This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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A33772 | If she be a Subject, Who is the Lord? |
A45647 | And if so, must not then such a Being be own''d to be Almighty or Omnipotent? |
A45647 | Can we imagine that a Being from whom all Life, Power and Energy is derived, can be without it himself? |
A45647 | Must the Deity have the worst and most stupid Body of All others? |
A45647 | Tully saith, Deum nisi Sempiternum Intelligere quî possumus? |
A45647 | that is, whatever is agreeable to, and consistent with, the other Attributes of the Divine Nature? |
A45642 | But what then? |
A45642 | Is it not Natural to embrace any offer that proposes to us a great Advantage? |
A45642 | Is not a desire of Happiness so Natural to us, that''t is the great Inducement of all our Actions? |
A45642 | What reason can therefore be possibly assigned, why such a Person should disbelieve the Truths of Religion? |
A45642 | and are not we very ready to believe the Truth of any thing that is advanced of that Nature? |
A45642 | and will not every Man aim to get as much of this as he can, according to the Notion he hath of it? |
A45642 | what is there then that can prejudice such a Man''s Mind against the Belief and Expectation of a future Reward at the hand of God? |
A37276 | Can Nature say, awake ye Dead, arise, Shake off your Sleep, lift up your drowsie Eyes? |
A37276 | How strangely must the Atheist look to see The fire renounce its burning quality? |
A37276 | Infuse new Life into his Frozen Veins And a new Soul to his forsaken Brains? |
A37276 | Or make the Sea without its Motion stand And in a moment turn to Solid Land? |
A37276 | Was there then ever such a Fire or Flood, So swift and fierce as not to be withstood? |
A37276 | What pow''r of Nature can transform a flood Of Chrystal Waters into Scarlet Blood? |
A37276 | What strength of Art can quicken and restore A Man when dead to what he was before? |
A37276 | What then will you be able to say for your self if you degenerate from such Worthy Progenitors? |
A37276 | Why then will Men their wisedom thus betray And by their folly cast themselves away? |
A45639 | Are their Eyes and Ears, Noses and Feeling, so much more accurate than those of the Vulgar? |
A45639 | But can any Man have the face to pretend to this? |
A45639 | Can any one be directly assured, that there is not so much as a Possibility that these things should be true? |
A45639 | Now, is not this admirable Philosophy? |
A45639 | Now, where is the Inconceivableness, Confusion, Absurdity, and Nonsence of all This? |
A45639 | Now, why should not they proceed so in Matters of Religion? |
A45639 | Will not the common sense of all Mankind pronounce this impossible? |
A45639 | and that a Demonstration of the Non- Existence of these things, is not to be obtained? |
A45639 | and worthy of those that pretend to a sublimer pitch of Knowledge than the Vulgar? |
A45639 | for how come the Idea of Imperfection into our Mind? |
A45639 | how can we know what is wanting in any Being, unless we have an Idea of it, that it is in some other Being? |
A45639 | how come we to know that a Thing is Finite, Defective and Limited, unless we have also an Idea or Notion of Infinity or Perfection? |
A69557 | But by the way; what if it be made appear, that there is really such a Power of Gravity perpetually acting in the constitution of the present System? |
A69557 | But how could Particles so widely dispersed combine into that closeness of Texture? |
A69557 | But then how rarely would there be any clashing at all? |
A69557 | But then why did they not continue their descent, till they were contiguous to the Sun; whither both Mutual Attraction and Impetus carried them? |
A69557 | How many thousand years might expire, before those solitary Vessels should happen to strike one against the other? |
A69557 | Is it not now utterly incredible, that our two Vessels, placed there Antipodes to each other, should ever happen to concur? |
A69557 | Now how is it possible that these things should be effected by any Material and Mechanical Agent? |
A69557 | Now what Natural Cause can overcome Nature it self? |
A69557 | Or were each formed in the same Orbs, in which they now move? |
A69557 | Was it nearer to the Sun, than the present distances are? |
A69557 | What is it that holds and keeps them in fixed Stations and Intervals against an incessant and inherent Tendency to desert them? |
A69557 | how very rarely in comparison to the number of Atoms? |
A64373 | A weak Faith is scarce sufficent to keep out fear and trouble: What Peace then can there be, where there is no faith at all? |
A64373 | And how can an Atheist, a false Man, be a faithful Witness? |
A64373 | And upon what Temptation is it, that they make this perillous Adventure? |
A64373 | For what Confidence can be put in a Man that thinks not of a God that will call him to an Account? |
A64373 | If a Man could see into the Breast of a godless Person, what a Cave of horrour would he look into? |
A64373 | Or his taking up the Name of a Deity, of which he says, as St. Paul of an Idol, that it is Nothing? |
A64373 | Our Saviour''s question carries its answer along with it; Why are yee fearful, O yee of little faith? |
A64373 | Put when they had commanded them to go aside out of the Council, they conferred among themselves, saying, What shall we do to these Men? |
A64373 | What a Mockery is his deposing upon a Gospel, which he does not believe? |
A64373 | What heighth of pride would he find there? |
A64373 | What judicial proceeding can there be, for the preservation of Mens Persons and Properties without Witnesses? |
A64373 | What uncharitableness would he see in such a Person, rendring him distrustful of all the World as designing, and unfaithful? |
A64373 | What ungovernableness of Spirit would he behold; what an unwillingness to own any Lord over it? |
A64373 | Who if he pursues his Principles, must never speak Truth, nor do Justice against his private Ends? |
A64373 | Who then is the foolish Merchant? |
A64373 | who measures all things by Power and personal Humour or Interest? |
A45646 | Accordingly Vaninus tells us, That Protagoras used to say, Si Deus non est unde igitur Bona? |
A45646 | For can any Man produce a Law that ever obtained universally against paying Adoration and Worship to the Deity? |
A45646 | Is not such a Mans whole course of Action, a continual state of War in his own Breast, and a constant Contradiction of his Reason and his Conscience? |
A45646 | What an unexpressible wretchedness would Mankind be in, if Hobbs his State of Nature were in Being amongst us? |
A45646 | Will Men take their Measures to judge of Human Nature only from the Monstrosities of it, from the worst and most stupid Parts of Mankind? |
A45646 | Will not a General Rule stand its Ground tho''there be a few Exceptions against it? |
A45646 | against Mens honouring their Parents, or against their being Just, Good, Merciful, and Righteous in their Dealings with one another? |
A45646 | and prove our greatest Support under any Troubles and Afflictions? |
A45645 | Again, what doth Mr. Hobbs mean by the Will''s being the Necessary Cause of Voluntary Actions? |
A45645 | And when one wrote to him on this Point, alledging, that if the Will were not free, All Vice would be excusable; he Answers, Quid inde a? |
A45645 | But how ridiculously Vain is all this, according to these Principles? |
A45645 | But if this be spoken of the Will, what will it signifie? |
A45645 | But will not such a Principle as this be the most mischievous and dangerous to Mankind that can possibly be? |
A45645 | Can any Man help being of that Opinion he embraces? |
A45645 | Doth it not open a Door to all the Wickedness that can possibly enter into the Heart of Man to commit? |
A45645 | For why do they write Books, and spin out such Elaborate Treatises as they fansie they do? |
A45645 | Is not the Magistrate as much necessitated to Punish as they are to Offend? |
A45645 | and if he hath absolutely necessitated them to do just as they do? |
A45645 | and the Government to make Laws as they are to break them? |
A45645 | and why should they set themselves up above others, and expect Praise and Glory for their fine Thoughts and elevated Notions? |
A45645 | they can''t sure be so Ignorant as to expect to convince any Body, or to Proselyte any one over to their Opinion? |
A60211 | Alas, alas, what is become of Christian Piety? |
A60211 | And to what purpose are many words? |
A60211 | Can they believe the Immortality of the Soul, who live little better than beasts? |
A60211 | For what shall I say? |
A60211 | For what sort of Wickedness and Villany is wanting, which if it were supposed to be thrown in, would make our times worse and wickeder in any part? |
A60211 | Now I say, when men see all this, is it possible that they should not despise those who seek their own, and not the things of Jesus Christ? |
A60211 | Who knows not of what force kindred, the marriage of a Kinswoman, or maid servant if it so happen, is in the disposing of these preferments? |
A60211 | With what face I beseech you, can a man blame his child which he hath corrupted by his ill example? |
A60211 | but what need is there of many words? |
A87160 | A man in disgrace with the higher Powers, the Rulers, high Priests, Scribes and Pharisees, Do any of the Rulers, or of the Pharisees believe in him? |
A87160 | As also that answer of his to Johns Disciples sent to enquire of him as touching that mysterie of the Messiah, Art thou he that shall come? |
A87160 | For as it is in Isaiah, Who shall declare his age? |
A87160 | Men and Brethren, what shall we do? |
A87160 | Quis talia fando, Myrmidonum, Dolopumve, aut duri miles Vlyssi, Temperet a Lachrymis? |
A87160 | Speak unto Zerubbabel, who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory, and how do you see it now? |
A87160 | Then this is the record of John, when the Jews sent Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, who art thou? |
A87160 | This is one of the last signes foretold by our Saviour, and but in part remaineth to be accomplished: and what hindreth? |
A87160 | it is not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? |
A45644 | ( a) Praeterea, cui non animus formidine Divium Contrahitur? |
A45644 | ( b) First, he saith, the Mind can give him Eternity of Duration: But how came it by that Idea of Eternity? |
A45644 | And now what can the Atheist say to such a Proof as this? |
A45644 | But have they any such Proof ready? |
A45644 | But pray who was this mighty Man? |
A45644 | Do they intend by them, such as have Power, Command and Empire over others? |
A45644 | How then could the Figment of a Deity gain admittance into the Minds of Men, at first? |
A45644 | Non Populi Gentesque tremunt? |
A45644 | Now by Brave and Great Souls, who do they mean? |
A45644 | What greater Evidence can be desired of the Truth of any thing, than that it hath been believed by all Men in all Ages and Places of the World? |
A45644 | and had Mankind a clear Conception of it? |
A45644 | cui non conrepunt membra pavore Fulminis horribili cum plagâ torrida tellus Contremit,& magnum percurrunt murmura Coelum? |
A45644 | how came he himself exempted from this poorness of Spirit? |
A45644 | how could his Mind attain any such feigning and ampliating Power? |
A45644 | how could they understand the meaning of a meer Arbitrary word, that had no manner of foundation in Nature, nor any Idea or Notion answering to it? |
A45644 | or have they ever yet produced it? |
A45644 | was that Idea previous to the Invention of a Deity? |
A45644 | what Ancient History gives us any Account of this happy Person, that laughed at that which all the World besides were afraid of? |
A45644 | when and where did he live? |
A38046 | And then as to the thing it self, why should any man think it Strange and Unaccountable that there are Dissentions in Christendom? |
A38046 | And whom do they( for this man speaks the sense of the rest) mean by Priests but the Ministers of Religion? |
A38046 | But what is the ground of the foresaid Assertion? |
A38046 | Can there be any Reason given of this partial dealing? |
A38046 | For what though there be mere Pretenders to Godliness? |
A38046 | How unreasonably then do men question a God, and cry out against Religion it self because they see so many of this sort of Disorders in the world? |
A38046 | Is there no probability of a brave fortuitous hit once again? |
A38046 | Is there no such fine piece of work as that of Sun, Moon, and Stars, to be expected once more? |
A38046 | Is this Fortunate Lottery at an end? |
A38046 | Must I therefore thence conclude that all Professors of Religion are an errant Cheat? |
A38046 | Or, suppose he tells the Rabble that Messiah signifies Anointed, what then? |
A38046 | Then you shall hear one cry out, Quis putet esse Deos? |
A38046 | Then, as to their Motion, whence had they that? |
A38046 | Thus where is there more of Atheism than in Italy, the Pope''s own Soil, part of which is call''d Holy Land? |
A38046 | What makes him contend for One Single Article, with the Exclusion of all the rest? |
A38046 | What though there are great numbers of Religious Impostors? |
A38046 | Why then must there be but One Article, and no more? |
A38046 | Why therefore are they so void of Ingenuity and fair- dealing, as not to admit of the same in the case that is before us? |
A38046 | Why? |
A38046 | doth it thence follow that there is none at all? |
A38046 | either of themselves or of an other? |
A38046 | is this Lucky Chance quite ceas''d? |
A38046 | yea indeed, what ground have these Chance- Philosophers to think that there ever was any such thing? |
B03288 | ( This Lamp of Lights, the Element of fire?) |
B03288 | ( Without the Blessing of Almighty God Wh is Omnipotent) have any power? |
B03288 | ? |
B03288 | A speedy help? |
B03288 | And all things necessary for our use? |
B03288 | And in each order guide Each Species in its kind: how can a Clod? |
B03288 | At his appointed time? |
B03288 | At that Great Day expect to Saved be? |
B03288 | Can any stop the Tide? |
B03288 | Can it take care for us? |
B03288 | Divide it self? |
B03288 | For all things living? |
B03288 | How many thousands with their Lips confess The being of a God? |
B03288 | It is in vain to expect Providence From such a one: did she make Earth to hang''I th open Air? |
B03288 | Pray to be Damn''d? |
B03288 | Such order for to keep? |
B03288 | That''s void of life it self? |
B03288 | To let a Beast have the preheminence Above a Man: by what way doth the Light? |
B03288 | Unto a Spire of Grass, or smallest Flower To give a being? |
B03288 | Unto it self? |
B03288 | VVhat frantick Folly doth possess your mind? |
B03288 | VVholly besotted? |
B03288 | Verse:"Deny a God!? |
B03288 | Views all the Heathen World? |
B03288 | What fragrant Flowers doth the earth produce? |
B03288 | and in Order keep All this vast Bulk? |
B03288 | and in this time of Grace, Defy Salvation, and in Heavens Face In Scorn to Spit? |
B03288 | and when we be asleep Doth she watch o''re us? |
B03288 | can she provide? |
B03288 | for Thomas Sare, London,: 1675?] |
B03288 | for how can we? |
B03288 | how comes the day and Night? |
B03288 | how doth it keep Its constant custome when we are asleep? |
B03288 | in one day flies About this mighty Globe, can any stay, His fiery Chariot? |
B03288 | on a sudden send? |
B03288 | or can she defend In time of danger? |
B03288 | or how can fruit proceed From out its Bowells without Providence? |
B03288 | or how can she Guide This Great Creation? |
B03288 | or know what need We have of things? |
B03288 | or make another Live? |
B03288 | that''s void of Life and Sence? |
B03288 | the Sun to Rise? |
B03288 | void of common sence? |
B03288 | who dare in his way, Vouchsafe to stand? |
B03288 | who neverless Are perfect Athiests? |
B03288 | with what Majestique Ire? |
A32802 | But how came divers families to be subjected to one King or common Father? |
A32802 | But let the Socinians speak their minde clearely, then what is it they would have? |
A32802 | Can the Papists desire fairer quarter, or a foller acknowledgement? |
A32802 | Did Melanchthon, Bucer, Calvin, Beza, Bullinger, ever preach such doctrine? |
A32802 | Doe any Reformed Divines maintain this seditious tenent which will certainly ruine any State where it is generally received? |
A32802 | Ex consensu tantùm in principalibus cum Ario de Jesu Christo, Arianismi jure quis argui potest? |
