived in those things, of which you think your selves most certain?
A59812How is the Church of England more concerned in this, than the Church of Rome?
A59812If 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?
A59812If it be not there, how comes it to be an Article of our Faith?
A59812If it could not then, and can not to this day be proved to be genuine, why is it received?
A59812If not, why do we charge them with Heresie?
A59812If the Church of Rome were convinced that she were guilty of such Errors, ought she not to reform her self?
A59812If the Scriptures have no sense, but what the Judge gives them, what an impertinent trouble is it to study the Scriptures?
A59812If there were, What Authority then had the Council to Depose them all, and chuse a Fourth?
A59812If they may, how are such Heresies, being fathered on the Scriptures, an Argument against studying the Scriptures, and relying on their Authority?
A59812If this proves any thing, it proves, That all the separate Communions of Christendom are not One Church; and what then?
A59812If we can not know what is Canonical Scripture without a Judge, how shall we know whether there be a Judge?
A59812If you ask whose Judgment ought to take place, the Judgment of the Church, or of every private Christian?
A59812Is it any dishonour to God, any injury to Religion, that men pray with their Understandings?
A59812Is it not possible to find out the true sense of Scripture, because some men put a false sense on it?
A59812Is the Form of Baptism plainly contained in Scripture, to Baptize in the Name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost?
A59812Is the Scripture of no use, because some men use it ill?
A59812Let us consider, whether the Apostles would have rejected our Communion for those Reasons, for which the Church of Rome now rejects us?
A59812May 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?
A59812Must they judge for themselves, or forsake one Church and chuse another without Judgment?
A59812Nay, if the greatest Apostles were no more than Teachers, where is the Judge?
A59812Now if the Judge of Controversies must be infallible, how does a visible Succession from the Apostles prove any Church to be infallible?
A59812Now what greater assurance can we have in this case, than the harmony and consent of Scripture and Tradition, which confirm and justifie each other?
A59812Now what need of both these?
A59812Now 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?
A59812Or 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?
A59812Or how I know a good Reason when I hear it?
A59812Or, 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?
A59812Pray, why not?
A59812Secondly, Suppose the Errors of the Church were not damnable, why might not the Church of England reform such Errors as are not damnable?
A59812Suppose then we should grant, That the Pope, or Church of Rome were infallible, what advantage has a Papist for Certainty above a Protestant?
A59812That I should dispute all the Points in Controversies between us?
A59812Though Latin Prayers were lawful in English Congregations, who do not understand them, yet is it unlawful to pray in English?
A59812Though we deny such a place as Purgatory, is not the fear of Hell as good an Argument to bring men to Repentance?
A59812To believe it, because she says it her self; or to believe it because she makes the Scripture say it?
A59812To 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?
A59812Was there never a true Pope among all the Three?
A59812We reject indeed the infallible Authority of the present Church of Rome; but what then?
A59812Well, but if Christ hath not appointed a Judge of Controversies, what Certainty can we have of our Religion?
A59812Well, but if there be no visible Judge of Controversies, how shall we arrive at any certainty in our Religion?
A59812What Obligation are we under to own it?
A59812What a miserable surprize will it be, for those who thought themselves pardoned by the Priest to be condemned by Christ?
A59812What contrary Expositions of Scripture do they give?
A59812What course must I take then?
A59812What difference is there between taking the Churches word at the first or second rebound?
A59812What do you mean, Sir?
A59812What do you mean?
A59812What is the Certainty of God, but those clear and bright Idea''s of Truth in the divine Mind?
A59812What priviledge have the learned above the unlearned, when they must know, and believe no more than their Judge will let them?
A59812When two Men differ in their Opinions, and oppose Reason to Reason, must not one of them be mistaken?
A59812Who can interpret them, but this infallible Judge?
A59812Why, they dispute his Authority: And has not Christ plainly given him this Authority?
A59812Will you allow me then to interpret these Texts according to my own private Judgment?
A59812Would St. Paul have rejected our Communion, because we will not worship God in an Unknown Tongue?
A59812Yes; but other Bishops and Churches wo n''t submit to him ▪ How?
A59812Yes; but they wo n''t see it: But is this inculpable Ignorance, or Pride and Faction?
A59812and does this unman us?
A59812and 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?
A59812and what Certainty then in this Way?
A59812and what care has Christ taken of the Unity of the Church?
A59812how does this give her a greater Authority than other Churches, which have as visible a Succession as she?
A59812not to Christs Vicar?
A59812than St. Pauls discourse against Prayers in an unknown Tongue?
A59812then they ask us, Where our Church was before Luther?
A59812to 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?
A59812to understand the difference between true and false reasoning?
A59812whether it be lawful to pray to Saints departed, and to make them our Advocates and Intercessors with God?
A59812whether the Laity are not as much bound to drink of the Sacramental Cup as to eat of the Bread?
A5984012 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?
A59840And do we not daily see young men die?
A59840And how could that be possibly known, if the trial of it had been reserved for an unknown state?
A59840And if we be men, why should we despise the pleasures of the mind?
A59840And is it not as necessary to repent of your sins to day, as ever it will be?
A59840And is there any reason in the World to expect it should be otherwise?
A59840And should not this make us very jealous and watchful over ourselves?
A59840And what a blessed place then would this World be to live in?
A59840And what a mean and contemptible Vice is Pride, whose subject and occasion is so mean and contemptible?
A59840Are we fond of bodily Pleasures?
A59840But you''ll say, Is there no place then for Repentance under the Gospel?
A59840But you''ll say, To what purpose is all this?
A59840Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
A59840Do the Storms gather?
A59840Do we not know, what the power of habit and custom is?
A59840Do ye not all resolve to repent of your sins, and reform your lives, before ye die?
A59840Do you think there are no pleasures proper to the Soul?
A59840For can any Man be contented with a less degree of happiness, who knows there is a greater?
A59840For 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?
A59840For, 1. is any thing of more absolute necessity, than the Salvation of our Souls?
A59840Hast thou at any time an ill prospect before thee of private or publick Calamities?
A59840How are such men surprized, when any danger approaches?
A59840How can any man be said not to live out half his days, if he lives as long as God has decreed he shall live?
A59840How many die in the very act of Theft and Robbery?
A59840How 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?
A59840If 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?
A59840If men make such improvements in Wickedness in twenty or thirty years, what would they do in hundreds?
A59840Is 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?
A59840Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?
A59840Many 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?
A59840Must 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?
A59840Nay, can we think, that he has given us the best things first, where we can only just tast them, and leave them behind us?
A59840Or was there a more divine Inhabitant, which animated this earthly Machine, which gave life, and beauty, and motion to it, but is now removed?
A59840The advice of the Psalmist is much better, What man is he, that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
A59840There 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?
A59840Thus what do Riches signifie, but to minister to the wants and conveniences and pleasures of the Body?
A59840Upon what account then, says the Apostle, could those men die, who lived, between Adam and Moses, before the Law was given, which threatens death?
A59840What Mariner is not glad that he has weathered all storms, and steered a safe course to his desired Haven?
A59840What am I better than the poorest Man, who beggs an Alms, unless I be wiser and more vertuous than he?
A59840What man would place his happiness in such enjoyments, which for ought he knows, he may be taken from to morrow?
A59840When you are come within view of the promised Land, will you suffer your hearts then to fail you?
A59840When 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?
A59840Who was made to contemplate the wonders of Nature and Providence, and to admire and adore his Maker?
A59840Who would try, how long Death will delay its coming?
A59840Who would venture the infinite hazards of a Death- bed- repentance?
A59840Why should that be thought a sufficient reason for God to pardon, which we ourselves think no reason, in all other cases?
A59840Will the Holy Spirit dwell in such a Temple as is defiled with impure Lusts?
A59840Would 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?
A59840and in thy name cast out devils?
A59840and in thy name done many wonderful works?
A59840and is the spending our youthful strength and vigour in sin, likely to dispose and prepare us to be sincere Penitents, when we grow old?
A59840and what great improvements do they make?
A59840and yet how necessary is the service of such men in the World?
A59840are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
A59840are the Clouds black and lowring, and charged with Thunder, and ready to break over thy head?
A59840are these the Riches, are these the Beauties and Glories of a Spirit?
A59840are we not all made of the same mould?
A59840are we ready to purchase them at any rate?
A59840are you sure of having another day to repent in, if you neglect this?
A59840can youth or beauty or strength secure us from the arrests of Death?
A59840dost thou hope to take up an eternal Rest here?
A59840for what hurt is it, if we do flatter ourselves a little more in this matter, than we have reason for?
A59840for who then could be saved?
A59840for would such men concern themselves to learn the Arts of living, who must die as soon as they have learnt them?
A59840have we Souls that are good for nothing?
A59840how do they enjoy themselves, and give life and spirit to the graver Age?
A59840how little do we remember, how they past?
A59840how little time would there be at the foot of the account, which might be called living?
A59840how long he may sin on safely, without thinking of Death or Judgment?
A59840how pleasant and diverting is their conversation, while it is innocent?
A59840how soon do they pass away like a Dream, and when they are gone, how few and empty do they appear?
A59840how the love of sin increases, with the repeated commission of it?
A59840how would it overcast all the pleasures and comforts of life?
A59840if we have Souls, why should we not reap the benefit and the pleasures of them?
A59840is it because our Lives are uncertain, and we may die before to morrow?
A59840is it because we see some men live to a great age?
A59840is not God the Father of us all?
A59840is not to day as proper a time to repent in, as ever you are likely to have?
A59840is this World thy home, is this thy abiding City?
A59840must we not all die alike, and lie down in the dust together?
A59840no remission of Sins committed after Baptism?
A59840of no use to us, but only to relish the pleasures of the Body?
A59840or whether God will give him grace to repent, if it does?
A59840thou must shortly remove thy dwelling, and then whose shall all these things be?
A59840to lose all your triumphs and victories over the World and the Flesh?
A59840what great things do they many times do?
A59840what kindles this insatiable thirst of Riches?
A59840what unreasonable abatements of life?
A59840when Death comes within view, and shews his Sithe, and only some few sands at the bottom of the Glass?
A59840when they see him ready to pronounce them blessed, and to set the Crown upon their heads?
A59840where is thy sting?
A59840where is thy victory?
A59840whether Death will give him timely notice to repent?
A59840whether after a long life of sin and wickedness, a few distracted, confused, and almost despairing sighs and groans will carry him to Heaven?
A59840which 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?
A59840who knows how miserable God can make bad men?
A59840why must there be no end of adding House to House, and Field to Field?
A59840why should he despise any part of himself, and that, as you shall hear presently, the best part too?
A59840why should we be contented to lose any degrees of Glory?
A59840why so much pains to put us out of conceit with the hopes of living long?
A59840will you then murmur and rebel against God, and die in the Wilderness?
A59853A whole Divinity made up of Three partial and incomplete Divinities?
A59853And are they not Three who have all the Perfections of the Divine Nature?
A59853And does not the Scripture, do not all Trinitarians, with the whole Catholick Church, own this?
A59853And if this had not been the belief of the Catholick Church, what meant their Zeal against this Heresy?
A59853And must this One Undivided Monad be in Three separate Localities, because it subsists in three distinct Persons?
A59853And what is the Cons ● quence of this?
A59853And what is there unintelligible in all this?
A59853And what is to be done now?
A59853And 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?
A59853And why may not Number then belong to the Divinity, though it be not quantum, have no Predicamental, that is, Corporeal Quantity?
A59853And will any Trinitarian deny, That the Father is, the Son is, and the Holy Ghost is?
A59853And 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?
