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A4971612 p. Printed with license and entred according to order, London:[ 1645?]
A49716What speciall Text of Scripture now is comfortable to a man in his departure?
A47311How humble, and hearty was he in his Confessions, how fervent in Holy Desires, how affectionate in Praises and Thanksgivings?
A59276Does not he blush?
A57957Who shall deliver me from this body of death?
A30441What a thing would Mankind become if we had many such?
A30441Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
A30441and force one to cry out, Why did such a perfect Being make such feeble and imperfect Creatures?
A59884And if there be Order and Government among the Angels themselves, Why should we think that there is nothing like this among glorified Saints?
A59884And when the Church is at ease and rest from without, how often is it rent and torn in Pieces with Schisms and Heresies?
A59884The care of Mens Souls is itself a mighty Trust, and Who is sufficient for these things?
A59884and what Christian doubts, whether Heaven be a happier Place than this World?
A59884what different things are these?
A57163If a glass jewel be so valuable, how excellent is an inestimable Pearl?
A57163Praemia si tollas?
A57163Si tanti- vitrum, quanti veram margaritam?
A57163Who more learned then the Athenian Philosophers, and who greater deriders of the Apostles Preaching?
A57163Who more learned then the Scribes and Pharisees, and who more graceless, and more bitter enemies to the doctrine of Salvation?
A53897What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man whom we esteem, should be sorrow to himself, and his death be grief to us?
A53897Why then should we weep for the death of aged persons, when it can be but the second part of their Funeral?
A02414Hath he said it, and shall it not come to passe?
A02414O death where is thy sting?
A02414Thus to his will he hath also power; to both these what more can be added?
A02414What Souldier is not glad when the combate is ended, and his enemie conquered?
A02414who in a great tempest at Sea, would not gladly be in a quiet and calme harbour?
A45563But alas how few such are to be found?
A45563But lo, here it is reprefented to us in a mollifying Phrase, and that which is familiar to us: and why thus?
A45563Newcomb, for William Grantham...,[ London?]
A45563Thus did David, and thus ought we; but do we thus?
A45563there were never any but two, Enoch and Elias, and I may say, What man is he that dieth, and shall not see corruption?
A47258What false Spies are they, who have brought this Evil Report upon the Church, as if it were hideous and intolerable, and would eat up the Inhabitants?
A47258Who knows, but the better sort of Dissenters have these Scruples on them?
A47258Why do we not in this Case make the same reasonable Inference?
A47258Why should it not make them sensible, there be some returns due of silial Respect and Love, for her Bowels of Affection to them?
A47258Why should they desire to be interr''d within the Precincts of the Church?
A47258Would any of Us request, that our dead Bodies should be carried into an Enemy''s Country, rather than be laid up in our Native Land?
A10033But how shall wee ouercome this Enemy that is alwayes at home?
A10033There is a Crowne of righteousnesse laid vp; But for whom?
A10033What Souldier will not be glad to watch with his Captaine?
A10033What Tenant can complaine that hee did ouer rack their rents?
A10033What then shall wee doe?
A10033or ouer- burden them with his might?
A10033what Christian will not runne to watch, when they heare Christ thus kindly calling them?
A10033what neighbour can iustly accuse him that hee did ouer- beare them in their right?
A47043A laudato viro laudari quis non vehementèr cupiat?
A47043And how is that?
A47043And wherefore all this?
A47043But how is Christ in that considered?
A47043But, what then?
A47043What this his Kingdom?
A47043shall this conclude Christs Kingdom and reign, then to cease and end?
A5987645, 46. Who then is a Faithful and Wise servant, whom his Lord hath made Ruler over his Houshold, to give them meat in due season?
A59876But what Authority is this?
A59876But what is danger to that man, who is in a greater danger by the neglect of his Duty?
A59876But what is this Power which Christ hath given to his Ministers?
A59876Is it not the duty of us all, as we are able, to instruct, exhort, reprove one another?
A59876May not every Christian do the same?
A59876This command Christ gave to Peter, and repeated it three times; Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more then these?
A57133And why should I not trust him, as well in his Covenant of Grace as of Nature?
A57133I am the Lord, the God of all flesh, is there any thing too hard for me?
A57133If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these dayes, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes, saith the Lord of Hosts?
A57133Is any thing too hard for the Lord?
A57133can he give bread also and provide flesh for his people?
A57133why should I not believe that that power which quickens dead corn, can quicken dead men, and can provide as well for my salvation as for my nature?
A48732And would it not be Unjust in us then to deny them those Glorious Advantages, which our Commemoration and Imitation may and ought to give them?
A48732But there we have an Objection, which I must first take out of the way: Where shall we meet with such an One?
A48732Who can find a Vertuous Woman?
A42143Death is the Wages of Sin, hath not Christ suffered for all their Sins, wherefore should they dye?
A42143How can any Man be Righteous?
A42143How do the Righteous perish?
A42143How doth the Righteous perish?
A42143If Man should dye no manner of Death, how could the Truth of God appear?
A42143Why should this be so, hath not Christ died for the Righteous, why then should they dye?
A42143and if that Death due to Sin had been inflicted on Man, how should the Mercy of God have been manifested?
A42143art thou come to call my sins to remembrance?
A59887In speaking to which words, I shall Inquire, What may be called the doings of the Lord?
A59887Shall Tribulation, or Distress, or Persecution, or Famine, or Nakedness, or Peril, or Sword?
A59887That the Joys of Paradise are not greater than a Crown?
A59887This may be thought a very needless question; for are there any Events, Good or Evil, which are not God ● s doing?
A59887What it is to be dumb, and not to open our Mouths?
A59887What may be called the doing of the Lord?
A59887Who then Shall jeparate us from the love of Christ?
A55143For what are all the pleasures and contentments of the World, but as so many rays of that Sun and emanations of that fountain?
A55143For what is it to be happy but to be united to God?
A55143How else will you vindicate the Justice of God in all the odd and confused occurrences of this World?
A55143Where''s your infinite goodness and bounty, that suffers its servants always to be neglected?
A55143and what does unite us to God but Love?
A55143and what is the love of God but Religion?
A55143what will become of an almighty and omniscient Justice if sinners are never call''d to an accompt?
A62598And why should we desire to be always children; and to linger here below to play the fools yet a little longer?
A62598But we hoped to have enjoyed them longer: Be it so: yet why should we be troubled that they are happy sooner than we expected?
A62598Estius is very glad to get off it, by saying there is nothing in it against Purgatory: Why?
A62598For why should we lament the end of that life which we are assured is the beginning of immortality?
A42701And now upon a Review of all this, shall the Christian sorrow like those that have no Hope?
A42701How easily rather, may he at such a time triumph over Death, and cry out, Where is thy Sting?
A42701O Grave, where is thy Victory?
A42701Shall he not be able to part with a Pious Friend or Relation, but must he lament him as if lost for ever?
A42701What shall I say more?
A42701Where are all your Trophies?
A42701are not even ye in the Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
A42701how shall I deliver thee, Israel?
A47237Amidst all her pains, and her sicknesses, which were sharpe, and many, who ever saw her shew, any one symptome of Impatience?
A47237But why did I call her death a loss?
A47237Do not Hypocrites, to court the esteem of the Vulgar, personate the Saint, and Politians, to make the People honour them, pretend to Religion?
A47237On the contrary, is there not a natural shame, a sense of turpitude, or a confusion of face in vicious and unclean actions?
A47237Say, All you who have been Eye- witnesses of her Life, did you from her very Cradle, ever know her any other, than a gracious Woman?
A47237What Rules do the Philosophers prescribe to render our lives most satisfactory to our selves, and most commendable to others?
A47237What man is there so wicked, who on his death- bed does not wish that he may die the death of the Righteous, and that his latter end may be like his?
A47237Who is there can say, they ever saw her idle?
A47237what Images do the Poets form when they design an Heroe, are they any other than the Rules, and Colours, and Images of moral Goodness?
A47237why else are men afraid to commit them, before the most inconsiderable Spectatour, and chuse darkness for a thick Mantle to cover them?
A47237why else do their own Consciences, lash and upbraid them?
A47237why else do they blush to own them, wish a thousand times they had never been done, and reflect on them with dissatisfaction, and horrour?
A47237with what Colours do the Oratours paint those persons they intend to Celebrate?
A64130But what do they in the mean time?
A64130Ergo Quintilium perpetuus sopor Urget cui pudor& justitiae soror, Incorrupta fides, Nudaque veritas, Quando ullum inveniet parem?
A64130How is it with them?
A64130whether before the resurrection there shall be a reward of works?
A60346And is it not good for us to prepare for Death?
A60346And there is but one reason( I mean which is worth any thing, and which is not easily answered,) why a truly Godly man should be willing to live?
A60346Having taken Christ in his arms, what did the good man do?
A60346Hence such complaints and grounds as these, Oh, what a wretch am I, should be so unmindfull of God, so unthankfull to God, so unfruitfull before him?
A60346If any one should propound this question, What is that right and proper use which we should make of promises?
A60346If once he be full ripe for Glory, why should he stand any longer?
A60346Such men may well say to Death, as Ahab did to Elijah, hast thou found me, O mine enemy?
A60346This is my plague, but whence or by whom cometh my deliverance?
A60346What have they reason to say, but that you find a great deal in it?
A60346Will it not be our Wisdom?
A60346Will your Wisdom more eminently discover it self in any thing, than in this?
A45388Every discreet Person before he engage in any Undertaking of consequence, will deliberate and consider: Cui bono?
A45388For how shall he instruct, or convince, those who are not ashamed of Impertinencies, Non- sense, or most gross Absurdities?
A45388He is now taken away, and are we duly apprehensive of our Loss?
A45388Were they ashamed when they had committed Abomination?
A45388What Advantage or Benefit is to be expected?
A45388What dismal Effects have sprung from the poisonous Root of affected Popularity?
A4269610. wherein he gently Reproves her, 2. gives a valid Reason for this Reproof, in the Words of my Text, in a double Interrogation: What?
A42696As if he should say, what bad Advice do you give me?
A42696Did Christ silently and patiently bear, and bear away our sins?
A42696Or shall we direct our Soveraign Lord, nay, our Father, what Rod He shall scourge us with?
A42696Shall any teach God knowledge?
A42696The Cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
A42696Then shall we receive good at the hand of God, and not evil?
A42696What would you have me to sin against God?
A42696What, shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
A42696Wherefore doth a living man complain?
A320625,[ 1] p. Printed for G. Horton, and published by a perfect copy, London:[ 1651?]
A32062But then the Question will be, In what respect is the death of the wicked compared to a sleep?
A32062But then the great question will be, How shall I do this?
A32062But what made Stephen die thus quietly?
A32062But what was the substance of Stephens prayer?
A32062It is true, when a child of God dies the soul goes to sleep; How is that?
A32062Oh how delightfull is sleep to a weary man?
A32062The body, that indeed lies in the grave asleep, but how?
A32062What is it to sleep in Jesus?
A32062Whether the death of the wicked be not in Scripture compared to a sleep, as well as the death of the godly?
A63941Is there no comfort after all this?
A63941What is it to me that Rome was taken by the Gaules?
A63941What?
A63941and what is it now to Camillus if different religions be tolerated amongst us?
A63941shall we go from hence, and be no more seen, and have no recompense?
A605685?
A60568O Lord, how long shall we thus violate and defame that Gospel of peace that we profess?
A60568Though his sickness was very painfull( caused by an ulcer in his bladder) yet who ever heard him complain in that or any other trouble?
A60568Where is the poor man from whom he turned his face?
A60568how communicative was he?
A60568how long shall we thus madly defeat our selves, lose that Christianity which we pretend to strive for?
A60568or where the poor pupil that ever he turned from the Colledge for lack of money?
A26800How graceful was the Condescendence of her Greatness?
A26800How happy was her Society, redoubling his Comforts, and dividing his Cares?
A26800How little then of his Nature is known here?
A26800How pernicious had it been to others?
A26800How shall Man, a Creature so impotent and apprehensive of Dangers, compose the Disorder of his Passions?
A26800How shall he support his Spirit in an unsafe and unquiet Condition?
A26800How should this great Example correct those who are lavish of nothing so much as of Time; which, being lost, is irrecoverable?
A26800If her Mind had been prepossest with so dangerous Errors, how hard to have represented Truth convincingly to her?
A26800If she had been tainted with it, how unhappy had it been to her self, how pernicious to others?
A26800If the Light that is in thee be Darkness, how great is that Darkness?
A26800The Prophet alledges this Reason of his Confidence, Art not thou from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine holy one?
A26800What then can quiet our Fears under imminent Evils?
A26800Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
A26800Who ever saw in the Queen an Appearance of Pride and Disdain?
A26800Who saw any Disorder in her Countenance, the Chrystal wherein the Affections are visible?
A26800what can revive and support our Hopes in our Distress and Exigencies but the unchangeable God, whose Love, and Power, and Truth, are everlasting?
A45557And for this reason Alphonsus putting the Question, what it was that did make high and low equall?
A45557Dic mihi ubi sunt amatores mundi?
A45557Epictetus when asked, What was common to the King with the Begger?
A45557Excellently doth St. Chrysostome here enlarge, He that can not defend himself, how shall he deliver another?
A45557I die( said Esau) and what good will my Birth- right do me?
A45557If you ask why the soul of man is called by this name of a spirit?
A45557Shall his spirit go forth when he will?
A45557Upon how slender a thred doth our life hang?
A41541But how soon were our Desires and Expectations blasted on a sudden?
A41541Goodwin, Thomas, 1650?-1716?
A41541Goodwin, Thomas, 1650?-1716?
A41541To what Power shall he have Recourse to defend him, who wants the Divine Assistance?
A41541What Delight doth a Man feel, when those Furies being quell''d, he enjoys an unclouded Serenity of Mind?
A41541What great, and just Expectations had we from the Reign of a Princess, in whom Regal Power was join''d with Goodness, and Grace?
A41541What greater Torment is there, than a Man''s own unruly Passions when let loose, which rage with the utmost Violence?
A41541What is the greatest among Men, without the Care and Aids of the Almighty, but a poor wretched Creature abandon''d to Misery, and Despair?
A41541Where can he be safe, whom God will not take care of?
A41541Where can we find Ground for hope to settle upon, or from whence can we expect a Rescue?
A41541Whither shall that Man go for Advice, whom God refuseth to lead by his Counsel?
A64379How does her Life upbraid theirs, who are at the end of their Race, before they have set a few wise Steps?
A64379Their Majesties Letters for Reformation were early issu''d out, but how few had a just regard to them?
A64379how good, how happy a Life was this?
A64379shal we receive Good from the Hand of God, and shal we not receive Evil?
A64379what a glorious Scene was it, not of vain Pleasure, and soft and unprofitable Ease, but of true Usefulness and Comfort?
A47239Amidst all her pains, and her sicknesses, which were sharp, and many, who ever saw her shew any one symptom of Impatience?
A47239But why did I call her death a loss?
A47239Do not Hypocrites, to court the esteem of the Vulgar, personate the Saint, and Politicians, to make the People honour them, pretend to Religion?
A47239On the contrary, is there not a natural shame, a sense of turpitude, or a confusion of face in vicious and unclean actions?
A47239Say, All you who have been Eye- witnesses of her Life, did you from her very Cradle, ever know her any other, than a gracious Woman?
A47239What Rules do the Philosophers prescribe to render our lives most satisfactory to our selves, and most commendable to others?
A47239What man is there so wicked, who on his death- bed does not wish that he may die the death of the Righteous, and that his latter end may be like his?
A47239Who is there can say, they ever saw her idle?
A47239what Images do the Poets form when they design an Heroe, are they any other than the Rules, and Colours, and Images of moral Goodness?
A47239why else are men afraid to commit them, before the most inconsiderable Spectatour, and chuse darkness for a thick Mantle to cover them?
A47239with what Colours do the Oratours paint those persons they intend to Celebrate?
A20734And so for other sinnes, shall I defile the member of Christ with idolatrie, and make it a member of Antichrist?
A20734But what need I other proofes, seeing the holy Ghost in the Scripture plainely affirmeth that the faithfull be in Christ?
A20734But you will say, how can we be in Christ, seeing he is in heauen, and we on the earth?
A20734For as the Apostle saith, Faith commeth by hearing the word: and againe, How can they beleeue in him, of whom they haue not heard?
A20734For what are Preachers, but Ministers by whom you doe beleeue?
A20734For what is our happinesse, that is esteemed and affected of vs as our chiefest good?
A20734What?
A20734and how can they heare without a Preacher?
A20734the dead blessed?
A30416And what do most of those things amount to, in which we are employed?
A30416And what is the just support of a man under those trials?
A30416Are we such strangers to our selves, that we have never so much as considered what our Callings and relations oblige us to?
A30416Count we nothing small that offends God, and blemishes our own Integrity?
A30416Do we often and narrowly review our life that we may discover past errors, and correct them for the future?
A30416How will they reckon that the time past ought more than suffice them to have wrought the will of the flesh?
A30416So what are all the Arts of policy and craft in the world, but like the cunning tricks of madness?
A30416Vainly conceiting, that if we pray a little, all is well?
A30416When a man is overwhelmed with calamities and troubles, what miserable comforters prove all those other things in which he formerly rejoyced?
A45688And how can you bear to think of dwelling with consuming Fire, and abiding with everlasting Burnings?
A45688Do not the continual totterings and shakings of our Earthly Tabernacles, and the frequent Repairs which they stand in need of, portend their Downfal?
A45688How terrible will the Agonies of Death be to us, if we see our selves destitute of a Title to Eternal Life?
A45688Shall we not be frequently conversant in that glorious Place, where we hope eternally to dwell?
A45688What Beauty is there in the Rubbish of the most splendid and stately Palace?
A45688What Madness is it to prefer a Clod of Earth to a Spirit?
A45688What Value is there in the Rubbish of a fallen Sructure, which while standing was worth many thousands, or what use can it serve for?
A45688Would you, O Sinners, get a Title to this Habitation?
A40687But was there not a cause, when through the sides of David she struck at all true devotion?
A40687God hath forgotten it, why should man remember it?
A40687Have you never seen a wanton child run a firebrand against the Hearth or back of the Chymney, and so on a suddain make a skie of sparks?
A40687Is it I Lord?
A40687Is it I Lord?
A40687Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me, they were exceeding sorrowfull, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord is it I?
A40687What a shame shall it be, if when our Age shall ask with Iudas, is it I?
A40687Why camest thou down hither?
A40687Why have you done so?
A40687Wouldst thou have it taste bitter?
A40687and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness?
A40687eng Heycock, George, d. 1657?
A40687it shall taste bitter and reprove thee; taste sweet?
A40687it shall taste sweet and comfort thee; taste betwixt both, bitter- sweet?
A47257Even so, when the Righteous are taken away, how without Resistance must descend the Evil to come?
A47257Our Bodies Hungry and Thirsty, and our Souls fainting in them?
A47257Shall Carcasses fall in Heaps, and the Living be buried among the Dead?
A47257Shall Invasion, and Conquest, and Slavery, drown us in Sweat and Bloud?
A47257Shall Seven Years of Famine come upon us in our Land?
A47257Shall we choose any One of the Three Evils, which Gad offer''d to David?
A47257Shall we flee Three Months before our Enemies, while they pursue us?
A47257That when the Walls of a City are broken down, how easy is it for the Enemies to enter and destroy?
A47257Well, but Shall there be Three Days Pestilence in the Land?
A47257What Judgment may we expect?
A47257What may we not expect?
A47257When the Banks are laid low, how naturally will the Waters overwhelm the defenceless Ground?
A47257When the Pillars of a Temple are took away, how soon must the unsupported Fabrick fall?
A47257Who can not but Consider?
A54873Abbott, Mordecai, d. 1700?
A54873And the Apostle represents Believers as triumphing over Death in such terms as these; O Death, where is thy Sting?
A54873Is he dead?
A54873O Grave, where is thy Victory?
A54873Shall be deliver his Soul from the hand of the Grave?
A54873Shall he deliver his Soul from the hand of the Grave?
A54873What Man is he that liveth, and shall not see Death?
A54873Why should the Righteous be afraid to repose upon a bed of dust?
A54873With what seriousness and diligence did he attend on Sermons, and what Pains did he take in the writing and repeating of''em?
A58818How dare we then talk of Repenting hereafter, when we consider, that it is not in our power to command so much as one moment of future time?
A58818How must it needs blank and amaze and confound him?
A58818How would it blank and amaze me to think, that ever I should be so mad, as to run such a desperate hazard?
A58818Now of what dismal consequence would it be, should I be thus surprized?
A58818why do not ye cool my feaverish Blood?
A58818why do not ye ease my labouring Heart, and quiet my convulsed and tormented Bowels?
A58818why do not ye quench my raging Thirst?
A58818you that promised to be a heaven upon earth to me, why do not ye now help me in this my last Extremity?
A041652. to him; 3. to you, to speake somewhat of the sanctified life, and blessed death of this Religious Gentleman, ● ow to be ● ● erred?
A0416535. and 36. we haue foure speakers; Christ asketh a question,( Where haue yee laid him?)
A04165The obseruation of which phrase, made a Learned man c demaund this question; What, haue teare, tongues, trow we?
A04165To God for all his gifts we 〈 ◊ 〉 thankfulnesse m and what greater thankefulnesse, then to be telling of his goodnesse to vs or others?
A04165What greater feruencie then that which is testified by vnfaigned teares?
A04165What?
A04165Yet what a detraction is this from the dead?
A04165and is there not much more such fellow- feeling in the misticall members of Christ?
A04165and shall wee not much more mourne that men should bee strangers to the life of God, through the ignorance which is in them?
A04165eng Moyle, John, d. 1614?
A04165k Oh shall wee weepe to see a friend at the point of death, or to heare that his soule is departed for a season, and his bodie dead?
A10034Againe, Are not mans daies determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds which hee can not passe?
A10034And when wee are to enter into possession, will he exclude vs?
A10034Art thou a king, thou art subiect to mutability?
A10034Art thou noble, art thou rich, thou art but vanity?
A10034Hast thou feared God in life?
A10034He came to vs on earth to innite vs to him, and why departed he from the earth, but to haue vs follow him?
A10034He come to open heauen gates, and what meant he, but that wee should enter in?
A10034He that accepteth his enemies, will hee reiect his friends?
A10034He that bought vs so deere, will he refuse his penyworth?
A10034How often hath the gouernement of Rome beene changed?
A10034Is our life so short?
A10034Our dying on earth is but the taking of our iourney to heauen: Why are we vnwilling to loose that, which can not be kept?
A10034What is death that thou fearest it?
A10034What is there vnder the Sunne that is perpetuall?
A10034What proportion is there betweene God and man?
A10034Why dost thou feare death?
A10034Why is any man vnwilling to dye?
A1690612 Now for other parts of morall vertues, how many rare things were in him?
A16906And he sayd, What shall I crie?
A16906Heere, may I not say with the Poet?
A16906How angry would he be, when he was at his Countrey house, if they came not duly to praiers?
A16906In his Will how carefull was he, that all debts should be paid?
A16906Now if these things be so, why doe men set their hearts on the glory of this world?
A16906What noble man in our time was more giuen to hospitalite, and keeping of a great house?
A16906What shall I crie?
A16906Who more fast vnto his friend?
A16906Who more kind vnto his children, and to his Grand- children?
A16906Who more louing vnto his wife, that Honorable Ladie, the mirrour of all true vertue?
A16906Who more magnificent than than his Lordship in solemne entertainments?
A16906Who more true of his word?
A16906Who was euer more desirous to doe wrong vnto none?
A16906or why should we lacke any speaking?
A16906who more moderate to his enemy, if truth were once found out, and staining imputations were wiped away from the integritie of his Honor?
A47417( I speak as a Man) God forbid: for how then shall God judge the World?
A47417And as for the various ways and means of our Deaths, they are only open to his Omniscient Eye: So that who shall declare these Works of his Justice?
A47417But Secondly, The Divine Judgments are terrible, The Works of his Justice who can endure?
A47417But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say?
A47417Job demands Wherefore do the Wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
A47417Now such a wounded Spirit who can bear?
A47417Or who can dwell with everlasting burnings?
A47417Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy Judgment: Wherefore do the wicked prosper?
A47417The Spirit of a Man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded Spirit who can bear?
A47417The Unsearchableness and Terror of Gods Justice, Who can declare the Works of his Justice, or who can endure them?
A47417Who shall declare the Works of his Justice, or who can endure them?
A47417is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?
A47417what is it we are so fond of in it?
A32022And when Plato saw one of his Scholars overcuriously pampering his Body, he said to him, What do you mean to make your Prison so strong?
A32022As Balaam saith concerning the people of Israel, Who can count the dust of Iacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel?
A32022But how?
A32022But is there not a substance preserved also in the bodies of the wicked?
A32022But still the question is, What part of Stephen fell asleep?
A32022How may a man know that he hath an interest in Christ?
A32022In what particulars may the death of a Child of God be compared to sleep?
A32022Is not the death of a wicked man called a sleep as well as the death of a Saint?
A32022Is there any cause of rejoycing for those who dwell in dust?
A32022O Death, where is thy Sting?
A32022O Grave, where is thy Victory?
A32022So may I say, Who can sufficiently express the love that God bears to the dust of Iacob, and to the bodies of his people, while in their graves?
A32022Then he begins to say, Where is all the carnal pleasure I once took in my sinfull courses?
A32022We read of Micah, that when the men of Dan stole away his Gods, he followed them crying, and they turned back, and asked him what aileth thee?
A32022What benefit doth the body in the grave gain by his souls being in heaven?
A32022What part of a Child of God is it that sleepeth when he dieth?
A32022Why should we fear that, which if it should not happen, we should be superlatively miserable?
A32022he answered, ye have taken away my gods,& c. and do you say to me, what aileth thee?
A48837Among the Hebrews their Question was, when they asked how one did; 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 is all well?
A48837And after all this, Why may not I say my Text over his Corps?
A48837And if the Righteous scarcely be Saved, where shall the Sinner and the Vngodly appear?
A48837And yet will you see how God performed with him?
A48837If such a one, as he was, should miscarry and perish; God help us, in this Age How Few are they that shall be Saved?
A48837If the peace of God in this world passes all understanding, How much more doth that peace of God in Heaven pass all our expression?
A48837That perfect Peace of the Perfect Man, Who is able to express it, but he that hath already attained it?
A48837That the Law made nothing Perfect?
A48837What if one be snatch''t away in the prime of his years?
A48837Which of us can be Perfect as St. Paul was?
A48837Why may not I call him by these good Names in it?
A48837Why may not I say, His End is Peace?
A48837what if he be cut off in the Field of Battel?
A48837what if he leaves a miserable widow and children?
A48837what if he leaves an Embroil''d estate behind him?
A48837what if he sees the Church of God tottering, and ready to fall after him?
A67488Alas, where is he to be found?
A67488And if the gleanings of Abiezer be such, what will be the Vintage of Ephraim?
A67488First, Who is the Righteous man?
A67488Then farewell Priviledge, for where is the Person?
A67488What Peace and Rest shall these men be priviledged with at the time of their death?
A01347But O you poore, to you what was she?
A01347CVrita turgescis moles?
A01347Egredere anima mea quid dubitas, septuaginta prope annis seruîsti Deo,& iam mori times?
A01347Goe out my soule why doubtest thou, seuenty yeeres almost hast thou serued God, and fearest thou now to die in the vpshot?
A01347How well doe teares become the eyes in the house of mourning, so that moderation lendeth a napkin to drie vp excesse of weeping?
A01347If so how fell hee, if he fell how so?
A01347Indeed why should we looke for loue when our head found hatred?
A01347It is impossible, Si iustus quomodo cadit, si cadat quomodo iustus?
A01347Then what haue we to doe with this light, for whom a light neuer eclipsed with any darknesse is in reuersion?
A01347VVHat means this mourning on mount Libanō ▪ Why howle ye firre trees?
A01347Were euer those eies seene without pittie, or hands without bountie?
A01347What ingratitude were it to repine at our friends promotion, and for our pleasure to debarre his preferment?
A01347What is my birth right seeing I am almost dead?
A01347What profit is there in my blood, when I goe down into the pit?
A01347What then is the Prophets meaning to aduise this sadnesse?
A01347Who knoweth not that great births haue the strongest ties to chayne them to those duties, by which the ancestor rose or flourished?
A00510And shall man onely not rise, for whom all these things rise in their periods and seasons?
A00510And yet if any list to dispute, let me aske as St. Paul did, why should it seeme an impossible thing, to raise up one that is dead?
A00510Beleeve you in the Lord Iesus?
A00510Beleevest thou this?
A00510But art thou yet in thy sinnes?
A00510But this I know: Many will make a boast of faith( saith Salomon) but where shall we finde a faithfull man?
A00510Doest thou beleeve in his Resurrection?
A00510Doest thou beleeve in the death of Iesus Christ?
A00510Give me then leave to question you, as the Apostle did Agrippa, Beleevest thou the prophets?
A00510How many that lived neere her, hath the Elixar of the same goodnesse, rendered of the same qualitie, and propertie?
A00510Is it thought impossible in nature?
A00510O grave, where is thy victorie?
A00510or what portion have we left upon the Earth?
A00510what should withhold him from being restored?
A56470And were it not better for us to embrace cordially the things which belong to our everlasting peace, before they are hid from our eyes?
A56470But if he had resolved at that time to break off his sins by Repentance, yet alas how improper a time was that for it?
A56470Will God own such a Wretch as I?
A56470and in the middle of his sickness said, Shall the unspeakable joys of Heaven be confer''d on me?
A56470asking often, Can there be mercy and pardon for me?
A56470or if it had, that it would have been accepted?
A56470what fear?
A56470what vehement desire?
A45553( I may add) or one day to his life?
A45553Are our friends for the present in a flourishing estate?
A45553Are the Churches or our enemies( to outward appearance) in an established condition of prosperity?
A45553Do we assent to this truth, death is the end of all men?
A45553Do we then see others brought to their graves?
A45553Solomon speaking of the comforts of life, seemeth to call them non entities, Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?
A45553Whenas the measure of our dayes is contracted to an hands bredth, why should the earthy desires of our hearts be so much enlarged?
A45553in how short a revolution of time, how dolefull an alteration?
A45553what should out meditation be, but this, death will be my end?
A85734Did not he refuse to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter?
A85734though in a Paradise of all earthly pleasures?
A50418And what were those gifts?
A50418But Quo Jure?
A50418But why by the laying on of Hands?
A50418For, First, what would men have him do?
A50418Had they preacht to the Gentiles, where was their gift of Tongues, to preach to all Nations, who could speak no Tongues but one?
A50418Issue forth commissions to the Rulers of his Church, as he did to the Apostles, in Miracles nad Wonders?
A50418Must the Potter give a Reason of his Actions to his Clay?
A50418Nay, sayes the Independent Preacher, by a Licence from the State?
A50418Thirdly, how shall men preach except they be sent?
A50418Verse?
A50418What means this Presbytery, with their laying on of hands?
A50418Where was their Warrant or Commission to do so?
A50418Who signed and sealed their Patent by the laying on of hands?
A50418Why by such a Forme, such a Ceremony as this?
A50418Why is there mention made then in this Text of a Presbytery?
A50418Why not by a Licence drawne up in Writing from the Church?
A87103Shall such stars fall from the firmement, and no eyes behold it?
A87103There is a perishing that is common to the Righteous with the wicked: will you know what it is?
A87103no heart consider it?
A92746And if the best of our being be so near to nothing, what is our outward Man, which is but the umbrage and shadow of our being?
A92746For what are the Pains of a moment to the Pleasures of an Eternity?
A92746Who was ever so mad, as to make a Voyage for Gold or Spices to Vtopia?
A45689Aye they might well say so, may some think, for they had not yet obtained the Land of promise; but was it so afterwards?
A45689Connubiine diem celer es celebrare reversum?
A45689Cujus praecordia rumpis?
A45689En quid habet thalamus?
A45689Eximius candor nil; nobilitasque parentam: Suadet, ut infaustum poteris divertere telum?
A45689Non mala sat sentis nisi sis sub pondere stratus?
A45689Parca quid insanis?
A45689QUo cuis unfaelix, nunquam sat flebile fatum?
A45689Quae servare potes, num Tu cruciabis amantem?
A45689Quae sunt hôc pectore mendae?
A45689Quid facis ah Fatum?
