Questions

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A68203	Holland, Henry, 1583- 1650?
A68203	Holland, Henry, 1583- 1650?
A68203	and it being so, what manner of men ought wee to bee?
A68203	and what more vncertaine than the day of Death?
A65565	How were the Rocks rent, and the Mountains torn in sunder?
A65565	What dire Convulsions of Nature?
A65565	what belching out of fire and flame?
A65565	what hideous noises?
A65565	what openings of the earth?
A65565	— Quis talia fando Myrmidonum Dolopun ● ● e aut duri miles Ulyssis Temperet à lachrymis?
A07913	At whose end( albeit no man thought that God would euer haue said once more, Let there be Light) yet the Light appeared: but how?
A07913	But is Germanie in a flame, and doe other Nations stand a loofe off, warming their handes by her fires?
A07913	How blessed had they beene, if hee had stood?
A07913	How miserable are the Sonnes become by the Fathers fall?
A07913	How vnspeakable then is the Mercy of our Sauiour?
A07913	If then the number of our bad deeds swels to a heape so great, how can wee at Gods hands but looke for as great, and as many punishments?
A07913	Into my countries?
A07913	Into whose bosome shall I poure the riuer of my teares?
A07913	Is it because thy iniquities exceede the rest, as thy punishments do?
A07913	London]:[ 1612?]
A07913	Shall I drawe before your eyes a liuely Picture, to make you see these things?
A07913	Shall these Crutches serue for my beliefe to leane vpon?
A07913	She is frighted with the vnusuall prodigies which the wrath of her Maker stickes vpon her beauty: will men heare me?
A07913	Why art thou( aboue all thy fellowes) marked out and drawne to the slaughter?
A07913	how indemensiue is his bounty?
A07913	she is ouerwhelmed already in the torrent of her owne sorrowes: Shall I sigh my lamentations vp into Ayre?
A36314	Could God easily and suddenly have destroyed us, and did he not?
A36314	Could he have inlarged the Commission granted to the Earthquake, and did he not?
A36314	Do you think he is not able to destroy a whole World of such weak Creatures as you are?
A36314	Do you, even you, oh ye Worms of the Earth think you are fit Match for God?
A36314	Dost thou dis- believe the power of God?
A36314	Doth God shake the earth, then what is it he can not do?
A36314	Doth God visit this mean, this contemptible Creature, Man?
A36314	Doth the Lord of Hosts sometimes visit with an Earthquake, and hath he of late done so?
A36314	Doth the Lord of hosts sometimes visit with an Earthquake; and hath he of late done so?
A36314	God hath visited the World with one Earthquake after another, and cry''d, O ye Children of Men will ye not fear me?
A36314	God shook the Foundations of London, and said, Will ye not fear me O ye Citizens of London, will ye not tremble at my presence?
A36314	How justly may God use that sharp and stinging Expostulation he did of old?
A36314	How much more dreadful is it to see the Earth open her Mouth wide, and swallow up Thousands, not of Dead, but Living Men and Women?
A36314	How uncertain?
A36314	If concerning the late Calamity, it be askt, who hath done this?
A36314	Is not this a terrible visit?
A36314	Let me ask thee the same question holy Job askt himself; when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
A36314	O generation, see ye the word of the Lord; have I been a wilderness unto England?
A36314	Oh what a Mercy is it they have been so rare, and what a Tribute of Thanks is due to Heaven?
A36314	Oh who would not visit, and often visit such a God as this?
A36314	Peradventure here you will ask me, How should we improve it?
A36314	Shall I not visit for these things?
A36314	Shall the Earth tremble, and shall not Sinners much more?
A36314	Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
A36314	Suppose ye that those Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things?
A36314	The Earthquake prepared the Gaoler for Conversion, it made him come trembling to the Apostles, crying out, Sirs, What must I Do to be Saved?
A36314	To whom is it, the Lord of hosts makes this visit?
A36314	V. Doth the Lord of Hosts sometimes Visit with an Earthquake, and hath he of late done so?
A36314	Was Sodom and Gomorrah visited of God?
A36314	Were we on the very brink of destruction, and are we not destroyed?
