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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A64567 | According to the Original, Is it not I? |
A64567 | Having thus accomplish''d my first Task, the Explicatory part of my Text; said I, Accomplish''d it? |
A64567 | We may then imagine God pathetically expostulating the case, Shall not my Soul be avenged on such a Nation as this? |
A30623 | But some may say, what shall I doe if I have wicked Parents, or if my Master be wicked, or the like? |
A30623 | Oh mothers, is it so with you for your children? |
A30623 | When the young men shall praise God, what a shame will it be to our old men? |
A30623 | consider, will it not bee a glorious thing, to have the fruit of thy wombe to come and have a crown of glory on, and sit the next to Christ in heaven? |
A52042 | 6. to the children of Gad and the children of Ruben, Shall your brethren, saith he, goe to warre, and yee tarry here? |
A52042 | And first of all, is it so, that they are all cursed that help not the Lord against the mighty? |
A52042 | But how shall I doe to exercise this talent aright? |
A52042 | But it may be some will say, O Sir, but how should I doe to get such 〈 … 〉 the Church of Christ? |
A52042 | The next use shall be for exhortation to you all, is it so, that they are cursed that help not the Lord against the mighty? |
A66124 | What Torments they endured; what Oppositions they met with; and by what Deaths they perfected all their other Sufferings? |
A66124 | against them? |
A66124 | we respect the Cruelty of their Persecutors, What barbarous Slaughters have they Committed upon them? |
A40686 | But unto the ungodly( saith God) Why doest thou preach my lawes, and takest my Covenant in thy mouth? |
A40686 | Cut it downe, why cumbereth it the ground? |
A40686 | First, they must have a lawfull calling thereunto: What better deede then to make Brothers friends, and to be an equall Umpire betwixt them? |
A40686 | Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the Kingdome, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? |
A40686 | Is not this great Babylon that I have built? |
A40686 | Who would thinke to finde the fearfull marching in the fore- front? |
A64688 | But then consider with thy selfe thus; What hath sin done to me? |
A64688 | But what what is it I aske thee, that makes this sinne so deadlie? |
A64688 | How? |
A64688 | Looke first in thy owne debt, a debt that thou didst commit before thou wast born, begin at the highest, what was that? |
A64688 | Now, why not before? |
A64688 | Those that be in the darke, though they be naked, they are not ashamed: why? |
A64688 | When thou considerest of them betweene God and thy owne conscience dost thou blush? |
A66099 | Hast thou not procured this unto thy self? |
A66099 | I will refine them as silver,& c. and what then? |
A66099 | What is meant by fiery Tryals? |
A66099 | What is meant by fiery tryals? |
A66099 | What it is to count them strange? |
A66099 | What it is to count them strange? |
A66099 | the rod of my anger: what can a rod do without an hand to manage it? |
A62604 | And how was Xerxes his mighty Army overthrown, almost by a handful of Grecians? |
A62604 | Hast thou not heard long ago, that I have done it; and of ancient times that I have formed it? |
A62604 | If a man aim at Riches, what more proper to raise an Estate than understanding and industry? |
A62604 | If a man aspire to Honour, what more likely to prefer him to the Kings favour and service than dexterity and skill in business? |
A62604 | Is it to bow down his head as a bullrush, to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? |
A62604 | Is not this the Fast that I have chosen? |
A62604 | Now if a man design Victory, what more probable means to overcome in a Race than swiftness? |
A62604 | What more likely to prevail in War than strength? |
A62604 | Wilt thou call this a Fast, and an acceptable Day to the Lord? |
A62604 | a Day for a man to afflict his soul? |
A85013 | 2. by the Kings favourable and familiar questioning him, why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sicke? |
A85013 | And as for the second Table, how hard is it in these distracted times to be practised? |
A85013 | But what should not people give to buy a true peace and a peace with Truth? |
A85013 | Did Abraham live thus long in ignorance of his wives beauty? |
A85013 | Did he now first begin to know her handsomnesse? |
A85013 | How long shall it be then, yet thou bid the people returne from sollowing their brethren? |
A85013 | O how many yeeres purchase is it worth? |
A85013 | Sought to kill him? |
A85013 | The Priests were flaine with the sword; Sed quid cum Marte Prophetis? |
A85013 | Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devoure for ever? |
A85013 | Why Now I know thou art a beautifull woman? |
A85013 | knowest thou not that it will be bitternesse in the latter end? |
A85013 | strange: did God seeke to kill him, and not kill him? |
A58817 | And canst thou be such a barbarous Wretch, as not only to deny him the use of what he gives, but even to injure him with his own Gifts? |
A58817 | And could we possibly resist the powerful charms of such an indearing, such a distinguishing kindness? |
A58817 | And is this a suitable answer, do we think, to the obligations he has laid upon us? |
A58817 | And now what have we rendred to the Lord for all these Mercies and signal Preservations? |
A58817 | And what greater aggravation of sin can there be, than to repeat it with such a blasphemous contempt of the Most High? |
A58817 | O ungrateful Wretches that we are, do we thus requite the Lord our God? |
A58817 | what guilts have I contributed towards the filling up the measure of England''s Iniquities? |
A58817 | what sparks have I added to the common flame? |
A58817 | would to God we would once be sensible of it, that we would every one smite upon his own Thigh, and cry out, Lord, what have I done? |
A59878 | 11. v. For mine own sake, even for mine own sake will I do it; for how should my name be polluted? |
A59878 | And he saith unto them, Why are ye so fearful, O ye of little faith? |
A59878 | Hath God forgotten to be gracious? |
A59878 | Is his mercy clean gone for ever? |
A59878 | doth his promise fail for evermore? |
A59878 | hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? |
A66421 | But how ridiculous would he appear, that should thus adore himself, and pray to himself? |
A66421 | What need is there of this Doctrine? |
A66421 | What need of any Rewards proposed and promised, any more to provoke, encourage and oblige us to honour God, than to love our selves? |
A30434 | But on the other hand, what can be desired to make a Nation great and happy, but that which at the same time recommends it to the favour of God? |
A30434 | What can secure a man''s Honesty, or give life to his Industry? |
A30434 | What is become of the Love of our Country, and of its ancient Government and Liberty? |
A30434 | Where are even the Decencies of Religion, or of the Worship of God? |
A30434 | Where is the Good- nature and Generosity that was the Ornament of those that were nobly born? |
A30434 | Where is the Truth and Fidelity which was formerly one of the distinctions of Englishmen? |
A30434 | Where is the ancient gravity and composure of Behaviour that made a large part of the Character of this Nation? |
A30434 | Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? |
A30434 | Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoyce in thee? |
A30434 | Yet if we have failed at this time, What may not we hope from such an Essay, but that Angels watch over him, and that the Head of Angels covers him? |
A71209 | But here is a grand objection: Were not grievous crimes objected against the Apostle? |
A71209 | How can you please God that seek honour one of another? |
A71209 | If wee pray, or petition, or preach for peace, they are for warre; what shall I say of them? |
A71209 | Is it lawfull for you to scourge a Roman, and uncondemned? |
A71209 | Let us eschew bribery, popularity, and obliquv, loquy, for who shall dwell in Gods Tabernacle? |
A71209 | When, O Father of mercies, and Lord of hoasts, wilt thou turne the edge thereof against the Heathen that know thee not, and call not on thy Name? |
A71209 | Who could have thought that this flourishing Countrey should have become a sea of bloud, and this Eden a dead sea? |
A71209 | [ London? |
A71209 | y O thou sword of the Lord, when wilt thou bee quiet, when wilt thou returne into the sheath, and bee at rest? |
A59562 | Are there not twenty Families for one that live without so much as the shew of any Devotion? |
A59562 | But when a Man hath done this, to what purpose is it for him to trouble himself any further? |
A59562 | But, is there any thing of this to be seen among us, except in some few persons here and there? |
A59562 | If the Case be thus with us, as I am afraid it is; What Plea have we to put in for our selves? |
A59562 | O my Brethren, what have we to say to these things? |
A59562 | What a lamentable Prospect have we of this Kingdom of what may come upon us? |
A59562 | Where was there ever more Atheism and Infidelity to be seen in a Country that professed the Religion of Jesus Christ, than is among us at this day? |
A59562 | Without any sort of Prayer or Worship of God in their Houses? |
A59562 | that they would fear me, and keep all my Commandments always, and why so? |
A64366 | And how could a Man serve himself in any of these necessary Offices in times of Sickness, Lameness, Delirancie, and decrepit Old Age? |
A64366 | And if the unprofitable Servant shall undergo so severe a Doom, where shall the Cruel, the Malicious, the Mischievous appear? |
A64366 | For what Great, for what Good, for what Glorious Ends has all this Severity been exercis''d? |
A64366 | For, consider,( I beseech you) how void of Comfort a Life of intire solitude would have been to Man? |
A64366 | Is it the Pining of the Body for the fat''ning of the Fortune? |
A64366 | Is it the eating the Bread of others, at the Expence of our Conscience? |
A64366 | Is it the gaining of an Estate by Extortion, Fraud and Perjury? |
A64366 | Is it the supplanting of a credulous Friend, or the oppressing of an helpless Neighbour? |
A64366 | Man, who has so much power to know Good, and so much ability to do it? |
A64366 | The taking in of all we can, by ways just or unjust, and the using of nothing? |
A64366 | What is it that is worthy the daily Thoughts, and the nightly Studies of a Man of Understanding, and of an Excellent Spirit? |
A64366 | or where has it conceal''d it self? |
A64366 | where shall we meet with sincere Piety and Charity, if Self- love mingles it self with Fasting, Prayer and Alms? |
A64366 | with what a Life of Fear, would they have been crucified, who had stood perpetually by themselves on their own Defence? |
A64366 | with what a Life of Labour and Meanness, would Men have been burthened, if every one of them must have been his own only Servant? |
A66335 | And how many Designs, for ought we know, may he have prevented, which have not yet been brought to light? |
A66335 | And now, who would not here expect the final desolation of such a People as this? |
A66335 | And speak him in the words of the Text, to be a God slow to anger, and that repenteth him of the Evil? |
A66335 | And yet how did he then cover us with his hand in that day of his displeasure? |
A66335 | But what now was the issue of all this? |
A66335 | If thou LORD shouldst be extream to mark what is done amiss, O God who may abide it? |
A66335 | In how many dangers has God delivered us? |
A66335 | Which of all these will not afford me an evident Demonstration of the Patience and long- suffering of God? |
A66335 | f But was this therefore that Repentance for which he spared them? |
A43318 | A heavie judgement was upon the people for the neglect of the worship and service of God: Why saith the Lord of hosts? |
A43318 | Art thou wiser then he? |
A43318 | Is it not confirmed by Jesus Christ? |
A43318 | Is it not established by faith? |
A43318 | Is it not recommended to Christians by the Apostles? |
A43318 | Is it not written in the heart of man by nature? |
A43318 | Is not the end of it, love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and faith unfained? |
A43318 | Is not the observing of it, a testimonie of our communion with God? |
A43318 | Shall not the domesticks of the house of God observe the Commandments of God, or shall they not be grieved when they transgresse and observe them not? |
A43318 | The lawes of men may doe some hurt for repressing outrages, but how shall the floods be dried up unlesse the fountaines be obstructed? |
A43318 | The third is, the connexion of the one and the other, or the inference of the effect from the cause: For why should there be wrath? |
A43318 | or art thou stronger then he? |
A43318 | will thou against the will of God, against the experience of all ages, against thy owne conscience, run in a way contrary to Gods way? |
A88148 | 20. for if the devill might doe his owne will, where had wee beene by this time that are here now alive and safe before the Lord? |
A88148 | Can any good thing come out of Nazareth, much more can any good thing from the devill? |
A88148 | Certainly it is no strength nor power of our owne that doth preserve it, for who is able to resist the violence of this enemy? |
A88148 | Fourthly, how many prayers and petitions at the throne of grace hath hee pressed out in these extremities? |
A88148 | Know yee not that wee shall judge the Angels, that is, the Devils? |
A88148 | and for Siont sake who can hold his peace? |
A88148 | can any bring a cleane thing out of an uncleane? |
A86311 | And why? |
A86311 | Art thou sure of her priviledges hast thou forty dayes to turne thee in? |
A86311 | Heaven made thee the word of his fury; when the Children bleedes, shall not the world be burnt? |
A86311 | Those, by Heavens finger marked out for doome? |
A86311 | Though stormes fall fierce, and floods o''re Mountaines roare, Noah shall have an Arke; what would he more? |
A86311 | how do thy streetes ring with oaths? |
A86311 | is not thy hand drunke with the blood of innocents? |
A86311 | no, not the obl ● ● ion of many thousand soules, where is the prin ● of all thy faults? |
A86311 | this City more then other Cities? |
A86311 | what a monstrous birth flowes from thy fruitfull wombe? |
A86311 | what drunkennesse and open vomitings, what whoredoms and unheard of filthinesse? |
A86311 | what prodigious meteors, apparitions of men and women, se we dayly in our streetes? |
A86311 | what? |
A86311 | where is the returnes of all thy teares? |
A90290 | But if it be so, what means this bleating of Sheep and Oxen in mine eares? |
A90290 | But now whether over and beyond all these, the Lord Christ shall not beare an outward, visible, glorious rule? |
A90290 | Could we but doe our duty, and trust the Lord, with the performance of his promises, what quietnesse, what sweetnesse might we have? |
A90290 | Setting up a Kingdome like those of the World, to be ruled by strength and power? |
A90290 | What now by the lusts of men is the state of things? |
A90290 | Would you have your hearts quieted in this respect? |
A71286 | Can any be so blinde and voyd of understanding, as to expect any blessing or good at all from them who are the curse of the land? |
A71286 | Doe yee judge uprightly, ô yee sons of men? |
A71286 | How long( saith he) will yee imagine, or devise mischiefe? |
A71286 | Now what state is not miserable where a Band of such wicked Counsellors rule and judge? |
A71286 | Righteous( saith he) art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgements: Wherefore doth the wicked prosper? |
A71286 | The Prophet Habakkuk useth greater boldnesse, saying, O Lord how long shall I cry unto thee, and thou dost not heare? |
A71286 | What man can securely enjoy his lands, goods, liberty, or life? |
A71286 | Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? |
A71286 | Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? |
A71286 | and what would they doe to his great name; but blaspheme it, and say, Where is their God? |
A71286 | even cry out of violence, and thou dost not save? |
A71286 | how would the enemy rage more against his holy Majesty? |
A71286 | what peace or safety can be to any righteous man, if God doth not stop these Lyons mouthes, and extraordinarily protect him? |
A48853 | A just God, and most justly provokt, that might have cast us off long since, as we did him:( And if he had cast us off, who had lost by it? |
A48853 | And how near was that danger of Popery? |
A48853 | And now, if you will take him at his Word,( so I call it, for his Providence is a Call to you from Heaven;''t is as if he had said, Why will you die? |
A48853 | And why is that? |
A48853 | But yet, why may not God find so much a greater Number among us? |
A48853 | First, for our Deliverance at the King''s Restauration; what a Turn it was to this Nation? |
A48853 | For that God doth things as if he were slack,''t is plain, and the Apostle confesseth it: and yet the Lord is not slack, saith the Apostle: how then? |
A48853 | How then shall we solve the difficulty that appears to us in the Text? |
A48853 | Now who could tell all this while, but God might have pronounced the like Sentence against us, and that it might have been executed in like manner? |
A48853 | Now who would think, that God should put this to us, Twice, as you see he hath done, in one Generation? |
A48853 | What Favours might we not hope, the whole Nation would have for their sakes? |
A48853 | What are those? |
A48853 | What can be plainer than this, that he hath punisht us as a People whom he had no mind to destroy? |
A48853 | What can work upon us, if we are not wrought upon by this? |
A48853 | What then should be the Cause of God''s delaying his Judgments? |
A48853 | When the Lord turned the Captivity of Sion, then were we like unto them that dream? |
A48853 | do we say he forbears us? |
A48853 | how impossible was it for us to escape? |
A48853 | out of a most distracted Condition( in which we were ready to cut one anothers Throats) within a few Months to be a most flourishing Kingdom? |
A48853 | what can we add to him?) |
A45545 | And again, who heard such a thing as this? |
A45545 | And what lesse was the restoration of the Jews, who were no way able to rescue themselves, nor yet the Babylonians disposed to let them go? |
A45545 | If you shall ask, Why the Prophets were so bold as to affix Gods Name to their Messages? |
A45545 | It is a Question moved by the Schools, Whether God can make such a creature as should be able to create another? |
A45545 | Peace and government, for what peace where there is no government? |
A45545 | Peace then would be first sought for in reference to the State, by an harmonious Union ▪ What other is the State but a politicall body? |
A45545 | Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day, or shall a Nation be born at once? |
A45545 | To the right understanding whereof, the Question would be made and resolved, whose lips are here meant? |
A45545 | To this tend those expressions in this Prophet, Who are those that flee as the clouds, and as the doves to the windows? |
A45545 | We finde this Prophet complaining, Who hath beleeved our report? |
A45545 | What room then for infidelity when we have such sure promises? |
A45545 | When Amasiah wished to David, Peace, Peace be to thee, what did he thereby intimate, but all kinde of prosperity? |
A45545 | Who hath seen such things? |
A45545 | and what other peace can be desirable in a body, than an union of the head with the members, and the members one with another? |
A45545 | and yet this was effected: Who would have expected that Abraham and Sarah being stricken in years should have a childe? |
A57156 | 21. and that of the Apostles, Wilt thou now restore the Kingdom unto Israel? |
A57156 | 9. such as that of Peter, What shall this Man do? |
A57156 | And again, How shall I give thee up Ephraim, How shall I deliver thee Israel? |
A57156 | And what can befall a man to shake and discompose his Heart, who hath a Lord alwayes to rejoyce in? |
A57156 | Are not these the Laws of Christ? |
A57156 | Either this is not Christianity, or we are not Christians? |
A57156 | How shall I make thee as Admah? |
A57156 | How shall I set thee as Zeboim? |
A57156 | Lastly, the peace of God which passeth all understanding; and what Perturbations are able to storm such a Soul as is garrison''d with Divine peace? |
A57156 | To say with Iob, What shall I do when God riseth up, and when he visiteth what shall I answer him? |
A57156 | We see how the Lord hath been near us both in wayes of Mercy and of Judgement, as if he would say of us as of Ephraim, Is Ephraim my dear Son? |
A57156 | and have we not solemnly vowed all this in our Baptisme? |
A57156 | and so not onely subscribe to the truth, but undertake the practice of those necessary Doctrines? |
A57156 | is he a pleasant Child? |
A61600 | And what do all these things mean? |
A61600 | But supposing men keep within the bounds of justice and common honesty, yet how unsatiable are the desires of men? |
A61600 | Can you then look upon my ruines with hearts as hard and unconcerned as the stones which lye in them? |
A61600 | For when were they ever more secure& inapprehensive of their danger than at this time? |
A61600 | Had the Leprosie of your sins so fretted into my Walls, that there was no cleansing them, but by the flames which consume them? |
A61600 | Had we no other way of trying the continuance of Gods goodness to us, but by exercising his patience by our greater provocations? |
A61600 | Have I suffered so much by reason of them, and do you think to escape your selves? |
A61600 | Must I mourn in my dust and ashes for your iniquities, while you are so ready to return to the practice of them? |
A61600 | Shall there be evil in a City, and the Lord hath not done it? |
A61600 | Was there no way to expiate your guilt but by my misery? |
A61600 | Was this our requital to him for restoring our Soveraign, to rebell the more against Heaven? |
A61600 | Was this our thankfulness, for removing the disorders of Church and State, to bring them into our lives? |
A61600 | Who can have any sense of the anger of God discovered in it, and not have his fear awakened by it? |
A61600 | and what will the issue of them be? |
A61600 | the Christian, to be profaned by the unhallowed mouths of any who will venture to be damned, to be accounted witty? |
A85529 | 4. what followed? |
A85529 | And can any think of God to be heard and answered in his petitions, that suffers the godly to perish for want of their redundancies? |
A85529 | And do not some doate on Images with the Romanists, and others on Imaginations with Factionists? |
A85529 | Can we not be when our resorts are unto God warrantable, regular, orderly? |
A85529 | For how thinke we that God will regard our prayers, if we bee overly in the observation of his serious enjoyments? |
A85529 | How can yee beleeve which receive honour one from another, and seeke not the honour that commeth from God only? |
A85529 | How few are right in the right way of Gods prescriptions? |
A85529 | Into what Sects are we dissected? |
A85529 | Nay still are in, and under? |
A85529 | Saint Iames gives us that, Chapter 4. verse 3. how may wee say, and say truly, God not hearing us, heares us the more? |
A85529 | Suffers bleeding Ireland, which makes our Kings heart bleed, still to wallow, and welter in bloud, without stenching that bloudy issue? |
A85529 | What doe they other, then labour to be faithlesse with reason? |
A85529 | What troubles of ● ● te have these three kingdoms under one Soveraigne been cast into? |
A85529 | and is not that turned into a most blessed reunion? |
A85529 | how few Lots are there in this Sodome, the present evill world? |
A85529 | if wee waite not constantly in his Sanctuary, on his sacred behests and appointments? |
A85529 | into what Schismes do we runne? |
A85529 | what jealousies each gainst others are every where closely fomented? |
A85529 | will he receive our demands, if we ● light over his commands? |
A41043 | Again he adds, How can one enter into a strong mans house and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man, and then he will spoil his house? |
A41043 | And do''s not herein our iniquity answer to our face? |
A41043 | Do''s any man escape the character of Papist, Pensioner, and Courtier on the one hand; or Common- wealths- man, Traitor, and Fanatic on the other? |
A41043 | If the whole body were an eie, where were the hearing? |
A41043 | Is not all protection and support due from Superiors, and all submission and industry paiable by inferiors, quite lost among us? |
A41043 | Is not the speaking evil of Dignities, and reproching Things and Persons sacred, become the dialect and language of the time? |
A41043 | Is there almost any conversation but under the terms of Faction and Discord? |
A41043 | Is there any care of the Public either Interest or Safety? |
A41043 | Shall I break out into the rapture of the Psalmist? |
A41043 | What peace so long as the whoredoms of Jezebel, and her witchcrafts are so many? |
A41043 | What words shall I take up to enforce upon you a value and desire of peace? |
A41043 | and if they were all one member, where were the body? |
A41043 | if the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? |
A89500 | ( i. e.) if religion, lawes, authority& all have lost their awe, what can they doe? |
A89500 | ? |
A89500 | But you ought to be more tender of Christs truths ▪ you owe somewhat to Christs Saints and servāts: but I say again, more to his truths? |
A89500 | But you will say these are generalls that concerne the whole Church, especially at such a season, what doe you say to our distempers and distractions? |
A89500 | But you will say this is a worke of time, what is to be done to avoid the danger of the present distractions? |
A89500 | Dost thou not know mee? |
A89500 | If the Lord be with us, why is all this evill befallen us? |
A89500 | Secondly, If you goe to God you must goe to him in his owne way; how is that? |
A89500 | Why he was not more keene against the Papists, and preached not oftner against them? |
A89500 | Zuinglius was once asked by a friend, Cur non contra pontificios? |
A89500 | have greivances been redressed? |
A89500 | have you dealt with God so faithfully? |
A89500 | justice executed, the glory of God''s house provided for? |
A89500 | such great breaches and distractions, the ball of contention bandyed from one to another, cloudes gathering every day thicker& blacker? |
A89500 | with the people so kindly as you should? |
A85505 | God we are sure is a God that heares prayer, especially extraordinary prayer; but are we purified, made white, tryed? |
A85505 | His Disciples aske him when this shall be? |
A85505 | Is God just? |
A85505 | Is God mercifull? |
A85505 | Jews, and demandeth of them the cause why they did not sacrifice? |
A85505 | Secondly, You may live to see this delivery, as he saith, who shall live when God doth this? |
A85505 | We fast and pray, and yet we are not delivered; why is it thus? |
A85505 | We were quiet, why are we now so distempered? |
A85505 | What working against Christs comming in the flesh, from Abel to the birth of Christ? |
A85505 | Why the Lord forbeares so long to deliver? |
A85505 | Why this time more troublesome than former? |
A85505 | and what resisting of the Holy Ghost comming to apply the grace so offered? |
A85505 | c 37, ● 8, 39. asked them, why they doe not sacrifice? |
A85505 | c. 20. the Jews together, asks them why they sacrifice not as they are commanded? |
A85505 | they tell him, they may not except it be in Hierusalem, as their law commands them; He askes, why then they doe not build their Temple? |
A85505 | what attempts against the Prophets, Apostles, and Ministers of Christ that offered and preached the Redemption wrought by Christ? |
A85505 | when shall it once be? |
A85505 | why stand things at a stay? |
A85505 | why? |
A30433 | And now Lord, what shall we say after this? |
A30433 | And will he bear with us for ever? |
A30433 | Are the differences so wide that they can not be healed? |
A30433 | Are we better than the others who have suffered? |
A30433 | But alas, can it be expected that those who do not mourn for their own Sins, should mourn for the Sins of others? |
A30433 | Have we no sense of God''s forgiving us our many hainous sins? |
A30433 | Have we no sense of all that God has done for us? |
A30433 | How have they gone up into the Ears of the Lord of Hosts? |
A30433 | How loud is the Cry of the Luxury, the Injustice, the Fraud, the Violence, and the Impieties of this Place? |
A30433 | If the Seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob were so used, why should others hope to escape, if they become guilty of the like Ingratitude? |
A30433 | Is every Man so soured with the leaven of a Party, that he can not see himself, or make others observe the tendency of all this? |
A30433 | Is there no Balm in Gilead, and is there no Physician there? |
A30433 | Or, can we think that God is partial to us? |
A30433 | Shall not I visit for these things, saith the Lord? |
A30433 | Suffer me then in the words of St. Paul, to say, Is there not a wise man among you? |
A30433 | Were the wrongs done so great that they can not be forgiven? |
A30433 | Who were cleansing themselves from their Impieties and Impurities, from their Injustice and Oppression? |
A30433 | Who were putting from them the Evil of their Ways? |
A30433 | Will we quite defeat, and disappoint it? |
A30433 | shall not my Soul be avenged on such a People as this is? |
A59556 | And yet are not these the avowed Principles of too many among us, and those too that are the great pretenders to Reason and Philosophy? |
A59556 | But what Fruits have we produced after all these great opportunities and this great patience? |
A59556 | But what has been the effect of such Philosophy? |
A59556 | But where is our wisdom in the mean time? |
A59556 | Can we say that we are not worse than they? |
A59556 | How do men by these foolish and unaccountable Divisions weaken the common interest that all pretend at least to be concerned for? |
A59556 | That we have at least made as good an use and improvement of the Talents that have been committed to us as they did? |
A59556 | Though the Principles which our Church Owneth and Professeth be excellently good; Yet do not many of us horribly contradict them in our Practices? |
A59556 | Though we still keep up the form of Godliness, yet have we not in a great measure lost the power thereof? |
A59556 | What advantages are hereby given to the Adversaries? |
A59556 | What could I have done more to my Vineyard that I have not done in it? |
A59556 | What is now further to be desired, but that the Issue of things among us may be suitable to these beginnings? |
A59556 | Wherefore then when I looked that it should bring forth Grapes, brought it forth Wild Grapes? |
A59556 | Whither shall we come at last if timely care be not taken of these things? |
A85979 | And how often have they sought peace and his Returne? |
A85979 | And may not a good King love his enemies, and hate his friends? |
A85979 | And what if the great Councell of the Kingdome seek to remove wicked Counsellers from the King, that usurpe their Office to themselves? |
A85979 | And what if they send forth to suppresse insurrections, and to pursue Delinquents, that fly the justice of that high Court? |
A85979 | But what did David when he was a subject, and Saul sought his life? |
A85979 | Doth it not pertain to them to do it, even ex Officio? |
A85979 | Good King David was charged with that; And may not a good King help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? |
A85979 | Good King Jehoshaphat was charged with that by a Prophet of the Lord; And may not a good King be led to shed much innocent bloud? |
A85979 | If yee do well, shall yee not be accepted? |
A85979 | It is further said, that he is a good King, but may not a good King be led to do unwisely? |
A85979 | It will be said by our adversaries, that they pray too, and why may not they be heard as well as wee? |
A85979 | May not the State, and such a State that hath such power in their hands, doe more than one man, of what rank so ever? |
A85979 | Must the State and those that hold with them, learne of Delinquents that have deserved death, how to be for the King? |
A85979 | Must they learne of damme- swearers, that familiarly sweare themselves into hell? |
A85979 | Vbi est Deus Theodosij? |
A85979 | Were the second, the seventh, the fourth, better kept then in Westminster, then they are now? |
A85979 | or of perfidious Covenant- breakers, to whom an oath of God is no more than a collar to a Monkey, that he can slip at pleasure? |
A64750 | And indeed what gift more proper, which more befitting the spirituall Essence of God; then our most immateriall part? |
A64750 | Are we Temples of the living God? |
A64750 | But with us since the choice of Meates, the whip and haireloth are laid aside, to avoyd Iudaisme and Popery, are not we wisely become 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A64750 | Dost thou keepe downe a lust to day? |
A64750 | Dost thou then bridle thy angry thought? |
A64750 | Doth thy righteousnesse exceed his? |
A64750 | How should man be iust with God? |
A64750 | Quod ventri subtrahitur addatur pauperibus, was a good Canon, elle what do we but fast for our selves, and save the expence of a Meal? |
A64750 | To whom shall we have recourse for that? |
A64750 | What is it that keepeth the streame in its native chrystall purenes, but a constant course; whereas standing waters breed but serpents and corruption? |
A64750 | Who eve ● arrived at such perfection? |
A64750 | Who is it but admireth the subtilty of Achitophel? |
A64750 | are they in his heeles? |
A64750 | but it was for the deposing of a good King; or the cunning of leroboam to keep the People from going to lerusalem to worship? |
A64750 | dost thou cast off thy offencive hand? |
A64750 | is it not to give it some pause and intermission, that it may become more vigorous the day following? |
A64750 | is it not to pen it in, that it may burst forth with greater flame? |
A64750 | stay the locle evibrations and glances of the eye? |
A61609 | And shall such men alwayes triumph that they are too hard for our Laws? |
A61609 | But did they prosper or succeed more than the Kingdom of Judah? |
A61609 | But doth the King of Babylon think to escape himself? |
A61609 | Can we call them a happy people that see much riches and enjoy none; having nothing which they can call their own, unless it be their slavery? |
A61609 | Could there ever be a fairer or kinder offer than this? |
A61609 | Do men imbrue their hands in blood for nothing? |
A61609 | For lo I begin to bring evil on the City which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? |
A61609 | How many objections would the Infidels and Scepticks of our Age have made against such a Message as this? |
A61609 | Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord, shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this? |
A61609 | What encouragement doth God hereby give to others to repent, when Niniveh was rescued from the very brink of destruction by it? |
A61609 | What hopes had he given them of mercy if they repented? |
A61609 | What struglings did it meet with in the Birth? |
A61609 | Why no other Person, why at such a time, why in such a manner? |
A61609 | Would God disparage the reputation of his Prophet, and alter the sentence he had sent him so far to denounce against them? |
A61609 | and that like the Canaanites and Jebusites to the Children of Israel, they will still be as scourges in ● ● r sides, and thorns in our eyes? |
A60350 | Because we may, without breach of charity, differ about Circumstantials, shall there be no hedge set about the Fundamentals? |
A60350 | But what is your charge? |
A60350 | But what then, because flowers of several colours, and different sizes ought to be continued and lookt to, must weeds be suffered in the Garden? |
A60350 | But why so? |
A60350 | First, what kinde of prayers must be put up for Kings, and those that are in authority? |
A60350 | Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me, lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? |
A60350 | If it be a hard matter to steer a Cock- boat, what then is it to sit at the helm of a Ship? |
A60350 | In a word, this spirit is condemned by reason it self, what dost thou think will become of thy Cabin, if the Ship miscarry? |
A60350 | Is any man afflicted? |
A60350 | Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? |
A60350 | Such as these are small friends to our English Zion, the Nation is much beholding to them, is it not? |
A60350 | Surely these men will not allow the same liberty in other things, would they have men do what they list, without controul? |
A60350 | The second thing which we are to enquire into, is this: What is to be the matter of our prayers? |
A60350 | What is that? |