A45689Quid rutilas ocule?
A45689Siccine faeminio gaudes vicisse triumpho: Siccine deliciam nostri prosternis amoris: Viscera quid solitas servatis corpore fedes?
A45689Te nil tot fulgura mentis: Nil pietas, nil cara fides; nil inclyta virtus?
A45689Turgida quid fugiunt cordis ligamina ruptum?
A45689Y''have lost your softest, sweetest half, a part Is rent from off that Cawl that hides your heart: How great''s your loss?
A45689extinguatur luminis ictus: Vel si gratus eris Domino sis fletibus aptas Vivere quid valeat; pereunt cum gaudia vitae?
A45689possis non atque marite perire?
A45689ut scociam, me sub discrimine tanto Queras?
A45686And would you Bless this taking God?
A45686Are there any Forts or Towers into which he can not enter?
A45686Can you flie into any remote Countrey where his Arm can not reach you?
A45686Can you think that the great Jehovah will be charm''d by your Beauty, or overpower''d by your Strength?
A45686Do not we see them who had Children one day, Childless the next; and those who had Wives one day, to be Widdowers before the next?
A45686Doth not this look like the Blasphemy which the Devil expected out of his Mouth?
A45686Hast thou a good Husband or Wife?
A45686Hast thou lost a Child, a comfortable Child, a Child in its ripe Age?
A45686How then could Job charge this upon God?
A45686Is God the most excellent Being?
A45686Is not Praise and Thanksgiving due from us to him at all times?
A45686Will the Great God have any regard to your Worldly Riches, or Temporal Grandure?
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A45686then shall we say with Micah when the Danites had taken away his Idol and his Priest, What have I more?
A57375And, if the whole Church of God lay among the Pots: why might not she?
A57375Are your dear Allies in deep Afflictions, much blacked and disfigured as among the Pots?
A57375Do you think the worse of a piece of gold, because it is besmeared with soot?
A57375How, and in what way doth God take his People from the Pots, deliver them from their distresses and afflictions?
A57375May I now speak a few words of Advice to you that survive: especially to you the dear and Hopeful children of so Happy a Mother?
A57375O then, who would not Triumph to be Godly?
A57375Or do you ever the less value* a Jewel, because it s fallen into the myre?
A57375Say f Whom have we in heaven but thee?
A57375Who would not say with him?
A57375Why else doth he mention the wings of a Dove, rather then of any other fowl?
A57375Your losses of her may be abundantly made up in God: but what can compensate her present felicities?
A57375b If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons: for what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not?
A57375what an happy issue God gave of all his sufferings, and why?)
A57375who would not tremble to be wicked?
A45685And did he bury these Talents?
A45685And how sad an Account will you give if taken out of the World in your present state?
A45685Are they advanc''d to any Station wherein they are capable of serving Christ or his People with their Interest?
A45685Are we satisfied that our deceased Friends were good and faithful Servants of Christ?
A45685Can you bear to dwell in blackness of Darkness, and to lie in unquenchable Flames with Legions of Devils?
A45685Have they a plentiful Estate?
A45685How freely and liberally did he contribute towards the relief of those that were in want, and the propagation of the Gospel?
A45685How joyful is a Man when recover''d from a languishing Sickness, and eas''d of racking Pain?
A45685How will it rejoyce to possess an incorruptible, a spiritual, a glorious and an immortal Body?
A45685Shall he deliver his Soul from the hand of the Grave?
A45685Since Christ will bestow such an unspeakable Happiness upon you hereafter, how willing should you be to do your utmost to serve him here?
A45685Some Talents are intrusted with us all, do we carefully improve them?
A45685They will not say of any Divine Command, This is a hard saying, who can bear it?
A45685We have a great deal of Work to do, are we diligent in it?
A45685What Man is he that liveth, and shall not see Death?
A45685What Pleasure will result from those bright Idea''s of God and Christ, wherewith our Minds shall be filled?
A45685What an elevation then will be given to our Joy, by the clearest view of the most excellent Objects?
A45685Will not a Prisoner rejoice when reliev''d from that Dungeon to which he was confin''d, and freed from those Fetters wherewith he was shackled?
A44680Am I one of them, in reference to whom Death shall be swallowed up in such a Victory?
A44680And doth it cause with you no qualmish thoughts?
A44680And shall it be always thus, by our own Consent, with any of us?
A44680And the insulting Enquiry, Where is it?
A44680But can we suppose them spacious, wild Wasts?
A44680But what sort of assent?
A44680Do we think this saying a Fable; or a Trifle?
A44680For wherein do we usually state the notion of Natural Life, but in a self- moving power?
A44680Hath he said it, who then shall gainsay it?
A44680Have these Words no meaning?
A44680Have you long expected Life, and( which is less likely) do you meet with continual and total disappointments?
A44680How can we but think so, unless our whole Religion be with us but a Fable?
A44680Is there not strong Consolation in them?
A44680My Friends, do you not find there is Spirit in these words?
A44680Recollect your selves then; How do your Lords Dayes, and other Seasons, of attending this Gospel, pass over with you?
A44680We have however the rational, intellectual Life, and can think: Do we think''t is fit for us to rest satisfy''d, and secure, in such a state?
A44680What will this come to?
A44680What?
A44680Where then is this swallowing up of Death in Victory?
A44680satisfy''d in the midst of Death?
A44680such a Death?
A44680while we are capable of apprehending at once, the horror, the danger, and the remedibleness of our Case?
A58814''T is true indeed, the passage from one to t''other is commonly very painfull and grievous; but what of that?
A58814And what though that state, and the laws and customs of it be in a great measure unknown to me?
A58814Can any Physick be nauseous or distastfull, that is prescribed to recover us into such an happy immortality?
A58814Can any thing be unwelcome to us that is in order to so blessed an end?
A58814For God''s sake consider, Sirs; What is there in this world that ye are so fond of it?
A58814For how much pains do we ordinarily take upon far less hopes?
A58814For shall we receive so much good at the hands of God as everlasting life implies, and not be contented to receive some evil?
A58814how can we faint in our Christian race when we see the Crown of Glory hang over the Goal?
A58814what in the other, that ye are so afraid of it?
A48733But what follows?
A48733But, you''l say, if it be so, what use was there then of those Ceremonies and Sacrifices?
A48733Dost thou consider that though it be a Covenant of Grace, thou standest under, yet''t is a Covenant and tyes thee up to conditions?
A48733Dost thou find then that by thy Faith thou ownest and acceptest thy Saviour all over in all his three Offices?
A48733For indeed what proportion was there betwixt those mean oblations and the ransom and price of souls?
A48733Has thy Faith an equal impartial respect to Christs Commands as to his Promises?
A48733If he could make satisfaction, where would be his merit?
A48733Or how could he extend that satisfaction to the benefit of others?
A48733Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
A48733Shall I give my first- born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
A48733Shall I mention her indulgent care and motherly love of her Children?
A48733Shall I tell you of her Conjugal affection and her chast Conversation coupled with fear?
A48733Was no one justified under that Law, no Righteousness to be had by that Dispensation?
A48733What amends then could the death of a poor beast make for the transgression of its owner?
A48733Wherewith shall I come before the Lord?
A48733Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oyl?
A48733and dost thou take as much delight in the obedience of Faith, as thou dost in its assurance?
A48733or how could those sorry acknowledgments reconcile Divine Justice?
A48839Among all these Innocent Offices and Rites of the Primitive Christians, was there any thing of prayer for souls in Purgatory?
A48839And in speaking of these, where shall I begin?
A48839And what if they fall short of the shadow, when they have the substance, in a better and true Immortality?
A48839Are these things Nothing in our sight?
A48839As for Revenge, how could it enter into the breast of him, that hated nothing, but that which makes us hateful to God?
A48839As for us that are now to try how we can bear the want of those many blessings we enjoyed in him; What shall we say?
A48839From sickness, and pain, from labour, and danger, from sorrow, and fear, and care, and what not?
A48839How much more, when for ought we know, they are taken away for our sins?
A48839In all this time, first of Pain, then of dreadful Apprehension, At last in the presence of Death; Who ever saw him dismaid?
A48839Nay when shall I end, if I say all that may be spoken?
A48839Remember them, says the Apostle: What, those that are present?
A48839Was there any thing of prayer to Saints departed this life?
A48839What else made the Egyptian Kings lay out their wealth on Pyramids, and the like stupendious buildings?
A48839What meant those in the unlettered Nations, by the much harder shifts they have made to conveigh any thing of themselves to Posterity?
A48839What moved the old Greeks and the Romans, with so much care and expence to leave Statues and other Monuments, with Inscriptions of their names?
A48839What will become of Israel now thou art gone?
A48839What, with any intention to worship the Martyrs?
A48839When for ought we know, it was because the age was not worthy of them?
A48839Who ever found him surprized?
A48839or head a word from him, unbecoming a wise man, and a true Christian?
A01528* Who would not straine hard for a Crowne?
A0152830. t Quid ista proderit praenosse, si non contingat evadere?
A01528And from what stronger incouragement can this be, than from a crown of life here promised to the crowne of all graces, Perseuerance?
A01528And how are they Christians that keepe no faith with Christ?
A01528And how can we hope to haue strength thus to stand, if we be not carefull to seeke it, where it is only to be had?
A01528And who would not for a spurt, for a short brunt endure any difficultie, any hardnesse, to liue at hearts ease for euer after?
A01528And, is it so then, that without such perseuerance nothing in this kinde is auaileable?
A01528But how long must this faithfulnesse of ours be continued?
A01528But what hath leuitie and inconstancie, saith Augustine, to doe with eternitie?
A01528For how many professe the faith of Christ, that yet are wholly q estranged from the life of Christ?
A01528For what a toy( to speake of) haue we depriued our selues of eternall felicitie?
A01528For what can be long in that, that is not long it selfe?
A01528He will doe it?
A01528How appeareth that, may some say?
A01528Quid autem proderit appellari quod non es?
A01528Quid levitati& aetern ● tati?
A01528Quid tam circumcisum, tam breve, quam hominis vita longissima?
A01528Sometime in regard of their fidelitie and faithfulnesse vnto Christ: l Who is a wise and a faithfull seruant?
A01528What should I say more of him, but as it is in my Text?
A01528Wouldst thou therefore continue faithfull to Christ thy Master, and hold out in thy Christian course to the end?
A01528quid nomen prodest, ubi res non est?
A01528x All the waies of God are mercy and truth, saith the Psalmist, but to whom?
A01528“ Who would not endure much for a Kingdome?
A603515. when they asked her, what her beloved was more than another beloved?
A60351And I beseech you act like wise and considerate men; what satisfactory reason can you give, why you should not give up your selves to Christ?
A60351And there is but a little grace, a dim eye, and a feeble hand, and a short breath; how doth faith stagger, and hope faint, and patience tire?
A60351And what is the reason of this?
A60351And why so?
A60351Behold we have for saken all, and followed thee, what shall we have therefore?
A60351But what is the reason os all this?
A60351Christians, do you not find it so in respect of your spiritual condition?
A60351First then, What or who is this Jesus Christ?
A60351Joy unspeakable and full of glory is the off- spring of faith, what is that then which is caus''d by sight?
A60351What are Scarlet- gowns to a robe of Righteousness?
A60351What then is the presence and bosome of Christ?
A60351Whom ● … ave I in heaven but thee?
A60351Yet these are but transient sights, and as in a glass; what then will be the issue, and product of that full view which they shall have in heaven?
A60351change your Master; Why should you slave for a lust?
A60351shall they be divided at the last?
A60351what a Crown of Gold to the Crown of Life?
A60351what profit ca ● … you have of those things which will cause shame, and sorrow, and death?
A60351what will be the end of these things?
A60351where shall you take up your everlasting abode, unless you face about, and steer another course?
A60351who shall deliver me from this body of de ● … th?
A60351why shall Christs servants thus be where he is?
A60351why should you take pains to ruine and undo your selves?
A015381. u Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?
A01538A quo prope non est, parata omnibius locis, omnibus momentis?
A01538And b who can draw a cleane thing out of tha that is vncleane?
A01538And what place more secure than Heauen, his owne house?
A01538And what should hinder, but that as much may be in a young childe, as in a godly man so affected?
A01538Are our children thus subiect to death, and we Vse 4 know not how soone they may bee taken away from vs?
A01538Are young children also subiect to death?
A01538Art thou desirous then of thy childrens well- doing?
A01538For is a bad man the lesse euill, when hee lieth fast asleepe?
A01538How many are carried ſ from the wombe to the tombe,( as Iob speaketh) from birth immediately to buriall?
A01538How would we be grieued, if we should haue newes brought of some one of the Kings ships lost or cast away at sea?
A01538Is it so that death is euer at our doores?
A01538Mors me antecessit, aliquis intra viscera maternaletum praecocis fati tulit: Sed numquid& peccauit?
A01538Now, where is there almost any that thinke in such cases on this?
A01538O ignaros malorum suorū, quibus non mors vt optimum inuentum naturae laudatur?
A01538Or where can they be safer than with himselfe?
A01538Quis enim 〈 ◊ 〉& mali filium 〈 … 〉 execretur?
A01538Quod enim tempus morti exemptum est?
A01538Si sanctificationascuntur de fidelibus fil ● j, quid opus habent baptizari?
A01538Yea but, how doth God( may some say) then make good a his promise of long life, made to good and obedient children?
A01538e Nunquid vt homo concidat res magni molimenti est?
A01538how can faire water come from a filthy spring?
A01538l. 2. b Quis non magis filiorum salutem quam suam curet?
A01538r Doth death( saith one) he euerie where in wait for thee?
A01538x Sed& si benedictio patrum semini quoque corum destinabatur sine vllo adhuc merito eius, cur non& rentus patrum in fillos quoque redundaret?
A01538yea, how many die t in the wombe?
A64132And truly what is the hope of Man?
A64132At, at, Quintilium perpetuus sopor Urget: cui pudor& justitiae soror Incorrupta fides, nudaque veritas Quando ullum invenient ● arem?
A64132But if Envy be the accuser, what can be the defences of Innocence?
A64132But tell me, where are those great Masters, who while they liv''d flourish''d in their studies?
A64132But what shall become of them that are not Christ''s?
A64132But what''s that to us who saw it not?
A64132For do we not see by experience that nothing of equal loudness does awaken us sooner then a Mans voice, especially if he be call''d by name?
A64132Nay, if from these we have not sufficient causes and arguments of Faith, how shall we be able to know the will of Heaven upon Earth?
A64132Quid enim vultis me otiosum à Domino comprehendi?
A64132Saucior invidiae morsu, quaerenda medela est, Dic quibus in terris sentiet aeger opem?
A64132What is there more in death?
A64132When Man was not, what power, what causes made him to be?
A64132or whether it be permitted to us to live with Lust or Covetousness acted with all the daughters of rapine and ambition?
A64132what is there less in sleep?
A64132whether we are to live good lives or no?
A87090A true Patriot indeed he was, losing, for a time, his Liberty, hazarding his Estate, shall I say his Life?
A87090Behold him in his Death, how Happy?
A87090Et quis i d sibi arrogare andet, quod Paulus ipse fatetur, se non comprehendisse?
A87090It is storyed of Diogenes, that at noone day he went about the streets with a candle lighted; and being asked, What he did?
A87090Mark him in his Life, how Exemplary?
A87090Should we take the same course to finde the perfect and upright man in the Text, how long should we be in seeking?
A87090The Prophet bids us Behold the upright; but alas, where shall we finde one upright man to behold?
A87090The first tearme we meet with is perfect: but where shall we find the man to whom this character belongs?
A87090The like complaint may all who knew this worthy Knight, take up concerning him: What a Looking glasse of Virtues, Theatre of Graces have we lost?
A87090To shut up this, it was a notable speech of Antigonus when Zeno died; Quale theatrum amist?
A87090What doe they need glory on Earth, who are glorified in Heaven?
A87090What madnesse were it for a man that soweth his Field with Cockle, and Tares, to look for good Corne at the Harvest?
A87090When Socrates was asked, How a man might get and keep a good report?
A87090but yet let God be true, and every man a lyar, who affirmes that of Job, which he denies of himself, that he was a perfect and an upright man?
A87090saith Saint Bernard excellently; and who is so arrogant as to think himself more holy then this chief Apostle?
A62597And if it be, wherein the real and absolute force of it doth consist?
A62597And if it be, wherein the real and absolute force of it doth consist?
A62597Art thou greater than our father Abraham: whom makest thou thy self?
A62597Art thou greater than our father Jacob?
A62597I was naked, did ye clothe me or did ye not?
A62597I was sick and in prison, did ye visit me or did ye not?
A62597Now what can we imagin, but that the good God did design some extraordinary reward to such faithfull servants of his?
A62597Now what was the great and famous Promise which God made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?
A62597Second place, to enquire Whether this be any more than an Argument ad hominem?
A62597Secondly, I shall enquire, Whether it be more than an Argument ad hominem?
A62597That is, if men live in another world, how shall the controversie between these seven brethren be decided?
A62597Upon which case they put this Question to our Saviour; whose wife of the seven shall this woman be at the Resurrection?
A62597Was not he Abraham''s God, when he blest him so miraculously with a Son in his old age, and with so considerable an estate to leave to him?
A62597With what indignation did they fly upon our Saviour on this account?
A62597was it not this of being their God?
A62597what need then is there of extending this promise to another world?
A89505But now the great question will be, What shall we do that we may come out of this horror and terror?
A89505Improve it for your friends, that are departed in the Lord: Why should we weep in the day of their preferment?
A89505Now what hope can a wicked man have when God takes away his soule?
A89505and my Jacob?
A89505my Isaac?
A67564Attempt any Exorbitancies?
A67564Cherish any Resentments?
A67564Did He use any Insolencies?
A67564Here indeed we are in loco lubrico, concerned to be reserved and Wary; What shall we say?
A67564If Souls did transmigrate from men to beasts, or from one man to another, who could be rewarded?
A67564Make any Intrigues?
A67564Offer at any Extravagancies?
A67564Pythagoras, or Euphorbus?
A67564Side with any Factions?
A67564Tell me, all ye that would detract from his honour, was he not an Incomparable Subject, Husband, Father, Friend, Citizen, Commander?
A67564Where is thy Victory?
A67564Where is thy sting?
A67564or what shall we not say?
A67564were the Breaches, how gaping, how desperate were the Wounds of these sinful, miserable Nations?
A69531& si is ▪ meretur gratiam qui Iimpietati Receptaculum praestitit ▪ quanto majorem meretur Gratiam qui Religioni Domicilium praeparavit?
A69531* Si Centurio commendatur Domino qui aedificavit Synagogam, quanto est commendatior qui aedificavit Ecclesiam?
A69531But now he is dead, and who knows but that God took him away from the evil to come?
A69531Had he no faults?
A69531KNow you not that a great man is faln in Israel?
A69531The best of us all at Dooms- day would be glad to have their grains of allowance, and why should we grudge them to our betters?
A69531Therefore in King David''s words I may truly say again, Know you not that a great Man is now faln in our Israel?
A69531Was King David a Flatterer for composing and publishing those goodly Epitaphs upon Saul and Abner, who yet were no very good men?
A69531Was he a man all made of Vertues?
A69531or were the godly widows, flatterers for shewing the Coats and Garments which Dorcas made whilst she was alive?
A52175And now what will ye do in the day of Visitation?
A52175And what is it now for us to die, but to pass into the bosom of a reconciled God, to leave the world, and to go to our Father?
A52175Art thou afraid of falling short of Heaven?
A52175Art thou afraid of losing thy Soul for ever?
A52175Art thou afraid of the wrath of God?
A52175Art thou afraid the Devils should fetch away thy soul at death?
A52175Art thou afraid the Law should condemn thee?
A52175Art thou afraid thy sins should find thee out in another world?
A52175But alas, what Comfort can it be to them to be bound up in a Bundle of Tares, and to be cast into unquenchable fire?
A52175But then ask thy self, why thou wouldst not dye, what art afraid of?
A52175Can not you watch one hour?
A52175Can your hearts endure, or your hands be made strong in the day that the great God shall deal with you?
A52175Durst thou dye this night?
A52175Durst thou meet thy Judge this night?
A52175Here they hang their Harps upon the Willows, and how can they sing songs in a strange land?
A52175How can such ever look death in the face, that hide their faces from Christ, and esteem him not?
A52175How happy is our Friend departed?
A52175How will you save your selves?
A52175Or for a wearied body to take a short nap in the dust?
A52175Or where will you hide your selves from the presence of the Lamb?
A52175Their dying, alas, what is it but a going to Hell?
A52175To whom will ye flee for help, and where will you leave your glory?
A52175We all know, we must die; but who knows how to die?
A52175What delight could she take in such an unclean cage, in such a rotten, ulcerous body, in such a base treacherous world?
A52175What hurt is it for an imprisoned soul to be enlarged?
A52175What thinkest thou?
A52175What was it that gave the Israelites safe passage through the Red Sea?
A52175Where will they find such another Saviour?
A52175Why hath the Righteous hope in his death, but because he hath Faith in the Death of Christ?
A52175Why was this?
A52175Wouldst thou die and go to the Grave in peace?
A67164And lastly, What Glory has God had from all?
A67164And what disadvantage is it to be removed to a better Place and more happy Life?
A67164For if we can like nothing but these things, what shall we do when we come to leave''em, when they can not be had?
A67164For so we find Job most passionately expressing himself, Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in Soul?
A67164In a word, What Slaves they can be to worldly things?
A67164Is there not an appointed time to man upon Earth?
A67164Now since we can not see God and live,( for who ever could see a Spirit?)
A67164What sordid Practices and dishonourable Shifts they''ll take up with to save?
A67164are not his days like the days of an hireling?
A67164how tamely they can sit under the lash of Tongues, and content under an ill Name?
A67164to admire his Wisdom, and to behold his Glory, to dwell immediately in his Presence, and continually attend upon his Throne?
A67164to be in special favour with our Blessed Lord in the place he hath prepared for us?
A67164to converse with them freely, without any folly or disguise, or those Passions which spoil the Comfort, and disturb the Peace of Mankind?
A15453And may not Kings expect more fauour in this kinde, to studie out those Aegyptian Hieroglyphiques of the Hearts of Men?
A15453And the rest of the Words of Salomon, and all that hee did, and his Wisedome, are they not written in the Booke of the Acts of Salomon?
A15453And the rest of the words of Salomon, and all that he did, and his wisedome, are they not written in the Booke of the Acts of Salomon?
A15453And the rest of the words of Salomon, and all that hee did, and his Wisdome, are they not written in the Booke of the Acts of Salomon?
A15453And therefore what can a tongue, or an Arme doe a Man good, if they be not guided by somewhat in the Head?
A15453And yet as humorous as they are, what Historie did euer commend Nero, or discommend the Emperor Traian?
A15453Cur ● an ● vitam adeo amamus, vbi quanto ● iutius quis ● u ● rit, tanto ma ● or ● oneratur Sarcina p ● ccator ● m?
A15453He tooke out nothing, but Wisedome said I?
A15453How can he want these golden Apples of Princely Actions, that hath this garden of the Hesperides, wherein they grow?
A15453How did he recommend vnto his loue, the Nobilitie, the Clergie, and the Communaltie in the generall?
A15453How powerfully did hee charge him with the care of Religion and Iustice, the two Pillars( as hee tearm''d them) of his future throne?
A15453How was his Youth freed from the Faction of g France, and his Riper yeares from that of h Spaine?
A15453I, but did you not know before( will some men say) that the King was mortall?
A15453If wee looke abroad into forraign Countries, Quae tam seposita est, quae gens tam barbara?
A15453Lord, what a a Speech hee then made to his Sonne our praesent Soueraigne?
A15453Nam ● ur ● o ● t ● m adeo detr ● ct ● mus?
A15453Quaeris quid sit ampl 〈 … 〉 spacium?
A15453Shall I say therefore of my praesent Master, that he is a great, and a hopefull King?
A15453Shall a Hippocrates with his Ars longa, vita breuis, complaine for a time to study Hearbes?
A15453Tacitus ● s, ● n Plinius?
A15453Were it not for this Sleeping, how had hee obtain''d this aeternall c Dreaming?
A15453What Writer hath cause to speake of a King, but praesently he falles vpon this King of Writers?
A15453When many praetenses were made to this Land, why should they all in this one King be concentred and vnited?
A15453When the two Daughters were so matched, why should Scotland be preferred?
A15453Why did i Gowries Man, prepar''d to Kill him, tremble in his praesence, and begin to adore him?
A15453Why was c the Father killed in his Bed, and yet the Sonne at the same time spared in his Cradle?
A15453Why was the Queen his b Mother barren in France then growne a greater, and yet fruitfull in Scotland, a lesser Kingdome then this of ours?
A15453With what cost doth the Phoenix consume her selfe, because shee knowes she shall be reuiued?
A15453and b Theophrastus fall out with Nature for a further respite to study Trees?
A15453and c Aristotle vexe himselfe for a longer life to studie Motions?
A15453and to perfect that Art of d Vesticius Spurinna, Solā senectute prudentiam, a wisedome taught onely by multitude of yeeres?
A15453c Nos ● i m ●?
A15453when a b new race had gotten the Crowne, why should the name within the space of 115 yeares be thus extinguished?
A45559But for Belivers, who are the Children of God, Members of Christ, and Heires or Glory to be afraid to depart, how incongruous?
A45559But oh my Brethren, how doth St. Pauls desire upbraid our backwardnesse, and chide our feares?
A45559But why?
A45559Doth not the weary Labourer long to be in his bed of ease and refreshment?
A45559I, and go to him, though it be over the boisterous Seas?
A45559It may rationally be enquired, how any man can desire to dye?
A45559Oh what mad Men are we, who set our hearts, and bestow both our love and care upon this world, when we must ere long depart?
A45559Quid oramus& petimus ut adveniat regnum caelorum, si captivitas terre ● ● delectat?
A45559Since we Depart by Death, why do we dote on life?
A45559The Quaere which would next be satisfied refers to the Legitimacy, Whither, and how far death may be desired?
A45559Was ever any man in love with his Fetters?
A45559What can make death welcome to us, if this of being with Christ will not?
A45559What loving Wife would not willingly be with her Husband?
A45559What were these visible Heavens without the Sunne?
A45559When death comes we must Depart; why do we not make ready for our Departure: when we depart, we must walke through a shady Valley?
A45559Why do we daily pray that the Kingdome of Heaven may come, when as we are so much pleased with a captivity on earth?
A45559Why should their departure which is a meanes of joy to them, be matter of grief to us?
A45559Why so much troubled, that they can no longer continue with us, whenas they go to be with Christ?
A45559and seeing we must leave, why do we love this world?
A45559and the other concerning the legitimacy, whither any good man may desire it?
A45559and what Prisoner doth not groan for enlargement, or captive would not welcome liberty?
A45559oh why this Pusillamous spirit in good Christians?
A53926''T is a question that many ask when they are dying, Whether they shall be saved or damned?
A539262. to lay it to heart: to cast and consult with our selves in this, as in other matters, saying, Hence I must: and whither then?
A53926And how shall we do to live in this hard World?
A53926And how wilt thou be made meet to be partaker of that inheritance of the Saints in light?
A53926And is not the welfare of thy body involved in the welfare of the Soul, and that for ever?
A53926And is not thy body earthly, frail and fading?
A53926And shall not the life of this Soul run parallel with the life of God, and line of Eternity?
A53926And what hope or assurance hast thou of an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens?
A53926Do you not find it now and then tottering, as if it were ready to drop down?
A53926For it''s Covetousness, Ambition, Voluptuousness, which the Apostle calls the lusts of the flesh?
A53926How wilt thou do to be saved?
A53926Is not thy Spirit an Heavenly Plant, the immediate product of the Divine breath, of the Eternal Wisdom and Power of God?
A53926Never once asking their Souls in good earnest; Soul, what wilt thou do for that Bread which came down from Heaven?
A53926O how preposterous then is the Care of most men, whose contrivance is chiesly for the body, to gratifie and please the flesh, and to provide for it?
A53926Or wherewith shall we be cloathed?
A53926Or, do you think our Blessed Lord overvalued it, in saying, it should profit a man nothing to gain the whole world, and lose his soul?
A53926There is an everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels:''This is my desert: how shall I escape it?
A53926This I desire; how shall I obtain it?
A53926To make so much provision for the Flesh, and none for the Spirit?
A53926To prefer Dirt before that which is Divine?
A53926What madness is it then to take so much care for the former, and so little for the latter?
A53926What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?
A53926What shall thy state be eternally?
A53926What shall we eat and drink?
A53926Whether they shall be happy or miserable, when they go hence?
A53926is, Who will shew us any good?
A53926that which is bruitish, before that which is the Picture of Gods own Perfections?
A53926to have Conscience fly in your faces, and accuse you for your falsness and unfaithfulness in your places and relations?
A53926whither must my next remove be?
A85403And Job demandeth: Doth the wilde Ass bray when he hath grass?
A85403Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
A85403Hast thou given the HORSE strength?
A85403Hath not the Husbandman as much reason to fear, that his grass and corn will parch and dry away, by the rain of heaven ever and anon falling on them?
A85403How, or in what respect, doth he that giveth unto the poor, lend unto God?
A85403Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thine house?
A85403Know ye not( saith the Apostle) that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God?
A85403What is it that occasioneth, or secretly tempteth men to break out into any way of sin or wickedness whatsoever?
A85403or loweth the Ox over his fodder b?
A85403when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thy self from thine own flesh?
A85403● ● … an it be any thing else, but only want of satisfaction ▪ and desired contentment at home?
A4467713. supposes one speaking with the tongue of Men and Angels, doth he not intend a gradation, and signify the latter far to excel?
A446775. and are told wherein, v. 6, 7, 8. which read over at leisure, and consider what was that deep humiliation and suffering for?
A44677And do you not need such a Leader, in that way?
A44677And if any are fall''n into drowsie Slumbers, do you not need his awakening Ministry?
A44677And what Instruments could be meaner, or more vile, than such as needed to be saved themselves, with the same Salvation?
A44677And what is this to Christian Consolation?
A44677But this Salvation of the Soul, this coming to God, or redemption by Christ, and his intercession thereupon, who looks after?
A44677But what?
A44677For are not these some of your groans, in reference to it, O, who shall deliver us?
A44677He that loveth not his Brother, whom he hath seen, how shall he love God, whom he hath not seen?
A44677How fitly may we take up that of the Psalmist, when the godly man ceases, and the faithful fail from among the children of men?
A44677If dead, how often hath the blessed Spirit breathed life into you, by his quickening Ministry?
A44677In conclusion For you of his dear, and beloved Flock, this may be directive to you as well as consolatory; would you have a Pastor after God''s Heart?
A44677Otherwise in so great a ruine as is come upon this wretched World, what could it signifie?
A44677Our Lord himself was so concern''d for the saving of Souls, as who could be besides?
A44677Preachest thou( as he adds) A man should not steal?
A44677These are not more idle, than others are idly busie, to get Estates, and a Name on Earth; but what is this to their being saved?
A44677Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
A44677Thou that maketh thy boast of the Law, by breaking the Law dishonourest thou God?
A44677Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery?
A44677What is it meant for?
A44677What serves their Office for, but this; as the principal end and design of it?
A44677What so weighty a burden can there be upon any man as this, the importance of his eternal salvation?
A44677and dost thou steal?
A44677for any man, to offer at saving either himself or others?
A44677more than Angels?
A44677to have his Image, and his Love perfected in us, to be with the rest of the elect, partakers of salvation, with eternal glory, is that mean?
A48835And how can we tell, when he doth, or doth not, that which is in his Power secretly to do or not to do?
A48835And the King lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
A48835And what Cordial, what Refection to support him under all this?
A48835And what can do that, more, than the Terror of such an Example?
A48835And why not?
A48835And why so?
A48835But how shall we excuse them, that hold it Lawful to do such things?
A48835But why so?
A48835Could he make no shift for himself?
A48835For whose Interest was it?
A48835He asketh him, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my Fathers Concubines?
A48835How many Lies were you told the mean while, to hide it from you?
A48835How many comfortless hours did he reckon in that merciless Trap where they kept him?
A48835How many deaths have I suffered before Death came to relieve me?
A48835How many insulting words, how many reproaches did he hear?
A48835How many more thousands in Ireland in our Memory?
A48835How many things did I endure e''re they brought me to this?
A48835How much good might one do so qualified as he was, so disposed, so resolved, so verst in Business?
