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A13054	1 sheet([ 1] p.) s.n.,[ London: 1640?]
A26147	And it was properly enough ask''d by the Scribes and Pharisees of our Saviour, Who gave thee this Authority?
A26147	By which of those Three Laws should that great Judicature have proceeded?
A26147	How came that in to Debate?
A26147	How came this to be altered?
A26147	It was not Engross''d into the hands of an Aristocracy; and what can Principatus else consist of; unless in Legislature and Judicature?
A26147	What is come in the place of them?
A26147	What then becomes of that great privilege of the people of England, of being tried by the Country, and by their Neighbours;?
A26147	What was this Regis Concilium( so constantly mention''d) in these Pleas, as those before whom they were held?
A26147	When and how came these Pleas to be discontinued ever since the time of Edward the 4 th?
A26147	When did the Law pass that restrain''d them?
A59752	And is it fit, while so potent and so near a Monarch is in Arms, that we sh ● ud stand with our hands in our Pockets?
A59752	And, seeing they oppose the consent of Mankind in such momentous affairs, why shou''d they not forfeit the benefit of human society?
A59752	But since al Men have not Understanding, you''l ask, How the Evil shal be cur''d?
A59752	But since som men wil be fools or knaves, why shoud not the few honest be as much secured as possible?
A59752	But supposing( which I never can allow) that Reason requires Life for Life, can it think it equal, to set the Life of a Man but at a Shilling?
A59752	But what Treaties, or Capitulations can be reckon''d which the French Ministers have not violated?
A59752	Do they not publicly abet the proceedings of the Rebels in Hungary against their lawful Prince?
A59752	Does not every Man know, That the Power of whol France is greater, than that of a part, that of Normandy, could be?
A59752	For how many are there, who do not profess the Apostles Creed?
A59752	For, I pray, are we not all equal by Nature, have you more of the Image of God, or a less share of Original Sin than I?
A59752	Have not they by address, and Cunning, by Bribes and Rewards, endeavored to corrupt most of the Ministers of Europe?
A59752	Have they not broken the famous Pyrenean Treaty, confirmd by Oaths and Sacraments?
A59752	Is a Horse, or a Cow, a Sheep or a Deer, or a less thing, a Cock or a Hen, an equal price for a Man''s Life?
A59752	Is it fit or just, Men shoud be punished by Laws they neither know, nor can remember?
A59752	St. Chrysostome makes it a mark of Heresie, and argues thus; Doth the Sheep persecute the Wolf?
A59752	That William ca n''t be suppos''d, to have been more watchful, to seize the Prey, than Lewis is?
A59752	This Act gave us a greater Propriety and Liberty, than ever we had before; and must the Poor chiefly pay, for the benefit of the Rich?
A59752	When the Emperor gives himself up more to Devotion, than Martial or State- Affairs?
A59752	When the King of Spain is a Youth of Sixteen, and when the Seventeen Provinces are canton''d between the Spaniard and the States General?
A59752	When these several Divisions and Interests occasion long Debates, different Opinions, and slowness in Preparation and Action?
A59752	Why shoud not he that swears falsly at least have his Tongue cut out?
A59752	Why then shou''d any, especially the unconcern''d, busy their heads with what they can not mend?
A59752	Wil other Nations expect better Terms, than he has given his own?
A59752	You tell me, that I am an Idolater; and can not I say, that you are a Heretick?
A59752	but, Whether Misery be preferable to no Misery?
A59752	seek knots in Bulrushes, make difficulties where God and Nature never made any, puzzle themselves and others?
A85986	4. or whether the semi- independents were of that minde in the Bishops daies?
A85986	And what other punishment doth the Scripture appoint for Hereticks?
A85986	Are not Magistrates Nurses to their people, Shepherds to their flocks, Parents to these children?
A85986	Are not Magistrates like to speed well, when their subjects shall own no Law, no Rule, no Charge, but as they think good?
A85986	Are not Officers like to command bravely when their souldiers must be left to their own will?
A85986	Are not Parents and Governours of families in a hopefull case, when the reins are laid on the neck of children and servants?
A85986	Are not errours the diseases of mens souls; and is there no way to cure them, but by letting them alone?
A85986	Are not such Foxes and Wolves most mischievous under that disguise?
A85986	Are not the best still minded of their emptiness, insufficiency, selfishness and unworthiness?
A85986	Are not the subjects right, peace and safety, the proper gifts of God?
A85986	Are not we all bound to sollicit heaven day and night, that such unclean spirits may be cast out?
A85986	Are there not sins of omission, when we reprove and discountenance not evil?
A85986	But are not these Christian Sheep directed also to be as wise as Serpents, to discern and repell all wolvish seducers coming in sheeps clothing?
A85986	But if you let the dunghill alone, will it ever be better?
A85986	But is suffering of errours a good way to that end?
A85986	But may not something be pleaded for them?
A85986	But what if his conscience should afterwards check him for mistakes therein?