A60350 | What would become of Religion if that should be granted? |
A60350 | let him pray: Is the Nation afflicted? |
A60350 | or, what ought we to beg of God for them? |
A60350 | seek God no more? |
A60350 | the sentence is gone out, hath the Lord said it, and shall he not do it? |
A60350 | who can tell, but God may have thoughts of good and pe ● ce concerning us? |
A60350 | will you therefore give over, and pray no more? |
A88994 | 1 Then are our minds, understandings and judgments, subdued to the wisdom of Christ, revealed in His word? |
A88994 | And why? |
A88994 | Are your minds subjected to the wisdom of Christ discovered in these truths? |
A88994 | But what is the last enemy that shall be brought under? |
A88994 | But what saith the holy Ghost? |
A88994 | Can not ye say after him verbatim, and apply all to your selves, word for word? |
A88994 | Do not many of you entertain such thoughts as these in your hearts? |
A88994 | Do we sincerely desire and endeavour, to have every thought within us captivated under the power of His truth? |
A88994 | Do we verily account all that wisdom to be meer foolishnes, which lifteth up it self against any truth of Christ? |
A88994 | Hath not God avenged you, and wonderfully subdued the people under you, far beyond the hopes of those that were most confident among you? |
A88994 | If any ask why the world standeth so long, being planted and peopled with rebels, and filled with rebelion against Christ? |
A88994 | If this be a voice from heaven, what shall we think of the clamour of those that contradict it? |
A88994 | O grave where is thy victory? |
A88994 | Secondly, I beseech You be willing to lye lowe before him and to say, What saith our Lord unto His servants? |
A88994 | The States of the Empire meeting at Noremberg, thought to moderate things according to principles of policie: But what saith Luther to this? |
A88994 | Thirdly, how carefull should we be throughly to examine our selves whether we be truly subjected to Christ, or not? |
A88994 | What spectacle so glorious in his eye as to see Christ victorious, to behold the Captain of his salvation on a day of triumph? |
A88994 | Who knoweth the power of thine anger? |
A88994 | is not that a voice from hell? |
A61115 | ( Beloved) the Lord tels us, The righteous shall scarse be saved, where then shall the wicked appear? |
A61115 | And then again, if you know Jesus Christ, you will live upon him; Is it all the glory of Jesus Christ you live upon? |
A61115 | Beloved, I beseech you to consider it: Do you not perceive how we are hemmed round about with enemies spirituall and temporall? |
A61115 | Beloved, do you not already perceive the very drops of bloud begin to fall? |
A61115 | Beloved, if any of you were to encounter with enemies, what kinde of souldiers would you take with you, the lame, the blinde, the deaf? |
A61115 | Did you ever reade in the Book of God that any of his souldiers returned from the battell, but one time or other they lost something? |
A61115 | Do you not daily heare of the cruell malice of the enemies of God? |
A61115 | Do you not perceive how you are set about with enemies? |
A61115 | If a Captain should come to his souldiers, and tell them, if you take the Town, all shall be yours; would not this put life in the souldiers? |
A61115 | Is not there a proud heart to be humbled, a dark soul to be enlightened, is there no spots to be gotten out? |
A61115 | Jesus Christ seems now to set up his glorious standard, and make a Proclamation, Who will be on my side, who? |
A61115 | Oh that men and women would but sit down alone, and seriously consider, whose servant am I, whose work do I, of whom do I take pay? |
A61115 | Secondly, consider this, who will accompany you in this glorious fight? |
A61115 | So Paul, when hee was to go up to Jerusalem, they tould him he must be bound there; Oh, saith Paul, why do you weep and break my heart? |
A61115 | Thirdly, you must encounter with your own gifts and abilities: How many thousand souls are undone by those gifts& parts the Lord bestoweth upon them? |
A61115 | Thus Jesus Christ also, O why will you dye O house of Israel? |
A61115 | What a long time did Demas walk with Paul? |
A61115 | What is the reason of those blasphemous thoughts which men have? |
A61115 | What is the reason thou canst lay such a drunkard, such a whore- master in thy bosome, and so slightest the people of God? |
A61115 | What, wilt thou be saved by thy own righteousnesse? |
A61115 | Why should I hear, read, pray any more? |
A61115 | Why, what dost thou fight against then? |
A61115 | Why, you say you do not fight against Gods people and his ordinances? |
A61115 | have you not enemies in your own hearts? |
A61115 | what have I done to you? |
A61115 | wherein have I wearied thee, testifie against me? |
A85371 | 17. what shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel? |
A85371 | 26. where God saith, He will revenge the quarrel of his Covenant, What a magazine of Judgements follow? |
A85371 | 3. can any application to God divert those? |
A85371 | Breach of Covenant: And what judgement doth not this bring? |
A85371 | But how shall we engage God for us? |
A85371 | But how should the Unity of brethren be maintained? |
A85371 | By whom shall JACOB arise? |
A85371 | Either we are not brethren, or else we should ask our selves this question, Why should we contend? |
A85371 | Euchrytes being asked whether he would be Craesus or Socrates? |
A85371 | How little have we mourned for the long afflictions of Germany, the bloody massacres of Ireland? |
A85371 | How many thousands in Ireland yet cry for pity and relief? |
A85371 | How shall we apply our selves to him that we may prevail with him? |
A85371 | Is Ephraim my dear son? |
A85371 | Is there any Nation so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? |
A85371 | Is there any evil in the city, that I have not done? |
A85371 | Is there any thing too hard for the Lord? |
A85371 | Is this the Fast that I have chosen, to bow down thy head like a bull rush? |
A85371 | Thirdly, By whom shall Jacob arise? |
A85371 | What is our sin? |
A85371 | When the people heard of great judgements, they cryed out, What is our iniquity? |
A85371 | When ye fasted these seventy yeares, did ye at all fast unto me? |
A85371 | Ye swallow up the needy, and make the poor of the land to fail: Shall not the land tremble for this? |
A85371 | is he a pleasant child? |
A85371 | or how hardly shall we prevail with God, while these sins cry against us? |
A86310 | Be pleased to conceive a Parliament at this time conveen''d in Heaven, and God on his Throne asking this Question, Shall I destroy England? |
A86310 | Did Publius Scipio a private man kill Tyberius Gracohus that did but lightly weaken the Common- wealth? |
A86310 | Did ever people hear the Voyce of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard and live? |
A86310 | He that loseth his life shall preserve it; No man can give a cup of cold water, but shall have his reward: Who saith God hath shut my door for nought? |
A86310 | In point of equity, what can we stake in Gods cause and our Countries, that we have not received from God and for Gods purposes? |
A86310 | What made these Persian Laws unalterable, but the Laws themselves? |
A86310 | What shall I do for you, and wherewith shall I make the Atonement, that ye may blesse the inheritance of the Lord? |
A86310 | You your selves the Worthies of the Kingdome, have you not severall times received the sentence of death within your selves? |
A86310 | and shall we that are Consuls, saith the Consul of Rome, let Cataline alone to work a common- destruction? |
A86310 | and what Nation is there so great, that have Statutes and judgements so righteous? |
A86310 | is not this equall? |
A86310 | shall not the Judge of all the Earth do that that is right? |
A86310 | she that before neglected her Husband her Soveraign, how would she have here under- valued her servants, her subjects? |
A86310 | what will the Atheists, the Papists, the Malignants say, Surely God was not able to save them? |
A85443 | ( Knowest thou what these be? |
A85443 | 11?) |
A85443 | 14. Who am I,( sayes he) and what is my people, that we should offer so willingly? |
A85443 | 3. saying, Who is like unto the Beast? |
A85443 | 3. their enemies came and questioned them for it, Who hath commanded you to build this house? |
A85443 | 30. but because it was carryed on through much opposition? |
A85443 | 4. Who shall not feare thee, O Lord? |
A85443 | 7. Who art thou, O great mountaine? |
A85443 | And what follows? |
A85443 | And why did God doe all this for him? |
A85443 | David was afraid of God that day, How( sayes he) shall I bring the Ark of God home to me? |
A85443 | For the first,( the Erecting of it) Did he use might, or power, or an Armie( as it is varied in the margent) to conquer the world by? |
A85443 | For to what end was this mountaine thus removed? |
A85443 | Now with what doth Christ comfort himselfe before he was to dye? |
A85443 | Who shall not feare thee, O Lord, and glorifie thy Name? |
A85443 | You see how contemptuously he here speaks, of the opposition made;[ Who art thou, O great mountaine?] |
A85443 | though great in their owne eyes, yet as nothing in his: He speaks as a Giant unto a Pigmee, Who art thou? |
A85443 | we reade of a perfect victory over the Beast: And whereas before it had beene said of his Holinesse the Pope, Who is like unto the Beast? |
A85443 | when the Jews went to build the walls of the City, the enemies mockt them, and said, What will these feeble Jewes doe? |
A85443 | where are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their land out of my hand? |
A85443 | who is able to make warre with him? |
A85485 | And may we not yet hope that God will doe better unto us then at our beginnings? |
A85485 | And shall the best Society on earth, the militant Church, be without Ecclesiasticall Governours, proper and peculiar to it? |
A85485 | And what are those fruits, thinke ye? |
A85485 | But may some say, Is this possible? |
A85485 | Can the best of us now come neere to Abraham, other Patriarks and Prophets, in knowledge, faith, parience and other like graces? |
A85485 | Did the Law ever impose such hard tasks upon any that were under the pedagogy thereof? |
A85485 | Except ye utter by the tongue words easie to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? |
A85485 | Have not our Armies had successe beyond expectation, even to admiration? |
A85485 | Having propounded this Question concerning the Jews, Have they stumbled, that they should fall? |
A85485 | How can that be unbloody, which consists of bloud? |
A85485 | How carefull were the Iudges to draw the people from idolatry, and to keep them close to God? |
A85485 | How good a progresse hath been made in Reformation? |
A85485 | How should we have desired to see them? |
A85485 | How should we have rejoyced to see this day? |
A85485 | I may well use Moses his exprobration against them, Do yee thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? |
A85485 | If the doers thereof should plead them before God, what other answer could they receive, but this, Who hath required this at your hand? |
A85485 | If they say, the same, what need is there that it should be offered up again? |
A85485 | Is it not by experience found, that such proper and peculiar Governours are needfull and usefull, and so good in their severall sphears? |
A85485 | It is to our unspeakable advantage and benefit; and shall not God have the praise thereof? |
A85485 | Of how much sorer punishment, suppose yee, shall he be thought worthy, who hath treden under foot the Sonne of God? |
A85485 | Should not we then be thankfull, even for the times wherein we live? |
A85485 | This Question( What shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead?) |
A85485 | This emphaticall Interrogation, How much more shall these, which be the naturall branches, he graffed into their own Olive- tree? |
A85485 | This supposition, If the fall of them be riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles: how much more their fullnesse? |
A85485 | Was not Christs once offering of it up sufficient? |
A85485 | Was there ever such a testament before? |
A85485 | What a stop hath been set to Superstition? |
A85485 | What better thing( rebus sic stantibus ut tunc& nunc) could have happened to this State? |
A85485 | Who knowes not how great a difference there is, between the two lights of the Moone and the Sun? |
A85485 | surely evil, such as those whereof the Apostle thus saith, What fruit had you then of those things, whereof you are now ashamed? |
A30417 | And does not the Prospect of these things affect us? |
A30417 | And in this, how parallel are our Sins to theirs? |
A30417 | And whether we have returned to the Lord, or not? |
A30417 | And while such Vices abound, and so many Judgments hang over us, who is betaking himself to Fasting and Prayer? |
A30417 | But to all this it may be opposed, Are not we zealous for the Reformation? |
A30417 | But to speak plainly; Is it a Christian Zeal to disseminate Lies and Scandals? |
A30417 | But who has said, What have I done? |
A30417 | But will he accept of these from such defiled hands? |
A30417 | Can such a dead lifeless way of serving him, be acceptable to him, that knows how far our Hearts are from him, when we draw near to him with our Lips? |
A30417 | Do we think God is pleased or can be delighted with such Assemblies? |
A30417 | Have we yet returned unto him? |
A30417 | If men make their Weights small, and falsifie their Balances by Deceit, so that they sell the Poor bread, shall God forget these things? |
A30417 | If we blindly deliver our selves up to a Party, and follow all its Interests, what better is this than their Implicit Obedience? |
A30417 | If we think our coming to Church, or Sacrament, will save us, is it not as bad as their Opus operatum? |
A30417 | In the Worship of God, how little serious are we in all the parts of it? |
A30417 | Shall we follow these Patterns so carefully, as if we were afraid to miss such Calamities as fell on them? |
A30417 | Sure all this Heat and Flame must rise from true Religion? |
A30417 | To expose men that have deserved highly, for some supposed Mistakes? |
A30417 | We ought to consider, what effect these have had on us? |
A30417 | Whether they have made us turn to God, or not? |
A30417 | While we worship him merely out of Form, what difference is there between that and the telling of Beads? |
A30417 | shall not the Land tremble for this and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? |
A30417 | who hath cut off any of his former Excesses, or is accusing himself? |
A66597 | 1 1 Be not confident in any meanes to wall about you: What? |
A66597 | 2 Be not impenitent, nor hardned in the sins of the enemies: H ● ● will a hard heart indure whe ● God casts downe its defence and confidence? |
A66597 | 4. they take crafty counsell, they consult: shall they stirre against good for evill, and we sit still and not move against evill for good? |
A66597 | A mean, to mans reason, 1 ● Very childish; seven Priests, sounded seven rammes hornes; would not Iericho laugh at it? |
A66597 | Be they spiritlesse, may not you have heartinesse? |
A66597 | Bee they falne? |
A66597 | Doe men hate him that rebuketh in the Gate, and abhorre him that spèaketh uprightly? |
A66597 | Have yee faith to cast down evils, Idols, and to remove scandals in Gods houses, to reforme our Churches, Ministers and members? |
A66597 | In power, and pride; as Haman had such a principality, who but he? |
A66597 | May not men work? |
A66597 | May not this provoke mens zeale( to see the wicked devoure the men more righteous then themselves) to help Ireland with all forwardnesse? |
A66597 | Quis Domino mente credit& facultate noncredit? |
A66597 | Think on the enemies of the Church: Be they active? |
A66597 | W. L. and the re ● t of the Prelates, come downe when they were in their Pontificalibus? |
A66597 | What is to be expected in Counties, where little or no word of faith is? |
A66597 | Would they ruine all? |
A66597 | You are our healers, b What though Israel fret? |
A66597 | and is it not most serious and sincere to begin with your owne hearts and houses? |
A66597 | and not you study to preserve all? |
A66597 | can Prelates support you? |
A66597 | can Princes protect you? |
A66597 | have they not proclaimed to every one by their way, this their folly? |
A66597 | how can you be confident? |
A66597 | quis Deo animam suam ma ● cipat& pecunia ● negat? |
A66597 | shall Moses faint? |
A66597 | will policy, patrimony and power faile you? |
A66597 | will you feare them? |
A66597 | ● etch the Arke — let it save us; Could it save ● did it save them? |
A45558 | Beloved, it is on my Mothers behalf I have been speaking; my Mother did I say? |
A45558 | But is this all that David will act in order to Jerusalems peace, onely a few good words and wishes? |
A45558 | But what, may some say, doth King David call his Subjects( for such were the people of the Jews) his brethren and companions? |
A45558 | But when is it that David will set about this work? |
A45558 | But whither am I transported? |
A45558 | But will he only do it now? |
A45558 | Having made choice of the Lord for his God, he had an exceeding delight in his presence; and where was that but in his house? |
A45558 | Indeed what duty more suitable to this place then prayer? |
A45558 | Is it forraign peace he maketh peace in thy borders: Is it domestick peace? |
A45558 | It is no small honour among the Italians to be a Roman: why should it not among Englishmen to be a Londoner? |
A45558 | Sed quò feror? |
A45558 | Seneca observeth of voluptuous persons, quis est istorum qui non malitrem publicam turbari quàm comam suam? |
A45558 | Thus hath our gracious God sought the good, and as it were, studied the peace and welfare of this City; and shall not we our selves endeavour it? |
A45558 | To whom should the peoples good and peace be more precious then to their Rulers? |
A45558 | What a shame is it that the sowrest fruit should grow upon the uppermost boughs, and the worst Scholars be in the highest forms? |
A45558 | What filthiness is in her skirts, I mean her Suburbs, where all manner of sin is acted with a brazen forehead? |
A45558 | and when, if not now on this day of our publick assembling? |
A45558 | for whom should prayer be made if not for our English Jerusalem? |
A45558 | he maketh men to be of one mind in one house; Is the peace broken, he healeth the breaches: Is it made? |
A45558 | saith an Ancient sweetly; What better than peace, under which Honesty thriveth, and Piety flourisheth? |
A45558 | what should we pray for if not for her peace and good? |
A45558 | who should pray for it or seek after it if not we? |
A45558 | wilt thou have me account them to be her Citizens, who yet own not her as their City, so as to seek her welfare? |
A30419 | And if he come upon us, what can we do to withstand his mighty Arm? |
A30419 | Are all these things forgotten? |
A30419 | Are our works perfect before God who knows them? |
A30419 | Are we living under the influences of that love? |
A30419 | But what is all this to us? |
A30419 | But who read them with a simplicity of Mind to be directed by them, and to be inwardly inflamed by the heavenly strains in them? |
A30419 | Can we restrain his Thunders, or be Proof against his Arrows? |
A30419 | Do we sit crossing our hands, accusing one another, or it may be, faintly condemning our selves? |
A30419 | Have Our works been perfect before God? |
A30419 | Have they not been on the contrary the worst, the most impious, and immoral that many could think on? |
A30419 | Have we been adding Sin to Sin, and perhaps Hypocrisy, or a counterfeit Zeal to all the rest? |
A30419 | Have we forgot how publickly that great blessing of the Kings Restauration was abused? |
A30419 | Here is a sad prospect before us; but in what disposition are we to bear it? |
A30419 | How near were we brought to utter Ruin, and how long were we ruled by the Sword, during the late Wars? |
A30419 | Is not all this of the Lord? |
A30419 | Let us recollect our Thoughts, and ask our selves, What have we done? |
A30419 | Oh shall nothing make us wiser? |
A30419 | Or do we remember them, only to furnish out Discourse with them? |
A30419 | Or what do we for our holy Faith, that Infidels, Mahometans, Jews, or Papists, would not do for their perswasions? |
A30419 | Then what Judgments fell on them? |
A30419 | We see and acknowledge what he has done for us, let us next consider what Grapes we have brought forth? |
A30419 | What demonstration have we given to God or the World, that we consider Religion as it is indeed the Power of God to the Salvation of our Souls? |
A30419 | What do we then? |
A30419 | What has then separated between God and Us? |
A30419 | What is then to be done? |
A30419 | What returns We have made to God? |
A30419 | What shall the end of these things be? |
A30419 | When we hear of these things, we ought wisely to consider of these Works of the Lord: Why should we hope to escape, if we are as guilty as they were? |
A30419 | Where is that charitable, healing and compassionate temper which becomes Christians, and reformed Christians? |
A30419 | Whether shall we now turn our Eyes? |
A30419 | and what hath raised that thick Cloud that seems to be set over Us, and is ready to discharge it self in Fire, Brimstone, and a horrible Tempest? |
A30419 | do our hearts burn with the sense of it? |
A30419 | what reverence have we for the person, or what obedience pay we to the Doctrine of our Crucified Saviour? |
A52049 | & stabs him: shal I walk in these wayes, to be the ruine of the Church and Common- wealth? |
A52049 | ( that is the very thing which you must answer in your own bosome) that is, are there not amongst you such as refuse to carry the yoak of Christ? |
A52049 | And as for our Ministers, how many sad complaints and petitions hath this Honourable Assembly received against many hundreds of them? |
A52049 | And what answer would you have me give you? |
A52049 | Are yee not children of Belial? |
A52049 | As the roaring 〈 ◊ 〉 a Lyon: the Lyon hath roared, who will not tremble? |
A52049 | But how may wee judge when the sins of a people grow to the full? |
A52049 | Couldst thou be before the Lord, and not have thy heart rent and torn? |
A52049 | Couldst thou then passe such a day as this, without trembling? |
A52049 | Discourage or not discourage, if this be not told, how shall the enemy be driven back, the breach of waters stopped, or the fire quenched? |
A52049 | For, what kinde of these sins doe not overflow us? |
A52049 | Hee that beleeves in Christ shall be saved, hee that beleeves not is a damned man: and how? |
A52049 | How may the fiercenesse of Gods wrath appeare? |
A52049 | How wilt thou doe when these rivers of fire and brimstone shall be powred out upon thee? |
A52049 | Now if onely an Eclipse of his loving countenance bee thus intolerable, what is it for God to fall upon a creature as his enimy? |
A52049 | Now what is the meaning of all this? |
A52049 | Oh beloved, let me not be so interpreted; were this objection fit in other cases? |
A52049 | So say I, Oh let the parallell of this be some other people: Oh that it might not fit England, but doth it fit it? |
A52049 | The third Question is; Against whom is this wrath of God thus kindled? |
A52049 | Thou that art crushed before a moth, how can thy heart endure, or thy hands be strong in the day that God shall deale with thee? |
A52049 | What shall wee doe then? |
A52049 | What the wrath of God is? |
A52049 | Would not these things then work upon thee? |
A52049 | and thou no more able to stand before them, than a few dry leaves are able to resist the huge breaking in of many waters? |
A52049 | how wilt thou dwell with devouring fire? |
A52049 | the Lord hath uttered his voice, who will not fear? |
A52049 | what is the wrath of God, of which the Scripture speaks so often, and such dreadfull things? |
A52049 | who will not take Christ to be your Saviour as he offers himselfe to you in his Gospel? |
A41582 | But how shall we repossesse our selves of it? |
A41582 | But shall we in good earnest confute these men, or shall we laugh at them? |
A41582 | But why should I fetch in forraine Precedents, our selves at the present being a fearefull example of this truth to all the world? |
A41582 | Can not? |
A41582 | For the glory of the Devill, is it not? |
A41582 | How long Lord, how long holy and just? |
A41582 | How long shall they blaspheme thy Name and Religion by making it an instrument of such hellish practises? |
A41582 | How long, Lord, how long holy and just shall our bloud and wrongs be unreveng''d upon them? |
A41582 | How often in the booke of Iudges doe we reade, againe Israel committed wickednesse in the sight of the Lord? |
A41582 | If Hannibal were at the Ports, Rabshache upon the Walls, the Rebels now within our Workes, what a wilde confusion would rout your attention? |
A41582 | Knowing then from whence peace doth come, hereby we know whither to goe; whither for peace, but to the God of peace? |
A41582 | Not for want of strength, for who is like to the Lord in power? |
A41582 | Pray and pay too? |
A41582 | Quis tenet te Domine( replies Saint Augustine) Lord, who holdeth thee? |
A41582 | Shall I think this to have been the true genuine cause? |
A41582 | So if we, the particular members of Ierusalem( for what is Ierusalem but our selves incorporate?) |
A41582 | To most of those, who were so forward at first to blow the coale of this terrible conflagration, if S. Austin''s question were now put, Vultis pacem? |
A41582 | What is better or sweeter then peace? |
A41582 | What is more splendid and beautifull then peace? |
A41582 | What is more wished, or would be more welcome then peace? |
A41582 | What peace, so long as your sinnes and iniquities are so many? |
A41582 | Why should be respect our prayers, who dis- respect his precepts? |
A41582 | Why should he give us audience, who deny him obedience? |
A41582 | and if the world should perish, what would become of them? |
A41582 | durus sermo, this is no good Sermon, who can endure to heare it? |
A41582 | how greedily would they answer? |
A41582 | what wild irregular courses have these men runne, since the reines have layen loose upon them? |
A41582 | would yee have peace? |
A43817 | 12. would not many of our Nobility and Gentry, Magistrates and Ministers, as well as common people, be found guilty of the blood of Christ? |
A43817 | And how was Paul enabled to doe all things, but by the might of Christ that strengthned him? |
A43817 | And is it not pity, any Christians should have this cordiall with- held from them, for whom it was by God himselfe provided? |
A43817 | But is this all? |
A43817 | But may not Christs souldiers be foiled? |
A43817 | Do the Souldiers of Christ carry on the Churches victories by holding forth the Word of their Testimony? |
A43817 | Doe the souldiers of Christ carry on the Churches victories by the Testimony of the Gospel? |
A43817 | Go to him with Joshua''s question, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? |
A43817 | He cryed mightily with a strong voyce, saying, Babylon the great is falne, is falne? |
A43817 | How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the Sea shore? |
A43817 | I harkned and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickednesse, saying, What have I done? |
A43817 | In the field of the Church behold two potent Armies, under two Generals, Michael and the Dragon ▪ Michael, Quis sicut Deus? |
A43817 | Is it peace? |
A43817 | Know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? |
A43817 | Let every one say, What have I to doe any more with my Idols? |
A43817 | Might not some Nehemiah contend with many of our Nobles, and say, What evill thing is this that you doe, and profane the Sabbath day? |
A43817 | O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? |
A43817 | Shall the Militant Church be Triumphant over the Dragon and his Angels? |
A43817 | The Lord hath given it Commission to ride circuite in severall Counties of England; and who knowes how long? |
A43817 | There is now a most bloody sword drawne in England; does not the Lord bring it upon us, as to avenge the quarrell of the Covenant? |
A43817 | This Lambe hath wrath when he is provoked, and who shall be able to stand in the day of his wrath? |
A43817 | We all acknowledge it was drawne for the sinnes of this Nation; and will it be sheathed againe without repentance? |
A43817 | Will not his answer be; Nay, but as a Captaine of the Hoast of the Lord am I now come? |
A43817 | Wilt thou( faith he to the Emperour) reach these hands dropping with the blood of Innocents, to receive the most sacred body of the Lord? |
A43817 | how great is our Ministers misery? |
A43817 | may not we returne the same answer, What peace so long as whoredomes remaine, and many other abominations? |
A43817 | may you not see Jesus Christ comming down from Heaven, with his sword drawn in his hand? |
A43817 | seeking great things for themselves? |
A43817 | though too much? |
A43817 | to be active and passive for him? |
A43817 | what now remaines? |
A43817 | will they lose their lives, who can not leave a lust for Christ? |
A43817 | wilt thou put that precious blood of his to thy mouth, which in a rage spilt so much Christian blood? |
A79475 | 1. and the three last verses, Ye are borne againe, Of what Seed? |
A79475 | Are these things Secrets to you, or are they not? |
A79475 | But alas, how many are there that are more willing to deny Christ and deny the Scriptures, then to deny themselves? |
A79475 | But what shall I call him? |
A79475 | But when, and how soon should we begin to teach our children? |
A79475 | But where is it? |
A79475 | Consider that God is truth, can an understanding minde hate truth which is the very dareling of the understanding? |
A79475 | Doest thou not see that thy nature is extreamely perverted, and become even unnaturall? |
A79475 | Dost thou desire Direction from God, Reconciliation and Communion with him? |
A79475 | God is goodnesse it selfe, and can thy will hate that which is good, even goodnesse it selfe, infinite goodnesse? |
A79475 | God is love, and canst thou be out of love with love it selfe? |
A79475 | Have you not read of one, qui sobri ● ● s acc ● ssit ad perdendum 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A79475 | How shall the promised Seed spring from my loynes if Isaack die? |
A79475 | I shall not dispute that question in the Politiques, Whether it be better to have good Laws, or good Magistrates? |
A79475 | I will not question your intentions, what am I( the last of Ministers, and least of Saints) that I should judge a Parliament? |
A79475 | Lord, where is my blessing, where is thy promise, nay where is my faith? |
A79475 | Must men be spared because they do not fiercely ass ● ult Church and State, though they do subtilly undermine both? |
A79475 | Tell me, how doe these Secrets worke upon thee? |
A79475 | Was it reasonable to expect that a childe should spring from withered loynes, from a dead body? |
A79475 | What is more precious then Gods truth and our souls? |
A79475 | What saith God, shall I conceale this Secret from my Friend Abraham, blessed Abraham, in whose Seed all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed? |
A79475 | When shall unclean persons be brought to their deserved punishment? |
A79475 | Would you be sons of Abraham? |
A79475 | art thou willing to take a pardon upon faire and honourable termes? |
A79475 | do you look upon your heirs as Gods heritage, and labour to make them sons of God, and heirs of Heaven? |
A79475 | who will ever live within my walls, or be of my religion, when I have cut the throat of my dearest sonne? |
A79475 | wouldest thou doe any thing, suffer any thing, forgoe any thing, that thou mightest be at peace with this mighty God? |
A88141 | 12. come to passe in these dayes of ours? |
A88141 | And how farre were they from intertaining such a Christ as this, when they expected one of a quality so infinitely different? |
A88141 | And whence is it, that men refuse the promises of the Gospel? |
A88141 | But what need I to insist upon particulars? |
A88141 | First, how shall a glorified bodie converse with bodies laden with corruption and mortality? |
A88141 | First, what should Christ that is in heaven, blessed for ever, doe a thousand yeares upon earth that is cursed? |
A88141 | For he answered, saying, Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? |
A88141 | For the divisions of Reuben, there are great thoughts of heart, but who can helpe them? |
A88141 | From whence is it that men doe violate the commands of the Law? |
A88141 | Halo jireatheca chislatheca, Is not thy feare or thy Religion become thy folly? |
A88141 | Is not now thy Religion become thy folly? |
A88141 | Is there peace, Jehu? |
A88141 | Nor is there any breed- bate like the Gospel neither: And so saith our Savioar, Suppose you that I am come to give peace on earth? |
A88141 | Now they having beene filled then, how can they be said to be filled againe? |
A88141 | Now what thankfulnesse doth so great a mercy call for, for its bestowing? |
A88141 | Secondly, What should Elias doe in his person here? |
A88141 | These are our sorrows, but where our remedy? |
A88141 | To destroy Antichrist? |
A88141 | Where might we get so skilfull a Mustian as could calme these evill spirits that thus disturbe all? |
A88141 | Who could beleeve that the title over our Saviours head upon his Crosse, should be a stumbling blocke unto the Jewes feete? |
A88141 | With what spleene and rancour did Saul set for Damascus against the professors there? |
A88141 | Would we have one that shall be true to us? |
A88141 | and what prayers for its continuance? |
A88141 | let us look out such a one as is true to God: Would we have one that shall be faithfull in our little things, in our affaires? |
A88141 | this our misery, but where our redresse? |
A88141 | where an Elias, or where a Baptist to do the worke? |
A62605 | 6. says God there, I hearkened and I heard, but they spake not aright; no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? |
A62605 | And again, O Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean? |
A62605 | And at last, when nothing would do, with what difficulty and reluctancy does God deliver them up into the hands of their Enemies? |
A62605 | And can any of us be so obstinate and hard- hearted, as not presently to resolve to repent and return, and to meet the compassions of such a Father? |
A62605 | And can it be now wise to revive them, and to take them up again? |
A62605 | And how can we chuse but dread lest their Fate should overtake us, the Example of whose Faults and Follies we do in so many things so nearly resemble? |
A62605 | And how glad is he when any good man will step in and interpose to stay his hand? |
A62605 | And what an infatuation was this? |
A62605 | For who is fit to interpose in such hot and fierce differences? |
A62605 | How great was it to the old World, when the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, for the space of an hundred and twenty years? |
A62605 | How loth is God that things should come to this? |
A62605 | How shall I deliver thee Judah? |
A62605 | How shall I give thee up Ephraim? |
A62605 | How shall I make thee as Admah? |
A62605 | I proceed to the Second Observation from the Text, namely, What is the only proper and effectual means to prevent the ruine of a sinful People? |
A62605 | O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? |
A62605 | O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved; how long shall vaine thoughts lodge within thee? |
A62605 | O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? |
A62605 | So long I remember; and in all that space how very few years pass''d over us without some great Calamity and dismal Event? |
A62605 | What a conflict is here? |
A62605 | What can be imagin''d more slow, and mild, and merciful, than the proceedings of the Divine justice against a sinful People? |
A62605 | Will nothing but sad and bitter experience be an admonition to us? |
A62605 | Will nothing but the last necessity and extremity of things bring us to our selves and teach us wisdom? |
A62605 | how shall I set thee as Zeboim? |
A62605 | that is, how long wilt thou delude thy self with vaine hopes of escaping the judgments of God by any other way than by repentance? |
A62605 | what tenderness and yerning of his bowels towards them? |
A62605 | when shall it once be? |
A62605 | when the same danger in some degree, and from the same implacable Enemies, still hovers over us? |
A62605 | who can do it without danger, or with any hopes of success? |
A86358 | & c. Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the Land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of Indignation? |
A86358 | & c.) remaining in Communion with such a particular Church, may I not then separate? |
A86358 | 14. Who knowes not that such distempers were found in the Church of Hierusalem? |
A86358 | 14. Who knoweth whither thou a ● ● come to the Kingdom for such a time as this? |