A32802 | He had one question more, which he tooke much pride in, namely, Utrum Essentia concurrat in Trinitatem? |
A32802 | Hoe aut ● m ann ● ● est Ecclesi ● ejusque Doctoribus contr ● versias cum aliorū obligatione judicādi Potestatem adscribere? |
A32802 | How shall it appeare, say they, that any Church preaches the saving Truth? |
A32802 | How will the Socinians triumph when they heare the Primate of all England discoursing of the Godhead of Christ and the Holy Ghost as Niceties? |
A32802 | I appeale to the conscience of* Dr. Sheldon whether he hath not reserved more charity for an Infidel then a Calvinist? |
A32802 | I remember his observations upon that Text, Good Master what shall I doe that I may inherit eternall life? |
A32802 | Is there nothing written in Scripture concerning the eternall Deity of Christ? |
A32802 | Mr. Chillingworth proves undeniably that the Church of Rome is not Infallible, but to what end and purpose? |
A32802 | Must we then subscribe to that Arminian and Socinian principle, Nullum dogma controversum est fundamentale? |
A32802 | Nay was not the faction of Anabaptists raised by the Devil and fomented by Rome, on purpose to hinder the Reformation begun by those worthy Reformers? |
A32802 | Quid interea bonus ille Hosius Cardinalis cum suis Catholieis? |
A32802 | Sure the good Dr. forgot the Jaylours question, What shall I doe to be saved? |
A32802 | They protest against Brownisme, as a* bitter error, and full of cruelty; what can be desired more, to cleare them from being Brownists or Anabaptists? |
A32802 | Vulpt ● bus atque leves voltis confidere Mergi? |
A32802 | Was it not lawfull for Judah to reforme her selfe whē Israel would not joyn? |
A32802 | What did the man that was cured of the palsy beleeve? |
A32802 | What doe the Socinians, or indeed Arminians require more? |
A32802 | What saith Mr. Chillingworth to this bold charge? |
A32802 | What, Sir, must there be no deduction, no consequences allowed? |
A32802 | When a point begins to be controverted shall it cease to be Fundamentall? |
A32802 | Whiles we are unregenerate God knowes we can not repent and beleeve; is not God offended with us even then, for our impenitence and unbeleefe? |
A32802 | Who are so active in all Counsells of warre at Oxford, as men that are shrewdly suspected for Socinianisme? |
A32802 | Who sees not what conclusion will follow? |
A32802 | and the Apostles answer, Beleeve,& c. Is this the Calvinisme he jerkes at? |
A32802 | frustra accedis qui hoc& illud non credas? |
A32802 | it is not, saith he, what shall I beleeve, as the Calvinists would have it,( or to that effect) but what shall I doe? |
A32802 | must there be expresse letter of Scripture? |
A32802 | nay did they not constantly oppose the Anabaptists in this very point? |
A32802 | nisi servi Christi? |
A32802 | quid alii? |
A51284 | Again why are the Teeth so luckily placed, or rather why are there not Teeth in other bones as well as in the jaw- bones? |
A51284 | And how can that, that is no Physicall affection of the Matter affect our corporeall Organs of Sense? |
A51284 | And indeed what is more obvious and ordinary then a Mole, and yet what more palpable Argument of Providence then she? |
A51284 | And then again for the armature of Beasts, who taught them the use of their weapons? |
A51284 | And they having given themselves over to him so wholy, why may he not use them thus here, when they shall be worse used by him hereafter? |
A51284 | And what it he doe occasionally and orderly kill some of them for food? |
A51284 | And why may not this be as well as any thing else, if you will have all things fatall or casuall without a God? |
A51284 | Besides how come these many animadversions to seem but one to us, our mind being these, as is supposed? |
A51284 | But for Statelinesse and Majesty what is comparable to a Horse? |
A51284 | But this directing Principle what could it be but God? |
A51284 | Did she learne it of her Mother before her? |
A51284 | For how should the parts of this liquid Matter ever come into this exquisite Fabrick of themselves? |
A51284 | For if any thing may be self- essentiated besides God, why may not a Spirit of just six times lesse power then God exist of it self? |
A51284 | For what is more ordinary with them then the taking in flowers and fruitage for the garnishing of their work? |
A51284 | For what is that outward mis ● apement of Body to the inward deformity of their Souls, which he helps on so notoriously? |
A51284 | For what life or Phansy has the Earth, which as they say gendred at first all Animalls, some still? |
A51284 | For why have we three Joynts in our Leggs and Armes as also in our Fingers, but that it was much better then having but two or four? |
A51284 | For why is she made so full of Feare and Vigilancy ever re ● ring up and listning whiles she is feeding? |
A51284 | I demand therefore to what in the body will you attribute Spontaneous Motion? |
A51284 | I demand therefore who put this Indelible Character of God upon our Souls? |
A51284 | I therefore now demand which of the particles in these so many loosely moving one from another, has Animadversion in it? |
A51284 | If the wit of Man had been to contrive this Organ for himself, what could he have possibly excogitated more accurate? |
A51284 | If you say the Brain immits and directs these Spirits, how can that so freely and spontaneously move it self or another that has no Muscles? |
A51284 | Is it themselves, or the Braine, or that particular piece of the Braine they call the Co ● arion or Pine- ker ● ell? |
A51284 | Or how is it possible for any body to swallow down Knives and pieces of Iron a span long? |
A51284 | So the Husband of the Witch of Lochiae, whom she brought into the like Assembly, by saying O my God where are we? |
A51284 | What remaines therefore but that he should manifest himself to our Inward Man? |
A51284 | What then will become of his Sword, Shield, or Speare? |
A51284 | Would not you sooner laugh at it then goe about to confute it? |
A51284 | and why is she so exceeding swift of foot, and has her Eyes so prominent, and placed so that she can see better behind her then before her? |
A51284 | or rather does she not do she knows not what, but yet what ought to be done by the appointment of the most exquisite knowledge that is? |
A51284 | or who seal''d so deep an Impression of that Character upon our Minds? |
A51284 | why and to what purpose is it there? |
A41388 | 2dly, were you not under some discontent for your present low Condition? |
A41388 | Besides if the Sun stood still from eternity, what caused it to move in time? |
A41388 | But are not many Ministers themselves a chief cause that they are so contemned? |
A41388 | But doe not you now run into the same erro ● r which you so lately condemned in others? |
A41388 | But is not the poverty of many of them and the poor pittances allotted for their subsistence as great a cause of their contempt as any? |
A41388 | But is not this an intrenchment upon our Christian liberty, to be confind to particular Modes and Forms? |
A41388 | But pray tell me, is it possible, that there should be such fierce disputes, and bitter contentions about a very nothing? |
A41388 | But what do you think of their opnion ● oncerning Inf ● nt Baptism? |
A41388 | Can we imagine that such a gift was bestowed on him to Stir up wantonness and lust, by the more artificial singing, of unsavory Sonnets? |
A41388 | Could any thing be utter''d more fals and invidious? |
A41388 | Did not Astrologers, and Heathen Oracles foretel many things that came to pass as they were foretold? |
A41388 | Do you think that all Nonconformists, and Separatists from your Church, are Libertines and Atheists? |
A41388 | Does any light of nature make it rational that the Gods should be pleased with the blood of poor innocent Beasts? |
A41388 | Have you any thing else to object aginst these Schismatick practices? |
A41388 | How could you be deceived by such painted sepulchers? |
A41388 | How do set form ● of Prayer more stint the Spirit, then set Forms of Psalms for Singing? |
A41388 | How do you prove that to be unnecessary? |
A41388 | How easie had it been then to have setled a competent maintenance upon most Churches in the Nation? |
A41388 | I confess''t is not very probable; but have you any other proof, for the certainty of these Prophecyes? |
A41388 | I very much approve your reason against the necessity of transubstantiation: Let me here from you why you tearme it monstrous, and impossible? |
A41388 | If of all religions in the world, all are not in the right, how will you know which is the true Religion, which is the false? |
A41388 | Is it imaginable that so many wise men should contend about a trifle, a fancy, a very nothing? |
A41388 | Looke we on the animate Creatures, plants, herbs, flowers, grass, grain, how wonderfully they grow and multiply? |
A41388 | Methinks I read some discontent in your face: what may be the cause of it? |
A41388 | Now to the last objection: Were it not better that some Apochryphal Chapters were left out of the calender, and Canonical Lessons set in their place? |
A41388 | O what will become of such an one unto all eternity? |
A41388 | Or shall the husbandman refuse pure wheat because''t was once mingl''d with chaff, and tares, albeit''t is now winno ● ed and s ● fted? |
A41388 | Or shall we refuse Pauls Epistles, because there are in them certain savory passages taken out of the writings of Idolatrous Heathens? |
A41388 | Shall a true man refuse to take his goods, and make the best he can of them because he finds them in a Theifs house? |
A41388 | Upon supposition that God is, what do you conceive of him in your mind? |
A41388 | What Inducements you had to turne to the Church of Rome? |
A41388 | What Reasons you had to leave it? |
A41388 | What a strange piece of non- sense is it, that amongst our Congregational men, the Minister should be the only poor Dependent? |
A41388 | What express Text is there for the Communicating of Woemen? |
A41388 | What is it to any understanding man, whether he Prayes or Preaches in Black or White or any other Colour, unless it be for decency and uniformity? |
A41388 | What proof do you expect? |
A41388 | What should I mention the Angels of the Seaven Asiatick Churches? |
A41388 | When our Saviour saies( Hoc est corpus meum) what doth( hoc) stand for? |
A41388 | When will that time come, that such strict discipline will be endured? |
A41388 | You are pleased to make your self mercy with these mens bare- fac''t hypocricy, what a jugles this light within them? |
A41388 | and I pray you what think you of their other rare quali ● ies before mentioned? |
A41388 | and others of his perswasion appropriate to that Church: but had you not some other inducements? |
A41388 | did Christ and his Apostles propagate the Gospel with such Carnall weapons? |
A41388 | for may not the eare be deceived as well as the eye? |
A41388 | how must they be broken into infinite fractions, especially where the fear of a Common enemy does not unite and peice them together? |
A41388 | if one or two or three Senses may be deceived, why not all? |
A41388 | of Angell, Saint, or Image, which is so expressly forbidden in the word of God? |
A41388 | or 3dly, were you not ambitious of preferment, deeming popery to be a ready way to it? |
A41388 | or is it rational to imagine that they should delight in humane ● acrifices? |
A41388 | or lastly before you set up for the Church of Rome, were you serious and conscientiou ● in any Religion? |
A41388 | or that''t is his method to informe the mind by Impostures? |
A41388 | shall we think that the God of truth Gave to m ● n five Scences, to deceive 4 of them by one pretended miracle? |
A41388 | the nose, the tast, the touch? |
A41388 | then what will become of Romes orall Tradition? |
A41388 | those excellent Prayers She uses, how are they ● itted to our infirmities, mixed with Psalms, Hymns, and choise portions of Scripture? |
A41388 | what could you see more in them then what was conspicuous in the Scribes and Phari ● ees of old? |
A41388 | what nation is there so great that has Statues and judgments so Righteous, as all the Law which is set before you this day? |
A41388 | what need is there then of a Transubstantiation? |
A41388 | when ● e cured the blind, the dumb, the lame, when he turned water into wine, was not this manifest to the Sight, the Smell, the Tast? |
A41388 | which nevertheless the Anabaptists practise; have they not express Texts for obeying the Civil Magistrate? |
A41388 | why not rather in that of baptism? |
A41388 | why should not the baptismall water be changed into Christs very blood? |
A41388 | will you believe nothing but what you see with your own eies? |
A45638 | ( a) Praeterea, cui non animus formidine Divùm Contrahitur? |
A45638 | ( b) First, he saith, the Mind can give him Eternity of Duration: But how came it by that Idea of Eternity? |
A45638 | Accordingly Vaninus tells us, That Protagoras used to say, Si Deus non est unde igitur Bona? |
A45638 | Again, what doth Mr. Hobbs mean by the Will''s being the Necessary Cause of Voluntary Actions? |
A45638 | And if so, must not then such a Being be own''d to be Almighty or Omnipotent? |
A45638 | And if they have not a clear and distinct Idea of Matter or Body, how come they so boldly to say that Matter and Substance are all one? |
A45638 | And now what can the Atheist say to such a Proof as this? |
A45638 | And pray what is here new? |
A45638 | And when one wrote to him on this Point, alledging, that if the Will were not free, All Vice would be excusable; he Answers, Quid inde( a)? |
A45638 | Are their Eyes and Ears, Noses and Feeling, so much more accurate than those of the Vulgar? |
A45638 | But allowing him all the Collective Mass of Beings, or the Universe to be God; What a strange kind of a Deity would this make? |
A45638 | But can any Man have the face to pretend to this? |
A45638 | But have they any such Proof ready? |
A45638 | But how came this Motion into Matter at first? |
A45638 | But how ridiculously Vain is all this, according to these Principles? |
A45638 | But if this be spoken of the Will, what will it signifie? |
A45638 | But pray who was this mighty Man? |
A45638 | But what then? |
A45638 | But will not such a Principle as this be the most mischievous and dangerous to Mankind that can possibly be? |
A45638 | Can any Man help being of that Opinion he embraces? |
A45638 | Can any one be directly assured, that there is not so much as a Possibility that these things should be true? |
A45638 | Can we imagine that a Being from whom all Life, Power and Energy is derived, can be without it himself? |
A45638 | Did ever any one but a stupid Corporealist imagine that a Particle of Matter by being moved, was made Intelligent? |
A45638 | Do they intend by them, such as have Power, Command and Empire over others? |
A45638 | Doth it not open a Door to all the Wickedness that can possibly enter into the Heart of Man to commit? |
A45638 | For after all the various Positions, Configurations, and Combinations of Matter, is it not Matter still? |
A45638 | For can any Man produce a Law that ever obtained universally against paying Adoration and Worship to the Deity? |
A45638 | For why do they write Books, and spin out such Elaborate Treatises as they fansie they do? |
A45638 | How then could the Figment of a Deity gain admittance into the Minds of Men, at first? |
A45638 | I enquire what all this will signifie towards producing of Cogitation, Wisdom, and Vnderstanding? |
A45638 | Is it not Natural to embrace any offer that proposes to us a great Advantage? |
A45638 | Is not He the First Cause, Maker and Preserver of all Things? |
A45638 | Is not a desire of Happiness so Natural to us, that''t is the great Inducement of all our Actions? |
A45638 | Is not such a Mans whole course of Action, a continual state of War in his own Breast, and a constant Contradiction of his Reason and his Conscience? |
A45638 | Is not the Magistrate as much necessitated to Punish as they are to Offend? |
A45638 | Must the Deity have the worst and most stupid Body of All others? |
A45638 | Non Populi Gentesque tremunt? |
A45638 | Now by Brave and Great Souls, who do they mean? |
A45638 | Now would any one, that can think at all, run this Dreadful Hazard? |
A45638 | Now, is not this admirable Philosophy? |
A45638 | Now, where is the Inconceivableness, Confusion, Absurdity, and Nonsence of all This? |
A45638 | Now, why should not they proceed so in Matters of Religion? |