A59853Are Spirits united by Juxta- position of Parts, or Penetration of Dimensions?
A59853Are 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?
A59853But after all, Do these Fathers deny, that the Divine Nature is One Individual Nature?
A59853But at this rate, what Divinity do we leave for the Son, and the Holy Spirit?
A59853But ca n''t there be more than one of these Eternal, infinitely Wise, infinitely Good, and Omnipotent Natures?
A59853But do not all Catholick Christians own, That there is but One Infinite, Inseparable, Undivided Nature, in Three Persons?
A59853But does this make God True and Perfect Man?
A59853But how can this be, if Person and Essence, Suppositum and Nature be the same, as it is in God?
A59853But how can we learn God''s Love and Good Will to Mankind, from this Doctrine, if it be not true?
A59853But how will this agree with the Notion of One Divinity, or One Individual Divine Nature?
A59853But 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?
A59853But in good earnest, does any sober Christian want an Answer to this Argument?
A59853But in what sense then can we say, That the Trinity is One God, or that Three Persons are One God?
A59853But is not this a kind of Sabellian Composition of a God?
A59853But now will any Catholick Christian say, that thus it is in the Ever Blessed Trinity?
A59853But still what is all this to the Unity of God?
A59853But 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?
A59853But the Question is, In what sense the Scripture teaches that there is but One God?
A59853But what becomes then of the Son, and Holy Ghost?
A59853But what is this Brightness, and what is this Glory?
A59853But what is this common Nature, which is seen by Reason?
A59853But what possible Sense can we make of this?
A59853But what room then does this leave for a Real Trinity of Persons, in this One, Simple, Uncompounded, Indivisible, Inseparable Nature?
A59853But who ever thought of causes of Distinction and Unity in an Eternal Nature, which has no cause?
A59853But, What it is that makes it One; or what the formal Conception of its Unity is?
A59853Can Eternal Truth, and Infinite Wisdom in any thing vary from it self, to make two Eternal Truths, and Infinite Wisdoms?
A59853Can any thing else give us so true and perfect a Character and Idea of each of them, as this does?
A59853Can the Specifick Notional Unity of Human Nature, make three men one man, as the One common Divine Nature makes Three Persons One God?
A59853Displicet cuiquam in Synodo Nicaena homousion esse susceptum?
A59853Do 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?
A59853Do they mean, that there is but one Numerical Subsisting Nature common to all the Individuals?
A59853Does the Father Will any thing?
A59853Ergo inquis, das aliquam substantiam esse sermonem?
A59853For what do these Fathers mean by a common Nature?
A59853For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of man, which is in him?
A59853For will we say, That the Trinity, or Three Persons, are but One Person?
A59853Has God any Place; does he subsist in any thing but himself?
A59853He must then partake of the Father: But what is that, and whence is it?
A59853Here then we join issue with them, and desire them to shew us, what is impossible or contradictious in this Faith?
A59853How there can be Three Incommunicable Persons, and Suppositums, and but One Nature, and that communicable to more than One?
A59853Iam nunc quaeritur, quis quomodo utatur aliqua re& vocabulo ejus?
A59853If I am asked not only Who but What the Three in the Ever- blessed Trinity are?
A59853If 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?
A59853If you inquire, what Spirit, and what Matter is?
A59853In qua ● ffigie Dei?
A59853Is 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?
A59853Is it because none is, or can be God, True and Perfect God, but he, who is God of himself, Self- originated and Unbegotten?
A59853Is it such a direct Contradiction to Sense and Reason, to say, That there is alius,& alius,& alius, in the Trinity, but not aliud?
A59853Is it the Son of God, that Eternal Word, which was in the beginning, was with God, and was God?
A59853Is not the Son God?
A59853Is not the Unity of God the fundamental Article of Natural Religion?
A59853Is there any thing else which is common to them, but the Name and Nature of God?
A59853Is this Extraordinary Power a Divine Subsisting Person, in the true and proper Notion of a Person?
A59853Is this Extraordinary Power so united to Human Nature, as to become Man?
A59853Let 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?
A59853Let our Socinian Adversaries tell us, what there is absurd, impossible, or contradictious in this Faith?
A59853Non haben ● o autem filium cum ipse sum flius, quem ● do pater ero?
A59853Now if this be true, what Apology can be made for them?
A59853Now what is the meaning of this?
A59853Now will any man say, That the One Divinity, or One Divine Nature, and One God, is a meer Notion?
A59853Now, says he, in what Image of God, was he?
A59853Or how can the Father, who is greater, be at all in the Son, who is less?
A59853Or how much we must believe of them?
A59853Or 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?
A59853Prolatus est Sermo Dei an non?
A59853Quid agis Lot sancte?
A59853Quid est enim Filius de eo quod Pater est?
A59853So far he is in the right; but what is this different way?
A59853That a Perfect, Living, Subsisting Image, should not be perfectly the same with its Prototype, from whom it receives its Being and Nature?
A59853That the One Common Divinity is One and Common, only as One Common Humanity is, that is, that it is perfectly the same in all?
A59853The Question then is, Whether we must not believe the Doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation?
A59853The short Question is this; Whether a True, Proper, Divine Person was Incarnate, in the Incarnation of Christ?
A59853Then, says he, he must be the Son of God by participation; what is it then he partakes of?
A59853These are two very different Questions, and of a very different consideration, What God is?
A59853This sounds well; but why does he not speak out, and tell us what this Form of God is?
A59853Three in One Substance, and thrice Once Substance?
A59853Thus what is the Unity of Energy and Operation, but the same Conscious Will and Power acting distinctly, but inseparably in Three?
A59853Vacua& inanis res est sermo De ●, qui filius dictus est, qui ipse Deus cogneminatus est?
A59853Was he a Human Person; or the Person of the Son of God appearing in Human Nature?
A59853Well, 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?
A59853Well, but what is this Essence of a Mind, and this Unity of Essence, which makes a Mind One?
A59853Well: What is necessary to be believed concerning the Trinity?
A59853Well; but are there not Individual Men then, as well as a Common Nature?
A59853What difference between Three Substances, and tria supposita?
A59853What is it then that subsists by it self?
A59853What then was Christ''s Human Nature?
A59853What then was wanting to make us Human Nature a Human Person?
A59853When we profess to believe that there are Three in the Unity of the Godhead the next question is, What Three they are?
A59853Whether the True Divine Nature subsisting in him, a True Divine Person?
A59853Will they venture to say, That it is absurd or contradictious, that God should have a Son?
A59853Would 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?
A59853Would they have taught, That the Divinity may be numbred, and yet is without Number?
A59853and Who this God is?
A59853and how then is this One Individual Nature?
A59853and the Spirit God?
A59853but one Universal Human Nature in all the particular men in the World?
A59853but, Whether the Son and Holy Ghost were truly and really distinct Persons from the Father, as the Catholick Church always believed?
A59853if God have no Eternal Son, and therefore did not give his Eternal Son to become Man, and to suffer and dye for us?
A59853or, How many partial Conceptions are united in One Idea?
A59853that is, Have not each of these Divine Persons all the Divine Perfections included in the Notion and Idea of God?
A59853thought I; How is this applicable to the Unity of God?
A59853ut inanis solida,& vacuus plena,& incorporalis corporalia operatus sit?
A59853whether he be Consubstantial with the Father, or have only a Nature like the Fathers, but not the same?
A59853whether he be true perfect God, in opposition to the most perfect created Nature, or be only a made and Creature- God?
A59853whether there were any time, the least conceivable moment before the Son was?
A59809( How comes this guilt to be finite now?
A59809Agreeably to St. Chrysostoms account of the words, as they are translated also by our Author, What is that Loaf?
A59809And a little before: Are we then freed from this Obedience?
A59809And can the grace of God be resisted?
A59809And how is it possible, they should get the Robes of Christs Righteousness, till they are married to him?
A59809And is not Pardon as properly opposed to Condemnation, as Absolution is?
A59809And is not that then the original signification of the Name?
A59809And 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?
A59809And that those glorious Discoveries, which God hath made of these Perfections in Christ, are but a metaphorical Brightness of this Glory?
A59809And what our Church attributes to this Faith in the Work of Justification?
A59809And where is the Sanction of it?
A59809And who gave it this Sanction?
A59809And will he save and reward those who do obey for their obedience?
A59809As for instance, he charges my Notion of Union to Christ with disserving holiness; Why, what is my Notion of Union?
A59809But Baptism makes us complete members of the Church only under the notion of Catholick visible; How comes this to pass now?
A59809But 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?
A59809But does he indeed speak as he means?
A59809But does not this Imputation make it ours?
A59809But how does this follow?
A59809But how is it said then, Srait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life?
A59809But pray whom or what do I scorn?
A59809But pray why do they think so?
A59809But pray why so?
A59809But pray, who taught him to oppose the Light of Nature to the Gospel of Christ?
A59809But 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?
A59809But the Doctor proceeds, But may we not, notwithstanding this Command, be justified and saved without this Holiness?
A59809But was not Christ personally righteous with this Righteousness?
A59809But what is this Socinian Notion of Justification?
A59809But what will Mr. Ferguson say, if Mr. Calvin gives the very same account of the words, which I do?
A59809But who told Mr. Ferguson that Christ is not the immediate Political Head of his Church, and that therefore there must be a Vicarious Head?
A59809But why so much haste of declaring?
A59809But why so pray?
A59809Can it be inherent in him, and he not righteous by it?
A59809Can it fail of its Effect?
A59809Could he with any Confidence then cry out of Persecution, when he himself hath sounded the Alarm to it?
A59809Did I ever affirm, that the Death of Christ did only ratifie and confirm the Covenant?
A59809Did he not frequently interpose between God and the People, and by his intercessions divert his anger from them?
A59809Did he so fulfil Righteousness for us, that he himself had no interest in it?
A59809Do I make any spiteful Reflections upon mens Persons?
A59809Do I not every where assert that Christs Death did procure and purchase, as well as seal the Covenant of Grace?
A59809Do I tell merry Tales of them?
A59809Do I transprose them, or dress them up in a fools Coat to be laught at?
A59809Do they believe the Church of England to be infallible?
A59809Do they think it a sufficient proof of the Truth of any Doctrine, that it is the Doctrine of the Church of England?
A59809Does it not as much belong to a supreme and unaccountable Judge to pardon, as to absolve?
A59809Doth this Election and Redemption suppose holiness in us?
A59809First, What is meant by Faith in the Merits of Christ?
A59809For did I ever assert, that an External Union to the visible Church did complete and perfect our Union to Christ?
A59809For what reason then shall we serve God?
A59809Hast thou been a Blasphemer?
A59809Hast thou been a Murderer, an Adulterer, a Thief, a Liar, a Drunkard?
A59809Have 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?
A59809He did lay sins on him; When did he lay them?
A59809How come they to be translated again from Christ, and laid upon this Person?
A59809How does he prove this?
A59809How then are they obnoxious to the Curse of the Law?
A59809How then can we answer the demands of the Law with it?
A59809If there be sinfulness in them, where then is their Peace?
A59809If 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?
A59809In what sense then does our Church reject good Works, and attribute our Justification to Faith alone?
A59809Is any thing the less ours, because it is not originally ours, but so by Gift?
A59809Is it that we should kill them, stifle the Creature, that is formed in us in the Womb?
A59809Is not the Promise of Pardon purchas''d and sealed with the Blood of Christ, absolutely necessary to encourage men to be good?
A59809Is there no difference between Works which are imperfectly good, and Works which have no goodness in them?
A59809Is there no difference then between an imputed, and an inherent and personal Righteousness?
A59809Is this a needless enquiry?