A86358 | 17. they being many, are one bread? |
A86358 | 19. why they should flye Fornication, Know yee not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost in you? |
A86358 | 3, 4. who are these fowles, but the devill and his factors? |
A86358 | And if it bee good to bee a gilt Professor, is it not much better to bee a pure golden Christian? |
A86358 | And the Lord said unto Joshuah, Get thee up; wherefore lyest thou thus upon thy face? |
A86358 | Bee not unequally yoked; How unmeet a match is it for you Corinthians to bee yoked with such? |
A86358 | But may we not desire communion with the purest Church? |
A86358 | But tell mee thou Hypocrite,( saith hee) If it bee a good thing to seeme good why wilt thou not bee that which thou wouldest appeare to bee? |
A86358 | But what if some wicked persons continue in Church Society, doth not that give a just occasion of separation unto others? |
A86358 | Doth not the fellowship of wicked persons in the Ordinances make them ineffectuall? |
A86358 | England never cleansed from her old abominations? |
A86358 | How then can I do this great wickednesse, and sin against God? |
A86358 | If one that is unclean by a dead body, touch any of these, shall it bee unclean? |
A86358 | If you are bound to separate because of defects, to what particular Church will you associate, which shall not bee defective? |
A86358 | O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickednesse, that thou mayest bee saved; how long shall thy vaine thoughts lodge within thee? |
A86358 | O Lord what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies? |
A86358 | Oh when shall it once bee? |
A86358 | Secondly, The Saints must separate from unclean company: What should Doves doe amongst Crowes? |
A86358 | Sirs, yee are Brethren, why doe yee wrong one to another? |
A86358 | To whom was this uncleannesse contracted, not to others, but to themselves? |
A86358 | What concord? |
A86358 | What fellowship? |
A86358 | What not after so many yeeres purifying Sermons? |
A86358 | What not yet cleansed by all these rivers of teares upon so many praying dayes, by all these streames of blood, in so many cruell fights? |
A86358 | What, no mourners? |
A86358 | What? |
A86358 | Where are the filthy sinkes in this Kingdome, but in such corners as have wanted a faithfull Minister? |
A86358 | Whether God hath raised you to such a high station for this very service to help to purify England? |
A86358 | Yet how can the very being of an ungodly person there, enervate the power of the Ordinances unto thy soule? |
A86358 | for that which is a shame for a man to appeare to bee, is it not much more shame for him to bee indeed? |
A86358 | none that sigh and groan for Englands filthinesse? |
A86358 | not after so many melting mercies, which should have led thee to repentance? |
A86358 | not after so many purging judgements? |
A86358 | what communion? |
A86358 | what concord? |
A86358 | what part? |
A86358 | when shall it once bee? |
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A77506 | & c.] In the next verse he corrects and answers himselfe, How can it cease seeing the Lord hath given it a charge?] |
A77506 | A Resolution by way of answer to his former Expostulation, How can it be quiet?] |
A77506 | Alas what are they? |
A77506 | And O who knowes whether the Lord hath given such a Charge to this Sword of his which is now come amongst us? |
A77506 | And being so, who or what shall oppose this Sword? |
A77506 | And doe we so apprehend and beleeve it to be? |
A77506 | And if their Mercies be cruell, how great is their Cruelty? |
A77506 | And is it so? |
A77506 | And is it this that the Sword cometh about? |
A77506 | And shall wee fall downe before him, humbling our selves at his foote- stoole, and shall hee not have compassion on us? |
A77506 | And what Word was this? |
A77506 | And what a Sword is his? |
A77506 | And what? |
A77506 | And who knoweth whether God hath given it a Commission to goe through the Land? |
A77506 | And why could he not? |
A77506 | And will you know the reason of it? |
A77506 | As our Saviour saith of the Eye which is the light of the Body; If that be darke how great is that darkenesse? |
A77506 | But alas upon what ground? |
A77506 | But what then? |
A77506 | Certainely the Charge which God hath given it, it will observe, and who shall say unto it, bee quiet? |
A77506 | How can it be quiet? |
A77506 | How shall it be diverted? |
A77506 | I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the Sword: Why? |
A77506 | Is this Sword the Sword of the Lord? |
A77506 | Ninoveh the Imperiall City of the Assyrian Monarch, for Circuit, People, Walles, Towers, Fortifications, all incredible; yet,( what saith the Lord?) |
A77506 | Now in this case what shall wee doe? |
A77506 | Now would we know what to doe? |
A77506 | O thou Sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? |
A77506 | O thou Sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? |
A77506 | O thou Sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? |
A77506 | Our Fathers Sword? |
A77506 | Shall the Sword devoure for ever? |
A77506 | So, if the very bowels( the proper seat of tendernesse and compassion) be cruell, ô how great is that cruelty? |
A77506 | The Lord God, the Lord of Hoastes hath drawne his Sword, who shall not tremble at it? |
A77506 | The Lyon hath roared who will not feare? |
A77506 | The Poore; what the World''s Poore, such as are outwardly Poore? |
A77506 | True, it is in the hands of men, managed( as we thinke) by them, but alas what are they? |
A77506 | and in the hand of our Father? |
A77506 | how shall it be opposed? |
A77506 | how shall it be stayed, quieted? |
A77506 | how shall it be stayed? |
A77506 | knowest thou not, that it will be bitter in the latter end? |
A77506 | shall Women be exempted? |
A31933 | And God himselfe makes the application; Oh House of Israel, can not I do with you as this Potter, saith the Lord? |
A31933 | And as Reuben to his Brethren, Did I not tell you of this aforehand? |
A31933 | And if all Asia, Africa, Europe, and America be but as the drop of a bucket; what a little drop of that bucket is one man, though never so great? |
A31933 | And shall we not mourne that we have lost God, and the peace of a good conscience by our sins; and that our hearts are so dead and dull to goodnesse? |
A31933 | And who knoweth whether thou art come to the Kingdom, for such a time as this? |
A31933 | Are we not heavy laden with those sinnes, with which God himself is pressed as a Cart with sheaves? |
A31933 | But how shall we do to obtain this generall Reformation? |
A31933 | But it is not in my power to turn, unlesse I were praedestinated? |
A31933 | Can not I make you Vessells of honour, or dishonour? |
A31933 | Can wee cry for the stone in the bladder, and not for a stony heart? |
A31933 | Do we provoke the Lord to jealousie, are we stronger than he? |
A31933 | Doth it not grieve us, that wee have so often grieved the Holy Spirit of God? |
A31933 | Have we not trampled the bloud of Christ under our feete, and shall not the bloud of this Scapegoate melt our adamantine hearts? |
A31933 | Have wee not broken our vowes and covenants which wee have often made with God, and will not the meditation of this break our hearts? |
A31933 | Have wee not broken the holy, and righteous Commandements of God a thousand times, and shall not this break our hearts? |
A31933 | Have wee not filled Gods bag with our sinnes, and shall wee not now fill Gods bottle with our teares? |
A31933 | Have wee not had yeares of sinning? |
A31933 | How justly may wee expect, that God should make us slaves to that Nation, whose fashions we so eagerly follow? |
A31933 | How many Tapers hath God set on fire? |
A31933 | How many white Flags of Mercy hath God hung out? |
A31933 | If all the World be but as the dust of the ballance, what a little little particle of this dust is one man? |
A31933 | If the eye be dark, how great is that darknesse,& c. If the Salt that seasoneth other things, be unsavoury, wherewithall shall it be seasoned? |
A31933 | Is it time for you, O yee, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lye waste? |
A31933 | Is not God himself broken with our whorish hearts, and will not this break our hard hearts? |
A31933 | Let us weepe for the beastly drunkennesse of this Nation: But why do I call it beastly? |
A31933 | Me thinks I see( do not you so also?) |
A31933 | What destroyed the old World, but because they did not regard Noahs warning? |
A31933 | What sin is there under the cope of Heaven, whereof any Nation is guilty, which we have not ingrossed to our selves? |
A31933 | Who art thou O great Mountain? |
A31933 | Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man, that shall dye, and of the son of man which shall bee made as grasse? |
A31933 | Who would not fear thee, oh King of Nations? |
A31933 | Why is aide so long delayd? |
A31933 | Why is his chariot so long in comming? |
A31933 | Will a man keepe a servant in his house all night, if he were assured he would murther him before morning? |
A31933 | Will a nationall reformation certainly divert Gods judgements from a Nation? |
A31933 | Will ye not fear me, saith the Lord? |
A31933 | and forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the Heavens, and layd the foundatons of the earth? |
A31933 | can not I save you, or destroy you as I please? |
A31933 | where are Englands bowels? |
A31933 | why tarry the wheels of his Chariot? |
A31933 | will ye not tremble at my presence, which hath chained up the sea with fetters of sand? |
A42091 | 5, Is it such a fast? |
A42091 | But I question not, but this interpretation is too private and wide enough: Therefore to come nearer home, What may the sins be? |
A42091 | Did any thing but bonds, and chains, and blocks, and halters, abide them here at home? |
A42091 | First, then, what think you of the sin of Sabbaoth- breaking? |
A42091 | Fourthly, what think you of Intemperance? |
A42091 | Have we no such Gibeonites among us? |
A42091 | Have we not a people endeavoured to be suppressed and destroyed by our late Saul? |
A42091 | I delight not,& c. Who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? |
A42091 | If so, what will follow? |
A42091 | If these and the following lines, may have the happiness to move you to put the some question for our Mordecai''s, What hath been done for them? |
A42091 | Is it such a fast that I have chosen? |
A42091 | Is not this THE FAST that I have chosen? |
A42091 | Is this the fast that I have chosen? |
A42091 | It is a strange preference, and much to be wonder''d at, which God gives to the duties we owe to man, before those we owe to himself? |
A42091 | Miseries, verse 1. and what Miseries? |
A42091 | Secondly, next what think you of the sin of swearing? |
A42091 | Thirdly, what think you of the sin of Adulterie? |
A42091 | Well then, a reason for this judgement there is, and what is it? |
A42091 | What shall I do for you, and wherewith shall I make the attonement, that you may blesse the inheritance of the Lord? |
A42091 | Wherfore have we fasted, and thou seest not; wherefore have we afflicted our Souls and thou takest no knowledge? |
A42091 | You are here mett in the house of God, and what to do? |
A42091 | a day for a man to afflict his soul? |
A42091 | and upon finding, that as yet nothing is done for them, to put it further to the question, What shall be done for them? |
A42091 | and was any place but a Jamaica, a Poneropolis provided for them abroad? |
A42091 | and what is the visitation for these things? |
A42091 | if they loved that, they would never have been so prodigal of their own, what then? |
A42091 | is it to bow down his head as a Bull- rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? |
A42091 | is this house which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? |
A42091 | lye upon beds of Ivory, and stretch our selves upon our Couches, and eat the lambs out of the Flock, and the Calves out of the midst of the stall? |
A42091 | shall we chant to the sound of the Viol, and invent to our selves instruments of Musick? |
A42091 | shall we drink wine in bowles, and anoint our selves with the chief oyntments, and not be grieved for the Affliction of Joseph? |
A42091 | so here, what good thing must we do, to make our fasting acceptable unto God? |
A42091 | that are as yet thought good for nothing else, but to cleave wood and carry water, to do the drudgery and mean offices of the Nation? |
A42091 | to fast; and for what? |
A42091 | to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoak? |
A42091 | v. 2. and then puts a question( and it is Questio rege digna) what honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? |
A42091 | we have, what need we be at the cost to Trade so far as the Indies for Blacks and Slaves when we have enough at home? |
A42091 | what fruit would you have from those things whereof you are now ashamed? |
A42091 | wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? |
A42091 | 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉? |
A89591 | 13. the Councell or Synedrion had called the Apostles before them, and demanded by what authority, or by what Name they had done this? |
A89591 | A handfull of sheep goe to fight with a whole multitude of Wolves, is there any probability to sense or reason, that they should carry the victory? |
A89591 | And when multitudes followed Christ himselfe, the Pharisees demanded, Doe any of the Rulers, or of the Pharisees beleeve on him? |
A89591 | God hath founded it there; why hath the Bull that strength in his horne? |
A89591 | How shall this bee done? |
A89591 | If any man demand, how live you as a Christian? |
A89591 | If it bee demanded, who? |
A89591 | Is this the great power whereby Christians doe overcome their enemies, a power that comes out of their Mouth? |
A89591 | Now what proportion is there betwixt a mountaine and a worme? |
A89591 | O Lord our God, how excellent is thy Name in all the world? |
A89591 | One in a certaine place testified, What is Man that thou art mindfull of him? |
A89591 | To these babes and sucklings( saith my Text) the Lord hath given strength: Strength, what is that? |
A89591 | Verse of this Psalme, is the key of the whole Psalme, What is man that thou art mindfull of him? |
A89591 | What Creature so simple, weake, or base as a Worme, a creature which no man values, loves, or feares? |
A89591 | What so shiftlesse and unable to defend it selfe, or offend an Enemy, as a Babe or Suckling? |
A89591 | Would ever any man thinke, that all this project and undertaking would not have fallen presently into the dust? |
A89591 | and what are these enemies? |
A89591 | or the son of man, that thou visitest him? |
A89591 | or the sonne of Man that thou visited''st him? |
A89591 | or the sonne of man, that thou shouldest thus visit him? |
A89591 | or what doth their mouth? |
A89591 | their instruments of warre? |
A89591 | what was their furniture? |
A89591 | whether( there being no visible enemy in the Field) it would not bee fittest to disband our present Armies? |
A89591 | why hath Man such strength in his armes? |
A89591 | why rest you not contented with this? |
A89591 | why the Serpent in his sting? |
A89591 | would not all have said of him, as some of the sonnes of Belial did of Saul, and with a great deale of more reason toe, How can this Man ever save us? |
A52043 | And many other expressions, as if Saint Iohn knew no other evidence but Love; now what Love is it? |
A52043 | As first, Are all they cursed that doe not thus helpe the Lord against the mighty? |
A52043 | But concerning these, if there should be any such here by what name or title shall I call them? |
A52043 | But whence is it that Prayer becomes thus efficacious? |
A52043 | By what injurie hath the Lord provoked thee thus against him? |
A52043 | Canst thou make thy forces strong enough to carry the day? |
A52043 | Hath not God done them all almost by contraries? |
A52043 | Have not you been many times at a losse, even at your wits end? |
A52043 | Have they been done by your wisdome and forecast, or for any worthinesse found in your selves? |
A52043 | How many others with Balaam, doe what in them lies to curse them for reward, who for very malice raile upon and revile the children of the most High? |
A52043 | Iacob wrastled with God, and prevailed: What was his wrastling? |
A52043 | On the other side, Go ye cursed ▪ Why are they cursed? |
A52043 | Secondly, for exhortation to all, especially to you Right honourable, and beloved; What words shall I use? |
A52043 | There is comfort in doing good to one, but to advance the good of many, especially of the Church of God, how honourable, how glorious is it? |
A52043 | They came not to the helpe of the Lord against the Mighty, Who are these Mighty? |
A52043 | What can not Prayer doe? |
A52043 | What fruit? |
A52043 | What greater evidence can there be in the world, that men are blessed or cursed, than this? |
A52043 | What honour or reward dost thou expect for this desperate service? |
A52043 | What hope hast thou of speeding? |
A52043 | What is there in the submissions and supplications of poor worms to work such wonders? |
A52043 | What made Jael such a blessed woman? |
A52043 | What shall we thinke of these men? |
A52043 | What should I say more? |
A52043 | What was the good that Hezekiah had done? |
A52043 | What was the house- hold of Stephanus? |
A52043 | What was the strength, whereby, as a Prince, he had power with God? |
A52043 | Who was Meroz, and what people were they? |
A52043 | how willingly would yee continue to spend, and to bee spent in so good worke? |
A52043 | to know no crosse but the Churches crosse? |
A52043 | to preferre the joy of the Church before all his owne peace and wellfare? |
A52043 | what evils are his righteous servants guilty of against thee? |
A52043 | what glory is in these things? |
A52043 | what hurt hath Christ done to thee? |
A52043 | what iniquitie hast thou found in him? |
A52043 | what then are they, who instead of helping the Lord against the mighty, do help the mighty against the Lord? |
A30438 | Ah, have we our Religion for no other end, but to be laugh''d at and despised by some, while it is made by others only matter of Passion and Faction? |
A30438 | And are not all these powerful Arguments to press us to call on God mightily for his Help? |
A30438 | And not to go out of the Precincts of this Crown, What a Field of Blood, of Death and Desolation, has Ireland been, and alas still is? |
A30438 | Are all gone aside? |
A30438 | Are there not Ten Righteous Men left, for whose sake God may be moved to spare and deliver us? |
A30438 | Are we so sensible of our Frailty and Misery, that we cry mightily to God for Mercy and Grace? |
A30438 | Are we without a Remnant? |
A30438 | Can we look on tamely when so much is at Stake? |
A30438 | Do we accustom our selves often to reflect on the Works and Ways of God? |
A30438 | Do we acknowledge his Providence, depend upon it, and in all things submit to it? |
A30438 | Do we assist in them with our Hearts, as well as with our Persons? |
A30438 | Do we implore a Blessing upon their Persons and Government, upon their Counsels and Undertakings? |
A30438 | Do we in our secret Addresses to the Throne of Grace, make mention of those whom God in his merciful Providence has set over us? |
A30438 | Do we often Implore the Assistances of his Holy Spirit, and bless him for all the good things that we receive at his Hands? |
A30438 | Do we often consider that he sees and observes all we do, and that he will call us to give an Account of it at the last Day? |
A30438 | Do we often in our Prayers to him intercede for all Mankind; and more particularly for the Church and Nation to which we do belong? |
A30438 | Do we often pour out our Souls before him in earnest Prayer? |
A30438 | Do we rejoice in the Publick Acts of Religious Worship? |
A30438 | Do we upon these Solemn Days join our Secret Devotions with the Publick Offices? |
A30438 | Does this Principle make us do or forbear many things, that we would not do or forbear without it? |
A30438 | Have these things all left us? |
A30438 | Have we a Sense of God dwelling much upon our Hearts? |
A30438 | Have we a Witness within us that can answer all these Questions? |
A30438 | Have we who stay at Home no Ambition to share with them in it? |
A30438 | How many Protestant Churches have been plucked up by the Roots? |
A30438 | How terribly have many others been shattered and next to ruined? |
A30438 | Is his Fear much before our Eyes? |
A30438 | Is there none that doth good, no not one? |
A30438 | Is there not a Man among us according to Ieremy''s Words? |
A30438 | Men can neither trust a false Man, nor love him; and what strength can there be in any Government, where there are no Foundations for these? |
A30438 | What pains has been taken among us, to laugh out of our Minds the sense both of Religion and Vertue? |
A30438 | Where are the most common Vertues of ordinary Heathens? |
A30438 | Where is the Truth and Honesty, the common Morality and Probity that must be the Strength of every Nation? |
A30438 | While then all is struck at, why are not all concerned, since every Man must bear his share in the Issue? |
A30438 | and are we seriously affected with the State and the Dangers of our Religion? |
A30438 | and have we only a Name, that we live, while we are truly dead? |
A30438 | are they all gone into the Generations of their Fathers? |
A30438 | are we those that have troubled our Israel? |
A30438 | where are the Godly and the Faithful Men? |
A61475 | Alas, do we not begin to have wounds upon our breasts, neer our hearts? |
A61475 | Are you not eager to understand the difference between these, that you may judge your sorrows? |
A61475 | But can any thing comfort a Spouse that mourns for her beloved One, besides his own presence? |
A61475 | But do I condemne these Convictions? |
A61475 | But have you not known The Spirit? |
A61475 | But now is it not pitie that broken hearts should be worthlesse and uselesse? |
A61475 | But which way would these Persons of glory come to lodge themselves in the humble Cottage of a Saints heart? |
A61475 | But who? |
A61475 | Can You be able to rule over any spot of this earth; when Jesus Christ was not fit for the government of the whole; without the Spirit? |
A61475 | Can any man make that Spirit, whose work is to Convince of sin, a Colour for sin? |
A61475 | Can any think they have the Spirit of Grace in them, and yet sin, and yet not mourn for sin? |
A61475 | Cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils; wherein is he to be esteemed of? |
A61475 | Do you believe the promises made in the Word of God? |
A61475 | Do you put your whole trust in the promises of God, and expect by them to be made partakers of every blessing? |
A61475 | Do your hearts sigh- forth this sense? |
A61475 | Doth it not much concern you to know whether your convictions be from a Rationall or Spirituall Principle? |
A61475 | Have you march''t as this hath moved? |
A61475 | Have you not sometimes read that place, and drop''t teares upon it? |
A61475 | Have you seen your sins by the light of the Spirit? |
A61475 | He had consulted with flesh and blood; that is, with Principles of Reason, with the Spirit of man; what should hee have consulted with? |
A61475 | How full are all of wounds? |
A61475 | I appeale to you that feel the love of your God, how it works in the soules of men: doe you not often in sweet pangs cry out? |
A61475 | If the Lord would powre forth his Spirit upon our souls, and melt them; how sweetly would they run all into one piece, like gold? |
A61475 | Is it not as Powers on Earth? |
A61475 | Is this the Sin, you chiefly mourn for this day? |
A61475 | Paul as a Babler among the Athenians? |
A61475 | The Jews sung of old; What ailed you, ye waters, that ye fled? |
A61475 | The Spirit as a Fancy, by men onely Rationall? |
A61475 | Was it not an Eye of love? |
A61475 | What an eye was that which Christ cast upon Peter, when he went out and wept bitterly? |
A61475 | What is his sufficiency for it? |
A61475 | What temper would thy heart be in when thou shouldst hear these words? |
A61475 | Where this hath stood still, have you stay''d? |
A61475 | Who knowes not what a wound, abused love, a wronged Friend makes upon a tender breast? |
A61475 | Who now shall restore Peace to our mourners? |
A61475 | Who, so mourn for sin; who, so moane day and night after their God, as those who live with this Spirit? |
A61475 | Why should Joseph be despised as a Dreamer among his brethren? |
A61475 | Will you heare the workings of this? |
A61475 | Would our Saviour now leave his Disciples alone in such a world as this? |
A61475 | You have made many Marches, many Rests; hath the wel- pleased face of your Jesus, as your Leading- starre, been still in your eye? |
A61475 | You have set me on your Watch- Tower, and made me your Watchman for the few sands of these glasses; If you ask mee now; Watchman, what of the Night? |
A61475 | You have waded through many rivers of blood, have you seen the discoveries of your Jesus going before you, and followed these? |
A61475 | a Melting look? |
A61475 | or what is this Spirit? |
A61475 | or whom? |
A61475 | that God should say of our Mourning, as Solomon sayes of Mirth: what doth it? |
A61475 | was not the Spirit the Lamp of God which shone thus gloriously on David''s Court and Camp, which made his Throne so great? |
A61475 | what have these sheep done? |
A61475 | what shall be done for Your souls? |
A61475 | ye seas, that ye were driven backwards? |
A40093 | And what Dammage could accrue to the Divine Majesty, from their Reproaches? |
A40093 | Are not those who were Debauched before, as Debauched still? |
A40093 | But hath he been better Requited for this, than he was for the former Deliverance? |
A40093 | But was the late professed Inclination to Unity, mere Dissembling? |
A40093 | Did they fare so well, as that we need not be scared from following their Example? |
A40093 | Do n''t we hear as we pass the Streets, as Horrid Oaths and as Tremendous Curses, and as many of these, as we heard before? |
A40093 | He may well say to Us; O England, what shall I do unto thee? |
A40093 | His sending His Prophets and Messengers to cry aloud in their Ears, Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, Why will ye dye? |
A40093 | How can I find in mine heart to be as bad as my Word in Executing such fearful Threatnings? |
A40093 | How long, and how frequently had both the ten Tribes and the two, Warnings sent them by the Prophets, before they were carried away Captive? |
A40093 | How many inspired men did He heretofore send, upon this Sole Errand? |
A40093 | How shall I be able to make an utter end of thee, as I did of those two, and their neighbouring Cities? |
A40093 | How shall I deliver thee Israel,& c? |
A40093 | How shall I deliver thee, Israel? |
A40093 | How shall I deliver thee, or deliver thee up, Israel? |
A40093 | How shall I deliver you into your Enemies hands? |
A40093 | How shall I give thee up Ephraim? |
A40093 | How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? |
A40093 | How shall I make thee as Admah? |
A40093 | How shall I make thee as Admah? |
A40093 | How shall I make you as your poor Brethren of France? |
A40093 | How shall I set thee as Zeboim? |
A40093 | How shall I set thee as Zeboim? |
A40093 | How shall I set you, as your Fellow- Protestants of Piedmont? |
A40093 | Nay, how few in Authority seem heartily concerned for the suppressing of any of these Vices? |
A40093 | Nay, how many of us would never account this any Deliverance, and look upon it as worse than none? |
A40093 | O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? |
A40093 | O Iudah, what shall I do unto thee? |
A40093 | O London, what shall I do unto thee? |
A40093 | Secondly, Will sinners still persevere in this their Madness? |
A40093 | Shall we mock the Messengers of God, as they did? |
A40093 | That were Profane before, as Profane still? |
A40093 | Was it rather Stifled than Extinguist Emnity? |
A40093 | What Reformation hath our late Deliverance wrought among us? |
A40093 | What reason have we, when we consider this, to take up that wish of the Prophet Ieremy? |
A40093 | What should God Almighty do with such a People as we are? |
A40093 | When was the Breach wider than''t is now again? |
A40093 | Will they never return to their wits more? |
A40093 | Would any one have thought now, that this Humiliation of so Vile a man, could in the least have moved the Divine Compassion? |
A88993 | Art thou a fit person to reprove a King? |
A88993 | But alas, what have we to give that is considerable? |
A88993 | Can the Blackmore change his skinne, or the Leopard his spots? |
A88993 | Doe not say, Wherefore is this waste? |
A88993 | Doe we expect a reconcilement betweene light and darkenesse? |
A88993 | How many thousands of God his Saints have drunk of the same Cup in severall Ages? |
A88993 | How much more when the question is concerning the admission of men to the Ministry of the Gospell, or retayning those that were formerly admitted? |
A88993 | How would they yeeld themselves convinced that the purchase of Truth is of absolute necessity, whatsoever it may cost them? |
A88993 | If we offer gold, or silver, what can we expect but such an answer as Simon Magus had? |
A88993 | Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? |
A88993 | Now then what is that truth which we must buy? |
A88993 | Of those that are ashamed of the truth: what hope is there that such will buy it? |
A88993 | Of whom it must be bought? |
A88993 | Suppose yee that I am come to send peace on Earth? |
A88993 | The Churches cloathing and her Crown is Light and Truth: Can any true- borne Childe of the Church account that his shame which is his Mothers glorie? |
A88993 | The Lord knoweth the way of the Righteous, how? |
A88993 | The yong man also seemed willing to buy, What good thing shall I doe that I may have eternall life? |
A88993 | Thirdly, Of whom must we buy Truth? |
A88993 | This is a most sweet and precious truth: wouldst thou buy it? |
A88993 | What if any of you be forced to travell more miles than others? |
A88993 | What is a man profited if he shall gaine the whole world, and lose his soule? |
A88993 | What it is to buy Truth? |
A88993 | What need we any farther witnesse? |
A88993 | What this Truth is, which we are required to Buy? |
A88993 | again, All these have I kept from my youth; what lack I yet? |
A88993 | forbeare, why shouldest thou be smitten? |
A88993 | how hath it dissolved the severall Mineralls whereof that Image was composed, the gold, silver, brasse, and iron? |
A88993 | saith the King, Art thou made of the Kings Councell? |
A88993 | so on our part, he that sincerely giveth up himselfe to the Lord, to be wholly his, how can he thinke any thing too dear when the Lord requireth it? |
A88993 | what shall I give to buy truth? |
A88993 | why did not the young man give up his possessions upon Christs demand? |
A87607 | And if a man say to the farmers, why have the people no preachers? |
A87607 | And who knoweth what God may do, though men come to his word out of bie respects? |
A87607 | At how low and mean a rate doe they set them? |
A87607 | But Why Jacobs house? |
A87607 | But what if we have abilities of both very eminently? |
A87607 | Do we injoy guifts of nature, learning or fortune( as I may so call them) for our ease, honour, wealth only? |
A87607 | Had the Priests of the law the tenth part, and shall not the Ministers of a better testament have any part? |
A87607 | Honourable and beloved, seeing it''s the light of the Lord that hath all this day, this day said I? |
A87607 | How do children of this house undervalue the benefits conferred on them? |
A87607 | How hath he discomfited yea routed the Annies of proud Philistines and confounded swelling Pharaohs in the red sea? |
A87607 | How hath he shattered the forces of bloudy Esaus? |
A87607 | How is it that our affections are not drawn to God by his favours? |
A87607 | I doe all things that please him ▪ and indeed otherwise to what purpose is our walk? |
A87607 | If a man should set a poor rate on a Shop commodity, how would the owners frown at him? |
A87607 | If this argument be not strong enough, what say you by this? |
A87607 | Is any man born for himself? |
A87607 | Is it not remarkable, think you, that I say a reformer of the Church and state, setting to the work, calls on himself as on them? |
A87607 | Is not Christ our kinsman, our elder brother? |
A87607 | May I not take up Isaiahs complaint, he hath nourished up children, and they have rebelled against him? |
A87607 | Oh that all the Magistrates, Committees, Commissioners, Benches of justice, which are under you, were of this constitution? |
A87607 | Philosophores? |
A87607 | Shall we suffer our hearts now to be low in regard of him? |
A87607 | So is it time for us to mend our own houses demolished by war, and shall these houses lye wast? |
A87607 | Thou that saiest a man should not steal, doest thou steal? |
A87607 | What a world of good did he upon every occasion to those who stood in need of his help? |
A87607 | What canst thou say of thy self my Lord parson and vicar? |
A87607 | Which( saith he,) shall the Lords Mountain be advanced in the top of ● ountains? |
A87607 | Why doe we not imploy and improve our time and abilities to the benefit and advantage of the family? |
A87607 | Why house? |
A87607 | You will say, what were the priviledges of Jacobs house, that he insists so much upon them? |
A87607 | did he take the nature of Angels on him? |
A87607 | how vilely do most men esteem them? |
A87607 | is he not flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone? |
A87607 | may I not as Moses, complain of this family in that sad expression, Oh foolish nation and unwise, doe we thus requite the Lord? |
A87607 | may I not too truly lament our times, in the language of Ezekiel, that we are a rebellious house? |
A87607 | shall it repent them of their rigor against Gods people? |
A87607 | shall many Nations flock unto it? |
A87607 | thou who professest to abhor Idols, doest thou commit sacriledge? |
A87607 | what trust can we repose in such? |
A87607 | why house of Jacob? |
A89583 | And doe you thus also for your immortast soules? |
A89583 | Are you not like David in his old age, when no cloths could make him warm? |
A89583 | Can wee by searching finde out the Almighty? |
A89583 | Doe you not drive like Iehu, furiously, as if you would break your Chariot wheeles into peeces? |
A89583 | Doth not the Scripture say, it is easie? |
A89583 | First, for mourning: Doe all that are rightly affected with the Kingdome of Heaven, offer violence to it, in this way that I have discover''d to you? |
A89583 | For your wealth, or your pleasure, or your honour? |
A89583 | How sadly doth this speak against the generality of people? |
A89583 | It may be demanded, First, What use is there of a violent spirit in the pursuit of the Kingdome of Heaven? |
A89583 | Vt jugulent homines surgunt de nocte latrones, If theeves watch by night to kill men, shall not honest men watch to preserve their own lives? |
A89583 | What seasonable Mercies hath he sent you? |
A89583 | What unexpected victories hath he given you? |
A89583 | and if it bee so, quors ● m haec? |
A89583 | and to what purpose then is that violence of the spirit? |
A89583 | are you not like Snailes in the pursuit of the things of Gods Kingdom? |
A89583 | are you not like the Egyptians when their Chariet wheeles were taken off, when they drove slowly and heavily? |
A89583 | did you goe as children doe, to see rattles and toyes? |
A89583 | doe you not thus for the world? |
A89583 | doth any mans eagernesse and violence of spirit purchase this at Gods hand? |
A89583 | how doe they sell all? |
A89583 | how sad then is the condition of most in England this day? |
A89583 | is it in our power, by our labour to carry it? |
A89583 | is not all in this work of Gods free Grace, who shewes mercy to whom hee will shew mercy? |
A89583 | is this Race to the swift? |
A89583 | no, but wee went to see and heare Iohn the Baptist; and what in him? |
A89583 | or this Battle to the strong? |
A89583 | say every one for your owne soules, doth your conscience witnesse, that you offer violence to the Kingdome of Heaven? |
A89583 | to what purpose should violence be ufed, to take a Fort, that will be taken without violence? |
A89583 | was it a Reed shaken with the wind? |
A86730 | But alas how far short are we of such a condition, and what great cause have we of mourning and humiliation in sundry respects? |
A86730 | But how comes the empty breath of a few weak and despised men to be so effectuall and prevalent? |
A86730 | Ferventissimi in terrenis, frigidissimi in caelestibus, shall we be red hot as fire for earth, and key cold as any Ice for heaven? |
A86730 | Had they so much devotion for Idols, and have we so little for the true God? |
A86730 | How beautifull are the feete? |
A86730 | How many mighty Nimrods have you cut down? |
A86730 | Is it time for you to dwell in your cieled houses, whiles this house lyes waste? |