A45638 | Regesque superbi Conripiunt Divùm perculsâ membra timore Ne quod ob admissum foedè, dictumque superbè Poenarum grave sit solvendi tempus adactum? |
A45638 | Tully saith, Deum nisi Sempiternum Intelligere quî possumus? |
A45638 | What an unexpressible wretchedness would Mankind be in, if Hobbs his State of Nature were in Being amongst us? |
A45638 | What greater Evidence can be desired of the Truth of any thing, than that it hath been believed by all Men in all Ages and Places of the World? |
A45638 | What reason can therefore be possibly assigned, why such a Person should disbelieve the Truths of Religion? |
A45638 | Why do they quarrel with, and cast off his Holy Word, and reject and despise his Revealed Will? |
A45638 | Why should they still, in spite of Sense, Reason and Philosophy, maintain, That there can be no such thing as an Incorporeal or Immaterial Substance? |
A45638 | Will Men take their Measures to judge of Human Nature only from the Monstrosities of it, from the worst and most stupid Parts of Mankind? |
A45638 | Will not a General Rule stand its Ground tho''there be a few Exceptions against it? |
A45638 | Will not the common sense of all Mankind pronounce this impossible? |
A45638 | against Mens honouring their Parents, or against their being Just, Good, Merciful, and Righteous in their Dealings with one another? |
A45638 | and are not we very ready to believe the Truth of any thing that is advanced of that Nature? |
A45638 | and can not such a Deity acquaint his Creatures how he will be worshipped and served? |
A45638 | and consequently is not He as fit and worthy to be worshipped as well as a Spiritual One? |
A45638 | and did any one ever think that the Knowledge of such a rambling Atom encreased in Proportion to the velocity of its Motion? |
A45638 | and had Mankind a clear Conception of it? |
A45638 | and hath a little Particle more Sense than a larger? |
A45638 | and if he hath absolutely necessitated them to do just as they do? |
A45638 | and is it not just so with Matter? |
A45638 | and prove our greatest Support under any Troubles and Afflictions? |
A45638 | and that a Demonstration of the Non- Existence of these things, is not to be obtained? |
A45638 | and that its travelling from place to place, made it understand all things in its way? |
A45638 | and the Government to make Laws as they are to break them? |
A45638 | and which way did Matter attain this Divine Activity, or God- like Energy? |
A45638 | and why should they set themselves up above others, and expect Praise and Glory for their fine Thoughts and elevated Notions? |
A45638 | and will not every Man aim to get as much of this as he can, according to the Notion he hath of it? |
A45638 | and worthy of those that pretend to a sublimer pitch of Knowledge than the Vulgar? |
A45638 | can not He Reward them for so doing, and Punish them for offending against Him, equally as if He were Incorporeal? |
A45638 | cui non conrepunt membra pavore Fulminis horribili cum plagâ torrida tellus Contremit,& magnum percurrunt murmura Coelum? |
A45638 | for how comes the Idea of Imperfection into our Mind? |
A45638 | for let it be never so briskly agitated, is it not still Body? |
A45638 | give the Combination Almighty Power, Wisdom, and Goodness? |
A45638 | how came he himself exempted from this poorness of Spirit? |
A45638 | how can we know what is wanting in any Being, unless we have an Idea of it, that it is in some other Being? |
A45638 | how come we to know that a Thing is Finite, Defective and Limited, unless we have also an Idea or Notion of Infinity or Perfection? |
A45638 | how could his Mind attain any such feigning and ampliating Power? |
A45638 | how could they understand the meaning of a meer Arbitrary word, that had no manner of foundation in Nature, nor any Idea or Notion answering to it? |
A45638 | or have they ever yet produced it? |
A45638 | or to the production of Life, Self Activity, or Spontaneous Power? |
A45638 | that is, whatever is agreeable to, and consistent with, the other Attributes of the Divine Nature? |
A45638 | they can''t sure be so Ignorant as to expect to convince any Body, or to Proselyte any one over to their Opinion? |
A45638 | was that Idea previous to the Invention of a Deity? |
A45638 | what Ancient History gives us any Account of this happy Person, that laughed at that which all the World besides were afraid of? |
A45638 | what is there then that can prejudice such a Man''s Mind against the Belief and Expectation of a future Reward at the hand of God? |
A45638 | what will this do towards Divinity? |
A45638 | when and where did he live? |
A45638 | when there was nothing like this before in any of the Atoms themselves? |
A45638 | will Three or Four, or Four Millions of these be more ingenious than a Body or Lump that is as big as them all? |
A45638 | will a Particle of it be made any more Wise and Intelligent, for being render''d smaller than it was before? |
A45638 | will adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing of Numbers, make them any thing else more Noble than what they were before? |
A45638 | will rarefying or subtilizing of Matter change its Nature and Essential Properties? |
A69226 | A letter or Epistle written from God vnto mankind? |
A69226 | A picture can not be made without a Painter; or a grauen image without a Caruer, And can such a piece of worke be made without a worke van? |
A69226 | AN Atheist hauing heard a Preacher in his Sermon make mention of the soule: the Sermon being ended, asked him what the Soule was? |
A69226 | And what is that, but onely God, that is causa causarum the cause of all other causes, and from whence all other thinges haue their being? |
A69226 | And why is all this, but because hee is loath to die? |
A69226 | And why should any fewe wicked men thinke them selues wiser then the worlde? |
A69226 | But the Atheists will aske me, how I can make proofe by any sauing the Euangelist, that there was euer such an Eclipse? |
A69226 | But they aske how he could be borne of a Virgin? |
A69226 | But to them may be applyed the wordes of Policarpus to Marcian the haereticke, who being asked of him: Agnoscis me ô Policarpe? |
A69226 | But, God is omnipotent as the Apostle speaketh: why doth he yet complayne? |
A69226 | Deus et pater,& bonum eandem habent naturam, quid est Deus, pater,& bonum, quam omnium esse? |
A69226 | Dost thou acknowledge me ô Policarpus? |
A69226 | First let the Atheist take example by Olimpius the Arrian, which washing himselfe in the Bathe contempteously asked how this might be? |
A69226 | For Ptolomye marueyling why no Poets nor Historiographers writ concerning these misteryes of Faith? |
A69226 | For what is this whole visible world, but Epistola a Deo scripta ad humanum genus? |
A69226 | From whence had God such great quantity of water to drowne the worlde? |
A69226 | God the Father, and Goodnes, haue the same nature, what is God, the Father, and Goodnes, but the very essence, and being of all thinges? |
A69226 | Hoc vero opificium fine opifice factum est? |
A69226 | How then is it that now our Atheists denie the same? |
A69226 | I could aske them how Eue could be borne of Adam without a mother? |
A69226 | I say to the Atheist with S. Paul; And thinkest thou ô man that thou shalt escape the iudgement of God? |
A69226 | I would that such men as suggest these thinges, would either certisie vt eus bono? |
A69226 | If they aske where hell is? |
A69226 | If they swearo by the name of God, why doe they deny God? |
A69226 | If you aske how God should speake? |
A69226 | If you aske what moued him to create it, when he could be aswell without it? |
A69226 | Imo, Deos victos tanquam defensores colere, quid aliud est quam non numina bona, sed daemonia mala? |
A69226 | Lactantius proposeth this question, whether the world is gouerned by one God or manie? |
A69226 | Lewis King of Hungary slayne, who can giue a naturall reason of this, and many other like vnto this? |
A69226 | Nec ideo Troiaperijt quia Mineruam perdidit, quid enim ipsa prius Mincrua perdidit vt periret? |
A69226 | Of the Soule of man, what it is? |
A69226 | Oh how hard a thing is it for a man to keep his countenance,& not to blush which hath committed an offence? |
A69226 | Optatus desireth to be instructed how, when, and where, the soule which of it selfe is pure, beginneth to take infection? |
A69226 | Pope Gregorie the great disputeth in this manner: Si anima oriatur cum carne ex substantia Adae, cur non simul moritur eum carne? |
A69226 | Quid Deus? |
A69226 | Quis est qui euique modum& magnitudinem cursus terminauit? |
A69226 | Quod virga potuit, virgo non potuit? |
A69226 | So I dispute against them: if they be, as they confesse their selues, a damned crue, how shall they thinke to escape damnation? |
A69226 | Such an Atheist was Pharao which said: Who is the Lord that I should heare his voyce, and let the people goe? |
A69226 | That which a rodde could doe, could not a Virgin doe? |
A69226 | The Lord said to Cain after he had committed murther: Why is thy countenance cast downe? |
A69226 | The food of the beastes, whatsoeuer it was before, it might behaye, hearbes and berryes, for what food would not hunger cause them to eat? |
A69226 | The holy Ghost doth not write like Demosthenes, that it may be said: Where is the Scribe, the subtil disputer? |
A69226 | The question ariseth vppon this discourse, how the soule commeth to bee infected with sinne? |
A69226 | They aske how it came to passe that man offended? |
A69226 | They aske vs what neede there was that the Son of God should take our flesh? |
A69226 | They aske why the Father tooke not flesh rather then the Sonne? |
A69226 | This is the slorie of the Bible, and what ground hath any Atheist to deny it? |
A69226 | Though Pharao in his prosperitie had said: who is the Lord? |
A69226 | To leaue particular men, what answere the Atheists to the iudgement of the worlde? |
A69226 | To them which aske whether hell be a materiall place or no? |
A69226 | Vnlesse they suppose that one of himselfe is not sufficient to vndergoe so great a burden? |
A69226 | What God is? |
A69226 | What are the cheife points of religion contayned in the Bible? |
A69226 | What can they saye to so manye strange Eclipses, to so manye prodigious raines? |
A69226 | What haynous sin, blasphemous mangainst Gods beloued Sonne Doest thou commit? |
A69226 | What is God? |
A69226 | What is more common in this life, then the prosperitye of the wicked and the aduersitye of the godlye? |
A69226 | What is the lowest element but the Virgins wombe which is earth as all other flesh? |
A69226 | What neede saith Lactantius, hath the worlde of many Gods? |
A69226 | What then foloweth? |
A69226 | You aske how that may be? |
A69226 | a rodde could contrary to nature bring forth Almonds, and could not a Virgin contrary to nature bring forth the Sonne of God? |
A69226 | an forte, custodes suos? |
A69226 | and how there may be penetratio corporum, that one body should penetrate an other? |
A69226 | and whether God was not able to saue vs by other meanes? |
A69226 | and whether it were any thing or nothing? |
A69226 | art thou come hither to tormēt vs before y e time? |
A69226 | as when it rayned bloud, flesh, stones, coles of fire, of which they may read at large in Liuy, Plutarch and other authors? |
A69226 | but euen the Prophecy of Baalam their own Prophet? |
A69226 | for who resisted his will? |
A69226 | how can a spirit bee infected by a body? |
A69226 | nisi solus immanifestus Deus? |
A69226 | or Adam of the earth without father or mother? |
A69226 | or whether God doth especially create to euery mans body a newe soule proper onely to that bodie? |
A69226 | or who should heare his voyce when there was nothing besides him selfe? |
A69226 | qua mater? |
A69226 | quis est qui mariterminum imposuit? |
A69226 | quis est qui terram stabiliuit? |
A69226 | quis pates? |
A69226 | shall men thinke there is no punishment for wicked men after this life? |
A69226 | si cum carne non nascitur, cur peccato obligatur? |
A69226 | that which is immateriall bee polluted by that which is materiall? |
A69226 | the consent of nations? |
A69226 | vide quot artes in vna materia quis haec omnia fecit? |
A69226 | virga potuit contra naturam Nuces producere, nunquid& Virgo non potuit contra naturam Dei filium generare? |
A69226 | vp brayding him who did for vs become? |
A69226 | vrsa haec quae circase voluitur,& vniuersum mundum secum circumferens; quis est qui ei fabrifecit instrumentum? |
A69226 | what now remayneth therefore, but the stone cut out of the rocke without hands which bruiseth this image in peices? |
A69226 | whence it commeth? |
A69226 | who did all these thinges but onely the inuisible God? |
A69226 | who made the passage from his veynes? |
A69226 | who stretched out his sinewes, hardned his bones, skinned his flesh, parted his fingers? |
A69226 | why could not Christ aswell be borne of a mother without a father, as Eue of a man without a woman, or Adam without man or woman? |
A69226 | why dost thou tell me that fable of Christ? |
A69226 | why is that, but because he feareth death? |
A69226 | why the Sonne being incarnate had his conception of the holy Ghost without begetting how he could be borne of a Virgin, and wherefore he was so borne? |
A27428 | And again, What is that which determines the Growth of all living Creatures? |
A27428 | And again, such a Crust could fall but once; for what Architect can an Atheist suppose, to rebuild a new Arch out of the ruins of the other? |
A27428 | And do the Atheists thus argue in common matters of Life? |
A27428 | And how could all the Stars of one Asterism agree and conspire together to constitute an Universal? |
A27428 | And how could these two Apostles have preached the Gospel to the Lystrians, if they did not use the common Language of the Country? |
A27428 | And let us examin it further by our Critical Rule: Are the present Revolutions in circular Orbs more beneficial, than the other would be? |
A27428 | And to what purpose did they cry out and speak to them, if the Hearers could not apprehend? |
A27428 | And what a numerous train of Absurdities do attend such an assertion? |
A27428 | And what relation or affinity is there between a minute Body and Cogitation, any more than the greatest? |
A27428 | And when they scoffingly demand, Why would this imaginary Omnipotence make such mean pieces of Workmanship? |
A27428 | And would not they have really had as much reason as our Atheists, to plead the power of the Temptation, and the propensity of Flesh and Blood? |
A27428 | And would not this be a fine bargain indeed? |
A27428 | Are Adultery and Fornication forbidden only by Moses and Christ? |
A27428 | Are not God''s ways equal, O ye Children of Destruction, and are not your ways unequal? |
A27428 | Are not envious and covetous, discontented and anxious minds tormenters to themselves? |
A27428 | Are such opposite motions both equally mechanical, when in both cases the Matter was under the same modification? |
A27428 | Are these Barbarians of man- eating Constitutions, that they so hanker after this inhumane Diet, which We can not imagin without horror? |
A27428 | As if the late Discoveries of the Celestial Bodies had not plainly detected the imposture of Astrology? |
A27428 | As if, because they are supposed to be Rational, they must needs be concluded to be Men? |
A27428 | But how came it to be so moved? |
A27428 | But how came it to pass at the beginning, that the Earth moved in its present Orb? |
A27428 | But how came the Sun to be Luminous? |
A27428 | But how could Particles so widely dispersed combine into that closeness of Texture? |
A27428 | But how little can any Motion, either circular or other, contribute to the production of Thought? |
A27428 | But it will be asked, why then were the Apostles so slow and backward in reclaiming them? |
A27428 | But shall the Axis rather observe no constant inclination to any thing, but vary and waver at uncertain times and places? |
A27428 | But shall this Motion be as much retarded, and the Seasons lengthen''d in the same proportion? |
A27428 | But then what horrid darkness and desolation must have reign''d in the World? |
A27428 | But then what security hath he made for the Preservation of Humane Race from the Jaws of ravenous Beasts? |
A27428 | But then why did they not continue their descent, till they were contiguous to the Sun; whither both Mutual Attraction and Impetus carried them? |