A36314	What a Sacrifice of Praise shouldst thou lay on Gods Altar?
A36314	What is it omnipotence can not effect?
A36314	What was the Language of the late Earthquake but this?
A36314	What wilt thou answer?
A36314	When God shook the Earth, methinks, he said as to them of old, Fear ye not me, saith the Lord, will ye not tremble at my presence?
A36314	When one fire is out, how easily and suddenly may another be kindled?
A36314	Wherefore say my people, we are lords, we will come no more unto thee?
A36314	Would you improve this Visit?
A36314	Would you improve this late Visit of the Lord of Hosts?
A36314	Would you improve this late Visit of the Lord of Hosts?
A36314	a land of darkness?
A36314	saith the Lord, and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
A36314	what thanks and praise is due to the God of Heaven, there hath not been a more frequent repetition of this Calamity?
A36314	when God hath founded the earth upon the Seas, and established it upon the Floods?
A36314	you think it is secure, oh how soon can the Lord of Hosts destroy you and all your substance?
A36316	And he said what hast tho ● done?
A36316	And if God did send it, is it not a discovery of his Anger?
A36316	And if it were from the immediate hand of God, was it not for some great end that God should do so great a work, which he doth more rarely do?
A36316	And should not the terrour of the Lord awaken us, as you see it did others in the like case heretofore?
A36316	And the King said unto her, What aileth thee?
A36316	And what did they say?
A36316	And when this Earthquake was, did you not make as much hast to get out of it, as in Storms and Tempests you ever did to get into it?
A36316	Are the Pillars of the Earth turned into Wheels?
A36316	But do not Men still continue in their disobedience and provoking sins, and doth not God continue to manifest his hatred and detestation of them?
A36316	But in a desolating Earthquake, what hopes can Men have?
A36316	But in an Earthquake, whither will you run to escape the danger?
A36316	But why such fear and trembling in Men, when such- shaking and trembling in the Earth?
A36316	Can Kings and Nobles do it?
A36316	Can Man do it?
A36316	Could all the mighty Captains, Lord Generals, Kings and Emperours, with all their Armies, have had such an Influence upon the Earth?
A36316	Did God by an Earthquake shake London, and yet doth London stand?
A36316	Did it tremble, and not you?
A36316	Did not God that gave Commission to it, to shake London, put into its Commission, make it shake, but not to fall?
A36316	Did not your Fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this City?
A36316	Did you speak true before you were aware, when you said, you were secure?
A36316	Do not you see old Mercies to England in time of Judgment by that Earth ● uake then, as fresh Mercy in the like Judgment mixt in this so lately?
A36316	Do not you see your Mercy in the late Judgment?
A36316	Do you think this came by chance, and that by chance it did no more harm?
A36316	Doth War make great Devastations, burn Towns and Cities, throw down Castles?
A36316	Doth it not follow there is, and must be a God?
A36316	Doth the Plague go through a City?
A36316	Doth the Sea rage, and is tempestuous?
A36316	For all this is his Anger turned away?
A36316	Forget not the Dying year in this City in 1665. when God did visit it with the Plague: Have you forgot, have you not heard how Death raged then?
A36316	From Pit to Pit?
A36316	Have any of you been more serious and earnest in enquiring after the way of Salvation?
A36316	Have not you of late years heard terrible and roaring Thunderings, God thundering with a Voice which none can imitate?
A36316	Have not you seen how suddenly an Earthquake may be?
A36316	Have you so much as with a concerned mind asked any Minister, what you must do that you may be saved?
A36316	He doth shew his Anger, and we do see it, and how shall we escape?
A36316	I do not yet know, fain I would, but I do not; O Sirs, tell me what must I do to be saved?
A36316	I never did so suddenly remove from one House to another, and must I now so suddenly remove from one World into another?
A36316	If an Earthquake be so terrible, is not the usual steadfastness of the Earth the more comfortable?
A36316	If men could shake the Earth and your Houses as God did, could they so securely have preserved them from falling, and you from hurt, as God did?
A36316	If the beginning, must not others follow?