A86730 | Looke upon your enemies, how more then Hyperbolically violent they are, in carrying on their designe of Rome and Hell; how furious is their march? |
A86730 | Quid si faces in ferre jussisset in capitolium nunquid paruisses? |
A86730 | Take away a right Ministery and what is the most flourishing Common- wealth? |
A86730 | The next thing to be cleered is how this Kingdom may be said to suffer violence? |
A86730 | What adventures will he not make? |
A86730 | What hazards not run, rather them suffer( if he can helpe it) such pollutions? |
A86730 | What labour or cost will he spare? |
A86730 | What law hath ever yet been enacted to enforce diligence and painfulnesse in preaching, or to establish a learned and faithfull ministery? |
A86730 | What meanes such unusuall fulgurations? |
A86730 | What violent running, wrestling and striving was there of old in the Olympique games? |
A86730 | What went ye out into the wildernesse to see? |
A86730 | and those also no lesse, who forced their accesse unto Christ by digging through stone walls, and uncovering the roofe of the house where he was? |
A86730 | are not all these as you heard worthily from the reverend Doctor in the morning, broken in like a torrent or winter land- flood upon us? |
A86730 | how do they compasse sea and land, to Spaine, France, Holland, Denmarke, whither do they not dispatch their Emissarie? |
A86730 | how many dying Saints have you revived? |
A86730 | how many yoakes of oppression and tyranny have you broken? |
A86730 | how quick their endeavours? |
A86730 | how resolute are their spirits? |
A86730 | what care did they not take? |
A86730 | what combates and contentions? |
A86730 | what conclusions do they not try? |
A86730 | what cost did they not cast away, when they made haste, as David hath it, to poure out meate and drink offerings, to another God? |
A86730 | what project have they not hammered? |
A86730 | what vaste treasures do they not lay out, what expence of blood do they stick at, what stones do they not roll? |
A44938 | And what? |
A44938 | But what? |
A44938 | Come to particulars, I would know when Covetousness will think it self sufficiently crammed and served? |
A44938 | Disturbers of the peace of his Kingdom? |
A44938 | Do we not know, that God hath many other Arrows in his Quiver, as quickly to be drawn? |
A44938 | Enmity against God, deicidium( in will, though not in effect:) What but this is the great make- bate between God and his people? |
A44938 | For are lusts ever to be fulfill''d and satiated? |
A44938 | Is it a scruple to put as many into our prayers, as our Lord Christ did own dying for? |
A44938 | Is this the last mischief of it? |
A44938 | Many other ways to ease and avenge himself of his Adversaries? |
A44938 | Of his Council, of his Houshold, of his own Loins? |
A44938 | Or are we afraid, lest the many prepared mansions in Heaven should be over- filled, though there were as many blessed Saints as Men? |
A44938 | Plotters against his Person? |
A44938 | Should not I set against that( with all animosity) which sets so hard against thee, and makes thee set thy face so severely against men? |
A44938 | The disquieter, as I may say, and griever of his Spirit? |
A44938 | This is not iniquum petere, but is it not in auditum petere? |
A44938 | To raise a Paroxisme of grief and indignation in the holy Apostle? |
A44938 | Upon a Church, what disorders will it not bring? |
A44938 | VVhat then remains, but that it be shortned and cut off, that a Providential violence be used upon it? |
A44938 | VVhen will Schism sit down, as thinking it hath made the rupture wide enough in the Garment of Christ? |
A44938 | We will dispute no longer in the Schools, whether sin be a meer Privation? |
A44938 | What an incredible change have three days made of the Metropolis of England, and most famous Emporium of Christendom? |
A44938 | What effects will it not have upon Nature it self? |
A44938 | Whether it hath any Positive Entity? |
A44938 | Wickedness to come to an end? |
A44938 | Will Lust think it hath had gratification enough, so long as there is any Marrow left in the bones? |
A44938 | do we find David here devoutly cursing his Enemies on his knees? |
A44938 | how did people fall then by the righteous, but dreadful hand of God, as leaves beaten down by a vehemet wind? |
A44938 | or is it not ours? |
A44938 | or when should these things be? |
A44938 | or whether ever it shall recover? |
A44938 | or, whether there will be any end at all? |
A44938 | to make a zealously affected Ezra to rend his Garment, and his Mantle; to pluck off the hair of his head, and of his beard? |
A44938 | upon every Element? |
A44938 | what dismal and amazing changes will this make? |
A44938 | what evil Angels or Asmodei will it not send? |
A44938 | what the end of wickedness will be? |
A44938 | when it hath corrupted and worn out his miserable body, and brought him to the grave? |
A44938 | with false, treacherous Friends? |
A44938 | — Tantaene animis Coelestibus Irae? |
A65297 | ''t is no better then murder; and if these be Saints, there are as good Saints in hell? |
A65297 | * Could this be a likely way? |
A65297 | 15. he saluted him and said to him, Is thy heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? |
A65297 | Against GOD? |
A65297 | Am I become your enemy because I tell you the truth? |
A65297 | And here as in a Scripture looking- glasse, we may see our own faces; have we not many now adays seemingly zealous against Popery? |
A65297 | And will not this command reverence? |
A65297 | Do not I fill heaven and earth? |
A65297 | Do these believe the all- seeing eye? |
A65297 | Doth he make a critical descant upon our actions? |
A65297 | Doth not he see my wayes and count all my steps? |
A65297 | First, it should be a bridle to keep us from sin: How shall I do this and sin against God? |
A65297 | Give me leave to plead in Gods cause, is not this pure wine of truth mixed with water, nay, with poison? |
A65297 | Hath not Christ suffered enough already? |
A65297 | Here a question may be started, If there be such perfection in the knowledg of God, then he knows sin? |
A65297 | How are the truths of God almost lost in the croud of errours? |
A65297 | How many Religions are there now among us, and every day in a new dresse? |
A65297 | How odious is the Hypocrite? |
A65297 | How should this add wings to Prayer, and oyle to the flame of our devotion? |
A65297 | I will go down and see whether it be done altogether according to the cry? |
A65297 | It is a spurre to vertue: art thou zealous for God? |
A65297 | It is his own Argument, He that planted the eare, shall he not heare? |
A65297 | Iudas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss? |
A65297 | Must he have his Conscience, that makes no Conscience? |
A65297 | Of how dangerous consequence is it, to act any thing against God? |
A65297 | Our Saviour Christ saith,* If the Son of man comes, shall he finde faith on the earth? |
A65297 | Shall the eye of a King do so much, and not the eye of God? |
A65297 | Sort of the Religious Libertine is, That sinnes because Grace abounds; that saith, God sees no sinne in his people, and therefore what need we see it? |
A65297 | Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacriledge? |
A65297 | We read of a Covenant made with an Heathen King,* which being broken, saith God, shall he prosper, shall he escape that doth such things? |
A65297 | Were we to come before some great Monarch, what solemne preparations would we make? |
A65297 | What hast thou to do to take my Covenant into thy mouth, seeing thou hatest to bereformed? |
A65297 | What manner of persons ought we to be*? |
A65297 | What manner of persons ought we to be? |
A65297 | What, He that hath sinned away his Conscience? |
A65297 | Who at the first blush would not have taken these for very holy, devout men; they were zealous against idolatry? |
A65297 | Who would hide a traitour? |
A65297 | Will you give him more vineger to drink? |
A65297 | Wilt thou wound him whom God hath wounded? |
A65297 | You come this day to humble your selves and make atonement, Is your heart right with me? |
A65297 | are they not countenanced? |
A65297 | dost thou exhaust thy self in the cause of religion? |
A65297 | hath God a window that opens into our breasts? |
A65297 | he that formed the eye, shall he not see*? |
A65297 | how is the Covenant slighted, as an Almanack out of date? |
A65297 | no wonder if we begin to say, who is this Moses? |
A65297 | old heresies newly vamp''d? |
A65297 | what truth in Divinity but is now called in question? |
A89585 | ( saith God) doe not I breake the rockes? |
A89585 | ( saith he) you speake of dayes of fasting, that you have kept 70. yeers, did you fast to mee? |
A89585 | ( saith hee) so doe you thinke any allurements for God, shall make this wretched man carry the yoke of Gods Commandements? |
A89585 | 4. saith he, Who over harden''d himself against God, and prosper''d? |
A89585 | 7. what was it made her so bold in her filthinesse that shee will take her fill of love till the morning? |
A89585 | Ah Lord, why hast thou harden''d our hearts from thy feare? |
A89585 | Because( saith hee) sentence against an evill one is not presently executed, God spares him, what then? |
A89585 | Chapter they said they would do that which was good in their own eyes; but who were they? |
A89585 | Christ saith to them, Have ye your hearts yet harden''d? |
A89585 | Did I either appoint them? |
A89585 | Lord what is it? |
A89585 | O Lord, why are our hearts harden''d from thy fear? |
A89585 | and harden''d our hearts from thy feare? |
A89585 | art not thou set notwithstanding to goe on in that way, though God sometimes follow thee with judgements? |
A89585 | art thou able to hold u ● the weapons, when hee comes to strike? |
A89585 | art thou come to this passe? |
A89585 | can thy faire words perswade him to doe it? |
A89585 | doest thou understand that thou art in defiance with heaven? |
A89585 | doest thou understand that thou hast sent a challenge to God? |
A89585 | dost thou not cast the judgements off, if it bee possible, or lie and vex under them, and yet goe on? |
A89585 | dost thou understand( I say) that the Lord God almighty is entred the lists against thee? |
A89585 | hath not God enlightned thy conscience, that the wayes that thou walkest in, are the wayes that lead to death? |
A89585 | heare a word or two from God, thou miserable wretched man, knowest thou what thou hast undertaken? |
A89585 | of Isaiah; who would set Briars and Thornes in battle against mee? |
A89585 | or doe I accept them? |
A89585 | or have you carried them as you should doe? |
A89585 | or now when thou hearest it, do not thy joynts tremble? |
A89585 | or wilt thou not understand it? |
A89585 | say once againe, Art not thou resolved to goe on in thy way, what ever come of it? |
A89585 | should ye not heare the words that the Prophets cried in former times, when Ierusalem was inhabited, and the Cities thereof round about her? |
A89585 | what doth every dispensation speake? |
A89585 | what doth every stroke thinke thou speake? |
A89585 | what man would be so mad, to set Briars and Thornes to fight with devouring fire? |
A89585 | why doth hee give thee leave to speake to him in prayer? |
A89585 | why doth hee powre upon thee so many mercies? |
A89585 | why doth hee visit thee with afflictions? |
A89585 | would''st thou have the stone in thy heart broken? |
A52050 | And now( Honorable and Beloved) in such sad& uncomfortable times as these are, what have the Heads of our Israel to doe? |
A52050 | And what have our Heads to doe at such a time? |
A52050 | But what have our Heads and Rulers to doe in that? |
A52050 | Did you then thus know the times? |
A52050 | Have not most of us lived all our dayes, as if God had made us for the World, as Leviathan for the Sea, onely to take our pleasure in it? |
A52050 | In the beginning of our publique troubles, our question was, by whom shall England arise now it is thus low? |
A52050 | Now( beloved) have you known your times, and taken your opportunities? |
A52050 | O how much of our pretious time have they devoured and wee regard it not? |
A52050 | O what cause of lamentations is there: First, In generall to us all? |
A52050 | Should this bee a time of jollitie? |
A52050 | There is one more, and that is, A Use of Exhortation; Is this so excellent and necessary a dutie, to know the times in reference to our duties? |
A52050 | VVhat gratious man who understands this, would ever pray to God in his Chamber without remembring you, and your work? |
A52050 | Verses, after this manner, How doe you say you are wise? |
A52050 | Wee demanded, where shall wee finde Captaines and Commanders for a warre in a Nation where all men have been bred in ease and peace? |
A52050 | What then is to be done? |
A52050 | Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a foole to buy wisedome, seeing he hath no heart to it? |
A52050 | and if so, have you beene humbled under these things? |
A52050 | certainly all people should tremble when God is angry; The Lyon roares, what beast doth not tremble? |
A52050 | did not you thereby helpe to pull downe those judgements that have beene like to devoure and destroy this whole Land? |
A52050 | did you know what God expected from you in your places, and have you done it? |
A52050 | did you then walke as wise men, redeeming the times? |
A52050 | have you since repented of them? |
A52050 | how have you walked I beseech you? |
A52050 | or do they still stand upon your score before that God that keeps an exact accompt of all the Talents that ever hee hath put into your hands? |
A52050 | that is, no ● an can bee compared to a wise man, what is hee? |
A52050 | what accompt could you make? |
A52050 | what cause have we to tremble at the thought of it? |
A52050 | what doth the Lord looke for at your hands? |
A52050 | what improvement you have made of them? |
A61470 | And now how cleer, how sweet, how satisfactory must this sight be? |
A61470 | And now, what is my Expectation? |
A61470 | Are our Enemies Politick or Potent? |
A61470 | Are you come to this Mount Sion, where the Mediatour appears with God in the midst of His innumerable Angels? |
A61470 | Can This be thus, and we Ignorant or Insensible of This Comming of Christ, without the Highest sinne against God, the Kingdome, our own safeties? |
A61470 | Can you cast your eye on the eighteenth Psalm and not tremble? |
A61470 | Do we lose our friends, Men of best Wisdome, Courage, and Integrity taken off the Stage, or off their Excellencies? |
A61470 | Doe we not yet See Jesus Christ? |
A61470 | Doe we not yet feele our Saviour? |
A61470 | Doe we not yet perceive the Lord Jesus? |
A61470 | Doe we see how it growes Lighter and Lighter in the Souls of Men? |
A61470 | Doe you see your Saviour, as He comes in the Visible Part of Things? |
A61470 | For my owne Soule, for my Brethren in the Flesh, all the Children of Seth, for the rest of my Fellow Creatures, which groane continually in my Eares? |
A61470 | For when was it that Proclamation was made among the Angels to Worship Jesus Christ? |
A61470 | Have any of you been thus tempted, to make the Calf of Humane- Policy your Counsellour, because this is the God of Nations? |
A61470 | Have we seen Iesus Christ as he Comes among the Angels? |
A61470 | Have you Seen the Lord Iesus Comming in the Spirits of Men on Earth? |
A61470 | Have you seene the Lord thus mounted on His Horses of Fire? |
A61470 | If ye be dead in Christ, why as living in the Flesh, are ye subject to Ordinances which perish in the using? |
A61470 | Is it Day- break yet in our soules? |
A61470 | Is it not free to All, and from All? |
A61470 | Is not my desire and Sighing before thee, O my God? |
A61470 | Is not the Comming of Christ that by which God designes to make Himselfe Admired among His Saints? |
A61470 | Is not this the Grand Wheel which moves All, the Centrall Motion, which carries about Persons, Kingdomes, the whole Creation? |
A61470 | Is one Army broken? |
A61470 | Like the Sun, like a Champion comming forth to run His Race from one end of Things to the Other? |
A61470 | Shall we trust our selves, and the Kingdome to a name, an ayrie Fancy? |
A61470 | The Disciples ask their Master, What should be the signes of His Comming? |
A61470 | The Lord darkens His own Appearances, who then shall Determine the way of Christ''s Comming to us, when He makes it His Designe to obscure it? |
A61470 | Then shal a man say: How is a Goodly plant of Glory grown up to Heaven out of the Earth, in one short Night of Trouble? |
A61470 | To what end shall I speak? |
A61470 | Was it not then, when He Ascended, and sate downe at the Right Hand of God? |
A61470 | What do we cry to a sleeping God, or a God at a great Distance from us, as in a journey? |
A61470 | What is it, which He Sees not? |
A61470 | What is it, which He sees not? |
A61470 | What is that Person in which our Saviour sits at the Top of His Ascent? |
A61470 | What makes Colours, Sounds understood and moving, in the Eye or Eare? |
A61470 | What makes the Discourses of men mutually understood and moving? |
A61470 | What then is His Second Comming? |
A61470 | What was the successe? |
A61470 | When He shall come to be Glorified in His Saints, and Admired,& c. Is not this that at which All the Angels of God bow themselves and worship? |
A61470 | When Iehoshaphat joyn''d his ships with those of the King of Israel, were not His ships broken in pieces? |
A61470 | When first you pleas''d to call me to this, I thought thus with my self: What can I say more then hath been said? |
A61470 | When the Eternall Spirit is fast''ned, and proportion''d to any One Form of Things, is it not now imprison''d or buried? |
A61470 | Where, say they, is the Promise of His Comming? |
A61470 | Who can foreknow, or set the wayes of a Spirit? |
A61470 | Who is not Amazed to See the Changes that are made in the Garment of This Earth? |
A61470 | Why do we Condemne the Discoveries of Christ for being above our Reach, beyond our Measure and Light, when''t is His Plot and will, to Come in Clouds? |
A61470 | Would not this Man Amazedly Wonder, whence these Formes of Things should grow round about Him, with such Sodainnesse and Change? |
A61470 | Yet, what Profit have we of the One? |
A61470 | carest thou not, that we perish in the mid''st of all our Prayres, Praises, Fasts, and Holy Feasts? |
A61470 | or to think; We know not what This Iesus, or His Comming in The Spirit meane? |
A61470 | or, Have we any more Hopes yet in our Breasts? |
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A61470 | the Angel of the Lord Jesus is a Fountain of forces, which can pour forth a continued store of fresh Armies, if you need them? |
A61470 | what Peace from the Other? |
A61470 | what end of either? |
A61470 | who can comprehend a Spirit in any outward Forme? |
A45542 | 2 What a prevailing motive ought this to be against all sin, especially Idolatry? |
A45542 | And now if any aske when, or how this was verified? |
A45542 | But in what posture is the people? |
A45542 | But is there not yet a secret veine inwardly bleeding, and though the bloudy issue be stopt, are we not still sick of a Consumption? |
A45542 | But to come neerer to these days: Is not the Bound still removed in Families, City, Countrey, yea, the whole Kingdom? |
A45542 | But was this only the Princes fault? |
A45542 | But what is the offence that these great Delinquents are charged withall? |
A45542 | But what, may some say, is oppression no sin? |
A45542 | Consider, I beseech you, is not God as a moth to many Countries, by the quartering of an Army, who, though friends yet are wasting? |
A45542 | Divine wrath is not lessened, but augmented by opposition: so true is that of the Psalmist, Who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry? |
A45542 | Fidem ● e servare Deo levius quàm homini? |
A45542 | For the sheep, then to wander through every pasture since it will quickly be devoured of the Wolves? |
A45542 | How much better had it been for me to have climbed the ropes, then sate at the stern? |
A45542 | I end this with one short consectary, if it be a sin with an Anathema to remove our neighbours, what is it to alienate the Churches bounds? |
A45542 | Is hee not as a worme to the Church ▪ in the impayring and with- holding of our Ministers mayntenance? |
A45542 | Is it a more veniall offence to breake faith with God then man? |
A45542 | Is it an offence worthy of punishment to abuse the Sonne of a King, and is it lesse to dishonour the Sonne of God? |
A45542 | Quid deest omnia possi ● entibus? |
A45542 | Remember I beseech you, you are within the bounds of a Covenant; for what? |
A45542 | Say then to thy selfe; as Caesar did, Méne servare ut sint qui me perdant? |
A45542 | Say to your selves, O ye Princes of the earth, with Nehemiah, Shall such an o ● e as I flie? |
A45542 | Shall I hug a snake in my bosome, to poyson me? |
A45542 | Shall I sigh out my sad thoughts in that patheticall complaint of Vincentius Lyrenensis? |
A45542 | Shall I who am most obliged to God by the bonds of wealth and power, exceed the bounds of truth and justice? |
A45542 | Shall other Sciences have a portion, and must Divinity be put off only with her beauty? |
A45542 | Shall wee reflect upon the former times? |
A45542 | That when we were unnaturally tearing each other in peeces, a third party came not to devoure us both, what was it but his mercie? |
A45542 | To have been confined to a cottage, then inherited a palace? |
A45542 | Vir bonus est qui ●? |
A45542 | What counsell more sutable to the Text or Time, then that of Repentance? |
A45542 | What more dangerous for the ship then to sayle with every winde, since it must needs dash upon the rock? |
A45542 | Whom he hath made a ruler of the people, not rule my self and my own family? |
A45542 | a Toleration? |
A45542 | are those women which adulterate their husbands b ● ds justly sentenced, and shall those that adulterate Gods sacred Word goe free? |
A45542 | is he not as a worme to the Kingdome, in our renewed Taxations, which though just, yet are impoverishing? |
A45542 | nourish Wolves young ones, to teare me? |
A45542 | or can the p ● re God be the author of sin? |
A45542 | shall I imbrace that in my soule which will be a worm to gnaw my conscience, and a moth to devoure my estate? |
A45542 | shall I whom God hath honoured so much, dishonour him by oaths so greatly? |
A45542 | shall they who rob your houses be condemned, and those that rob your souls escape? |
A45542 | the illegall introductions of superstitious Ceremonies, Tables removed, Crucifixes erected, Adoration towards Altars practised? |
A45542 | up and be doing, take away the accursed ● ● ● ours from among you? |
A45542 | what else meant the open allowance of Sabbath prophanation, the manifest connivance at preaching, nay printing Arminian, yea Popish doctrines? |
A45542 | what more violent? |
A45542 | who am placed in an higher sphere then others be either a dim, or a wandring star? |
A45542 | why do you ransack the whole world? |
A86360 | ( saith Augustine) are we not Brethren? |
A86360 | 26. Who is on the Lords side? |
A86360 | 5. Who is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord? |
A86360 | Alas how camest thou into these distractions? |
A86360 | Doth the Truth of your Religion appeare in your relations, in the uniformitie of a Gospell conversation? |
A86360 | Doth the word of Truth, the Scepter of righteousnesse beare sway there? |
A86360 | Every one will be euquisitive concerning the commoditie it self: What is this Truth? |
A86360 | Fourthly, What if there were some Evangelicall, Itinerant Preachers, sent abroad upon a publique stocke to enlighten darke Countries? |
A86360 | Hast thou kept the Lords day? |
A86360 | Have you gotten your owne hearts possessed with the power of the Truth? |
A86360 | Have you set up Truth in your owne families? |
A86360 | How can you be good Reformers both of State and Church, unlesse you be first Reformers of your selves, and your owne Families? |
A86360 | How deare did it cost Athanasius to justifie the Divinity of Christ, against the Arians? |
A86360 | How farre did Luther hazzard himselfe, to advance Justification by Faith in Christ? |
A86360 | How many living stones, yea how many Builders did famous Perkins hew, by Preaching a Lecture in Cambridge? |
A86360 | How many with Absalom, to humour their vain- glory, will set the Peace of a Kingdome to sale? |
A86360 | How many with Haman, to gratifie proud revenge, will set a whole Church to sale? |
A86360 | How much did he then preferre the Consolations, which come by Religion, before all worldly excellencies? |
A86360 | If a man know not how to rule his owne house, how shall hee take care of the Church of God? |
A86360 | If no worshipping of the Sunne there, yet doe not too many pleade for, and practise, an ungrounded worshiping toward the East? |
A86360 | If this be the question, who is on Truths side, what eccho, what answer will you returne, oh you great Counsellors? |
A86360 | Imagine the casting of the ballance, the composing of all Church difference depended upon thee alone, what wouldest thou contribute to purchase Truth? |
A86360 | Is there any doubt of Antichrists sitting in these places? |
A86360 | Is there no Physitian there? |
A86360 | Is there no balme in Gilead? |
A86360 | Lay hands suddenly on no man? |
A86360 | On what side are you? |
A86360 | Quid si vel pigri vel non satis attenti sint monitores, vel frustra plerosque moneant? |
A86360 | Quomodo huc cecidisti? |
A86360 | Thy house a Church to God, and thou an uncleane sonne of Belial? |
A86360 | To be Proctors for the Devill, as Gospell- opposers, what saith conscience? |
A86360 | W ● ll you please to these particulars? |
A86360 | We live in shedding, discriminating times, it is a frequent question, quarum partium? |
A86360 | What concord hath Christ with Belial? |
A86360 | What hast thou done? |
A86360 | What is the commoditie it self, this Truth that must be bought? |
A86360 | What thy house a Church to God, and thou a covetous idolater? |
A86360 | What will you resolve to lay out to possesse this dis- joynted Kingdome of the Truth? |
A86360 | What? |
A86360 | When the question was propounded, Servasti Dominicum? |
A86360 | Whence came superstition so much to swarme in the darke ages of the Church? |
A86360 | Whence then so much licentiousnesse tolerated in the servants? |
A86360 | Where hath he most hearty Prayers, but where Truth most prevailes? |
A86360 | Who have more undermined and maligned Parliaments, then such Ministers as first betrayed Truth? |
A86360 | Who knoweth whether God hath called you to this Parliament to accomplish this amongst other services? |
A86360 | Why doe we contend? |
A86360 | Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? |
A86360 | Would you have the name of this Parliament embalmed with everlasting perfume? |
A86360 | You reckon your house, your little Common- wealth; by what law is it governed? |
A86360 | can not, will not, the Parliament heale us? |
A86360 | so much dissolutenesse in the children? |
A86360 | so much oppression, tyranny, and( too often) other wickednesse in your selves, and such distempers in family relations? |
A86360 | what agreement hath the Temple of God with idols? |
A86360 | what saith Conscience? |
A86360 | what wilt thou doe, by speaking, voting, by hand, heart, purse, for the Truth? |
A45500 | ''T is the character of the wicked to say, Who is Lord over us? |
A45500 | ''t is thy worship, and is it iniquity to Worship God? |
A45500 | 3. oh my People, what have I done unto thee, and wherein have I wearied thee? |
A45500 | And indeed what does Religion teach you if it does not teach you this piece of morality? |
A45500 | And these things are good for others too; how advantagious and beneficial to the World are Justice and Mercy? |
A45500 | And what can more commend it to us to be the Book of our daily Converse and Meditation? |
A45500 | Be as just in your word, as true to your promise, as exact in your dealings as you would have others to be? |
A45500 | But on the contrary does not the whole of my proceedings with you testifie for me? |
A45500 | Did the Heathens of old, and do they still at this day know it and art thou a stranger to it? |
A45500 | He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God? |
A45500 | Hereupon they move the Prophet with this Question, Wherewithal shall I come before the Lord, and bow my self before the high God? |
A45500 | I shall close this with that sentence of the Scribe, Mark 12. Who having asked our Lord, Which is the first commandment of all? |
A45500 | If therefore the Question be in what way is the justice of God satisfied for sin? |
A45500 | Is it such a Fast that I have chosen? |
A45500 | Is it to how down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? |
A45500 | Is that good that is amiable and lovely? |
A45500 | Is that good that is pleasant and delightful? |
A45500 | Or is that good that is profitable? |
A45500 | Or what shall a man give in exchange for his Soul? |
A45500 | Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? |
A45500 | To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? |
A45500 | What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole World, and lose his own Soul? |
A45500 | What shall we do to avert them? |
A45500 | What then is the Fast that God has chosen? |
A45500 | What? |
A45500 | Whereas many say, Who will shew us good? |
A45500 | Who does not see what need there is of Fasting, of Prayer and Humbling our selves before the Lord? |
A45500 | and again, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice? |
A45500 | are not your ways unequal? |
A45500 | can you mend your selves by changing your Lord? |
A45500 | hast thou not requir''d these things? |
A45500 | hath the Lord as great delight in sacrifices as in obedience? |
A45500 | have I been unmindful of you or wanting to do you good? |
A45500 | how much do they conduce to the good order of it? |
A45500 | how sweet are the influences that they diffuse amongst all persons? |
A45500 | in what way and upon what account is God reconcil''d to Sinners? |
A45500 | oh house of Israel, are not my ways equal? |
A45500 | or wherein can you fault my conduct and providence towards you? |
A45500 | q. d. what have I commanded you, that you should count my service a Burden? |
A45500 | saith the Lord; I am full of burnt offerings,& c, To what purpose, Lord? |
A45500 | shall I count them pure with the wicked balances and with the bag of deceitful weights? |
A45500 | what so lovely as ho liness? |
A45500 | who is not the better for them? |
A45500 | who shall dwell in thy holy hill? |
A45500 | wilt thou call this a Fast, and an acceptable day unto the Lord? |
A42766 | And doth not the blood of soules cry? |
A42766 | And doth not the blood of the Palatinate and of Rochel cry? |
A42766 | And now, b saith he, O our God, what shall we say after this? |
A42766 | And shall I add the example of a great father? |
A42766 | And though they digge deep to hide their counsels; is not this a time of Gods over- reaching and befoolling all plotting wits? |
A42766 | And what was it that did so confound him? |
A42766 | And what wonder, that they who receive not the love of the truth, be given over z to strong delusion, that they should beleeve a lie? |
A42766 | And y again, If the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world; what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? |
A42766 | Are there not also hewers of stones, and bearers of burdens? |
A42766 | But I aske, have not the Kings of the earth hitherto for the most part, d set themselves against the Lord, and against his Christ? |
A42766 | But now is there no other application to be made of this point? |
A42766 | Doe ye not remember that mischiefe was framed by a Law? |
A42766 | Doth not God now punish the secret injustice of his people, by the open iniustice of their enemies? |
A42766 | Doth not all the blood shed in Queen Maries dayes cry? |
A42766 | Doth not the Lord now iustly punish that Episcopall peace, with an Episcopall warre? |
A42766 | First, Is there not now a measuring of the Temple, Ordinances and worshippers, by a reed like unto a rod? |
A42766 | God hath layd the foundation, and shall he not bring forth the head stone? |
A42766 | Hath not England harboured and entertained Papists, Priests and Jesuites in its bosome? |
A42766 | Hath not this Nation for a long time taken the Name of the Lord in vaine, by a formall worship and empty profession? |
A42766 | Hath there not bin a great compliance with the Prelates, for peace sake, even to the preiudice of Truth? |
A42766 | Is all this no matter of shame? |
A42766 | Is all this said to satisfie curious wits, or at the best, to comfort the people of God? |
A42766 | Is it not a righteous thing with the Lord, to make these your idols his rods to correct you? |
A42766 | Is it not just, that now you feel the sting and poison of these vipers? |
A42766 | Is it not t Christs rule, that he who seven times trespasseth against his brother, seven times turne again, saying, I repent? |
A42766 | Is not the old rubbish of Ceremonies daily more and more shovelled away, that there may bee a clean ground? |
A42766 | It is not enough that England say with Ephraim in l one place, What have I to do any more with Idols? |
A42766 | Nay let me argue from the manner of men, as s the Prophet doth, offer it now unto the Governuor, will he bee pleased with thee, or accept thy person? |
A42766 | Now if you aske, how the severall particulars in the vision may be particularly expounded, and applyed to the Church of Christ? |
A42766 | Secondly, are there not great preparations and instruments fitted for the work? |
A42766 | Theeves will readily digge through a house, how much more will they enter if any posterne be left open to them? |
A42766 | Thirdly, the work is begun and shall it not be finished? |
A42766 | VVill he not expect an acknowledgement of the wrong done? |
A42766 | Was not that Prelaticall government first devised, and since continued to preserve peace and to prevent Schismes in the Church? |
A42766 | What fruit had yee then in those things whereof now yee are ashamed? |
A42766 | What man is he that feareth the Lord? |
A42766 | What shall I say of the Book of Sports, and other prophanations of the Lords day? |
A42766 | and is not the Lord by all this affliction humbling you, that there may be a deep and a sure foundation layd? |
A42766 | and now when your enemies execute mischief against Law, will you not say, Righteous art thou O Lord, and iust are thy iudgements? |
A42766 | and was it not Gods iust iudgement that such a remedy of mans invention should rather increase then cure the evill? |
A42766 | can they spread a vaile over it? |
A42766 | d Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? |
A42766 | much wholsome preaching, much praying and fasting, many petitions put up both to God and man? |
A42766 | n Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth, sayth the Lord? |
A42766 | shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb, sayth thy God? |
A42766 | the Covenant also going through the Kingdom as the chief preparation of materials for the work? |
A42766 | x But thou O Lord, how long? |
A34527 | 81. will call them fools, who think otherwise;& he will give a reason for it in the 92. v. He that planted the eare shall not he heare? |
A34527 | And how many of Christs Apostles were fisher- men, learned only in goodnesse,& better read in sinceritie then books? |
A34527 | And shal we envy the condition of wicked men? |
A34527 | And shall a Christian faint or fear in the Seas of Adversitie, in the battels of affliction? |
A34527 | And will God endure disobedience at the hands of sinfull Men? |
A34527 | But alas who can measure that which is infinite? |
A34527 | Can thy Policie resist the Divell? |
A34527 | Can thy worldly wisdom preserve thy life one moment longer then God hath decreed? |
A34527 | Did he cast out Divels with his finger, Luke 1. and can he not beate down Men with his hand? |
A34527 | Did he make the world when there was no help, and can he not rule the world without any help? |
A34527 | For shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evill? |
A34527 | For will any man cut a purse before the Iudges face, and when he is sitting upon the Bench? |
A34527 | How is it accounted by too many, ludibrium& probrosum artificium, as Gerson speaks, a vaine work, a dishonourable profession? |
A34527 | How many Parents lose their children, by setting their hearts too much upon them? |
A34527 | How many owe their Religion more to education then to the Scripture ●, and are rather born in good opinions then chuse them? |
A34527 | How much more shall he build up and pull down, save and destroy, and dispose them as seemeth good unto him? |
A34527 | How tender were the primitive Christians herein? |
A34527 | If the Tabernacle be all gold within, what though the covering be of badgers skin? |
A34527 | Is he lesse jealous of his honour then the Creature? |