A27428 | But we answer; First, in the words of St. Paul: Nay, but, O Man, who art thou, that repliest against God? |
A27428 | But what a forlorn destitute Creature is the Atheist in Distress? |
A27428 | But what need there many words? |
A27428 | But with the leave of these Fortune- tellers, did the Stars do this feat once only, which gave beginning to Humane Race? |
A27428 | But would we rather part with the Parallelism? |
A27428 | Can any Credulity be comparable to this? |
A27428 | Did the Blood first exist, antecedent to the formation of the Heart? |
A27428 | Do not Contentiousness and Cruelty and Study of Revenge seldom fail of Retaliation? |
A27428 | Do not Pride and Arrogance infallibly meet with Contempt? |
A27428 | For can it be credible to any rational person, that St. Mark could have that meaning? |
A27428 | For do not the Nile, and the Niger, and the Ganges, and the Menam, make yearly Inundations in our days, as they have formerly done? |
A27428 | For every Mountain must have some determinate figure, and why then not a Humane one, as possibly as another? |
A27428 | For if All have not such a power, what is it that could make that difference between Bodies of the same sort? |
A27428 | For if it were so; what monstrous absurdities would follow? |
A27428 | For is not the whole Substance of all Vegetables mere modified Water? |
A27428 | For since we have shewn, that there is an Incorporeal Substance within us: whence did that proceed, and how came it into Being? |
A27428 | For to a man that places all his Happiness in the Indolency and Pleasure of Body, what can be more terrible than Pain or a Fit of Sickness? |
A27428 | For what is Man? |
A27428 | For where can we put a stop to the Efficacy of the Almighty? |
A27428 | Hath he an Idea, or Notion, or Discovery of any more? |
A27428 | Have we then any capacity to judge and distinguish, what is the effect of Chance, and what is made by Art and Wisdom? |
A27428 | How could we sustain the pressure of our very Cloaths in such a condition; much less carry burthens and provide for conveniences of Life? |
A27428 | How impudent then are the Atheists, that traduce the easie and gracious Conditions of the Gospel, as Unreasonable and Tyrannical Impositions? |
A27428 | How many thousand years might expire, before those solitary Vessels should happen to strike one against the other? |
A27428 | How then can that Motion be the efficient of Thought, which is evidently the Effect and the Product of it? |
A27428 | How then can the Atheist reflect on his own Hypothesis without extreme sorrow and dejection of Spirit? |
A27428 | If any one shall think with himself, How then can any Animal at all live in Mercury and Saturn in such intense degrees of Heat and Cold? |
A27428 | If frequently, why is not this Rule deliver''d in Ptolemee and Albumazar? |
A27428 | If it was necessary, how then could that Necessity ever beget Liberty? |
A27428 | If once only at the beginning, then how came it to be discover''d? |
A27428 | If the Earth in its first constitution had been left to it self, what horrid deformity and desolation had for ever overspread its face? |
A27428 | If the Stars be no Deities, Astrology is groundless: and if the Stars be Deities, why is the Astrologer an Atheist? |
A27428 | If then the Atheist can have no Imagination of more Senses than five, why doth he suppose that a Body is capable of more? |
A27428 | Is a Crown of Righteousness, a Crown of Life, to be surrendred with laughter? |
A27428 | Is a small drop of Rain any wiser than the Ocean? |
A27428 | Is it not now utterly incredible, that our two Vessels, placed there Antipodes to each other, should ever happen to concur? |
A27428 | Is not the same thing practised in other parts of that Continent? |
A27428 | Is the Sea ever likely to be evaporated by the Sun, or to be emptied with Buckets? |
A27428 | Must the Heart then have been formed and constituted, before the Blood was in being? |
A27428 | Nay though we should concede an Eternity to Matter; yet why must Motion be coaeval with it? |
A27428 | Nay we appeal to the sentence of Mankind; If a Land of Hills and Valleys has not more Pleasure too and Beauty than an uniform Flat? |
A27428 | Now how is it possible that these things should be effected by any Material and Mechanical Agent? |
A27428 | Now what are the mighty Promises of Atheism in competition with these? |
A27428 | Now what more easily refuted, than that old vulgar Assertion of an universal Drought and Exsiccation of the Earth? |
A27428 | Now which of these is the Copy, and which the Original? |
A27428 | Now who- ever talked at that rate? |
A27428 | Now why is the Axis of the Earth in this particular posture, rather than any other? |
A27428 | Or if the force of it was spent, and did not wheel about and return; what mechanical cause then shall we assign for the Veins? |
A27428 | Or if we suppose a Bound and Ne plus ultra to be mechanically fixed: but then why so great a variety in the Bulk of the several Kinds? |
A27428 | Or were each formed in the same Orbs, in which they now move? |
A27428 | Quis enim Philosophum sacrificare compellit? |
A27428 | So likewise if our Sense of Hearing were exalted proportionably to the former, what a miserable condition would Mankind be in? |
A27428 | The Iews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his Flesh to eat? |
A27428 | The ground of the conjecture is the 18th verse of this Chapter, where some said, What will this Babler say? |
A27428 | There''s a very remarkable passage in Tertullian''s Apology, Who forces a Philosopher to sacrifice,& c.? |
A27428 | Thirdly, Let us imagine the whole Terraqueous Globe with its Atmosphere about it; What is there here, that can naturally effect an Universal Deluge? |
A27428 | Was it mere Chance then, or Divine Counsel and Choice, that constituted the Earth in its present Situation? |
A27428 | Was it nearer to the Sun, than the present distances are? |
A27428 | Was it not so in Europe of old, and is it not now so in Africa? |
A27428 | Were the Fables taken from the Influences, or the Influences from the Fables? |
A27428 | Were the Membranes so thick and tough, that the Foetus must stay there, till he had teeth to eat through them, as young Maggots do through a Gall? |
A27428 | Were the Virtues of the Stars disposed in that order and rank, on purpose only to make a pretty Diagram upon Paper? |
A27428 | What Affairs, that most require it, could be transacted with secrecy? |
A27428 | What Climate will he cherish them in, that they be not inevitably destroyed by Moisture or Cold? |
A27428 | What Government can be imagin''d without Judicial Proceedings? |
A27428 | What Natural Cause can overcome Nature it self? |
A27428 | What a delightfull and ravishing Hypothesis of Religion is this? |
A27428 | What a warm and vigorous influence does a Religious Heart feel from a firm expectation of these Glories? |
A27428 | What could be the reason of this general dissent from the notion of the Resurrection, since almost all of them believed the Immortality of the Soul? |
A27428 | What did he talk of the Unknown God, and ignorantly worshipping? |
A27428 | What enticement, what pleasure is there in common profane Swearing? |
A27428 | What is it that holds and keeps them in fixed Stations and Intervals against an incessant and inherent Tendency to desert them? |
A27428 | What must we impute this to? |
A27428 | What principles of Mechanism are sufficient to explain it? |
A27428 | What sets a bound to their stature and dimensions? |
A27428 | What strength of Imagination can extend it self to embrace and comprehend such a prodigious Diversity? |
A27428 | What then is become of the privilege of that organical Motion of the Animal Spirits above any other? |
A27428 | What then, is Heaven it self, with its pleasures for evermore, to be parted with so unconcernedly? |
A27428 | What was it then that prescribed this particular Celerity to each Motion, this proportion and temperament between them both? |
A27428 | What whisper could be low enough, but many would over- hear it? |
A27428 | Where are the fragments of Petosiris and Necepso, that may countenance this Assertion? |
A27428 | Where is that aequability of Nine Months warmth to be found? |
A27428 | Which gives an answer to the second Question, Why created so lately? |
A27428 | Who were there then in the world, to observe the Births of those First Men, and calculate their Nativities, as they sprawl''d out of Ditches? |
A27428 | Why are the Masculine and Feminine, the Fiery and Airy, and Watry and Earthly Signs all placed at such regular distances? |
A27428 | Why do not all Animals continually increase in bigness during the whole space of their Lives, as it is reported of the Crocodile? |
A27428 | Why does not every single Star shed a separate influence; and have Aspects with other Stars of their own Constellation? |
A27428 | Why no more Aspects than diametrically opposite, and such as make aequilateral figures? |
A27428 | Why then doth the Atheist suspect that there may possibly be any more ways of Sensation than what we have already? |
A27428 | Will he say, that when once he is dead, this Desire will be nothing; and that He that is not, can not lament his Annihilation? |
A27428 | Will they say that these Idea''s are performed by the Brain? |
A27428 | Would He have been so pleased and delighted with the conviction? |
A27428 | Would they have us bring more Witnesses, than the All of the World? |
A27428 | and consequently of all Animals too; all which either feed upon Vegetables or prey upon one another? |
A27428 | and what can be answer''d to the Query of St. Chrysostom? |
A27428 | and what methods of Judicature without a Religious Oath? |
A27428 | and whither could we retire from perpetual humming and buzzing? |
A27428 | and will they not stand to the grand Verdict and Determination of the Universe? |
A27428 | did it happen by Chance, or proceed from Design? |
A27428 | is an exceeding and eternal weight of Glory too light in the balance against the hopeless death of the Atheist, and utter extinction? |
A27428 | or at least vastly more ample and magnificent, than this narrow Cottage of a World? |
A27428 | or at least, many Millions of Ages ago before this short span of duration of five or six thousand Years? |
A27428 | or do not Heathen Law- givers punish such Enormities with Fines, or Imprisonment, with Exile or Death? |
A27428 | or do we grind inanimate Corn into living and rational Meal? |
A27428 | or have they frequently done so, and may do it again? |
A27428 | or how could they by those Sayings restrain the People from sacrificing; if what they said was not intelligible? |
A27428 | or rather, as he hath told us, would he not have gone down with sorrow and despair to the Grave? |
A27428 | or what can we assign for the Highest of all possible finite Perfections? |
A27428 | shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? |
A27428 | that he should tax his Lord and Saviour, whom he knew to be God Almighty, with Deficiency of power? |
A27428 | this is a hard saying, who can hear it? |
A27428 | to the temperature of the Air, to the nature of the Soil, to the influence of the Stars? |
A27428 | what an indigent and impotent thing is his principal Creature Man? |
A27428 | what fuller evidence can our Adversaries require, since all the Classes of known Beings are summoned to appear? |
A27428 | why also such Constancy observed in that manifold Variety? |
A27428 | would he have so triumph''d in being overcome? |
A27428 | would not boundless Beneficence have communicated his divine Perfections in the most eminent degrees? |
A39251 | And Man could not without our consent, for who gave any man that Right over his Fellows? |
A39251 | And are we not in the condition we should be in, when we are as it hath pleased GOD to dispose of us? |
A39251 | And by what, but by the things that are made? |
A39251 | And can we then any longer think, that these things are not most worthy of GOD to make known unto men? |
A39251 | And can we think it unbecoming GOD to acquaint us with this? |
A39251 | And could things be wisely contrived, without a Wise Contriver? |
A39251 | And doth he not meet with as many, and as unconquerable difficulties in the denying of a GOD? |
A39251 | And hath not he, whose own are all things, a right to distribute them as he pleaseth? |
A39251 | And how are they all fitted for their several Elements; Fishes with fins to swim, Birds with wings to fly, and other things with feet to walk? |
A39251 | And how can we conceive, that He, who is in himself Invisible, should make this manifest unto us, but by some or all of these ways? |
A39251 | And how conveniently are they all set, and placed, and united together for their several uses? |
A39251 | And how much less than that is man in the hand of GOD? |
A39251 | And how was it manifest in them? |
A39251 | And if it exceeds the wisdom of Men, how much more doth it exceed the Power of all other things which want VVisdom? |
A39251 | And is it not fit he should place his own Goods in his own House, where, and how, he pleaseth? |
A39251 | And is it not of GOD''s chusing for us? |
A39251 | And is it not of his free and undeserved Gift, that any thing is ours? |
A39251 | And is not this a demonstration, that these mens Prophecies were GOD''s own Word? |
A39251 | And may he not use his own as he will? |
A39251 | And now if after all this, we find that these mens writings are such, as have all the Characters of Divine Truth, what more can we desire? |
A39251 | And now where''s the hurt of dying for GOD, even tho there were none? |
A39251 | And shall such a thing as man be proud? |
A39251 | And should it be once embraced generally by others, what would become of him and all the world? |
A39251 | And suppose the Atheist were in the right, what good could his opinion do him? |
A39251 | And what better Reasons can we have to believe any of these things, than such as we have to believe that these men were, and wrote these Books? |
A39251 | And what can this be imputed to, but to the light and power of Divine Truth? |
A39251 | And what has he now hit upon? |
A39251 | And what should hinder these men to have sufficient knowledg of what they write? |
A39251 | And what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? |
A39251 | And whence had they it? |
A39251 | And which way had he done so, but by his Works? |
A39251 | And who but GOD alone, who governs and disposeth of all things according to his own Eternal Decree and Council, could make them so knowing? |
A39251 | And who but GOD, can we think, hath set a bound that they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth? |
A39251 | And who could ever have made us know these things, but GOD? |
A39251 | And who is that, but God? |
A39251 | And why is it thus, but that the Soul is fled? |
A39251 | And why must GOD, who hath given him his Will in writing, sufficiently attested, appear as he pleaseth, to confirm it anew unto him? |
A39251 | And why so? |
A39251 | And would men any longer bear so uneasie a yoke, whenever they could find out any way to break or shake it off? |
A39251 | And would not every one be as free as he could make himself, and strive to have his own will, rather than to be subject to another''s? |
A39251 | And would not every one catch that could, yea and kill too, or do any thing else he could, that he might catch? |
A39251 | And would not this striving for the Mastery, and scrambling who should get most, bring all things to confusion? |
A39251 | And would they not have done it, if they could? |
A39251 | And yet what are all these to the Wonders of our Souls? |
A39251 | Are we not his? |
A39251 | Believe we not that we have had Kings of this Realm in former days, and that we have now Laws which they enacted? |
A39251 | But after all this, what does that which the Atheist saith, amount to? |
A39251 | But how many of us unsay it again in our unchristian and ungodly Conversation? |
A39251 | But suppose it were, I hope it may be fit to ask him again, Is he in good earnest, and would he indeed have us to belive it for a truth? |
A39251 | But what fool is he that saith this? |
A39251 | Can any one but a Fool believe this? |
A39251 | Can man seem any thing in his own eyes, when he thinks upon GOD? |
A39251 | Can the Atheist give any rational account how this world could be as it is, or how he himself came to be what he is, if there be no GOD? |
A39251 | Could any thing but mere force and violence bring or keep men under Government? |