A85986	But what means this kind of answer?
A85986	But what then?
A85986	But what''s the end of all?
A85986	But you plead conscience: Why, what do you mean?
A85986	Can we finde out any better way of procuring or preserving them, than by keeping close to him, and being active for him?
A85986	Can you be safe when that miscarries?
A85986	Can you think a licentious liberty profitable to any man?
A85986	Can you think that those persons will spare you, that spare not what is dearest to God?
A85986	Could your Rhetorick prevail, what a Metamorphosis should we have in every relation and condition?
A85986	Dare you then after this, charge or punish these men for breach of any Law?
A85986	Did not Salomon find it the best way to Wisdom and Glory, to peace and plenty, thus to begin with God?
A85986	Do not our State- Physicians finde work enough among such a variety of Bedlams?
A85986	Do not the worst of men enjoy often most of the world, being fattened for the slaughter?
A85986	Do they labour still to disgrace and discourage faithfull Magistrates and Ministers from promoting it?
A85986	Do they want a minde to attend their own interest, who spend all their skill and strength about it?
A85986	Do they want contrivers and engines, that have so many thousands of Jesuites in every corner?
A85986	Do you desire freedom to say and do what you will?
A85986	Do you long to try it and put us on the triall?
A85986	Do you think so indeed?
A85986	Doth he absolve the accessory, that punishes the Principal?
A85986	Doth he not so still?
A85986	Doth he not still appear against the neglecters and slighters thereof?
A85986	Doth not Christ himself press this parable to that end?
A85986	Doth not Gods honour deserve the preeminence still?
A85986	Doth not much of it remain in the best?
A85986	Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?
A85986	Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?
A85986	Had not Austin just cause to complain so much of his other mens sins?
A85986	He answers, Had he not as good live as he lists, as live as you list?
A85986	How many thousands were the better for crouding after Christ and his Apostles, though most for the loaves, or novelty sake?
A85986	How soon should we see the liberty of Christianity turn''d into the liberty of Bestiality?
A85986	If good men have suffered sometimes by the wresting of a good Law, or executing of an evil Law, shall it be a disparagement to good Orders and Laws?
A85986	If our complexion be still Laodicean, what is our condition like to prove, but like to theirs?
A85986	If we forget him, can we look to be remembred of him?
A85986	If wicked men will dare both God and man in their destructive courses, and meet therein with the wages of sinne, shall they blame any but themselves?
A85986	If you let the best garden alone, will it not soon grow worse, and will not the weeds spoil all at last?
A85986	Is it for the Patients good that he be forsaken of his Physician or Chirurgion, and left alone undressed, unlooked to?
A85986	Is it for the profit of Church or State, that their severall members should be left to their own fansie and will, to move as they list?
A85986	Is it not high time then for all Superiours and others, to hearken to Christs voice speaking from heaven to us, as he did to languishing Ephesus?
A85986	Is it not most rational, that the best things should have the best care from the best men?
A85986	Is it not so still?
A85986	Is it not the high way to hell?
A85986	Is it not their business day and night, every where, to obstruct and disturb it, what they can?
A85986	Is it profitable to any family or society, that the members thereof should be left in a disordered, disjointed posture?
A85986	Is not Christ himself that Lamb of God, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, that roars out of Zion against all wickedness?
A85986	Is not Christs interest the best way to settle yours?
A85986	Is not every man naturally full of evil, and bent to evil, empty of good, and backward thereto?
A85986	Is not he a breaker of Gods command, that gives free licence to the notorious transgressors thereof?
A85986	Is not he also guilty that prevents not evil, when he may?
A85986	Is not mans heart full of corruption by nature?
A85986	Is not this Calenture to be looked after with all diligence?
A85986	Is such a confusion the way to settlement?
A85986	Is that Magistrate faultless, that suffers his people to be seduced by pernicious Praters, without check?
A85986	Is that Officer faithfull that lets an enemy wittingly to debauch and ruine his souldiers?
A85986	Is the Gardiner faultless, that suffers carelesly the weeds to choak the good plants?
A85986	Is the Patronage of lies a friendly help to Truth?
A85986	Is the Physician guiltless, that willingly suffers his patient to be poysoned by Mountebanks?
A85986	Is the Watch- man blameless that warns not and keeps not the thief off?
A85986	Is this Libertinism the way to any true good, spirituall or temporall?
A85986	Is this your egregious method of joining all Inferiors to their Superiors?
A85986	Now that in words they profess to own the Scripture, how deal they with it?
A85986	Retort the Query you may thus then; What horrors of conscience shall that Magistrate feel, that hath minded himself in neglecting God?
A85986	Shall men for bear their food, because many surfet and riot?
A85986	Shall the ravening Wolves, that watch for mens souls, be cherished and owned, because they have got on the garb of Sheep?
A85986	Shall there be no wine in use, because some will be drunk?
A85986	Should not a Sheep of Christ be like himself, a Lamb to God, and a Lion to sin?