A59809Is this the way to cure the world of Atheism?
A59809May it not confer a right, and lay an obligation to Communion with a particular Church, when we come where it is?
A59809May we not imitate that which we can not equal?
A59809Methinks he should consider, whose property it is so much to wonder: But what is the reason of this wonder?
A59809Mr. 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?
A59809Must the Conscience be set free in matters of External Order and Government, but tied up in Doctrines and Opinions?
A59809Must we make our selves beautiful before we are married to Christ, or receive all our beauty from him?
A59809Must we reform our Lives, and lay aside our Opposition to God, and return to our Duty and Allegeance?
A59809Nay, is not this an Argument that Baptism admits them into the Church, because such persons only are subject to the Censures of it?
A59809Nay, the brightness of the Glory of God, and the Image of an infinite Spirit, which hath no shape?
A59809No, that he rejected before; What then?
A59809Or is it without any regard to it?
A59809Or 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?
A59809Or should they teach men to trust wholly in the righteousness of Christ, without any righteousness of their own?
A59809Or that it is Fruitful, or Effective of good things unto the Persons Beloved?
A59809Or that it is Unchangeable?
A59809Or what occasion had I to oppose it in this place?
A59809Say you so Sir?
A59809Should they cry down holiness, and preach up debauchery?
A59809That he, who owns the Gospel of Christ as the only true Medium of knowledge, must be supposed to reject the Light of Nature?
A59809That the Apostle rejects all Works, though they are separated from the notion of Merit?
A59809That they do not differ in their Natures, Acts, and Effects?
A59809That we should give him to the old man to be devoured?
A59809That whatever he did as a man, he did as a Mediator?
A59809The Righteousness of Christ imputed to us makes us righteous as Christ is, and what need is there then of any Righteousness of our own?
A59809There St. Paul enquires by what means our Father Abraham was justified before God?
A59809These are broken Cisterns, and what Peace is there in them?
A59809Thus Christ is called Life, and can any one be an active Creature before there be life breathed into him?
A59809To prove the oneness and identity, which intervenes between Christ, and single Believers?
A59809To what end hath God given us new hearts, and new natures?
A59809To which the Doctor answers, That we are not so to die for any one, as Christ died for us: But what of that?
A59809We are thereby made the righteousness of God in him; if we be righteousness, where is our sinfulness to be charged upon us?
A59809Well, Is there an Essential Unity then here meant betwixt Christ and Believers?
A59809Were there any men who taught the People that Holiness would save them without the Merits of Christ?
A59809What account will he now give of Renouncing the Communion of this Church?
A59809What are those who partake of it?
A59809What has he to object against this?
A59809What is our finite guilt before it?
A59809What subtilty is required in Children to understand these deep Points, and to comprehend the subtil and artificial Schemes of Orthodoxy?
A59809What?
A59809Where is this Law?
A59809Whether Good Works may be said to be necessary to Justification or Salvation?
A59809Who can say I have washed my hands?
A59809Why 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?
A59809Why do they renounce Communion with us?
A59809Why does he not correct the whole Gospel, the language of which is, He that continueth to the end shall be saved?
A59809Why 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?
A59809Why 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?
A59809Why then do they reject any of the Articles of our Church?
A59809Why then this is a sufficient Answer to my Book: But I pray why so?
A59809Why then, to place Justification in pardon of sin, is to make it not a proper but metaphorical Justification; and what then?
A59809Will nothing satisfie the Law but perfect and unsinning Obedience?
A59809Will the Father Elect, and the Son Redeem none but those who are holy, and reject and reprobate all others?
A59809Would not our Author then change his Note, and repent of such Intimations as these?
A59809Yes, 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?
A59809Yes; But how far?
A59809or that the Goodness of God confers an antecedent title on Sinners to Grace and Pardon?
A59809will he damn those, who do not obey, for their disobedience?
A7133015, 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?
A71330And consequently, whether the Doctrine of Purgatory be not a very great diminution of the Love of God, and the Grace of the Gospel?
A71330And do we not still differ about them?
A71330And does not every body now see, how improper unwritten Traditions are, to supply the Defects and Imperfections of the written Rule?
A71330And 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?
A71330And in that case, Which of the Fathers you must believe?
A71330And is it any comfort to a Malefactor to be pardoned, and to be hanged?
A71330And 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?
A71330And were you not sensible at the same time, that you were left to your own Reason and Judgment, when you turned Papist?
A71330Are you got no farther than Reason yet?
A71330Are you not sensible, that men do as little agree about your Reasons for Infallibility, as they do about any Protestant Reasons?
A71330As for instance: When you ask these men, How you can be assured, that the Saints in Heaven can hear our Prayers?
A71330Ask them again, How old this Complaint is, of Protestant Mis- representations of Popery?
A71330Ask them again, whether they believe that God has made it impossible to the greatest part of Mankind, to understand the Christian Religion?
A71330Ask them then, What greater assurance they have of their Faith, than we have of ours?
A71330Ask them, How you shall certainly know what the Judgment of the Fathers was?
A71330Ask them, What they mean by the uncertainty of the Protestant Faith?
A71330Ask them, Whether the first Reformers charged the Church of Rome with such Doctrines and Practices as they were not guilty of?
A71330Ask them, how those Christians understood their Religion, who lived before there were any of these Fathers& Councils?
A71330But how does this prove, that the Bishop of Rome is Infallible?
A71330But if such a man may go to Purgatory, why not to Hell?
A71330But 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?
A71330But is this all that these words, Thou shalt have no other Gods before me, signifies?
A71330Do not I know the Reasons alledged by you for the Infallibility of your Church, as well as you do?
A71330Do these men remember what our Reformers suffered, for opposing Popery?
A71330Does our Mediatour then need other Mediators to interceed with him for us?
A71330For if you must not use your Reason, why does he appeal to your Reason?
A71330For 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?
A71330For will a wise man Dispute with one, who, he knows, banters him all the while?
A71330God 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?
A71330He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father, and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
A71330How comes that to be love and goodness, which the Sinner receives no benefit by?
A71330How then does this Author get rid of the first Commandment?
A71330How you shall know what the true meaning of those words are, which they cite from them?
A71330How you shall know whether this Father did not in other places contradict what he here says?
A71330If any man should attempt to perswade you of this, ask him, Why then he goes about to dispute with you about Religion?
A71330If he had liked the Mediation of Creatures, would he have given his own Son to be our Priest and our Mediator?
A71330If his Interest in the Court of Heaven will not do the less, how can it do the great?
A71330If not, what becomes of Purgatory?
A71330If the Scriptures be for them, why should they be against the Scriptures?
A71330If these Doctrines were not Defined by the Church, should you think these Arguments sufficient to prove them?
A71330If they be not, of what use are they?
A71330If they say he can not, ask them, how many Roman- Catholicks there are that understand Fathers and Councils?
A71330If they say, they can not; ask them, With what confidence they pretend to prove that from Scripture, which they confess is not in it?
A71330If 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?
A71330If they were not Infallible Expositors, how comes their Interpretation of Scripture to be so sacred, that it must not be opposed?
A71330In short, can any Reason, any Authority of Scripture, or Fathers, be any Foundation for a Divine Faith, but onely the Authority of the Church?
A71330In such cases our onely inquiry is, What God has done?
A71330Is not their Faith wholly resolved into the Authority of the Church?
A71330Is 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?
A71330Let me ask them again, Can they have a sufficient certainty, that these Reasons are good, without an infallible Judge?
A71330Let them but ask them, Whether all the peculiar Doctrines of the Church of Rome can be proved by plain Scripture- evidence?
A71330May not what you believe, be very certainly true, because some men believe the contrary?
A71330Nay, Whether that can be a Gospel Doctrine, which represents the Love of God less than infinite?
A71330Nay, how comes an Infallible Church to prescribe such a fallible Rule of interpreting Scriptures?
A71330Now here is mention of fire indeed; but how does it appear to be the Popish Purgatory?
A71330Now how shall you, who are an unlearned man, judge of such Disputes as these?
A71330Now is it likely that the first Reformers should charge the Church of Rome wrongfully?
A71330Now suppose this did relate to the Ark, What is that to the Cherubims?
A71330Suppose that, and does Christ''s being with them, necessarily signifie, that he will make them Infallible?
A71330Suppose the Protestant Faith were uncertain; How is the cause of the Church of Rome ever the better?
A71330The inquiry then is, How we shall learn from Scripture, that there is such an infallible Interpreter?
A71330They assert the necessity of Humane Satisfactions; And what are these satisfactory Works wherewith men must expiate their Sins?
A71330They mightily contend for the Merit of Works; but what are their Meritorious Works?
A71330This, I suppose, all men will grant: but then the difficulty is, What is an express Law?
A71330What Books are spurious or genuine?
A71330What a change does this make in the whole Gospel?
A71330What is it men desire, when they desire Pardon?
A71330What is it, men are afraid of, when they have sinned?
A71330When 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?
A71330Whether any man thinks himself perfectly forgiven, who is punished very severely, tho''not absolutely according to his deserts?
A71330Whether this Father was not contradicted by other Fathers?
A71330Whether those sins are perfectly forgiven, which shall be avenged, thô not with Eternal, yet with long Temporal Punishments in the next World?
A71330Why then do they so quarrel at Peoples reading the Scriptures, and put them upon reading Fathers and Councils?
A71330Will Reason ever make a man infallible?
A71330Would their Consent and Agreement prove the Certainty of the Protestant Faith?
A71330and from that God, who sent his only begotten Son into the World to save Sinners?
A71330and those words, Drink ye all of this, to signifie, Let none drink of the Cup but the Priest who consecrates?
A71330and 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?
A71330and what the true sense of them is?
A71330and whether there can be any Divine Faith without an Infallible Judge?
A71330and why must the major part be always the wisest and best men?
A71330be not the Curse of the Law?
A71330but how if Hereticks should confute them?
A71330did they cry out of Mis- representations, when they were charged with such Doctrines and Practices as these?
A71330did they deny, that they gave Religious Worship to Saints, and Angels, and the Virgin Mary, to Images and Reliques?
A71330does the Decision of the Church need to be confirmed by such Arguments?
A71330does this prove the Church of Rome to be Infallible, because the Church of England is Fallible?
A71330he who became man for us?
A71330how long it has been discovered, that Popery has been thus Abused and Mis- represented?
A71330if 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?
A71330is Thomas an honest man, because John is a Knave?
A71330is an infallible Interpreter?
A71330is it not, that they may not be punished?
A71330is it not, that they shall be punished for it?
A71330is this a sufficient reason to turn Papists, because Protestants are uncertain?
A71330is this the meaning of the word of God dwelling in us richly in all wisdom?
A71330is this the way to give an answer to any one, who asks a reason of the hope that is in us?
A71330must certainty necessarily be found among them, because it is not to be found with us?
A71330or could you suppose, the Church had Defined the contrary, should you think the Arguments good still?
A71330or did not alter his opinion after he had wrote it, without writing publick Recantations, as St. Austin did?
A71330or did they defend them, and endeavour to answer those Arguments which the Reformers brought against them?
A71330or rather was it not done to cure mens inclinations to commit Idolatry with Creatures and Images?
A71330or what Protestant grants he did so, as this Author insinuates?
A71330or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
A71330or 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?
A71330that 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?
A71330the loss of their Estates, their Liberties, their Lives, all the Vengeance of a blind and enraged Zeal?
A71330were the first Reformers charged with these Mis- representations by their Adversaries in those days?
A71330what can Faith signifie, but either the Objects of Faith, or the internal Assent and Perswasion?