A39251 | Could they hope that the mighty Princes, and the great Scholars and Wise- men of the World could be deluded by them? |
A39251 | Could things in the world have been contrived wiselier or more fitly, to all ends and purposes, than they are? |
A39251 | Could we be better directed how to Honour GOD, or to do good to our selves? |
A39251 | Could we be better instructed in the Knowledge of either GOD or our selves? |
A39251 | Could we desire a fairer or more satisfactory account of things not otherwise knowable, and yet fit to be known by us? |
A39251 | Could we have had any greater Encouragements to Goodness, or any greater Discouragements to live wickedly? |
A39251 | Did Stones and Timber, and all other materials, ever jump by Chance, into a stately House? |
A39251 | Did he then spring as a Plant out of the Earth?'' |
A39251 | Do evil doers, and such as we think deserve worst at the hands of GOD, flourish and prosper; What''s that to us? |
A39251 | Do not we believe that Cicero, Demosthenes, Homer and Virgil, once were, and that we have their Books? |
A39251 | Do we suffer evil things? |
A39251 | Doth he know what the word[ GOD] signifies? |
A39251 | Doth he who saith this, understand what he saith? |
A39251 | For how can we be safer, or happier, than to be under the Government and Protection of infinite Power, Wisdom, and Goodness? |
A39251 | For if there be no GOD, who made us to differ from one another, Who made him our superior, or us inferior to him? |
A39251 | For what use is a House, but for that of the Inhabitants? |
A39251 | Fourthly, What end had this Imaginary man, which the Atheist talks of, in putting this Opinion of a GOD, into mens heads? |
A39251 | From blind chance? |
A39251 | Had they a beginning, or had they none? |
A39251 | Had they such hope, or had they not? |
A39251 | Had they such hope? |
A39251 | Had we not been at an utter loss, and in a lamentable confusion about these things, had they not been thus revealed to us? |
A39251 | Hath GOD given others any thing that was ours? |
A39251 | Hath man Understanding and Reason for no use? |
A39251 | Hath not the Potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? |
A39251 | Have not I the LORD? |
A39251 | Have they then all this originally in and of themselves? |
A39251 | Have we not all that we have right to have, when we have what it pleaseth GOD to give us? |
A39251 | Have we not all, and more than is our due? |
A39251 | Have we not the faith to believe, that there were once such men as Cyrus, Darius, Alexander, or Iulius Caesar? |
A39251 | How aptly are all things furnished with Instruments of sense and motion, nourishment, generation and defence? |
A39251 | How are they seen in his Works? |
A39251 | How came it so to take root, and grow, and spread, as it hath undeniably done? |
A39251 | How can one be unmannerly to him, whose Discourse tends to no better end, than to corrupt all good Manners, and to banish Virtue from among men? |
A39251 | How easie now had it been for the Iews to have proved these men Lyars, had they been so? |
A39251 | How is it then, that they all so unanimously consent in this First Principle of Religion, That there is a GOD to be worshipped? |
A39251 | How little a portion is heard of him? |
A39251 | How many learned Volumes are filled with the vertues of them? |
A39251 | How many thousand sorts of Herbs, Shrubs, Trees and Flowers find we on the Earth? |
A39251 | How much less man that is a worm, and the son of man which is a worm? |
A39251 | How regular, even and constant are their motions, always finish''d exactly in the same space of time, and returning to the same points? |
A39251 | How then are they all agreed in this too, That there is a GOD, unless this be as obvious to Reason, as the other is to Sense? |
A39251 | How then should he have his beginning, but from GOD? |
A39251 | If he be not willing we should believe it, why doth he tempt us to believe it? |
A39251 | If he can, why hath he not, in so many Ages of the world, let men see that he can? |
A39251 | If he deny this, let us ask him, What is it that can make it unlawful for us to do any of these things? |
A39251 | If he had a beginning, whence had he it? |
A39251 | If he say, He would believe there is a GOD, because of his WORD, if he were sure that it is GOD''s Word; I ask, What he means by saying so? |
A39251 | If he say,''t is fit to believe it, merely because''t is a truth; We must needs ask again, How doth he know''t is a truth? |
A39251 | If he would have us to believe there is no GOD,''t is not unreasonable to ask him, Why would he have us to believe it? |
A39251 | If he would indeed have us believe it, would he not also have us behave our selves as men of that belief? |
A39251 | If it be true, that there is no GOD, to whom all are bound to submit, what Law can any one think himself bound to obey, but his own Will? |
A39251 | If it will do neither any good, Why should he persuade us, or we be persuaded to an unprofitable thing? |
A39251 | If not, to what purpose are we to believe it? |
A39251 | If there was any first man, as no man can conceive but there was; had he a beginning? |
A39251 | If this be his meaning, then I ask him, What is wanting to it to make it appear worthy of GOD, and not to be a Forgery of man? |
A39251 | If, I say, Men are Rational Creatures; will any think it a sufficient confutation of this, that he can shew me now and then a natural Fool? |
A39251 | If, I say, The generality of Mankind have Eyes and Sight, is it reasonable to say, it is not true, because an odd man here or there is born blind? |
A39251 | In what a confounded state had we been, and what very Beasts must we have lived and died, without some knowledge of these things? |
A39251 | Is it reason to believe one upon his word, that knows not that to be true which he teacheth? |
A39251 | Is it reasonable then to leave the safe way we are already in, that we may follow him into another, wherein he can not promise us any safety at all? |
A39251 | Is it this, That he would believe there is a GOD, because of his Word, were he first sure that there is a GOD whose Word it may be? |
A39251 | Is it this, in the last place, That such an one shall be disappointed in his Hope? |
A39251 | Is it wisdom to follow a Guide, who confesseth himself to be blind? |
A39251 | Is not our Condition, whatever it be, better than we deserve? |
A39251 | Is our present Condition scanty, uneasy, unpleasant, unsuitable to our minds? |
A39251 | Is this the hurt it doth us, That it keeps us from using that liberty which were there no GOD, and we believ''d it, we might freelyuse? |
A39251 | Is this the hurt it doth, that it binds us to die, rather than any way to dishonour GOD; which we need not do, were there no GOD? |
A39251 | LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledg of him? |
A39251 | Might not any one challenge as much Right to every thing that lay within his reach, as any other whatsoever? |
A39251 | Nay, can any one live in the World, and not see enough every where to teach him this first and fundamental Truth? |
A39251 | Nay, what hurt would it not do both him and all the world, were it generally received? |
A39251 | No instrument could hurt us, if he did not permit it; and may he not permit what he will to be done to his own? |
A39251 | Nor yet that we had Grandfathers, and Great- Grandfathers, and Inheritances derived from them? |
A39251 | Now what can any one desire more than this to satisfy him, That there were such men, and that they wrote these Books? |
A39251 | Now what can follow hence, but, That GOD giveth it a body, as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body? |
A39251 | Or how can we imagine, that the Instruments of any of these Senses, could have been wiselier framed and placed? |
A39251 | Or is there some Almighty, most VVise, and good Being over them; which at first made, and put them into this order, and still upholds them in it? |
A39251 | Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? |
A39251 | Or why should he not suffer Satan to blind their Minds, that they may never again be able to see that Light which they can not love? |
A39251 | Or, Is it unsafe to do otherwise? |
A39251 | Or, What good will it do either him or us? |
A39251 | Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, what makest thou? |
A39251 | Shall the thing formed, say unto him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? |
A39251 | So that the people hearing Christ, were astonish''d, saying, Whence hath this man these things? |
A39251 | That other Religions prevail, what wonder is it? |
A39251 | Then he must say he was eternal, and had eternally his being, and all his powers, in, and of himself; and if so, how came he to die, and be no more? |
A39251 | There is danger in it; and what reason is there to do what we know''t is dangerous to do, till we see what good may come of it? |
A39251 | Think well of it, What is it within us, that thinks, and considers, and reasons, and discourseth about all things without words or noise? |
A39251 | To what purpose can it be tobelieve that there is a GOD? |
A39251 | Understand ye brutish among the people, and ye fools, when will ye be wise? |
A39251 | What a vast Round do we there see encompassing this world of Creatures? |
A39251 | What abundance of various Living Creatures breed daily, and feed in the Earth and Water, and fly in the open Air? |
A39251 | What are we, that we should concern our selves any farther with GOD''s Doings, whatever they be, than to admire his Wisdom in them? |
A39251 | What can we do, either against him, or without him, without whom we can not one moment continue in being? |
A39251 | What evidence then would a Man have to assure him that there is a GOD? |
A39251 | What have we to do to murmur at GOD''s disposing of his own? |
A39251 | What incivility can it be, to seem rude to him, who is so rude to the whole World, as in effect to call all men Fools but himself? |
A39251 | What is it else, that he can make much of this opinion for, but only that he thinks himself at liberty to do as he lists? |
A39251 | What is the clay in the hand of the Potter, who can do with it what he will? |
A39251 | What one Sense of Seeing, Hearing, Tasting, Smelling, and Touching, could we be content to want? |
A39251 | What one part about them, or within them, is superfluous or useless, or could be well spared? |
A39251 | What reason can be given, why GOD should afford them any longer eyes to see withal, who above all things can not endure to see him? |
A39251 | What should restrain men from doing any thing they can for their own advantage? |
A39251 | What use can we think the World serves for, but for the use of those living Creatures which are in it, and more especially of Man? |
A39251 | What''s Light and Beauty to a man that always winks? |
A39251 | When he persuades us to believe there is no GOD, it can not but be very fit to ask again, Is it safe so to do? |
A39251 | When he tells us there is no GOD, and would have us believe it: before we do so, he can not think it unreasonable we should ask him, How he knows it? |
A39251 | Whence now comes all this? |
A39251 | Who can conclude less, than that the hand of GOD is in all this? |
A39251 | Who hath told it from that time? |
A39251 | Who is Lord over us? |
A39251 | Who then will say, that the belief of a GOD can be hurtful, when''t is only the want of it whence all such hurts arise? |
A39251 | Why have not all the Mighty Powers on Earth, bending their whole force against it, been able to suppress and stifle it? |
A39251 | Why have so few receiv''d any satisfaction from what he hath said to that purpose? |
A39251 | Why should GOD have such hard measure from him, above all others? |
A39251 | Why should he not depart out of sight, when he is but an eye- sore to them? |
A39251 | Why should he not leave all those to the Tyranny of their own Lusts, who desire not to have him reign over them? |
A39251 | Why should we not, if it seem good unto GOD? |
A39251 | Why should we thinkHe will bless us according to our desire, if we be not careful to serve and honour him according to his Will? |
A39251 | Why? |
A39251 | Why? |
A39251 | Will any say, he had no beginning? |
A39251 | Will any think it reasonable to say, That there was no first man? |
A39251 | Will he not believe he hath his Father''s Will and Testament, unless his Father himself, whenever he requires it, come from the dead to tell him so? |
A39251 | Would he not( as that Child did before Eli better instructed him), think it the voice of some other, or account of it but as a Dream or a Fancy? |
A39251 | Would not every one endeavour to make himself Master of as much, and as many as he could? |
A39251 | Would we not, I say, laugh at this as the answer of a Fool? |
A39251 | Yea, how can one be uncivil to that man, who declares himself the common Enemy of Mankind, and of all Civil Society and Government? |
A39251 | Yea, what is that, without which we are no longer men? |
A39251 | Yet, alas, how far doth such a Work as that exceed the wisdom of Men? |
A39251 | or had he no beginning? |
A39251 | or needless for us to know it? |
A39251 | or thinks there is no Voice, because he can not see, touch, or tast it, tho''he Hears it? |
A39251 | they contemn GOD? |
A39251 | what can not he do with us, who with a word made all things of nothing? |
A39251 | what great Power and VVisdom is it that doth in all things display it self? |
A32308 | A Queen? |
A32308 | A happy shoare indeed; oh see, behold, Are yonder not the hils where men dig gold? |
A32308 | ALas, alas, the soule that sinsmust die, So Scriptures tell me, can the Scriptures lie? |
A32308 | Abused patience thus for ever strive? |
A32308 | Adam, Adam, why fogot''st thou this When thou for ever might''st have liv''d in blisse? |
A32308 | Admit no maker but ingendring power, As earth brings forth the herb, the herb the flower? |
A32308 | Affections can you here not feed desire, And with contentment to the heart retire? |
A32308 | Alas poore Dives heaven hath now deni''d thee, The world which was thy joy, doth now deride thee, Vnhappy Dives, how art thou undone? |
A32308 | Alas, this can not conscience free from care: I have a load of actuall sin to beare; What though I once were drest in cleane attire? |
A32308 | And Parents never- resting care so much? |
A32308 | And can I stop my eare then to his voice, Where at the heav''ns inhabitants rejoyce? |
A32308 | And can no law no bridle hold our jawes? |
A32308 | And can not that same power of thee be thought A God? |
A32308 | And count it sweetest liberty off all? |
A32308 | And hell sufficient for the soules reward? |
A32308 | And how againe, will thy delights increase When as the soule returns to thee in peace? |
A32308 | And how could I forbeare such showers, to see The world in robes, and none but rags for me? |
A32308 | And in the body deeply ravish''d be Thus from that prison set for ever free? |
A32308 | And make us, who will here not hear thy call, Cry out unto thee in the boyling Whale? |
A32308 | And these the Angels, or the Saints most dear Which I should honour, if not worship here? |
A32308 | And will not without violence be freed? |
A32308 | And yet thy kindnesse most of all exceeds, How could''st thou else so full of pitty be To children so undutifull as we? |
A32308 | Are Edens pleasures greater, or so much? |
A32308 | Are all good duties in the doing sweet? |
A32308 | Are all my gentle admonitions vaine? |
A32308 | Are all those neere relations now exil''d, Betweene the tender parent and the child? |
A32308 | Are then our conscience, through our sins unquiet? |
A32308 | Are there no other signs of faith appear? |
A32308 | Art thou in honour and becom''st a beast, O like the beast that perisheth at least? |
A32308 | As though black fate envy''d my happy dayes? |
A32308 | BUt must sin dye, and by degrees surcease Where faith doth live, as faith doth force increase? |
A32308 | BUt why art thou thus cast down, oh my soule? |
A32308 | BUt wretched I, what can I doe herein? |
A32308 | BVt in what nature, if you aske of me Can Christ, that new man, in us dwelling be? |
A32308 | But be it so, what can be granted thence? |
A32308 | But can a child of mine thus blinded keep? |
A32308 | But can a childes forgetfullnesse be such? |
A32308 | But can sin wound thus, hath it such a dart, Yea wound thus deeply, pricking at the heart? |
A32308 | But can the bones consumed into dust Restored be? |
A32308 | But canst thou into natures secrets pry, And canst not view a Deitie there by? |