A34527 | Is his arme shortned who is omnipotent? |
A34527 | Is it his great mercy that we do not f ● ll into nothing, or which is worse into eternall flames? |
A34527 | Or David, who being compassed about with the waters of affliction hoped for better times? |
A34527 | Or the 3 Children who beleev''d that God would deliver them out of the fiery furnace? |
A34527 | Shall he bring salvation to our doores, to our bosomes and shall we despise it? |
A34527 | Was Abraham deceived, who trusted in God for a Sonne against the course of Nature? |
A34527 | What Policie is it to have a cleere sight into all the Kingdomes of the earth, and to be stark blinde in the Kingdom of Heaven? |
A34527 | What better entertainment hath the preaching of the Gospell? |
A34527 | What can not the God of Heaven compasse to set forth his own glory and to advance his servants good? |
A34527 | What confusion can not he order? |
A34527 | What more contrary to good than evill? |
A34527 | What power of Man or Angell can cloud the Eyes of the Almightie? |
A34527 | and devoures the conscience of these later generations which make lying a Profession, and are constant in nothing else? |
A34527 | can it conduct thee the way to Heaven? |
A34527 | he that made the heart, shall not he know the wayes and works thereof? |
A34527 | how do we loath this heavenly Manna? |
A34527 | more profound then Saint Paul? |
A34527 | more renowned for all learning then Moses and Salomon? |
A34527 | or he that formed the eye shall not he see? |
A34527 | or his Providence decayd who is wisdom it self? |
A34527 | or preserve thy soule from Hell? |
A34527 | or what have we that we have not received? |
A34527 | or what more opposeth happinesse than sinne? |
A34527 | shall he command, and threaten, and beseech? |
A34527 | shall we be angry with our blessings? |
A34527 | shall we complaine because our Kingdom is not of this world? |
A34527 | what Spirit hardens our hearts? |
A34527 | what beasts and black Divells do they make us? |
A34527 | what profit is it to gaine the whole world and to lose our eternall soules? |
A34527 | what tongue do they not speak, what art do they not know, what sanctitie do they not professe? |
A34527 | what weaknesse can not he enable? |
A34527 | what wisdom can not he frustrate? |
A34527 | who miscarry oftner than Men of the greatest parts? |
A34527 | will any man commit adultery in the open streets? |
A89586 | 4. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorifie thy Name? |
A89586 | And was not the Church in other Countries as low? |
A89586 | And were not all their works wrought for them, by the rage, cruelty, and cunning of their enemies? |
A89586 | Art not thou from everlasting, my Lord, my God, my holy One? |
A89586 | Can you upon this day of thanksgiving doe lesse then enquire, What shall we render unto the Lord? |
A89586 | First, for what is past; what reall sorrow have ye in your hearts, for those sins which you call God to witnesse you are thus sorry for? |
A89586 | For having been lately restored from the gates of death, what greater mercy could I wish, then to praise God in the great Congregation? |
A89586 | For them, what great things hath the Lord lately done, and by what very weak means? |
A89586 | Hath he not carryed you in his bosome? |
A89586 | Have you not checked his providences, not improved his deliverances, and the advantages which God hath put into your hands? |
A89586 | Heaven and earth shall be on fire, and what shall these things be then? |
A89586 | Honourable and beloved, how a bominable a thing were it, to see the Angels of God live like the instruments of Satan? |
A89586 | How grievous is the remembrance of them, how intolerable do you feel the burthen of them? |
A89586 | Our liberty almost swallowed up, and turned into slavery; our Religion into Popery, and Arminianisme? |
A89586 | Secondly,[ fear:] who would not fear thee? |
A89586 | Secondly? |
A89586 | Shall he escape that doth these things? |
A89586 | The great mercies which we enjoy, the great deliverances we have lately received, from what a high hand have they come? |
A89586 | They engage and binde themselves faster and closer to him, in his worship and service, Who shall not feare thee O Lord, and glorify thy Name? |
A89586 | Were not the book of Service, and the book of Canons, sent, and obtruded upon them from England, the occasion of their late mercies? |
A89586 | Wherfore have we our reason and tongues, but to observe, and speak of these things? |
A89586 | Who but the Lord God Almighty could do this? |
A89586 | Who can be ignorant of these things? |
A89586 | are these the Angels that must pour out the vials of thy wrath? |
A89586 | are these thy Christians? |
A89586 | are these thy Reformers? |
A89586 | can these men save us? |
A89586 | even when, and where he hath delivered you? |
A89586 | hath he not kept you as the apple of his eye? |
A89586 | have you not gone about to kill his goodnesse with your unkindnesses, by provoking him at the sea, even at the red sea? |
A89586 | or do you intend under pretence of being factors for Christ, to drive a trade for Satan and Antichrist, to betray Religion and Liberty? |
A89586 | or do you take Gods Name in vain, calling him to witnesse of the sorrow for those things which he knows you take pleasure in? |
A89586 | or if your hearts, at any time, have been raised a little, have they not presently been at a dead low ebb again? |
A89586 | that Reformers of Religion, should hate religion? |
A89586 | that such an one dare blaspheme, and swear, and abuse Religion? |
A89586 | that such as are called to save the Kingdome, should betray the Kingdome? |
A89586 | to what a very dead low ebbe were we brought? |
A89586 | was not the tyrannie of a few of their Prelats, a means to unburden them of their whole Prelacy? |
A89586 | who were they but the poorer,& meaner sort of people, that at the first joyned with the Ministers, to raise the building of Reformation? |
A43819 | 7. Who art the ● ●, O great Mountain? |
A43819 | 9. the Land was full of blood, and the City full of wresting of judgment:( Is not this our unhappy case?) |
A43819 | After you have had such elbow- roome for your lusts, are you not unwilling to take the yoke of Christ upon you, fearing the strictnesse of it? |
A43819 | Are all your Consciences cleare in answering this Quaere? |
A43819 | Are not wee still secure in our wonted sins? |
A43819 | Are there not such to bee found amongst you, who being got into warme and fat places, walk in wayes of covetousnesse and oppression therein? |
A43819 | But how should this bee carryed on? |
A43819 | But what lyes at the bottome of all this? |
A43819 | But who may abide the day of his ● omming? |
A43819 | Can you all with conscience of your own Innocency confidently answer this Quaere? |
A43819 | Have you been fervent in spirit serving the Lord? |
A43819 | Have you been valiant for the Truth? |
A43819 | He would not drinke thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord: and hee said, Bee it farre from mee O Lord, that I shall doe this? |
A43819 | How can it be quiet seeing the Lord hath given it acharge against Askelon? |
A43819 | How did Jacob overcome inraged Esau, but by overcomming with his Prayers, the Great God of heaven, who hath a Throne in all mens spirits? |
A43819 | How much might an Ordinance for the reviving of the Ecoffees to recover Impropriations conduce to this happy purpose? |
A43819 | If God will charge the Sword in England to ride circuit from North to West, and so all over the Land, who can discharge it? |
A43819 | Is building Gods house the ready way to obtaine Gods blessings? |
A43819 | Is it a time for you, O yee, to dwell in your seiled houses, and this house lye waste? |
A43819 | Is not this the blood of men that went in jeopardy of their lives? |
A43819 | Is there not a Jonah asleepe in the Ship, which occasions the storme? |
A43819 | O have not very many of you minded much more the building of your owne House, then the rebuilding of Gods Temple? |
A43819 | O our God, wilt not thou judge them? |
A43819 | O then, why should not you hold up your courage and confidence in the midst of all obstructions and difficulties? |
A43819 | O thou Sword of the Lord, how long will it bee ere thou be quiet? |
A43819 | The Lord expected that when hee spoke to them by his judgments, they should speake to them selves of their sinnes, saying, What have I done? |
A43819 | Wee will not have this man to reign over us? |
A43819 | What answer will your Consciences give to this Quaere? |
A43819 | What preparations should wee make for the building of Gods House? |
A43819 | What saith Conscience to this Quaere? |
A43819 | What saith Conscience to this Quaere? |
A43819 | What though enemies doe most proudly insult? |
A43819 | What? |
A43819 | Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sinnes? |
A43819 | Who could expect that such great matters should bee easily and suddenly effected? |
A43819 | Why doth the Lord then especially delight to make known himselfe as the Lord of Hoasts, when his people meet with opposition in doing his great worke? |
A43819 | Why is God so often called the Lord of Hoasts? |
A43819 | Why is the consideration of our waies so seasonable when Gods hand is stretched out against us? |
A43819 | Why should not wee take this course? |
A43819 | and who shall stand when bee appeareth? |
A43819 | can not wee stay and do things by degrees? |
A43819 | guilty or not guilty? |
A43819 | what have J done? |
A43819 | what may wee do towards it? |
A43819 | when God is breaking downe what hee hath built, when God is plucking up what hee hath planted; what now art thou a seeking great things for thy selfe? |
A87086 | Abraham had divers sonnes, but none so good as that he waited so long for: and what an happy Childe did Hannah obtain by prayer, and long waiting? |
A87086 | But should the people of England thus requite the Lord and his instruments of Reformation? |
A87086 | Consider my Brethren, hath the faire morning of our hopes been clouded? |
A87086 | Could their hearts break into joy, and burst into teares, whilst they meditate the same things? |
A87086 | Did not Moses make the best choise upon this ground? |
A87086 | Doth not Saint 〈 ◊ 〉 encourage to sufferings upon like reason? |
A87086 | Doth not Scripture in expresse termes call the restoring of Israel Gods great, Gods strange worke? |
A87086 | Doth the businesse yet go on slowly and untowardly? |
A87086 | Had not Phinih ● m the sonne of Eleazar a Covenant of peace made to him and his posteritie for being zealous in Gods Cause among the people? |
A87086 | Hath he found out fit instruments, when we the poor silenced Ministers, as Elijah of old, thought there were none left which had not bowed the knee? |
A87086 | Hath he stopped the overflowings and breakings in of Popery and tyranny? |
A87086 | Hath he with his own blessed hand laid the foundation of a glorious Reformation? |
A87086 | Hath not the whole body benefit by the free dome and happinesse which comes to any part? |
A87086 | Hath the God of heaven more visibly appeared for his little flock, then ever here to fore fore in this land? |
A87086 | Have not we been much the better for Deliverance and Reformation vouchsafed in the dayes of King Edward, and Queen Elizabeth? |
A87086 | Have our enemies prevailed, to put a long day to our troubles? |
A87086 | How apt are we to bedew our best friends, and to requite ill to those who strive most for the publike good? |
A87086 | How are Zebulun and Napthali commended for jeoparding their lives in such a case? |
A87086 | How curious and wary is he, that is to cut rich jewels and pearls? |
A87086 | How desireable is it to do good to a Citie, or a Nation? |
A87086 | How few of the Israelites which dwelt in Egypt did truly beleeve that ever they should be brought to Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey? |
A87086 | How fruitfull was the promised Land, which came after so many ages expectance? |
A87086 | Is Sions captivitie turned? |
A87086 | Is it not reason then, that the womans seed should be active in their zeal? |
A87086 | It is a grievous thing to adde to the heavie burthen or an hard task; in such case how bitterly and justly will the oppressed coplain? |
A87086 | Or is it a small matter thus to cast soule of unthankfulnesse as it were into the face of God, whilst he is turning to us in love? |
A87086 | Saint Paul told the Corinth that he did hear there were divisions among them, and did partly beleeve it; shall praise you in this? |
A87086 | Shouldst thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? |
A87086 | The Disciples out of such a mood did ask the Lord Christ, Will thou at this time restore the Kingdome to Israel? |
A87086 | This is our duty, and can we want inducements to such a well- pleasing, sweet, Christian- like waiting upon God? |
A87086 | Was their mouth filled with laughter and their tongue with singing? |
A87086 | What hath the Parliament? |
A87086 | What have not meere morall men done and undertaken for their countrey upon this onely ground, that the businesse concerned the whole nation? |
A87086 | What have the Armies? |
A87086 | What have the Assembly done? |
A87086 | What strange allegations, glosses and pretences do they frame to make shew of serving the State, when indeed they serve themselves? |
A87086 | When the deliverer came at first to visite his brethren, they put him away, saying, Who made thee a Judge? |
A87086 | When there was but one Peter in prison, how incessant was the Church on his behalfe? |
A87086 | Who is ignorant how much a few faire speeches of oyl- mouthed Absolon to that effect prevailed against David and his Worthies? |
A87086 | Why should I tell you of Gideon, and Barak, and Samson, and the rest? |
A87086 | Will not the Refiner be ten times so circumspect and industrious, when his gold is in the furnace, as when lead is on the fire? |
A87086 | Yea more, did not the Lord Christ die in the cause of his Church? |
A87086 | and why was this? |
A87086 | have these instruments with singular freenesse of minde set upon the service of God and the Kingdome? |
A87086 | have they now for divers years spent their own means, their time more precious then their means? |
A87086 | some are ready to say, as Indas of the Alabaster Box of Oyntment, Whereto is this waste? |
A30235 | 3 A sinfull symbolizing moderation; How hard a matter is it, not to take a lame and halfe Reformation? |
A30235 | And may not we say, that the generall neglect of Discipline hath had a great share in all our sinnes and punishments? |
A30235 | Are not politique considerations a rule to many? |
A30235 | Art thou onely wise, are all others in an errour? |
A30235 | But how many things are improved? |
A30235 | But how may we get good by this rule? |
A30235 | But were not the times of Superstition, of Altar- worship, of silencing your Ministers as bitter unto you? |
A30235 | But you will say, Shall there be no moderation, must we all be like frogs that can not goe, but leape? |
A30235 | Custome: This a rule more then all Scriptures to many; This we and our fathers have been used to doe; Now how vaine is this? |
A30235 | Did not the Corinthians suffer the false Apostles to buffet them and smite them? |
A30235 | Did not the people bring their eare- rings to make the golden calfe? |
A30235 | Doe not then in matters of Religion make this thy Compasre to saile by, What say others; and what is the custome; but, What saith Gods Word? |
A30235 | God threatens to be revenged on him; and why is all this, but because his heart was not right to God? |
A30235 | How readest thou? |
A30235 | Is not Gods Word against profanenesse as well as popery? |
A30235 | Nay, is there not such folly in people, that they are as willing to be without Gods Word as mans inventions? |
A30235 | Reforme your owne lives and conversations; for how reasonable is it that you who make lawes that others doe not sweare, you your selves should not? |
A30235 | Should not a people enquire of their God? |
A30235 | The Iewes, they murmured under Moses and Aaron, how many of them did God destroy? |
A30235 | There is nothing more odious unto him then corruptions in his Church: what detestable names doth che Scripture put upon Idols? |
A30235 | Vae tibi flumen moris humani, quis tibi resistet? |
A30235 | What a comely Church should we have, if Scripture Orders were lookt too? |
A30235 | What? |
A30235 | Who will give us to weep rivers of teares for the generall ignorance in all Parishes and Congregations? |
A30235 | Why art thou come to torment us before our time; what torment could that be to the Devill, to be cast our of the possessed bodies? |
A30235 | Woe to thee, ô thoutorrent of custome, who is able to resist thee? |
A30235 | You worthy Patriots, you have indeavoured to bury Moses his Body, left it should be worshipped and how doth the Devill withstand you? |
A30235 | and how is it written? |
A30235 | and shall not the light and gifts that God hath given be improved? |
A30235 | and shall not we doe as much for Christ? |
A30235 | are not your states, your revenues improved? |
A30235 | do you goe against the Church? |
A30235 | especially if many great, and many learned rise up against it; and this Luther confest was no little temptation to him, Túne solus sapis? |
A30235 | how fit is it that you who bind others to the keeping of the Sabbath, you your selves should sanctifie it? |
A30235 | is not custome a rule to many? |
A30235 | no certainly; if the servent prayer of one righteous man prevail much how much rather the prayers of many thousands? |
A30235 | shall there be Martyrs for errour, and not for Truth? |
A30235 | the multitude? |
A30235 | totne errant universi? |
A30235 | whether when he saith, who is sufficient for these things, he meaneth, who is able to reade? |
A30235 | will not the prisons and miseries wherein they suffered, witnesse against our dastardlinesse? |
A30235 | yes great, because they could not vex and destroy as before: so a Reformation comes and torments proud Church- Governours, and why so? |
A30235 | you may ask, What is the good we would doe, that the mouthes of the bad are so open? |
A31927 | & c. But suppose the nation should not repent, what good will my personall repentance do to the nation or to my self? |
A31927 | & c. Get thee up, saith God to Ioshua, why lyest thou on the ground? |
A31927 | & c. Was the Lord Iesus Christ broken for me, and shall not my heart be broken for my sins against him? |
A31927 | 18, 19. that brought Apostles why they could not goe to heaven? |
A31927 | A repenting Parliament; a repenting Army; and a repenting people; what miracles might not they do? |
A31927 | And God he cals, How long O England? |
A31927 | And do not some of these now begin to grieve, that they have grieved so much for their sinnes? |
A31927 | And if any of these two peradventures should happen? |
A31927 | And that God is never displeased with his people though they fall into adultery, or any other sin: no, not with a Fatherly displeasure? |
A31927 | And that God never chastiseth his people for any sinne: no, not with a Fatherly chastisement? |
A31927 | And that an unbeleeving and an impenitent sinner is as actually pardoned in Gods sight of all his sinnes, as he is if he beleeves and repents? |
A31927 | And that which is yet more sad, Are there not some that preach against humiliation? |
A31927 | And what can we give to God to satisfie him, but that which he hath first given to us? |
A31927 | And yet notwithstanding all this, where shall we finde a penitent sinner? |
A31927 | Are there not some that tell us, that Repentance is a legall Grace? |
A31927 | Are you not as covetous? |
A31927 | Are you not as proud as ever? |
A31927 | Are you not as vain in your fashions? |
A31927 | Behold( saith the Lord) I do now begin to pull down what I have built, and to destroy what I have planted, and seekest thou great things for thy self? |
A31927 | But I suppose it is a question with none, That if the man go to hell for want of repentance, what shall then become of the Parliament man? |
A31927 | Can the Lord hear you repent? |
A31927 | Can the children of the Bridegroom mourn when the Bridegroom is with them? |
A31927 | Consider whether this be equal: Would you have God give you a good return of your prayers, and will not you give God a good return of his Word? |
A31927 | Do you Noble- men, you Gentlemen, you Common people, do you repent? |
A31927 | Doth not, God many times remove the judgement of the Sword, or of the Plague,& c. from a Nation when that Nation doth not repent? |
A31927 | Examine seriously and let conscience speak: Hast thou the childe of repentance formed in thee with every limb in truth; though not in perfection? |
A31927 | Fifthly, What can a poor creature contribute to satisfie an infinite God? |
A31927 | For if afflictions be satisfactions to Gods vengeance, and part of the temporal curse due to sin, where is the comfort of affliction? |
A31927 | Hath not God many times removed the Plague from the City of London, when London hath not repented of her iniquities? |
A31927 | I appeal to your consciences: Is it fit that God should cease fighting against us by the Sword, before we cease fighting against him by our sins? |
A31927 | I beseech you tell me, what sin have you left since these wars began? |
A31927 | I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickednesse, saying, What have I done? |
A31927 | If any man sin against the Law, he hath the Gospel to fly unto; but if he sin against the Gospel, what shall he then fly unto? |
A31927 | Is there any man that doth not repent? |
A31927 | Is this a time to seek your own ends? |
A31927 | It is a question with some( though with me it is no question) Whether a wicked man can be a good Parliament man? |
A31927 | It is an easie matter to finde a sinner, but where shall we finde a penitent sinner even in these daies? |
A31927 | Now do you think God will regard your prayers this day, if you do not repent this day? |
A31927 | Oh Parliament of England? |
A31927 | Say not, To morrow I will go to such a city,& c. for what is your life, is it not even a vapour? |
A31927 | Some will say, What is that Repentance which is the unum necessarium for England, and which is The great Commandment of God for England? |
A31927 | This you command us; Now I beseech you tell me, Do you do so your selves? |
A31927 | We are as farre from the end, as we were in the beginning: and what is the reason? |
A31927 | We cry out, How long, Lord? |
A31927 | We must forsake sinne not for worldly respects, or self- ends, but we must say with Ioseph, How can I commit this thing and sinne against my God? |
A31927 | What sinne have you left since you took your Covenant, and swore to reform your lives? |
A31927 | When wilt thou have mercy upon England? |
A31927 | When wilt thou sheath up the Sword? |
A31927 | Why should ye be stricken any more? |
A31927 | Will you secure us, that God will heal the Nation if it repents? |
A31927 | Would you have the plaister taken away before the wound be cured? |
A31927 | and that tell us, that humiliation is but a back- door to heaven, and a back- door to Christ? |
A31927 | as vild in your courses as ever? |
A31927 | how long will it be before you be washed from your Uncleannesses? |
A31927 | how long? |
A31927 | when will it once be? |
A31927 | when will you repent of all those sinnes you command the Kingdom to repent of? |
A31927 | when will you turn to me? |
A31927 | when will you turn unto me with all your heart? |
A31927 | where is your mourning? |
A31927 | ye will revolt more and more& c, That is, Why should I be so mercifull unto you, as to punish you? |
A31927 | — Or those eighteen upon whom the Tower of Siloe fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Ierusalem? |
A89580 | ( I am now pleading Gods cause, and though a poore unworthy man, I stand betwixt God and a Kingdome) I aske again, are we an holy people? |
A89580 | 4. Who art thou, O great Mountaine? |
A89580 | And is it not a shame, that the Lords friends should bee more backward in his cause than the vassalls of Satan are in their Masters? |
A89580 | And then, if we should take in the third branch of ingaging ourselves in Gods cause, how little zeale is there for God? |
A89580 | And what is the Glory of that City? |
A89580 | Are not five Sparrowes sold for a Farthing, saith our Saviour? |
A89580 | Are not you more worth than all the Sparrowes in the World? |
A89580 | Are our Princes, our Rulers, our Magistrates, our Ministers, and the body of the people holy? |
A89580 | Are you come to Fast, and Pray before the Lord? |
A89580 | As if he had said, would you have an abridgement of all the excellencies of this City and Temple? |
A89580 | But to come nearer yet, and bring it home into your owne bosomes; what if you your selves bee guilty of these things? |
A89580 | Do you not know that God is more easily provoked by a people among whom hee walkes, than by any other people whatsoever? |
A89580 | Doe we walke thus? |
A89580 | Doe you call this an acceptable Day? |
A89580 | Doe you come to stand betwixt God, and the Nation, when you wallow in such wayes as GODS soule abhorres? |
A89580 | Doe you not know that the Church of Christ is his Spouse? |
A89580 | Doe you such things as are rebellion against God, and pull downe his vengeance on us? |
A89580 | Doe you thinke the LORD will accept of any service at your hands? |
A89580 | Doth not hee then deserve to bee owned? |
A89580 | First, are we an holy people? |
A89580 | How is that? |
A89580 | Iehovah is every where; Whither shall I goe from thy presence? |
A89580 | Is any Country esteemed a part of a Princes Dominion, that is not ruled by his Lawes? |
A89580 | Is it not in that thou goest with us? |
A89580 | Is there not a lie in my right hand? |
A89580 | Moses speakes of the Israelites after this manner: What Nation( in all the world) is so great as thou art? |
A89580 | Nay, is there any thing this day so hated, as holinesse? |
A89580 | Or was it, that by hanging the head as a Bulrush for a day, you might expiate your sinnes with God, and take a new Ticket to sinne againe? |
A89580 | VVhat is happinesse but the fruition of the greatest good? |
A89580 | What Nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things,& c? |
A89580 | What if you your selves have a chiefe hand in these transgressions? |
A89580 | What is glory, but the shining out of excellency? |
A89580 | What is that? |
A89580 | What is the matter? |
A89580 | What little care hath the State in general taken to provide that Christ might ride in Triumph upon his white horse? |
A89580 | What need I say any more? |
A89580 | What presence then is here intended? |
A89580 | What was Iudahs faithfulnes? |
A89580 | What was the glory of Hierusalem then? |
A89580 | What was the reason? |
A89580 | Who can looke upon poore Germany, and not even bee compelled to weepe over the Booke of the Lamentations againe? |
A89580 | Wilt thou not possesse that which Chemosh thy god gives thee to possesse? |
A89580 | Would not this move any man to bee on Gods side? |
A89580 | You have taken away my God, and what have I more? |
A89580 | You will say, Who is he? |
A89580 | and where is he that dares presume in his heart to doe so? |
A89580 | are you not in Gods Worke? |
A89580 | because it is now a received thing in England, in the beginning of a Parliament to keepe a Fast? |
A89580 | have we not gotten termes to scoffe down all goodnesse? |
A89580 | is not almost every man who will not sweare and be drunke, and be deboyst as a Turke, or worse, cryed downe with the odious name of a Puritan? |
A89580 | that the Word of God might spread into every corner of the Land? |
A89580 | was it to keepe a day for Formality? |
A89580 | who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? |
A89580 | yea would not every true hearted subject in the Kingdome say thus also? |
A50772 | 10. Who then shall say, Wherefore hast thou done so? |
A50772 | 24, 25. Who gave Iacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? |
A50772 | And hath not our State done this too as far as in them lies? |
A50772 | And was not this strange? |
A50772 | Are Nationall robberies such light matters, that Nationall Mercuries may have leave to jeast upon them? |
A50772 | But how may this be done? |
A50772 | But is it not a heavy case to rob our God? |
A50772 | But the while what shall we say next? |
A50772 | But who can find in his heart, upon his knees, to ask his life& liberty at the hands of a mercilesse plunderer? |
A50772 | Can other Nations ring of this, and ours not know it? |
A50772 | Did not the Lord, he, against whom we have sinned? |
A50772 | Have yee robbed us of our God, and King, and doe yee ask what ailes us? |
A50772 | Have you any Charter to secure you, and yours from the common calamities? |
A50772 | How shall I pardon thee for this? |
A50772 | If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven dayes? |
A50772 | If they would know why? |
A50772 | Iustice exalts a nation, but( mark the antithesis, for it comes up close to the point in hand) sin is a shame; What sin doth he mean? |
A50772 | Lose him, lose all; In this case who can justly upbraid our passions? |
A50772 | Or if any should be so far a Laodicean, as in this nakedn ● sse and misery to think so, who( that hath his senses) could beleeve his report? |
A50772 | Quid miramur si paria perpetimur qu ● paria perpetramus? |
A50772 | Say ye so? |
A50772 | Shall I praise them that doe this, or those amongst us that like and suffer this? |
A50772 | Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is now the Lord thy God? |
A50772 | They did so, but how? |
A50772 | What a strange question( you wil say) is this to be put to knowing men? |
A50772 | What if not? |
A50772 | What if we do? |
A50772 | Wherefore hath the Lord done thus, to this great City? |
A50772 | Who began first? |
A50772 | Who can say, Blessed are the people that are in such a case? |
A50772 | Why, what had he done? |
A50772 | and to ensure you, that neither you, nor yours have any sins to be prayed out of the sealed Ephah? |
A50772 | are the heads of our tribes such strangers in Israel, as not to hear and know that which makes the ears and hearts of our State to glow and tingle? |
A50772 | as if they meant to rid us of him with a word and a blow, Down with them — even to the ground, and then the word was, Where is now your God? |
A50772 | but what if God will not have it so? |
A50772 | do not they know what multitudes of men and sums of money have been lavisht and lost amongst robbers and spoilers? |
A50772 | have not they took full information of our common calamities? |
A50772 | have yee robbed us of our bread, and then scoffe at our fasting? |
A50772 | he doth not baffle them in their blindness, give the blow and start aside, but if they ask who smote them? |
A50772 | mock our humiliations? |
A50772 | nor any hand in raising this storme? |
A50772 | or if he do, who can be sure to speed, that knows he shall lose his suit& breath together? |
A50772 | or is it not done? |
A50772 | shall not the Iudge of all the world doe right? |
A50772 | since God and their consciences give them no quarter how can we expect that from them, which they have not received? |
A50772 | to be rob''d, and spoil''d, and not to know it? |
A50772 | what deadly fewds are dayly increased betwixt family and family, as if linage and language were to be confounded at once? |
A50772 | what hopefull plants of our Gentry, and Nobility too, have been either cankred or cropt off in the bud? |
A50772 | what if we can not do this? |
A50772 | where the Lord takes him up with indignation, Shall the Axe boast it selfe, or the rod shake it selfe against him that lifts it up? |
A50772 | will the King of Kings leave such a precedent upon record to his vicegerents to plunder their own subjects? |
A50772 | — I blush and am ashamed to lift up mine eyes to thee, O my God, — Why? |
A78979 | & c. So say I: Is this a time to trouble England with New Opinions? |
A78979 | 12. how quickly would these wars( through Gods blessing) be at end? |
A78979 | And are not we at this time in great extremity? |
A78979 | And is not this the practise of our times? |
A78979 | And shall not we agree together to save three Kingdomes? |
A78979 | And shall we not weep bitterly before the Lord this day for these sinnes? |
A78979 | And though these Lawes were afterwards repealed ▪ yet how often have we Apostatized from God since that time? |
A78979 | And what shal we say to the desolate and bleeding condition of England, and Ireland, at this present? |
A78979 | And who would not willingly sacrifice up his life to the fire to see King and Parliament throughly agreed? |
A78979 | And why are Christians divided if Christ were not divided? |
A78979 | Are we not brought very low by our sinnes, and by our divisions the fruit of our sinnes? |
A78979 | But who now shall roll away this great stone from the doore of the Sepulchre? |
A78979 | Can Christian eares endure such language? |
A78979 | Doe not men boast of their adulteries, and yet escape unpunished? |
A78979 | For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seene, how can he love God whom he hath not seene? |
A78979 | For who will venture into a ship that is tossed with contrary waves, and ready to sinke? |
A78979 | Hast thou faith? |
A78979 | He that did his neighbour the wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a Ruler and a Judge over us? |
A78979 | Heaven it selfe, it is nothing but tranquillitas pacis; what is God, but the God of peace? |
A78979 | If Divisions be so destructive to Kingdomes, Cities, and Families? |
A78979 | If London were as a City at unity within it selfe, what could destroy it? |
A78979 | If Satan be divided against Satan( saith Christ) how can his Kngdome stand? |
A78979 | If one God, and one Lord, and one body,& c. Shall not his children be one? |
A78979 | Is Christ divided? |
A78979 | Is if not a sad thing to see the Members rent and torne one from the other? |
A78979 | Is not the Kingdome the Magistrates House and Family? |
A78979 | Is this a time to receive money? |
A78979 | Let God himselfe take care to vindicate himselfe from injuries committed against God? |
A78979 | Shall Christian Magistrates take up the Maxime of Tiberius, Deorum iniurias Diis curae esse? |
A78979 | Shall Iudas conspire with the Pharisees and Sadduces to betray Christ? |
A78979 | Shall Paul and Barnabas divide one from another? |
A78979 | Shall the Cheap- side Crosse be taken down( wherein you have done well;) and shall your Cheapside iniquities, your Cheapside adulteries yet remaine? |
A78979 | Shall the Lions, Bearee, Tygers, Wolves, Lambes and Sheepe,& c. that were shut up in the Arke, agree together while they were in the Arke? |
A78979 | Shall we agree well in heaven, and shall we not agree together upon earth? |
A78979 | So say I; Is England a perishing, and is this a time to trouble it with unnecessary disputations? |
A78979 | Tell me I beseech you, Shall it be lawfull for Magistrates to punish those that destroy mens bodies, but not those that destroy mens soules? |
A78979 | That in the New Testament Kings shall be our nursing Fathers, and Queenes our nursing Mothers? |
A78979 | The common people were astonished and said; Is this the sonne of David? |
A78979 | To see a Holy, Safe, and well- grounded Peace made? |
A78979 | Was his garment kept whole, and shall his body be rent and torne in pieces? |
A78979 | Was not a bone of Christ broken upon the Crosse, and shall all his members breake in pieces now he is in heaven? |
A78979 | We live in the sadest dayes that ever England saw, and yet what aboundance of pride is there in apparell? |
A78979 | What coldnesse and formality in Gods worship? |
A78979 | What deadnesse of heart? |
A78979 | What is that, that keeps the fabrick of Heaven from dissolving into pieces, but the Vnitie and the agreement of the discordant Elements? |
A78979 | What keeps the body of a man in health, but the just proportion and harmonie of every part? |
A78979 | What keeps this great fabrick here from falling, but the Vnion and conjunction of the parts of it? |
A78979 | What unthankfulnesse? |
A78979 | and shall the Disciples of Christ fall out amongst themselves? |
A78979 | and what is Christ, but the Prince of Peace? |
A78979 | that, that Head, that should be like a head of gold, is now, through ill counsell, made a head of iron, to crush its own body in pieces? |
A78979 | what lustfull fashions, even in these bloody dayes? |
A78979 | what securitie in sinne, even whilest the Ship of the Kingdome is sinking? |
A88149 | 4. and the like: Who can do them, but he that conferres and is in acquaintance with his ownheart? |
A88149 | Ah sad Climax, deceitfull, and deceitfull above all things, wicked, and desperately wicked, and so bad of both, that who can know it? |
A88149 | Am not I the King? |
A88149 | And is not the same case yours too? |
A88149 | And must not this want of intelligence needs spoyle the offices that a man oweth to it? |
A88149 | But the first question that I would desire every one that heareth me this day, to propose to his owne heart is but this; Heart how dost thou? |