A48835How much more good might he have done, if he had lived to those Years?
A48835If so, what should hinder these men from r ● ising all those Reports of this Person?
A48835If they are speculatively true, why then are they not to be practised?
A48835In the Plague- time, who would have done as he did?
A48835Is not this a fair proof of your Religion?
A48835It was Cassius''s word, Cui bono?
A48835Now who that knows what Informations our Friend had against them, can doubt but they might lawfully kill him by these Doctrines?
A48835Since we know not who they are that were the Authors of this Wickedness, at least can we find who they are that are not willing we should know it?
A48835The King Lamented over ABNER, and said, Died Abner as a Fool dieth?
A48835Was it not a worthy Prize to get such a one into their hands?
A48835What Racks, what Bodily tortures might he probably suffer?
A48835What business have they for him?
A48835What have they not suffered, who have had their Lot in Popish Countries?
A48835What, would none miss his Band, or take notice of his clean Shoes?
A48835Where can they shew the like in Countries of our Religion?
A48835Who knows, but, in the end, it may prove a fatal blow to themselves?
A48835Why couldst thou not fight?
A48835Would none look for the effusion of Blood, or take notice of that which hindred it, that so manifest Coagulation?
A48835nor thy feet put in Fetters, why couldst thou not run away?
A48835without that, What have those poor men suffered?
A60348And if 〈 ◊ 〉 short an enjoyment be so delicious, as all the world is nothing to 〈 ◊ 〉, what then will it be for thee to be with him?
A60348But Death will come to a Child of God; would he not live always?
A60348But here it may be asked, How came this to pass?
A60348But if you ask, What is that ● tate?
A60348Canst thou, O Gracious Soul, give another fully to under ● ● and, how incomparably sweet it is to have Christ here with thee?
A60348Fain they would, but can not: How ● ● ng are they about the work, before they can dispatch and finish 〈 ◊ 〉?
A60348Have we lost much of the Creature?
A60348How can he be ● ling to go, that knows not whither he goes?
A60348How greatly is he ravished when there is Peace spoken to him ● n a Sermon; that passeth not only all expression, but likewise all understanding?
A60348How hard a matter do some ● or Creatures find it to dye?
A60348How he enjoys himself when he is led into the Banquetting- House, and there hath he the Banner of his Saviour''s love spread over him?
A60348How many a Sigh is fetcht, and Groan is spent, before they can send forth the last breath?
A60348If David reckoned that a Day in these his lower and outer Courts, were better than a Thousand elsewhere what then is it to enjoy an Eternity?
A60348Must not Heaven be filled for you?
A60348Must the Happiness and Perfection of the ● aints be deferr''d and put off for you?
A60348Must the Will of God be crost for you?
A60348Or what was it that did thus puzzle the ● ● ostle, and reduce him to so great a strait?
A60348Than what is it better?
A60348That you might have been pleased an ● delighted, that they might have been more helpful and comfortabl ● to you: But is that fit?
A60348The Sun- shine of the Creature is nothing to the Shadow of a Saviour; What then are hi ● Beams ▪ What his Glory?
A60348What ac ● unt is to be given hereof?
A60348What price and estimate will you set on that?
A60348Who ● ● d not fear thee, O King of Nations, for to thee it doth appertain?
A60348Would you be delivered from the fear of ● eath?
A60348You would fain have had your near an ● dear Relations staid here yet longer, and Lov''d and Liv''d with yo ● yet longer: And why so?
A60348then let us lab ● to get so much the more of God and Iesus Christ?
A60348〈 ◊ 〉 thing which had put this Holy man into a strait: What then was it?
A15393A question will be asked in the Porch& entrance, is Elias in earnest?
A15393Chrysostome in his Rhetoricall way demands: where is that spirit of Elias?
A15393Eucherius propounds it another way, Whence came his potency to worke wonders?
A15393Good men pray for sinners not agaynst them: Abraham prayed for the wicked Sodomites, and doth Elias pray against the Idolatrous Jsraelits?
A15393Hath God nothing in store for Joseph but the stocks?
A15393Herodias heeles trip''t off Iohn Baptists head: what if I bee stoned to death?
A15393Ieremy prayed assiduously for his nation till hee was forbidden to pray any more; and did Elias pray for the vexation of his country?
A15393If dye, why did he shun death by flying into the wilder nesse?
A15393If he would liue, why doth he beg death?
A15393Of the infinite happines in that celestiall life, how should I speake?
A15393Oh blessed Lord, are all our liues in the seuerall Ages so variable, in the Callings so troublesome, in the Companions so intollerable?
A15393St. Paul seemes to taxe Elias& he doth it with a Notandum, ye not what the Scripture saith of Elias, that he made intercession to God agaynst Israel?
A15393The Husbandman in the Parable entreateth his Master to spare the vnfruitefull tree, doth Elias wish the destruction of men?
A15393This may qualify his eschuing death by Jezabell, but being past danger, and out of his Persecutors reach, what were the motiues to desire it now?
A15393Vnde tam potens, vnde tam infirmus?
A15393What if my head bee taken from my shoulders?
A15393What is the life we now enioy?
A15393What were it for this wealthy City to reare vp a Library equall to that of Pisistratus at Athens, of Eumenes at Pergamus; of Ptolomey, at Alexandria?
A15393Would you learne faith and confidence in God?
A15393all the earth is the Lords, and I shall be as neare to heauen any where, as at Constantinople: what if I bee throwne into the sea?
A15393for Esay but a saw?
A15393is there a sufficit in our liues?
A15393thinke vpon your Predecessor Abraham the Father of the faithfull; Desire you to leade a pure, chaste life?
A15393thinke vpon your Predecessor Iob; would you bee zealous in the cause of God, and his Orthodox truth?
A15393thinke vpon your Predecessor Joseph; Would you meekly sustaine afflictions of minde, and tormenting diseases of body?
A15393whence his weaknesse to be weary ofhis life?
A15393wher that terrible countenance that put Achab to silence?
A15393where is that tongue the gouernesse of the Elements?
A15393why sits he puling vnder a tree wooing death which will not come at his call?
A15393will not Elias adorne the charriot better then the Iuniper tree?
A15393will not Iohn Baptists head become a Crowne as well as a Platter?
A15393would he liue or dye?
A54841And by that time( with David) they wax old as doth a garment, how earnestly( with S. Paul) shall we groan to be cloath''d upon?
A54841And if the Dayes of Elijah were full of trouble, how was Iob overwhelmed, and running over with his Calamity?
A54841And shall we adventure to live an hour in an impenitent estate, who have not a lease of life promised, no not so much as for an hour?
A54841And shall we dare to tempt God, by presuming upon that which we do not know?
A54841And shall we deferr it beyond to- day, because we may do it as well to- morrow?
A54841Are heaven and hell such triviall things, as to be put to a bare adventure?
A54841Behold here I am, witness against me before the Lord; whose Oxe have I taken?
A54841But how many wayes are there, whereby to frustrate the Intentions and Ends of Nature?
A54841But what is this to the purpose, that''t is certain we may, whilst''t is as doubtfull whether we shall?
A54841For one single way of coming into the world, how many are there to go out of it before our Time?
A54841How did he d Curse the Day of his Birth, and the Night wherein he was conceived?
A54841How many are there buried before their Birth?
A54841How many men''s Cradles become their Graves?
A54841How many rising Suns are set, almost as soon as they are risen?
A54841Is it not good to make sure of happiness, by repenting seriously at present, rather then let it lye doubtfull, by not repenting untill anon?
A54841and overtaken with Darkness in the very Dawning of their Dayes?
A54841how can we know,( silly creatures as we are,) but that this very Night, nay this very minute, either they may be taken from us, or we from them?
A54841or of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith, and I will restore it?
A54841or whom have I defrauded?
A54841or whose Ass have I taken?
A54841shall we dare enter into our beds, and sleep securely any one night, not thinking how we may awake, whether in heaven or in hell?
A54841shall we play for salvation, as it were by filliping cross or pile?
A54841to be cloathed with New apparell, whilst that the old is turning?
A54841what is this but to dally with the day of judgement, or to bewray our disbelief that there is any such thing?
A54841when the b Terrours of God did set themselves in aray against him, how did he c long for destruction?
A54841whom have I oppressed?
A54841why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the Belly?
A79008Are they not all dead?
A79008But what must I do that I may be able to make this gallant and noble end?
A79008But why do you exhort us to persevere when as you tell us, that if we be true Saints we can not but persevere?
A79008Charles the great?
A79008Did not Saint Austin himselfe the great Champion of free grace, against the Pelagians, hold the doctrine of the Apostacy of the Saints?
A79008Give me leave to speak to you in the language of David concerning Abner: Know you not that there is a Prince, a great man fallen this day in Israel?
A79008O miser( saith one thereupon) hoc assidue timés quod semel faciendum est?
A79008O miserable wretch, why doest thou daily fear that which one day must come to passe?
A79008Pompey the great?
A79008The Hebrew is, What strong man liveth and shall not see death?
A79008To me it is sufficient; that God hath said it; and shallnot he do it?
A79008To what purpose do we provide multum viatici, when we have but parum viae; much victuals, when we have but a short journey?
A79008What man is he that liveth( saith David) and shall not see death?
A79008What''s become of Alexander the great?
A79008hoc times quod in tuä manu est ne timeas?
A79008must I die that have so great riches?
A79008shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?
A79008why doest thou feare that which is in thy power not to feare?
A79008will money do nothing?
A79008will not death be hired?
A45343''T is true, he Sins highly that goes away out of this World, before God calls him; yet who would refuse to go, when once he is call''d?
A45343Art afraid to Land after such Storms and Tempests?
A45343Can he bring life to others, by his own death?
A45343Can he save others, who can not save himself?
A45343Didst never cry out, who should deliver thee, with the Apostle?
A45343Do the Prophets live for ever?
A45343Dost dread an Enemy Vanquish''d to thy hand, and sprawling at thy feet?
A45343Hath David killed this great and formidable Goliah, and shall not trembling Israel recover their Spirits, and up, and pursue the Philistines?
A45343He that has wore his Cloathes long, till they are foul and nasty, will he not willingly strip himself to put on a fresh Suit?
A45343How did the Philistines rejoyce, when they had got Sampson in their hands?
A45343How many have desired Death, nay sinfullly destroyed their Lives, to deliver themselves from Griefs, Fears, Wants and Pains?
A45343How many perish at the very horns of the Altar?
A45343How sad a sight is a Hand writing on the Wall to a Belshazzar in his Cups?
A45343I know the Question is much controverted, Whether Adam were made Immortal, or no?
A45343If all Travel this Road, art thou so foolish, as to think, there should be a by- path for thee to go alone?
A45343If thy Portion is onely in this Life, thou art utterly undone when it is ended, and who can blame a man for fearing the loss of his All?
A45343Is not thy fear of it grounded upon a mistake?
A45343Is there any hurt in that?
A45343Now what reason hast thou to be troubld when( as Joshua expresses it) thou goest the way of all the earth?
A45343O death, where is thy sting?
A45343O grave, where is thy victory?
A45343Or what Cattel on a Thousand Hills for a Sacrifice?
A45343Shall a Conquered Enemy disanimate the Conquerors?
A45343That Christ who did arise from the Dead, shall come again, and bring all his with him in Glory?
A45343What Hecatombs of Praise and Service are due to our great God and Saviour?
A45343What Lebanon is sufficient to burn?
A45343What an Antidote is this against the worst of Death?
A45343What ease can they live at, whose Souls this Night may be turned out of their soft Beds where now they lye securely snorting, into a Bed of Flames?
A45343What more desirable and refreshing than a good nights rest?
A45343What ungrounded hopes have they from their own Fictions?
A45343Where are the Fathers of old?
A45343Who can look upon them, and live?
A45343Who would have dared to dye, had not our Lord dyed first?
A45343Who would tarry so long from his dear Lord, that might have passage to him?
A45343Would not a man tired out with a long days work, gladly go to bed?
A45343and art troubled when a Liberate is sent?
A45343he has taken away, the Sting of Death; what harm can there be in a stingless Snake?
A45544And now as Christ once said to his Disciples,{ non- Roman}{ non- Roman}{ non- Roman}{ non- Roman}{ non- Roman}, where is your faith?
A45544But blessed is the man that endureth temptation; quis credit, who beleeveth this report?
A45544But he that endureth temptation, is deprived of good and afflicted with evill, how then can he be blessed?
A45544But perhaps you will ask, Where is this man to be found?
A45544By this time you see what it is to love Christ: That which would next be inquired is, Why our Apostle changeth the qualification?
A45544Finally, Is our patience founded upon divine principles?
A45544For the explication hereof, there are two Questions to be resolved; What it is to love this Lord?
A45544How great an encouragement is this to aequanimity, nay magnanimity of spirit in all our tryall?
A45544How light is a dram of reproach to a weight of glory?
A45544If you cast your eyes upon this Scripture which I have now read, what else doth it appear at the first aspect, but a strange and dark saying?
A45544If you enquire, what is intended by this Crown of life?
A45544Quando, When he shall receive it?
A45544Quare, Wherefore he shall receive it?
A45544That which would be more particularly inquired, is, when the Christian that endureth, is tryed and approved?
A45544That which would more particularly be inquired, is, why this state is called a Crown, and why a Crown of life?
A45544What is the glimmering of the candle to the shining of the Sun?
A45544What is thy beloved more then another beloved?
A45544When Ring Ahasuerus asked Haman, What shall be done to the man, the King delighteth to honour?
A45544Whilest love to Christ will enable us to endure all these for Christs sake?
A45544and Why the qualification is changed, from enduring to loving?
A45544are we acted by spirituall enducements in all our sufferings?
A45544do we not like froward children, cry when we are crossed?
A45544how short is a minute of pain to an eternity of pleasure?
A45544if our first onset be( as it is said of French men) more then manly, is not our second less then womanly?
A45544let me say to you, where is your patience?
A45544shall tribulation, or disiress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or perill, or sword?
A45544the value of brass and iron, to the worth of gold and silver?
A45544what Merchant doth not willingly dispence with a troublesome tedious voyage, when he considers it is to advance his fortune?
A45544what may not Christs friends hope for?
A45544what traveller doth not cheerfully ride through dirty and watery lanes, when he considers it is his way home?
A45544why should we think much at any tryals, when they are designed for this end, to prepare us for glory?
A78767But how shall this be done?
A78767But shall all bodies be made thus glorious?
A78767But what is the Character of those men and women whose bodies shall be made thus glorious at that day?
A78767But you will say, In what respect may the body of a Saint be called a vile body?
A78767God forbid ▪ Know you not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you?
A78767Oh this vile carkasse, when will thou be consumed, that I may goe to my God?
A78767Psalme, Who will shew us any good?
A78767The body is made of dust, and who ever advanced dust?
A78767What is that change that Christ shall make in our vile bodies at the glorious resurrection?
A78767What is this metamorphosis, this change?
A78767What kinde of transfiguration or transformation, shall our bodies have at that day?
A78767Why art thou proud oh dust and ashes?
A78767Will you abuse that body that is the Temple of the Holy Ghost, to sin and iniquity?
A78767what are all your riches and honours but heaps of dung and dust?
A78767what is man but rottennesse and corruption, but worms meat?
A78767what is thy handsome body, but gilded rottennesse?
A78767wherein doth it consist?
A78767will you take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot?
A86062And what is there upon Earth that I desire besides thee?
A86062And whither they are not in danger of failing too?
A86062But you may say, Are not these things miseries?
A86062But you may say, Is not this happiness, to have what heart can wish?
A86062How shall we quench the fiery Darts of the Devil?
A86062Let all be exhorted to get this Portion: What will you do when your Flesh and your Heart faileth, if God be not your Portion?
A86062The wicked man''s Riches, Honours and good things are his All; for what hath he more?
A86062They said unto God, Depart from us, and what can the Almighty do for us?
A86062Thou hast the words of eternal life: Lord, saith this Soul, Whither should I go but unto thee?
A86062What will you do when Death and Judgment comes, if God be not your Portion?
A86062Whom have I in Heaven but thee?
A86062Whom have I in Heaven but thee?
A86062and what profit should we have if we pray unto him?
A86062of Job, What is the Almighty that we should serve him?
A86062what were we able to do in order to this, whose hearts are deceitful and desperately wicked above all things?
A26816And what Proportion can there be between our mean and short Services, and the eternal weight of Glory?
A26816But how many that have made a Trade of Sin, are as careless in Religion as if it were a slight Recreation?
A26816But how unsatisfactory is all secular Greatness and Honour?
A26816Can a Merchant hope for rich Returns from a foreign Countrey, without trading thither?
A26816Can he that sows no Seed, expect a Harvest?
A26816Can his Death excuse our Disobedience?
A26816Can his Sufferings that purchas''d his Dominion to Rule us, procure a Licence for us to rebel against his Commands?
A26816He is the true Vine that left his Sweetness, the good Olive that left his Fatness to reign over us; and shall we choose the Bramble to domineer?
A26816How can they appear before the most High, and Everlasting Judge?
A26816How can we seriously think of this transcendent Benefit without a rapture of Affection?
A26816How contrary is the Judgment of God to the vain Opinions of Men?
A26816How does the malicious incessant Enemy of our Salvation strive by a thousand Temptations to blast our Endeavours?
A26816How just and stinging is the upbraiding Speech of God to such?
A26816How often do the Slaves of the World complain that they have spent themselves in vain?
A26816In this Sense also, the Carnal Man understands not the things of the Spirit: Who can discover the Pleasure of Musick to one that was born Deaf?
A26816Is the external acknowledging of him, and a specious Homage worthy his most precious Sufferings?
A26816Is there any Master so rich, so liberal, so faithful as Christ?
A26816What Apologies will skreen them from his fiery Displeasure?
A26816What Opiate can stupify the Conscience of idle Ministers so as not to be awakened by these ardent Expressions?
A26816What a Heavenly Sabbath composes all its vast and restless Desires?
A26816What is there to recommend a Service to us, but is to be found in the Service of Christ?
A26816What will be a sufficient Defence before his inlightned Tribunal?
A26816Who is able to unfold this excellent Glory?
A26816Who would not be ambitious to be the Copy of such a Divine Original?
A26816Will their Ignorance, or Abundance, or Slothfulness excuse the neglect of their Duty?
A26816and when the Foundation is laid in serious Repentance, and the Work of Grace begun, what Diligence is requisite to raise it to Perfection?
A26816how peremptory the Rejection?
A26816or describe the Light of the Sun to one that was ever Blind?
A26816or that plants no Vineyard, expect a Vintage?
A26816who can see a Taste?
A51834Are all things set at rights between God and your souls?
A51834Are you afraid to enter upon your own blessedness and glory?
A51834But Christians can comfort one another upon better terms that they that sleep in Jesus are blessed, and shall we whine at their preferment?
A51834Can you say that you have tryed him often, and he never failed you all your days?
A51834Christians, is not this a blessed hope, that tells you of a sinless state, of being like Christ for purity and holiness?
A51834Did you dissemble then?
A51834For why?
A51834Have you laid up comforts for this great day of expence?
A51834How can their spirits be said to be perfect, if they lye onely in a dull sleep without any light, life, joy, delight, or act of love to God?
A51834How foolishly do they deal that defer all to this hour,& are then to get faith when they should reduce it into practice?
A51834How is it then?
A51834I shall inquire, 1 What it is to dye in the Lord?
A51834If you love Christ, why should you be unwilling to be in the arms of Christ?
A51834Is it the terribleness of the passage?
A51834Is your dying speech ready?
A51834It was the language of your souls then, whom have I in heaven but thee?
A51834Oh grave where is thy victory?
A51834Or have you found cause since to retreat and begrudge your affections to him?
A51834Or is it contempt of things to come?
A51834Shall we murmur?
A51834Then why is all this cost?
A51834We are to go from earth to heaven, from conversing with men to converse with Angels, and why so loath to remove?
A51834We shall see him as he is, for we shall be like unto him: What is it that you have struggled with and groaned under all your lives, but sin?
A51834What could Christ expect upon his coming into the world but hard usage?
A51834What needs further arguing?
A51834What shall I say?
A51834Which is to be preferred?
A51834Will you shun Christs company when he desires yours?
A51834Yea, we shall know those, whom we never saw; why else is it made a part of our priviledge to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob?
A51834Your friend, your advantage; Christ hath assured you of it; will you trust his word?
A51834and longed for the time, in effect saying, When will it come?
A51834and the whole flock shall follow the great shepherd of the sheep into their everlasting fold, triumphing and saying, Oh death where is thy sting?
A51834and yield to sinkings of heart when God hath made a breach upon our relations?
A51834but labour, and griefs, and shame, and death?
A51834doth nature grudge at the thought of a dissolution?
A51834how will this disparage our Doctrine, and make others suspect the comforts which we reach forth to them upon like occasions?
A51834in knowledge or love?
A51834love is an affection of union, it desireth to be with the party loved; and can you be unwilling to be dissolved and to be with Christ?
A51834to be there where he is beholding his glory?
A51834what is there in the world to be compared with heaven?
A51834what needs all this waste?
A51834where is your faith?
A51834why came Christ to lay down his soul to purchase that which you care not for?
A27497All my friends, saith he, as ashamed of me, have forsaken me, But if God withdraw his Grace from me, what shall I doe?
A27497And are not the same with other additions renewed at the Consecration of a Bishop?
A27497And hath not this of late beene the cause of the contempt of our calling?
A27497And shall not our love to Christ constraine us rather?
A27497But to return to S. Augustine; when he was made a Bishop, did he then give it over?
A27497Can he hope to draw others to take the Oath of Allegiance when he refuseth it himselfe?
A27497Could they not beare rule, and beare Fruit together?
A27497Doth not usually such sensuall mirth goe out like a Candle?
A27497First, Ability for matter of learning; how can they open the eyes of others, when they are blinde themselves?
A27497For the fruite of it, tell mee you that give your selves to pleasure all the day, doth not a heavie heartednesse conclude it in the Evening?
A27497How briefe is S. Augustines Symbolum, S. Ieromes Explanatio fidei ad Damasum& Cyrillum?
A27497How firmely did he now beleeve Repentance to be the u gift of God, that it is he that worketh the will* and the deed?
A27497How shall he blesse the people, when he is in a cursed estate himselfe?
A27497How shall he give the body of Christ to others, who is not a member himselfe?
A27497Is it not because the sword of his Spirit( the word) is not thus drawne out by you?
A27497Let us all pitch upon one, and why not that appointed by Authority?
A27497Now as f S. Jerom, if the light which be in the Minister the head be darknesse, how great must the darknesse be in the body of the people?
A27497Now can they be spent in a more honourable service then the Ministry?
A27497Quis in religione graviùs Petro?
A27497Sheriff, Will you not take leave of your friends, when you shall never see them again?
A27497The compassion to the Soules that are Christs, the gaine of an immortall crown with Christ, much more inflame us?
A27497They are Leaders, should not they then know the way themselves?
A27497Thou that teachest another, teachest thou not thy selfe?
A27497We grant the Apostles to be sent of Christ, but what is that to such as are ordained in these days?
A27497What are they, but severall Methods of the same thing in substance?
A27497What is the cause of late, the Calling hath fallen into such Contempt?
A27497What is the cause so few subiect themselves to Christs Scepter?
A27497What presumption is it thē( saith the same Father) ſ for men to be ambitious of being Shepheards, when they are scarce sheep?
A27497What?
A27497Where we find his hand, why should wee doubt of his Seale?
A27497Why should promotion over Others, make men barren in themselvs?
A27497i What effect can that Embassadour expect, when his actions shall contradict his treaties?
A27497m I have sinned, saith David, and done wickedly; but these sheepe what have they done?
A27497n God doth beseech you by us, wee pray you in Christs stead; unheard of, that a King should Petition to his Subjects; and yet who of you yeelds?
A27497quid de te novi referam?
A27497the next degree( I hold) to Martyrdome?
A27497to be Captaines, when they are hardly Christs souldiers, to guide the Sterne before they know how to handle the Ore?
A27497who obeyes?
A6035211. and how will you avoid it?
A60352Again, Art thou thy self when thou sayest, I know not what to do?
A60352And shall not Saints reckon Christ so?
A60352And what are Services but ungrateful?
A60352Be it so, yet there is something left for you; namely, a God, can you not live upon him?
A60352Can not you rejoyce in him?
A60352Can you shake off the burden?
A60352Do not say, I am now altogether useless and unserviceable; who is it that hath made thee so?
A60352Have you Friends and Relations?
A60352Have you been in the School of Christ, and taught of God, and yet such a Dunce as not to know what to do?
A60352How often is the Wife a Thorn in the side of her Husband?
A60352How then comes it to pass that upon this Occasion, tho''sad enough, he cryeth out of his being distressed?
A60352Is it not too ordinary and common to find some Imperious and Lordly, others fretful and peevish?
A60352It is He that makes Heaven sweet: What would that place be without his Company?
A60352My Soul, how wilt thou be able to bear up, if it should please God to bring it to this?
A60352The Conjugal Yoke will be very heavy, and pinch and gall if it be not lin''d with Love: and is there not reason?
A60352The Lord Jesus knew better, and spake better, when He said, Shall I not drink of the Cup which my Father hath given me to drink of?
A60352The import of the word: What may we look upon as the meaning of David, when he saith, He was distressed?
A60352Was Ionathan pleasant to David?
A60352Was it not from God?
A60352We begin with the first of these, What was it that rendered Ionathan so very pleasant unto David?
A60352What Reason was there, that so Good a Man should be in such a plunge?
A60352What brought David into Distress?
A60352What doth a wild Bull in a Net do when he tosseth, and kicks, and flings, but intangles himself the more?
A60352What his being in Distress doth import and hold out to us?
A60352What is Communion and Cohabitation without Love, but a constant Burden?
A60352What meanest thou by saying, This I can not bear?
A60352What rendered Ionathan so pleasant unto David?
A60352What was there in the Case, that David should be so distressed?
A60352Why was Ionathan so very pleasant to David?
A60352Your work is before you, and will you not see it?
A60352and what is it that makes them so, when they are good in themselves?
A60352from whom comes it?
A60352how can you help your selves?
A60352how pleasant then is Iesus, far more than Ionathan was, or ever could have been?
A60352i. e. What Evil hath he done, what one thing hath he done for which he deserves to dye?
A60352such Riches as take unto themselves wings, and flee away, such Honour as is a vain and vanishing breath?
A60352such was Absalom to David; and the Brother an Affliction and Terror to his Brother?
A60352such was Iob''s Wife to him; the Child an Heart- break to his Father?
A60352what hath he done?
A87092And shall it not affect our hearts with grief, when such as these are taken away?
A87092And when heresies are raging, who but a John should defend the truth?
A87092Besides, what care have men to lay up their Treasure, when they have got it?
A87092Besides, when Gods wrath is flaming, who but a Moses should stand in the gap?
A87092But why a little flock?
A87092Life is the best Treasure in Nature, Eternal is the best of lives, how great a Treasure must the knowledge of Christ be which is Life eternal?
A87092Oh how tender should you be of them who, though weak creatures, bring the glad tidings of salvation to you?
A87092Secondly, As to the Efficacy of a Treasure, what will it not do?
A87092Shall the vessell be cast by because it is earthly, or shall it not rather be preferred because it is the repository of a choice treasure?
A87092The Truths and Doctrines contained in it are choice and excellent, as much worth as our Souls, as Heaven, as Salvation is, nay shall I go higher?
A87092Vtrumne quia testacea est secundum originem scilicet ex limo destruetur, an quia divini thesauri conditorium est extolletur?
A87092What is it( oh Christian, to follow his expressions) thou mayest not learn hence?
A87092What more vile then earthen vessels?
A87092What that Emperour Fredrick the 3d said concerning Kings, An nescitis principes quasi signum populo expositos?
A87092What therefore remaineth but that every one of us labour to have the same esteem of the Gospel, which St Paul had, and which indeed it deserveth?
A87092When horrid impieties are reigning, who but an Ezekiel should warn the people?
A87092Wisdom that is hid and a treasure not seen, what profit is in them both?
A87092Your Fathers, where are they?
A87092and ere long must be taken from you?
A87092and the Prophets do they live for ever?
A87092and why then should the Gospel be undervalued because they are mortall men that Preach it?
A87092do you not know that they are oft times as a gazing stock to the people?
A415432 ▪ why labour you for that which 〈 ◊ 〉 not?
A415433. what profit hath a man of all his labours which he taketh under the Sun?
A41543As that famous Painter Zeuxes, being asked why he was so accurate in drawing all his pieces?
A41543But what is Eternity?
A41543Faelix, quem faciunt,& c. hath his woful Example item''d thee into more Carefulness?
A41543I do but sojourn here, where must I dwell and abide?
A41543Lastly, proceed a little farther in thy meditations concerning Eternity; what provision and preparation hast thou made for Eternity?
A41543O ye Sons of men how long will ye love varity and seek after lea ● ● ng?
A41543Oh Sirs, hath this been looked after by you, your New- birth?
A41543T is a very easy and a very hard Question; what is Time?
A41543Things seen and not seen what are they?
A41543Thou art apt to cry out in the bitterness of thy Soul, How long Lord, how long, Holy and True?
A41543What are those things not seen, eternal which Christians are to look after?
A41543What are those unseen eternal things which Christians look after?
A41543What by Temporal and Eternal?
A41543What is meant by Temporal and Eternal?
A41543What is meant here by things seen and things not seen?
A41543Where must I spend my Eternity, which can indeed never be spent?
A41543how painful is the plucking, out but of one tooth, that stands fast in the flesh?
A41543on his sword, or his burning match?
A41543this world is but thy Inne, where must thy home be, in Heaven or in hell?
A41543wha ● was it supported and encourage ● them?
A41543what art thou provided with for thy long home in Eternity?
A41543what is Eternity?
A41543where will my Eternal mansion be?
A41543who must be my Eternal Companions God and his Saints, or the Devil and his Angels?
A41543would not this more dismay him than that could rejoyce him?
A557415. will not God finde it out?
A55741Add hereunto that our l ● fe is short and uncertain, and that which at any time may, why not now?
A55741And shew themselves Athiestical?
A55741And why?
A55741Annanias and Saphira were stricken suddenly; and he who hath stricken thy neighbour( as many now are smitten by death suddenly) what if he smite thee?
A55741But how are we fallen from the zeal and piety of the primitive times?
A55741But is it for nothing that God so highly honoureth his people?
A55741But what became of Tyre, that noble and ennobling City?
A55741Christian souldier sleepest thou?
A55741Dangerous to go to bed with a guilty conscience, what do we know whither we shall live till the morning?
A55741Doth not he observe all my ways and count all my steps?
A55741How sutable have been your Actions to this chief end?
A55741If God had so smitten me, in what case had I been?
A55741If death had come to thee that same hour, at the second watch, should he have found thee better prepaed than he was?
A55741If men would do so, what would become of their lying, swearing,& forswearing cheating, couzning, and underminings?
A55741If thou wilt be blessed?
A55741Is it I?
A55741Is it I?
A55741Is not God present?
A55741O baptized Christian, what dost thou sullying thy self amongst the flesh- pots of Egypt, lading thy self with thick clay, how long?
A55741O where is the heart, and life, and spirit, the vivacity, the constancy and continuance in the service of God?
A55741Rather was not your chief end to glorifie God and enjoy him?
A55741Sathans watch and play is more used than our Saviours watch and pray?
A55741Seemeth it a small thing( saith David) to be King Sauls Son in law?
A55741So( say I) seemeth it to you a small thing to be the King of Sauls Sons by grace, to be his Servants?
A55741The worst of men, when death comes will wish he had watched, done these and these good things, abstained from these and these evil things?
A55741Were your Heaven- born souls given you to stop to this earths drudgery?
A55741What dost thou here Eliah?
A55741What fear is that?
A55741What if thou hadst no body to accuse thee?
A55741Why shouldest thou run from thine own watch to fault finde his now?
A55741Your eagle minds to resort to the carrion of this world?
A55741am I prepared to meet the Lord?
A55741can they pray to God for a Blessing upon these courses?
A55741do I perform my sentinel- charge till I be relieved?
A55741do I wait all the days of mine appointed time untill my chang come?
A55741drinkings, lasciviousness and vanities for why?
A55741have they been for your good and the salvation of your souls?
A55741how had it been with my poor soul?
A55741is my soul in a watchfull frame and posture?