A71330what need Reasons and Arguments then, which can not work Faith in us?
A71330where the High Priest is commanded to adore the Cherubims once a year?
A71330whether his offering to dispute with you against the use of your Reason, does not prove him ridiculous and absurd?
A71330whether it be not necessary to believe this with a Divine- Faith?
A71330whether men can dispute without using their own Reason and Judgment?
A71330whether the Articles of your Faith, that they are uncertain, or the Act of Faith, your internal Assent and Perswasion?
A71330whether the Fathers be rightly quoted?
A71330whether they can be convinced without it?
A71330whether this do not resolve our Faith into a private Spirit, which they say, is the Protestant Heresie, and the foundation of Protestant uncertainty?
A71330whether this might not have been expected under a dispensation of the most perfect love?
A71330who lived a laborious and afflicted life for us?
A71330who loved us so, as to give himself for us?
A5989311. v. For mine ow ● … sake, even for mine own sake will I do it; for how should my name be polluted?
A598932dly, But the great Enquiry is, How the spirit of a man can sustain his Infirmities?
A5989345, 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?
A5989345, 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?
A598934thly, This is the wounded Spirit, and such a wounded Spirit who can bear?
A59893And could any thing in the World be more easie than this, which no man could feel?
A59893And does it not become us to submit to him, and rather chuse to obey his Will than to suffer his Vengeance?
A59893And has God made the Restraints and Punishment of Mens Lusts and Vices necessary, and will he not punish them himself?
A59893And he saith unto them, Why are ye so ● … earful, O ye of little faith?
A59893And if there be Order and Government among the Angels themselves, Why should we think that there is nothing like this among glorified Saints?
A59893And if ye do good to them that do good to you, what thank have ye?
A59893And is it not absurd and ridiculous then to laugh at believing?
A59893And 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?
A59893And 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?
A59893And what Thoughts and devout Passions became us then, which are not still on this Day the proper Exercise of our Devotion?
A59893And what is the meaning of this?
A59893And what is this but a Readiness and Forwardness to do Good?
A59893And when the Church is at ease and rest from without, how often is it rent and torn in Pieces with Schisms and Heresies?
A59893And where is the Man that would be contented to live in such an Age?
A59893Are there any other Natural Desires and Appetites which have no Natural Objects to answer them?
A59893Are we a fit Match for infinite Power?
A59893But a wounded spirit who ca ● … bear?
A59893But do not the Angels then thus Worship God in Heaven?
A59893But do we not understand what it is we believe?
A59893But how far must we Relieve these Poor?
A59893But 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?
A59893But is it either safe or honourable to venture future Miseries?
A59893But is not God present in all place ● … to hear the Prayers of good Men, wh ● … call upon him?
A59893But is not this a very strange Choice, to prefer what is absent and unseen, before what is present and sensible?
A59893But supposing it were otherwise, is it not perfect Distraction to oppose our selves against God?
A59893But this is the great difficulty; Who shall reveal this Secret to us?
A59893But what Account do these Men give of the Origin of all things?
A59893But what Authority is this?
A59893But what is danger to that man, who is in a greater danger by the neglect of his Duty?
A59893But what is it to praise God?
A59893But what is this Power which Christ hath given to his Ministers?
A59893But who can represent Eternity?
A59893But yet, why should not that Evidence satisfie us for another World, which in a thousand Cases satisfies us in this?
A59893But you''ll say, what is all this to God?
A59893Can any Man perswade himself to reject the Credit and Authority of all Histories?
A59893Can he be wanting in his care of us, or in good will to us, who made us?
A59893Can he mistake our Condition, who knows our Frame?
A59893Can meer Human Compacts and Governments either make or change the Reasons and Necessities of things?
A59893Can the same Fountain send forth sweet water and bitter?
A59893Can we make our selves happy whether he will or no?
A59893Can we our selves, or the kindest ● … riend in the World, chuse better for ● … s than God?
A59893Can we resist his Almighty Arm?
A59893Certainly if Christ be ever present with us, it is in this Mysterious Supper: Why then do we fly from the Presence of our Lord?
A59893Do these men imagine, they can ne ● … r be tempted to lust, unless they daily ● … e and converse with beautiful Women?
A59893Do we not know what we mean, when we say, we believe in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost?
A59893Do we suspect his Wisdom, or his Goodness?
A59893Does he praise God best, who composes the best Anthems, or sings them best?
A59893Does it consist meerly in the Harmonious Melody of Voices, and Musical Instruments?
A59893Does it require any Philosophy to know how to eat and drink and sleep?
A59893For 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?
A59893For 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?
A59893For can any thing be more infamous than an Aversion to the Belief of Immortality?
A59893For is there any difference between believing God, and believing a Divine Revelation?
A59893Had we rather be miserable for ever, than suffer some present want and pain?
A59893Hath God forgotten to be gracious?
A59893How comes it to pass then, that when our Churches are crowded at Prayers or Sermons, the Table of the Lord is deserted?
A59893How easily can he look us into Misery and Confusion?
A59893How 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?
A59893How 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?
A59893How shall we distinguish between the Corrections of God, and the Wickedness of Men?
A59893How then come they to charge us with believing Contradictions and Impossibilities?
A59893IS Self- love then so dangerous a thing, as to make the Times perillous?
A59893If it be reasonable to believe, is it not very unreasonable to demand any other Evidence than what belongs to Faith?
A59893If then this Faith be so plainly contained in Scripture, what makes all this dispute about it?
A59893If there be no force in Musick to give a good or bad tincture to the Mind, why do any Men complain of wanton Songs?
A59893If we must believe with our Understanding, how can we believe things which we can not understand?
A59893If you enquire, What the Natural Measure of this Charity is?
A59893In speaking to which words, I ● … all, 1. enquire, What may be called ● … e doings of the Lord?
A59893Is Corn, or Fruit, or Herbs the less nourishing or refreshing, because we know not how they grow?
A59893Is Sense then the perfection of a reasonable Nature?
A59893Is any thing in the World harder to be believed than this, which we can form no possible Notion of?
A59893Is any thing more natural to Mankind, than the Desire of Immortality?
A59893Is any thing so destructive to any State as Divisions and Factions at home?
A59893Is his mercy clean gone for ever?
A59893Is it not the duty of us all, as we are able, to instruct, exhort, reprove one another?
A59893Is it only to sing aloud, and to make a joyful noise to God?
A59893Is it possible for a Reasonable Creature to be happy, who separates himself from God?
A59893Is not God the same still?
A59893Is not Wisdom and Knowledge the perfection of the Understanding?
A59893Is this World, or any thing in it, the less useful to us, because we can not conceive how God created all things of nothing?
A59893May not every Christian do the same?
A59893Must we give as long as we have any thing to give, and make our selves the Objects of Charity?
A59893Nature teaches nothing of all this; and how then should they come to know it?
A59893Nay, do not our Adversaries understand what we mean by it?
A59893Nay, is it not the principal Part of it?
A59893Next to the Fears of being miserable for ever, is there a more terrible Thought than falling into nothing?
A59893Now was all this, do you think, calculated only for Sixty six?
A59893Or because we do not understand the Nature of Matter, nor how the several parts of Matter came by their different Virtues and Qualities?
A59893Or can compre ● … end how he can do and know all things ● … d be present in all places at once, ● … ithout Extension, and without Parts?
A59893Or how is Mankind concerned in such Reasons as can be no Rule to them, unless they put off Humane Nature?
A59893Or, What shall a ma ● … give in exchange for his soul?
A59893Or, what hurt did Vertue ever do them, that they should call it evil?
A59893Shall Tribulation, or Distre ● … or Persecution, or Famine, or Nakedness or Peril, or Sword?
A59893That none can stay his Hand, or resist his Will, or say unto him, What dost thou?
A59893That the Joys of Paradise are not greater than a Crown?
A59893The Spirit of a Man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded Spirit who can bear?
A59893The care of Mens Souls is it self a mighty Trust; and Who is sufficient for these things?
A59893This command Christ gave to Peter, and repeated it three times; Simon, son of Ionas, lovest thou me more than these?
A59893This may be thought 〈 ◊ 〉 very needless question; for are ● … here any Events, Good or Evil, which are not God''s doing?
A59893This, 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?
A59893To be unconcerned about the Happiness or Miseries of this Life, and to live upon unseen Hopes and Fears?
A59893To demand the Evidence of Sense, or Demonstration, for pure matters of Faith?
A59893What Age produces such Monsters as do not love themselves?
A59893What Courage can any Man have against Himself, against the Wounds and Disorders of his own Mind?
A59893What 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?
A59893What Merit there can be in believing such Doctrines?
A59893What Times then can be prosperous and happy?
A59893What are the Arian, Socinian, Pelagian Controversies, but meer Philosophical Disputes, with which these Hereticks corrupted the Catholick Faith?
A59893What can not that God do, who made the World?
A59893What could the Fire of London teach us thirty three Years ago, which it does not teach a wise Man still?
A59893What hurt was it for a Man, who was Hungry, to relieve his Hunger?
A59893What is Happiness, but such a State of Ease and Rest and Self- enjoyment, as is agreeable to our Natures?
A59893What is Natural Reason, but the Reason of Humane Nature?
A59893What is it we desire, but to be happy?
A59893What is the Terror, Confusion, Amazement of a never dying Worm?
A59893What is the secure Triumph of a never fading Crown?
A59893What is to be said to these Men?
A59893What it 〈 ◊ 〉 to be dumb, and not to open ● … ur Mouths?
A59893What makes those, who profess to believe the Scripture, so obstinate against this Faith?
A59893What may be called the do ● … ng of the Lord?
A59893Who shall dwell with devouring fire?
A59893Why then did he make us for such a Happiness?
A59893Why then should any Man think Musick improper for the worship of God?
A59893Will not our Food nourish us, ● … less we understand how it is concoct ● … and turned into Chile, and Blood, ● … d Spirits?
A59893Will you prove, that Eternity is to be preferred before Time?
A59893Will you then perswade them to prefer Eternal before Temporal Things?
A59893Would 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?
A59893Would not a wise Man in a Matter of such vast Consequence chuse to be safe?
A59893You may easily guess what I mean: Is Communicating at the Lord''s Table any Part of the Christian Worship?
A59893and can a reasonable Soul then find its compleat and perfect satisfaction in the Pleasures of sense?
A59893and if God intends our happiness in his severest Corrections, why should we complain?
A59893and is not this the perfection of a Reasonable Soul?
A59893and was there ever any State- Faction without Self- love and private Interest at the bottom?
A59893and will he be favourable no more?
A59893but by what Arguments will you perswade, if Eternity it self can not perswade?
A59893can any Man chuse better for himself, than God can?
A59893do we know our Selves so well as he that made us; does not God know what Happiness he hath made us for?
A59893doth his promise fail for evermore?
A59893hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
A59893if not, how can it be its perfect Happiness?
A59893is not the love of the best and most excellent Being the perfection of the Will?
A59893or can so firmly believe it, as to give him any Security and Confidence in sinning?
A59893or does he envy us the Happiness for which he made us?
A59893or 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?
A59893or who can tell, what it is, that makes it wise and just for a good God to forgive Sins?
A59893that 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?
A59893that he will not punish the Breach of these Laws, when Human Governments find it necessary to do so?
A59893to chuse a Vertuous Immortality, or the short and dying Pleasures of Sin?
A59893to perswade our selves that Darkness is Light, and Light Darkness?
A59893who shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
A59893● … he spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity: but a wounded spirit who can bear?
A598352.4 ▪ which is very ill translated, for if they were cast down into Hell, how are they reserved for the Day of Judgment?