A88149 | But what hath beene done? |
A88149 | Give them, O Lord, what wilt thou give? |
A88149 | Have you not been strangers? |
A88149 | How could wee answer, or hold up our faces before the Lord: But how must Iniquity lay her hand upon her mouth, and not bee able to speak a word? |
A88149 | How is it possible we should rightly do these things, if we have not acquaintance with our owne heart? |
A88149 | I would you would as constantly practise it with your own hearts, Heart how dost thou doe? |
A88149 | Is not the distribution of our time and converse much after the same proportion? |
A88149 | Is there yet any of the kindred of Jonathan, that hath shewed us kindnesse, that we may shew them the kindnesse of the Lord againe? |
A88149 | Might I not say, as the Jewes once to Christ, You deserve to doe for her? |
A88149 | Must not these be answers of him that holds not intelligence with his owne heart? |
A88149 | Or where there should have been fifty vessells full of this duty, can you find twenty? |
A88149 | Secondly, propose this question to every one of your hearts; heart what wilt thou do? |
A88149 | Should Christ spread our Covenant before us, upon the same accusing termes as hee spread his before Christ, what could wee answer? |
A88149 | The heart is deceitfull above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? |
A88149 | Thinkest thou, thou canst receive the Sacrament aright without the exercise of this duty? |
A88149 | This wakes the King, and makes him to start up: Appeale? |
A88149 | Was it ever seen, or could it ever be related, that any City under heaven ever did, as London hath done in love and kindnesse to your Cause and you? |
A88149 | Was there ever more palpable walking contrarie to God, or more desperate crossing of a Covenant? |
A88149 | What one among you can looke into his owne heart, but he must needs find London written there? |
A88149 | When Reformation was first spoken of, wee had Order and Ordinances, but now how is the one lost and the other slighted? |
A88149 | Who is sufficient for any of these things? |
A88149 | You know this is the first question, and the first- salute that we use one to another, Sir how do you? |
A88149 | and yet how common is this amongst men? |
A88149 | have you not been unacquainted? |
A88149 | have you not forgotten them? |
A88149 | how are these reall sons of Zion now brought low, despised, oppressed, and trod under foot in many places of the Land? |
A88149 | how doe things goe? |
A88149 | how is it with thee for thy spirituall estate? |
A88149 | how much of your time have you spent in communication with them? |
A88149 | or goe to the heap of your whole life, and where there should have been twenty measures imployed about this businesse, can you finde ten? |
A88149 | or, Heart what dost think wil become of thee and me? |
A88149 | sayes hee, To whom canst thou Appeale beyond mee? |
A88149 | wash my heart? |
A88149 | what difference is there betwixt serving a strange God, and serving the true God with a strange heart? |
A88149 | when had you and they any talke together? |
A88149 | why, I never asked it, not ever tooke notice how soyled and poluted it was: Watch it? |
A86356 | 2 Where must wee inquire, or from whom? |
A86356 | 27. being in the dark, stumbling at you know not what? |
A86356 | 3 To what purpose must we inquire? |
A86356 | 5. where doth Christ speake to us but in his word, and by his spirit? |
A86356 | Amongst all by- wayes, how shall we discerne which is the good way? |
A86356 | Aske then, First, what is the good old way of Doctrine, what is the old patterne of wholsome words? |
A86356 | But how farre may we in enquiring after the good way consult with antiquity, and observe the old paths wherein the Ancient Fathers have troden? |
A86356 | But the Question is now, how this should bee brought about? |
A86356 | Consider that of Wisdome, and tremble; what if calamity come on you? |
A86356 | Doe you find this held forth in Scripture, that your conscience is an adequate and sufficient Rule for your actions? |
A86356 | Doth the Lord call upon you to bee carefully inquisitive in the concernments of your soules? |
A86356 | First, who must inquire? |
A86356 | God will laugh when your calamity commeth, and mocke when your destruction, and desolation, and feare shall seise on you; Why? |
A86356 | Have any of the Rulers, or of the Ph ● ● ● sees beleeved on him? |
A86356 | Here you may desire resolution in three particulars: 1 Who must inquire? |
A86356 | How carefull was Ezra to seeke of God a right way, when he was going from Babylon to Jerusalem? |
A86356 | How otherwise should Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, have knowne how to carry themselves, when the King commanded them to bow to his golden Image? |
A86356 | How shall I pardon for this? |
A86356 | If you were to deale with a Papist, and should aske him, Why doe you pray to Images? |
A86356 | If you were to let out a little money to use, you will bee sure to have a Bond made by good advice, you will have witnesses; why? |
A86356 | Indeed if you were to ask the Papist, who it is that must consider and try and examine things? |
A86356 | Is Christ divided? |
A86356 | Is it there prescribed or no? |
A86356 | Is there but one good way to soul- refreshing rest, must all travellers towards Sion come into the very same way? |
A86356 | It is vaine to serve God; and what profit have wee that wee have kept his Ordin ● n ● ● s? |
A86356 | It were easie to shew the naevi, the blemishes of others, but why should wee uncover our Fathers nakednesse? |
A86356 | Love the brotherhood, the corporation, the societie of Saints; And what? |
A86356 | Many please themselves, if they walke in such wayes as lead to their own profit, and to their owne worldly pleasures, O but what will bee the issue? |
A86356 | May any compulsion bee used by Magistrates, to draw people into the one good way? |
A86356 | Secondly, Where should wee inquire, from whom? |
A86356 | Such Divinity will helpe to patronize and protect Papists, Jewes, Turkes, and whom not? |
A86356 | The Lord said, Who shall perswade Ahab, that hee may goe up and fall at Ramoth Gilead? |
A86356 | The Lord saith unto him, Wherewith? |
A86356 | The heart is deceitfull above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? |
A86356 | Thirdly, To what purpose must wee inquire? |
A86356 | Though unity joyned with purity bee very desirable, yet what if there should bee a toleration of divers ways in a Church, in a Kingdom? |
A86356 | To what purpose commeth there to mee Incense from Sheba, and the sweet Cane from a farre Countrey? |
A86356 | What if God should cause his fury to rest upon us? |
A86356 | What then shall wee doe with all those in England, who are ingaged in different waies, both in regard of their opinions and practises? |
A86356 | What ● is this true doctrine, that the good old way, is that which leads to the rest of my Soule? |
A86356 | Who giveth rest from these terrours of conscience? |
A86356 | Who would have expected such an answer as this, to have been the ec ● ho to such soule- refreshing counsell? |
A86356 | Whom shall wee rather beleeve concerning God, than God himselfe? |
A86356 | how uncomely then are such divisions amongst you? |
A86356 | must you have no love to them that are not yet Saints? |
A86356 | or were yee baptized in the name of Paul? |
A86356 | pray for them; what if they can not afford you a good word? |
A86356 | sometimes they are so miserably puzzled, they dare not pray, they dare not come to the Lords Table: Where shall they now find Rest? |
A86356 | was Paul crucified for you? |
A86356 | were this a satisfying answer, I am perswaded in my conscience it is lawfull to goe to Masse, and therefore I may doe it? |
A86356 | who shall helpe you? |
A86356 | why doe you goe to Masse? |
A86356 | why not? |
A79477 | & Scotland our selfe? |
A79477 | ( say some) were not our Fathers wise and honest men? |
A79477 | 4. Who is like unto the Beast, who is able to make warre with him? |
A79477 | And happy art thou, O England; who is like unto thee, O people, saved by Iehovah, the shield of thy Help, and the sword of thy Excellency? |
A79477 | And should we not be thankfull for England? |
A79477 | And will not God plead the cause of his Evangelicall Sion? |
A79477 | But may not a Masse- Priest offer some other sacrifice for sinnes? |
A79477 | But what needs a Reformation? |
A79477 | But who is the witnesse of this truth? |
A79477 | But who must offer the body of Christ? |
A79477 | By the which will we are sanctified through the offering: of what? |
A79477 | Credo in unū Deu? |
A79477 | Deliver thy selfe O Zion: Is not Ireland our selfe? |
A79477 | Do you think there are no States- men, who love the Mount of Moriah, better then Mount Sion? |
A79477 | Dost thou not beleeve a Resurrection? |
A79477 | From whence come wars, but from the lusts of pride, envy, malice, ambition, covetousnesse? |
A79477 | Have the Reformers no need of Reformation? |
A79477 | Honourable, and Beloved, are there no sinnes amongst you? |
A79477 | If our fasting may keepe the most considerable part of that kingdome from starving, are we not bound to Fast? |
A79477 | Is there not a Babylon in the North, and another in the West? |
A79477 | Quid enim culpatur in bello? |
A79477 | Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? |
A79477 | Should we not be thankfull for Ireland? |
A79477 | Tell me, is not selfe- love an Idoll? |
A79477 | Then, When? |
A79477 | To what end should we waste time about a discourse of Hull, and the Militia? |
A79477 | Vbi est illa dudum super omma regna exaltata in ● lyta Roma, Babylon secunde? |
A79477 | What have you done to day? |
A79477 | What think you now? |
A79477 | What? |
A79477 | Who is like unto thee, O Iehovah, amongst the mighty ones, who is like unto thee? |
A79477 | Who is like unto thee, O Ireland? |
A79477 | Why should any that are not yet Saints be admitted to one of the highest priviledges of Saints, Church communion in the highest? |
A79477 | Will ye live to him, and if he calls you to it, will you die for him? |
A79477 | Will you cut off your right hands, and pull out your right eyes? |
A79477 | Will you lay down your honours, your estates, your lives at the feet of Jesus Christ? |
A79477 | Will you take Christs yoak upon your necks, his burthen upon your shoulder? |
A79477 | You did not long since hear good news from the West, but were you thankfull? |
A79477 | You have sate here five or six hours, and missed a dinner; Is this the Fast that God hath chosen? |
A79477 | a Babylon almost in every City, towne and parish? |
A79477 | and Bohemia our selfe? |
A79477 | and the 4. verse; what times? |
A79477 | are not all the Reformed Churches our selfe? |
A79477 | are there no Babylonish Inmates protected there? |
A79477 | are there no unruly passions, no unmortified lusts, no self- ends, or sinister respects, such as beg your priviledge, and enjoy your favour? |
A79477 | because men of tender consciences can be no longer pursued in their Courts, must they be pursued even unto death, by force of Arms? |
A79477 | but stay: What''s their fault? |
A79477 | even amongst you? |
A79477 | glorious in Holinesse, fearfull in Prayses, and doing wonders? |
A79477 | had not a man better adventure up to the very mouth of a Cannon, then be tormented with the fire of He ● ●, or the wrath of God? |
A79477 | hath he not wrought miraculously, even without meanes, above meanes, and against meanes? |
A79477 | hath not God been the helper of the friendlesse? |
A79477 | hath not God done wonders enough for our Nation, to stirre up your hearts to enjoyn a solemn ● day of Thanksgiving quite thorowout the Kingdom? |
A79477 | have not they who comply with Antichrist, greater discouragements then they that oppose him? |
A79477 | is it not the great Whore? |
A79477 | is not lust a Beast, a Monster with many heads and horns? |
A79477 | is this all that he requires of you? |
A79477 | no, of the body of Iesus Christ: But how often must his body be offered? |
A79477 | of a wafer- cake? |
A79477 | such as can never be defended? |
A79477 | they lived happily here on earth, in peace and plenty, and they do now triumph gloriously in heaven, what can be desired more? |
A79477 | turn your eyes inward, tell me sadly, what do you discover there? |
A79477 | what dayes? |
A79477 | what need we be more wise, or pure then they were? |
A79477 | why doe we not fast, three or foure times every weeke, that we may send some provision to the poore Protestants in Ireland? |
A79477 | why then dost thou fear them that kill the body? |
A79477 | will he not dry up the Euphrates, the Sea of Rome, and all her springs? |
A27042 | 4. Who is it but your selves that hath brought you under Gods displeasure? |
A27042 | 5. Who wounded Conscience, and hath raised all your doubts and fears? |
A27042 | 6. Who is it but your selves that hath brought you so neer the gulf of misery? |
A27042 | And may I not freely tell you, that God should have the precedencie? |
A27042 | And must not Magistrates as well govern by their lives, as by their Laws? |
A27042 | And now I beseech you all consider; is it not better to Remember your sins on earth, then in hell? |
A27042 | Are death and Judgement matters of less moment? |
A27042 | Are those men likely to take care of the happiness of so many thousands, that will still be so careless of themselves? |
A27042 | Are your sins so small, so venial, so few, that you can find no employment on them for your memories? |
A27042 | Consider the loathsome nature of your sins, and how then can you choose but loath your selves? |
A27042 | Did not he make the Law that doth command it; professing that none shall see his face without it? |
A27042 | Do they loath themselves for all their sins, who loath those that will not do as they? |
A27042 | Do they loath themselves that are readier to justifie all their sins, or at least extenuate them, then humbly confess them? |
A27042 | Do you loath your selves for all this, as being vile in your own eyes, and each man say, What a wretch was I? |
A27042 | Enquire then, whether there be none among you that live a sensual careless life; cloathed with the best, and faring deliciously every day? |
A27042 | For your souls sake enquire now, Is it thus with you? |
A27042 | How carefully would you help the Labourers that are sent to guid men in the holy path? |
A27042 | How confident should I be, that I could convert the most, if this were the Conversion? |
A27042 | How little need should I have had to press it with all this importunity? |
A27042 | How much further think you is it possible, for wicked souls to go in sinning? |
A27042 | How severely would you deal with those, that by making a mock of Godliness, do hinder the salvation of the peoples souls? |
A27042 | If brutish objects be your employment and delight, do I need to tell you what you make your selves? |
A27042 | Is God and Heaven less worth then these? |
A27042 | Is it not the God of Heaven himself that they make a scorn of? |
A27042 | Is not Holiness his image? |
A27042 | Is there none among you that spend your precious time in vanities, that is allowed you to prepare for life eternal? |
A27042 | Is this your duty now, or is it not? |
A27042 | Lest when he plagueth and condemneth you he say, Why persecuted you me? |
A27042 | O that that this Honourable Assembly could know it in some measure, as it shall be shortly known? |
A27042 | O then what Laws would you make against sin? |
A27042 | Or can you expect to be obeyed by others, when you will not obey the God of Heaven and Earth your selves? |
A27042 | Or is the offending of the Eternal God, so slight and safe a thing, as not to need your consideration? |
A27042 | Or shall I think it were uncharitableness not to hope for it? |
A27042 | Or would you have the people to be better then your selves? |
A27042 | Shall I think it were presumption for me to hope for so high a reward for so short a labour? |
A27042 | Shall the thorns and bryers be set in battail against the consuming fire and prevail? |
A27042 | Surely God made not his Laws for nought; nor doth he make such a stir by his Word, and Messengers, and Providences against an harmless thing? |
A27042 | The question is not, whether Bishops or no? |
A27042 | The suffering to the sound in faith is as nothing: for what is the foaming rage of mad men to be regarded? |
A27042 | We have all seen the evils of Liberty to be wanton in Religion: Is it not worse to have Liberty, to deride Religion? |
A27042 | Will you make Laws which you would not have men obey? |
A27042 | You can easily loath an enemy; and who hath been a greater enemy to any of you, then your selves? |
A27042 | and What is it that God would have us do? |
A27042 | and What shall we wish we had done at last? |
A27042 | and endangered your eternall peace? |
A27042 | and how they will look back on all at last? |
A27042 | and to thrust his service into corners, and give him but the odious leavings of the flesh?] |
A27042 | and what judgement it is that they will all be of, in the controversie between the flesh and spirit, at the later end? |
A27042 | and what will be the fruit and end of all their lusts and vanities? |
A27042 | and whether an holy or a sensual life will be sweetest to a dying man? |
A27042 | and whether enow to use it? |
A27042 | before your Physitian, then before your Judge? |
A27042 | but whether Discipline or none? |
A27042 | for your cure, then for your torment? |
A27042 | or have you thus returned with self- loathing to the Lord, and firmly engaged your souls to him at your enterance into a holy life? |
A27042 | to forget thy God, thy soul, thy happiness? |
A27042 | to serve thy flesh? |
A27042 | was it not your sinfull selves? |
A27042 | what a monster of rebellion and ingratitude, to do all this against the Lord of love and mercy? |
A27042 | what an unreasonable self- hating wretch, to do all this against my self? |
A27042 | what have they left but a sting behind them? |
A27042 | why then was fasting, and sack cloth and ashes, the badg of such in ancient times? |
A30262 | A Covenant with God? |
A30262 | After all this, he and all the people entred into a solemne Covenant, and that at the time of a publique Fast? |
A30262 | And can men that are born, and living, live safely, or at all, without continuall supply of food convenient for them? |
A30262 | And have not we seen this verified also neerer home? |
A30262 | And how goe they? |
A30262 | And how so? |
A30262 | And in trueth, when will we thus joyne our selves to the Lord, if not at a Fast? |
A30262 | And shall he begin, and we think much to follow? |
A30262 | And this was part of Gods Answer to the Jewes enquiring of the Prophet whether they should continue their solemne Fasts? |
A30262 | And what is the substance of their Covenant? |
A30262 | And why all this? |
A30262 | And why so? |
A30262 | And, how have men rejoyced at their falls? |
A30262 | And, how so? |
A30262 | And, is it better now? |
A30262 | And, what is the businesse; the end of all this hast? |
A30262 | And, what of her? |
A30262 | And, what then? |
A30262 | But what should be the meanes of such an unexpected destruction? |
A30262 | But, that is the Covenant on Gods part, you will say? |
A30262 | But, when the snare was once broken, what followed? |
A30262 | Did they not know him before? |
A30262 | Did they omit prayer, and fasting, and seeking early after God? |
A30262 | Ephraim also shall say, What have I to do any more with Idols? |
A30262 | Hast thou been a swearer, and so thou wilt be? |
A30262 | Hath not God himselfe said plainly, a Where there is no vision the people perish? |
A30262 | Hath this use ever been so much as thought of by us? |
A30262 | Have not some, in former times, been taken away, who have been great Oppressors, and Instruments of many sore pressures? |
A30262 | Have we not had more Fasts at Parliaments of late, than in many yeares before? |
A30262 | Have we not prayed? |
A30262 | He that enters into Covenant with God, is betroathed, yea even married to him: And how married? |
A30262 | How could they hope to be delivered, when she that commanded the world detained them? |
A30262 | I have entred into Covenant with God, as a wife with her husband; will that I am now doing, or going about, stand with my Covenant? |
A30262 | If any think, what adoe is here? |
A30262 | Is Ephraim my deare sonne? |
A30262 | Is he Good in deliverances? |
A30262 | Is it meant of every unrighteousnesse( that is in the nature of it damnable) which is to be found in the world? |
A30262 | Is it not his own complaint, b My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge? |
A30262 | Is this to performe Covenant with God? |
A30262 | No? |
A30262 | Say then, what wilt thou now do? |
A30262 | Shall he be fast bound to them, and they left free to sit loose from him? |
A30262 | Shall the prey be taken from the Mightie, or the lawfull captive delivered? |
A30262 | They turne Covenanters? |
A30262 | Vnto the wicked saith God, what hast thou to do to take my Covenant into thy mouth, seeing thou castest my words behind thee? |
A30262 | What is a chiefe cause of all this? |
A30262 | What unrighteousnesse? |
A30262 | What use have we made of them? |
A30262 | What was it for which Iudah, and Israel became Captives, but the breach of the Covenant? |
A30262 | What was the issue? |
A30262 | What? |
A30262 | Where is the Covenant( such a Covenant) with God; that so wonderfull a deliverance deserveth, and requireth? |
A30262 | Where should you begin then, but where God ever begins? |
A30262 | Whether is our Condition any what better now than heretofore, when those Leviathans were alive, and in their height? |
A30262 | Who knowes not, that in the Masse is committed the most abominable Idolatry that ever the Sunne beheld in the Christian world? |
A30262 | Whose heart bleeds not over this prodigious growth of Popery and over flowing of Popish Masses? |
A30262 | Why shouldst thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that can not save? |
A30262 | Why then is Deliverance, and Reformation so slow in comming? |
A30262 | Why, what if I doe not? |
A30262 | Will you therefore see the thing acted, and all these promises fulfilled? |
A30262 | Would you have this to be done, namely, that all should appeare before God in Zion, for this purpose? |
A30262 | a drunkard, an uncleane person, an oppressour, a prophane Esau, and wilt be so still? |
A30262 | c How shall they heare without a Preacher? |
A30262 | have we not fasted? |
A30262 | have we tasted of his love already? |
A30262 | is he a pleasant child? |
A30262 | is it agreeable to Justice and equitie? |
A30262 | what meanes this man to be so earnest? |
A30262 | what will all this doe without a Covenant, without taking hold of God, and joyning themselves to him to be his for ever? |
A30262 | will it be profitable for the State? |
A30262 | will it please God? |
A30262 | wilt thou still keep thy darling lust? |
A30262 | would he have us all turne Covenanters? |
A30262 | — Quis talia fando, Temperet a lachrymis? |
A32016 | ( saith he) shall such a man as I feare?) |
A32016 | 10. Who hath despised the day of small things? |
A32016 | Am I such a one as this is? |
A32016 | And God demands of Ezekiel: Can these drie bones live? |
A32016 | And as the Apostles severally asked Christ, Master, is it I? |
A32016 | And this Mercy did so melt his heart, that he cryes out, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest looke upon such a dead Dog as I am? |
A32016 | And where should we goe for a broken heart, but to the heart- maker? |
A32016 | And yet notwithstanding are there not many of us that sinne in the midst of mercies? |
A32016 | Be astonished O ye Heavens at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye ve ● … y desolate, saith the Lord; Why? |
A32016 | But doth not God indent and Covenant with a Nation, upon its repentance, to shew mercy, how then is Gods mercy free? |
A32016 | But he was above all feare( shall such a man as I fly? |
A32016 | Hath he not made thee, and established thee? |
A32016 | Have I abused these mercies? |
A32016 | Have I sinned with these mercies? |
A32016 | How angry was Christ with Peter, because he would not suffer him to wash his feete? |
A32016 | How many mountaines of opposition have melted before you, as mountaines of snow before the Sun? |
A32016 | How often hath God appeared in the mount these two last yeares, as if he had resolved to take up his dwelling there? |
A32016 | I have done many great workes among you, for which of these doe you stone me? |
A32016 | If Gods mercies be so rare here in the valley of teares, what are they in the mountaine of joy? |
A32016 | If thou art converted, blesse God for free grace: For who made thee to differ from another? |
A32016 | Is not he the God that hath multiplyed mercies upon us? |
A32016 | Is not he thy father that bought thee? |
A32016 | May I not say to you as Moses to the Israelites; Doe ye thus requite the Lord, O ye foolish people and unwise? |
A32016 | May not Christ say to you as he did to the Jewes? |
A32016 | May not a man that hath two debtors equally indebted to him, spare the one and not the other, as he pleaseth? |
A32016 | May we not give praise and thankes to the Parliament that hath taken such indefatigable paines for our good? |
A32016 | Neither say they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Aegypt? |
A32016 | None so patient and mercifull as God, but yet when he begins to strike, and his anger is kindled, how unexpressible is his fury? |
A32016 | Now as the Wiseman saith, Who knowes what a day may bring forth? |
A32016 | Say as Nabal did( but in a better sense) shal I take my health which God hath given me, to sin against my God with it? |
A32016 | Shall I take the wit that God hath given me, to plot against God and his cause with it? |
A32016 | So m ● … t we aske our hearts, Am not I the man that ought to be ashamed, and ● … nfoundid for my sins against mercies? |
A32016 | So must we say, Num ego talis? |
A32016 | That are like the Horse and Mule that have no understanding? |
A32016 | This sin is so great, that the Apostle cries out, Shall I take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an Harlot? |
A32016 | Thou, for whom I have done so much: Wherefore hast thou despised the Commandement of the Lord? |
A32016 | What a mercy is it to be out of hell? |
A32016 | What excuse shall we bring? |
A32016 | What shall we say after this, O our God? |
A32016 | What shall we say? |
A32016 | What shift shall we plead? |
A32016 | What so blunt as iron? |
A32016 | What so calme as the Sea? |
A32016 | What would Germany give, if they had these mercies? |
A32016 | What would Ireland doe for God, if they had these mercies? |
A32016 | When David was used unkindly by Nabal, upon whom he had bestowed many courtesies, how did this unkindnesse provoke David to anger? |
A32016 | Wherefore hast thou despised the Commandement of the Lord to doe evill in his sight? |
A32016 | Who art thou, O great mountaine, before Zerubbabel? |
A32016 | Who can tell if God will turne, and repent,& c.? |
A32016 | Who knowes but that God may reare us up a glorious Church? |
A32016 | Who knows what a mercy such a day as this may bring forth? |
A32016 | Who knows what a rare successe this day may have throughout all England? |
A32016 | and Moses himselfe spake unadvisedly with his lips, when he said, Shall we bring water out of this Rocke,& c? |
A32016 | and if thou didst receive it; why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? |
A32016 | and is this the manner of man O Lord God? |
A32016 | and what hast thou which thou hast n ● … t received? |
A32016 | but when it is sh ● … rpned, what more sharpe? |
A32016 | but yet when a storme comes, what so tempestuous? |
A32016 | can God make a way through the hoasts of the Phi ● … istines? |
A32016 | that remaine irreformable in a yeare of Reformation, that not onely hate to be reformed, but hate the very Reformation it selfe? |
A32016 | that sinne under mercies, even under mercies? |
A32016 | what is the matter? |
A32016 | will they fortifie themselves? |
A32016 | will they make an end in a day? |
A32016 | will they revive the stones, out of the heapes of the rubbish which are bu ● … nt? |
A32016 | wouldst thou not be angry with us, till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping? |
A77856 | A Covenant with God? |
A77856 | After all this, he and all the people 〈 … 〉 a solemne Covenant, and that at the time of a publique Fast? |
A77856 | And can men that are born, and living, live safely, or at all, without continuall supply of food convenient for them? |
A77856 | And have not we seen this verified also neerer home? |
A77856 | And how goe they? |
A77856 | And how so? |
A77856 | And in trueth, when will we thus joyne our selves to the Lord, if not at a Fast? |
A77856 | And shall he begin, and we think much to follow? |
A77856 | And this was part of Gods Answer to the Jewes enquiring of the Prophet whether they should continue their solemne Fasts? |
A77856 | And what is the substance of their Covenant? |
A77856 | And why all this? |
A77856 | And why so? |
A77856 | And, how have men rejoyced at their falls? |
A77856 | And, how so? |
A77856 | And, is it better now? |
A77856 | And, what is the businesse; the end of all this hast? |
A77856 | And, what of her? |
A77856 | And, what then? |
A77856 | But what should be the meanes of such an unexpected destruction? |
A77856 | But, that is the Covenant on Gods part, you will say? |
A77856 | Did they not know him before? |
A77856 | Did they omit prayer, and fasting, and seeking early after God? |
A77856 | Ephraim also shall say, What have I to do any more with Idols? |
A77856 | Hast thou been a swearer, and so thou wilt be? |
A77856 | Hath not God himselfe said plainly, a Where there is no vision the people perish? |
A77856 | Hath this use ever been so much as thought of by us? |
A77856 | Have not some, in former times, been taken away, who have been great Oppressors, and Instruments of many sore pressures? |
A77856 | Have we not had more Fasts at Parliaments of late, than in many yeares before? |
A77856 | Have we not prayed? |
A77856 | He that enters into Covenant with God, is betroathed, yea even married to him: And how married? |
A77856 | How could they hope to be delivered, when she that commanded the world detained them? |
A77856 | I have entred into Covenant with God, as a wife with her husband; will that I am now doing, or going about, stand with my Covenant? |
A77856 | If any think, what adoe is here? |
A77856 | Is Ephraim my deare sonne? |
A77856 | Is he Good in deliverances? |
A77856 | Is it meant of every unrighteousnesse( that is in the nature of it damnable) which is to be found in the world? |
A77856 | Is it not his own complaint, b My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge? |
A77856 | Is this to performe Covenant with God? |
A77856 | No? |
A77856 | Oh what prayers, what fasting, what humiliation should we have seene ▪ But, when the snare was once broken, what followed? |
A77856 | Say then, what wilt thou now do? |
A77856 | Shall he be fast bound to them, and they left free to sit loose from him? |
A77856 | Shall the prey be taken from the Mightie, or the lawfull captive delivered? |
A77856 | They turne Covenanters? |
A77856 | Vnto the wicked saith God, what hast thou to do to take my Covenant into thy mouth, seeing thou castest my words behind thee? |
A77856 | What is a chiefe cause of all this? |
A77856 | What unrighteousnesse? |
A77856 | What use have we made of them? |
A77856 | What was it for which Iudah, and Israel became Captives,, but the breach of the Covenant? |
A77856 | What was the issue? |
A77856 | What? |
A77856 | Where is the Covenant( such a Covenant) with God, that so wonderfull a deliverance deserveth, and requireth? |
A77856 | Where should you begin then, but where God ever begins? |
A77856 | Whether is our Condition any what better now than heretofore, when those Leviathans were alive, and in their height? |
A77856 | Who knowes not, that in the Masse is committed the most abominable Idolatry that ever the Sunne beheld in the Christian world? |
A77856 | Whose heart bleeds not over this prodigious growth of Popery and over flowing of Popish Masses? |
A77856 | Why then is Deliverance, and Reformation so slow in comming? |
A77856 | Why, what if I doe not? |
A77856 | Will you therefore see the thing acted, and all these promises fulfilled? |
A77856 | Would you have this to be done, namely, that all should appeare before God in Zion, for this purpose? |
A77856 | a drunkard, an uncleane person, an oppressour, a prophane Esau, and wilt be so still? |
A77856 | c How shall they heare without a Preacher? |
A77856 | have we not fasted? |
A77856 | have we tasted of his love already? |
A77856 | is he a pleasant child? |
A77856 | is it agreeable to Justice and equitie? |
A77856 | what meanes this man to be so earnest? |
A77856 | what will all this doe without a Covenant, without taking hold of God, and joyning themselves to him to be his for ever? |
A77856 | will it be profitable for the State? |
A77856 | will it please God? |
A77856 | wilt thou still keep thy darling lust? |
A77856 | would he have us all turne Covenanters? |
A77856 | — Quis 〈 ◊ 〉 fande, Temperet a lachrym ● ●? |
A91855 | & shall not we tremble when he is angry? |
A91855 | & unde illum placabimus? |
A91855 | 1. g Holocaustis non delectaberis] Nihil ergo offeremus? |
A91855 | 105. x Sed quomodo punit deus induratione? |
A91855 | 11. how are these judgements concatenated together, and pursue one another as Jobs messengers, and the billowes of the Sea? |
A91855 | 13. where shall we have healing? |
A91855 | 14. yea how was the self- debasing penitentiary commended and comforted by Christ? |
A91855 | 18, 19. ther''s much of Christ in the broken heart: how then can a broken heart chuse but be endeared to Christ? |
A91855 | 19. and against the honour of Religion, scandalizing Gods people, and giving great occasion to the enemies of God to blaspeame? |
A91855 | 22. and shall not mans own spirit groan, and his own heart break under the pressure of his own iniquities? |
A91855 | 3. y Quid est cordurum? |
A91855 | 4. yet when all''s done, we are but unprofitable Servants, what have we done more then duty? |
A91855 | Against thee that hast made me, maintained me, loved me, delivered me, crowned me, redeemed me,& c. oh against thee, thee only; what? |
A91855 | And how was the selfe- debasing Publican justified before the Pharisy? |
A91855 | And shall England think to commit the same sins, and yet escape the judgements of God? |
A91855 | And till the sinner do return even unto God, how can he be said compleatly and truely to repent? |
A91855 | Are our hearts iron? |
A91855 | But how may we discover whether our hearts and spirits be truly broken and contrite? |
A91855 | But how shall we get and keep broken Spirits? |
A91855 | Can we redresse these distempers? |
A91855 | Consider, is all sin bitter, thine owne sin most bitter: dost thou cast first stone at thy selfe? |
A91855 | Did Felix tremble slavishly? |
A91855 | Finally, over and beyond all this, God plagues hardnesse of heart with dreadfull judgments, who ever hardened himselfe against God, and prospered? |
A91855 | Finally, what eternall vengeance do hard hearts here treasure up unto themselves against the day of wrath? |
A91855 | For till the Conscience be convinced of sin, how shall the heart be contrite for sin? |
A91855 | For, which of all those Abominations fore- mentioned is not England deeply guilty of? |
A91855 | God dwell there? |
A91855 | God will not dwell with the proud, hard, impenitent, unbelieving heart, yet will dwell with the contrite and humble spirit: What? |
A91855 | Hast thou such a flexible dutifull spirit? |
A91855 | He dwels in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit; but to what end? |
A91855 | How did the people tremble at the great raine? |
A91855 | How did the repenting people of God in Ezra''s daies, Tremble because of the great Raine? |
A91855 | How terrible was that vengeance of God upon Nebuchadnezar hardned in his pride? |
A91855 | If you be holy, what do you to him? |
A91855 | In what sense is such a broken spirit here stiled The S ● crifices of God? |
A91855 | In what words shall I a little represent the sins of England, and the sins of your own soules unto you for the actuall mollifying of your hearts? |
A91855 | Is a truly broken spirit, such gratefull Sacrifices of God? |
A91855 | Is this thy kindnesse to thy God? |
A91855 | Oh, how is Truth, Peace, Union among Brethren, health and our many comforts broken? |
A91855 | Reflect now upon thy self ô Christian, where is thy Spirit of Supplication? |
A91855 | Sic veniemus ad deum? |
A91855 | The Psalm may be justly stiled Davids Recantation: How doth he bleed and melt for his bloody sins? |
A91855 | Then the betrayers and murderers of Christ can say, men and brethren what shall we do? |
A91855 | There is an hard Question in Divinity, whether Faith be not part of Repentance? |