A55741was your golden time given you to gather dross?
A55741what if it should be I?
A55741your noble affections to run in the dirty channels of this world?
A39839And pray, why not He, O ye Jewes?
A39839But because some were eminently instrumental to bring to pass the Death of that just Man, shall Wee think our selves Innocent?
A39839But to be a witness to the truth am I come: At this Pilat seems to be pretty well pleased, and asketh him, What is Truth?
A39839But what said our Saviour?
A39839Certainly he would not, had he been a Jew, and Christ his King; yet, as his Place empowered him, he examins him, Quid fecisti?
A39839Do any of the Rulers believ in him?
A39839For how couldst thou style Me King, since no Man can say Jesus is the Lord but by the spirit?
A39839How could ye so soon forget the Evils that he cur''d?
A39839I shall only desire of such a Sinner, that he would tell me what fruit he can exspect, or ever any did reap from that Bramble, besides Gods Curs?
A39839If ye go to that, what good did he not do you?
A39839Is he but a Man in your judgements?
A39839No, they had too much of Him already, Not this Man, but Barabbas, what more intense blindness, madness, and malice could betray it self?
A39839No, whom then?
A39839Sayest thou this of thyself, or did others tell it thee of Me?
A39839Some alwayes were the better for Him: Not this Man?
A39839The empty Bellys among you, which He often fill''d; and fed?
A39839What harm did he ever do you, or could ye ever find in Him?
A39839What hast thou done?
A39839What house did he ever enter into, but Salvation enter''d with Him?
A39839What is this but to condemn the Generation of the Righteous?
A39839What more lively example of this is there, than the carriage of these Jewes at this time?
A39839What should I say of the unclean person, who is one of this Rout, of this Rabble too?
A39839after so many Miracles wrought among you by his Divine power?
A39839as if being a Prisoner, bound, and in Fetters only, was Crime enough, and deserved Death as a Malefactor?
A39839had not Pilate a Finger at lest in this, from the guilt of which he cleared himself, would have been thought to do so by washing of his hands?
A39839so pl ● ● gid by that Tyrant, who cryed again, Non hune, Not this man, but Barabbas: But what?
A39839to raign like other Kings?
A39839whom will ye that I release?
A455462 What it is that is required?
A45546And now worthy Sir, what bitter counsell could I prescribe you then this of Faith?
A45546But by whom is it that Abraham was tryed?
A45546But for what end, may some say, doth God tempt and try his peoole?
A45546But how and by what meanes doth God try his servants?
A45546But what need is there that God should for these ends try his servants?
A45546Doth the God of mercie delight in cruelty, and piety it self command murther?
A45546How shall I look Sarah in the fa ● e when I have slain her son?
A45546How will the Heathens censure this holy cruelty, and say, there goes the man who cut the throat of his own childe?
A45546I deny not but even Heathens have sacrificed themselves and their children unto death, but upon what grounds?
A45546Is this the welcome thy return''d Natives have O England?
A45546Shall these hands destroy the fruit of my loyns?
A45546WHo slew all these?
A45546What did he not know before who is Omniscient?
A45546What though the world accuse me of cruelty, yet thou requirest it as a duty?
A45546What, Lord, are thy decrees changable, or thy promise failable?
A45546What, Lord?
A45546When from strange Climates to their own they come Has''t no home for them, but their longest Home?
A45546When he laments his Beauty so soon gone, Doth he not Weep for his Dead Absolom?
A45546When he recounts the Wisdome of his Sonne, And Sighs, sighs he not for his Solomon?
A45546When to thy long''d for Soile thy Sonnes return, Canst finde no lodging for them, but their Urn ●?
A45546Who slew all these then?
A45546Who slew all these?
A45546Why did I so long wayt for him?
A45546Why didst thou at last bestow him, if I must now part with him?
A45546better shee call me a bloudy husband, then thou an undutifull servant?
A45546eng Rushout, John, d. 1648?
A45546entertainment in a grave?
A45546how can these two stand together, Isaac shall be a father of many nations, and yet he must dye by his fathers hands?
A45546is it to have him taken away by death, through some visitation of Gods hand?
A45546is it to part with him and not see his face for some yeares?
A45546is it to send him a far off into some strange Country?
A45546must I that was the instrument of his life, become the means of his death ▪ Can not I be faithfull unto thee, unlesse I be unnaturall to my childe?
A45546or if thou wilt needs have an humane sacrifice, is none but Isaac fit for thine Altar, and must none offer him but Abraham?
A45546what fruit is to be expected from a dry root, or what hopes can there be in a dead Isaac?
A45546why didst thou make me a father, if now I must become a murtherer of my childe?
A45546will justice require the slaughter of an innocent, and canst thou in equity desire the bloud of the guiltlesse?
A45546woman, what have I to do with thee?
A66424And can any thing be of greater consequence than the things that are thus revealed, promised and secured?
A66424And now what is the issue of all this, but that we should reflect upon it, and reflect upon our selves?
A66424And what can we plead in our own defence, if at last we shall fall short of it?
A66424And when a Promise is thus left us of entring into his Rest, shall not we fear, lest we come short of it?
A66424But is there no relief in this case?
A66424But what should I wish for that which belongs not to the state in which we are?
A66424Can we have any thing more confirmed, than God bearing witness to the truth of it, with signs and wonders, and divers miracles?
A66424Can we have any thing more secured, which we have not in present possession?
A66424Can we think that so short a time of Rest, as the Christians had between Nero and Domitian, could be the subject of that Prophecy?
A66424For how could we who have defaced the divine Image, and been Rebels against God, and have forfeited his favour, think of being restored to it?
A66424Hath he said, and shall he not do it?
A66424Hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
A66424How could we that are corruptible, think that we should put on incorruption?
A66424How could we whose Souls are d ● praved and corrupted, think of being admitted to that state, whereinto no unclean thing can enter?
A66424How miserable must be the state of Mankind, if this be all that a Man has to enjoy, all that he has to comfort him in the enjoyment?
A66424Is there a possibility, a certainty of obtaining it?
A66424Is there now such a State, such a Rest to be had?
A66424Need we to be advised in this matter, in a matter of so great importance and absolute necessity?
A66424Now what sad Reflections are these?
A66424Shall I now need any farther arguments than what the Text affords, to make us cautious left we come short of this Rest?
A66424Where are the laboricus Studies, the Cares and Prayers of the pious and industrious Teacher?
A66424Where are the pilgrims and strangers that once wandred about, being destitute, afflicted and tormented?
A66424Where are the tryals of the cruel mockings and scourgings, of bonds and imprisonment of those, of whom the World was not worthy?
A66424Where is now the misery, the hunger and nakedness, the pain and anguish, the poverty and contempt of the once wretched Lazarus?
A66424Where is the right hand which was cut off, the right eye that was plucked out, the body that was buffered and kept under, and brought into subjection?
A66424Where is the strait gate and narrow way, the conflicts and strivings of the Self- denying Christian?
A66424Where the Ministry he has fulfill''d and made proof of in his Preaching, Reproving and Exhorting with all Long- suffering and Doctrine?
A66424nothing better to be expected?
A66424shall I need to press the Apostle''s Exhortation any further?
A4467813. said to the Disciples round about him, What mean you to weep, and to break my Heart?
A44678And is not this a good of a nobler, and more excellent kind, than we can lose by a sickness?
A44678And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?
A44678And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond, on the Sabbath day?
A44678And who in all this World could ever have such a loss, as they of him, dwelling in flesh among them?
A44678And, as our own Dr. Lightfoot says upon that question of our Lords; Is it lawful to heal upon the Sabbath day?
A44678Are you not ready to say, how can this stand with being at the same time, the object of divine pity?
A44678Are you so bound, and will you not know it?
A44678But what doth all this World signifie to a sickly pained Person?
A44678Can it be thought heaven hath altered him to your disadvantage?
A44678Do any of the Rulers believe on him?
A44678Do you think the all- comprehending mind of the Son of God now first began to pity this daughter of Abraham?
A44678For doth not the whole of Christianity terminate upon Eternity, and upon another State, and World?
A44678Hath Heaven render''d him less merciful, and compassionate?
A44678How deservedly should these bonds end with you in the chains, wherein the Devils themselves shall for ever be bound with you?
A44678How ill doth this agree, and accord with the Christian Scheme and model of things?
A44678How much more shall we not be subject to the father of our spirits, and live?
A44678If he pity me, would he let me lye, and languish thus, in so miserable a plight, day after day, and year after year?
A44678Is he less kind, benign, and less apt to do good, now he is inthroned in glory?
A44678Is it a less thing, to release an holy soul from the body than from bodily distempers?
A44678Is it so unkind and ill- natur''d a place?
A44678Or the framing such a world as this, as great a thing, as the most stupendous miracle that ever was wrought in it?
A44678Or why hath not such a course been kept afoot ever since his ascension?
A44678Otherwise, is not the forming of the eye, in itself as great a thing, as to give sight to the blind?
A44678Shall not I loose such a one whom Satan hath bound, that great enemy of mankind?
A44678We find it expresly so said in Scripture; and who can so truly speak Gods mind as himself?
A44678What else made him descend?
A44678Why should not I shew my self so much the more a Friend, by how much the more he appears an Enemy, and give the earliest relief the matter can admit?
A44678Why should they be smitten any more?
A44678Why was it deferr''d to this time?
A44678Why, what, saith he, Do not any of you loose an Ox, or an Ass from the Stall on the Sabbath day?
A44678and shall not I loose a daughter of Abraham?
A44678better than the case of this vile flesh, that was made out of dust, and tends thither?
A44678never feel your bonds?
A44678or why bound at all?
A44678will you be bound all your days, and never lift up a cry to the great Redeemer and Saviour of Souls to give you release?
A44678will you not say so much to him for a soul in bondage?
A44679''T is said Rehoboam forsook the Law of the Lord, and all Israel with him: And what followed?
A44679''t is horridly unjust towards our most rightful Lord, and most imprudent for our selves: Do men know what they do in this?
A44679( for his having them implies it, who ever serv''d him unsought unto?)
A44679He is one that hath thereupon made it his earnest Study to know his Lords will: His first enquiry is, What wilt thou have me to do, Lord?
A44679How easily accountable is it why our Lord lets his Servants suffer hard things in this World a while?
A44679How little is it they do at the best?
A44679How unreasonable is it either to quit the Service of our blessed Lord, or to serve him dejectedly?
A44679How wicked and foolish a thing is it to refuse this Service?
A44679Is not the Grave now a less gloomy thing?
A44679It should make us diligent in the remaining time of our abode here: what should not the expectation of such a Welcome carry us through?
A44679O how much of Spirit and Life is gone from it, when one such man dies?
A44679Well done good and faithful Servant,& c. How studious should we be so to acquit our selves as he hath done?
A44679What Spirit are they are of?
A44679What a glorious Hoast will arise and spring up even out of one London?
A44679What do we not find?
A44679What ingenuous mind but knows how to value, even the( unprofitable) kindness of a mean Friend: Can the Love of a God seem little with us?
A44679What may be expected by unfaithful negligent Servants that hide their Talent in a Napkin?
A44679Who hath more right in us?
A44679Who would think meanly of being the accepted Servant of the most high God?
A44679a power to use thoughts?
A44679and can we use it upon any thing more evident, more considerable, or that more concerns us?
A44679and how unprofitable to him?
A44679and what Cruelty they use towards their own Souls?
A44679how do men drudge to the Devil?
A44679of the Tombs of Martyrs, and other excellent persons( as many of them were) collected in one little spot of this Earth?
A44679or do we never use it less pertinently?
A44679or where will we mend our selves?
A44679what Slaves are they to themselves and their own vile Lusts?
A44679who would grudge to lye obscurely a while, among them with whom we expect to rise and ascend so gloriously?
A44679whose right they invade and resist?
A52250And are you all fat and well likeing?
A52250And shall we be insensible of such a stroke?
A52250And therefore God comes in and interrupts them, why what''s the matter with you, can you tell why you take on in this fashion?
A52250And what those weeping times are?
A52250And what was the event and issue of it?
A52250And where saith he of mourning thou art mad, and of sorrow, what is it that thou doest?
A52250And why for them?
A52250Are there no secret Stitches at the hearts of any of you, upon this consideration?
A52250Are you naked and are you not afraid?
A52250Are you naked and not ashamed?
A52250But have you all done this?
A52250But is he gone to heaven too soon?
A52250But tell me have there been answerable fruits among you, of holiness and obedience?
A52250But tell me my Beloved, is he a loser any way?
A52250But what Repentance did he seek with tears?
A52250But will it suit with such a state of sin and danger, as the best of you are in?
A52250But you will ask me, for whom shall we weep then?
A52250Did they not know what they are, born to trouble, as the sparkes fly upward, so that they have a natural tendency to it?
A52250Hath he his everlasting Rest too soon?
A52250Have you no sense and feeling of it?
A52250His glorious recompence too soon?
A52250How do many men take on, when they are crost in prosecution of their lusts, and hindred in their sins, which is indeed a great mercy?
A52250How hath your rich and fat pasture been cast away upon you?
A52250How often are we called upon to weep in Scripture?
A52250I know you lov''d him, as there was cause enough you should; but say in truth, have you Improv''d him?
A52250If the earnest be so great, what will the Possession be?
A52250Is he got home to his Fathers house too soon?
A52250Is he with God and Christ and Angels and glorified Saints too soon?
A52250Is not this best of all for him?
A52250Nay, is he not an infinite gainer?
A52250Oh my dear friends, what have your sins done?
A52250Oh what lean souls have some of you, who have attended on his Ministry, even to his dying day?
A52250Shall we have tears enough to wast upon our petty losses,& not have a tear to spend on this inestimable& irreparable one?
A52250So that it may be said of you, as it was once of Israel when Moses was away, that you are naked; And what, are you in Laodicea''s case indeed?
A52250There Patience is it?
A52250WHat Subject fitter for this sad Occasion then a Theam of Weeping?
A52250What, doth he wish that he were back again with you?
A52250When such as he are hous''d, what dreadful stormes may there be like to fall?
A52250Where, do you find a blessing poured out on laughter, as you do on tears and mourning?
A52250Why criest thou for thine affliction?
A52250Why what''s the matter?
A52250Why, my beloved, have ye not other manner of things then these to grieve for?
A52250and of all the wrath of God, that hath been lately manifested and reveal''d from Heaven against us, more wayes then I am able to express?
A52250and oh what hard and stupid hearts have we?
A52250do you not find your selves uncovered?
A52250do you not know that you are naked?
A52250how merciful was God to him, whom he hath taken to himself, and how severe to us, in this Stroke?
A52250if the first fruits be so sweet, what will the Harvest be?
A52250what Language can we better speak, or more agreeable to the dark Providence that we are under, then Sighs, and Cries, and Lamentations?
A52250what hath your barrenness, and your unfruitfulness, and your Backsliding done?
A52250what think you of the horrible Abominations, and woful desolations of the Land?
A52250what think you of your own sins, with all their bloody aggravations?
A52250when he fed you, have you prosper''d?
A69991According to which Rule, how ineffably excellent was the condescending Vertue of our Great Deceased?
A69991And to put off the Bowels of Mercy, what is it, but in effect to be devested of Humanity, to un- man and brutalize one''s self?
A69991As Piety, in its limited sence, signifies Devotion; how constant, how regular, and how seraphick was she in this?
A69991At the Celebration of every part of Divine Worship, how fixt and intent her mind?
A69991How constant and uniform was her whole Practice in the several Duties of the Christian Institution?
A69991How did her Practice suit to that?
A69991How exactly do they agree?
A69991How much more Good might, and would she have done, had she liv''d to the full Age of a Man?
A69991If we chance to discern any little Blemishes in them,( for who is free from Faults and Imperfections in this imperfect state?)
A69991If, as St. Paul speaks, for a good man, some would even dare to die; who would not have died for her, who was worth ten thousands of the People?
A69991In this particular, how agreeable is the Character of Solomon''s Woman to my present Theme?
A69991Is it any wonder then, that such a Person as this was reverenc''d and admir''d, and counted the Darling of Mankind?
A69991how well do they hang together?
A69991since for ought we know, it is because the Age was not worthy of such a Blessing?
A69991what Floods of Tears, what Tyde of Ejulations, can swell so high as to bear a proportion equal to the Merits of so great, so good a Personage?
A26788And if the faint Dawn be so reviving and comfortable, what is the Brightness of the full Day?
A26788And of what concernment is it to have our Souls with God in that infinite and incomprehensible Duration?
A26788Can Love forsake, can Truth deceive, can Almighty Power fail?
A26788Can a Woman forget her sucking Child?
A26788Can the Creature make us happy, when their Emptiness, and Anguish annex''d to it, makes our Lives miserable?
A26788Can the World bring Perfection to Man, that is so incomparably short of his Imperfection?
A26788Can the World give sincere Satisfaction to them?
A26788Can they hope that Mercy will be their Advocate?
A26788Could we see the attending Spirits that surround sick Persons in their last Hours, what a wonderful Impression would it make upon us?
A26788Do ye provoke the Lord to Jealousie, are you stronger than he?
A26788From filial Love proceeds a Zeal for his Glory; If I be a Father, where is my Honour?
A26788He admir''d the Divine Condescension to us, often saying, Lord what is Man, what am I vile Worm to the great God?
A26788His Call to the Vnconverted; how small in bulk, but how powerfull in vertue?
A26788His Complaints were frequent, but who ever heard an unsubmissive word drop from his lips?
A26788How dangerous then would the Condition be of naked Souls, oppos''d by over- matching Enemies, armed with Rage against them?
A26788How easily would they hurry them to the Abyss, the Den of Dragons, the Prison where lost Souls are secur''d to the Day of Judgment?
A26788How many Rebels and open Enemies to God are in the Pale of the Christian Church?
A26788How safe are the departed Saints, when convey''d through Satan''s Territories by the Royal Guard of Angels that excel in strength?
A26788How triumphantly does the Apostle express his Confidence, Who shall separate us from the Love of God?
A26788I shall add further; What clearer Evidence can we have of the worth of the Soul, than from God''s Esteem, the Creator of it?
A26788Is he not thy Father who bought thee?
A26788Now if the foresight of them did not hinder his electing Love in its rise, can they frustrate its end, the bringing of them to Glory?
A26788Now will he throw away his Treasure, or suffer the cruel Enemy to rob him of his Jewels?
A26788Of what value is a Soul in God''s account, that he bought with his own Son''s Blood, the most sacred Treasure of Heaven?
A26788Old Simeon is a leading Example to Believers: after he had embraced Christ in his Armes, how earnestly did he desire his Dissolution?
A26788Our Saviour meekly yielded up himself to his cruel Enemies, upon this Consideration, The Cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?
A26788Shall Tribulation, or Distress, or Persecution, or Famine, or Nakedness, or Peril, or Sword?
A26788The Psalmist when banish''d from the Tabernacle, breaks forth in his impatient Desires, When shall I come and appear before God?
A26788The sublimest Prophet breaks forth with Wonder, Who shall declare his Generation?
A26788What Heart, what Marble is in her Breast so incompassionate and unrelenting, as to neglect her helpless Infant?
A26788What are all the Kingdoms and Pleasures of the World, in comparison of that Blessedness God has prepar''d for those who love him?
A26788What can induce him to alter his Affection towards them?
A26788What can rescue them from instant and irrecoverable Misery?
A26788What richer Evidence, and more convincing Demonstration can there be of thy Love?
A26788What was the design of his Counsel and Compassion, in giving his Son to be a Sacrifice for us, but to restore us to his Favour?
A26788Whither will they fly from their Judg?
A26788Who knows the Power of his Wrath?
A26788Will a Father, a heavenly Father, be without Bowels to his own Off- spring?
A26788Will he give us the Tree of Life, and not permit us to eat of the Fruit of it?
A26788Will he not take them into his safe Custody?
A26788Will he not with him give us all things?
A90272And is not your performance of them such a sacrifice as wherewith God is not well pleased?
A90272Daniel lieth down in the dust, in rest and peace, and why so?
A90272Is there no oppressed person that with diligence you might relieve?
A90272Neither 3 Did he come short in Righteousnesse in the administration of that high place whereto he was called?
A90272No places destitute of the Gospel that might be furnished and supplyed by your industry and wisdome?
A90272Some mock indeed, and say, where is the promise of his Comming?
A90272What a life of labour and trouble did our deceased friend lead for many yeers in the flesh?
A90272Why do we complaine?
A90272Your Fathers where are they?
A90272and the Prophets do they live for ever?
A90272and what a sad, restlesse, and tumultuating condition upon this account doth he describe in the Verses foregoing?
A90272are there no slack and slow Counties and Cities in the execution of Justice, that might be quickened by your example?
A90272are there no stout offenders against God and man that might be chastized?
A90272can you not finde out something of these or the like nature to be dispatched with vigour and diligence?
A90272for our ovvne losse?
A90272hovv vvere his dayes consumed in travel?
A90272is not the residue, and fulnesse of the Spirit vvith him, vvho gave him his dismission?
A90272is there no poor distressed Widow or Orphane, whose righteous Requests you might expedite and dispatch?
A90272nay do not innumerable particulars in each kinde lye upon your hands?
A90272what a Light did John set up in a few yeares?
A90272will it be bitternesse in the end, that you so laid out your endevours?
A90272with what unwearied paines and industry did our deceased friend serve his generation?
A273641 What is meant by his going to his Fathers?
A273642 How it may be made out, that to dye in peace is a priviledge belonging to beleevers?
A27364But if my faith exempt me not from death, what avails me to be a Beleever?
A27364Do all that dye peaceably, dye in peace?
A27364How sweet are those holy Parlies with God in praier, and how pleasant their returns?
A27364Is it not a Mercy when we have done our work, then to be called home to receive our Wages?
A27364It may be some may say, how may we get into such an estate that we may be sure to dye in peace?
A27364It may be some of you may be inquiring, what must I do that I may share in this branch of this Promise?
A27364It may be yet some scruple might rest upon the spirit of Abraham, what shall become of me when all these evils betide my posterity?
A27364Lord, to whom shall we go, thou hast the words of eternal life?
A27364Probably the Searcher of all hearts saw Abraham in some doubt, why livery and seisin, or peaceable possession of that Land should be deferred so long?
A27364Secondly, Doth it not savour much of Mercy to be taken away from beholding of other mens punishments?
A27364Shall he deliver his soul( himself) from the hand of the grave?
A27364So in old Jacob, what a mercy- admiring man was hee?
A27364Then to be gathered when here we are fully ripe?
A27364Thirdly, Is it not a great mercy to bee taken away from the tasting of evills in their own persons?
A27364This is but his meer Phansie, for how many even with us come to gray hairs before fifty years, some before forty years of age?
A27364Till Sin be removed by Repentance what peace can there be?
A27364To conclude, is it not a mercy then to be called to make your account, when we have been long a preparing, and making ready for it?
A27364What is meant by Burial?
A27364What is meant by a good old age?
A27364What is meant by going to his Fathers, or dying in peace?
A27364What peace so long as iniquities remain unrepented of?
A27364What peace so long as the Whoredoms of thy Mother Jezabel, and her Witchcrafts are so many?
A27364What though others of his intellectuals do decay with age?
A27364When Christ speaks peace to Conscience, as once to the raging Sea, peace and be still, who then can create trouble?
A27364When a man hath been arraigned for his life, and after is acquitted, how is he inwardly comforted?
A27364and if knit, how many fall yet before they come to be ripe?
A27364but how infinitely farre fewer do live to a good old age?
A27364that they may not feel the smart of grievous and direfull Judgements?
A27364then to come to the Grave in a full age, like a shock of Corn comes in his season?
A27364was it not upon this account that the long liv''d Patriarches were taken away by death, before the flood came?
A27364where how doth he bewail himself,& yet after repentance, what an useful Instrument was he in the Church of Christ?
A65312* Animula, vagula, blandula, quae nunc abibis in loca?
A65312* Parùm viae quid multum viati ● i?
A6531214, Knowing that shortly I must put off this my Tabernacle: And how did his love to the World dye?
A653123, Will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
A653125, The Prophets, do they live for ever?
A65312Account with your selves about making your Will: Time is short, you may dye before night; have you made your Will?
A65312Account with your selves about your Debts?
A65312And can nothing quench your thirst but Christs Blood?
A65312Are your Evidences for Heaven ready?
A65312Do you desire Christ for himself; As Beauty is loved for it self?
A65312Every one of us are Stewards, and God will call us to a reckoning, and say, What have you done with the Talent of Time I intrusted you with?
A65312God will say, What have you done with your Time?
A65312He can think, What if every mountain were a Pearl, every flower a Ruby, every sand in the Sea a Diamond, the whole Globe a shining Chrysolite?
A65312How shall I look my Judg in the face?
A65312How should we improve this short time?
A65312I mean in a Spiritual sense, have you given up your Will to God, and by solemn vow set Seal to the Will?
A65312In what sense is the time of life short?
A65312Is Time short?
A65312Is Time so curtail''d and shortned?
A65312Quid est diù vivere, nisi diu Torqutri?
A65312Shall not he which is cloathed with Mortality, be cloathed with Humility?
A65312Suppose a mans Lease were ready to expire, and he should fall a building and planting, would not he be judged indiscreet?
A65312The time is short, why should we love that over- much, which we can not keep over- long?
A65312They have a short Feast, but a long Reckoning: for a drop of mirth, they must drink a Sea of wrath: and Who knows the power of that wrath?
A65312What a dreadful account will they have to give, who have nothing to shew God but their Treasons?
A65312What advantage will accrew to us by often thinking of our short stay here?
A65312What is become of their Intellectuals, have they sinned away Reason as well as Conscience?
A65312What needs a long provision for a short way*?
A65312What reward can be expected when there is no work done?
A65312Who would covet that much, which hath neither Contentment nor Continuance?
A65312Who would envy the wicked, their honour, or pleasure?
A65312Why should we so toil about the World, as if we were to live here ever?
A65312Why then do men dream of an Earthly Eternity?
A65312and, Is your desire quickned into endeavour*?
A65312are your debts paid, your sins pardoned?
A65312shall I now be sinning, when to morrow I may be dying?
A65312who is crowned that never fights?
A87089Blessed Jesus, thou thinkest it no robbery to be equall with God, and dost thou here, as it were, equalize thy selfe to a robber?
A87089But it will still be objected, how can this be verified?
A87089Doest thou enjoy the pleasures of life?
A87089Finally, art thou advanced to an high estate in this world?
A87089Have you not sometimes seene a sturdy Oak quickly blown downe by a violent winde?
A87089Nay, to come nearer, suppose Christ should come by death to any of us here present, this night, this evening, this houre, are we ready for him?
A87089Oh how unwilling is he to goe out of the world, whose heart is glued to it?
A87089Quid est lumbos ac incto ●?
A87089Thou didst tax the Multitude for coming against thee as a Thief, and doest thou here speake of thy selfe as if thou wert a Thief?
A87089Thou promisest to prepare thy self to morrow; but what if thou diest to day?
A87089We feel no infirmity, and therefore feare not mortality: And yet how often doth Christ come by death in such an houre?
A87089What need we regard the words, or feare the threats of this Carpenters Sonne?
A87089a strong and tall Vessell presently sunke by a leake?
A87089could we give up our accounts with joy, and look him in the face with comfort?
A87089nay, who can justly promise to himselfe the next moment?
A87089thou callest thy self, and not without good reason, a little after this, Lord, and can the Lord of the house become a Thief, the Owner a Robber?
A87089whilest our bones are moystned with marrow?
A57376( f) Ad hoc enim nati sumus, ut maneamus aeterni?
A57376( q) Again; He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all: how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
A57376( z) Hence; Why should they that are Christ''s, be either weary of Life, or afraid of Death?
A57376And what Consolatory Arguments may you not readily suggest unto your selves?
A57376Are all things theirs: whether Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the VVorld, or LIFE, or DEATH, or things present, or things to come, Are all theirs?
A57376Are not both theirs?
A57376Are they dead?
A57376Are we born( that I may use Hierom''s words to Paula upon the death of her daughter Blesilla,) that we should here abide eternally?
A57376But what are all these?
A57376Especially when both of them are of a spiritual and eternal concernment?
A57376He that spared not his own Son, but gave him up freely for them; how shall ● e not with him also freely give them all things?
A57376Hence, What a shame is it for Christians to have the least irksom or undervaluing thought of Christianity?
A57376Hence, Who would not now study and strive to become Christ''s indeed?
A57376How Death is theirs, as well as Life?
A57376How Life is theirs'', that are Christ''s?
A57376How is Death theirs, that are Christ''s?
A57376How is Life theirs, that are Christ''s?
A57376OF whom speaks the Apostle these high things?
A57376Shall not life be theirs, and Death theirs, and all things theirs for good?
A57376Their Barren time, wherein they bring forth nothing but briars and thorns, fruits of Sodom and Gomorrha, and all pernicious works of the flesh?
A57376Their Life in this world, what is it else, but Their sinful Seed- time to the flesh?
A57376Their declining time, wherein they waxe worse and worse?
A57376Their fatal Red- Sea, overwhelming them for ever?
A57376Their striving time onely after earthly enjoyments?
A57376Their trying time, to detect and draw forth their vileness?
A57376Their utter loss of all enjoyments on Earth, and of all hopes of Heaven?
A57376Their woful change of painted Felicities, for real Miseries?
A57376Their wretched departure from their wicked Bodies, till both Souls and Bodies shall depart from Christ?
A57376Their wretched working and trading time in iniquity?
A57376Therefore, if God be thus for them; what shall prevailingly be against them?
A57376Therefore, when others say; Who will shew us good?
A57376What wise man is weary of his welfare; or afraid of his Advantages?
A57376What''s here meant by Life and Death?
A57376What''s here meant by Life and Death?
A57376What?
A57376Whence is it, That thus Life and Death become theirs that are Christ''s?
A57376Whence it comes to pass, that Life and Death are thus theirs, who themselves are Christ''s?
A57376Why?
A57376and Christ God''s?
A57376and theirs for the Best?
A57376and they Christs?
A57376whether of Father, Mother, Husband, Wife,& c. Are they alive?
A32083A Fever( such as made this Spectacle of Mortality) may quickly send us after him, who is lately gone unto the Grave: And what comes next?
A32083And Oh what account shall we be able to give to the God that sent us hither, if we mind not the Work for which he sent us?
A32083And as for those of us who have in earnest begun our work, how little of it have we done?
A32083And can there be any thing more evident than this?
A32083And can we then think that we were design''d to be Idle?
A32083And how unaccountable is the latter Instance of Folly, when our Day, if prolong''d to the utmost Period, is so exceeding short?
A32083And need I go to prove this to you?
A32083And shall we then refuse to think these things over again in our Secret Retirements?
A32083And yet how carelessly and negligently do the most live?
A32083But what little Reason is there for the former Complaint, when our Day suffices for our Work?
A32083Can any One, I say, that will give himself leave to think, imagine this to be Work fit for so Noble a Creature as Man to be sent into this World for?
A32083Do we not find that we have Active Natures, Noble Powers, Large Capacities, and Boundless Cravings?
A32083Do we not see all the Creatures, in their several Ranks, according to their Capacities, at work about us?
A32083For who knows what is coming upon us?
A32083God set him a Work for a little while, and then call''d him away; and hath not this a Voice, and that to us particularly?
A32083How easily may a Man, when the Sun Rises in the Morning, fore- see its Setting, when the Light will be succeeded by Darkness, the Day by Night?
A32083How many of us have liv''d the half; nay, two thirds; nay, almost the whole of our day, and are yet to begin our great Work?
A32083How short is our Day, compar''d with the Days of Eternity?
A32083If we can find time now for every thing else but to mind our main Concern, how shall we dare to look God in the Face another day?
A32083Is it so uncertain, and shall we dare to delay?
A32083Is our working Day so short, and can we then find any of it to lose?
A32083Nay, what is our Day now, to that of those who liv''d in the first Ages of the World, but as a short Dream, compar''d to a long Summer''s Day?
A32083What Time, may in be demanded, have such as they to do any Work in?
A32083What shall we do in opposition to the Scepticism by which we find so many unravell''d and undone?
A32083What shall we do to recover the Power of Godliness, of which our Fathers tell us so much, tho we can see so little, it being almost lost?
A32083What shall we do to revive True, Generous, Catholick Christianity?
A32083What shall we do to root out those Prejudices which have so long been rivetted in many peoples minds?