A32308 | But dust and ashes dar''st thou make a tush Which makes both Angels, and the heav''ns to blush? |
A32308 | But gracious God, to most ungracious we Thus good in a most infinite degree, Do''st thou not dinde us to thy beck herein? |
A32308 | But how can we thy mysteries discusse Whose wayes are so past finding out by us? |
A32308 | But in thy conscience were not such a spark Why shouldst thou be so fearfull in the darke? |
A32308 | But man hath sin''d, can God then satisfie? |
A32308 | But oh, how watchfull is our Fathers eye To make a vertue of necessitie? |
A32308 | But sensles man, or rather savage beast, Canst thou thus at the God- head make a jeast? |
A32308 | But shall we then take pleasure in this thrall? |
A32308 | But silly man shall such a hatefull foe Rob thee of God, prevaile upon thee so? |
A32308 | But silly man, or monster of that name, In mind a monster, though a man in frame, Resolve this question, if thy wisdome can, Is there no God? |
A32308 | But sweet contentments, is it so indeed? |
A32308 | But thou whom night doth thus belet at noon What say''st thou to the Sun, the Stars, the Moon, And Heavens above? |
A32308 | But what conditions doth he then enjoyne For purchasing a Kingdome so divine? |
A32308 | But what conditions doth he then require For saving mankinde from eternall fire? |
A32308 | But what still frowne you? |
A32308 | But when this promise should become fulfil''d Lord what a harvest must this seed then yeeld? |
A32308 | But wherefore should I thus restraine my will? |
A32308 | But why doe we so low polluted ly ▪ And can derive a pedigret so high? |
A32308 | But why should I these troubled Seas propound, I sayling in whose surges must be drownd? |
A32308 | But you faire faces, natures choycesti art, Whose tender beauties shew a gentle heart, Can you prove cruell? |
A32308 | COnscience, oh conscience how comes this to passe? |
A32308 | Can a meer colour, and of all most fading, Be in thy bosome most of all perswading? |
A32308 | Can all the worth, can in the world appear, Make us set light a Fathers love so dear? |
A32308 | Can any childe those pearly drops despise Who sees the tears stand in his fathers eyes? |
A32308 | Can fading beauty, like a bait, intice Thee from thy Father, and all good advice? |
A32308 | Can he that heav''n awaking trumpet sound? |
A32308 | Can our beleife most glorifie thy name? |
A32308 | Can sparks from such a quenched coale revive? |
A32308 | Can such a sun- shine be obscur''d so soone, Shall night incroch upon my day at noone? |
A32308 | Can then the greatnesse of mans sinning let When God himselfe hath undertooke the debt? |
A32308 | Can we account a Fathers kindnes slight Who doth thus tender- fatherly invite? |
A32308 | Can we be merry when thou art so sad? |
A32308 | Can we be most degenerate of all? |
A32308 | Can you thus leave me, will you gull me so? |
A32308 | Can, can a Father seeing in this kinde Have children which are altogether blinde? |
A32308 | Canst thou be wounded, and yet arm''d in brasse? |
A32308 | Canst thou grosse Sadduce thus seduced be ▪ Be yet thus blinded, yet hast eyes to see? |
A32308 | Canst thou lament, when we in mirth are mad? |
A32308 | Canst thou not row then in this calmed ocean? |
A32308 | Canst thou suppose the brickle vessell made As skilfull as its maker in his trade? |
A32308 | Cheer then my thoughts, and usher in content, What gives more courage then a free consent? |
A32308 | Come earthly comforts, come revive my heart, What have you lost your vertue, or your skill Which wo nt to cure me? |
A32308 | Come thou blessed, enter thou my rest? |
A32308 | DEceitfull world, deciphering thy state Who can but erre? |
A32308 | DEluded child, of judement thus depriv''d, And duty voyd, where art thou now arriv''d? |
A32308 | DEluded infant wilt thou be thus cheated? |
A32308 | DIsquieted, yea discourag''d Father; what All duty, yea humanity forgot? |
A32308 | DIstressed soule, my miseries indeed Are out of measure, yet must more exceed ▪ Distressed soule, what punished by art? |
A32308 | Dar''st thou deny that Deitie which here Doth in such perfect characters appeare? |
A32308 | Dear faith, how deep are thy foundations laid? |
A32308 | Defil''d, indeed, we must be so reputed, How can we chuse who joyne with the polluted? |
A32308 | Disquieted bones why rest you not as rotten? |
A32308 | Divinest thoughts, may you thereon incroach? |
A32308 | Doe you betray me, will you fail at need? |
A32308 | Dost thou suppose it is no griefe to me Thus of a Son to disregarded be? |
A32308 | Dost thou thus draw us with thy cords of love, Who might''st most justly with a rod reprove? |
A32308 | Dost thou, who seem''d so sure, begin to reele, Wilt thou in thy displeasure, turne thy wheele? |
A32308 | Doth prayer in secret give the soule delight? |
A32308 | EArth stand amazed, stand amaz''d and move, And be you heav''ns astonished above; A man, and yet no maker? |
A32308 | Earth may bring forth, but not create, fond head, Can that give life which in it selfe is dead? |
A32308 | Easie, indeed, what can more easie be Then to beleeve that Christ hath set us free? |
A32308 | FAint heart, what fail''st? |
A32308 | Faith is in Christ, and Christ in faith, why then Disdaine we faith, adore the works of men? |
A32308 | Father, but canst thou thus be pleas''d with me, Who have thus sin''d both against heav''n, and thee? |
A32308 | For me? |
A32308 | HArk, hark again, what voyce is this I heare, Is this which makes such musick in my eare? |
A32308 | Have I prefer''d you above heav''n, oh vaine, And will you now require me with disdaine? |
A32308 | He which, indeed, was dead and bury''d deep In grave- like grosse security asleep: Hath that lost child the name of Father found? |
A32308 | Here who but Dives had the cap and knee? |
A32308 | Here who came forth with greater pompe then he? |
A32308 | How can I labour, I am dead in sin, Can dead men work? |
A32308 | How can the Scriptures here be reconcil''d, Can we both save the parent, and the childs? |
A32308 | How canst thou view these when thou dost in spleen Reject the glasse where these are to be seen? |
A32308 | How eager shall the divels then be on thee? |
A32308 | How full of wonder finde we all thy deeds? |
A32308 | How gastly shall the damned gaze upon thee? |
A32308 | How highly there shall heavenly Angels place thee? |
A32308 | How justly might''st thou in our straying leave us? |
A32308 | How justly then shall Jesus wear the crown, He having put all adversaries down? |
A32308 | How like a most condemned wretch? |
A32308 | How like a prisoner in a chaine at last Shall I stand forth to heare my sentence past? |
A32308 | How lowd in heav''n shall I his prayses sing, There grac''d to wait upon so great a King? |
A32308 | How out of measure can they yet be more? |
A32308 | How pleasing there shall God the Father take thee? |
A32308 | How shall I here be fully satisfi''d, Where pleasant streames of endlesse pleasure glide? |
A32308 | How shall I then, who once was most debas''d, Be, with much glory, on the right hand plac''d? |
A32308 | How shall I thence ascend up far above When my Redeemer shall his Court remove? |
A32308 | How shall my late dry scattered bones up stand, When thou thus bringst a pardon in thy hand? |
A32308 | How shall my soule and body both affrighted, Then curse the howr they were again united? |
A32308 | How shall the Divels then with fury driven Seaze me for hell, thus sentenc''d out of heav''n? |
A32308 | How shall their blessing then increase my curse? |
A32308 | How sweetly there shall fellow Saints imbrace thee? |
A32308 | How swimst thou in a sea of joyes secure? |
A32308 | How welcome there shall Christ thy Saviour make thee? |
A32308 | How will those Angells and those Saints abhor me Which I abus''d, once seeking to doe for me? |
A32308 | How will those divells which I once obey''d, Then cry my wages shall be duly paid? |
A32308 | I am fraile, I feare I shall in this condition fail; My conscience tells me I am still ingag''d, How shall my conscience be herein aflwag''d? |
A32308 | I am in hell, the body yet seems free, Did I pollute the body, or that me? |
A32308 | If there be none, why should I now begin To make a doubt where none before hath bin? |
A32308 | Incroach? |
A32308 | Is faith Gods gift? |
A32308 | Is heav''nly ● ire so hidden in thy flint? |
A32308 | Is here not heaven? |
A32308 | Is then beleeving in our Saviour dying? |
A32308 | Is there such danger, and I see no snare? |
A32308 | Is there such marble in our bosomes heel''d As must be hamer''d, or it will not yeeld? |
A32308 | Is there, think''st thou, no divell, and no hell? |
A32308 | Kind Father canst thou thus keepe natures lawes? |
A32308 | LOrd what is man may well be ask''d of thee, None but thine eye can that exactly see? |
A32308 | Late smiling fate beginst thou now to frown, As if thou didst intend to throw me down? |
A32308 | Long have I long''d for this thy safe return, Whereat my bowells of compassion yern, Why shak''st thou then, why blushest being poore? |
A32308 | Look''st thou for nothing from the sons of men? |
A32308 | Lord how did man then in thy sight appear? |
A32308 | Lord what a heavy, hidious change was here? |
A32308 | Lord what a large and wondrous preparation Was this which was the spacious worlds creation? |
A32308 | Lord what is man that thou art so mindfull of him? |
A32308 | Lord with what patience couldst thou then abide To see the divell so in triumph ride? |
A32308 | Lord, what a heav''nly harmony was here When all these strings were thus in tune, and cleere? |
A32308 | Lord, what is man now better then before, That thou hast heap''d such mercies up in store? |
A32308 | Lord, what is man then? |
A32308 | Lost we so much, inheriting of sin, That by that gaine we lost our selves therein? |
A32308 | MIsguided mankinde, whither have we gone To set up merit in our makers Throne? |
A32308 | MOst blessed I, what joyes have I in store? |
A32308 | MOst gentle Father, tender hearted God, What mother like thee could forbear the rod? |
A32308 | MOst happy Lazarus, how art thou renown''d: How are thy sad and patient sufferings crown''d With ample, yea within 〈 ◊ 〉 victories? |
A32308 | MOst loving Father, dost thou thus perswade Poore dust and ashes which thy hands have made? |
A32308 | MY Son, my Son, who art to me so neer, And whom I tender as a child most dear, What worme is crept into thy troubled head? |
A32308 | MY restles thoughts what move you thus to rome? |
A32308 | Man then was made, made not himselfe to live, How can he then have any life to give? |
A32308 | Most desperat wretch, to whom shall I betake me? |
A32308 | Most gratious Father, but most graceles we, Shall such a Father without honour be? |
A32308 | Most gratious God, what Lord is like to thee, Whose Laws give life, and whose commands make free? |
A32308 | Most happy change I how is my chance amended? |
A32308 | Most pretious fruits, may I presume to touch? |
A32308 | Most pretious jewels, what rare prize is here? |
A32308 | My Son hath now no thought at all of me, He quite forgets how tender Parents be? |
A32308 | My senses can you not suck hony here? |
A32308 | My teares too fruitlesse, will no meanes restraine, But yet unmoved, but rebellious still? |
A32308 | My tender son wilt thou not be intreated? |
A32308 | My thoughts what thinke you of these streames so cleere? |
A32308 | NOw happy? |
A32308 | Nay what man living failes not in this kinde? |
A32308 | Nay with what courage shall I then appear, What joy, when my redemption draweth near? |
A32308 | Now whither will he in his cockle boat? |
A32308 | OH blessed Saviour what couldst thou do more, Who to inrich us mad''st thy selfe as poore? |
A32308 | OH blessed faith, art thou with God so great, Doth he esteeme thee at so dear a rate? |
A32308 | OH blinded reason, and corrupted stain Of once pure nature, now exceeding, vain: Can we rest captive in this base subjection? |
A32308 | OH foolish children, why are we thus idle? |
A32308 | OH gracious Father, can thy care be such? |
A32308 | OH what a cloud is this which doth appeare? |
A32308 | OH what an endles travell is our care When children borne, are yet againe to bear? |
A32308 | Of men? |
A32308 | Oh cruell weapon, can it thus indent Through brasse, through steel, yea through this adamant? |
A32308 | Oh froward mankind, shall we fooles then gr ● ● ● ● To pay so little, to receive so much? |
A32308 | Oh gracelesse children can we erre so much? |
A32308 | Oh heavy yoak intolerable weight; Are these the chaines so gilded by deceit? |
A32308 | Oh ignorant children, and most apt to fall, How earnest is our carefull Fathers call? |
A32308 | Oh most perverse I shall I with favour yet Remember him who doth me thus forget? |
A32308 | Oh tell me truly, doe you but beguile? |
A32308 | Oh then how silly, sensles I may say, Are we; if we from such a Father stray? |
A32308 | Oh what a burden doth a Father beare? |
A32308 | Oh what is this condition? |
A32308 | Oh wretched creature I how shall I do then? |
A32308 | Oh, how have I offended thee my son? |
A32308 | Oh, then what comfort can remaine for me, How scapes my soule, my sinfull soule then free? |
A32308 | Or Lord what pity in thy bowels boyl''d To see poore Adam so for ever foyl''d? |
A32308 | Or by what serpent art become misled? |
A32308 | Or how come we unto our selves so blinde That in our selves, our selves we can not finde? |
A32308 | Or in the same such Adamant indeed, As can not be dissolved till we bleed? |
A32308 | Or is his death made our death by applying? |
A32308 | Or of accounts, who hast no debts to pay? |
A32308 | Or ought detaine us, that shall labour for it, From such a Father? |
A32308 | Or over- boord with stray Jonah heave us? |
A32308 | Or pryes so far into anothers breast To finde how his affections are at rest? |
A32308 | Or rather what most fatherly endeavour Have I left undone to protect thee ever? |
A32308 | Or shall I let him thus for ever sleep? |
A32308 | Or shall we prize his patrimony poore Who to bestow hath infinit in store? |
A32308 | Or why shouldst feare the Judges face to see When as the Judge shall thy redeemer be? |
A32308 | Or wilt thou be best pleased in the same? |
A32308 | Or yet more fond, shall we our selves defile Because our nurse will wash away the soile? |
A32308 | Or, worst of all, for sake our loving guide Our God, because we finde him slow to chide? |
A32308 | Poore Dives now is desperate indeed, His roaring conscience makes his soule to bleed, The fiends, againe, do rage the faster, why? |
A32308 | Prints of eternity upon thy soule Are stamp''d by heav''n: canst thou then slight that roule Which to thee reades eternity in print? |
A32308 | Reject an infant calling upon me That am his Father, no it can not be? |
A32308 | Revive thy spirits, pleasures here are free; Seest thou not how they flourish in this I le, As if they would intice thee with a smile? |
A32308 | Seed heavenly? |
A32308 | Shall God himself thus dignifie and grace it; And shalt thou dust and ashes then deface it? |
A32308 | Shall divels then unto the Scriptures bow, Confesse and feare them, and yet wilt not thou? |
A32308 | Shall hells black vapours so thy soule benight To put out of thee all celestiall light? |
A32308 | Shall we be won then with meer toyes, or worse, Out of the armes of such a tender nurse? |
A32308 | Shall we for ever thus bis patience urge? |
A32308 | Shall we forsake thee, who in love pursues? |
A32308 | Shall we make forset, all we have betray Because we will not a poore homage pay? |
A32308 | Shall we remaine as senslesse logs unmov''d, Returning nothing who are so belov''d? |
A32308 | Shall we then, desperate we, without remorse, Run headlong still in a rebellious course? |
A32308 | Shall we with scorne thy tender care abuse? |
A32308 | Sit''st thou in darknesse in this heav''nly Goshen? |
A32308 | Such a new creature as is Christ indeed? |
A32308 | THere, there my rod, begins my child to bleed? |
A32308 | THrice happy soule am I, what happy thrice? |
A32308 | THrice wretched, yea most wretched soule am I, Wretched? |
A32308 | The hypocrite doth all he does for shew: The man sincere doth no such trumpet blow: Doth sin in secret then the soule afright? |
A32308 | The world in pleasure, I in paine and griefe? |
A32308 | The world in plenty, I without reliefe? |
A32308 | Then from the sad sepulchre of anoy, How shall I but lift up my head with joy? |
A32308 | Then if such lofty cedars may be shaken, How may the shrubs be in that nature taken? |