A59835And St. Peter, as you heard, that in the last Days there shall be Scoffers, saying, Where is the promise of his coming?
A59835And 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?
A59835And could God then intend any thing in revealing his Will to us, but that we should obey it?
A59835And do you not by this mean Natural Good or Evil?
A59835And how will this aggravate their own Condemnation, when they carry a long Train and Retinue of undone Souls to Hell with them?
A59835And if God damn Men only for their Ill- nature, will not all Mankind justifie the Righteousness of his Judgments?
A59835And if he gave the Law with the sound of a Trumpet, why not Judge the World with it too?
A59835And if this be so, what a terrible Account have some Men to make, which they never think of?
A59835And is it not necessary then to distinguish between good and bad Men?
A59835And is not a reasonable Creature as much bound to know his Duty, as he is to practise it?
A59835And is that a reason, why he should ask less?
A59835And 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?
A59835And ought we not diligently to hearken to that Judgment, which Conscience passes on us?
A59835And should not this teach us to reverence the Judgment of Conscience as a Divine Sentence?
A59835And since you boast of your Power and Greatness, who made you so?
A59835And 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?
A59835And what Title have those to Grace and Mercy, who will shew none?
A59835And what is Uncharitableness but Ill- nature?
A59835And when God knows our most secret Sins, why should he not judge us for them?
A59835Are Adulteries, Fornications, Drunkenness, Gluttony, Prophaneness, Irreligion no Sins, when committed by Young Men?
A59835Are not Men in this World as fond of Happiness, as they are afraid of Misery?
A59835Are not poor Men able to give an account of their Actions, and why then should they not be called to an account for them?
A59835Are there not very knowing and believing Devils?
A59835Are they not reasonable Creatures, and able to understand, and give a reason for what they do?
A59835But besides this, does any thing do more Mischief in the World, than Words, as little as some Men make of them?
A59835But how shall we know this?
A59835But is not Christ in Heaven?
A59835But the Enquiry here is, why GOD judges all the World at once, and summons all Mankind together to receive their final Sentence?
A59835But 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?
A59835But was ever any such thing done yet?
A59835But what would you have such poor Men do?
A59835But you''ll say, how does the Resurrection of Christ from the Dead prove, that he is made the Judge of the World?
A59835Can any one give a reason why these Sins should damn a Man of Forty or Fifty, and be indulged in one of Twenty?
A59835Can there be a greater Contempt of God, then for Men to Deny his Being, to Reproach his Providence, to Ridicule his Worship?
A59835Consider farther, whether you can think it fitting, that God should suffer Young Men to live as they list, without judging them for it?
A59835Could he do any thing more for us, than redeem us from Death and Hell?
A59835Could he redeem us at a dearer rate, than with his own Blood?
A59835Do Men deal thus with one another?
A59835Do we think, that Man deserves any kindness, who will shew none?
A59835Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?
A59835Do you find any Disturbance in their Looks, any symptoms of an uneasie and frighted Imagination?
A59835Does it become the Wise and Holy Governour of the World to contribute so much to the debauching Mankind, as to indulge their youthful Lusts?
A59835Does not Faith and Knowledge make every sin we commit against Faith, and against Knowledge the more inexcusable?
A59835Does not a great Mind despise little things, and aim at what is great?
A59835Does not our Saviour tell us, That he who knows his master''s will, and does it not, shall be beaten with many stripes?
A59835Does the Gospel preach Merit to us, must we merit forgiveness by forgiving?
A59835For can it become a Wise and Holy God to grant Indulgence to Vice?
A59835For can there be a more certain evidence of the evil of Sin, than the Death of Christ?
A59835For how can Sinners be saved, but by Grace?
A59835For 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?
A59835For is not Man a reasonable Creature?
A59835For what could the Law do more than condemn the wicked, and reward the good?
A59835For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
A59835For what is this World, and all the Greatness and Glory of it, to him who made it?
A59835For will any Man say, this is just?
A59835Has 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?
A59835Has he made Vice infamous and contemptible, and will he cast no shame, no reproach on it?
A59835Has he then forgot his Agony and Bloody Sweat, his Cross and Passion?
A59835Have we Eyes in our Heads, and is it any Excuse to us, that we shut them, and lose our Way?
A59835How hard is it for Men to bear Greatness without Pride and Insolence?
A59835How many have they corrupted by their Examples, or Counsels, or some other way?
A59835How 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?
A59835If 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?
A59835If he should acquit the Wicked, and bestow Heaven on them; or condemn any good Man to Hell?
A59835If it be not enough to entitle God to our Service, that he made us, shall we deny his Purchase too?
A59835If we will not reverence the Authority of God, yet how can we resist his Love?
A59835Is God less concerned in the Government of the World now, than he was in former days?
A59835Is God the God of the Iews, and is he not the God of the Gentiles?
A59835Is Pain and Sickness, Poverty and Disgrace, an Untimely or Infamous Death, a great punishment to Men?
A59835Is he less concerned to govern other Nations, than he was to govern the Iews?
A59835Is not this to accept the Persons of Men in Judgment?
A59835Is there any living in the World without judging of Men and Things?
A59835Is there any thing in the World more hateful to Mankind, or which all Men think more deserves punishment, than Ill- Nature?
A59835Is there any use of Knowledge, but to direct our Lives?
A59835It is very obvious to ask here, What is the Fault of this?
A59835It 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?
A59835Know ye not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God?
A59835Knowing 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?
A59835Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
A59835Must we not distinguish between Vertue and Vice, and between good and bad Men?
A59835Must we not say, that he is a very bad Man, whom we see do very bad things?
A59835Nay, can they Apologize for themselves?
A59835No Man who believes a Future Judgement, makes any doubt of this, but that all shall be judged: For if any, why not all?
A59835Now has any such thing yet been done?
A59835Now is there any thing Good or Evil, but Vertue or Vice?
A59835Now what is to be said to these Men?
A59835Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
A59835Or why God should expect less from us than from other Men, because we know more?
A59835Ought not the love of Christ to constrain us?
A59835Pleasures, which will cost him his Soul?
A59835Riches, 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?
A59835Shall we prove that poor Men shall be judged as well as rich?
A59835Since this is universally acknowledged, the onely question is, To what Cause to attribute these Fears and Rebukes of Conscience?
A59835That he should be fed and clothed, when he is in want, who would never feed and cloath others?
A59835That he should be forgiven, who would never forgive?
A59835The Servants of the Housholder, having informed their Master of what had happened, ask him, Whether they should go and gather up the Tares?
A59835Thus how impossible is it for God to punish all bad Men here, without punishing good Men in them?
A59835What a Hell is this to live in perpetual fear of Hell?
A59835What bad Man can hear these things without Terrour and Amazement?
A59835What but this can cool the Heats of Youth, and conquer all the Charms of Flesh and Sence?
A59835What but this can reduce that giddy Age within Bounds, and make them live by Rule?
A59835What could Mankind have desired more, had they had the choice of their own Judge, than to be judged by a Man?
A59835What difference is there between the Law and the Gospel, if they must still be judged according to their Works?
A59835What does St. Peter mean?
A59835What good Man does not long for this happy Day, for this Marriage of the Lamb?
A59835What is Faith good for, which does not renew and sanctifie us?
A59835What is Knowledge good for, which does not direct and govern our Lives?
A59835What is the meaning of this?
A59835What shall we say then to this matter?
A59835What tends more to corrupt Mens Lives then lewd and wanton Talk, as St. Paul tells us, That evil communication corrupts good manners?
A59835What would Sinners think, should they hear themselves condemned by God, every time they commit a known and wilful sin?
A59835When 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?
A59835When he could get nothing by it, but the pleasure and satisfaction of making us happy, and the glory of being the Saviour of Sinners?
A59835When he has bought us with a price, the inestimable Blood of his own Son?
A59835When you hear that any Man has done good or evil, is not the next question, What good or what hurt has he done?
A59835Who knoweth the power of his wrath?
A59835Who shall search the Records of Heaven for us?
A59835Who with these thoughts about him can relish such fatal Pleasures?
A59835Why do they envy them the short and perishing Contentments of this Life, when they are to suffer an Eternity of Misery?
A59835Why should they judge themselves, but in relation to some higher Tribunal, which will certainly judge them?
A59835Why 〈 ◊ 〉 much hast to prevent the Judgment o ● God by our rash, ignorant, uncharitable Judgments?
A59835Will Poverty excuse Sloth and Idleness?
A59835Will equal and impartial Justice allow, that when a Heathen and a Christian are equally wicked, the Christian shall be saved, and the Heathen damned?
A59835Will he reward us for that which deserves no Reward?
A59835Will irregular and furious Passions make a Man miserable?
A59835Will such Men find any Apologists?
A59835Would not the very Order of Nature complain of this, should the God of Nature have no regard to it?
A59835a confounding Shame, distracting and terrifying Fears, raging Anger, Malice, Revenge, great Perplexity, Solicitude, Anxiety of Thoughts?
A59835against his own inclinations, though he lose the Purchase of his Blood by it?
A59835am I not his Creature, and is he not my Soveraign Lord?
A59835am I not obnoxious to the Judgment of God?
A59835and can they be contented to be Witnesses of their Sufferings?
A59835and did not God give these Powers and Faculties to you, to direct and govern your Lives?
A59835and does he now condemn me to Hell, and deservedly too?
A59835and how then can good Men be present with the Lord after Death, if they do not immediately ascend into Heaven?
A59835and in thy Name done many wonderful works?
A59835and in thy Name have cast out devils?
A59835and in thy name cast out devils?
A59835and in thy ● ame done many wonderful works?
A59835and is any Minister too great to be corrected by his Prince, who made him so?
A59835and is he not then my Judge?
A59835and is it any Excuse then for a reasonable Creature, that he lived and acted without Reason, and a wise Consideration of things?
A59835and is this a reason why they should give none?
A59835and not punish us for that which deserves punishment?
A59835and prey upon the very Vitals of Religion?
A59835and the greater their Trust and Power is, have they not a greater account to give?
A59835and those who do, with what infinite difficulty do they do it?
A59835and what Works more worth our study, then the Divine Providence, and the wonderful Mysteries of God''s governing the World?
A59835and whether it be not a great neglect and fault in the Superior, if it be not done?
A59835and why should I expect that my Natural Lord and Judge will not judge me?
A59835and why then should not God ask a reason of them?
A59835are not all Ministers accountable to their Lord?
A59835are they not his Ministers and Servants?
A59835as if he could not influence the minds of Men, and govern their thoughts, and counsels, and passions, without an audible Voice from Heaven?
A59835did he not make you reasonable Creatures, that you might consider, and live by Reason?
A59835did he purchase Heaven for me?
A59835do you not mean, that he has done something very good or very hurtful to himself or others?
A59835for to what purpose then did he give''em?
A59835for what worse Judgment can they undergo than to be cast into Hell?
A59835had you not the power of Thinking, of Reasoning, of Considering?
A59835has God renounced his Authority, or is the exercise of it too troublesome to him?
A59835has all Israel, or the generality of the Iews been converted to Christianity?
A59835has he forgot that Love which brought him into the World, and which nailed him to the Cross, for the Salvation of Sinners?
A59835has he made us accountable Creatures, but to give no account?
A59835has he made us in subjection to himself, to exercise no authority over us?
A59835has he promised to raise our dead Bodies out of the Grave immortal and glorious, to bestow a Crown and Kingdom on us?
A59835how contemptible are Laws without a Sanction, or a Sanction without a Judge to dispense Rewards and Punishments?
A59835is not all power of God?
A59835must we purchase Heaven with our Money?