A32083What shall we do to stem that Tide of Atheism and Irreligion, that hath overflown us?
A32083Who that will give way to Consideration, but must hereupon be provok''d to take up some such Resolution as this?
A32083Who then can tell at what Age his Day may end?
A32083Would we not have this to be our case?
A32083at what time his Sun may set?
A32083how is it done, as''t were by halves?
A32083just as if they thought their Day would last always?
A32083to prog for Wealth, and weary himself in heaping together a few Bags of perishing Dust?
A32083when so many Thousands of unforeseen Casualties, Disorders or Distempers may put an end to it?
A70654But how comes the Church to be thus empty?
A70654But now which of us laies these things to heart?
A70654But stay, profane and wicked man,( if any such be here) and let me a little reason with thee: What such cause is there of thy rejoicing?
A70654God bee praised for it, his learning and parts were imployed onely for the hurt of the Church of Christ: Is such an one gone?
A70654How gone?
A70654How often was his life in danger?
A70654May I not say, as David to the People, Rent your Clothes, and gird you with Sackcloth, and mourne before Abner?
A70654Were they apostatised?
A70654Who knows not all this to bee true, who knevv this Mans conversation?
A70654and what He meanes to doe with us?
A70654art thou a gainer by their deaths?
A70654blessed be God, who hath rid his Church of a great enemy: Is such a rich Mandead?
A70654dost thou imagine to rest more safely, because the pillars of the house which covers thee are taken away?
A70654had she never any better store?
A70654had they voluntarily left her?
A70654or dost thou conceive that God hath taken them away to gratifie thee?
A70654or, what we have done to provoke him thus far against us?
A70654the world is well rid of a griping Usurer, a cruell Oppressor, a Mammonist, who had his portion in this World: Is such a great Schollar dead?
A70654vvhat a World of threats and menaces have bin sent Him from time to time?
A70654what great man is this day fallenin our Israell?
A70654who considereth the bitter things which God writes against us?
A68088& quāto amplius est 〈 ◊ 〉 parere quàm h ● manis?
A6808895.?
A68088And if he were content to do the one, how much more we the other?
A68088And if it be matter of much joy to haue Christ with vs here, what will it be to abide for euer with him there f?
A68088And shall we then be vnwilling to follow him to our eternall glory, to our endles good?
A68088And therefore litle reason hath he to feare or abhor death, much cause to affect it, and cheerefully to expect it?
A68088And what speake I of diseases, or of other diseases?
A68088Do we loue life?
A68088For how can a man desire what he feareth m?
A68088For how can we desire to goe after them, if we mourne for them, as if some euill had befallen them?
A68088For what cause or reason should Christian men haue to desire death, if they were to goe to such a place after death?
A68088If he counted it meat and drinke to do that for our good e, how much more should we desire to do this for our own good?
A68088Invenitur qui malit inter supplicia tabescere,& perire membratim,& toties per stillicidia amittere animam quam semel exhalare?
A68088Invenitur, qui velit trahere animam tot tormenta tracturam?
A68088Patinon vultis, exire timetis; qui ● faciam vobis?
A68088Qu ● ntots mperator terrae huius in peregrinis l ● ● is aut honoris specie aut muneris alicuius causa iubet degere?
A68088Quid autem dementius, quàm cum idem tibi iter emetiendū sit, flere cum qui antecessie?
A68088Quid huius viuere est?
A68088Quid tibi videbitur divina lux, cum illam suo loco videris?
A68088Quis non, vbi mors prope accesserit, tergiversatur, tremit, plorat?
A68088Quis oculis glorietur, qui suspicentur diem?
A68088Rather; are they gone before vs, that were neere and deere vnto vs?
A68088Sen. a Nemo sine querela moritur: quis non recusans, quis non gemens exit?
A68088So that she might well say to God with Dauid, ſ Oh how loue I thy law?
A68088Vsque adeò ne mori miserum est?
A68088cur enim imm ● deratè feras abisse, quē mox subsequeris?
A68088h Quid ni non timeat, qui mori sperat?
A68088if the earnest- penny be so pretious, what will the entire payment be?
A68088nunquid hinc inconsulto Imperator ● discedunt?
A68088quibus Sol per caliginē splendet?
A0154714. k Quid ● l ● ud voces ani ● ● ●, quam Deum quendam in humano corpor ● hospitem?
A0154715. t Quid justius?
A01547215. t Vsque adeo charu ● est hic mundus hominibus, ut vi ● uerint ipsi sibi?
A015474. e Vbi enim aut ● ecum ma ● e, aut sine t ● 〈 ◊ 〉 poterit esse?
A01547And g dare any then presume to tender such a present unto God?
A01547And indeed, whom should children in distresse and danger resort and seeke to, for succour, reliefe, support, and protection, but to their Parents?
A01547And so much for the first Question to be considered of, Whether thou hast power, or no, to dispose of thy soule?
A01547And surely, as Salvian well saith; t What can be more just?
A01547And to whom then should it be returned againe, but to him, from whom it came?
A01547And whereas she had pretie skill in matter of Physick and Chirurgerie,( as indeed what was she not skilfull in?)
A01547And whom intendest thou to bequeath it unto?
A01547And whom is the Soule fittest to be recommended unto, but to him who hath most interest in it, having q payd such a price for it?
A01547And whom then may the Soule better for safetie betake it selfe to, then to him, that hath undertaken to save it?
A01547But what finde we in the same place, and in the very next words?
A01547Doest thou intend then to bequeath thy soule unt ● God?
A01547First, I say, Whether it be in thy power to dispose of it?
A01547First, art thou a Free- man?
A01547For can a man by will demise, devise, or dispose of that, that he hath mortgaged, yea, that he hath made sale of before?
A01547For, how can he have ought as his owne, who himselfe is not his owne, but anothers?
A01547For, z What shall it avail ● a man, saith our Saviour, to win the whole world, if he lose his owne soule?
A01547How is that done?
A01547How should such persons be able to save others, as had not might enough to save themselves?
A01547Is suc ● a soule fit to be and abide with God in heaven, where i ● h nothing but holinesse, where i no uncleane thing ca ● enter?
A01547Or how should that be?
A01547Quam cha ● as ● ● ● Christo animatua, pro quâ posuit animam suam?
A01547Quare?
A01547Secondly, hast thou not made sale of thy soule alreadie?
A01547The Apostle telleth thee: a Doe you not know, saith he, that whomsoever you obey, his servants you are, whom you doe obey?
A01547The other, Whether he will be willing to accept of it, or no?
A01547Thou wilt say to me, it may be, How may that be done?
A01547V ● figam orationem tuam in auribus meis?
A01547What should God doe with a foule, a filthie, a prophane, an impure a sottish, a beastly, a brutish, a swinish soule?
A01547Wouldest thou know then, how this so weightie a worke may be effected?
A01547Wouldest thou then be free, and have power to dispose of thy soule, when thou art making of thy will?
A01547Wouldst thou resigne and give up thy soule unto God, at thy going out of the world, with good assurance of gracious acceptance with him?
A01547Yea, but here two Questions may be mooved, and a two- fold Doubt made: The one, Whether thou hast power to dispose of it, or no?
A01547Yea, but how may I know, whether I be so, or no?
A01547ba ejus, ● quo vis percipi lachrymatuas?
A01547e Quae ● asta est?
A01547how carefull to keepe it faire and cleane, when thou shouldest at some time, as occasion is, weare it and make use of it?
A01547or can he conceive the least hope, that God should accept of it?
A01547or so sottish, and void of common sense, as to imagine once, that such a person as he is would accept of such a gift?
A01547or what shall he give in exchange for his soule?
A01547qu ● b ● s meritis?
A01547quid aequius?
A01547quo enim lu ● rum capiatur, nisi capiendi sede ● inconcussa servetur?
A01547what can be more equall?
A01547x Non potest ulla compendri causa cōsistere, ● i co ● stetanima intervenire dispendium?
A9665219. we reade that they were stoned as malefactors, was not Christ counted a Prophet?
A9665232. he that spared not his owne Son but gave him to death for us, shall he not with him give us all things else that are necessary?
A96652Againe, art thou to come unto the Temple of the Lord?
A96652And I pray see if he bee not a great loser that gaines a world and loses his Soule?
A96652And wilt thou be so carelesse of my honour, and of thy owne salvation?
A96652Art thou to come unto the Lord by Prayer?
A96652Art thou to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper?
A96652But then as the Souldiers said to John the Baptist, Master what shall wee doe?
A96652But who are you?
A96652First, how uncertaine is honour?
A96652For what face is there, bee it never so beautifull in youth, but if it live long it will be plowed with the furrows of old age?
A96652For what shall it profit a man if he win the whole world, and lose his owne soule?
A96652Have I honored thee so much?
A96652Have we such great cause to seeke diligently after the salvation of our soules?
A96652In a word, art thou a beleever, and hast embraced the Faith of Christ?
A96652Is it not lawfull to seeke at all after the things of this life?
A96652Now if one of these make an enemy terrible, how terrible will that enemy bee, in whom all these foure meete?
A96652Now therefore, as when Monica( Austens mother) heard an excellent discourse of the joyes of heaven, sayd, Quid facio hic?
A96652O for how little have I lost a kingdome?
A96652Quid aliud est anima quam Deus hospitans in corpore humano?
A96652Quid de te dicam?
A96652So may I say covet or seeke the best counsell you can, and you can not find better then this in my text: For what counsell is like it?
A96652What and thou my son?
A96652What doe I heere on earth?
A96652What is it that advances the calling of the Ministery above other callings but only this, that it tends to the good of man''s Soule?
A96652What shall I say more?
A96652or what recompence or exchange shall a man give for his soule?
A96652so say I, what doe we heere, planting our affections on the things of this life?
A96652what other thing is the Soule, but God lodging in the body?
A96652what shall I say of thee?
A96103''t is certain we shall depart, but the question is whether shall we go to Christ?
A96103* Egredere anima, egredere; quid times?
A96103* Hac luce privabor, his orbabor bonis?
A96103* Hiliaron chides himself that he was no more willing to die; Go forth my soul, what fearest thou?
A96103* It was the speech of Axiochus the Philosopher when he was to dye, Shall I be deprived of this light?
A9610317. how short, in respect of eternity?
A96103But there is much deceit about this grace?
A96103Do we endure no pain at all in our life?
A96103How is a believer tyred out with his corruptions?
A96103How is that?
A96103How light is death ▪ compar''d with the weight of glory?
A96103How may that be known?
A96103Is it not a grievous thing for a Virgin to have her chastity daily assaulted?
A96103Is it not sad to have the Devils bullets continually flying about our ears?
A96103Is my strength( saith Job) the strength of stones?
A96103Let us then put our selves upon a scrutiny and trial whether we are persons that shall go to Christ when we dye?
A96103No wonder then a believer longs to depart out of this life; why should he fear that which frees him from fear?
A96103Our sinnes; who can look into his own heart with dry eyes?
A96103Some ask the question how and in what manner we shall see Christ, whether we shall see his God- head with bodily eyes?
A96103The Devil hath his bad wares, and counterfeit graces to put off; how therefore shall we know a true faith from a false and spurious?
A96103Thus in gathering riches, how is the head and heart prick''d with care?
A96103What are a few pangs of death, compar''d with the pangs of a guilty conscience, or with the flames of hell, which God hath freed a believer from?
A96103Why should we mourn excessively for them who are blessed?
A96103Why should we weep immoderately for them who have all teares wiped from their eyes?
A96103and is there not great reason why a child of God should desire to depart?
A96103are they in Christ that hate him in his Ministers, in his Ordinances?
A96103is it good being among the briars?
A96103nought but weep, sad Muse?
A96103shall I leave all my sweet delights?
A96103the sweet Rose of grace doth not grow without its prickles?
A96103who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
A4148513. who is hee that shall harme you: yea, if we doe well, who will or can harme us, or our religion?
A4148533. dyed Abner as a foole dyeth?
A41485And what becomes of the causalitie, or efficiencie of these?
A41485And what was this( in effect) but to undertake to reconcile Christ and Belial: and to divide Christ in, or against himselfe?
A41485As one said, if theeves will rise at midnight to murther men, shall not men bee willing to bee awakened to save their lives?
A41485Does the wilde Assebray when he hath grasse?
A41485First, the Author of that precious treasure for which they were so earnestly to contend?
A41485For the first: doe not the hearts of farre the greater part of men and women, sit loose to this great businesse of Heaven?
A41485Hath the Lord( saith Samuel) as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voyce of the Lord?
A41485If the Lord Christ be risen up to speake in this case, shall not all the earth keepe silence before him?
A41485Is there any other kinde of running in this race of Christian profession amongst us, than as if men did not much care whether they obtained, or no?
A41485It is God that justifieth( saith Paul in another case) who shall condemne?
A41485Lay hold on it: but where is it, that a man may lay hold?
A41485May not all the world serve their turnes out of us?
A41485Now how or why should God bee with them?
A41485Or doth the Oxe low over his fodder?
A41485Or is there any true excellencie or worth in such a thing?
A41485The meaning of the promise may be, that Gods people who should be all taught of him?
A41485Therefore how is this any ground or reason of the point?
A41485Therefore who in this case shall bee judge where the guilt lies?
A41485This night( saith God to the rich man) they shall fetch away thy foule( i. thy life) and then whose shall these things bee which thou hast provided?
A41485What neede you quicken him that maketh haste?
A41485What needeth this waste?
A41485What was Balaams work for the doing wherof, he should have beene so richly and royally paid?
A41485What would it have beene unto him?
A41485Where credit?
A41485Where friends?
A41485Where is there a man amongst many, whose heart is to the worke indeed?
A41485Where is thy estate?
A41485Where libertie?
A41485Where life?
A41485Who going but on foote themselves, are still pulling others from their horses?
A41485Who labors for this bread that perisheth not, as if it were bread indeed?
A41485Why, what if God had had his wish or desire herein?
A41485if we neglect so great a salvation?
A41485sitteth still, or sleepeth?
A41485whose shall all these be?)
A70131And Shall?
A70131And flying Life, can be but mock''d with Death?
A70131And is indeed the brave Bertudor gone?
A70131Did you e''er find unhappy News untrue?
A70131Do I yet draw this hated Breath?
A70131Forgive me, Damon, I''ve too long digrest; But who cou''d hold, to see such Charms distrest?
A70131How are we Yours, when with''ring Grass and Flow''rs, Vapours and Bubbles, are so truly Ours?
A70131How oft wou''d He from all his State descend?
A70131If Temp''rance thus at Noon is snatch''d away, Can wild Excess expect to end the day?
A70131If Vertue met with a so early Fate; Can Vice presume to hope a longer Date?
A70131If prosp''rous Fortunes are to most a Snare, Why not th''Afflicted God''s peculiar Care?
A70131If the Physician oft divert our Fate, By feeling how the Blood does Circulate, What may HE do that know''s the Pulse of State?
A70131Is this to be your Image?
A70131Must we be doom''d in Being to remain, Renew''d to Grief, and but preserv''d for Pain?
A70131O shall this BENEFACTOR go And we not sing his Worth, and sigh our Woe?
A70131Or is all Nature opn''d to Your Eye?
A70131Or who hereafter( through more Trials prov''d) VVill leave Thee — so Bemoan''d, and so Belov''d?
A70131Shall Fame amidst such Merit silent lye?
A70131Shall Time or Rage be suffer''d to efface The Mem''ry of this best of British Race?
A70131Shall e''er the Springs that water Grief, be dry?
A70131Stemming the Tide of violated Laws, Till he has made the Just, the Prosp''rous Cause?
A70131That thus YOU forward look among the Fates, And seem a Second Providence to States?
A70131VVhat shall we say?
A70131What comfort have we, towards the Goal to strive, If thus the Stream of Fate at Random drive?
A70131What un- foreseen and sudden stroak of Fate Is this, that Nature sinks beneath the Weight?
A70131When great Elijah did on high ascend, And Heav''n''s bright Chariot his Ascent attend, What Joy was it to his remaining Friend?
A70131When will deliv''rance from Oppression come, If such as He are call''d so early Home?
A70131When will our Publick Fears, and Private Hate Be o''er, if thus we lose such Props of State?
A70131Where does the wond''rous Penetration lie?
A70131Who e''er before made Thee appear so Great, Or in thy Civil, Learn''d, or Martial State?
A70131Who in the Gap, when Force wou''d Right devour, Will stand so firm against unbounded Pow''r?
A70131Who is more likely Fame''s now sinking blast To lift again as high, and make it last?
A70131Who, when the Royal Cause is sunk so low, Will set so vast a Fortune at a Throw, And with such Skill, divert th''impending Blow?
A70131Will not the Partial Pow''rs that rule above Permit this last, best, dearest Act of Love, To Die, and by that Test, our Sorrows prove?
A70131what avail''s our Hope, if Truth must here Be least, or latest Providence''s Care?
A70131what for us remains( till Life is done) But Wrongs, Distresses, Obliquy and Moan?
A70131whence came these dismal Cries?
A70131where?
A70131— How fares my Mourning Friend?
A32058And can not the Almighty God do this?
A32058And what are Honours but heaps of dung?
A32058But you will demand; In what respects may the body be said to be a vile body?
A32058Doth not, if such a part of goodness fall, Goodnesses common spirit convey to all A members sadness?
A32058From Paul to Littleton or Cook?
A32058How is it possible that ever these bodies of ours should rise again, and these vile bodies be made like unto the glorious body of Christ?
A32058How quite contrary to this do most people live?
A32058How will they befool one another?
A32058I''n''t the Church throughout Its body pained when an Eie''s put out?
A32058IS BOLTON dead?
A32058If there were a Physician here upon earth that could cure all your bodily diseases and deformities, and make them immortall, how would you prize him?
A32058Many will help it on, but who''le bemoan A sad Church rent into division?
A32058Shall all bodies be made thus glorious?
A32058Such searching fires earths mixture do proclaime ▪ When, like some wandring fires, from book to book Skipt it?
A32058That we might feel, or fit our selves to dy?
A32058The body is made of dust, and who ever advanced dust?
A32058Was it death''s mercy, or deaths cruelty?
A32058What are Riches but brighter dust?
A32058What are the Characters of those men and women, whose vile bodies shall be made like unto the glorious body of Christ?
A32058What are those transfigurations and transformations that Christ shall make in our bodies at this day?
A32058What is Man but handsome mudd and guilded rottenness?
A32058What is death, but a pulling down of the house of our bodies?
A32058What is every night, but the grave( as it were) of the dayes light?
A32058What is that change that Christ shall make in our vile bodies at the resurrection?
A32058What is the morning, but the resurrection of the day?
A32058What is winter, but the death( as it were) of fruits?
A32058What trouble and pain do many women that are crooked endure, by wearing Iron bodies to make themselves strait?
A32058What vast expences are many at for the beautifying of their rotten carcasses?
A32058When will this rotten carcass be consumed, that I may mount up to Heaven?
A32058Where shall we now such a meek Moses finde To recall wrangling Brethren to one minde?
A32058Who can reckon up all the diseases that mans body is liable unto?
A32058Why art thou proud O dust and ashes?
A32058Why art thou proud oh dust and ashes?
A32058Will you abuse that body that is the Temple of the holy Ghost to sinne and iniquity?
A32058Your fathers where are they?
A32058and the Prophets do they live for ever?
A32058and what is the resurrection, but the building up of the same house more gloriously?
A32058and what the spring, but the resurrection of them?
A32058what is this metamorphosis, wherein doth it consist?
A32058will you take the members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot?
A44540And doest thou talk like a man of reason, Sinner?
A44540And doth the clearest manifestation of Heaven add no weight to your guilt and stubborness?
A44540Are these o ● ● ward Goods indeed the things thou chusest for thy treasure?
A44540Are you within reach of the Crown, and will you lay down your weapons?
A44540Are you within sight of the Haven, and will you suffer shipwrack?
A44540Can you see Philosophers contemn this Vanity, and dare you be in love with it?
A44540Doth the whole Creation hope to be deliver''d from her bondage?
A44540Hast thou a soul capable of grasping a God, and dost thou run into the embraces of an Idol?
A44540Hath God given thee no higher faculties?
A44540Hath not he endow''d thee with nobler desires?
A44540Have not you read of whited Sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and of all uncleanness?
A44540Have you fought the good fight so long, and will you give over now?
A44540How should he continue sound long that hath so many enemies within, and without him, to shatter his earthly Tabernacle into dust and atoms?
A44540If a Beast could speak, would not this be his language?
A44540If unwillingness to endure pain were a sufficient bar to justice, what Malefactor would be put to death?
A44540If you turn the grace of God into wantonness, will God play with it, do you think, as you do?
A44540Shall I leave a certain satisfaction for I know not what?
A44540Shall a Pagan look on these outward glories as unworthy of his affections, and will you suffer yours to be entangled with them?
A44540Thy Soul must have an Anchor that can give it rest, and will these thorns and bryars do it?
A44540Thy Soul must have an individual companion that will never leave it nor forsake it, and will these deceitful props stand by it at the great Tribunal?
A44540Thy soul wants an Everlasting object; and are these the things that will endure for ever?
A44540Where are the mighty Honorable men, who have made whole Nations tremble, and shook the habitable World into subjection?
A44540Who can express the innumerable disasters, discontents, and vexations life is subject and expos''d unto?
A44540Will God let your unprofitableness under the richest means of grace go unpunish''d?
A44540Will not their temperance and abstinence condemn your greediness after these perishable objects?
A44540Will not they be your Judges one day?
A44540Will not they shame you, that did more by the strength of nature, than you with all the encouragements of the Holy Ghost?
A44540Will not this aggravate your neglect, and change your Rods into Scorpions?
A44540Will not this fill your faces with greater confusion?
A44540Will not this make your furnace hotter?
A44540Will you do less than Pagans?
A44540Will you fall short of Men that never heard the Gospel?
A44540Will you sink beneath those that never had any other light but what the glimmering Candle of Nature gave them?
A44540and are these Butterflies, that perish in the handling, fit to ingross thy affections?
A44540for a thing uncertain and out of sight?
A44540what are they all but vanity in grain?
A43127And I would ask a prophane and impenitent person, how he thinks he can bear the pomp of the last tribunal?
A43127And that is, that none considereth in his heart, I have burnt part of it in the fire, and shall I make the residue of it an abomination?
A43127And what great pleasure is it that we have from vice?
A43127But what if these things were only probabilities and conjectures?
A43127Have I not begun my preparation for death till this day, and yet for ought I know this may be the very last day of my life?
A43127I then began to examine him as to the state of his Soul, what sense he had of his sins?
A43127Is there then no thought, or labour in, or beyond the grave?
A43127Let us see then what use wisdom would make of such a consideration as this; would it pass this little time it has given it to no purpose?
A43127a pious life would still be the most advantageous conclusion we could deduce from this; for what do we loose by it?
A43127and can we live here, as if we had nothing to do, or nothing but what we might defer till a future state?
A43127and do we not all act thus in those affairs that relate to our temporal concerns?
A43127and how then should it not be prudence to judge alike with reference to our eternal ones?
A43127and if this opportunity being once lost, there be no other to retrieve our hopes, does not common reason urge us immediately to embrace and employ it?
A43127and what if Fortune smile upon us here for a moment?
A43127and what remorse for having at any time offended God?
A43127and whether he were perswaded of the necessity of repentance and amendment of life in order to gain the Salvation purchased by Iesus Christ?
A43127does it ballance the dismal apprehensions we have upon a sickbed, or upon approaching death?
A43127if in the mean time our hopes reach no farther, and death is to put an end both to our grandeur and our expectation?
A43127if the time we have to stay be but short, is it not just and fit that we be cautious of loosing and misapplying it?
A43127if we are sure in the end to find a lasting comfort, to have all our tears wiped off, and an admittance given us into the joy of our Lord?
A43127is there nothing that can avail us towards joy in the world to come, but our passing of our days on earth in a conscientious discharge of our duty?
A43127or for so short a time?
A43127or to wicked ones?
A43127or what do we gain by the contrary?
A43127or what if it does?
A43127shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
A43127shall I gratify my own follies and vices, and in the hurry of them fancy I live for a moment, and so be carried away blindly into everlasting Death?
A43127what if all these join together to make our journey uneasy?
A43127what if the world frown upon us, and we meet with disappointments in our designs, necessity in our fortune and pains and diseases in our bodies?
A43127what if we are feared or envy''d, caressed or loved by those about us?
A43127what if we have health of body, plentiful estates and fair reputations?
A43127what if we were not fully assured that there were to be a future state, but only apprehended and dreaded it?
A43127what thoughts would be raised in him from the sight of a distant Heaven, and what sense he would have of the torments of a present Hell?
A43127whether he gave credit to the Miracles that are there recorded; and lookt upon them as attestations of the truth of the Christian Religion?
A43127would it carelessly let slip the opportunities of repentance and amendment, or render them yet more difficult by affected and habitual impieties?
A43127would it neglect its work or add to it?
A43127would it study methods and contrivances to waste and mispend it?
A43127would not any man that reflects seriously on this be apt to say to himself, shall I spend my thoughts or contrivance for that which profiteth nothing?
A60355A Legion of lusts which war against the Soul; who indeed can tell the number of them?
A60355And do you seriously consider how much this stands God in?
A60355And that not only between one faculty and another, but between the same faculty and itself?
A60355Are there any of you that have got good hope through grace, that have had your Faith of Adherence crowned with that of Assurance?
A60355But what of all that?
A60355But what say you, is there the Company of two Armies in you?
A60355Come, Christians, what report can you ● … ake?
A60355Do you feel strugglings in you as R ● … bekah once did in her womb?
A60355First then, What are those things which the holy Soul doth after Death rest from?
A60355H ● … bespeaks her thus; Return, return, O Shulamite ▪ return, return, that w ● … may look upon thee: What will ye see in the Shulamite?
A60355How many are there that have Vipers and vexations in their bosoms?
A60355How many comfortable Answers hath he given?
A60355How many messages of peace have been brought to you by his Ministers and Spirit?
A60355How many rich tokens hath he blest you with, every one of greater value than an Orient Pearl, or glistering Diamond?
A60355How much more may you be of the same mind?
A60355How now Israel, what is the meaning of this language?
A60355I beseech you learn to be wise, it is, indeed it is high time, if you will not be wise now, when will you?
A60355If a man die, saith Iob, shall he live again?
A60355If messages be so delicious, what are the closest embraces?
A60355If there be such conveyances made by the Pipes of Ordinances and Duties, what is there in him, in whom are all my Springs?
A60355Is there a Law in your minds warring against that Law of Sin and Death which is in your members?
A60355Is there a Spirit within you lusting against the flesh; is there a contest and combating within you?
A60355Is there such a sight as this to be seen ▪ I mean, to be seen in your Souls?
A60355Is there the company of two Armies?
A60355Look where you ar ● … sinners; in a state of sin and wrath: and is it good to be so?
A60355Look whithe ● … you are going, is it not to Hell?
A60355O Gene ● … tion, see the word of the Lord, have I been a wilderness unto Israel, or a L ● … of darkness?
A60355Peter 〈 ◊ 〉 the name of the rest made this reply, Lord, to whom shall we go?
A60355Remember it, O Christians?
A60355The Question will be, What are we here to understand by Rest?
A60355They had gone far from him, and walked after vanity, and were become vain: But whither did they go, when they left God?
A60355We are now refreshed with his beams, and secured by his shadow, but what will he be, and what will he do?
A60355What are the properties of that rest, which the holy Soul shall then be put into the possession of?
A60355What is it that doth displease yo ● … Wherein have I offended you?
A60355What is yet to come?
A60355What then?
A60355What those things are, from which the Soul doth after Death rest?
A60355What, will you co ● … ter?
A60355Whom have I in Heaven but thee?
A60355and do you think it will be good to b ● … there?
A60355and then how well may you argue thus with your selves, If there be so much coming from God, what is there in God?
A60355charge me if you can; what have I 〈 ◊ 〉 or what have I done, what cause I have given you?
A60355do not you find that this 〈 ◊ 〉 the language, and these the breathings of your Souls?
A60355what account can you give of your selves?
A60355wherefore say my people, VVe are Lords, we will come no more un ● … thee?
A60355who is there that can pass thorough this Wilderness without multiplied wounds?
A60355who would be content to stand at a ● … ay?
A60355why have y ● … taken up such an hasty resolution?
A26790A Covetous Man, how greedily does he prosecute the Advantages of the present World that passes away, and the Lusts thereof?
A26790A carnal Wretch urged by the sting of a brutish desire, with what impatience does he pursue the pleasure of Sin, which is but for a season?
A26790An Ambitious Person, with what an intemperate heighth of Passion does he chase a Feather?
A26790And can any feed too much, when none can love enough?
A26790And do not the most evident Principles of Reason and Universal Experience prove, that this World can not afford true Happiness to us?
A26790And how attractive is the Divine Likeness to an holy Eye?
A26790And what a blessed Rest do they find in the compleat fruition of their Beloved?
A26790And what cruelty is it to the Souls of Men?
A26790Are these the affections, the expressions, of one that believes the blessedness of Immortal Life?
A26790Can any Pains be sufficient for the salvation of Souls, for which the Son of God did not esteem his Blood too costly a price?
A26790Can there be an Expectation, or Desire, or Capacity in Man, of enjoying a Happiness beyond what is Infinite and Eternal?
A26790Can two incongruous Natures delight in one another?
A26790Can we frame a fuller Conception of Happiness than to be perfectly loved by infinite Goodness, and perfectly to love him?
A26790Could he speak this of himself without the injury and indignation of the other Disciples?
A26790Does the Soul sleep in that all- enlightned World, that sees with open face, the infinite Beauty of God?
A26790Here after all our labour and toyl, how little Knowledg do we gain?
A26790How afflictive is the consideration of our divided Church?
A26790How beautiful and pleasant is the Day of Eternity, after such a dark tempestuous Night?
A26790How do they forget themselves, neglect the Body, and retire into the Mind, the highest part of Man, and nearest to God?
A26790How does the remembrance of such Evils produce a more lively and feeling fruition of such happiness?
A26790How many specious Errors impose upon our understandings?
A26790How often are the Learned sickly?
A26790How ravishing then will the sight of him be in his triumphant Majesty, when we shall be transfigured our selves?
A26790How strangely and mightily does Salvation with Eternal Glory affect the Soul?
A26790How will it ravish the Saints to behold an immortal Loveliness shining in one another?
A26790How wretchedly do we forfeit the Prerogative of the Reasonable Nature by neglecting our last and blessed End?
A26790In what an Extasy of wonder and pleasure will they be, from the fresh memory of what they were, and the joyful sence of what they are?
A26790Is not incessant unwearied industry requisite to advance the work of Grace in them to perfection?
A26790Is this not to be sorrowful as those that have no hope?
A26790O how do they enjoy and triumph in the Happiness of one another?
A26790O how transporting is the comparison of these wide and contrary extreams?
A26790Of the innumerable Company above, is there any Eye that weeps, any Breast that sighs, any Tongue that complains, or appearance of Grief?
A26790Suppose that Justice should allow Omnipotence to translate such a sinner to Heaven, would the Place make him happy?
A26790Sweet Peace, whither art thou fled?
A26790The Psalmist breaks forth, Whom have I in Heaven but Thee?
A26790Those who are possest with a noble Passion for Knowledg, how do they despise all lower Pleasures in comparison of it?
A26790What Reciprocations of Endearments are between them?
A26790What Spirit of Errour possesses them?
A26790What a powerful Motive our Saviour urged upon St. Peter?
A26790What powerful Charm obstructs their true judging of things?
A26790What triumphs of Joy follow?
A26790When their folly shall be exposed before God, Angels, and Saints, in what extream confusion will they appear before that glorious and immense Theatre?
A26790With what Life and Alacrity will the Saints in their blessed Communion celebrate the Object of their Love and Praises?
A26790With what an unimaginable tenderness do they embrace?
A26790With what excellent discourses do they entertain one another?
A26790and with most ardent Aspirings pray, Thy Kingdom come in its full power and glory?
A26790how do they upbraid our indifferent desires, our dull delays, and cold endeavours, when such an high Prize is set before us?
A26790that drinks of the Rivers of Pleasure that flow from his Presence?
A26790that freely and joyfully converses with all the Celestial Courtiers, the Princes of that Kingdom, the Favourites of God?
A26790that hears and bears a part in the hymns of the Angels& Saints encircling his Throne?