A36316	If you can not gather there is a God by what he doth by Creatures, can not you conclude there is a God, when things are done, and not by Creatures?
A36316	Impenitent before, and so still?
A36316	In Famine do People pine and languish?
A36316	Is Famine a sore and heavy Evil?
A36316	Is War dreadful?
A36316	Is an Earthquake behind these for dread and horror?
A36316	Is it not a great thing to make one of London streets, and the Houses therein so to quake?
A36316	Is it not known?
A36316	Is the Plague a wrathful Visitation of God?
A36316	Is this already forgotten?
A36316	May we not learn that this God never wants means to effect whatsoever he pleaseth?
A36316	May we not learn the certain Existence of the Deity?
A36316	Might not we ● ear, as they then did, and pray every night before we go to Bed, as they were appointed and commanded by Authority to do?
A36316	Nay, do not you see his powerful Mercy, and his merciful Power?
A36316	No minding of Conversion before, and none yet?
A36316	Or did you then, and are become secure again?
A36316	Or doth it not in some respects go beyond them?
A36316	Others, in other cases, first die and then are buried, first expire and then are carried to their Graves; but in an Earthquake must I be buried alive?
A36316	Round about?
A36316	Shall we despise the Riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long- suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth us to repentance?
A36316	The Just and Holy God is angry, with what can we appease him?
A36316	The Omnipresent God is angry, whither shall we go?
A36316	Then I contended with the Nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day?
A36316	Then the Question is propounded, What ailed thee, O thou Sea, that thou fleddest; what ailed thee, O Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
A36316	Was not this a great Earthquake that made so many Houses as be in such a great City as this to move, and shake, and tremble, tho''they stood?
A36316	Was the shaking of your Houses, so much, and the preserving of them so shaken, so great a mercy, in it self, and yet so little in your eyes?
A36316	Were you fitted for Judgment and Eternity?
A36316	Were you not afraid of Death, when your Houses did shake, and you feared, would fall upon you?
A36316	Were you prepared to die?
A36316	What ailed them?
A36316	What are metaphorical Earthquakes?
A36316	What are the Effects and Consequents of Earthquakes, which make them exceeding dreadful where they come?
A36316	What are the Natural Causes, material and efficient, of an Earthquake and how may it be described?
A36316	What are the several sorts or kinds of Earthquakes?
A36316	What if you had been destroyed then, where had your Souls been now?
A36316	What may be inferred and learn''d from this?
A36316	What shall sinners then do, when he shall lay upon them ● he heavy strokes of his Wrath and Vengeance to all Eternity?
A36316	What then?
A36316	What, will you be more stupid than the Earth under your feet?
A36316	Where is Nehemiah''s Courage?
A36316	Where then is the miracle ▪ of the Sun''s standing still in Joshua''s days, if it stand still in all Ages?
A36316	Which are Earthquakes supernatural?
A36316	While you look upon this Earthquake to be so small a thing, can you look upon your preservation to be so great a mercy as indeed it is?
A36316	Who made all the Philistines Host to tremble, the Garrison and the Spoilers to tremble, only Jonathan and his Armour Bearer?
A36316	Why so?
A36316	Why?
A36316	Why?
A36316	Will they hasten into the open Fields?
A36316	Will you be more careless and hardened than the Jaylor?
A36316	Will you look downwards?
A36316	With their mighty Armies can they do that, which God by Winds and Vapours can at his pleasure do?
A36316	Wo then to wicked Men, when God comes and shakes his Rod over ● hem, whereby he makes the Earth to shake under them, how sorrowful is your case?
A36316	Yet more, was it not a great Earthquake when it did enlarge it self, and reached at the same time to so many Cities and Towns beyond the Sea?
A36316	above you?
A36316	am I well, and yet must die?
A36316	and last no longer with a due impression in your memories?
A36316	and many times seven more to that, when a People still walk contrary to him?
A36316	and was it not the same power of God, that then made the Earth to quake, that made the other tremble?
A36316	and what conclusions did they draw from it?
A36316	and what improvement did some then present make thereof?
A36316	and whose Conscience is not moved and troubled for his sin, when the Earth is moved, as being restless under the burden of such sinners?