A59835nay, 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?
A59835not to provoke our Consciences to condemn us; to obey their Admonitions, and to reform at their Rebukes and Censures?
A59835or how is the whole World more unworthy of his care, than the Iewish Nation was?
A59835ought not God and Men to judge them for this?
A59835short and dying and vanishing Pleasures, which will end in eternal Pain?
A59835that God will accept Heathens, who are perfectly innocent and righteous, and never committed any sin?
A59835that he who died for Sinners, will condemn any Sinners whom he can save?
A59835then of being exposed to Shame in the General Assembly of Men and Angels?
A59835to be Rich without being covetuous or luxurious?
A59835to be devout Worshippers of GOD, when they themselves are adored and flattered by Men?
A59835to be more afraid of God than of Men, and yet to stand in more awe of Man than of God?
A59835to be prepossessed and prejudiced against the Severities of a Holy Life?
A59835to make a difference between the Men, when there is no difference in their Actions?
A59835to suffer their render Minds to be corrupted with the love and practise of Vice?
A59835what mighty Allowances God may make for their invincible Ignorances, and the unhappy Circumstances of their Education?
A59835when God shall bring to light all the hidden Works of Darkness?
A59835when Men by indulging their Lusts are grown fond of this World, and of bodily Pleasures, when are they likely to grow wise?
A59835when Men have nothing to live by but their Hands, is that a Reason why they should not work?
A59835when will they think it time to submit to God''s Government, and to obey his Laws?
A59835where shall we find another Saviour to deliver us?
A59835whether a wise Father, or a wise Prince, would not do this?
A59835who advances Princes to the Throne, and cloaths them with Glory and Majesty?
A59835who can dwell with everlasting burnings?
A59835who can live with devouring fire?
A59835who can tell, how little God will accept from those to whom he has given little?
A59835who made you to differ from the meanest Beggar?
A59835why they should be exempted from Judgement, and from giving an Account?
A59835will he not certainly effect what he intends?
A59835without Consideration?
A59835would 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?
A5981413 ▪ How casual does all this appear to us?
A59814And David said to Abishai, destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord''s anointed, and be guiltless?
A59814And can there possibly be a more lovely Idea and Representation of Power than this?
A59814And can we think then, that an infinitely wise Being, should be as unconcerned for the World, as the Ostrich is for her Eggs?
A59814And does not this suppose weakness and want of Power, to want any thing else?
A59814And 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?
A59814And he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
A59814And he that teacheth man knowledg, shall not he know?
A59814And if all these things can be wisely and justly done, how can the doing of any of these things be an Objection against Providence?
A59814And 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?
A59814And is the only Idea of a Happy Nature in the World, a reasonable Objection against Creating Goodness?
A59814And thus the Scripture resolves the Sovereignty of God into Power: That none can stay his hand, or say unto him, what dost thou?
A59814And to whom sware he, that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
A59814And what great things are attributed in Scripture to the Power of Prayer?
A59814And what then?
A59814And when they see all things happen thus evenly and regularly, will they then promise to believe a Providence?
A59814And 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?
A59814And, Shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil?
A59814Are not our Wants, and his own Essential Goodness, a sufficient Motive for him to give?
A59814Are 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?
A59814Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?
A59814Are there any greater Perfections, than Knowledge, and Wisdom, and Understanding, and Liberty of Choice?
A59814As 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?
A59814Behold my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life; how much more now may this Benjamite do it?
A59814But I would gladly know whence they have this Notion of Creating Goodness, that it must make no Creature which can make it self miserable?
A59814But can they tell what kind of Uniformity and Stability of Providence it is, would please them?
A59814But does not every man know the difference between the good of the End, and the good of the Means?
A59814But the present Enquiry is only this, Whether this be Human Reason, the natural Reason of Human Minds?
A59814But what consequence is there in this, that God ca n''t be Holy, nor his Providence Holy, because Men are wicked?
A59814But what is it that God ca n''t do, who has all Nature at his command?
A59814But will any one say, that this is to govern men like men?
A59814But would any man think this a good Argument against the Holiness of a Prince and his Government, that he has many Wicked Subjects?
A59814But yet the Question is not, What use the World did make of this?
A59814But, What use they might have made of it?
A59814By how many seeming Accidents and casual Events was Ioseph advanced to Pharoah''s Throne?
A59814Can he who hates all Wickedness, contribute any thing to make Men more wicked than otherwise they would be?
A59814Can they then tell me, what it is that ca n''t be?
A59814Casu, inquis?
A59814Did God then intend that there should be no different ranks and degrees of men in the world?
A59814Did he harden him against believing Moses, and those Miracles which he wrought in the Name, and by the Power of the God of Israel?
A59814Did not God make Men and Angels as perfect as their Ideas?
A59814Did they take him, and by wicked hands crucify and slay him by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God?
A59814Do not men intend to supply some real or imaginary want in all the Injuries they do?
A59814Do they mean every one who does a wicked action; or every impenitent and incorrigible sinner?
A59814Do we think it any diminution to any man''s goodness, that he will not give, unless he be asked?
A59814Does any good man think himself bound, tho he know our wants, to supply them without our asking?
A59814Does any thing more become Creatures?
A59814Does government signify destroying the nature of those Creatures which are to be governed?
A59814Does not God know our wants before we ask?
A59814Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
A59814For all these questions at last resolve themselves into this, How the Mind of man acts and determines it self?
A59814For can a Holy God punish Sin with Sin?
A59814For if Man be a meer Machine, who moves as he is moved, how can he deserve either Well or Ill?
A59814For if it be the will of God that we should suffer such things, why should we be angry with the men who do them?
A59814For 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?
A59814For is it possible for Absolute Power to want?
A59814For making men Rich or Poor, Honourable or Vile?
A59814For must we believe, That God will do every thing for us, which we trust in him to do?
A59814For sending Peace or War, Plenty or Famine?
A59814For translating Kingdoms and Empires?
A59814For what does St. Peter say was done by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God?
A59814For what is wanting on God''s part to make Man as happy as he can be here?
A59814For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his Counsellor?
A59814For 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?
A59814For would you desire that every sin you commit should be immediately punished, without any time to repent, without any hope of Mercy?
A59814Gird 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?
A59814Has God any where promised to give us whatever we trust in him for?
A59814Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days, and caused the day- spring to know his place?
A59814Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow?
A59814Hath he smitten them, that is Israel, as he smote those that smote him?
A59814Have they any such notion in their minds?
A59814He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him and hath prospered?
A59814He 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?
A59814He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct?
A59814He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
A59814How contrary to all the Notions we have of God, and his kind and gracious Government of his Creatures?
A59814How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for ever?
A59814How many Complaints does the Psalmist make against his Enemies, those who were wrongfully his Enemies?
A59814How passionately does he pray for Protection against his Enemies?
A59814How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
A59814I 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?
A59814If 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?
A59814If then there be no fault to be found in the Idea of a Reasonable Creature, was there any defect in the Workmanship?
A59814If we believe that infinite Wisdom and Goodness takes care of us, what need we know any more?
A59814If we make him our Enemy, who can save us out of his hands?
A59814In measure when it shooteth forth wilt thou debate with it?
A59814Is any thing more casual than a Lot?
A59814Is it possible there should be a happier temper of mind than this?
A59814Is it that we observe such Events as we know not how to reconcile with the common Rules of Justice?
A59814Is not the Idea of a Reasonable Being, and a Free Agent, the Idea of an Excellent and Happy Creature?
A59814Is there any Happiness like the Happiness of a Reasonable Nature?
A59814Is this the natural government of free Agents, to take away their liberty, and freedom of choice?
A59814Job 31, 32,& c. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
A59814Mans goings are of the Lord, how then can a man understand his own ways?
A59814May not God have very wise and just Reasons for lengthening some mens Lives, and for shortening others?
A59814Must a Merchant confidently expect a safe and advantageous Voyage, if he trust in God for it?
A59814Nay, how can the Providence of God do this, without making men Vertuous and Vicious too, by Necessity and Fate?
A59814Nay, indeed, how can any man hope and trust in God, when he has no assurance that he shall obtain what he hopes for?
A59814Nay, is there any thing that deserves the name of Happiness besides this?
A59814Nay, when the Wisdom of Providence is principally seen in the government of Fortuitous Events?
A59814Nay, would not every man say, That this is the most Perfect and Absolute Form of Government in the world?
A59814Now in answer to this, let us consider in the first place, Whether these Objections do not prove too much?
A59814Now what an ill state were Mankind in, did not a Wise and Merciful Hand Govern what we call Chance and Fortune?
A59814Now what can be more just than this, for God to suffer the Devil to blind those men who will not see?
A59814Now what did God harden Pharaoh in?
A59814Or does he need to be informed by our Prayers, what we would have him do for us?
A59814Or does he want to be intreated and importuned?
A59814Or does the Nature and Reason of Providence infer any such thing?
A59814Or if he ask fish, will he give him a serpent?
A59814Or what farther evidence would they have desired, that it was God who spoke to them?
A59814Or whether it be a self- moving Being, and determines it self from the Principles of its own Nature, and its own free Choice?
A59814Should 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?
A59814That is, Whether they do not equally destroy the Reasonableness of making any Prayers or Petitions to Men, as well as to God?
A59814That is, does it prove any man to be mutable, to change only as a Wise and Immutable Rule requires him to change?
A59814That the Rich and Prosperous shall always be Rich and Prosperous, and the Poor always Poor, and Beggars, and Slaves?
A59814That there should be no distinction between Rich and Poor, High and Low, Princes and Subjects, the Honourable and the Vile?
A59814The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear?
A59814Then, said I, Lord, how long?
A59814This no man can promise himself, who does not trust in God; for how is Providence concerned for them who expect nothing from it?
A59814Thou knowest my down- sitting, and my uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off?
A59814Thus Abraham reasoned with God, and therein spake the sense of Mankind; Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?
A59814Upon what little unexpected things do the Fortunes of Men, of Families, of whole Kingdoms turn?
A59814Vnderstand ye brutish among the people, and ye fools when will ye be wise?
A59814We 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?
A59814Well then, who in the first place are these sinners whom they would have punished?
A59814Well then: Would they have this rectified?
A59814What Miseries could disturb Human life, were all men Just, and Honest, and Charitable, did they love one another as themselves?
A59814What can be more accidental than this?
A59814What can put Nature into such an universal disorder, but the same Divine Power which put it into order, and gave Laws to it?
A59814What 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?
A59814What dreadful Apprehensions would this give Mankind of God, were this World nothing else but a Scene of Trouble and Misery?
A59814What encouragement would this be to Sinners to repent and reform?
A59814What hopes could they reasonably conceive of Pardon and Forgiveness, had they no experience of God''s goodness and patience towards Sinners?
A59814What 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?
A59814What is it then they find fault with in God''s making Angels and Men?
A59814What it is that they would be pleased with?
A59814What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
A59814What more likely way to gain the Favour of Princes and People, than a dextrous and skilful Application and Address?
A59814What should supply mens wants, and increase Riches, but Wisdom and Understanding in Human affairs?
A59814What 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?
A59814Where are they?
A59814Where is the way where light dwelleth?
A59814Whether Preservation be a continued Creation?
A59814Whether there was no other possible way to save sinners; or whether this were absolutely the best?
A59814Which made the Wise man conclude, Mans goings are of the Lord, how then shall a man understand his own ways?
A59814Whither shall I go from thy Spirit, or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
A59814Who hath resisted his will, and prospered?
A59814Who is this that darkneth counsel by words without knowledge?
A59814Why should we revenge our Sufferings on them, when we suffer by the Will of God?