A32308 | Then in what glory shall those Saints appeare At whom, proud asse, I once did slout and jeere? |
A32308 | Then of what knowledge is he like to speed, Of what man is, by taking up that leed? |
A32308 | Then which way shall we those same Scriptures read Christ is ascended into heaven: again The heavens must hold him, yet must him contain? |
A32308 | Then why are we so in our hearing gul''d With the fond false enchantments of the world? |
A32308 | There was a time, but now that time is lost, Wherein thou might''st have got thy reckoning crost: How wilt thou answer to the Judge of heaven? |
A32308 | Thinkst thou by power then of imperfect nature To take a perfect view of thy Creator? |
A32308 | Thou art a peece but of the Potters clay, What can the peece unto the Potter say? |
A32308 | Thou art our Head, and we thy members be, Thou art condemned, how can we be free? |
A32308 | Thou mad''st not then thy selfe, nor yet thy Son, Who did that work then which thou see''st is done? |
A32308 | Thou, who wert lost, and now art found remain, Thou, who wert dead, and art alive againe? |
A32308 | Thus fully tortur''d, and yet but in part? |
A32308 | Thus live in thraldome to untam''d affection? |
A32308 | Thus make me frown''d on, only for a smile? |
A32308 | Thy debt is paid, which was so out of measure, And paying that hath purchas''d thee a treasure, What needst thou shake then at a judgement day? |
A32308 | Thy feare is past, thou shalt have raggs no more? |
A32308 | Thy heart is moved at our desperat course: Our hearts unmoved, are without remorse: Thou sighing saist must I reject a Son? |
A32308 | Thy heart made gentle, and thy soule appear, See hell beneath, and heav''n that is most high, Discern thy maker, and eternity? |
A32308 | To entertaine whose greatnesse was it than? |
A32308 | To lose a member is a griefe, but sure To lose a Son what Father can indure? |
A32308 | To stop our eares when poore men aske? |
A32308 | To what a straite am I inforc''d with care? |
A32308 | Toyes proffer''d too by strangers, and our foes, Allure us from this bosome of repose? |
A32308 | Unhappie chance, unhappie change, alas, What brought this most unhappie change to passe? |
A32308 | Unhappy soule, was I, indeed, the first That did offend, that I am punish''d worst? |
A32308 | VNhappy childe, now what means all this speed? |
A32308 | VVElcome my Son, thrice welcome, i''st not meet Thou shouldst bee welcom''d with imbraces sweet? |
A32308 | VVHat joyes are these which now so neer approch? |
A32308 | VVHat shall I doe? |
A32308 | VVHat, am I struck with melancholy''s dart? |
A32308 | VVHy art thou so cast down, oh my soule, and why art thou so disquieted within me? |
A32308 | VVHy will you dye? |
A32308 | Were there no evill spirits to be seen What do such fears then in thy fancie mean? |
A32308 | What awfull power, or dreadfull earthquake rather Is this which wakes, and shakes you thus together? |
A32308 | What desperate change is now in my disease? |
A32308 | What doth incite you? |
A32308 | What endlesse torments shalt thou then begin? |
A32308 | What fatall winde doth now thus constant wait To transport such a transpossessed fraight? |
A32308 | What heart of man can truly on it ponder And not be rap''d up in any holy wonder? |
A32308 | What is it then to me though Christ be bound If the condition be not in me found? |
A32308 | What is the reason thou would''st leave me so? |
A32308 | What outward tortours shalt thou feel within? |
A32308 | What shall I doe? |
A32308 | What then can move us to neglect so much A Father tender, having riches such? |
A32308 | What then, oh what then so obscures those raies, We grope in darknesse thus at high- noon dayes? |
A32308 | What think''st thou of thy rising from thy bed, Fore- tells not that thy rising from the dead? |
A32308 | What though there be? |
A32308 | What tongue on earth is able to expresse What joy in conscience I shall then possesse? |
A32308 | What wrong, or what unkindnesse have I done? |
A32308 | What, art for Tarsus? |
A32308 | When Saints shall sing, and Angels shall rejoyce, How shall we mount up with a merry noyse? |
A32308 | When Scripture doth directly testifie The soule that sins, that very soule shall die? |
A32308 | When my blest soule and body both united Shall reigne in heaven, how shall I be delighted? |
A32308 | When sweet contentment no desire restraines Shalt thou be bashfull? |
A32308 | When those I thought my dearest friends forsake me? |
A32308 | When we welform''d have brought them forth, they then Transforme to monsters, when they should be men? |
A32308 | Where nought offends, where all things fit appear? |
A32308 | Which darkens thus my day which was so cleer? |
A32308 | Which seem''d to proffer liberties so sweet, But now become such fetters to my feet? |
A32308 | Which thus tunes Father, hath my Son that strain, Is he restor''d unto that life again? |
A32308 | Whither my child, oh whither would''st thou go? |
A32308 | Who labours thus unto us to convay A state which never, never shall decay? |
A32308 | Who turn''d this perfect good to perfect evill, But he that turn''d from Angell to a divell? |
A32308 | Why are you not eternally forgotten? |
A32308 | Why art thou thus disquieted in my brest? |
A32308 | Why dost thou not those fearfull doubts controull? |
A32308 | Why feare I thus the fetters which inthrall me, When thus my Father doth from prison call me? |
A32308 | Why give we thus our vain desires the bridle? |
A32308 | Why rest you not? |
A32308 | Why shouldst thou then disquiet thy selfe to gain Such knowledge as will but disquiet thy braine? |
A32308 | Why will you dye then? |
A32308 | Will you reject now, who did late intice? |
A32308 | Wilt thou pursue us when we from thee run? |
A32308 | Wilt thou revolt, art thou so simple grown To seek for wisdome, having lost thine owne, At strangers counsell? |
A32308 | Wilt thou thus wooe when we will not be won? |
A32308 | Wilt thou, oh wilt thou stop thy ears unto Thy tender Father, listen to thy foe? |
A32308 | Wouldst thou have wisdome, have thy sight made cleer? |
A32308 | Yea with what comfort shall I be inspir''d When thus my corps is from the grave retir''d? |
A32308 | You almost Angels, may I not adore you? |
A32308 | You that have pluck''d the blossomes of my youth, Will you with falshood now requite my truth? |
A32308 | You that have suck''d my fountaine of supply, Can you now scorne me, having suck''d it dry? |
A32308 | Your taste reviveth more then Phaebus beames; How happy is he bathes him in these streames? |
A32308 | and besides, of those Which are me or cheaters, and thy chiefest foes? |
A32308 | and yet answer no? |
A32308 | art so blinde, Canst thou forsake thy Father in this kinde? |
A32308 | art thou the root indeed? |
A32308 | blessed body, though a while in prison, How will the soule take pleasure in thee risen? |
A32308 | canst thou dejected be? |
A32308 | cursed, cursed, most accursed soule, Where am I now? |
A32308 | do you too seeme nice? |
A32308 | dreadfull, dreadfull, in what dreadfull terrours Am I in hell tormented with my errours? |
A32308 | from the savage 〈 ◊ 〉 True births appear: but monsterous sons of men? |
A32308 | give desire the raines: Thou sit''st as Queen within my tender breast, What fate shall then thy awfull force resist? |
A32308 | had ever father child Became so vain, unnaturall, defil''d? |
A32308 | happy Lazarus, how maist thou stand sure? |
A32308 | have you found some prey Worth your adventure, that you needs would stray? |
A32308 | how came there then a man? |
A32308 | how could the world fore- see I should a burden to her greatnesse be? |
A32308 | how have I offended? |
A32308 | is my son on float? |
A32308 | is not death Of body for the body condign wrath? |
A32308 | observing what that power hath wrought? |
A32308 | oh most depraved natures rod: But what is this then, monsterous sons of God? |
A32308 | oh with what winged motion On this indented pavement of the Ocean, Glide we along? |
A32308 | or Paradice below, The garden where the fruits of pleasure grow? |
A32308 | sith thou art so evill To doubt of God, what think''st thou of a divell? |
A32308 | thus doth our Father call, When I delight not in your death at all? |
A32308 | thus inforced to bewray A sons rebellion, running thus astray: Can you suppose I without griefe can see, Or tell these sorrows? |
A32308 | what fiends are these that howl? |
A32308 | what me, who beg''d from door to door? |
A32308 | what never, without end, or date? |
A32308 | what rare felicity is here? |
A32308 | what would you doe from home? |
A32308 | where am I on shore? |
A32308 | whither would thy soule then take her flight To keep out of the body if it might? |
A32308 | who made that glorious frame? |
A32308 | wilt thou flee indeed, Wilt thou be so deluded? |
A32308 | wretched I, what shall of me become When wretched, Goe ye cursed, be my doome? |
A32308 | yea now heavenly I: and sure''T is only that makes happinesse secure; When once my body from the grave be freed, How shall I then be comforted indeed? |
A32308 | yea wretched, drown''d in misery, Drown''d? |
A35345 | & c. Are these the Gods who are so much offended, with Christ''s being worshipped, and accompted a God by us? |
A35345 | & c. Since therefore Janus is the World, and Jupiter is the World, and there is but one World, how can Janus and Jupiter be Two Gods? |
A35345 | & obliti paulo ante sortis& conditionis suae, i d quod sibi concessum est, impertiri alteri nolunt? |
A35345 | & omneis Ignibus aetheriis terras suffire feraceis? |
A35345 | 3. appointed by our Church to be read publickly) O Israel, how great is the House of God, and how large is the place of his Possession? |
A35345 | Ad quod& Christus moriendo descendit? |
A35345 | Alternumque legens iter, Nunc decidit in Infima; Veris falsa redarguit? |
A35345 | An Credo in tenebris vitâ& moerore jacebat, Donec diluxit rerum Genitalis Origo? |
A35345 | An caetera Mundus habebit omnia? |
A35345 | An contrà ab His,& à Principio Omnia facta,& constituta sint,& ad insinitum tempus regantur atque m ● veantur? |
A35345 | An necesse est eas semper Conjunctas esse Corporibus? |
A35345 | And Lastly, where he states the Controversie of that Book De N. D. thus; Vtrum Dii nihil agant, nihil moliantur? |
A35345 | And Sic Solus est Omnia; opus suum& Extrà& Intrà tenet: What is God? |
A35345 | And again, 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 · Am I Impious, O Euthycles, who alone know what God is? |
A35345 | And are not almos ● all ● our Gods, such as were taken from out of the rank of men, and placed among the Stars? |
A35345 | And as for the Third and Last Query; How God could move and command the Matter of the whole World? |
A35345 | And for what cause shall I praise thee? |
A35345 | And how can Heaven be the Throne of God, and the Earth his Footstool, unless his Vertue and Power fill all things both in Heaven and Earth? |
A35345 | And in the close of the same Book, 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 · For what shall I praise thee? |
A35345 | And indeed were Rational Creatures, never able to be Certain of any such thing as this at all; what would their Life be but a meer Dream or Shaddow? |
A35345 | And so much seems to be intimated by the Scripture in sundry places; as in that of the Prophet, Do not I fill Heaven and Earth? |
A35345 | And that Whether alone or with some other? |
A35345 | And thus also Kimchi in his Commentaries, 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 Who will not fear thee? |
A35345 | And what Comfort could his Liberty of Will then afford Him, who placed all his happiness in Security from External Evils? |
A35345 | And when he again imputes Vertue to them; Hast thou overcome thy Lust, thine Intemperance, thine Anger? |
A35345 | And why then are these Atheists as well as others, so Unwilling to Die? |
A35345 | And will you accompt that damnable in us, which you your selves practice? |
A35345 | Another Sense of the Question; Why, though the World could not be from Eternity, yet was it not made Sooner? |
A35345 | Are they not Janus and Saturn, Aesculapius and Liber, Mercurius the son of Maia, and the Theban or Tyrian Hercules, Castor and Pollux, and the like? |
A35345 | Art thou better than No- Ammon? |
A35345 | As also this of Lucan amongst the Latins, — Superos quid quaerimus ultra? |
A35345 | Aut quae cognita dividit? |
A35345 | Besides this, what hurt would it have been to any of us,( whether Wise or Foolish) never to have been made? |
A35345 | But Lactantius hath yet another objection against the Roman Jupiter''s being the Supreme God, Quid? |
A35345 | But how shall it then Act according to those Knowledges? |
A35345 | But shall I call this Power or Wit, and commend it upon that accompt? |
A35345 | But that which far transcendeth all these things, our Reason, Mind and Vnderstanding, where did we find it? |
A35345 | But the Argument may be thus Retorted upon these Atheists; What Hurt would it be for us, to Cease to Be, or Become Nothing? |
A35345 | But the Atheist demands, What hurt had it been for us, never to have been made? |
A35345 | But then as to the Second Sense of the Question, Why the World, though it could not possibly be from Eternity, yet was no sooner, but so lately made? |
A35345 | But then in the next place they Urge; Why was not the World made Sooner, since this Goodness of God was without Date, and from Everlasting? |
A35345 | But then the Question will be, how Saturn and Jupiter could be both of them One and the same Vniversal Numen? |
A35345 | But this Question may be taken in two different Senses, Either, Why was not the world from Eternity, as God and his Goodness are Eternal? |
A35345 | But what Account can we then Possibly give, of Knowledge and Vnderstanding, their Nature and Original? |
A35345 | But what could he be the better for that, who was sufficiently happy alone in himself before? |
A35345 | But what then shall we say to those other things which Empedocles is charged with by Aristotle, that seem to have so rank a smell of Atheism? |
A35345 | But you will Reply, how can this be, when there is now no longer any Body left? |
A35345 | Can you think that our Pagan Ancestors were so sottish, as not to know, that these Things are but Divine Gifts, and not Gods themselves? |
A35345 | Cum ergo Janus Mundus sit,& Jupiter Mundus sit, Vnusque sit Mundus, quare Duo Dii sunt Janus& Jupiter? |
A35345 | Cur igitur Mundus non Animans Sapiensque judicetur, cum ex se procreet Animantes atque Sapientes? |
A35345 | Cur mundi Aedificator repentè extiterit, innumerabili antè saecula dormîerit? |
A35345 | Cur non rebus humanis aliquos otiosos Deos praefecit, qui à te Balbe Innumerabilis explicati sunt? |
A35345 | Cur, quibus incautum Scelus aversabile cumque est, Non faciunt, icti flammas ut fulguris halent, Pectore perfixo; documen Mortalibus acre? |
A35345 | Deus quicquid Vult efficiat? |
A35345 | Did he make the World and men in it to this end, that himself might be worshipped and adored, feared and honoured by them? |
A35345 | Did he not bring thee into the World? |
A35345 | Didst thou ever see me the more Dejected or Melancholy for this? |
A35345 | Do not they, who thus destroy the Eternity of the World, at the same time destroy also the Eternity of the Creator? |
A35345 | Do you worship no such? |
A35345 | Does that produce nothing from it self? |
A35345 | Et Magnus est,& Deus Verus est,& c. vulgi iste Naturalis sermo, an Christiani consitentis oratio? |
A35345 | Et ego quaero unde Orationem? |
A35345 | Et potiùs nullae sibi turpis Conscius reii, Volvitur in flammis innoxius, ínque peditur, Turbine coelesti, subito correptus,& igni? |
A35345 | Et quid illic Lazari nomen, si non in veritate res est? |
A35345 | Extitisse sed Deorum Primum perhibetur Chaos: Quînam verò? |
A35345 | First, Why was not the World from Eternity? |
A35345 | For can many distinct Persons in an Army or Chorus, be reduced into One Body or Polity? |
A35345 | For how could a Part have Life and Soul in it, the Whole being Dead and inanimate? |
A35345 | For if Time it self were not Eternal, then how could the Deity or any thing be so? |
A35345 | For what Covenant of Nature can there be in Infinite Chance? |
A35345 | For what Necessity is there, that there must be more Zen''s or Joves than One, if there were More Worlds? |
A35345 | For what account can otherwise be given, of those Spectres or Phantasms, which appear Shadow- like about Graves or Sepulchres? |