A36316	and yet if you saw a Ball stand in the Air not supported by, nor hung upon any thing ▪ would not you stand and gaze and wonder at it?
A36316	and yet not ready to leave this, nor to go into that?
A36316	because they suffered these things?
A36316	can it be denied?
A36316	can it not a minute more be delayed?
A36316	can not he that doth the greater, do the less?
A36316	did God shake you and your Houses, and not overturn you and them, and was not this great mercy?
A36316	did I live in my Mothers womb before I was born, and must I live( awhile) in this common Mothers bowels, after I am therein buried?
A36316	did it not slay heaps upon heaps, that the living were put to day- labour to bury their dead?
A36316	did it use to send its Serjeants to arrest, before it cast Men into the Prison of the Grave, and must I be haled away without Summons?
A36316	do not your sta ● ding Houses declare he hath not?
A36316	do you say or think, God could not do to you as he hath done with others heretofore, or to Jamaica of late?
A36316	doth it go from House to House, doth it climb up in the Windows?
A36316	first buried and then die?
A36316	from a temporal into an eternal World?
A36316	hath Death forgot its old way of sending Harbingers before it, before it came it self?
A36316	have not we heard of the sad destruction of Jamaica by a most terrible Earthquake there this year?
A36316	have you not?
A36316	how dreadful is your condition?
A36316	how many at that time did the trembling Earth bear, and weary of bearing them, trembled under them, as a Porter under a Load too heavy for him?
A36316	in a minute?
A36316	is it not seen?
A36316	is not his Hand stretched out stiil?
A36316	much more two or ten, much more all and every one?
A36316	or how near the trembling Earth might have been to opening, and swallowed up both you and your Habitations?
A36316	or shall we be more secure, because God( in Judgment) is so merciful?
A36316	or to what place will you hasten, or in so little time how will you get thither?
A36316	others are carried from their house, when dead, unto the grave, and must mine own house be my grave, and that while I do live?
A36316	should not the Judgment, and the Mercy in it, kindly work upon us?
A36316	so soon step into Eternity?
A36316	so suddenly, must I hasten into another everlasting World?
A36316	strong, in health, and yet now must die?
A36316	that you are yet alive, doth not this manifest that in that Judgment God remembred Mercy?
A36316	was it not God?
A36316	what Conclusion laid they down as sure and certain?
A36316	what comfort have you to support you in such terrour?
A36316	what did they gather and infer from thence?
A36316	what doth the Earth under their feet, but shake and tremble at what they did not?
A36316	what if it should cleave asunder( as in its shaking it hath sometimes done) and swallow me up as it hath done thousands of others?
A36316	what if my trembling House should fall, and I in it?
A36316	what if the Earth should sink under me?
A36316	what if this quaking Earth should open its mouth, and eat me up alive?
A36316	what made so many to be in so great a consternation?
A36316	what present Friend can help them, when they and their Friends are in the same equal danger?
A36316	what tho''they live in such places and parts of the World that are not so subject to Earthquakes as some other places are?
A36316	what, within a minute or two?
A36316	when any thing is effected, of which no natural Cause can be named, must there not be a supernatural?
A36316	when one must not die without the other?
A36316	when others die another way, doth this loving Mother lay their dead Bodies in her bosom, must I die this way, and go down alive into her bowels?
A36316	when were our admiring thoughts imployed about this subject?
A36316	where is the wonder of the Earths moving, if it whirl about every 24 hours with so swift a motion?
A36316	which way will you look for help, or hope, or comfort?
A36316	while we go on in a course of great provoking sins, when God hath shaken his Rod over us, might we not fear it will some time fall upon us?
A36316	whilst you lessen the work of God, the more you lessen the mercy of God?
A36316	whither can they in a minute go to escape the ruine?
A36316	why can not all People discern this constant motion of the Earth, that do perceive its shaking for a few minutes, and are so much affrighted at it?
A36316	why did so many run from their Shops?
A36316	will Death stay no longer?
A36316	will not he render to every man according to his deeds?
A36316	— Hath God been so severe with England, with London in the late Earthquake?