A26790who shall deliver me from this body of Death?
A46911And, 2. by your love to holiness and righteousness, and an universal respect to all Gods commands?
A46911Are ye righteous through reputation?
A46911Are you born of God?
A46911Are you born of the Spirit?
A46911Are you born of the Word, of the Spirit of God himself?
A46911But I foresee an Objection, which I will anticipate: Wherefore should Saints that are sanctified but in part, be so perfectly glorified?
A46911But would he not repent if any of the Lords Ministers would boldly tell him of his backslidings?
A46911By your hatred of sin; of every false way that appears to you by the light of the Word and Spirit so to be?
A46911Can you clear your Regeneration to your own souls by your living a new life and conversation?
A46911Did ever Moses, Phinehas, or David, or any of the Lords faithful, zealous Servants say so?
A46911Do those dispositions the blessed Spirit moving you to frequent exercise?
A46911Do you grow by the Word?
A46911Do you lay the weight of all your confidence, all your hopes for Salvation, on this corner- stone Christ, God- man, on whom the Church is built?
A46911Do you rellish most such particular subjects concerning Grace, Christ, God in Christ, as your hearts were at first most wrought upon by?
A46911Had he it not, think ye, engraven on his heart?
A46911Has the Word of God been the power of God to your conversion?
A46911Have they at any time any respect to any of Gods Commands?
A46911Have you by faith applied and appropriated this righteousness to your selves, and so trusted, i. e. hoped in Christ after ye heard this word of Truth?
A46911Have you righteousness inherent, gracious dispositions, and habitual grace, the graces of the Spirit infused into and wrought in you?
A46911How can I do this, saith holy Joseph, and sin against God?
A46911How shall ye know this?
A46911Is it not?
A46911Is it?
A46911Is your fear more to displease God than man?
A46911Let Antiochus be Epiphanes here, was not he eaten up of lice or worms?
A46911Let Herod( for his gorgeous apparel) be most illustrious, had not he the same Exit?
A46911Luther being asked when many were engaged and enraged against him, and sought his life, Where he thought he might be safe?
A46911May not a little milk be handed by me to new born babes, but one or another must think strange of it?
A46911Of the Word; was you ever by the Gospel read or preached, brought out of the Kingdom of Satan, the World, into the Church militant?
A46911True, Paul did not some good that he would, did do some sin that he would not; yet he did abstain from much evil, do much good; Who so much as he?
A46911Try them by the Touchstone; do you think they will abide the trial another day, at the day of judgment?
A46911What good have ye done in your places and generations?
A46911What if they should?
A46911What''s Grace?
A46911Will hopes of keeping up their credit in the world, of getting a little gain thereby, make men deal honestly, and seem righteous before men?
A46911and that ye can never be acquitted therefrom but through the obedience of Christ the second Adam by your believing on him, and his righteousness?
A46911and will not that greedy worm of Conscience, gripe, gnaw, and feed upon his soul to all eternity?
A46911by the disobedience of the first Adam?
A46911hoccine est suum cuique distribuere?
A46911how differs Grace from Vertue and Morality?
A46911how shall you clear that?
A46911justitia est quae ipsum hominem Deo vero tollit,& immundis spiritibus subdit?
A46911partakers of the Divine Nature?
A46911were the eminent vertues of the Heathens sins?
A46911who will believe you?
A46911you lived a careless secure carnal life; do you live a strict, a spiritual life now?
A46911your care to please him rather than your selves or others?
A270442 And to be presently awakened to use them better before the rest be taken away?
A270443 But let us all know the use of suffering, what cure hath this Medicine wrought?
A27044And are we not taught by such a glass as this, how Great and how Good a God we serve?
A27044And how farre they know the things on Earth?
A27044And how is Gods strength manifested in our weakness?
A27044And how their state before the Resurrection differs from what it will be after?
A27044And how they converse with one another?
A27044And how they do enjoy?
A27044And how they see, Praise and enjoy God?
A27044And is not this Providence of God, and this example of our deceased friend of use to us?
A27044And many more?
A27044And whether Christ ever directed the Church to exclude such, or did not plainly require the contrary?
A27044And whether the Apostles ever excluded such, or made such Rules?
A27044And why do we so much fear every Thorn in the Flesh: Every Sickness, Pain, or Cross, as if Pride could be prevented or killed at too dear a rate?
A27044But how doth God do it?
A27044But how doth Paul endure the Thorn?
A27044But how doth Paul pray?
A27044But how was Paul in danger of being exalted above measure, by the abundance of Revelations?
A27044But if we suffer not, how shall suffering- graces be exercised, faith, patience, self- denial, and hope?
A27044But who put this Thorn into Pauls Flesh?
A27044Did they live then more humbly, peaceably and heavenly?
A27044Do we not find that we are better when we suffer than when we are high?
A27044Have you heard and seen more of heaven than others?
A27044How easily should we bear our short afflictions?
A27044How far one or not one with Christ, and one another?
A27044How far they have still sensation?
A27044How greedily do some Religious People desire it?
A27044How shall grace and divine strength be manifested to our selves and others?
A27044How shall we get the benefit of suffering, if we feel it not?
A27044How they are indivuate, and yet how far one?
A27044How they subsist, and act out of the body?
A27044If Faith have not taught you to pray as Christians, methinks feeling should teach you to pray as men?
A27044Is Pride so rare or so small a sin?
A27044Is not grace better than ease or life?
A27044Is not this a Paradise indeed, that is a place of purest greatest pleasure?
A27044O had we lived as Beleivers should have lived, how much more of heavenly mindedness, and delight might we have attained than we have done?
A27044O how it would overcome all these distrustful trembling fears of death, and make us long, and grown and cry, to be with Christ?
A27044O let our pains drive us all to God, who hath not some?
A27044O what a help to mortification would such a sight of Paradise be?
A27044Our souls would fain have more sensible perceptions of themselves, as to their substance, and their separate state?
A27044Paul was thither taken up; had he no interest there, no hopes, no friends, no business there; VVhy then should he have been rapt up thither?
A27044Say not, Why then is it my duty to pray?
A27044Sicknesses are all abroad, what house, how few persons have not some; and yet is there a Prayerless house, or person?
A27044The spirit of a man( if sound and well) will sustain( his bodily) infirmities: But a wounded spirit who can bear?
A27044To repent of our neglect of such helps as God is now removing?
A27044VVhat life would it put into all holy duty?
A27044VVhy should we enquire, when they must not be uttered?
A27044Was not Paul a strong believer?
A27044Was that Church therein guided by the Spirit of Christ, which made the Canon which ipso facto excommunicateth such?
A27044We would fain know more of the decrees of God, and how all his acts are Eternal, and yet produce their effects in time?
A27044Were we designed but to inhabit the Sun, or some resplendent Star, how high is it above this Earth?
A27044What faithful Soul that hath been bred up in the School of afflictions doth not by experience say that it was good for him?
A27044What is it in this confused and imperfect VVorld that hath not its inconveniencies?
A27044What is it that Grace is sufficient for?
A27044What may we conjecture those things are which Paul had seen and must not utter?
A27044What trifling should we think most of the busles of this world?
A27044Whether they are substances utterly immaterial, how they are generated?
A27044Whether wise and good men could find no better?
A27044Why did Christ pray against his Cup?
A44681And how?
A44681And now what mighty pleadings might the Case admit, on the one hand, and the other?
A44681And now, all the question will be, Which alledges the more considerable things?
A44681And what else is living Religion, but a tendency to Blessedness?
A44681But he that is joined unto the Lord, is one Spirit?
A44681But is our Service fit, in point of excellency, and value, to be compared with that of glorified Spirits in the upper Regions?
A44681But what now, doth this fearful Case admit of no remedy?
A44681Can such a presence with the Lord, as is here meant, consist with sleeping?
A44681Can we not endure to see or think of a Man at liberty,( suppose it were a Friend or a Brother) if we our selves were in Prison?
A44681Especially, when it is so purposely design''d for Remedy of the Apostacy, wherein Men are revolted and gone off from him?
A44681For was it only an entrance into Glory he desired, and not continuance in a glorified state?
A44681For who are the[ We] that speak of being absent from the Body, and present with the Lord?
A44681Hath not Death still swept the Stage from Generation to Generation?
A44681Have not others, in all former Ages, lov''d the Body and this World as much?
A44681How doth that part of the Creation that is inferior to you, abound with like Instances?
A44681How like in sound is this to Animus cujusque is quisque?
A44681Is a Body so much nearer a- kin to us, than a Spirit; that we must have so mean a thing to come between, to mediate and reconcile us to it?
A44681Know of your selves, demand an account, Are you sincerely willing to be his?
A44681Mansion do I say?
A44681Matters are then agreed between him and you: And who can break or disanul the Agreement?
A44681Of whom we find one* speaking with a sort of disdain; Is this Body, I?
A44681Or is sleeping more desirable than the converse with him our present state admits?
A44681Or, That the Soul is the Man?
A44681Or, upon supposition you should, are you willing?
A44681Shall we agree to resign these Bodies, and this bodily Life?
A44681Shall we now learn more to study, and understand our own Natures?
A44681That we are Creatures united with Bodies, but separable from them?
A44681That we are sojourners only in a Body, which we must shortly leave to Dust and Worms?
A44681To contemplate our selves, and our Duty thereupon?
A44681What can be more disconsolate?
A44681What is Death to me as an Object of Fear, in comparison of being absent from the Lord?
A44681What is it as an Object of Love, in comparison of being with the Lord?
A44681What so much a- kin are a Mind, and a piece of Earth, a Clod, and a Thought, that they should be thus affiix''d to one another?
A44681Who are they that they should desire the Day of the Lord?
A44681Who can come between him and you?
A44681Who could ever, by their love of this bodily Life, procure it to be perpetuated?
A44681Why are we afraid of what we are so nearly allyed unto?
A44681Why do we make the Thoughts of a Spirit out of a Body so strange to our selves?
A44681Will a Man rob God?
A44681Will he suffer himself to be defeated in a Design, upon which he is so industriously intent?
A44681Without this, who can expect but to hear from him at last, Depart from me, I know you not?
A44681Would I lurk in the Body, and lie hid from the presence of the Lord?
A44681Yea, and when he now takes him in hand a second time?
A44681You are unwilling to die, and be banish''d the Divine Presence; But are you unwilling to die and enjoy it?
A44681a Day of such gloominess and darkness, as it is likely, should it now dawn, to prove to them?
A44681and taken all away, willingly or unwillingly?
A44681and to take him for yours, without limitation or reserves?
A44681and what is become of them?
A44681break and violate his House?
A44681or by their dread of Mortality, make themselves Immortal?
A3993427, 35. would you see him Dead and Buried?
A399343 Ioab to be an obsequious knave, to do any thing that the king commands him against a faithfull servant to Ioab himself: shall I and my Lord Ioab?
A3993460. would you see his Resurrection?
A39934And how did Christ love us?
A39934Art thou willing to part with any thing for him, that having found this treasure, canst thou presently hide it in thy heart?
A39934Art thou willing to sell all that thou hast to purchase this Field, this Treasure, this Wisdom?
A39934But how shall I come to Christ, that I may find mercy?
A39934But what are the grounds and reasons that Gods people fall from him by their iniquities?
A39934Dost thou eye Jesus Christ by faith?
A39934Dost thou see fulness of satisfaction in the merits, death, and passion of Christ?
A39934First may be from Gods Command, ● O Israel return unto me; turn you from from your evil waies, For why will ye dy O house of Israel?
A39934For until we be wounded, what need can we find of a medicine?
A39934God imploys Moses upon a service of great concernment; I will send thee to Pharoah saith God: I my Lord?
A39934Hath Jesus Christ purchased heaven for Believers?
A39934Hath he promised to satiate the hungry soul?
A39934If the Lord attain his end, he desires no more: For why should ● e when he hath his end?
A39934Is God so full of glory and Majesty?
A39934Is Jesus Christ the chief desire of thy soul?
A39934Is not the love of Christ to be esteemed by us?
A39934Is thy heart affected with the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ?
A39934Isaiah being in a vision in the presecne of God, and seeing the nature of the service unto which he was called; cryethout, woe is mee, for I am undon?
A39934It hath pleased the Father that in him all fullness should dwell: would you see Christ promised?
A39934No wise man will send a fool of an errand, who will set a fresh Souldier over an army, or intrust a dumb man with an Ambassadge?
A39934Objection may arise, Is God such a merciful God?
A39934Or with Friend, how camest thou hither?
A39934Our Saviour speaks of a deserved love as a thing not to be looked on, not worth any reward: For if ye love them that love you, what thanks have ye?
A39934Seemeth it, saith David,( being moved by the Courtiers to entertain the offer of Sauls daughter) a light thing to be the Kings Son in law?
A39934Shall we still persist and go on in sin?
A39934Until we can find our selves heart- sick of sin, what need can we find to our selves of a Physician?
A39934Well, Where shall I rest for Comfort ▪ In the Father?
A39934Who more laborious than the Husbandman, that doth desire to reap the fruit of his sowing?
A39934Who ought to be more diligent than a Christian, who intends to reap the hoped for fruit of eternal happiness?
A39934Would ye behold Christs Nativity?
A39934Would you behold his Passion?
A39934Would you see him at the Right hand of his Father in heaven?
A39934Would you see him coming from heaven to Judge the quick and the dead?
A39934Would you see his Assention?
A39934and is Iesus Christ so willing to imbrace us when we come unto him, and seek to him by those we 〈 ◊ 〉 which he hath appointed us in his Word?
A39934and of the children of wrath to make us heire of ● ● ● vation?
A39934and shall we reject this cup of Salvation?
A39934between the King of heaven, and the Daughter of Pharaoh what proportion?
A39934doth he command us to come unto him and drink i ● we thirst; not to sip but drink?
A39934doth he continually knock at the door of our hearts for entrance, and shall we not let him in?
A39934for my sins that have been so sinfull beyond measure?
A39934in our drunkenness, prophaness, contempt of Gods word, of his Ministers?
A39934in that he being the Son of God, humbled himself, to become a servant to men, to make us Sons and j ● ynt- heirs with himself?
A39934saith our Saviour, Do not even the Publicans the same?
A39934salvation to the repentant soul?
A39934shall ou ● Saviour Iesus Christ beg of us to be reconciled unto him, to come unto him to take his yoak?
A39934was his love an ordinary love?
A39934with what an awfulness and dreadfull reverence of his Majesty should I come before him to beg pardon for my sins?
A39934〈 ◊ 〉 how must we come Christ, that we may be accepted?
A01523& non prius est vt de vitâ hamines quam de iniquitate d ● scedāt?
A01523& 〈 ◊ 〉 ipsis ad ● odum a ● que in ipsis sceteribꝰ 〈 … 〉 pelitur?
A01523( For n of whom is courage and freedome of speech required more then of Gods Messengers?)
A0152310. u Quid est 〈 ◊ 〉?
A0152315. n Quis tibi 〈 … 〉 Dei non audebit?
A0152321. h Quid diu est, vbi finis est?
A0152330. q Quomodo malū, quod a Deo pro bono maximo datum est?
A0152374. d Quid autem ad rem pertinet, quadiu vites, quod euitare non possis?
A01523And indeed, o what is there so small, that may not bee a mans bane?
A01523And what may this frailtie and vanitie of mans life then teach vs?
A01523And yet how knowest thou, but that thou maist die in the doing of it, but that this puffe of thy life may puffe out, ere it be done?
A01523As Phocion said to one that was to die with him; i Art thou not glad to fare as Phocion doth?
A01523Bonum quaeris; malum facis; in contrarium curris: quando pernenis?
A01523But o what man liueth, and shall p not see death?
A01523But some refractary spirits( as d who almost doth not?)
A01523But there is somewhat more required to make a compleat Minister, to wit, i that he can k speak his mind fitly,( for what vse of l a mute Messenger?)
A01523Epict 〈 … 〉 R ● uerti, vnde vene 〈 … 〉 s, quid graue est?
A01523Est tanti habere animam, ut agam?
A01523For b who can tell a man what shall be?
A01523For doe all, euen the godly and faithfull die?
A01523For who might sooner or better haue expected to haue beene freed from it then Abraham?
A01523Inuenitur qui malit inter supplicia tabescere,& perir ● 〈 … 〉 mbratim;& t ● ties per stillicidia ● mittere animam, quam semel exhalare?
A01523Inuenitur, qui velit trahere 〈 ◊ 〉 ● o ● tormenta tracturam?
A01523Moriar?
A01523Muti siquidem 〈 … 〉 est?
A01523Non est lugendus qui antecedit, sed desiderandus,& c. Cur enim immoderate feras abisse, quem mox consequeris?
A01523Now this may first teach vs, not to please our selues with a conceit of long life, Why may not wee liue as long as such and such?
A01523Nunquid vt homo concidatres magni molimenti est?
A01523Or why should we be afraid to goe that way, that all the holy men of God haue gone before vs?
A01523Pati non vultis, exire timetis: quid faciam vobis?
A01523Q ● ● d est enim iu ● undius senectute stipata stud 〈 … 〉 t is?
A01523Qu ● s enimest tam adolesc ● ns, cui fit exploratum se ad vesperū esse victurum?
A01523Quem enim infirmum auaritia aut libido solicitat?
A01523Quid buius viuere est?
A01523Quis discer ● at species mortuorum?
A01523Quis enim non cū suis iniquitatibus moritur?
A01523Quis vitam non vult?
A01523Quod enim tempus morti exemp 〈 … 〉 est?
A01523Quota pars moritur tempore fati?
A01523So, why should any be loath to doe as Abraham doth?
A01523Thirdly, are o all of all sorts subiect to death, as well good as bad, Prophets as priuate men,& c?
A01523Vl 〈 … 〉 sne est criminum modus?
A01523What either vanisheth away more suddenly, than the one; or is dispelled sooner than the other?
A01523What hath lesse b truth in it than a dreame?
A01523What lesse substance than a shadow?
A01523What surety of helpe or safety canst thou haue from those, who haue no suretie, r no more than thou hast, of themselues?
A01523When a great man sometime threatned a Philosopher with death, k What is that more( quoth he) than à Spanish Flie may doe?
A01523Why should wee be loath to come to that, that so many Saints of God haue come to before?
A01523Why?
A01523Why?
A01523Yea for life it selfe, if we loue it,( as a who loueth not life?)
A01523a What is man?
A01523a quo prope non est, parata omnibus locis, omnibus mom ● ntis?
A01523c Sed etsi tardius quis moritur, nunquid ideò non moritur?
A01523de sen. Quis s ● it an adijciant hodiern ● tempora vitae Crastina Dijsuperi?
A01523e Quid fragilius vase vitre ●?
A01523k Luges corpus, i quo recessit anima?
A01523m Tu qui te Deum credis, successu aliquo elatus, quantulo serpētis dente perire potes?
A01523o Quomodo enim de die in diem disferendo peccas, ● um extremum diem tuum nescids?
A01523or doe the Prophets liue for euer?
A01523q Your Fathers( saith the Prophet Zachary) where are they?
A01523that is, who liueth, and shall not die?
A01523z What is the Signe, said Ezekias, when he was promised recouery, that I shall goe vp to the house of the Lord?
A44880& must it not be powred forth to give a fragrancy to posterity?
A44880''t is worse than marble if it doe not: marble it selfe will weep at change of weather, and shall not we at such a change?
A4488030: when he leves sensless sinners and cries out, o earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord, what''s the word?
A4488039.40: this the Holy Ghost points us to, why doth living man complain, i. e. repiningly, man for the punishment of his sinne?
A44880ANd is this Scripture fulfilled this day in our eys?
A44880Aegypts treasures: and what did he exchange these things for?
A44880An Eagle is the swiftest and strongest of long wing''d Hawkes, what flyes stronger and swifter than she?
A44880And must her virtues be closed up with her eyes?
A44880And now, what can alleviate our sorrows for so great a losse?
A44880Are we better than they?
A44880As a Daughter how full of duty and affection?
A44880But can there no better title be found for Ezekiel, then ben Adam, which is a diminitive title at the best?
A44880But what is it, the Prophet is injoyned to behold?
A44880But, is she lost?
A44880Cur doleas( saith Tertullian) si periisse non credis, cur impatienter feras subductum interim quem credis reuersurum esse?
A44880Doe we believe the person that''s departed was a true servant of God?
A44880How his glory?
A44880How oft has she sent and come to your houses when you have been sick to visit, succour and comfort you?
A44880I said in my prosperity I shall never be moved; what ranck blood, did a little prosperity breed in this holy man?
A44880If the Lyon roare the beasts of the forrest tremble, and shall not the creature tremble when the Creator thunders out with his judgments upon them?
A44880Now lay all this together, and what a sad face of sorrow will here appeare?
A44880So say I, why doe we so take on for her who we know is not gone to be lost, but only with drawn for a time, and we believe will return again?
A44880The second thing to be inquired into, is, Why God thus exerciseth them?
A44880Was not her name as precious oyntment?
A44880Well, be she so to him, however, God is now about to take her away, but how?
A44880What does he doe in this case?
A44880What heart relents not here?
A44880What then?
A44880Who can define it?
A44880Who in his condition would have dreamed of crosses?
A44880Who would not have gladly shut his eyes, and stopt his eares at this?
A44880Who would venture his life, for the gathering a flower that he knowes will soon wither in his hand?
A44880Why then doe you so immoderately grieve?
A44880Will fruit be found upon such thorns as these?
A44880Woman what have I to doe with thee?
A44880Would it not be think you, a sad sight to see one of your godly neighbours following ten of his childrens herses to the grave at once?
A44880but he that hath an interest in Christ, is made a King for ever; what is it to have an hour, or two''s pleasure, and ever after live in a dungeon?
A44880did the Church mourne when Peter was delivered out of Prison, and his shackles knock''d off?
A44880is the Crown of our glory, the Lady Anne Harcourt, that curious piece of grace and nature taken from us by a stroak?
A44880must they be coffin''d up with her corps in the silent grave?
A44880or have wee deserved better than they?
A44880shall we let her goe unmention''d, unlamented?
A44880she was his Wife, the one halfe of him selfe, the comfort of his life, the crown of his glory; how many losses are comprehended in this one?
A44880the losse of a good and gracious Wife?
A44880to be made a King for a day, and ever after a begger; what comfort can this be?
A44880to the afflicted Saints, ye are now in heaviness for a time throw manyfold temptations, for what purpose?
A44880what good office did she ever neglect amongst you?
A44880who can come forth and tell the time that ever she willingly displeased either her Father or Mother in all her life time?
A96098* How then should we abound in work, seeing we shall exceed in reward?
A96098* Quantum discrimen inter sudorem& Coronam?
A96098* So, will Satan who disparageth the waies of God give you Crowns to possesse?
A96098* What advantage do you bring to God?
A9609815. u Quid prodest currere,& ante cursus metam deficere?
A96098After all our sweating for heaven, all our praying, weeping, fasting, how welcom will a Crown bee?
A96098And can any thing countervail this losse?
A96098Besides, what equalitie is there between our service, and the reward?
A96098But how may that be known?
A96098But if this Crown be laid up, when shall wee wear it?
A96098But why is it laid up, why is not the Crown presently put on?
A96098Egredere anima ▪ gredere; quid times?
A96098Have you wisdom to manage businesses of concernment, strength to do duties, resist temptations, bear burdens?
A96098How can finite Obedience satisfie infinite Justice?
A96098How can the wicked rejoyce?
A96098How is that?
A96098How should this Crown adde wings to praier, and oile to the flame of our zeale?
A96098How will the devill reproach, and laugh at men?
A96098If there be love in Pardoning- mercie, what is there in Crowning- mercie?
A96098If there be love in a Crumb, what is there in a Crown?
A96098In that day] o What day?
A96098It was so bought as it was given, else where were God''s mercie?
A96098Nónne Rhetor circa finem orationis satagit clarior apparere, ut cum applausibus discedat?
A96098O?
A96098Satan, who would discourage you from a strict holy life, will he give bond to assure you of som hing equivalent to this Crown?
A96098The wicked when they are dying must say to their Souls, as the Emperor Adrian; r O my poor wandring Soul, whither art thou going?
A96098Therefore when King Ahashuerus asked Haman, What shall be done to the man whom the King will honour?
A96098This should make us say as Hilarion, Go out my Soul, go out, why tremblest thou?
A96098Those are not said to be righteous, who can speake righteously, what are these white teeth?
A96098What are all the beauties, and glories of the world which have been esteem''d most famous, in comparison of this Crown of Righteousnesse?
A96098What proportion between the shedding of a Tear, and a Crown?
A96098What sweating?
A96098What will become of thee?
A96098What wrestling?
A96098When Craesus ask''d Solon whohe thought happie?
A96098Why a Crown of Righteousnesse?
A96098Why are our Souls so earthly?
A96098Why else should Saint Paul desire to be dissolved, if he were not presently Crown''d with glory?
A96098as Abner said to Joab, will it not be bitternesse in the latter end?
A96098b Doth not the heire desire to be Crowned?
A96098d How should our souls be big with desire to be gon hence, what is the world we so dote on?
A96098d How should we{ non- Roman}{ non- Roman}{ non- Roman}{ non- Roman}{ non- Roman} provoke our selves to holiness?
A96098h And is there so much sweetnesse in sin, as is in a Crown?
A96098how can we merit a Crown?
A96098it is a Crown of mercie; b a Crown that free grace bestows; Why then is it called Corona justitiae, a Crown of righteousness?
A96098quid caput strophiala, aut dracontario, gloriae di idemati destinatum?
A96098r Animula, vagula, blandula, quo vadis?
A96098what full clusters of Grapes, hang all along as we are walking in the way of Righteousnesse: How then dare men calumniate?
A96098why do I not hasten to dye?
A96098will he mend your wages?
A96098x Quid ubi cum flore morituro?
A7988714. but the frowns of God and tokens of his displeasure are intolerable: A wounded spirit who can bear?
A7988714. yea Christ himself to sweat drops of congealed blood, and to cry out in the anguish of his soul, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
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A7988743. why then should we so mourn for them, seeing our loss is their gain?
A798877. who makes thee to differ from another?
A79887ARt fled, dear Soul?
A79887And what measure then do we offer to God herein?
A79887But this work of grace being inward and secret, how shall we be able to judge of it?
A79887But wherein consists the happinesse of our friends who are departed in the Lord?
A79887But why should these considerations moderate our mourning for them?
A79887Consider who it is that hath done it: Is he not your heavenly Father?
A79887Could not the Riv''lets from thy Parents eyes Prevail for once to drown the destinies?
A79887Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
A79887Do you not know that, as for our lands, so for our lives, we are but Gods tenants at will?
A79887For the first: What do you call a well- grounded hope?
A79887Fourthly, Did God take away your dear relation whilst he was young?
A79887Hath God anywhere promised that all shall live till they be old?
A79887He inquired of his Tutor, how he might know that he loved God?
A79887Hence Ambrose saith, Quid est mors, nisi peccatorum sepultura?
A79887How much more cause had this Gentleman to praise God for making him a man, a Christian, and a Londoner at such a time as this?
A79887If Rome be such a glorious and glittering place, what is Heaven?
A79887Is it not a mercy that God hath made you instrumentall for the enlarging of his Kingdom, though he hath taken both your children from you?
A79887Is it not better to lose sin and sorrow than to retain them?
A79887Is not God the chief Father of all the Families in Heaven and Earth, and we but Foster- parents to our own children under him?
A79887Is not mortality the stage of mutability?
A79887Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?
A79887Must we keep a mean in our mourning for our deceased friends?
A79887Nor''s skill in Common- Law could thee out- plead?
A79887Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast?
A79887Now if thou didst receive it, why doest thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
A79887Or''s death so envious?
A79887Secondly, Was your child young when he died?
A79887Shall I not drink of that cup, that my Father will have me to drink of?
A79887Si talis sit Roma terrestris, qualis est Roma coelestis?
A79887That when in all the garden did But one choice flower appear, It should be thus nipt in the bud, Who can with patience bear?
A79887Thirdly, Did your child die young?
A79887Thus Cain persecuted Abel: Ismael, Isaac: yea, which of the Prophets or Apostles did not the wicked of their times persecute?
A79887We mourn not for them, but for our own losse: for the loss of their sweet society, and of all the comfort that we expected in and by them?
A79887What are the evils that they are freed from by death?
A79887What then?
A79887and being answered, he brake forth into tears: and when his Tutor asked him, why he wept?
A79887and is thy purer breath Become a Victime?
A79887and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?
A79887are not his dayes like the dayes of an hireling?
A79887can I bring him back again?
A79887catch the wind?
A79887the event doth tell you no lesse than if he had spoken so afore- hand, and will you now murmur or repine at his dispensation?
A79887what is death but the grave of our sins wherein they are all buried?
A79887why?
A4699234.?
A469924. how should this make us high in our hopes, and lowly in our hearts?
A46992Abraham''s Servant asked Rebeckah,( i ● there room in thy Fathers house for us to lodge in?
A46992But can such a wretch as I expect Grace, that have spent so many years in sinful courses, and have sinned so desperately as I have done?
A46992Can We think to escape, if He be put to Death?
A46992Christ checks her, Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst set the Glory of God?
A46992Do ye believe that I am able to do this?
A46992For the First, What a Pattern is?
A46992Here the poor penitents may turn their presumption into a blessed hope, and say with an humble confidence, si Petrus cur non& ego?
A46992Ho wpretious is a glimpse of Christ''s love in any promise to a sinner condemned in his own Conscience?
A46992How Paul may be said to be a Pattern?
A46992How comfortable is the thought of Christ to Justi ● ie, unto those Souls that are ready to be swallowed up of Despair?
A46992How plentifully did Mary Magdalen shed tears when we washed our Saviours Feet with them?
A46992How ● ● mberless are the Books and Re ● ● ● pts, yea, the Physitian for o ● r bodies grown, yet w ● o says( we have too many?)
A46992If all these were pardoned, why may not I follow God for pardon?
A46992If the Shepheard be smitten, what will become of the timorous Sheep?
A46992If they deal thus barbarously with our Lord, what will they do, or what will they not do rather against his Servants when He is gone?
A46992If you ask what ground a Christian hath for this confidence?
A46992It is a great Mercy to have such Patterns of pardoning Mercy; for in these we may more clearly see what is the great design of free Grace?
A46992Lastly, What excellent ● ncouragement all Sinners hereafter may make of this glorious Pattern of Free- grace?
A46992My Father by Nature, your Father by Grace, as S. Austin interprets it; Where can he better prepare a place for his Elect than in his own Kingdom?
A46992Solon being asked who were happy?
A46992The next particular is, why Paul was hung out as a pattern of Free grace?
A46992This voice from Heaven was the voice of Christ, why p ● rsecutest thou m ●?
A46992Thou hast saved our Lives( though they exchanged their Land for Bread,) Then what thanks is due to Jesus Christ who saveth our Souls freely?
A46992To day if you will hear his voice: what is that voice of Christ?
A46992We are wiser in earthly matters, why are we such fools in Heavenly matters?
A46992What Consternation was there, what sad thoughts, during the time of that devouring Fire in London?
A46992What Crosses must we look for, if Innocency it self be Crucified?
A46992What bitter lamentation did he make when he received the unwelcome tidings of Absalom''s death?
A46992What can any poor sinner object against the Power& Mercy of Christ, when they see ten Lepers cleansed at once?
A46992What doth such a wicked creature as you hope for pardon?
A46992What though Christ send his Negro( Death?)
A46992What will become of us when the light of our eyes is departed?
A46992Where can Christ better prepare a p ● ace for them, than in that Kingdom which God the Father hath freely bestowed on them?
A46992Where can We be secure if He suffer?
A46992Where can he prepare a place better than in that Kingdom which Christ also appointed for them?
A46992Who hath not either read or heard what strange conceits melancholy hath caused some to have of their bodies?
A46992Who would not go out of a thatcht Cottage to inherit a Pallace?
A46992Why Paul was made a Pattern?
A46992Why do not we pray for pardon?
A46992Will the Lord cast off for ever?
A46992You say you do not repent; Pray tell me, is sin your solace or your sorrow?
A46992do you love Sin, or do you loath Sin?
A46992doth it make you mery, or doth it make you mourn?
A46992hath God forgotten to be gracious?
A46992hath he in anger shut up his tender Mercies?
A46992in what hole shall we hide our heads from a melitious Devil ● persecuting World, now that our Champion is taken from us?