A59814Why so great a part of the world to this day have never heard of Christ?
A59814Will you call Senseless Matter, nay, will you call Beasts happy?
A59814Would not a Thief much rather chuse to find a Treasure, than to take a Purse upon the Road?
A59814Would they have all mens Fortunes equal?
A59814Would they prove, that God did not make the World, because he made Angels and Men, some of whom have made themselves Devils?
A59814Would they think God too kind to bad men, or too hard and severe to the good?
A59814Would we desire any thing else, or can we wish for any thing better than what infinite Wisdom and Goodness can do for us?
A59814and as for darkness, where is the plaee thereof?
A59814and give them all the happiness which belonged to their Natures?
A59814and how then do the Sins of men come to be an Argument against the Holiness of Providence?
A59814and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendred it?
A59814and whether we must submit to the Providence of God in such a Change, by what means soever such a Change is brought about?
A59814and who hath begotten the drops of the dew?
A59814and why then should we desire, why should we fear any longer?
A59814and will not that God, who has given us our Lives, and our Bodies, give us what is absolutely necessary for their support?
A59814are not your ways unequal?
A59814but, How long the sinner deserves to be punished?
A59814canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season, or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
A59814canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
A59814canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, here we are?
A59814declare if thou hast understanding, who hath laid the measure thereof, if thou knowest?
A59814deeper than hell, what canst thou know?
A59814does Nature teach them, that any thing can be without a Cause adequate to the Effect?
A59814does this become God, to make a free Agent, and to govern him by necessity and force?
A59814hath the rain a father?
A59814have they any natural sensation that answers these words?
A59814how long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?
A59814how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
A59814how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
A59814how many secret Plots are discovered, when ripe for execution?
A59814how many wicked Designs prove abortive?
A59814itanè verò?
A59814knowest thou the ordinances of heaven, or canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
A59814more honourable for God, or more secure for our selves?
A59814or because so many men sin, and make themselves miserable, therefore God is not good in creating Man?
A59814or did he intend that no poor men should be wise?
A59814or hast thou known the treasures of the hail?
A59814or whether they be two distinct and different Acts of Power, to Make, and to Preserve?
A59814or who hath laid the corner stone thereof?
A59814or who hath stretched the line upon it?
A59814or would we have any thing which infinite Wisdom and Goodness does not think fit to give us?
A59814out of whose womb came the ice?
A59814quatuor tali jacti casu venereum efficiunt, num etiam centum venereos, si 400 talos ejeceris, casu futuros putas?
A59814quidquam potest casu esse factum, quod omnes in se habeat numeros veritatis?
A59814that any thing can be wisely made without a wise Cause?
A59814that one contrary can produce the other?
A59814that sensless, stupid Matter can produce Life, Sensation and Understanding?
A59814that there should be no poor men as well as rich?
A59814to 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?
A59814where are thy wise men?
A59814wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
A59814whereupon are the foundations thereof fastned?
A59814who knows how much evil bad men would do, had they no restraint?
A59814who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the womb?
A59814who would have been contented to live in such a world, to converse only with the Images of Death, and with noisome Carkasses?
A59814why he had not his Oracles and Prophets in other Nations?
A59814why should we punish them?
A59814why 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?
A59907And Iesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride- chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them?
A59907And are they more quiet and peaceable, or less clamorous in their Complaints, than our Dissenters in England?
A59907And can we flatter our selves then, that the removal of these Ceremonies would cure our Divisions?
A59907And does not the experience of the late Times manifestly confirm this beyond all dispute?
A59907And does the Church of England require any more?
A59907And doth not our Church declare her Ceremonies to be things indifferent?
A59907And has our Church been wanting in this, to give satisfaction to Dissenters?
A59907And if it will not, why does he urge the evil and mischief of Divisions, to perswade the Church to part with these Ceremonies?
A59907And 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?
A59907And is Decency then a new burden, which Christ hath not imposed on his Disciples?
A59907And is it not as fitting then to signifie one, as the other, by distinct and appropriate Habits?
A59907And is it not more decent and orderly, that it should be so?
A59907And is it not most proper to apply the remedy to the disease?
A59907And was he not then in Communion with Christ and his Apostles?
A59907And was it thought an act of meekness and gentleness to do so?
A59907And was not that said to justifie their refusal to abate the imposition of the Ceremonies?
A59907And were they not at liberty then to eat or not to eat?
A59907And what charity is it to them, to discover their obstinacy and hypocrisie, and render them more inexcusable to God and men?
A59907And yet may she suffer Schismaticks to preach, and allure men into a Schism?
A59907And yet what is it that the King yielded under these necessities?
A59907Are all these things, as used in the Roman Church, indifferent?
A59907Are not private Christians subject to the Authority of the Church, and liable to be judged and censured by their Governours?
A59907Are the Ceremonies of our Church decent circumstances of Worship, or are they not?
A59907Are their Grossings and Exorcisms, and such- like Ceremonies, abused by the Church of Rome to the absurdest Superstitions, indifferent things?
A59907Are there any such Rituals and Ceremonies in the Church of England, as have the least affinity with the Jewish Yoke?
A59907But did Christ and his Apostles then intend that Christians should be always children?
A59907But did our Saviour condemn the Pharisees meerly for binding these heavy burdens, and laying them upon mens shoulders?
A59907But did they plead onely for the alteration of some disputable passages in the Liturgy, when Mr. Baxter himself drew up a new Liturgy?
A59907But does our Reconciler know what a competition between two Laws means?
A59907But does our Reconciler think this variety of posture at Prayer, an orderly and decent thing?
A59907But does the Church of England lay any new burdens upon men?
A59907But does the Dean say, that these Ceremonies were retained onely for their antiquity?
A59907But has our Reconciler the face to say that they are shut out meerly for indifferent things, when they themselves give another account of it?
A59907But how does it appear that this man who cast out Devils in Christ''s Name, did preach the Gospel too?
A59907But how does it appear that this man who cast out Devils in Christ''s Name, was no Disciple?
A59907But how does our Reconciler know this?
A59907But how does that appear, that Christ does not require it?
A59907But how does this concern our Dissenters?
A59907But how does this prove that Church- Governours must part with the Rites and Ceremonies of Religion?
A59907But is our Reconciler in good earnest?
A59907But is the Kingdom of Christ then promoted by Schism?
A59907But is there no difference between these two cases?
A59907But must every one who believes these Ceremonies alterable, presently grant that they must be altered right or wrong?
A59907But now if we apply this to the Rites and Ceremonies of publick Worship, what sence is there in this Argument?
A59907But suppose he is as fond of a Strumpet as he is of his Mother, what would the Father do in that case?
A59907But to whom must this be made as clear?
A59907But was not our Reconciler asleep, when he tells us, that this man did not hold Communion with the Disciples?
A59907But what a wide difference is there between the instances of a raised and perfect Vertue, and the decent Rites and Ceremonies of Worship?
A59907But what ancient simplicity does he mean?
A59907But what have we to do with the judgment of charity in this case?
A59907But what if these three men did consent to such an Act, were they constituted the Representatives of the whole Body of Nonconformists?
A59907But 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?
A59907But what is that to the purpose?
A59907But what is the meaning of this?
A59907But what is this to the Dean''s reason, That we do not break Communion with them for meer indifferent things?
A59907But what is this to the Dispute about Ceremonies?
A59907But what is this to the case of our Dissenters?
A59907But what is this to the purpose?
A59907But what limit can be set to Ecclesiastical Authority, if the Church exceed what is barely necessary to prevent confusion in religious Worship?
A59907But 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?
A59907But what were these heavy burdens and grievous to be born, which the Pharisees bound upon mens shoulders?
A59907But where does our Saviour say this?
A59907But whether would the merciful Father let the Infant famish that would take food from none but his Mother?
A59907But who told him this?
A59907But why dost thou judge thy brother?
A59907But why should Church- Communion be suspended upon such terms as are not necessary to Salvation?
A59907But would such a Physician suffer such a humorsome Patient( could he hinder it) to go to a Quack or a Mountebank?
A59907But 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?
A59907But you will say, Were not these things indi ● ferent?
A59907Can any thing be decent and fit to be done in any circumstances, which the Church has no Authority to do?
A59907Can not men be saved who observe the Ceremonies of our Church?
A59907Can 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?
A59907Christ hath taken away the Yoke of Jewish Ceremonies, and has the Church of England put another Jewish Yoke on the Disciples necks?
A59907Could he find nothing in the Dean and his Defenders tending this way?
A59907Could 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?
A59907Could they undertake that the rest of their Brethren should consent too?
A59907Did Christ leave it at liberty then, whether his Disciples should worship God decently or not?
A59907Did Christ, when he abrogated the Jewish Law, abrogate all Decency of Worship too?
A59907Did he never read any thing in vindication of Ecclesiastical Authority, in commanding indifferent things?
A59907Did he set up any distinct Church and Communion of his own?
A59907Did not St. Paul testifie that he had declared the whole Will of God to them?
A59907Did not some, both Jews and Gentiles, separate from each other upon these accounts, and disturb the Peace, and divide the Communion of the Church?
A59907Did not this occasion great Heats and Animosities, Judgings and Censurings of one another?
A59907Did they make Objections for the Dissenters, and then answer them; or did they answer such Objections as they found made to their hands?
A59907Did they prescribe no Rules, or Orders, or Ceremonies of Worship?
A59907Did they suffer any Christians to dispute their Authority in such cases?
A59907Does Christ then give any authority to his Church, which she must not use?
A59907Does it signifie any more than a Soveraign Authority to command, under the guilt of sin, if we disobey?
A59907Does not such a general Rule for the Decency of Worship, require that there should be some particular Rules of Decency and Order prescribed?
A59907Does not the Apostle expresly say, I know, and am perswaded by the Lord Iesus Christ, that there is nothing unclean of it self?
A59907Does not the Church require an uniform posture at Prayer too?
A59907Does not the Dean expound receiving the weak, by joyning together as Christians in the Duties common to them all?
A59907Does our Saviour here speak of abrogating the Laws of Sacrifice for the sake of Mercy?
A59907Does she require any new acts of Worship, which Christ has not required?
A59907Does she require any thing more than what is necessary?
A59907Does the Church require any more than Christ hath required?
A59907Does the King in these words promise to alter the Constitutions of the Church, to abolish all Ceremonies,& c?
A59907Does the appointment of some Ceremonies for the decent and orderly performance of Religious Worship, hinder the salvation of mens Souls?
A59907Does the imposition of Ceremonies, in its own nature, shut men out of the Kingdom of Heaven?
A59907Dost thou believe thou mayst eat indifferently of all meats?
A59907For did not Christ, all the time he was on Earth, live in Communion with the Jewish Church?
A59907For did not the Laws concerning clean and unclean meats, respect their ordinary Diet in their own Families?
A59907For is it not a greater thing to give his Son for sinners, than to indulge them in some little Follies and Extravagances?
A59907For what consequence is there in this?
A59907For 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?
A59907For what is the meaning of judging another mans servant?
A59907For whose sake shall the Church make this Experiment, with the loss of their own Orders and Constitutions?
A59907For why must the Church be tyed up to what is necessary?
A59907Had Christ no Disciples but those who followed him where- ever he went?
A59907Had these Miracles been wrought onely in confirmation of his Mission, would not another day have served as well for that purpose?
A59907Has he not made Obedience to our Rulers and Governours a necessary condition of Communion?
A59907Has not Christ required that we should worship God decently?
A59907Has our Reconciler never read Mr. Baxter''s Pleas for Peace, and those other venomous Pamphlets of late date?