A35345 | For what of him could be despised, when his whole self was worshipped? |
A35345 | For why might not Sensless Matter, as well be supposed, to be the First Original of all things, as a Sensless Incorporeal Being? |
A35345 | Had we understanding, what should we do else, but both publickly and privately praise God, bless him, and return thanks to him? |
A35345 | Haec est Justititia Coelitum? |
A35345 | Haec, inquam, si ita sint, quod quale sit, nondum interim quaero, Quid perderent, si Vnum Deum colerent prudentiori Compendio? |
A35345 | Hath the Vniverse all those other things of ours in it, and in a far greater proportion? |
A35345 | Have I appeared before thee at any time with a Discontented Countenance? |
A35345 | He that Planted the Ear( and gave mans Soul a power of hearing thereby) shall not He( though himself have no Ears) hear? |
A35345 | He that formed the Eye,( and gave the Humane Soul a power of Seeing, by it as an Instrument) shall not he( though himself have no Eyes) see? |
A35345 | Hice ergo Christum coli& à nobis accipi& existimari pro Numine, vulneratis acipiunt auribus? |
A35345 | Hoc unum quod plurimi est non habebit? |
A35345 | How can that which is created, co- exist with the Ingenit God? |
A35345 | How could God move the Matter of the whole World; especially if Incorporeal? |
A35345 | How could he have any Knowledge of Men before they were made, as also what himself should will to do when there was nothing? |
A35345 | How could he make the Matter to understand his meaning, and obey his beck? |
A35345 | How could the supposed Deity have a Pattern or Platform in his Mind, to frame the World by, and whence should he receive it? |
A35345 | How doth Wisdom differ from that which is called Nature? |
A35345 | How far Gods Power does extend? |
A35345 | How then can it be Punished? |
A35345 | If God''s Goodness were the Cause of his making the World, Why then was it not made Sooner? |
A35345 | If the World were made by a Deity, why was it not made by him sooner? |
A35345 | If there be any such thing conteined in the Sibylline Books, then we demand, concerning what Man is it spoken, and of what Time? |
A35345 | If there were a God, who was Perfectly Happy in himself, Why would he go about to make a World? |
A35345 | Is he shut up within the Walls of Temples? |
A35345 | Is there any need, think you, of any great Subtilty to confute these things? |
A35345 | Is there no God without Altars? |
A35345 | Is this the Justice of the Heavenly Powers? |
A35345 | Is this your Piety to place God in the dark, or to make him a Stony God? |
A35345 | Materiam ipse sibi Formet, an Datâ utatur? |
A35345 | Miseros quid Homines, O Deûm Rex& Pater, Sapere arbitramur? |
A35345 | Moreover how can it conceive any thing that is Indivisible, by what is Divisible? |
A35345 | Moreover they disputed Socratically after this manner, Vnde arripuit Homo Vitam, Mentem& Rationem? |
A35345 | Natum hominem colimus; Quid enim, Vos hominem nullum colitis natum? |
A35345 | Nihil motibus explicat, Notis subdita Corporum, Rerum reddit imagines, Cernens omnia Notio? |
A35345 | Non igitur Suo Testimonio,( cui enim de se dicenti potest credi?) |
A35345 | Nonne istud livoris est& avaritiae genus? |
A35345 | Now is there not a goodly similitude( think you) betwixt these two Sons of God, theirs and ours? |
A35345 | Now what Moral Actions can we attribute to them? |
A35345 | O Ye Brutish among the People, when will ye Vnderstand? |
A35345 | Omnibus ínque locis esse omni tempore praesto? |
A35345 | Omnibus ínque locis esse omni tempore praestò Nubibus ut tenebras faciat, coelíque serena Concutiat sonitu? |
A35345 | Or Lastly, shall we attribute to them the Actions of Temperance? |
A35345 | Or did he do it for the Sake of Men, to gratifie and oblige them? |
A35345 | Or else those of Fortitude and Magnanimity? |
A35345 | Or from what was it Kindled in him? |
A35345 | Or how can the Father being Greater, be received in the Son, who is Lesser? |
A35345 | Or rather Both of them together? |
A35345 | Or those of Liberality? |
A35345 | Or why does he not appoint some of those Idle Gods over Humane affairs, which according to Balbus and the Stoicks are innumerable? |
A35345 | Praeterea cur Vere Rosam, Frumenta Calore, Vites Autumno, fundi, suadente videmus? |
A35345 | Quae divisa recolligit? |
A35345 | Quaerendum, saith Origen, Si Possibile est, penitus Incorporeas remanere Rationabiles Creaturas, cum ad summum Sanctitatis ac Beatudinis venerint? |
A35345 | Quaeries of Atheists, Why the world was not made sooner? |
A35345 | Quantum Deus possit? |
A35345 | Quare seorsum habent Templa, seorsum Aras, diversa Sacra, dissimilia Simulachra? |
A35345 | Quid aliud est Natura( saith Seneca) quam Deus,& Divina Ratio, toti Mundo& Partibus ejus inserta? |
A35345 | Quid enim ejus contemneretur, cum ipse coleretur? |
A35345 | Quid est Praestantius Bonitate& Beneficentiâ? |
A35345 | Quid est autem illud, quod ad Inferna transfertur, post Divortium Corporis? |
A35345 | Quid prius dicam solitis Parentis Laudibus? |
A35345 | Quid, ut ominis pessimi, nostri nominis inhorrescitis mentione, st, quem Deum colitis, eum& nos? |
A35345 | Quis pariter coelos omnes convertere,& omnes Ignibus aetheriis terras suffire feraces? |
A35345 | Quis regere Immensi summam, Quis habere Profundi Indu manu validas potis est moderanter habenas? |
A35345 | Quod etiam à Sanctâ Scripturâ indicari arbitror, per illud quod dictum est per Prophetam; Nonne Coelum& Terram ego repleo, dicit Dominus? |
A35345 | Quomodo enim in Deo Vivimus,& Movemur,& Sumus, nisi quod in Virtute suâ Vniversum constringit& continet Mundum? |
A35345 | Quove modo est unquam Vis cognita Principiorum, Quidnam inter sese permutato Ordine possent, Si non ipsa dedit specimen Natura creandi? |
A35345 | Quídve mali fuerat nobis non esse creatis? |
A35345 | Quîs pariter coelos omneis convertere? |
A35345 | Secondly, If he must needs make a World, why did he not make it sooner? |
A35345 | Sed fortasse quaerat aliquis à nobis, quod apud Ciceronem quaerit Hortensius; Si Deus Vnus est, quae esse beata Solitudo queat? |
A35345 | Sed sint, ut vultis, unum, nec in aliquo, vi numinis,& majestate distantes; ecquid ergò injustis persequimini nos odiis? |
A35345 | See you not how from the Things of Nature, Fictitious Gods have been made? |
A35345 | See you not, how all things in Knowing, use their own Power and Faculty, rather, than that of the thing Known? |
A35345 | Several bold but slight Queries of Atheists, Why the World was not made sooner? |
A35345 | Shall I endure either Plato, or the Peripatetick Strato, whereof the one made God to be without a Body, the other without a Mind? |
A35345 | So that our Belief of Christ''s Divinity, is not founded upon his own Testimony( for who can be believed concerning himself?) |
A35345 | Socrates demandeth, whence we snatch''d Soul, Life, and Reason, if there were none in the world? |
A35345 | Speak worthily of him, for who is more manifest than he? |
A35345 | The Atheists further Demand; What hurt would it have been for us, never to have been Made? |
A35345 | Think that these Galileans were 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, Sinners beyond all the Galileans? |
A35345 | Thirdly and Lastly, What Tools or Instruments? |
A35345 | This the righteous judgment of Gods? |
A35345 | Thus Severinus Boetius; Videsne ut in cognoscendo, cuncta Suâ potius Facultate, quàm Eorum quae Cognoscuntur Vtantur? |
A35345 | Thus does he again elsewhere demand, 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉;& c. Who made the Sun? |
A35345 | To this purpose Balbus in Cicero, Videtisne ut à Physicis rebus, tracta Ratio sit ad Commentitios& Fictos Deos? |
A35345 | Was Company and that Variety of Things, by which Heaven and Earth are distinguished, desireable to him? |
A35345 | Was I not always prepared and ready for whatsoever thou requiredst? |
A35345 | We Answer, that if the Idol of the Soul be not quite Separated from it, Why should not the Soul it self be said to be there also, where its Idol is? |
A35345 | We worship indeed one that was born a man, What then? |
A35345 | What Body therefore, is that which is then Conjoyned with the Soul, after the dissolution of that Earthy Body, into its Elements? |
A35345 | What beginning shall we say there was of Common- wealths? |
A35345 | What if we add that the propriety of this word Jupiter, does not express a Divine, but only a Humane force? |
A35345 | What is Nature else, but God and the Divine Reason, inserted into the Whole World and all its Several Parts? |
A35345 | What is there more excellent than Goodness and Beneficence? |
A35345 | What other Cause of Atheism can there be besides this? |
A35345 | What shall we therefore say of the most Absolutely Perfect Being of all? |
A35345 | What then does the name of Lazarus signifie there, if it were no Real thing? |
A35345 | What then if for the most part men be blinded, ought there not to be some One, who should perform this office, and sing a Hymn to God for all? |
A35345 | What then? |
A35345 | What then? |
A35345 | What then? |
A35345 | What would God have me now to do? |
A35345 | Whence did man snatch Life, Reason, or Vnderstanding? |
A35345 | Whence would your self derive them? |
A35345 | Whereunto agree also, these passages of Seneca the Philosopher, Quid est Deus? |
A35345 | Whether God be only extrinsically circumfused, about his work the World, or inwardly insinuating do Pervade it all? |
A35345 | Whether Incorporeal or Corporeal? |
A35345 | Whether Intellect or something above Intellect? |
A35345 | Whether all things proceed from One or Many? |
A35345 | Whether are these Plastick Reasons or Forms in the Soul Knowledges? |
A35345 | Whether he can do whatsoever he will? |
A35345 | Whether he make his own Matter, or only use that which is offered him? |
A35345 | Whether the Gods do nothing at all, but are void of care and trouble? |
A35345 | Whether the first Principle be the same with the Demiurgus and Architect of the World, or before him? |
A35345 | Whether they suppose Matter, or Qualified Bodies, to be the first? |
A35345 | Which thing was thus Presignified in the Prophetick Scripture; Why do the Heathen Rage, and the People imagine a Vain thing? |
A35345 | Who is so mad or stupid, as when he looks up to Heaven, is not presently convinced that there are Gods? |
A35345 | Who is there that will n ● t fe ● r thee th ● u King of Nations? |
A35345 | Who is there therefore, that would go about to alienate Reason from the Mind? |
A35345 | Who the Fruits of the Earth? |
A35345 | Who the Seasons of the Year? |
A35345 | Who the agreeable Fitness of things? |
A35345 | Why have they their Temples apart, their Altars apart, distinct Sacred things, and Statues of different forms? |
A35345 | Why it was made at all, since it was so long unmade? |
A35345 | Why it was made at all, since it was so long unmade? |
A35345 | Why may not men pursue One and the same thing in different ways? |
A35345 | Why then would he continue Solitary so long, wanting the pleasure of such a Spectacle? |
A35345 | Why would he then content himself from Eternity, to dwell in such a Melancholick, Horrid, and Forlorn Dungeon? |
A35345 | Wilt thou now have me to depart out of this Festival Solemnity? |
A35345 | abominating the very mention of our names, if the same God that you worship be worshipped by us? |
A35345 | an t quid in eadem causa vobis esse contenditis familiares Deos, inimicos atque infestissimos nobis? |
A35345 | and I demand( saith he) whence did we snatch Speech, Musick, and Numbers? |
A35345 | and What God did before? |
A35345 | and another over the Knots of Straw and Grass, and the like? |
A35345 | and hath it nothing at all of that which is the most excellent thing in us? |
A35345 | and if they admit a First Matter, Whether they assert it to be Vnmade or Made? |
A35345 | and is there Knowledge in the most High?) |
A35345 | and the rest of this kind, that is, all their other Gods( properly so called) Invisible? |
A35345 | and themselves but a Ridiculous and Pompous Piece of Phantastick Vanity? |
A35345 | and to separate the River from the Fountain, making up a wall between them? |
A35345 | and what would he have me not to do? |
A35345 | and whence the Ideas thereof are derived? |
A35345 | and with that which is Divisible, Conceive what is Indivisible? |
A35345 | and ye Fools, when will ye be Wise? |
A35345 | and, How the Architect of the World could rear up so huge a Fabrick? |
A35345 | and, How the Architect of the world could rear up so huge a Fabrick? |
A35345 | and, What God did before? |
A35345 | another over Ears of Corn? |
A35345 | another over the Husks of Grain? |
A35345 | another over the Sweeping of Houses? |
A35345 | aut redductum Daedala Tellus Vnde alit atque auget? |
A35345 | because I am my own, as having something proper, and distinct from thee? |
A35345 | bestow Sense and Reason upon the? |
A35345 | but would not this be a Reproachful Commendation of the Gods, to say, that they conquer and master their vitious Lusts and appetites? |
A35345 | especially If Incorporeal? |
A35345 | for those things which thou hast made? |
A35345 | for those things which thou hast manifested, or for those things which thou hast hidden and concealed within thy self? |
A35345 | have I used my Faculties and Anticipations( or Common Notions) otherwise than thou requiredst? |
A35345 | hoc Deorum judicium sanctum? |
A35345 | how could he move it and turn it up and down? |
A35345 | non innumeros alios? |
A35345 | non obtrectatio quaedam sordens, suas eminere solummodo velle fortunas, aliorum res premi& in contempta humilitate calcari? |
A35345 | non unum& alium? |
A35345 | not one, and another, and innumerable? |
A35345 | or Something Separate and existing by it self? |
A35345 | or are Stones the only witnesses of him? |
A35345 | or confessing that there are Equine things, can nevertheless deny that there are any Horses? |
A35345 | or else Secondly, If the World could not be from Eternity, yet notwithstanding Why was it not sooner, but so lately made? |
A35345 | or for those things which thou hast not made? |
A35345 | or from whence did we derive it? |
A35345 | or if your Religion and ours be the same, why do you pretend that the Gods are propitious to you, but most highly provoked and incensed against us? |
A35345 | or is it not rather base Envy and Covetousness, for them thus to ingross all to themselves? |
A35345 | or rather does it not produce the Greatest of all things after it? |
A35345 | or rather, that it produceth them, according to Reason, and Knowledge, proceeding from God? |
A35345 | or since it was so long unmade, why did he make it at all? |
A35345 | or that No in which the God Ammon is worshipped? |
A35345 | or to cut off the Splendour from the Light? |
A35345 | or what Law can there be set to the Absolutely Fortuitous Motions of Atoms, to circumscribe them by? |
A35345 | or whether all things were at first Made and Constituted, and ever since are Moved and Governed by them? |
A35345 | puto ad Animas Patriarcharum? |
A35345 | quinimo non omnes quos jam templis habetis vestris, mortalium sustulistis ex numero,& coelo sideribúsque donastis? |
A35345 | quod detinetur,& in Diem Judicii reservatur? |
A35345 | quod hujus nominis proprietas, non Divinam vim sed Humanam exprimit? |
A35345 | shew thee the Light? |
A35345 | since now where our Body is, there in the same place is our Soul said to be also? |
A35345 | teach us first what God is, that so you may be believed in accusing me of Impiety: Tell us where God is? |
A35345 | that is, take notice of all the Distinct Parts of any Extended Object, and have a Description of the whole of them at once upon it self? |
A35345 | they who being forgetful of their former condition, would not have the same bestowed upon another, which hath been granted to themselves? |
A35345 | unde Cantus? |
A35345 | unde Numeros? |
A35345 | unde sustulimus? |
A35345 | what Engins and Machins for the rearing up of so huge a Fabrick? |
A35345 | what Machines or Engines had be? |
A35345 | what Ministers and Subservient Opificers? |
A35345 | — At quid immortalibus atque beatis Gratia nostra queat largirier emolumenti, Vt nostrâ quicquam causâ gerere aggrediantur? |
A35345 | 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉; But how can there be many Souls, and many Minds, and not only one, but many Entia? |
A35345 | 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉; How can All things be One, and yet Every thing have a distinct Being of its own? |