A46992is his mercy clean gone?
A46992is it that evil which you allow, or that evil which you allow no ●?
A46992si David, si Noah, si Lot, cur non& ego?
A46992si Paulus, cur non& ego?
A46992what love, what thankfulness will such a sight beget in such a Soul?
A46992will he be favourable no more?
A46992yea, the very breath of our Nostrils?
A60347Are you desirous that he should reign over you, and erect his Throne in you?
A60347Are you reconciled unto God?
A60347But let me ask thee, Was not the glory of God dear to thee, and his Name precious?
A60347Can not he make it easy to you, as he hath made it to many of his People?
A60347Can you trust God with your Souls, and will you not trust him with your Seed?
A60347Did I say, Go?
A60347Did they carry Grace along with them into the other World, and leave good ground of Hope in this concerning them?
A60347Do not we desire that he should receive us graciously, and bid us welcome as some of his old Friends and Acquaintance?
A60347Do you like and love his Law?
A60347Do you now swim in Delights, and abound with Creature comforts, shall you not find better in Heaven, than those you leave behind you?
A60347Do you think it is an hard thing to die, can not God strengthen you for it?
A60347Follow this advice, will you?
A60347Hast thou counted his Service perfect freedom, but that of Sin the basest of Drudgeries?
A60347Hast thou had thy fruit unto holiness, and was thy heart set for the bringing forth much fruit?
A60347Hast thou made him thy choice, and desired to live in an obedience to him, and expressiveness of him?
A60347Hast thou offered thy self and thy praise to him?
A60347Hath it been your Grief and Trouble when you found in your selves straitness, deadness, and dulness?
A60347Hath it come to you not in Word only, but also in Power?
A60347Have you been angry with your selves, because you have done no more and no better for God?
A60347Have you been pleased and delighted when you did at any time find your hearts raised in it, and enlarged, and more than ordinarily carried out?
A60347Have you great affliction and trouble here, would it not be better for you to be out of it; to exchange a tempestuous Sea for an Haven of Peace?
A60347Have you laid hold by an hand of Faith upon Christ, who is his strength, in order to the making of peace with him?
A60347Have you submitted to God, and stoop''d and bow''d to his Government?
A60347Have you thrown down your Weapons of Rebellion?
A60347I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
A60347If a man dye, shall he live again?
A60347Is it Peace, O my Soul, is it peace?
A60347Is that Breach made up, is that Enmity taken away, and the War at an end?
A60347Is the enmity that was in your hearts and natures to God slain?
A60347Is there a bitterness in it, can not God sweeten it to you?
A60347Now enquire how hath this Word wrought upon you?
A60347Now is not this enough to satisfy you?
A60347Secondly, Can you say as Christ did in this Chapter, that you have glorified God upon earth?
A60347Suppose there were ten thousand thousand worlds, and put them all together, what would they all be to one God?
A60347There hath been Peace offered to you, and most condescending gracious Terms propounded, have you accepted and closed with them?
A60347Thirdly, Can you say as our Saviour did, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do?
A60347To what purpose, I beseech you, should they live, when they have no more grace to get here, and no more good to do?
A60347Was he not highest in thy esteem, valued above all the world, set up in the Throne, all other things being made his Footstool?
A60347Was their Walk with God, and their Motions toward Heaven?
A60347Were they Holy and Gracious?
A60347Were they born twice before they died once?
A60347Were they partakers of the Holy Ghost in his renewing Influences?
A60347What effect hath it had?
A60347What is a broken Cistern that will hold no water, to the Well of Salvation, the Fountain of living waters?
A60347What is a pitiful little Drop, but one remove from nothing, to the boundless, bottomless Ocean of Being and Goodness?
A60347What is there in Death that should affright and scare you?
A60347What is there that in a moral way he could have done more, than that which he hath done?
A60347What is there upon earth that should make you unwilling?
A60347What mind large enough to conceive it?
A60347What shall I say?
A60347What words are big enough to express it?
A60347Whom have I in heaven but thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee?
A60347Will you consider this, and work it upon your hearts by repeated thoughts?
A60347Will you not commit them to the care of your heavenly Father, who is their God in Covenant as well as yours?
A60347Would you stay yet longer, that so you might provide for your Children, and see them setled well and comfortably in the World?
A60347and who can resist it?
A60347give one good reason if you can, why any should remain upon earth, after they are once truly fit for Heaven?
A60347how short is their Arm, how many outward and inward Troubles are there which their skill and power can not reach?
A60347shall it not be in our heart, as well as in his?
A60347they shall not die before it, why should they live here after it?
A60347what are the first- fruits of the Spirit, to the whole harvest?
A60347what is a love letter, or message of peace, or kind token from God now and then, to a lying in his bosom, to a being and continuance in his joy?
A60347what is seeing in a glass darkly, to a seeing face to face; seeing as we are seen, and knowing as we are known?
A60347what is seeing of his power and glory in the Sanctuary, to the beatifical Vision?
A60347what is the joy of Faith, to that of sight?
A60347why should they not receive the Crown of Righteousness, when they have fought the good fight, and finished their course, and kept the faith?
A60347why they should have their days prolonged, when their work is finished?
A6529512. whoever heard before of a living Crown?
A65295And shall not we fight the good fight, and discharge with the fire of zeal against this bosom- traytor the flesh?
A65295And what Crown is this?
A65295Are there any sweeter smiles or softer embraces than his?
A65295Are we consecrated with the anointing Oyl of grace?
A65295Are we heirs to this glorious Crown?
A65295Are we not only Morally, but Theologically righteous?
A65295But what are these chains?
A65295But why is the Crown at all deferred, why is it not set on a Christians head presently?
A65295But why should any of Gods children be under such consternation, and have the trembling at the heart?
A65295Did they take such pains to gratifie their superstitious devotion?
A65295Doth not the banished Prince desire his native Countrey?
A65295Doth the Crown endure to every generation?
A65295Doth this hellish Goliah come into the field, and defie the living God?
A65295Go forth my soul, said Hilarion on his death- bed, what fearest thou?
A65295Have they lost their reason as well as their conscience?
A65295Have we a righteousness of imputation procured for us by Christs merit, and a righteousness of implantation produced in us by his spirit?
A65295Have we both circumcision of heart, and circumspection of life?
A65295How can they adhere to God who never loved him?
A65295How may we so fight the good fight as to overcome?
A65295Is it not best to have Christs banner of love displaid over us?
A65295Is it not better to have sparkling Crowns and white Robes, than to sojourn in the tents of Kedar?
A65295Is it not better to live among Angels than fiery serpents?
A65295Is the Christian life military?
A65295Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God?
A65295Let us look to this Cloud of Witnesses, and bestir our selves, ply our Oar, double our Files; Who would not toyl all day, to catch salvation at night?
A65295Sin incorporates with grace, would we partake of glory while we partake of sin?
A65295Suppose you had a dear relation beyond the Sea, and you should hear he were Crowned King, would you grieve to hear of his advancement?
A65295The Prophet Elijah was removed in a fiery chariot to Heaven; Shall Elishah weep inordinately, because he enjoys not the company of Elijah?
A65295The whole earth hangs upon the word of Gods Power, and shall not our Faith hang upon the word of his promise?
A65295Then what is the jewel in it?
A65295They are removed hence for their advantage, as if one should be removed out of a smoky Cottage to a Pallace?
A65295They rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound; what mighty acclamations and triumphs will be on the Saints Coronation day?
A65295Thy friend who dies in the Lord, receives immediately a Crown of Righteousness, and will you be cast down with sorrow?
A65295Was there such strife for a corruptible Crown in the Olympian and Isthmean races?
A65295We are encompassed with a body of sin; should not we long to shake off this viper?
A65295We now live far from Court, we do rather desire God than enjoy him; should not we long to be crowned with the blissful sight of Gods face?
A65295What are we that God should incircle us with happiness, and not others?
A65295What did Christ pray for, but that all the Saints might be with him?
A65295What hurt doth death do to them?
A65295What is a man the better to run some part of the race and then tire?
A65295What is become of mens intellectuals?
A65295What is the quiddity or matter of which the Coelestial Crown is made?
A65295What is the shedding of a tear to a Crown?
A65295What scuffling is there for outward honours?
A65295What should I do here?
A65295What was the end of Christs ascension?
A65295When Job could not hold fast his Estate, yet he held fast his Religion; whence was this?
A65295When shall the Saints receive this Crown of righteousness?
A65295Where should our Faith rest but upon a Divine Testimony?
A65295Who can endure all this labour?
A65295Who makes reckoning of corn that sheds before harvest?
A65295Why should you be swallowed up of grief for them who are swallowed up of joy?
A65295Why should you shed tears immoderately for them who have all tears wiped from their eyes?
A65295Why then should any macerate, and even intomb themselves in sorrow for their relations?
A65295Why then should the Saints be troubled at death?
A65295With what vigour and resolution did Hannibal march over the Alps for the obtaining terrestrial Kingdoms?
A65295You are within prospect of the Holy land, and will you now tire in your march?
A65295and shall not some spear be lift up against him?
A65295is a Prince afraid to cross the narrow Seas who is sure to be Crowned assoon as he comes at shore?
A65295or fruit that falls from the tree before it be ripe?
A65295when the flesh crys out, What a weariness is it?
A65295why is my soul held any longer with this earthen fetter of the flesh?
A65295why should the godly dread their priviledg?
A65295will he not compensate our labours with a Crown?
A65295would but God give us some Idaea, or imperfect glimps of Heavens Glory; how should we be ready to fall into a Trance with Peter?
A60357And hereupon there follows sad questionings and hot disputes, if it be so, why am I thus?
A60357And speak seriously, Do you not sometimes feel inward fears and faintings?
A60357But how often is it otherwise, have you not known?
A60357But now if these gracious men should ask death, as the Elders did Samuel, comest thou peaceably?
A60357But what, all of them?
A60357Did I say; he was of an unblameable Conversation?
A60357H ● could play with Death thus?
A60357Hath he forgotten to be gracious, or resolved he will not be so to me?
A60357Have not you been asleep in your seats, when they have been at work in their Pulpits?
A60357Have not you been cold at heart, while they were fervent in spirit, serving the Lord?
A60357Have not you had great benefit, soul- advantages by them?
A60357Have you got it?
A60357Have you not seen a smile upon their brow, even then when there was a Cloud upon their tabernacle?
A60357Have you not seen the faith of your Pastors budding and blossoming with joy, when you have been sinking, and days have been dark, and fears many?
A60357Have you not taken notice of your Pastors love?
A60357He had his experiences ready to produce, as Cordials to himself, and Arguments with his God, will you hear them?
A60357How do their Relations and Friends want them?
A60357How long shall I wait?
A60357I now come to the Object, What is it that we are to consider?
A60357If a wicked man should say to Death, as Ioram did to Jehu, is it peace, Death?
A60357If you ask me what fruits they are which grow upon the root of faith, and prove it genuine?
A60357Is his mercy clean gone for ever?
A60357Next then, What is to be done by that people whom God did bless with such Pastors?
A60357O Death, where is thy sti ● g?
A60357O Grave, where is thy Victory?
A60357Oh my dear Iesus, didst thou not manifest thy self to me at the Sacrament, when I was so very weak?
A60357What Exist have they?
A60357What did he observe there?
A60357What did they think too much to do for you?
A60357What peace, so long as thy rebellions, and whoredoms, and abominations are so many?
A60357What raptures have they been in; and what extasies of joy?
A60357What?
A60357Who can summe up their happiness?
A60357Would you know how this came to pass?
A60357You will ask me, how ● they are to be remembred?
A60357and I, saith the Olive, my fatness?
A60357and cry?
A60357and what an unsavoury world should we have then?
A60357be they never so erroneous or flagicious?
A60357how come they off at last?
A60357how did they prize God, and Christ, and you?
A60357how did they rejoyce in their work, though hard, yet sweet?
A60357how great was his zeal in the Pulpit?
A60357how long shall I be absent from thee?
A60357how welcome was a Sabbath, upon which they might draw their breasts for your consolation, and open their treasures for your inriching?
A60357or as Ioseph, How shall I do this great wickedness and sin against God?
A60357peace?
A60357shall the Father be smitten, and the Children not grieved?
A60357the Shepherd taken away, and the Flock not troubled?
A60357this bright and orient Star must fall, he must fall, not by the rail of the Dragon, but by the hand of death, did I say, he fell?
A60357thou knowest that I love thee, and wilt not thou love me, and manifest thy self to me?
A60357will not God vouch ● afe me one smile now, and can I think he owns me for one of his Children?
A48948And lastly, why resembled to crystall?
A48948And why are they never satisfactory?
A48948Are not they lost that can neither be found in heaven, nor in the earth, nor yet in the sea?
A48948Art thou a Muck- worme?
A48948As first, why the passages of this world are so dangerous?
A48948But why are all the passages of this world alwayes open and overt to the sight and censure of the eternall God?
A48948But would you learne how to avoid this Traitor that wil Judaize with you, this dominion of Satan, and this house on fire?
A48948Can any wise man love the place where Satan domineeres?
A48948Cur?
A48948Have we our Maine mast ready, that is to say, our faith, without which it is impossible to please God?
A48948Have, and doe we not too too often forget where we are?
A48948How are we fitted and furnished for our voyage?
A48948How can it be otherwise?
A48948If not to night, yet the wise man tells you, They have wings, and askes you this question, Wilt thou set thy hears upon that which is not?
A48948In a word, what are all our pleasures, but Lilia terrae, like the Lilies of the field?
A48948Is it not a strange thing that a Malefactor should be proud of his halter that must hang him?
A48948Is there an Astronomer here?
A48948It is impossible but that he that made the eye should see: Shall not he that made the heart, shall not he, I say, understand?
A48948Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me?
A48948Quis Pontificios jam latebris extrahet Tenebriones Urbicos?
A48948Quis nunc in aciem provocatos conteret Rationis acri Malleo?
A48948Quos ille Agonas, quae tulit certamina Exterminandam ad Haeresin?
A48948See the antiphony of those that have nothing, and those that have too much: They both cry out, O what shall we doe?
A48948Shall I request this favour at your hands?
A48948Shall a man love that which Christ never prayed for?
A48948Some seek, and conceive hope that they shall find it in the lust, and brutish lustfulnesse of the flesh: and what is that, but the foame of this sea?
A48948The Pilots place is to sit in the sterne of his ship: Why there?
A48948The sweet Singer of Israel expostulates this truth with his God; Whither shall I goe from thy Spirit?
A48948VVhat doe we finde the world to be in our experience of it, but a bitter pill candyed over with sugar?
A48948VVhat meet we here daily but with deceitfulnesse on all hands?
A48948What are mountaines here, but the mighty in the earth, that set themselves against the Lord?
A48948What are we?
A48948What find we here but brevity in all our Contents?
A48948What find we here, but multitude and vast magnitude of all sorts of iniquities, transgressions, and sinnes?
A48948What finde we here but levity?
A48948What finde wee here but Cymmerian blindenesse ▪ millions selling away their interest to Heaven for nothing?
A48948What is that?
A48948What is the resemblance?
A48948What is there any storme in that?
A48948What is this sea of glasse?
A48948What wind doe we sayle by?
A48948What, all things in this world?
A48948Where''s our Anchor and Sailes, the Anchor of hope, and the Sayles of good workes?
A48948Where''s our Tackles?
A48948Whose eye was ever satisfied with seeing?
A48948Why Heaven is decyphered by a Throne?
A48948Why a sea of glasse?
A48948Why is the world set out by a sea?
A48948Would you know the reasons of these particular truths?
A48948You will demand of me, What is meant by this throne?
A48948You will further enquire, Why the passages of this world are ever so transitory, and brittle?
A48948a golden cup like the whores in the Revelation, full of dismall and deadly poyson?
A48948and what are honours and promotions, but Ludibria venti, feathers for the wind to play withall?
A48948and what tends it to, and ends in, but fordid luxurie, which brings us to rottennesse, pox, and penurie?
A48948or thy presence?
A48948what gold and silver, but Ilia terrae, the garbage of the earth?
A48948when it was but an ordinary disease called the Phthisis, or Tissick?
A48948whose eare with hearing?
A48948whose mouth with eating?
A48948whose scent with smelling?
A48948you long for more Figs do you?
A27055And hence you may find that you are not Worldly Hypocrites?
A27055And how worthily will they be undone, that by wilful refusal are deprived of freely offered Felicity?
A27055And is it not a great mercy of God, that he hath herein called us to a life of happiness and present joy?
A27055And most of all her life she was tormented with a frequent head- ach?
A27055And shall that be your wilful choice?
A27055And that Christ liveth and reigneth, who can thus still send a sanctifying Spirit into Believers Souls?
A27055And that you prefer not any other pleasure in your esteem and choice and seeking?
A27055And that your fears and sorrows are somewhat abated by the promises of God?
A27055And though we cry, O miserable men, who shall deliver us?
A27055And what a mercy is it, that under all her infirmities, you enjoyed her so long?
A27055And what is it that with such glory and certainty is delivered to us from Heaven?
A27055And what is the Doctrine and Laws of God, are they not also suited to our Trust and Joy?
A27055And what is there in God''s Laws, but that which is our safety, and should be our joy?
A27055And why should not you be as studious to please God and make sure of Heaven as she was?
A27055But how are God''s Testimonies our Heritage for ever?
A27055Can not you say that it is this Word that maketh you hope that there is for man a better life, and that you shall not perish like the Beasts?
A27055Can not you say that you perceive a pleasing goodness in the Word of God, which maketh it welcome and acceptable to you?
A27055Can you say that you take it for that in which you place and seek your joy, though you can not yet attain it?
A27055Dare you under your hands make a Covenant for these to quit all your hopes of the life to come?
A27055Doth it make us take Gods promise and the thing promised as our heritage?
A27055Have you lived hitherto as thus resolved?
A27055Hence also you may learn why all true Christians so much value the Testimonies or Word of God?
A27055How God hath governed the World from the beginning, and how he hath redeemed us?
A27055How God made Man and all the World, and what Laws he gave him?
A27055How diligent we should be to confirm our belief of it, and how we should fetch our hope and comfort from it, in life and at our death?
A27055How far they are their Joy?
A27055How joyful should we be if we could but trust God, and love him, and obey him, and be free from sin, as much as the Law of God commandeth us?
A27055How oft and tenderly she counselled them?
A27055How oft hath she desired me to pray for them?
A27055How sin came into the world, and death by sin?
A27055How strictly we should obey it?
A27055How they are called an Heritage for ever?
A27055How they are so taken by Believers?
A27055I may ask the Malignant that call all serious Godliness Hypocrisie, whether such a life as this doth savour of dissimulation?
A27055I may ask the Papists, with what Face they can say as they use to do, That they never heard of a Protestant Saint?
A27055I. I may again ask both Quakers and Scorners, Whether the Holy Spirit do not dwell and work in such among us, as our dear Friend now deceased was?
A27055If Unbelief make you hope that there is no Hell, yet Hope of Heaven you can have none, unless you trust the Word of God?
A27055If good Laws be the safety and honour of Kingdoms, are not God''s Laws so to all the World?
A27055If you have chosen what end to live for and seek, what is it?
A27055If you have not, what will you now choose and do?
A27055Is it not a delightful thing to read that which no meer man could tell us?
A27055It is a mark of the Citizens of the holy City, That a vile person is contemned in their eyes?
A27055It is not Christ, and Christianity, and Scripture that you accuse?
A27055Or they that were never serious in it, but scorn the keeping of it?
A27055Quest But can all say, They are the Rejoycing of my heart?
A27055Remember her humble, moderate, holy example; and think whether your Souls have not as much need of the greatest care and diligence as hers had?
A27055We are beset with Temptations, and how should we overcome them, without God''s promise of better things than this World can give us?
A27055We are dark and foolish, and should have erred to Damnation, without this sure and heavenly guide?
A27055We have a life of service to God, which must be faithfully and chearfully done; and how should we so do it, without good perswasion of this revvard?
A27055What Christ is, and what he hath done, and what he will do?
A27055What Letters of serious holy Counsel she would write to them?
A27055What a mercy is it that all her prayers for you are yet in force, and more of the answer of them may yet be sent you, if you reject it not?
A27055What an ugly Dungeon were the World without them?
A27055What is it for Believers to take God''s Testimonies for their Heritage?
A27055What is it that you place your chiefest hopes in?
A27055What is there in all the description which I have here truly given you, which is injurious or dangerous to Church or State, or any person?
A27055What it is in God''s Testimonies which make them fit to be our Heritage, and our Joy?
A27055What say you, Will you die in Hope or in Despair?
A27055What will you take for your heritage, or your best, if not the future promised joyes, and what will you take for your security but Gods Word?
A27055What wonder is it that Infinite Power, Wisdom and Love, should make some of his creatures blessed by communication?
A27055Will it hurt any one that God and men are seriously loved?
A27055Will you then have any portion, heritage and joy which will be worthy of a man, and shall go further with you than the Grave?
A27055With what delight we should read it and meditate in it?
A27055Yea, indeed hence we see, how much we should set by it, and use it, how dear it should be to us?
A27055and Man in special when he hath made him capable of it?
A27055and that God''s Kingdom and Righteousness is first sought?
A27055and that God''s Testimonies are trusted and delighted in and obeyed?
A27055and what a worse than bruitish thing were man?
A27055if not, which is that you prefer, and which would you quit, if one must be hazarded or lost?
A27055or have we any better?
A27055shall health and wealth, and pleasure to the flesh, and honour among men, be taken for your heritage?
A27055which hath the nearest and highest place in your hearts?
A27055which seek you first, and make all other things give place to?
A27055who would willingly be deprived of his heritage, or heart rejoycing?
A87093A Christian but to Christ who hath delivered him from the slavery and captivity of sin?
A87093A slave but to him that bought him?
A87093And may not Christ take up the same complaint of us?
A87093And now my brethren, would you on the one hand ▪ see the reason why you are so fearfull of death?
A87093Art not thou nourished by food, and refreshed by sleep as we are?
A87093But what a folly, nay madnesse is it, for men to expect to reap what they doe not sow?
A87093But, is he thy friend, and dost thou envy him his happiness?
A87093But, my brethren, which of us can excuse our selves from living to some one or other of these lusts?
A87093Did ever childe cry when his Fathers man came to fetch him home?
A87093Doth not the ambitious man say, To me to live is honour?
A87093He is thy friend, and death is his benefit: and shall the benefit of another, especially of thy friend, be thy sorrow?
A87093How truly might our blessed Saviour say, whilest on earth; yea, now he is in heaven, To me to live is man?
A87093Indeed, Christ is the Christians All in all estares ▪ as David said concerning God, Whom have I in heaven but thee?
A87093Indeed, what was there from first to last which had not a reference to us?
A87093Indeed, when we see one falling in his full strength, snatched away in the prime of his dayes, have we not reason to watch?
A87093Let the gain of death moderate our sorrow for our friends who sleep in Iesus: Why should we be troubled for them who are at rest?
A87093Let us say in this, Lord, to whom should we live?
A87093The covetous, To me to live is wealth?
A87093The envious, To me to live is revenge?
A87093The voluptuous, To me to live is pleasure?
A87093This life, what is it but a going to death?
A87093Thou wilt say perhaps, It is my friend, my dearly beloved friend who is dead, and can I choose but mourn?
A87093What is it we are to publish but the Gospel of Christ?
A87093Whom should a captive live to, but him that ransomed him?
A87093Why are we clad in black for them who walk in white?
A87093and death, what is it but a going to life?
A87093and so many tears flow from our eyes for them who have all tears wiped from theirs?
A87093and there is none on earth I desire in comparison of thee: so saith a Christian in this case concerning Christ, Whom have I in death but thee?
A87093by death we gain glory, and shall we not glory over death?
A87093dost thou dearly love him, and yet grieve at his welfare?
A87093for our earthly comforts to be taken from us, when heavenly joyes are conferred on us?
A87093for the standing- pools to be dry so long as we may drink at the fountain?
A87093if the first fruits be desirable, what is the full crop?
A87093if we should not live to Christ, who should?
A87093sit down in sorrow for them who are entred into joy?
A87093to sow to the flesh, and to the world, and yet reap by Christ the gaine of everlasting life after death?
A87093we are the soldiers of Jesus Christ( according to S. Pauls character of Timothy) and whose commands should we observe if not his?
A87093where is the man can truly say ▪ To me to live is Christ?
A87093where shall we finde him?
A87093would you have comfort in, and gaine after death?
A3199713. that it received the Word with joy?
A31997A wilde Ass used to the Wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure, in her occasion who can turn her away?
A31997And angry with David for his Adultery, and thereupon afflicted both of them?
A31997And the souls under the Altar cry, How long Lord, when wilt thou avenge our blood?
A31997Art thou as empty of riches, and as full of Diseases, as Iob under the Old Testament, and Lazarus under the New Testament?
A31997Art thou spiritually lame, blinde, or dumb?
A31997As the King of Israel answered the woman( that cried out, saying, Help my Lord, O King) If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee?
A31997But hath God said it, and shall he not doe it?
A31997But how shall I know whether I do delight in the Word of God, or no?
A31997But suppose I am willing to ● ake Christ upon Christs termes, can I 〈 ◊ 〉 assured that Christ will receive 〈 ◊ 〉?
A31997But what is the condition upon which Christ is promised?
A31997But where is the man that can truly say as David doth?
A31997But where shall wee finde such Saints?
A31997But why doth God afflict his own children with such variety of long and great Afflictions?
A31997Christ himselfe cryed out, when hee was upon the Cross, with a loud voyce, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee?
A31997Consider, Oh Lord, how I love thy Precepts?
A31997Do not divine afflictions proceed out of anger?
A31997Doth not the mentioning of a condition take away the freeness of the tender of Christ?
A31997Doth the Devil roar upon thee with hideous temptations?
A31997God is not a man that hee should lye, neither the Son of man, that hee should repent: Hath hee said, and shall hee not doe it?
A31997How must wee carry and behave our selves at such times, when Providences seem to run cross unto Gods Promises?
A31997How must wee improve the promises, so as to make them spiritual bladders, to keep us from being drowned in the deep waters of Affliction?
A31997How shall I bee able to doe this?
A31997How shall a man know whether his afflictions bee only for trial and instruction, and not at all for sin?
A31997How sweet is a Sacrament to a true Saint after a long and great sickness?
A31997How was Mephibosheth affected with the love of David?
A31997Is the Lords hand shortned?
A31997Is thy Conscience exceedingly wounded and disquieted?
A31997May not a wicked man delight in the VVord of God?
A31997Now this must needs bee a great sin; For how can you watch over one another, edifie and admonish one another?
A31997O death, where is thy sting?
A31997O grave, where is thy victory?
A31997Oh how do I love thy Law?
A31997Quid est Deus, si non est meus?
A31997Say as the King of Nineveh, Who knoweth but God may turn, and have mercy?
A31997Shew mee, O Lord, wherefore thou contendest with mee?
A31997That prizeth it above gold, yea above much fine gold?
A31997Thy testimonies are my delight, but how doth hee prove that?
A31997VVhat course must wee take to finde out what that sin is in particular, for which God corrects us?
A31997VVhat must wee do that wee may bee inabled thus to make the Law of God our Delights?
A31997Was not God angry with Moses for speaking unadvisedly with his his lips?
A31997What am I the better( saith Origen) that Christ took upon him the flesh of a Virgin, if he took not my flesh?
A31997What are the Meditations which we must have in reference and relation to the Promises in the day of our distress?
A31997What did not Iacob do for the love of Rachel?
A31997What had David for keeping Gods Precepts?
A31997What have I but what I have received?
A31997What made Abraham forsake his Country, and his Fathers house, and go hee knew not whither?
A31997What must wee do, that wee may understand the voyce of the Rod?
A31997What will it advantage you to seem to go to Heaven, and yet at last to miss of it?
A31997What will it profit you to bee thought by men to bee godly, if God knows that you are ungodly?
A31997Who told thee so?
A31997Why do the Saints of God take such delight in the Law of God?
A31997Why should you bee stricken any more?
A31997are the( sins- with which thou art willing to part) many and great?
A31997eng Moore, Elizabeth, d. 1656?
A31997or hath hee spoken, and shall hee not make it good?
A31997what wouldest thou have mee to do?
A32087AM I spirited for Duty?
A32087And can all this at last, prove labour- in- vain?
A32087And how can they take up with that, which they are every Moment in danger of being depriv''d of?
A32087And should you Die without it, what would become of you?
A32087And what is it to fix on Heaven as an Home and Portion?
A32087And who then can be Secure?
A32087And would not this be shameful?
A32087Are these Tempoporal lower Things to be thought of such account with God?
A32087Are they in Health and Strength?
A32087Are they in a poor and low condition?
A32087Are they much in Conversation?
A32087Are they rich and wealthy?
A32087Are they sick and crazy, or often in Pain?
A32087Are you of the same Spirit and Temper with the Antient Patriarchs?
A32087Are you of the same Spirit and Temper with the Antient Patriarchs?
A32087Besides, How could this Supposition consist with the Apostles present Argument?
A32087But be that as it will, why should we in any Company, be asham''d to own to whom we belong?
A32087Can you evidence it by your Heavenly- Mindedness?
A32087Can you evidence it by your Heavenly- Mindedness?
A32087DO I choose Heaven above all?
A32087DO I hate all Sin?
A32087DO I prize Christs Righteousness?
A32087DO I relish and prize the Things of GOD?
A32087Do Persons live solitarily?
A32087Do they work towards GOD and Heaven as theirs did?
A32087Do they work towards GOD and Heaven as theirs did?
A32087Do you desire, and seek, and pant after a better Countrey, that is an Heavenly?
A32087Do you desire, and seek, and pant after a better Countrey, that is an Heavenly?
A32087Do you, Sirs, carry it like Pilgrims and Strangers here on Earth?
A32087Do you, Sirs, carry it like Pilgrims and Strangers here on Earth?
A32087For what could his pretending to that Relation to them have signified, if it could not have kept them from returning to Nothing?
A32087HATH GOD made Me Rich, that I might maintain my Pride, my Pomp, and Erutish Pleasures?
A32087Have you chosen Him, and given you selves up to Him, and that heartily and sincerely?
A32087Have you chosen Him, and given your selves up to Him, and that heartily and sincerely?
A32087Have you fixt on the Most High GOD for Yours?
A32087Have you fixt on the Most High GOD for Yours?
A32087Have you then any of that Faith for which they were so famous?
A32087Have you then any of that Faith for which they were so famous?
A32087How can they do any other than earnestly long to be in their Father''s House, where they shall meet with no sorrow or trouble more for ever?
A32087How can they take this for a suitable Place for them to stay in, where they are like to have little else but a constant succession of Disturbances?
A32087How could it be possible, that such Heroical Obedience, as theirs was in sundry Instances, should arise from such mean and weak Foundations?
A32087How could they imagine he should have put them upon leaving what was better, for that which was really worse?
A32087How hard to be daily conversant in a wicked World, and not be dampt and deadned in the Exercises of the Divine Life?
A32087How then can they six upon it?
A32087IF this then prove a Fallacy, he who pretends to be their GOD, hath most miserably deceiv''d them: And is not that a Matter of Shame?
A32087If not better provided, how certainly may they expect in a little Time to be left quite destitute?
A32087Let them Laugh, Ridicule or Banter; pray what will they get by it, or we loose?
A32087Neglect your own endless Happiness, and throw your Selves into Perdition?
A32087Now would it not reflect on the Blessed GOD to make His Servants happy by halves?
A32087Pray, Sirs, what is likely to become of such as you in a little time?
A32087Pray, Sirs, what is likely to become of such as you in a little time?
A32087THEN Give me leave to ask you( My Friends) how you stand affected, making this Text the Touchstone, as it hath bin open''d to you?
A32087THEN Give me leave to ask you( My Friends) how you stand affected, making this Text the Touchstone, as it hath bin open''d to you?
A32087What is the Language of the Covenant but this, I will be to them a GOD, and they shall be to me a People?
A32087What sort of Servants must God have of those, who had only Earthly Things in their Eyes?
A32087What were Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, but Men who were Dead, and laid in their Graves, long before this Speech was addrest to Moses?
A32087Where do you think to go when your Souls shall take their flight, and leave your Bodies behind?
A32087Whose Hopes and Hearts were not fixt on Heaven?
A32087Would not this be shameful?