A91855 | These are Gods Sacrifices, these God will not despise, and then ▪ who shall despise them? |
A91855 | They shall look upon me whom they have pierced: ther''e''s faith, for with what other eye can they behold Christ crucifyed? |
A91855 | They that despise, scorne, oppose, blaspheme the word of God, how farre are they from true penitentiall Contrition? |
A91855 | Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my Throne, and the earth is my foot- stoole, where is the house that ye build unto mee? |
A91855 | Till the bea rt truely turn away from sin, how should it acceptably convert or return to God? |
A91855 | What Spirituall wrath doth God poure out upon hard hearts? |
A91855 | What Temporall vengeance inflicts hee for hardnesse of heart? |
A91855 | What is here meant by the word Spirit? |
A91855 | What is intended by a broken spirit? |
A91855 | Where is the place of my rest? |
A91855 | Where now is thine humility and spirituall poverty? |
A91855 | Where those mighty unutterable groanes and desires? |
A91855 | Whither are wee falling? |
A91855 | against Bathsheba''s chastity, by uncleannesse: against his owne body, the Temple of the holy Ghost, by defiling it? |
A91855 | and in earth ther''s none that I can desire besides thee? |
A91855 | and shall our hard hearts only remaine unbroken? |
A91855 | and where is the place of my rest? |
A91855 | as the publike Confession of Faith, and Catechism, besides many things in Church- Government,& c.? |
A91855 | d ● est thou thus requite the Lord oh foolish person and unwise? |
A91855 | had not David sinned against Vriiah''s life, by murdering him? |
A91855 | how deare is such a heart to God? |
A91855 | if sinfull, what doe you against him? |
A91855 | if they be habitually broken, how pleasing shall they be to God continually? |
A91855 | if thou beest hardened in spirituall pride, self- conceit,& c. how should a broken spirit lodge in thy brest? |
A91855 | nay for ground, manner, and end of all our penitentiall mournings for sinne, doe we not come short of duty? |
A91855 | saith, thou art my portion in the land of the living — whom have I in heaven but thee? |
A91855 | should these things still pass on without controule, what Religion shall we leave to our posterity? |
A91855 | the word is as fire, to ● o ● ● en and melt the iron: are our hearts stone? |
A91855 | till the heart be contrite and kindly broken for sin, how shall it forsake and turn away from sin? |
A91855 | where those wrastlings,& c. doest thou not know what a spirit of prayer meanes? |
A91855 | which of us would not be glad that our hearts and spirits might be truly acceptable to God? |
A78965 | 1, 2, 3,& c. Is not unity the happinesse of heaven? |
A78965 | 14. Who knoweth whether God hath not raised you up to be Mayor, to be Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Common Councell men for such a time as this is? |
A78965 | Aequissime judex, judica quod aequum est, judica meum esse qui tuus esse noluit post renunciationem; Vt quid invasit pannos meos? |
A78965 | And as for Jesus Christ who is the Angell of the covenant: are there not some amongst us that un- god Jesus Christ? |
A78965 | And do not we deal so with the Covenant? |
A78965 | And if families be not reformed, how will your worshippers be pure? |
A78965 | And is not the godly Mininistery as much persecuted by the tongues of some that would be accounted godly, as heretofore by the Bishops hands? |
A78965 | And is this to keep Covenant with God? |
A78965 | And shall not God be avenged of such a Nation as this? |
A78965 | And shall not God be avenged of such a nation as this? |
A78965 | And the Lord shall separate him,& c. And when the nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? |
A78965 | And what can you not do? |
A78965 | Are there not many amongst us that scorn it and speak reproachfully of it? |
A78965 | Are there not many that walk professedly contrary to this clause of the Covenant? |
A78965 | Are there not some that deal hypocritically in the Covenant? |
A78965 | Are there not some that put corrupt glosses upon it, and deale falsely in the Covenant? |
A78965 | Are there not thousands that have sworne to be Christs servants, and yet are in their lives the Vassals of sin and Satan? |
A78965 | Are we not Covenant- breakers? |
A78965 | Are we not like unto little children, that while they are whipping will promise any thing, but when the whipping is over will perform nothing? |
A78965 | Are we not to buy the truth and sell it not? |
A78965 | But how few are there that imitate David in this thing? |
A78965 | But some will say, How shall I doe to get up my heart to this high pitch that I may be a Covenant- keeper? |
A78965 | But what bosome sin, what beloved sin, as dear to thee as thy dear wife and children, hast thou left for Gods sake since thou tookest this Oath? |
A78965 | But where is this Family- reformation? |
A78965 | But where is this thorough Reformation, this thorough amendment of life? |
A78965 | But where shall we finde a mourner in England for his own abominations, and for the abominations that are committed in the midst of us? |
A78965 | But who makes conscience of this part of the Oath? |
A78965 | Did not Christ come into the world to bear Witnesse to the truth? |
A78965 | Did not grace and truth come by Iesus Christ? |
A78965 | Do we not make the times perilous by our falsifying of our oath and covenant with God? |
A78965 | First, for the Lords Supper; How often have we spilt the bloud of Christ by our unworthy approaches to his Table? |
A78965 | How comes it then to passe that this part of the Covenant is so much forgotten? |
A78965 | How dear and precious were Gods people one to another,& c. But now how are our Fasting- dayes sleighted and vilified? |
A78965 | How hard a matter is it to obtain power to keep the blood of Christ from being profaned by ignorant and scandalous Communicants? |
A78965 | How is it that men bend their tongues like bowes for lies, but they are not valiant for the truth upon earth? |
A78965 | How is it then that truth is fallen in the streets, and equity can not enter? |
A78965 | I have made a Covenant with mine eyes, why then should I thinke upon a maid? |
A78965 | Is every man that sins against the Covenant to be accounted a Covenant- breaker, and a perjured, sacrilegious person? |
A78965 | Is it not a good& pleasant thing for brethren to dwell together in unity? |
A78965 | Is it not the happinesse of a City to be at unity within it self? |
A78965 | Is not Christ the way, the truth, and the life? |
A78965 | Is not the Holy Bible by some rather wrested then read? |
A78965 | Is not truth more precious then gold, and more to be prized then Rubies? |
A78965 | Judge him to be mine, who refused to be thine even after he had renounced me in his Baptisme; What had he to doe to wear my Livery? |
A78965 | Our enemies say, What doe these feeble Presbyterians meane? |
A78965 | Promissa haec tuasunt, Domine;& quis falli timet cum promittit ipsa veritas? |
A78965 | Quid apud eum lascivia, incontinentia,& c. quibus ipse renunciaverit? |
A78965 | Quid intemperantia, quid gula, quid fastus, quid caetera mea? |
A78965 | That are very indifferent which side prevaile, so they may have their trading again? |
A78965 | The question I put to you is this: How often have you broke covenant with God? |
A78965 | The sinners of Sion are afraid: who shall dwell with everlasting burnings? |
A78965 | Was not unity one of the chief parts of Christs prayer unto his Father when he was here upon earth? |
A78965 | We speak and contend much for a Church- reformation; but how can there be a Church- reformation, unlesse there be first a Family- reformation? |
A78965 | What Noblemans, what Aldermans, what Merchants family is more reformed since the Covenant, then before? |
A78965 | What had he to doe with gluttony, drunkennesse, pride, wantonnesse, incontinencie; and the rest of my ware? |
A78965 | What meaneth the heat of this great anger? |
A78965 | What sin hast thou left, or in what one thing hast thou bin reformed since thou tookest this Covenant? |
A78965 | What though the Church- worship be pure, yet if the worshippers be impure, God will not accept of the worship? |
A78965 | Who can abide in the fiercenesse of his anger? |
A78965 | Who can stand before his indignation? |
A78965 | Who can stand? |
A78965 | and can we think that God will be easily intreated to sheath up his bloody sword, and to cease shedding our blood? |
A78965 | and is it not fit and equall that God should un- church us, and un- people us? |
A78965 | how are the people of God divided one from another, railing upon( in stead of loving) one another? |
A78965 | how beautifull were the feet of them that brought the Gospell of peace unto you? |
A78965 | how comes it to passe that thou art so much sleighted and contemned? |
A78965 | how is it that truth faileth, and he that departeth from evill maketh himself a prey? |
A78965 | that take it meerly to serve their own turns, to save their credits, or to save their estates, or to hide their malignancy? |
A78965 | where is the man that hath made restitution of his ill gotten goods since he took this Covenant? |
A78965 | will they fortifie themselves? |
A78965 | will they make an end in a day? |
A78965 | will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burnt? |
A78965 | woe is me, who can dwell with everlasting burnings? |
A85664 | 11. Who knowes the power of thine anger? |
A85664 | 12. as the Apostle speakes Are there not truths now on foot, concerning Christs Kingly Office, and his government in the Church? |
A85664 | 12. not see it? |
A85664 | 16. when the Caldeans were to come up and besiege Jerusalem, the Prophet apprehending it before- hand, quivered and quaked, and why was it? |
A85664 | 17, 10. hee contended with the Nobles, and said, What evillthing is this that ye doe, and prophane the Sabbath day? |
A85664 | 7. Who would not feare thee O King of Nations? |
A85664 | And to help you a little in this maine point: which way do the branches of your trees tend? |
A85664 | Are not Townes, Counties and the Kingdomewounded? |
A85664 | Are there no Altars? |
A85664 | Are we Christians? |
A85664 | Besides our deadnesse, rottennesse, barrennesse, are we not sinfully fruitfull? |
A85664 | Besides these, have we not had Earth- quakes? |
A85664 | Consider, is there not an Axe in the Land and an Axe at worke? |
A85664 | Did not God command them before? |
A85664 | Doth it not cry alowd for justice? |
A85664 | Further see how crosse mens thoughts are to divine, Ph ● ● chas executes justice upon great ones, and what followed? |
A85664 | Hath not God given warning to all Nations? |
A85664 | Hath not Idolatry and Superstition bin entertaind, countenanc''d and practis''d? |
A85664 | Hath not Justice bin neglected? |
A85664 | Hath not the Lords day beene constantly prophaned? |
A85664 | Have we no ▪ such sinnes and sinners among us as bring destruction unto Kingdomes? |
A85664 | How shall I give thee up Ephraim? |
A85664 | If any should aske what doe you here? |
A85664 | In these times men are arm''d to goe to battle with men, but are you arm''d to meet God? |
A85664 | Is it not drawing its last breath? |
A85664 | Is not here the greatest severity with the greatest mercy in the world? |
A85664 | Is not this the day of your wrath with your sinne? |
A85664 | It s demanded, What fruit was it, which brought the Axe to the Root of the tree? |
A85664 | It''s injustice and want of justice that disturbs Kingdomes and Cities: doth not that treacherous plot of Bristoll justifie what is said? |
A85664 | It''s without question we have often times in publique confessed our sinnes, but if heaven should now demand of us whether we have forsaken them? |
A85664 | Knowest thou not that the long- suffering and goodnesse of God should lead( the word is drive) thee to repentance? |
A85664 | Let not flatteries and vaine pretences undoe you: what if you have been baptised? |
A85664 | Samaria shall become desolate, for she ● hath rebelled against her God, shee hath dealt bitterly with her God; and what then? |
A85664 | Secondly, Doth God lay the Axe to Kingdomes? |
A85664 | Shall God be unwilling to destroy us, and shall we destroy our selves? |
A85664 | Shall a Tribe be lost in our Israel and we not be sensible of it? |
A85664 | Shall the Christian world be shaking, and cutting downe as it is at this time? |
A85664 | Shall the axe boast it selfe against him that heweth therewith? |
A85664 | There is a Questionl among great ones, how this can be made good? |
A85664 | Was not the Axe laid to the root of the Tree before this time? |
A85664 | What if you keepe fasts? |
A85664 | What makes God to lay the Axe to the Root of a Tree or Kingdome? |
A85664 | What saith the Lord to Sardis? |
A85664 | What shall we leave our God, shall we give way to Idolatry and worship we know not what? |
A85664 | What ▪ shall God hold the Candle of our lives in his hand, and we sin against him? |
A85664 | Who shall say to him, what doest thou? |
A85664 | Why then is it said, Now is the Axe laid to the root of the Tree? |
A85664 | Wicked men will venture all to get or ruine Kingdomes, and shall not good men venture as farre to save Kingdomes? |
A85664 | a Chrysostome saith, the Text is compulsorie, John constraines them to repentance, can you endure to see your wives and children cut down? |
A85664 | a Commotion? |
A85664 | and shall it be forgotten? |
A85664 | and shall we not lay it to heart? |
A85664 | are not hundreds and thousands cut off? |
A85664 | are they lyable to destruction? |
A85664 | are you not angry with them? |
A85664 | are you shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace? |
A85664 | away Lot, escape to Soar, I can not doe any thing till thou comest thither: but were not their sins great and many? |
A85664 | be it so yet I can not doe any thing till thou comest thither: but were not their sins full? |
A85664 | did not it make many feare and flie? |
A85664 | did not your Fathers thus, and did not our God bring all his evills upon us, and upon this City? |
A85664 | do you not hate them? |
A85664 | doth not Ireland lie bleeding to death? |
A85664 | f Augustine long since saw it, and said, take away Justice, and what are Kingdomes but Dens of theeves and places for plunder? |
A85664 | for to thee doth it appertain: Shall God be the King of Nations, the King of all Kings and not be feared? |
A85664 | hath he not within these hundred yeares, given us 100. warnings? |
A85664 | hath hee not powred out his Spirit upon men eminently, and brought light out of darknesse? |
A85664 | hath not blood, oppression, drunkennesse, swearing, Blasphemy, uncleannesse, contention and scoffing at holynesse overspread the Land? |
A85664 | have not the Heavens seemed on fire? |
A85664 | have not there bin foure or five blazing Stars? |
A85664 | have you on the girdle of veritie? |
A85664 | how shall I deliver thee Israel? |
A85664 | how shall I make thee as Admah? |
A85664 | how shall I set thee as Zeboim? |
A85664 | is it upwards or downwards? |
A85664 | is not God hewing and lopping of us? |
A85664 | is the helmet of salvation on your heads? |
A85664 | is the shield of Faith on your hearts, and the sword of the spirit in your mouthes? |
A85664 | most of your selves to be slaine or enslav''d? |
A85664 | no Crosses in the open streets that are bow''d unto and Idoliz''d? |
A85664 | no Crucifixes? |
A85664 | no high places? |
A85664 | the Breastplate of righteousnesse? |
A85664 | the branches are desideria& affectus: are your desires and affections to promotion pleasure, profit, content in the creature and upon things below? |
A85664 | was it not at the Root, when the ten Tribes were cut off? |
A85664 | where is the Spirit of Christ? |
A85664 | your City to be burnt? |
A85664 | your Temple and worship destroyed? |
A85664 | your habitations laid wast? |
A90296 | 2. you only have I known of all the families of the earth, what then? |
A90296 | 7. why are these things hidden from the great and wise of the world, and revealed to babes and children, but because, O Father, so it pleased thee? |
A90296 | A captive as we are all, can not be delivered without redemption, which is Jesus Christ: and what shall the prisoner do without his ransom? |
A90296 | Abraham wanting a childe, complains, What will the Lord do for me, seeing I go childelesse, and this Eliezer of Damascus must be my heire? |
A90296 | And what is England, that it should be amongst the choice branches of the vineyard, the top boughs of the Cedars of God? |
A90296 | And what shall we say to these things? |
A90296 | But is this the utmost period of Englands sinning, and Gods shewing mercy, in continuing and restoring of the Gospel? |
A90296 | Christles men, and godles men, and hopeles men, and what greater distresse in the world? |
A90296 | Doth not Wales cry, and the North cry, yea and the West cry, Come and help us? |
A90296 | Doth the King of Heaven lay open the treasures of his wisedom, knowledge and goodnesse for us, and we despise them? |
A90296 | From such as these, who almost hath not suffered? |
A90296 | Had not the brethren strove in the wombe, Rebekah had not asked, Why am I thus? |
A90296 | He that abuseth the choisest of mercies, shall have judgement without mercy; What can help them, who reject the counsell of God for their good? |
A90296 | How often also hath this Land forfeited the Gospel? |
A90296 | How shall I make thee as Admah? |
A90296 | How shall I set thee as Zeboim? |
A90296 | Hunger can not truly be satisfied without manna, the bread of life, which is Jesus Christ: and what shall a hungry man do that hath no bread? |
A90296 | Is it not the daily language of your hearts, Whom have we in heaven but thee? |
A90296 | It is true, there be many that say, who will shew us any good? |
A90296 | Let not truth be weighed in the balance of our interest; Will not a dram of that, turn the scale with some against many arguments? |
A90296 | Liberatur pars hominum, parte pereunte; sed ● ur horum misertus sit Deus, i ● orum non misertus, quae scientia comprehendere potest? |
A90296 | Never to be borne, then not to die in thee? |
A90296 | Noli irritare crabrones, Si lapidet teras nonne ignis erumpit? |
A90296 | Now if all these be passed by, to whom is the report of the Lord made known? |
A90296 | Now is all this variety, think you, to be ascribed unto chance, as the Philosopher thought the world was made by a casuall concurrence of atomes? |
A90296 | Now what fruits doth it require? |
A90296 | Now what shall we say to these things? |
A90296 | Nunc igitur si ● ▪ ominis edium ● st ▪ quis romirum reatus? |
A90296 | Nunc vero ● i nominis odium ● st, quis nominum reatus? |
A90296 | O Lord, how was England of late by thy mercy delivered from this snare? |
A90296 | O blessed Jesus, how much better were it, not to be, then to be without thee? |
A90296 | O that Wales, O that Ireland, O that France, Where shall I stop? |
A90296 | Or what have they that they have not received? |
A90296 | Secondly, presupposing this variety in the outward means, how is it that thereupon, one is taken, another left? |
A90296 | Semper ego auditor tantum? |
A90296 | Si accusasse suffic ● et, quis erit innocens? |
A90296 | Thirst can not be quenched, without that water or living spring, which is Jesus Christ: and what shall a thirsty soul do without water? |
A90296 | What guides these wheels? |
A90296 | What shall be given unto thee, oh thou false tongue? |
A90296 | What then remains? |
A90296 | Who hath made the possessors of the Gospel to diff ● r from others? |
A90296 | Who thus stears his word for the good of souls? |
A90296 | Who would not purchase with the greatest distresse that heavenly comfort, which is in the return of prayers? |
A90296 | a Captain being chosen for the return of this people into Egypt: on how hath thy grace fought against our backsliding? |
A90296 | and in earth there is nothing in comparison of thee? |
A90296 | are we not the posterity of Idolatrous Progenitors? |
A90296 | how comes it, that this Iland glories in a Reformation, and Spain sits still in darknes? |
A90296 | how did their old father of Rome refresh his spirit, to see such Chariots as those provided, to bring England again unto him? |
A90296 | if they knew the value of the hidden pearl, and these things were to be purchased, what would such poor souls not part with for them? |
A90296 | is it because we were better then they? |
A90296 | might not the Lord have said unto us, What shall I do unto thee, oh Island? |
A90296 | much more may a man without the means of grace complain, What shall be done unto me, seeing I go Gospellesse? |
A90296 | nisi aut Barbarum sonat aliqua vox ● ominis ▪ aut maledicum, aut impud cum? |
A90296 | of those who worshipped them who by nature were no god ●? |
A90296 | or hath the Idol free- will, with the new goddesse contingency, ruled in these dispensations? |
A90296 | or lesse engaged in Antichristian delusions? |
A90296 | quae a ● cu ● atio vocabulo ● ● m? |
A90296 | quae accusatio vocabulorum? |
A90296 | to whom is his arm revealed? |
A90296 | what fainting is there? |
A90296 | what repining, what grudging against the waies of the Lord? |
A90296 | what would helplesse Macedonians give for one enjoiment? |
A90296 | would not life it self, with a confluence of all earthly endearements, be a very hell without him? |
A90296 | ● go Ancillae tuae fidem ● a bui, nonne tu imp ● den ●, qui nec mihi ipsi credis? |
A90291 | 2 What it is, to stagger at the Promise? |
A90291 | And can any good come from thence? |
A90291 | And is it possible that deliverance should arise from a Crucified man? |
A90291 | And shall we stop at the first Part? |
A90291 | Are not all the Streams of the same Nature with the Fountain? |
A90291 | But is this all? |
A90291 | But you will say, Though God be thus able, thus Alsufficient, yet may there not be Defects in the Means whereby he worketh? |
A90291 | Call him out to the Battel, and then keep away his Crown? |
A90291 | Can he heal my Back- slidings? |
A90291 | Can he pardon my Sins? |
A90291 | Can he save my Soul? |
A90291 | Christ comes to Peter and asks him, Simon, Son of Jonas, lovest thou me? |
A90291 | For want of Power in him? |
A90291 | For, saith the Lord, Can a woman forget her sucking Child, that she should not have compassion on the Son of her womb? |
A90291 | Hath he no further Aime? |
A90291 | Hath not this been held out as a Mountain? |
A90291 | He replyes, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless? |
A90291 | How can this be,( sayes Zechariah) that I should have a Son? |
A90291 | How is it that Jesus Christ, is in Ireland only as a Lyon stayning all his garments with the bloud of his Enemies? |
A90291 | How long shall I suffer you? |
A90291 | How long shall I suffer you? |
A90291 | How shouldest thou be forgotten? |
A90291 | If that be bitter, can they be sweet? |
A90291 | If the Body be full of Poyson, will not the Branches have their Venome also? |
A90291 | Is it for want of Love? |
A90291 | Is it not the evil Root of Vnbelief? |
A90291 | Is it possible( saith he) this little Thing should safe- gaurd my Life in the Ocean? |
A90291 | Is it the Soveraignty and Interest of England that is alone to be there transacted? |
A90291 | Is not all this to make way for the Lord Jesus to take Possession of his long since Promised Inheritance? |
A90291 | Is not then a grant rare, when his People are silent as to Prayers? |
A90291 | Is this to be thankful, to forget our provoking Thoughts of Unbelief, when the Mercy is enjoyed? |
A90291 | Is this to deal fairly with the Lord Jesus? |
A90291 | It is said of one place, Christ could do no great Work there: Why so? |
A90291 | Let us now see whether any of these things, be wanting to the Promises of God: and begin we with the First: 1 Is there Truth in these Promises? |
A90291 | May he not be turned, and then what becomes of the Golden Mountains, that I Promised my self upon his Engagement? |
A90291 | Now how can the Promise stand in the way of this Hydra? |
A90291 | Now says God to Syon, Why sayest thou, I have forgotten thee? |
A90291 | O faithless and perverse Generation, how long shall I be with you? |
A90291 | O thou of little Faith( saith our Saviour) wherefore diddest thou doubt? |
A90291 | Or, 2 Will it be for the Credit and Honour of your Profession of the GOSPEL, That such a breach should be under your hand? |
A90291 | Peter is commanded to obey the Vision,{ non- Roman}{ non- Roman}{ non- Roman}{ non- Roman}{ non- Roman} nothing doubting: What is that? |
A90291 | Place the Doubt aright, and it is this, Is God able to accomplish what he hath spoken? |
A90291 | That it should be( as it were) by your means? |
A90291 | The Promise can do no great Work upon thy heart, to humble thee, to pardon to quiet thee; Is it for want of Fulness and Truth therein? |
A90291 | The Soul is apt to ask how can this be? |
A90291 | They trusted once, but now seeing him slain and crucified, they know not what to say to it: What then? |
A90291 | To make this the more plain, I must open these two things: 1 What is the Promise here intended? |
A90291 | We cry, Lord Jesus, Lovest thou us? |
A90291 | What a Silence hath been in the Heaven of many Churches, for this last half hour? |
A90291 | What building is that like to be, which hath a staggering Foundation? |
A90291 | What do they now stand at? |
A90291 | What does he then? |
A90291 | What is the Root that bears this Fruit of Staggering? |
A90291 | What now lyes at the Bottom of all this? |
A90291 | What sayes it to this combined Opposition? |
A90291 | What then shall we do? |
A90291 | Who can bear the just Scandal that would accrew? |
A90291 | Who would not put their Trust in thee? |
A90291 | Will it not be a Sword, and an Arrow, and a Maul in the hands of your Observers? |
A90291 | and agai ● ● Lord Jesus, Lovest thou us? |
A90291 | and none to hold him out as a Lamb sprinkled with his own bloud to his friends? |
A90291 | and what will all these things avail me? |
A90291 | do they quite give over all trusting in him? |
A90291 | shall he give over, never more enquire after this buried Christ, but sit down in darknesse and sorrow? |
A90291 | shall the faithlesness of men, make the Faith of God of none effect? |
A90291 | what a search into the Vessel? |
A90291 | what will it benefit me, to have a multitude of earthly enjoyments, and leave them in the close to my Servant? |
A90291 | wherefore do ye doubt? |
A93880 | 14. Who art thou, that judgest another man''s servant? |
A93880 | A Combination of men? |
A93880 | And, how the Spirit? |
A93880 | Are not the greatest part of all cases of Conscience in Church and Common- wealth thus ruled? |
A93880 | Are there not Invisible Things, as well as Visible? |
A93880 | Are these things Dreames, and Fancies? |
A93880 | But hath God the Father sealed any man with the Brightnesse of his owne Glory, to be an Author of Truth to us; as he hath done Jesus Christ? |
A93880 | But how can this be, seeing my Soule knows not this Spirit, hath no sense of it, no suitablenesse to it? |
A93880 | But how ill is the Consequence of Impostures in this kind? |
A93880 | But if a man say, he converseth with my body by my soule, and with my soule by my body: doth he run in a circle, or speak vainly? |
A93880 | But you may say, May we heare no Person in Divine things? |
A93880 | But you reply; how shall I know the Spirit? |
A93880 | But, What doe we see? |
A93880 | But, for what shall we mourne? |
A93880 | But, how the Scriptures? |
A93880 | By what light shall we discover? |
A93880 | Can Sense, which is the light of Beasts, trace the workings, and flights of Reason in her Contemplations; or discerne the things of men? |
A93880 | Can we see a soule, or an Angel by the light of a Candle? |
A93880 | Could you not exchange the whole world for a Sight, a tast of him? |
A93880 | Do you not now begin to perceive something extraordinary in the Person of the Lord? |
A93880 | Doe not your Souls pant within you after this Jesus, now, that you hear so much of his Love? |
A93880 | Doe we not yet groane for the plague of our hearts, that they are so long so hard? |
A93880 | Doe we thus requite Jesus Christ? |
A93880 | Doe you not feel the eyes of your understandings to open, and take in a Glory? |
A93880 | Hath any man sealed his Truth, and Faithfulnesse to us, by his blood, as Jesus Christ hath done? |
A93880 | Hath not Saint Paul determin''d the state, and manner of men universally in the world, so far, as they are not in Christ? |
A93880 | Have not They also Their Sun? |
A93880 | Have not we refused the Lord Jesus, for a Master, to rule, and guide us? |
A93880 | Have our eyes been upon the Eye of Christ to guide us; or on some Wedge of gold, or the Babylonish garment of some power, office, or honour? |
A93880 | Have the Spirituall appearances of Jesus Christ within us, conspiring with his Word before us, been the Oracle, with which we have consulted? |
A93880 | Have there not been Prophets, and Teachers in the Church, since his fleshly comming? |
A93880 | Have we not loath''d Manna; and lusted after Quails? |
A93880 | Have you any sense of these things? |
A93880 | How is the Demonstration of the Spirit appropriated to Jesus Christ? |
A93880 | How often have we sold our selves, our soules, our Saviour for nought, for a Humour? |
A93880 | How shall I judge of this Spirit in another man? |
A93880 | How shall I know this Spirit? |
A93880 | How soone would I have subdued their enemies, and enmities? |
A93880 | How then shall I know, which is a Miracle? |
A93880 | Is it not for this, that he hath made these slaughters upon us? |
A93880 | Jesus Christ complains from Heaven, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? |
A93880 | May no man speak to us the things of God, besides Jesus Christ? |
A93880 | May not men pretend falsly to Reason, Miracles, as well, as the Spirit? |
A93880 | May there not be Apocryphall Scriptures, as well, as Apocryphall Spirits? |
A93880 | Must he bring a Kingdome to absolute ruine, before he reach my heart, to break the pride of my power, wisdome, honour, and confidence? |
A93880 | Need we Epistles of Commendations to you, or from you? |
A93880 | Or have our lusts prompted us, and thrust us on? |
A93880 | Our Saviour reasons after this manner, Is not the Life More than Meat, and the Body than Rayment? |
A93880 | Right Honourable, Can you weep with your Saviour one houre? |
A93880 | Shall we not be ashamed, and grieved for these things? |
A93880 | Shall we now all joyne with an unutterable, and irresistable groane to aske one thing of our Saviour? |
A93880 | This is that, which at first betrayed us, and cast us out of Paradise: shall we trust it now, when it is corrupt? |
A93880 | Were it not a happinesse to be dead, that we might be for ever with him? |
A93880 | Were there not Prophets before his Being in the flesh? |
A93880 | What Difficulty would there be in Trusting to Him for our Preservation from Death, to whom we trust our Selves in Death, for Eternity? |
A93880 | What doe we now see? |
A93880 | What doe you take a Church to be? |
A93880 | What griefe is it to thinke, that we should refuse the Prince of Peace for a Counsellour, when we take our passions in his stead? |
A93880 | What hath this Objection peculiar in the case of the Spirit? |
A93880 | What in all the course of our life hath put us on the frequentest, or chiefest actions of our life? |
A93880 | What is a Demonstration? |
A93880 | What is a Demonstration? |
A93880 | What is it in the great action of this Reformation, that hath put us to travaile so far about by the way of the Wildernesse, of a Warre? |
A93880 | What is the Demonstration of the Spirit? |
A93880 | What is the Demonstration of the Spirit? |
A93880 | What is the Spirit? |
A93880 | What is the Spirit? |
A93880 | What shall I now say to conclude this Exhortation? |
A93880 | What strange thing is there in this? |
A93880 | Where then shall we find right Reason? |
A93880 | Which of us hath not worshipt this Beast, and taken his mark upon us? |
A93880 | Who calls himselfe a Christian? |
A93880 | Who can draw a cleane thing out of an uncleane? |
A93880 | Who shall refine, and define it? |
A93880 | Why are all these dreadfull menacings? |
A93880 | Will not these words break your hearts, and kill your Lusts? |
A93880 | by what fire sever the silver from the drosse; Reason from the irregularities and corruptions of Reason? |
A93880 | can it now bring us into Paradise againe? |
A93880 | false Churches, false Christs, and false Gods? |
A93880 | or are they seriously thus? |
A93880 | that he should unbosome to us all his consolations, and yet not asswage some carnall griefe in us? |
A93880 | to meet with so many fiery Serpents? |
A93880 | was Paul crucified for you? |
A93880 | what confusions doe they beget? |
A57979 | ( say men) why doth the Lord this? |
A57979 | 3. prayeth to be delivered from unreasonable men; but how unreasonable? |
A57979 | 5. Who is she that cometh upout of the Wildernesse associating, or neighboureth her selfe upon her well- beloved? |
A57979 | Alas, how long did one of the Kings of Gods People raigne, even Zachariah? |
A57979 | An ingenuous minde feareth debt, mercies tendered to us are debts lying on us; O how shall we repay him? |
A57979 | And how can it be but thus? |
A57979 | But God gave me no more grace, and what can I doe without grace? |
A57979 | But I pray you, are not all in England the Kings Subjects? |
A57979 | But ere I proceed, it may be asked, Is unbeliefe a greater sinne then Sodomy, which hath a cry up to Heaven? |
A57979 | But what be these which goe before faith in Christ? |
A57979 | Can God say Amen to this in Brittaine? |
A57979 | Canst thou by searching finde out God? |
A57979 | Did they mean no truth who said of earthly Kingdomes? |
A57979 | For as much as there is none like unto thee O Lord, thou art great, and thy Name is great; who would not feare thee, O King of Nations? |
A57979 | God is now drawing an excellent portract of a refined Church, but with the inke of the innocent blood of his people; say not, What is the Lord doing? |
A57979 | Halfe an hope,& c. What if I venture out upon Jesus Christ for my life? |
A57979 | Horrour hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that keep not thy law: What should the sins of Court, of Prelates, make me tremble? |
A57979 | How can these two be in one? |
A57979 | How can this be? |
A57979 | How dear must every yard of that garment be? |
A57979 | How great is his goodnesse? |
A57979 | How sweet is it to make God a friend sure and induring to thy soule, who can not die? |
A57979 | How then hath God promised to love the righteous, to reward beleeving with life eternall, to give the prize to him that runneth? |
A57979 | I answer by another question: What Law or Warrant have countrey beggers to cry for Almes at the hands of the rich? |
A57979 | I have set my King upon my holy Hill of Zion: I have put the Crown on Christs head, what men of dust and ashes shall pull it off his head? |
A57979 | I waited patiently on the Lord; and what was the issue? |
A57979 | I wil worke, and who shall let it? |
A57979 | If any weak soule apprehending wrath, and under a fervour of desertion should complain, What hindreth me to be eternally condemned? |
A57979 | Is Ephraim my dear son? |
A57979 | Is it not better to trust in that living God? |
A57979 | Is it not surer to trust in the Lord who made the Heaven and the Earth? |
A57979 | It is high as Heaven, what canst thou doe? |
A57979 | My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A57979 | Neverthelesse he departed not from the sinnes of Jeroboam the sonne of Nobat; O how fearfull to be under this? |
A57979 | Nor are they all guilty because they beleeve not; For how shall they beleeve in him, of whom they have not heard? |
A57979 | O how softly and compassionately doth his heavenly hand put in joynt the bones of a broken heart? |
A57979 | Our God, wilt thou not judge them? |
A57979 | The Lord hath chastised me sore; shall he lie in that condition? |
A57979 | The Lyon hath roared, who would not feare? |
A57979 | The former question is a generall, a wicked Marcion asketh, why the Lord, who foresaw the event, did suffer Evah and the Devill to conferre? |
A57979 | The other question is also soone answered: Why should the cause of God be so oppressed, and his Churches garments rolled in blood? |
A57979 | The other question is, What warrant hath any weake doubter to beleeve that God is his God in Christ? |
A57979 | The soule is first put to What shall I doe? |
A57979 | The woman diseased with the bloudy issue, heard of Jesus, and therefore came and touched the hemme of his garment: What had she heard? |
A57979 | Then if it be said, What is thy name, who layest hold on Christ? |
A57979 | They leane upon the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord amongst us? |
A57979 | Thirdly, if he be God enduring for ever, What fooles are we to place our hope in a King that shall die? |
A57979 | VVhat is nothing? |
A57979 | What Warrant or Law have they to begge? |
A57979 | What ailed thee, O thou Sea, that thou fleddest? |