A85986	Should not that warning be cautiously improved, which Christ himself gives in such a juncture?
A85986	Should they not then provide for their good, and labour to remove and prevent all evil, both spirituall and temporall in their proper places?
A85986	Speak plain, Do you disown the Name and Worship of Christ, as too many of your comrades do in effect deny his Person and Office?
A85986	The Querist objects again to himself, Then every one may live as he lists?
A85986	The confounding of all things?
A85986	The ruine of Church and State?
A85986	There was no Writ Capiendi granted, or any compulsion by the Civil Magistrate?
A85986	Was it not so in Josias and Edward 6th time?
A85986	Was it not their zeal for God that made them great before God and good men?
A85986	Was not the like course revived by Satan ever since the Reformation was revived by Christ, formerly and lately?
A85986	Was there ever more need of that watchfull care, than in this age, and in these parts?
A85986	Were not those superlative villains the fruits and effects of your desired licentious freedom?
A85986	What Laws about them?
A85986	What dreadfull Convulsions and Inflammations hath not such a rash zeal caused ▪ among us, both in Church and State?
A85986	What else means that of Paul, Be not partaker of other mens sins?
A85986	What glory can such expect from God or man, that refuse all the fair means, which might prevent such evils of sin and sorrow?
A85986	What hope then of a cure that way?
A85986	What hopes of help below, but in a Bedlam or Bridewell, for such?
A85986	What if Moses by Gods command, did tolerate Divorce, for the hardness of their heart?
A85986	What is there so good but may be abused?
A85986	What mischiefs may not such Pests procure, if without restraint?
A85986	What of all this?
A85986	What think you of these things ye sober Christians?
A85986	What wickedness might not be pleaded for by the same reason?
A85986	What will become of him and of his light, if left to himself?
A85986	What would become of the Protestants of France, who live under Popish Magistrates, if they should appear for compulsion of conscience?
A85986	What''s a mans own light, before conversion, but the dim snuff of a candle, every moment ready to go out in a stink, into utter darkness?
A85986	Whether Christ hath said he will have an unwilling people compelled to serve him?
A85986	Whether compulsion of conscience was ever in practise among the Nations or Churches, till the times of Antichrist?
A85986	Whether doth not the practise of compulsion of conscience among Protestants, greatly harden the Papists in their Inquisitory practises?
A85986	Whether he was not reproved, that would have fire from heaven to devour those that rejected Christ?
A85986	Whether it''s not a burden enough for the Magistrate to govern and judge in Civil causes, to preserve the subjects right and safety?
A85986	Whether our Magistrates and Governours be not wronged, to give them the Titles of Civil Magistrates only, if their power be spirituall?
A85986	Whether persecution for conscience doth not harden men in their way, and make them cry out of oppression and tyranny?
A85986	Whether the Saints weapons against errors be carnall or no?
A85986	Whether the Scriptures appoint any other punishment to be inflicted upon Hereticks, than rejection and excommunication?
A85986	Whether the servants of the Lord are not forbidden to strive, but to be gentle towards all?
A85986	Whether they that would force other mens consciences be willing to have their own forced?
A85986	Whether those States, as the Low- Countries, who grant such liberty to souldiers and others, do not live quietly, and flourish in great prosperity?
A85986	Whether, if no Civil Law be broken, the Civil Peace be hurt or no?
A85986	Whilst we cordially mind his interest, will not he surely minde ours?
A85986	Who can tame these, but the Magistrates power, under God?
A85986	Who shall be Judge of the meaning of Scripture?
A85986	Why then do not your ghostly Fathers in Italy and Spain study to promote this excellent art?
A85986	Will Christ excuse the rest, when he condemns the false Teacher?
A85986	Will any sober conscientious Christian plead for it?
A85986	Will not corruption increase, if let alone?
A85986	Will not the late experiences of our English Worthies, with those of the former Champions of Christ, demonstrate fully this?
A85986	Will they honour you that vilifie God?
A85986	and whether so long as they are hardned and confirmed by us, there be any likelihood that the Gospel should take footing in Spain or Italy?
A85986	and whether that be the best way to prevent their increase and recover them?
A85986	because many have their Religion to chuse, shall not the Magistrate discharge his duty for their good?
A85986	do not these Nations need good Physicians, and utmost care to prevent the subversion of all?
A85986	that can spare such swarms of unclean spirits and Romish locusts, to darken and devour all the budding hopes of Truth and Peace among us?
A85986	that hath been carefull of the subjects bodies, but careless of their souls?
A85986	that hath been zealous for Civil affairs, but frozen to the Lords interest?
A85986	that hath done much for the world, but little for heaven?
A85986	that thought no cost too dear for their earthly priviledge, but every little too much for spiritual help?
A85986	they that walk in truth,) should be let alone?
A85986	wherein the Romish Cubs swarm round about us, under the mask of Notions and new Lights?
A85986	who will spare them, that so wilfully suffer for evil doing?