A59907Has the Church of England imposed any thing upon her People, but the Rules of Order and Decency?
A59907Hast thou Faith?
A59907Hast thou faith?
A59907Hast thou faith?
A59907He proposes this Question indeed to them, Is it lawful on the Sabbath- day to do good, or to do evil?
A59907His two next Questions, Whether the Worship of God can not be performed decently and in order, without these Ceremonies?
A59907How come the Ceremonies of our Church to be a Wall of partition?
A59907How could any Jew scruple the lawfulness of fasting, which was so often commanded and recommended in their Law?
A59907How do Children come to have any right to Baptism?
A59907How does he then hence conclude any thing about repealing the Laws of Ceremonies and Rituals?
A59907How is the Church more concerned to alter her Constitutions for the children of Schismaticks, than for their Schismatical Parents?
A59907How many bitter Invectives were written against him?
A59907How many unanswerable Books have been written in justification of the Constitutions and Worship of our Church?
A59907How much then is a man better than a sheep?
A59907I answer: Does our Reconciler then think that every thing that is the occasion of Discords and Divisions, must be removed?
A59907I wonder what these men mean by the Dissenters yielding?
A59907If St. Paul thought the observation of the Law so indifferent, why does he dispute so earnestly against it in this whole Epistle?
A59907If any Church may, why not the Church of England?
A59907If the Rulers of the Church be the proper Judges of this, how does our Reconciler come by this authority to judge his Judges?
A59907If then I be a father, where is my honour?
A59907If they must not command what is innocent, useful, and convenient, when those whom they ought to command, do not think it so?
A59907Is Decency a thing valuable for it self, or onely as it is opposed to indecency?
A59907Is Decency an unnecessary or unreasonable thing?
A59907Is it a sin not to grant that indulgence which they are not forbid to grant by an express positive Law?
A59907Is 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?
A59907Is not Religion as much concerned in the Honour and Purity of the Ministerial Office, as in such oeconomical relations?
A59907Is not the contempt of Ecclesiastical Authority, and the rude and unmannerly performance of religious Worship, as great a mischief as Divisions?
A59907Is praying for the dead, as it is joyned with the Doctrine of Purgatory and Merit, in the Church of Rome, a thing indifferent?
A59907Is the Sacrament of Extream Unction an indifferent thing?
A59907Is the cause of Divisions in the nature of things, or in the minds of men?
A59907Is this Authority for the good of the Church, or is it not?
A59907Is this the onely Controversie, that Presbyterians, Independents, Quakers, and other Sectaries, have with the Church of England?
A59907Must every thing which is alterable, be altered for no reason at all?
A59907Must nothing be enjoyned, which is little in comparison of Love, and Peace, and Unity?
A59907Must she alter her Laws as often as any Christians pretend to scruple them?
A59907Must the Church alter the most prudent and wholsome Constitutions for the sake of every one, whom she does not believe a damned Hypocrite?
A59907Must the Church appoint them to be observed, but command no body to observe them but those who please?
A59907Must the Church part with her Ceremonies, for fear the occasion mens running into Schism, and being damned for it?
A59907Must there be no Walls and Fences about the Church, this Vineyard and Fold of Christ?
A59907Must there be no difference between the afflicted, and prosperous state of the Church?
A59907Nay, 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?
A59907Nay, 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?
A59907Now I would ask our Reconciler one Question, Why all this will not hold as well in Civil as Ecclesiastical Government?
A59907Now because God prefers true and real goodness before the externals of Religion, does it hence follow that there must be no external Worship?
A59907Now do you indeed believe that this is the true state of your Case?
A59907Now does not every body see that there is more in the conclusion, than there is in the premises?
A59907Now is it possible for the Israelites to sacrifice the abomination of the AEgyptians before their eyes, and not give offence to them?
A59907Now 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?
A59907Now supposing this to be true( which I have already proved not to be true) what is this to the Governours of the Church?
A59907Now what affinity is there between this case and that of our Dissenters?
A59907Now what relation is there between the Law of Moses, and the indifferent Circumstances or Ceremonies of Worship?
A59907Now when these things are decent and fit, does it exceed the Authority of the Church to appoint them?
A59907Or did they prescribe such Rules, without exacting obedience to them?
A59907Or do we think to stop their mouths, and escape their reproaches and censures?
A59907Or 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?
A59907Or must the Church be bound to alter her Constitutions at the instigation of some few busie undertaking Dissenters?
A59907Or 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?
A59907Or that if any person scrupled these Laws, he would not insist upon it, but give them their liberty to worship God as they pleased?
A59907Or will you say, that that is a Sacrifice, or that that meat is polluted which is offered to nothing?
A59907Right; and therefore not an absolute and necessary Duty: otherwise, how does it appear that the Bishops Authority extends onely to Necessaries?
A59907Sight and blindness are privatively opposite; but will you say, that man sees well enough, who is not blind?
A59907Suppose Governours can satisfie their Consciences without such an express prohibition, what then?
A59907Suppose the imposition of these Ceremonies be neither the cause of the Schism, nor the removal of them the cure of it, what then?
A59907Suppose there be probable reasons on both sides, where yet it is necessary to act one way, what must be done in this case?
A59907That he who believes kneeling at the Sacrament to be superstitious, should not judge and censure him whom he sees kneel, as guilty of Superstition?
A59907The French Protestants indeed receive standing; but what is that to our Dissenters, who would no more receive standing than kneeling?
A59907There is one Law- giver, who is able to save and to destroy; who art thou that judgest another?
A59907They ask''d him, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but thy Disciples fast not?
A59907They must not be perpetual, that is, they are alterable, when the wisdom of Governours sees fit; and who denies it?
A59907This is a great fault, if the charge be good and just: but is the Church of England guilty of any such thing?
A59907Thus 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?
A59907Thus it was with the Jewish Sacrifices: Behold Israel after the flesh, are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
A59907Was he not a Jew, and a Member of the Jewish Church?
A59907Was it not sufficiently known, without a Bill of Fare, that the Jews did observe these Laws?
A59907Was not the Law abrogated which made the di ● ference between clean and unclean meats?
A59907Was there any moral goodness in Christ''s eating with Publicans and Sinners?
A59907Was there any moral goodness in healing on the Sabbath- day, when there was no necessity for doing it just on that day?
A59907Was there any moral goodness in his Disciples eating with unwashen hands?
A59907Was there any moral goodness too in commanding the man whom he had cured, to take up his Bed and walk on the Sabbath- day?
A59907Well says the Gnostick, what communion can there be with that which is not?
A59907Well, but how does this Passage in the Irenicum countenance this reconciling designe?
A59907Well, 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?
A59907Well, but suppose what he says to be true, what reason is this for altering our Ceremonies at this day?
A59907Were this one Rule agreed on, what Peace and Vnity would soon follow?
A59907What Communion then was he of?
A59907What Law condemns the Ceremonies of the Church of England?
A59907What correspondence is there between the Ceremonies of the Jewish Law, and the decent circumstances of Worship?
A59907What destroys them?
A59907What disturbance does the signe of the Cross, made with the gentle motion of the finger, cause?
A59907What is it then?
A59907What is my reward then?
A59907What mighty trouble is it to kneel at the Sacrament?
A59907What offence is a white Linnen garment to the eye?
A59907What then is the fault?
A59907What then?
A59907What, not when Christ has given authority to enjoyn them?
A59907What, were they all Hypocrites?
A59907When these Divisions will not be cured by such condescension?
A59907Whether any man in his wits can think it reasonable that mens private Fancies and Opinions should over- rule the Authority of Church and State?
A59907Whether he were under a necessity of healing all that were sick?
A59907Whether it be unreasonable to punish any man, because all men are unwilling to be punished?
A59907Whether it is possible to maintain any Order or Government, without rejecting and censuring those who will not conform to it?
A59907Whether the Ceremonies used by the Church of England, be not as decent and reverent as any other?
A59907Whether we can worship decently and reverently, without some decent habits, postures, places,& c?
A59907Who are thou that judgest another mans servant?
A59907Why did St. Paul so severely chide the Galatians, who chiefly consisted of Gentile Converts, for their warping to the observation of the Law?
A59907Why did he contend so earnestly even with St. Peter himself, in behalf of the Gentiles, to maintain their liberty from the Jewish Yoke?
A59907Why did he not first ask the opinion of his Brethren and Superiours about it?
A59907Why does he so diligently caution the Colossians both against Jewish and Pagan Superstitions, as contrary to the Doctrine of Christ?
A59907Why is not that sufficient to make a man a Member of a Church, which is sufficient to carry him to Heaven?
A59907Why may not spiritual advantages find place in our Worship, as well as what is barely necessary?
A59907Why 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?
A59907Why must the Church part with these Ceremonies, which are of good use in Religion, to no purpose?
A59907Why so?
A59907Will our Reconciler now stand to this Proposition?
A59907Will our Separatists conform now, if these Ceremonies are taken away?
A59907Will our parting with some few Ceremonies, cure these Divisions which he so much complains of?
A59907Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oyl?
A59907Will you say, that there are any such Gods as the Heathens worship?
A59907Would not our Reverend Bishops once have condescended to these terms of Vnion?
A59907Yes, why not, for all this?
A59907Yes, why not, so long as the Physician prescribed the Physick?
A59907an obstinate refusal to obey such Impositions?
A59907and has not Christ enjoyned this?
A59907and is not that a sufficient justification of theAuthority which imposes?
A59907and to give Laws to Conscience?
A59907and would not pass upon us the s ● verest censures because we are constrained thus to differ?
A59907are they tempted to renounce the Christian Religion by the Ceremonies of the Church of England?
A59907between new and distinct acts, and the decent Modes of actions?
A59907especially for men to sit at Prayers?
A59907for the sake of Dissenters?
A59907for what likeness can there be between these two cases?
A59907if I be a master, where is my fear?
A59907is it an original right of their own, or in the right of their Parents?
A59907is it the imposition of these things?
A59907must every man be left to do as he pleases?
A59907must the Church determine this matter, or not?
A59907or are they of such squeamish Consciences, that they can submit to an Antichristian Hierarchy, and an Antichristian Liturgy, but not to Ceremonies?
A59907or is the bare Decency of Worship a Jewish Yoke?
A59907or must repeal these Laws when any ignorant people refuse to submit to them?
A59907or must she make no Laws about such matters, but suffer every Christian to worship God as he pleases?
A59907or must there in every Congregation be two Ministers, and two Sacraments, one of the leavened, the other of the unleavened Communion?
A59907or must they be enjoyned, and left indifferent at the same time?
A59907or that the Church must make no Laws for the decent or orderly performance of it?
A59907or to take Physick very hurtful and pernicious to him?
A59907or will you say, That an Idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to Idols is any thing?
A59907shall I come before him with burnt- offerings, with calves of a year old?
A59907shall I give my first- born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
A59907that the Hospital or the Nursery should be the best Platform of Government in Church or State?
A59907that the observation of such little things must not be enjoyned?
A59907that they ought to pay such deference to their Superiours, as chearfully to obey them in all things which God has not expresly forbid?
A59907the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
A59907the use of indifferent things?
A59907to instruct people that they ought not to quarrel about such matters?
A59907to save life, or to destroy it?
A59907to the Dissenters, or to the Governours of the Church?
A59907was there not one honest man among them?
A59907were they things burdensom to the Conscience, which tempted men to forsake their Communion?
A59907what is the other Duty then to which this must give way?
A59907what then?
A59907when will you be able to distinguish between a Defence and a demure Abuse?
A59907when will you be wise?
A59907when will you learn understanding?
A59907why 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?