A57979 | What beauty must be in this Lord? |
A57979 | What fingers be those, which at one time are in the furthest borders of the Eastern Heaven, and of the Western Heaven? |
A57979 | What is man, but a weeping, groning, dying, nothing? |
A57979 | What lost they ever, who stood upon the latitude of an haire for Christ? |
A57979 | What then maketh mee, Iohn, Anne, by name, sure in my conscience that I am in Christ, even to the full removall of all heart- questions? |
A57979 | What thoughts can I have of gaine, lust, pleasure, court, when wormes shall make their nests in my eye- holes? |
A57979 | When did the Lord ever finally prosper his bloody- hearted enemies? |
A57979 | When the minde is upon this or the like: What shall the wrath or the smiles of a King doe to mee, when my eye- strings shall bee broken? |
A57979 | Where dwelleth hee? |
A57979 | Where is there a worldly Kingdome that can not be shaken? |
A57979 | Whether Application bee essentiall to Faith or not? |
A57979 | Who liveth as having no morrow? |
A57979 | Why doth God suffer sinne to be, and so much sinne in England and Ireland? |
A57979 | Why doth hee suffer his people in Covenant with him, to bee a land of bloud? |
A57979 | Why is the wall of the daughter of Zion sprinkled with blood? |
A57979 | Why should Daniels enemies prevaile so as to cast him to Lions? |
A57979 | Why should an Arrow smite Achab betwixt the joynts of the harnesse, and kill him? |
A57979 | Why? |
A57979 | and will hee forfeit Heaven, and will hee not forfeit you all, and your Parliament and Liberties? |
A57979 | are they my sins? |
A57979 | but omnipotence holdeth it up: who hath Arms to spread a web of black darknesse from the East to the West? |
A57979 | canst thou finde out the Almighty unto perfection? |
A57979 | deeper then hell, what canst thou know? |
A57979 | for since I did speake against him, I doe earnestly remember him, my bowels are troubled for him, I will surely have mercy on him, saith the Lord? |
A57979 | how great is his beauty? |
A57979 | in earth, in Hell, or in Heaven? |
A57979 | is he a pleasant childe? |
A57979 | is it sure to trust in the Prince who returneth to his Earth, the Earth whereof he is a landed heritor, when he dieth? |
A57979 | it is the least thing that can be, but( I pray you) what is lesse then nothing? |
A57979 | or, Is there knowledge in the Almightie? |
A57979 | that these knees that bowed often to God, and these hands which was lifted up to him, should be eaten with Lions? |
A57979 | thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? |
A57979 | unbeliefe soundeth no such cry to Heaven? |
A57979 | what shall we render to him? |
A57979 | who hath given the Lord counsell? |
A57979 | who hath strength above the strength of God? |
A57979 | who marshalleth bullets through the Aire? |
A57979 | who walketh as if death were alwayes at his right side? |
A55028 | ( himself tells her so) in which she might be lost, and do nothing at all to it? |
A55028 | 33. or else we are told by the Truth it selfe, we are no Christians; we can not be his Disciples? |
A55028 | 5, 6, Even send a forrein enemy, to take the prey, and take the spoil, and to tread us all down, like the mire of the streets? |
A55028 | And how little help hath the Church had from us in this regard? |
A55028 | And is not here then a strange drunkennesse, at least on one fide? |
A55028 | And may He not call for all that is His, at any time, or any way? |
A55028 | And now can our hazard by endeavor be worse,( at the worst) or more certain, or more reproachfull( though the reproach lesse just) then hers? |
A55028 | And now may I presume one step or two farther? |
A55028 | And now, though every one curses not, or swears like him, yet have not too many of us our fits, when we come into malignant companies, too like this? |
A55028 | And since that season, was it not morally possible to have speeded some things more then they have been? |
A55028 | And that is the other consideration, belonging to this Use, what help is propor and possible to be afforded to the Church in this her need? |
A55028 | And what death more certain, or usually more reproachfull, then for breaking through the known Law of an Imperious Monarch? |
A55028 | And wherefore? |
A55028 | And who knows, whether thou be come to the Kingdom for such a time as this? |
A55028 | Are not you His, by Redemption too? |
A55028 | Brethren, what think you of St. Pauls saying ▪ You are not your owne? |
A55028 | But 2 May we hope the like of any endeavours towards friends? |
A55028 | But are you assured, that you have all the way proceeded with that spirit of encouragement, that these things should have put into you? |
A55028 | But did Gods Prophets for bear ever for either, or both these causes? |
A55028 | But what say you to the killing of the two Witnesses? |
A55028 | But will our consciences now say, We have done so? |
A55028 | But will our consciences say, we have done this? |
A55028 | Can we name those, that have in this kinde been the better for us? |
A55028 | Comming hither as the heads of our severall Tribes, and Elders of our Cities? |
A55028 | Do your consciences now think, that as a Parliamentary Body, you have fully answered all his favours hitherto? |
A55028 | For the other, Was there not a time, when nothing you asked was denyed you? |
A55028 | Have we ever ventured to lose them, rather then they should lose Gods favour, or their souls, or the comforts of a good conscience? |
A55028 | Have we so much as tried in any whether they would endure a reproof? |
A55028 | Have we ventured to have them say, We hate them, because we would not,( could not) forbear to crosse them in their wayes of evill? |
A55028 | He appoints thee to lay out so much for such an use, gives the Church a Letter of Atturney: Is it not thy due to yeeld it upon demand? |
A55028 | Her Person: Which of us, even the highest, matches her greatnesse? |
A55028 | How angry is he then, that will not afford us leisure, or means, nor them any help by us? |
A55028 | How enraged is God, when he so refuses to reform us, who pretended such desire of Reformation? |
A55028 | How exceeding few are otherwise? |
A55028 | How greatly must we needs say, he is provoked against us? |
A55028 | How long wilt thou he angry against the prayer of thy people? |
A55028 | How many are there, whose servants are ignorant, while themselves abound in knowledge, and even while they keep Ministers in their houses too? |
A55028 | How many who while they go to Church, their servants either stay at home, or go to the Tavern, or perhaps worse places? |
A55028 | How many would then indeed resolve to do nothing, and think themselves excusable too? |
A55028 | How much more are earthly men so meant? |
A55028 | How much more then any particular person? |
A55028 | How much more then will this fall heavy upon the forsakers of a Nation of Christians? |
A55028 | How unlikely was it she should prevail with one who in thirty dayes had not called for her, though his wife? |
A55028 | If He will have thee lay it down and give over thy office, maist thou say, I am not bound to yeeld to it? |
A55028 | If He will thee to sleight their friendship in this or that case canst thou say, thou owest Him no such respect? |
A55028 | In a word, thy lims, sense ▪ life, whence hadst thou them, or hast them first and last? |
A55028 | In how fair hopes of setling were we? |
A55028 | Is there any thing we are to Endeavour( let it be what it will) so unlikely to prosper, as this undertaking of hers? |
A55028 | May not that be to come, and even now comming, and where is then your confidence, and the promises you talk of? |
A55028 | Now doth not all this amount to all endeavour, and the Venture of the utmost hazard? |
A55028 | Once more; are you not His altogether, by covenant? |
A55028 | Or if some are, had we power with no more? |
A55028 | Or is the Church helped, by the courage of those against whom God is angry, for their unreformed lives? |
A55028 | Owest thou not all of them to Him? |
A55028 | Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord, shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this? |
A55028 | The Sons in licentiousnesse, according as their fancy leads them? |
A55028 | The phrase in the Text, Who knows? |
A55028 | Thou art a Freeman, in bondage to none; who made thee free spiritually, but Christ? |
A55028 | Thou hast an estate; who gave it thee, but God? |
A55028 | Thou hast friends; who made them friends, and able to shew themselves friendly, but God who rules all hearts? |
A55028 | Thou hast honour and dignity; who promoted thee? |
A55028 | Was it not pity, to drive her forward against such a Canons- mouth; when though she sate still, the Businesse should be done? |
A55028 | What can any one except against this, or except out of this? |
A55028 | What greater certainty can we have, or what equall, that what we are called to Endeavour and Venture for, will prosper if we do altogether nothing? |
A55028 | What have you, which is not His, by Creation, by Preservation; special Providence and gift? |
A55028 | What is the covenant of Christianity plainly, but for Him to be our God, and we His people? |
A55028 | What now are the Reasons of this briefly? |
A55028 | What now means God by all this? |
A55028 | What say You to this? |
A55028 | What shall I say for my own profession? |
A55028 | What was the hazard she must rush upon? |
A55028 | What will God regard, if he turn away his eye from such solemn services, from such out- cries of prayers? |
A55028 | and a strange curse? |
A55028 | and accordingly to His Church, at His wil? |
A55028 | and appearing in opposition to his so doted on Darling Haman? |
A55028 | and he that keeps thy soul, doth not he know it? |
A55028 | and now pressing upon him against his Law? |
A55028 | and of a Decree, already sent forth into all his Dominions? |
A55028 | and shall not he render to every man according to his works? |
A55028 | and so thy selfe in all respects to Him? |
A55028 | and specially, that will not venture themselves for her help in danger? |
A55028 | are both sides hypocrites? |
A55028 | how extreamly below are the most? |
A55028 | made thee be borne a freeman temporally,( not a slave, as in some countries) but God? |
A55028 | may He not then command them all? |
A55028 | or credited by our silence, when their misbehaviours make a loud noise? |
A55028 | or neither? |
A55028 | or one onely? |
A55028 | or rather lent it thee, made thee steward of it? |
A55028 | or to any of us, can there be lesse hazard, if we forbear altogether any endeavour? |
A55028 | or what is the utmost venture? |
A55028 | or whether they shall and at last, in a peacefull and happy Reformation? |
A55028 | where is this to be found? |
A55028 | which also by the Law of the Medes and Persians seemed unalterable, and so the Case remedilesse altogether this way? |
A55028 | who hath so much to lose, if we lose all, as she? |
A55028 | yet for this must she pawn her life: And what may we then refuse? |
A90288 | ( Now where God requires blood, is it allowed to man, to Commute at an inferiour Rate?) |
A90288 | 12. then to stand in the Congregation of the mockers, and to sit in the seate of the scornefull? |
A90288 | 2ly, is not a judiciary determination concerning truth and error( I mean truths of the Gospel) a meer Chruch act? |
A90288 | 2ly, shall the Magistrate be made Judge of the cause, as well as of the person? |
A90288 | Afterwards, doe they want drink? |
A90288 | And When you were escaped out of the field from the Lyon and the Beare, appoint a Serpent to bite you, leaning upon the wals of your owne house? |
A90288 | And indeed, who but a Foole would run from the shelter of a brazen wall, to hide himselfe in a little stubble? |
A90288 | And their thoughts mixed with a spirit of giddinesse, and themselves carried on to their owne destruction? |
A90288 | Are not groanes for liberty, by the warmth of favour, in a few yeares hatched into Attempts for Tyranny? |
A90288 | Are not others as unworthy to live upon their native soile in our judgements, as we our selves in the judgements of them formerly over us? |
A90288 | Bonus vir Cajus sejus, sed malus quia Christianus; What precious men should many be, would they let goe the work of God in this Generation? |
A90288 | But is not a Peoples contending with the Instruments, by whom God worketh amongst them, and for them, a sin and provocation to the eyes of his glory? |
A90288 | But no matter for this, was not the Heresie suppressed thereby? |
A90288 | But now, if this course be undertaken against Multitudes, what is or hath been the usuall End of such undertakings? |
A90288 | But now, may some say, What will be the Issue of this discourse; doe you then leave every one at Liberty in the things of God? |
A90288 | Can not he Poyson your Peace, and Canker your Wealth? |
A90288 | Hae manus Trojam exigent? |
A90288 | Hath not this very same course been taken in latter ages? |
A90288 | Hath the Magistrate nothing to doe, in, or about Religion? |
A90288 | Hath the Sword of Discipline no edge? |
A90288 | Have I beene a dry heath, or a barren wildernesse to you? |
A90288 | Have not some sought to advance themselves under that power, which with the lives and blood of the People they have opposed? |
A90288 | How birthlesse in our owne, as other Generations have been their swelling conceptions? |
A90288 | How did the power of Pharoah, the Revenge of Egipt, the backsliding of Israel prevaile? |
A90288 | How doe we spend all our thoughts to extricate our selves from our present pressures? |
A90288 | How then can the Lord be said to give them up unto it? |
A90288 | If God be so provoked, that he curseth him, who doth his worke negligently, what is he by them that do it Treacherously? |
A90288 | If errours must be tolerated, say some, then men may doe what they please, without controll? |
A90288 | If the fountaine be poisoned, can the streames be wholesome? |
A90288 | In that thing which to man is sinfull, God worketh as it is a thing onely, Man as it is a sinfull thing: And how so? |
A90288 | Is he like to have any successe, but the battering of his flesh, and the beating out of his braines? |
A90288 | Is he to depose the care thereof? |
A90288 | Is there no meanes of instruction in the New Testament established, but a Prison and a Halter? |
A90288 | Let men set upon opposition make a diligent enquiry, whether there be no hand in the businesse, but their owne? |
A90288 | Looke then in any Action, wherein an Agent exorbitates from its Rule, that is sin: Now what is Gods rule in operation? |
A90288 | May not a Protestant be really worsted in a Dispute by a Papist? |
A90288 | Moses is the cause; did they want meate? |
A90288 | No meanes it seems must be used to reclaime them? |
A90288 | Now truely of many of these, we might well say( as one of old did) Quales Imperatores? |
A90288 | Now what are the ends of this Generation of Fighters against this brazen wall, and how distant from those of the Lords? |
A90288 | Now what course is to be taken for the effecting of this? |
A90288 | Now what was the issue of all those oppositions? |
A90288 | Oh, that this might seale up instruction to our owne soules; What variety of calamities have we beene exercised withall, for sundry yeares? |
A90288 | Philip of Spaine will needs force the Inquisition upon the Netherlands? |
A90288 | Quid meruere? |
A90288 | Secondly, He is engaged in point of Honour, if they miscarry in his way, What will he doe for his great name? |
A90288 | Shall men exasperated in their spirits by different perswasions, be suffered to devoure one another as they please? |
A90288 | Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made mee thus? |
A90288 | Should you now Return to such wayes as these, would not the Anger of the Lord smoake against you? |
A90288 | What I pray will warrant him then to proceed? |
A90288 | What Offences against the second Table are punishable? |
A90288 | What Pharoah- like spirits have we had under them? |
A90288 | What can you expect of light and truth from a minde possest with vanity and darknesse? |
A90288 | What doe the waves obtaine by dashing themselves with noise and dread against a rocke, but their owne beating to peeces? |
A90288 | What effect had they? |
A90288 | What from a will averted from the chiefest good, and fixt upon present appearances? |
A90288 | What from an heart, the figment of whose imagination is onely evill? |
A90288 | What is the issue? |
A90288 | What is their due, who being called forth by him, doe yet helpe the mighty against him? |
A90288 | What now is the Rule of the Sonnes of men? |
A90288 | What prevailes a man by shooting his arrows against the Skie, but a returne upon his owne head? |
A90288 | What shall we say when the Saints of God are as signes and wonders to be spoken against in Israel? |
A90288 | What then is it that prevailes upon men to break through so many disappointments against the Lord, as they doe? |
A90288 | What then shall be done, they''l say? |
A90288 | Whether their counsels be not leavened with the wrath of God? |
A90288 | Why first, I desire an institution of this ordinance in the Church? |
A90288 | Why should our unbeleeving spirits charge that upon the God of Truth, which wee dare not impute to a man that is a worme, a lyar? |
A90288 | Will a man faile in his ingagement unto him, who upon that ingagement undertakes a difficult imployment for his sake? |
A90288 | Will it not be destructive to stand out against a confirmed People? |
A90288 | Will the Laws against Idolatry and Blasphemy? |
A90288 | and must not these considerations be preserved immixed, that the formall reason of proceeding in one Court, may not be of any weight in the other? |
A90288 | and that Church power, whereby it is effected? |
A90288 | are they the Ministers of the Gospel? |
A90288 | hath it not so ere now fallen out? |
A90288 | is Gospel Conviction no meanes? |
A90288 | is not his assistance here abundantly required and alwayes granted? |
A90288 | must not then the Magistrate quâ talis be a Church officer? |
A90288 | they have been admonished, rebuked, convinced, must they now be let alone? |
A90288 | when he gives a sword into the hands of men, and they thrust it into his owne Bowels, his Glory and Honour, those things so deare to him? |
A90288 | where are rules prescribed to him, in his proceedings? |
A90288 | where is the Magistrate entrusted with such a power? |
A90288 | will men of this minde, tolerate Erastianisme? |
A90288 | would not men say it was not the Lord, but chance that happened to them? |
A70812 | ( How many speake so of this most necessary defence, which their owne Consciences still tell them is the Command of God?) |
A70812 | ( every one that will say so) How then shall your Armies be made up? |
A70812 | ( not to speake of many of our frowardnesses, when our selves only are in fault) and even visibly manifest Vnbeleefe and Distrust? |
A70812 | 12, 13, 14. Who is the wise man that may understand this? |
A70812 | 21, I will send a sward among you, to avenge the quarrell of my Covenant? |
A70812 | Adding hereunto the latter part of the sixth verse, Wherefore should GOD be angry with thee and destroy the work of thy hands? |
A70812 | And afterward, how ill can we endure to have any complaint against them, when yet there is all the reason in the world to complaine? |
A70812 | And doe we not see the like in the other Sacrament? |
A70812 | And forgettest the LORD thy Maker? |
A70812 | And have not we our selves found somewhat like this, more then once? |
A70812 | And how can these then be tolerated without Breach of Covenant? |
A70812 | And if He take vengeance upon their sins, even as theirs, shall not we be enwrapped in the mischief of in? |
A70812 | And if the Righteous shall scarcely be saved where shall the Vngodly and the Sinner appeare? |
A70812 | And if they should now conquer for us, what shall we doe with them afterward? |
A70812 | And indeed doe we not very often thinke this excuse enough for us; that the generall Sway of people goes thus, and they will have it so and so? |
A70812 | And is not Anabaptisma, at least as, maintain''d by divers, Schisme, and contrary to sound Doctrine? |
A70812 | And then that in the second place, Enquiry should be made for what Speciall Provocations it is that there are such heavy Judgements on the Land? |
A70812 | And what Idolater, or seduced Prophet, might not( or may not) plead his Conscience? |
A70812 | And what is this but want of Faith in GOD? |
A70812 | And why should not we looke for the like, if we were as Zealous for GOD, and trusted as much in GOD, as he? |
A70812 | Are mens matters worthy more regard then GODS? |
A70812 | Are not here fearefull inventions for Him to take vengeance upon? |
A70812 | Are not many apparently worse then they were wo nt to be? |
A70812 | Behold the Righteous shall be recompensed in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner? |
A70812 | But I pray, judge but in a few Instances, whether all pretence of Conscience ought to be a sufficient plea for Toleration and Liberty? |
A70812 | But how is the case altered if it prove to be a child or a kinsman, a friend or even but a servant? |
A70812 | But how will GOD take this at our hands, doe we thinke? |
A70812 | But specially how did GOD take it at Elies hand, though a good man? |
A70812 | Can this be possible, that from a heart so calmed and setled in Faith and Joy, such a suddaine storme should arise of monstrous and horrid impatience? |
A70812 | Doe we intend to keepe them in order then? |
A70812 | Doe we not often take it very hainously, that men should find any fault with such? |
A70812 | Goe but into any place, and what is the great businesse that you find every one almost set upon? |
A70812 | How doe we shrinke, and draw back, and make excuses when we fore- see any difficulty more then ordinary in the imployment? |
A70812 | How doth our affection oft commend them to places of Imployment and Trust, beyond their abilities or merit? |
A70812 | How excellent an Example and Encouragement doe we again find recorded concerning him in the next Chapter, the two last verses? |
A70812 | How few are there of us, that can afford to venture upon undertakings that are like to provoke the wrath of men, specially great men, against us? |
A70812 | How low had our sins brought us the last yeere about this time? |
A70812 | How many Errors, and strange opinions are there to be found even among such as are all pretenders to the way of Truth? |
A70812 | I beseech you, if GOD will have it to be unalterable,( as He will if His Word tell us so much) shall we dare to say, We will not have it so? |
A70812 | If any say, Their Conscience allowes them not to Contribute to your Just and Necessary Defence, shall they be allowed this Liberty? |
A70812 | If any say, these all, or most of them, are belonging to the Second Table, and the Liberty pleaded for, is onely in matters of the First Table? |
A70812 | If any shall say, But would not GOD have a Multitude forborne, if they be in an Errour, or Disorder? |
A70812 | If others say, their Consciences allow not them to beare Armes for you, shall they have altogether their Liberty? |
A70812 | If these things be done in the greene Tree, what shall be done in the Dry? |
A70812 | In a word, what outrage of wickednesse is there that we have not just cause to beleeve to be too ordinary among our people? |
A70812 | Is it not for this that GOD hath put the sword of Justice into your hands? |
A70812 | Is not this the quarrell of the warre, because Delinquents are protected against the hand of Justice? |
A70812 | Is there not much selfe- seeking apparant in all kind of undertakings? |
A70812 | Is this the fruit of our Covenant? |
A70812 | Is this, think we, the amendment that GOD lookes for at our hands? |
A70812 | Let us therefore looke what we have done all of us in pursuit of our Covenant? |
A70812 | May not a Multitude be forborne in Errour? |
A70812 | Now is there not among us a great deale of guilt in this kind? |
A70812 | Now what was that which made him doe thus? |
A70812 | Or can you, without destraying all bonds of Civill Converse, and wholly overthrow of all Humane Judicature? |
A70812 | Or may We endure them, without His displeasure against our selves? |
A70812 | Or what Bounds or Limits can there be set to men any way, if this opinion of Liberty of Conscience, as it is pleaded for, shall be admitted? |
A70812 | Or who can almost find in his heart to engage himselfe in a taske, whose certainest wages from men is like to be displeasure and rage? |
A70812 | Propriety of goods: Will you afford them their Liberty herein? |
A70812 | Specially when men deale perversely with us? |
A70812 | Table( Idolatries, Blasphemies, Heresies,& c.) then in those against the second? |
A70812 | Table, then against the second? |
A70812 | There be those that say their Conscience is against all taking of an Oath before a Magistrate? |
A70812 | Was this the meaning of any in this particular, to promise enough, but intend to performe nothing? |
A70812 | Weepe for your selves and for your children, for if these things be done in the greene tree, what shall be done in the dry? |
A70812 | What shall GOD doe with us, if all these things will not amend us? |
A70812 | What should I speake of Oathes, Cursings and Blasphemies? |
A70812 | What we have neglected? |
A70812 | What would become then of all your own Authority, and of all Lawes, and Liberties of the Kingdome? |
A70812 | Where then will your Armies be paid? |
A70812 | Will Christ, I say, endure these things? |
A70812 | Will you allow an Vniversall Liberty of this? |
A70812 | Would you know who they are? |
A70812 | Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination and ye defile every one his neighbours wife, and shall ye possesse the Land? |
A70812 | You eate with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your Idols and shedde blood, and shall ye possesse the Land? |
A70812 | You thus and thus misbehave your selves, and shall you have peace? |
A70812 | ambitious putting themselves forward, and practises to make themselves rich, by every imployment? |
A70812 | and even upon some parts of our owne Kingdome and Nation? |
A70812 | and frequently cry that things grow every day worse and worse; and that we are not able to abide it if it continue thus with us but a while longer? |
A70812 | and how little doe we usually tremble at the hearing of them? |
A70812 | and however, is it not apparently most contrary to the Power of Godlinesse? |
A70812 | and in stead thereof to have our spirits ensnared( enslaved) with the Feare of Men? |
A70812 | and possibly even to be their Agents and Instruments to doe very badde Acts for them and with them? |
A70812 | and prove corruptors of others, that now seeme to be of a better temper? |
A70812 | and so purposed, and practised from time to time? |
A70812 | and tell Him they meane nothing lesse then to be humbled in heart before Him? |
A70812 | and the Church of GOD peaceably setled in a holy Reformation? |
A70812 | and upon this Venture upon Actions which GOD hath not allowed us? |
A70812 | and what we are yet a doing? |
A70812 | and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it? |
A70812 | how partiall are we to those that are our own? |
A70812 | or at least now are they at liberty to doe nothing of what they have so solemnely and sacredly promised and sworne? |
A70812 | or delayed? |
A70812 | or how did GOD take it at Samuels hands, that he was so partiall to his sons, as hath been noted? |
A70812 | or suffer them to plead that they have merited an exemption from all restraint of their licentiousnesse? |
A70812 | or that such and such thinke or speake so as well as we, and gave us the example before we ventured upon it? |
A70812 | shall you have setling? |
A70812 | shall you possesse the Land? |
A70812 | that for One Achan not sought out, Israels Army was overthrowne? |
A70812 | that the pretence of Conscience shall claime a Liberty in that which concernes GODS Honour, and not in that which concernes men? |
A70812 | when none is with us, but GOD and our own consciences? |
A70812 | when women dare come hither with their bare breasts, and spotted faces, and garish apparell, is not this as it were to outface GOD? |
A92145 | ( 2) The Sea is a fluid huge great body, where can there bee a bottle to containe it? |
A92145 | 11. how doth God know? |
A92145 | 22. so foolish was I and ignorant, I was a beast before thee; and why a beast? |
A92145 | 22. why but wee should have Law- suretie in Christ, with our servant, that death shall not hurt us? |
A92145 | 24. who gave Jacob for a spoyle; and Israel to robbery? |
A92145 | 25. where is your fatth? |
A92145 | 26. hee saith to them, Why are yee fearefull, O yee of little faith? |
A92145 | 3? |
A92145 | 5. Who hath layd the measures of the earth, if thou knowest? |
A92145 | 7. saith, will the Lord cast off for ever? |
A92145 | 7. will hee bee favorable no more? |
A92145 | 8. Who shut up the Sea with doores, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the wombe? |
A92145 | And he said unto them, where is your faith? |
A92145 | And he saith unto them, Why are yee fearefull, O yee of little faith? |
A92145 | And hee said unto them, Why are yee so fearefull? |
A92145 | And hee was in the hinder part of the ship asleepe on a pillow, and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that wee perish? |
A92145 | And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this? |
A92145 | Askelon and the Sea shore? |
A92145 | Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? |
A92145 | Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this: shall the women eate their fruite and children of a span long? |
A92145 | But is not the most skilled Seaman in heaven and earth here? |
A92145 | But is this because God was neither behind Iob, nor before him? |
A92145 | But may not God be with his own, though they be both burnt& drowned? |
A92145 | But wee have not heard of warre betweene Lambes and Lambes; Why should wee strive, for wee are brethren? |
A92145 | But what doth this ship lead us to? |
A92145 | But when shall that be? |
A92145 | But why should Christ sleepe when his cause requireth hee should wake? |
A92145 | Can not death and hell scale your walls? |
A92145 | Can you drinke a Sea of vengeance? |
A92145 | Feare not, that is, beleeve; upon what ground? |
A92145 | Hast thou not made all the fountaines and all the Vines in Judea, and in all the earth? |
A92145 | Hath hee forgotten to be gratious? |
A92145 | Heare O heaven, hearken O earth; why? |
A92145 | Hence their precipitations, Master, master, and their complaint, carest thou not for us? |
A92145 | How is it that you have no faith? |
A92145 | How then? |
A92145 | I pray you aske when was you last with Christ, and how oft was you with him, or was you ever with him? |
A92145 | I pray( saith Christ) that they may all bee one, as thou Father art in mee, and I in thee? |
A92145 | I said of laughter, it is mad, and of mirth, what doth it? |
A92145 | If our transgressions and our sinnes bee upon us, and wee pine away in them, how should wee then live? |
A92145 | Is his mercy cleane gone? |
A92145 | Is it nothing to all you that passe by? |
A92145 | Is there any thing hid, or too hard or admirable to the Lord, which hee can not doe? |
A92145 | Lord why castest thou off my soule? |
A92145 | Master carest thou not that wee perish? |
A92145 | My dayes are consumed as smoake( when yesterdayes sad life is burnt to ashes, what is it?) |
A92145 | Ninthly, are wee not debtors one to another? |
A92145 | O Lord how great are thy workes? |
A92145 | O ancient of dayes, why becamest thou young, and a weeping infant? |
A92145 | O bread of life, why wast thou hungry? |
A92145 | O death, where is thy sting? |
A92145 | O grave, where is thy victory? |
A92145 | O my God I cry by day and thou hearest not, in the night season I am not silent; What then? |
A92145 | O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it bee ere thou bee quiet? |
A92145 | O way of life, why wast thou wearied? |
A92145 | O well of life, why wast thou thirsty? |
A92145 | O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver mee from the body of this death? |
A92145 | Secondly, O how little of God doe wee see, especially being voyd of his owne light? |
A92145 | The Angels say unto Mary Magdalen, Woman why weepest thou? |
A92145 | Then hee saith unto them, why are yee fearefull, O yee of little faith? |
A92145 | They object his sluggishnesse, carest thou not for us? |
A92145 | Thirdly, here is an able and sufficient Saviour furnished to us, one who is more then a man; why? |
A92145 | Thirdly, they complaine, Carest thou not for us? |
A92145 | Thy breach is great like the Sea, who can beale thee? |
A92145 | Wee have Christs present helping of them, Matthew keepeth the naturall method; Why are yee fearefull, O yee of little faith? |
A92145 | Wee wonder that our warres are not at an end? |
A92145 | What a living death? |
A92145 | What a master art thou, who sleepest when wee are in danger to be drowned? |
A92145 | What could they imagine now but that the Sea will drowne Christ? |
A92145 | What course take the Disciples in their danger? |
A92145 | What is death and the drowning of them all, so they have Christ with them? |
A92145 | What is safe in the living man, when the reines, that are as inward as the mans heart, are cloven asunder? |
A92145 | When it swelleth and rageth with mightie winds, how is it kept from drowning the world? |
A92145 | Where is your faith? |
A92145 | Where is your faith? |
A92145 | Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest mee for thine enemy? |
A92145 | Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastned? |
A92145 | Who is wise to know when God is watering the Land with blood? |
A92145 | Why are you so fearefull? |
A92145 | Why doe you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? |
A92145 | Why shouldest thou bee as a man astonished, as a mighty man that can not save? |
A92145 | Why shouldest thou bee as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? |
A92145 | Wilt thou bee altogether to me as a lier? |
A92145 | [ And he was fast asleepe] What? |
A92145 | and Luke saith, where is your faith? |
A92145 | and dare they wet his face, who made the Sea and the dry Land? |
A92145 | and floods of gall and wormewood? |
A92145 | and they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this? |
A92145 | and though you shut your doores, climbe in at your windowes? |
A92145 | and when Gall and Liver are taken out of the living man, and powred upon the earth? |
A92145 | and wherefore is all this come on us? |
A92145 | are your bulworkes and walls salvation? |
A92145 | as waters that are unfaithfull? |
A92145 | can God sleepe? |
A92145 | dare the wind blow so proudly on his face, who is white and ruddy, and the chiefe amongst ten thousand worlds? |
A92145 | do not the Seas know their Creator? |
A92145 | doth hee fall a chiding with God? |
A92145 | doth hee say, Oh, God is changed, hee careth not for us? |
A92145 | hath hee in anger shut up his tender mercies? |
A92145 | hath not the second death long and sharpe tuskes? |
A92145 | have you strength to bide the proofe and shot of the vengeance of the Lord, and the vengeance of his Temple? |
A92145 | hee saith not; why feare you? |
A92145 | how is it that yee have no faith? |
A92145 | how unseemly that one redeemed one should hate, persecute and chase another redeemed one, even into the gates of heaven? |
A92145 | if wee bee one in uno tertio, in the heart of Christ, and of Christs Father, why but wee should bee one amongst our selves? |
A92145 | is his word or oracle rotten? |
A92145 | is it so great a sinne to feare man? |
A92145 | is not this world like a great Exchange? |
A92145 | or are your Castles judgement- proofe? |
A92145 | or who hath stretched the line upon it? |
A92145 | or who layd the corner stone thereof? |
A92145 | shall the Priests and the Prophets bee slaine in the Sanctuary? |
A92145 | should Christ sleepe now, as Lonab did, when God seemeth to bee angry with all in the ship? |
A92145 | should hee not bee to us altogether lovely? |
A92145 | should wee preach warre betweene the Saints? |
A92145 | that was a strong dreame: hee that teacheth man knowledge, shall bee not know? |
A92145 | the onely hope of Davids throane, he who was to restore the kingdome to Israel is gone; and what shall the people of God now do? |
A92145 | to know that the yeare 1645. is that yeare of vengeance that hath beene in the Lords heart against England and Scotland? |
A92145 | what a breathing and triumphing grave is this? |
A92145 | what a rejoycing sorrow is here? |
A92145 | what a shining darkenesse? |
A92145 | who lifts up his throne and his glory? |
A92145 | who setteth him on high above the skies? |
A92145 | why doth the Lord contend with us? |
A92145 | why hidest thou thy face from mee? |
A92145 | will hee bee favourable no more? |
A92145 | will hee never put forth in action one act of good will againe? |
A92145 | will you indure the siege and batteries of everlasting wrath? |