A32087after all, How difficult is it to live where an infectious Contagion is diffus''d universally, and not be tainted?
A32087and doth it work the same way, according to our Circumstances and Divine Calls?
A32087and doth it work the same way, according to our Circumstances and Divine Calls?
A32087shall they be never the better for all in the issue?
A01531* For where can a man be in safety without Christ?
A015316. a Qid tibi malipoteri ● nocer ●?
A01531Alas, f how can they save them, when they can not secure themselves?
A01531And againe other some, x Could not he that made the man borne blinde to see, have caused that this man should not have dyed?
A01531And is not Christ think we, as chary, and as regardfull of those that be his?
A01531And shall I tell you from himselfe, what the gaine he meant, was?
A01531And what loveth he?
A01531And what neerer or more intimate amity can there be then this?
A01531And will you know the reasons that induced him thereunto?
A01531As if they had said, If he y loved Lazarus so, why did he suffer him to dye, whom he could have saved from death?
A01531But how can we rejoyce in the good of our Christian brethren, when we p envie their welfare?
A01531But when are we faithfull unto Christ?
A01531Cur isti facto de ● ● ● abfuit, aut ratio illi?
A01531Do we professe our selves to be of the number of Christs friends?
A01531Especially, if a meaner person have some great man to friend, how carefull and sedulous will he be to observe and attend upon such an one?
A01531For alas, what is the greatest favour of the greatest Monarch in the World without this?
A01531For as the Apostle reasoneth, b How can he love God, whom he never saw, that loveth not his neighbour, whom he daily seeth?
A01531For g what is true friendship, but when men will and nill the same things?
A01531For hast thou Christ to friend?
A01531For how can he choose but love thee, when thou lovest him, z who loved thee then, when thou loved''st not him?
A01531For what would not a man do or endure for a deere friend?
A01531For who is ignorant of it, that hath read, or heard read or told the story of Queene Esther?
A01531Hast thou Christ to friend?
A01531How is that?
A01531In like manner, doest thou desire to maintaine friendship with Christ?
A01531In taneâ morum discordia, qae potest esse concordia?
A01531Lastly, is death as a sleep?
A01531Moriar?
A01531Non priu ● in dulcem de ● linat lumina somnum, Omnia q ● m longi transege ● it acta diei, Qo praetergressus?
A01531Now is death then but as a sleepe to the faithfull?
A01531Or what hath he not done and endured for us?
A01531Or why is not this lamentable creature as I am?
A01531Q ● modo enim redamare pigebit, ● qi amavit necdum ama ● tes?
A01531Q ● re enim dormientes dicantur nisi qia di ● suo resuscitantur?
A01531Qid grave n ● n leviter tolerat, qi amat?
A01531Qid timendum, si adsit nobis, qi purtat omnia?
A01531Qod mihi p ● aeteritum?
A01531Qod à malo liberat, qis non bonum pronunciabit?
A01531Secondly, is death as a sleepe, and such a sleepe, to the faithfull?
A01531So art thou, or wouldest thou be Christs friend?
A01531So may some say, If the faithfull be Christs friends, why doth he suffer them to dye?
A01531Stul ● e qid est somnu ●, gelid ● nisi mortis imago?
A01531What faithfull member of Christ, though never so meane, did he not c honour and respect?
A01531What faithfull minister of Christ did he not entirely b love, and affect?
A01531What shall I need to adde ought concerning his end?
A01531What shalt thou gaine by it?
A01531Whereupon Augustine; i Doest thou love the Lord?
A01531Why?
A01531Would wee not condemne such of extreame folly?
A01531Yea but, what got he, or gained he, may some of you say, by this his beneficence?
A01531Yea, hast thou made Christ thy friend?
A01531as, z if he be against thee, who can be for thee?
A01531aut qid tibi boni poterit deesse, si ● lle te diligi ●, qi de ● ihilo cuncta cr ● avit?
A01531cur haec sententia sedit, Qam m ● liu ● mutâss ● fuit?
A01531e How fearefull are men usually of offending a favourite?
A01531f How chary are men of the credite, welfare, contentment, safety, and indemnity of their friend?
A01531h Who is there left, saith David, of Ionathans issue, that I may shew kindnesse unto for Ionath ● ns sake?
A01531i Amas Deum?
A01531k Why am not I as this lamentable creature?
A01531l What makes the difference betweene me and him, but the mercy of God only more in this kinde to me then to him?
A01531or of what should I be afraid?
A01531or what is the greatest favour of the greatest on earth unto this?
A01531or what was the fruit and effect of it?
A01531or where can he be but in safety with Christ?
A01531qid gestum in tempore?
A01531qid non?
A01531red ● am?
A01531s We must not stand to demand, or forecast with our selves, as those prophane ones in t Iob, What shall I get or gaine by what I do or endure?
A01531saist thou?
A01531so, a if he be for thee, who can be against thee?
A01531then first o why should any faithfull, any friend of Christ feare death?
A01531utile honesto, cur malu ● ● ntetuli?
A01531when as z he might, if he pleased, deliver them from death?
A01531z Si Deus co ● ● ra nos, qis pro nobis?
A01531● Qid volui, qod nolle bonum fuit?
A3965821. saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Iudah?
A39658All what?
A39658And can you expect that God should alter the Laws of Nature to please and humour us?
A39658And is it not then vile ingratitude in you, thus to mutiny and charge your God foolishly?
A39658And what hinders, but you ● ay as prosperously ma ● age and carry on this ● our design as ever?
A39658And why must God only be censured, for cutting off those things from us which he knows will hazard us in the 〈 ◊ 〉 of temptation?
A39658Are there not millions in Hell that never sinned at higher rates than you have done?
A39658But how may these Evils be prevented or cured, and the tempestuous soul calmed under the the Rod?
A39658But what then, doth he faint and despond under these manifold Calamities?
A39658Can our discontents relieve us?
A39658Can the seed of sin bring forth a crop of peace and comfort?
A39658Can you not now have as free access to God as before?
A39658Dare you say the severest affliction that ever was upon you, is above the demerit of your sin?
A39658Didst thou come hither to observe my sins, and pray down this Judgment upon my Child for them?
A39658Do not prayerless and ungodly Families thrive and prosper?
A39658Doth he refuse to be comforted, because his Children are gone, and all things involved in trouble?
A39658Doth not every man reap as he soweth?
A39658How apt to fall asleep in the bosoms or laps of earthly Enjoyments?
A39658How do our fancies varnish and guild over these empty Bubbles?
A39658How far we may enquire of God, expostulate with him, and complain to him in time of Affliction, without sin?
A39658How far we may enquire, expostulate, and complain in times of Affliction, without sin?
A39658How hath God made your best comforts on Earth to shrink up and vanish into nothing?
A39658How importunately did they request the fervent Prayers of their pious Friends for him, in the time of his Education?
A39658How many flourishing Branches did God ● op off from him, and that in their sins too?
A39658How may a person discern his Covenant- right and interest?
A39658How shall all strifes betwixt God and his People be ended, and the soul made quiet at his feet?
A39658I reply, And why may not we know it with as full a certainty to whom God is pleased to make it known in his ordinary way?
A39658If God be with us, why is all this Evil befallen us?
A39658Is afflicting and forsaking, all one with you?
A39658Is this Affliction as bad as Hell?
A39658Is this Hell?
A39658Is this becoming a reasonable Creature?
A39658It is in vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and walked mournfully before him?
A39658No, no; He is in one mind, and who can turn him aside?
A39658O grave, where is thy victory?
A39658Of how great use in a Country may one zealous publick- spirited man be?
A39658Q. d. What injury have I done thee?
A39658See how the pardoned Believer triumphs over it: O death, where is thy sting?
A39658Take away good men from their Families, and Country, and what are they but like a Vineyard when the Vintage is past?
A39658The God of all consolation is with you, O poor dejected Believers, and will not such a presence turn the darkness into light round about you?
A39658The great Question to be decided, is, Whether God be our Covenant- God, and we his People?
A39658Think you his Word and Spirit can not ratifie it as fully and firmly to our souls, as Nathan''s discovery of it did to David''s soul?
A39658To whom should a Child make his complaint, but to his Father?
A39658Was it not his Covenant with Abraham?
A39658What Considerations are most proper and powerful to restrain the afflicted soul from this sinful excess?
A39658What good have I seen of Fasting?
A39658What great expectations are we apt to raise from them?
A39658What hath Religion availed?
A39658What is the sin and torment of the Devils, but their rage against the Lord, and swelling against the methods of his Grace?
A39658What is the very ground and reason of our excessive sorrows for the ● oss of earthly Comforts?
A39658What profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and walked mournfully before him?
A39658What then can do it?
A39658What was the Cordial God prepared to revive the hearts of his poor Captives groaning under hard and grievous Bondage both in Egypt and in Babylon?
A39658Where are your boasts and menaces now?
A39658Where is the fruit of Prayer?
A39658Wherein lies our sin and danger, in exceeding these bounds?
A39658Wherein lies the sinfulness and danger of exceeding these bounds?
A39658Who blames the Marriner for casting the Goods over board to save Ship and life in a storm?
A39658Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellour, hath taught him?
A39658Why are you so troubled?
A39658Why seek we the living among the dead?
A39658Will not such a presence revive thee?
A39658Will they turn God out of his way?
A39658With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him the path of judgment?
A39658Yea, do not these very Afflictions send you oftener into his presence?
A39658and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?
A39658and why do Thoughts arise in your Hearts?
A39658art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
A39658as appears by her passionate Expostulation with Elijah, who then sojourned in her house: What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God?
A39658comfort from things that can not yield it?
A39658must God needs hate, because he scourgeth you?
A39658or Souldiers for burning or beating down the Suburbs, to save the City in a siege?
A39658or our murmurs ease us?
A39658or the Chirurgeon for lancing, yea, or cutting off a Leg or Arm to preserve the life of his Patient?
A39658uhi nunc fastus, altaque verba jacent?
A39658why doth he smite our Bodies, Children, or Estates?
A39658● s it not this, that they are perishing and transitory?
A60487& c. or, Who shall descend into the deep?
A60487* Quis legem det amantibus?
A60487* 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, Who is the man of Courage and Valour?
A6048712. Who is their Father?
A604876,& c. But the Righteousness of Faith speaketh on this wise; Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven?
A60487A Soul confined within the private and narrow cell of its own particular Being?
A60487And here now what words shall I use?
A60487And now have I not described a Person of Worth and Eminency?
A60487And verse the 16, we have all this message attributed to God himself by the Prophet, as if he had received the dictate immediately from God himself?
A60487As for a true well- grounded Assurance, say not so much, Who shall ascend up into heaven, to fetch it down from thence?
A60487But Israel which followed after the Law of righteousness, hath not attained to the Law of righteousness: Wherefore?
A60487But from whence learn we that the Spirit of God will not reside with Heaviness?
A60487But what saith it?
A60487Do not even Publicans and Pharisees the same?
A60487Dye did I say?
A60487For concerning such cheap and little strictnesses as these it may be enquired, What doe you more then others?
A60487For if Divine Truth spring onely up from the Root of true Goodness; how shall we ever endeavour to be good, before we know what it is to be so?
A60487From whence learn we this?
A60487Have we not reason to be so sad, as you see our Faces tell you that we are?
A60487How could he look on himself and not lament to think that he had lost his Head?
A60487How had it been with Israel, had it not been for Moses, the meekest man on earth, and yet terrible as an army with banners?
A60487How say some amongst us, That there is no resurrection from the dead?
A60487If he should speak in the language of Eternity, who could understand him, or interpret his meaning?
A60487Is not my word like a fire, saith the Lord, and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
A60487Needs it any thing to court your affections?
A60487Now what doth all this signifie?
A60487Shall vain man be wiser then his maker?
A60487Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellions house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
A60487Superos quid quaerimus ultra?
A60487The Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul discoursed of in the first place, and why?
A60487The Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul discoursed of in the first place, and why?
A60487The Sinners in Zion are afraid, fearfullness hath surprized the hypocrites: who shall dwell with the devouring fire?
A60487The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
A60487To which of us was not he dear?
A60487WHen I saw the blessed Spirit of our Brother, shall I say?
A60487We may truly say concerning Religion to such Souls as S. Paul spake to the Corinthians, Needs it any Epistles of Commendation to you?
A60487We read in the Gospel of such a Question of our Saviour''s, What went you out into the wilderness to see?
A60487What Matter can thus bind up Past, Present and Future time together?
A60487What is all that Happiness that arifeth from these bodily pleasures to any one that hath any high or noble sense within him?
A60487What is the Almighty that we should serve him?
A60487What shall I say of his Love?
A60487Where is the wise?
A60487Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
A60487Who can tell the inward life and vigour that the Soul may be fill''d with, when once it is in conjunction with an Almighty Essence?
A60487Who then shall give Law to God?
A60487Why do we defie the Devil so much with our Tongues, while we entertain him in our Hearts?
A60487and what is his law, that we so soon learn, and so soon forget it?
A60487and what profit should we have if we pray unto him?
A60487how could he behold Israel unguarded, and not throw off his own clothes as a token of his Sorrow?
A60487no spirit or life within; but all our motions in Religion are merely from some assisting Form without?
A60487or how shall we convince the gainsaying world of Truth, unless we could also inspire Vertue into it?
A60487or what could he see out of himself that could adde any thing to his own stature, which he found not already in himself?
A60487or who shall descend into the deep, to fetch it up from beneath?
A60487we may invert it, What do you return within, to see?
A60487what hard or difficult thing do you perform, such as may deserve to be thought a worthy Instance and real Manifestation of the Power of Godliness?
A60487what will become of me without my Father?
A60487where is the disputer of this world?
A60487where is the scribe?
A60487where shall I find my Father?
A60487which gave occasion to that Proverbial speech afterwards used commonly amongst the Jews[ Is Saul also amongst the Prophets?]
A60487who can think himself as wise as he was when we had him?
A60487who is there that was not ingaged to him?
A60487who shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
A60487who wast a Society by thy self, a College in brief, what a loss have we sustained by thy departure?
A60487would rather keep the Literal sense of those words, Who is their Father?
A60487〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, What are those men that were with Daniel?
A60487〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, What is the chaffe to the wheat?
A60487〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉; what excellent and extraordinary thing doe you?
A484381, Doth not wisdom cry?
A4843817, 18, That when he was old, he could plead an old acquaintance with God?
A4843824,) Consider one another; What to do?
A4843828, We know that all things( says the Apostle) work together for good, To whom?
A4843828, Why is his Chariot so long in coming?
A484385, 6, 7, Who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God, Gods fellow, coequal with the Father: What did he do?
A484389, That the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it?
A48438And every Saint, while he is in the wilderness, in his Wilderness- state, leans on his beloved: What would a Saint have in any condition?
A48438And here came in the great question, But how shall I know that God in Christ will accept me?
A48438And will you not yet come off from this world, but the longer you live, you will love the world so much the better?
A48438And will you, dare you neglect your special work?
A48438Be there not among them such, as are like Ephraim?
A48438Be there not careless men and women among us, that do not yet look out after Christ?
A48438Besides, have you no eyes, no ears, to see, and hear, that many dye dayly and weekly?
A48438But for the relief of such, God reasons thus, Didst ever love me?
A48438But is it always so?
A48438But then came this question, These are marks and signs that belong to such and such Saints in Scripture: But what is this to thee?
A48438But what is it that is intended by this expression, early to seek the Lord?
A48438But what shall we do to seek him?
A48438Can you think of losing your Friends, and your God too for ever?
A48438Consider what was the great errand upon which God sent you into the world?
A48438Didst ever love Jesus Christ, and the Children of God?
A48438Do you not yet know, that you are going to appear before the Judgment- seat of Christ?
A48438Doth Christ thus call, and will you not regard, nor answer this call?
A48438Friend, I must dye, Animula, vagula, blandula, quos nunc ad ibis locos?
A48438From whence?
A48438Have you any true love for God?
A48438His arguing thus with a doubting soul; Try thy self; can not you bear a leaving of God?
A48438How many pretty little ones are every day taken away before your eyes?
A48438I have often thought of that Scripture with joy, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thy self unto me, and not unto the world?
A48438If one should ask me this question, Why is the promise made to those that love God?
A48438Is it not high time, that something of the concernments of another world should interpose between your life and your death?
A48438Is there wisdom and understanding always among the aged?
A48438Many( says Christ) will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?
A48438Poor flitting, dear departing soul, whither art thou going?
A48438Read the begining of the Chapter, Doth not wisdom cry?
A48438So the soul of a Saint looks out at every cranny, at the eye, and at the ear, and cries out, Why tarries his Chariot?
A48438So we should say to our hearts, Dost thou love Jesus Christ?
A48438The believing soul says so; And who can but live and dye on such a word as this is?
A48438To whom doth she cry?
A48438Was not here love?
A48438What are the Galleries?
A48438What doth she call to them for?
A48438What then will be his next call?
A48438What then?
A48438What will be the difference betwixt Saints and Sinners, with respect to death at last?
A48438When did ever a straying Sheep seek the Shepherd?
A48438When ever did the wild- Goats look after one to lead them?
A48438Whence doth that difference arise?
A48438Whence that difference doth arise?
A48438Would you be willing to dye, and be damn''d?
A48438Would you leave this world, and be content to be turn''d into Hell, and be punished with the Devil and his Angels?
A48438Would you see the fruits and effects of this Love?
A48438Yea, better than Heaven it self without Christ?
A48438You say, you have no strength, no might, so that you are not able to do any thing to please God: Why, what is the matter?
A48438and in thy name done many wonderful works?
A48438and in thy name have cast out Devils?
A48438and understanding put forth her voice?
A48438and understanding put forth her voice?
A48438and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?
A48438and why art thou disquieted within me?
A48438consider, do you love God?
A48438dost love him better than all creature- comforts and relations?
A48438dost love him better than all earthly treasures, better than thy estate, better than all the world, better than all these?
A48438dost thou love him better than these, than these Children, these pretty little Idols that are set up before our eyes?
A48438dost thou love him indeed and in earnest?
A48438for who maketh thee differ from another?
A48438how many goodly plants,( that God had planted in his own house) have of late been plucked up by the roots, and laid in their Graves?
A48438or that is more exactly and perfectly pure and holy, that is, more lovely than Christ?
A48438that do not provide for the welfare of their souls, but are cumbred about many things, as Martha was?
A48438then doubt not that he will leave you: would you know whether God loves you?
A48438was it not better with you then, than now?
A48438why is he so long in coming?
A48438why tarry the wheels of his Chariots?
A00426Alas what else should we do when we are every day for ought we know going to judgement?
A00426And if they can not go to Heaven because GODS justice must be satisfied, what will becom of all those that die a little before the judgement?
A00426But how then( say I) could Saint Paul be with CHRIST?
A00426Call you this a reward, for a good man to be thrust into a place of torment?
A00426David did so, and Peter did so, and what sheep of CHRIST doth not so?
A00426David exceeded in his sorrow for Absalon, and was there not a cause?
A00426Did Saint Paul desire to live only for the good of the Philippians?
A00426For are they with CHRIST?
A00426For you] But why more necessary?
A00426For, what is it to be with CHRIST, but to be present where CHRIST is bodily present?
A00426Fourthly, Christians ought to be confirmed in their gracious estate, yet whose faith is so constant, that it admits no wavering?
A00426From this spectacle before our eyes all of us may learne something for our imitation: doth any one prophane GODS ordinances by a dissembled religion?
A00426Go into any part of the world, and aske them in the Prophets words, your fathers where are they?
A00426Good LORD that any Christian should live in the danger hereof, and yet be senselesse?
A00426Hast thou not seene their mouthes( as it were) grinning and shewing their corrupted teeth and their other bones lie scattered in the grave?
A00426Hast thou not( saith he) seen a heap of dead mens bones?
A00426Hence the Prophet saith, Who understands his faults?
A00426How doth he not remember, if he doth so severely punish that it passeth the imagination of man to conceive the greatnesse thereof?
A00426How?
A00426I pitie your case( good friends) and bewaile your losse: but why do J name your losse?
A00426If the soule of Paul, why not the soule of other faithfull ones?
A00426If thou hast seene these thou hast in them seen thy selfe: where are the tokens of flourishing age?
A00426If we could assemble all the Saints together, and aske them whether they were without sin, what do we thinke would they answer?
A00426O then why shouldest thou for the pleasures of unrighteousnesse for a very few daies( little dost thou know how few) destroy thy soule for ever?
A00426S. Paul we know triumphed, when he had finished his course and fought that good fight against them, and shall not we?
A00426Shall the Sun stand still for thee, as it did for Ioshua?
A00426Tell me, what dreame is more vanishing, what shadow more flitting than is thy beauty, or any other thing whereof thou gloriest?
A00426Trust not in Princes nor in the sons of man, and why so?
A00426What Champion would- strive for the mastery when he might weare the corruptible crowne?
A00426What instrument was ever too weake to effect GODS will, if he tooke it in hand?
A00426What is it to live in the flesh?
A00426What is meant by Flesh?
A00426What will all friends, riches, and pleasures profit when you are on your death- bed?
A00426What will his glorious presence effect in them who shall behold him in al his Royaltie?
A00426When hee died he was with CHRIST; how?
A00426Whether will you beleeve?
A00426Who can tell how often he offends?
A00426Who is more odious in our sight than a proud beggar?
A00426Who would not admire the state of such a beggar, who every houre was in possibility of a Kingdome?
A00426Why then doth he only name them?
A00426Why then shouldest thou O Christian soule be cast downe, or why shouldest thou be in vaine disquieted?
A00426Why, was not Saint Paul with CHRIST?
A00426and doe they live for ever?
A00426and is it not an easie thing unto the LORD in the day of death to reward a man according to his waies?
A00426and must I not be carefull of my soule which is a pretious treasure kept in an earthen vessell?
A00426and saying, that not a few but al his sins shall be forgotten, will he yet punish them to satisfie for any sins at all?
A00426and was not the streame of his affection carried to CHRIST?
A00426and what if thou hadst gained much riches and many pleasures, and enjoyned them a hundred yeares?
A00426are not all such things as wind and vanity which passeth away?
A00426as though necessitie lay upon you, either to pray for them or to curse them?
A00426but how then could Saint Paul be with CHRIST?
A00426can there be a back reckoning for that which shall never be remembred?
A00426doe we thinke we can doe good in another world, when we do no good to speake of in this?
A00426for what shall it profit a man to win the whole world and to loose his owne soule?
A00426hast thou not seen their skuls without flesh, a grim spectacle to behold, the very eyes being wasted and turned into dust?
A00426how could they( as they did) depart in peace?
A00426or go back as it did five houres for Hezekiah?
A00426or what recompence shall a man give for his soule?
A00426shall our owne soules now be vile to us, in comparison of which al the kingdoms of the world are but trifles?
A00426should we not intreat the Judge to pardon us?
A00426should we not with sighes and sobs cry continually unto him to be mercifull unto us?
A00426there is no question of this latter, and why should there be of the former?
A00426was it not because his appointed time to die was not yet come?
A00426was not he with him in the spirit as with the Colossians, rejoycing and beholding his happinesse?
A00426was not his conversation now in heaven?
A00426what is now becom of those sparkling and lovely eyes?
A00426what of the comely nose placed in the midst of the cheeks?
A00426what to be a fire- brand of hell and not to be moved?
A00426whence is there is naturall confcience that accusing power for sin, that feare of wrath, but from this principle that the soule is immortall?
A00426where are those beautiful cheeks?
A00426where are those locks of haire which were wo nt to adorne their heads,& c. what is become of all those things which do increase thy pride?
A00426where is bloud and colours in the lips?
A00426whither that which Pelagius saith, or that which Iohn the Apostle saith?
A00426who?
A00426whose patience is so fixed, that it admits no staggering?
A695381, Your Spirits are Christs own: And may you not trust him with his own?
A6953815. and will he not receive his friends?
A6953816 And wilt thou disown and refuse the soul that thou hast sealed?]
A695389, Consider, How nearly thou art related to him in this state of Grace: Thou art his Child; and hath he not the bowels of a Father?
A69538After so many receptions in the way of Grace, dost thou yet doubt of his Receiving thee?
A69538And by what gift could he better testifie his love?
A69538And for whom doth he provide this Heavenly Building not made with hands, but for Believers?
A69538And how much more would it please his enmity, to have power to torment our Souls?
A69538And may we not comfortably go to him that loveth us?
A69538And may we not trust him in his undertaken office, that would trust a Physician or any other in his office, if we judge him faithful?
A69538And shall he not then dwell with God for ever?
A69538And will he now forget his love, and sufferings, and himself forsake thee after this?
A69538And will he now take from thee the Kingdom which he hath given thee?
A69538And will you do this about so great a matter as the everlasting state of your immortal Souls?
A69538And wilt thou deny to receive me to that glory, who pray but for what thou hast prayed to thy Father?
A69538Are you provided, certainly provided whither to go, and who shall Receive you when your Stewardship is ended, and you must needs go hence?
A69538As he came down in flesh to be a Suitor to thee, so he caused thee to let go all for him; and will he now forsake thee?
A69538But how much More of Christ is there in our suffering for his Cause and Truth?
A69538Can that Love now thrust me out of Heaven, that lately fetch''d me from the gates of Hell, and placed me among thy Saints?
A69538Can that love which washed me, and took we home, when I lay wallowing in my Blood, reject me, when it hath so far recovered me?
A69538Christ teacheth us our duty by the parable of the Steward, that asketh himself before- hand, What he shall do when he must be no longer Steward?
A69538Consider, if Christ should not receive thy spirit, how unspeakably deplorable thy case will be?
A69538Did he himself on the Cross, commend his spirit into his Father''s hands, and will he not receive thy spirit when thou at death commendest it to him?
A69538Did you see how they are treated at their removal from the flesh?
A69538Do we labour earnestly to come thither, and yet lament that she is there?
A69538Do you ask, What the Soul is?
A69538Had you not a lifes time to put these questions?
A69538Hast thou made sure of that?
A69538Have you houses, and lands, and offices, and honours, and friends that are very pleasing to you?
A69538Have you not as much need to be oft and earnest in prayer as they?
A69538Have you not as much need to pray as those that you hate and reproach for praying?
A69538How glad was he when God gave him leave but to touch the goods, and children, and body of Job?
A69538How ready is he to receive us to perdition, if Christ refuse us, and receive us not to Salvation?
A69538How sad is it to observe that those that have most need of Prayer, have least mind to Pray, as being least sensible of their needs?
A69538How would you receive your Son, or Husband, the next day after some bloody Fight, where he had escaped with the Victory?
A69538I know thou wilt be ready to say, that thou art unworthy,[ Will he receive so unworthy a Soul as mine?]
A69538If such Sermons and Discourses as foretel it are troublesom to thee, what then will that sad Experience be?
A69538If the ungodly go to Heaven, what use is Hell for?
A69538If thou do well, shalt thou not be accepted?
A69538If we can suffer with her, should we not rejoyce also with her?
A69538If you ask, What that is?
A69538Is the World worth all thy Care and Labour, and shall less be called too much ado, when it is for thy precious Soul?
A69538Is thy Soul no more worth than Honour, or Wealth, or foolish Mirth?
A69538Is thy Soul so base, as not to be worth the care and labour of a Holy Life?
A69538It you ask me, How may so happy a Preparation be made?
A69538Must we not be uncloathed, before the garments of Glory can be put on?
A69538O but my sins are great and many; and will Christ ever receive so ignorant, so earthly and impure a Soul as mine?
A69538Or send his Word and Ministers to promote it, if they may come to heaven unsanctified?
A69538Or will he justifie us, and yet not receive us?
A69538Or your Child, or Friend, that arrived safely after a long and a dangerous Voyage?
A69538Should Angels attend us as ministring Spirits, if we had not Spirits fit to minister to God?
A69538Should I care whether I Live at liberty or in prison, when I am ready to die, and have matters of infinite moment before me, to take me up?
A69538Should Ministers be appointed to preach, and pray, and labour for us, if we had not Souls to save or lose?
A69538Should such store of Mercies be provided for us?
A69538Should we be called the Spouse and the Members of Christ?
A69538Then thou wilt think, O whither am I going?
A69538Thou art his Spouse, betrothed to him the very day when thou consentedst to his Covenant; and where then shouldst thou live but with him?
A69538Thou hast dwelt in me here by faith; and shall I not now dwell with thee?
A69538To what use doth Christ send the Holy- Ghost to sanctifie his Elect?
A69538Were it not for our immortal Souls, would God ever honour us with such Relations to him, as to be his Children?
A69538What his Receiving them is?
A69538What must I endure?
A69538What need Christ then to have shed his blood, or become a sacrifice for sin?
A69538What remaineth now, but that all we that furvive, especially you that are her Children, do follow her as she followed Christ?
A69538What sayst thou?
A69538What would you need most if the day were come?
A69538Why art thou wroth?
A69538Why then should you not comfortably trust him with your Souls?
A69538Will Christ receive it?
A69538Will he deprive thee of thy Birth- right, who himself begot thee of the incorruptible Seed?
A69538Will he not justifie those at last, whom he hath here justified?
A69538Will you not knock till the door is shut?
A69538Will you now be wordlings, and sensualists, and ungodly, and undo your selves, and then cry[ Lord Jesus receive my Spirit] at the last?
A69538Will you say, that you hope well, and you must venture?
A69538Wilt thou receive Christ now, or not?
A69538Wilt thou take up this Resolution, and make this Covenant with God this day?
A69538Would he be at so much cost upon us?
A69538Would the Spirit of God himself dwell in us, and quicken and beautifie us with his Grace?
A69538Would you not run and meet him, and with joy embrace him, if he had been many years absent, and were now come home?
A69538Yet the door of grace is open: But how speedily will it be shut?
A69538[ Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels]?
A69538and in following him in a mortified self- denying life, then in following him in the path that he hath trodden upon earth?
A69538and is answerable to thine Omnipotency, Omniscience, and other Attributes?
A69538and should you not long ago have got them satisfactorily resolved?
A69538and who is the God of Love?
A69538and why is thy countenance faln?
A69538and yet canst thou exclude thine own, and shut them out that cry unto thee?
A69538or cast into the burning lake?
A69538receive an unholy Spirit?
A69538why should we doubt whether he will receive us?
A69538will Love refuse us when we fly unto him?
A201693. but such as consider wisely of the poore?
A2016934. who suffered with ioy the spoyling of their goods?
A201694. but vpon such as sigh and crie for the abhominations of Ierusalem?
A201695. and what greater signe that we shall escape the iudgement of God, then if we iudge our selues?
A20169Alas poore soule, what priuiledge hast thou to escape more then any other?
A20169And as for holinesse, I am perswaded she affected it farre aboue saluation: for what was still her especiall request?
A20169And indeed how can we expect to die with comfort, while we are vnresolued what shall become of our soules in the world to come?
A20169And therefore say with Christ, and that with comfort and willing subiection, The cup which my Father hath giuen me, shall I not drinke it?
A20169And this was matter of sore labour; for as Salomon saith, A man will be are his infirmitie; but a wounded spirit, who can beare it?
A20169And what greater euidence is there of a good estate, then to forgiue our enemies?
A20169And what greater signe is there of a true child of God, then holinesse?
A20169And what is this but hand lucke or bad fortune?
A20169And what saith blessed Paul?
A20169And who will not easily acknowledge, that the true spirit of prayer is a notable signe of a blessed estate?
A20169But here some may possibly obiect: Doth not Christ himselfe say, that The Comforter shall remaine for euer with his Elect?
A20169But it may be obiected further, Do not many crosses fall out by meere ill lucke?
A20169But may not afflictions lawfully be desired and prayed for, considering that they may be meanes, if they be sanctified, of much good vnto vs?
A20169But to come to the vse and application of this point: Is it so, that afflictions may be thus troublesome and tedious to the very children of God?
A20169But to come to the vse and application: Is it so, that God doth sorely afflict his deare children?
A20169But what experienced Christian doth not sufficiently know, that the deare children of God are subiect to these pangs?
A20169Do I see the excellency of the knowledge of Christ my Lord?
A20169Do I see the price of heauen?
A20169Do not some in our age attaine seuentie yeares, some eightie yeares, some ninetie yeares, some an hundreth?
A20169Do we not see strong men die as well as weake?
A20169Do we not see wise men die as well as foolish?
A20169Doth his promise faile for euermore?
A20169Doth not God scourge euery sonne whom he receiueth?
A20169Doth not a child vpon a sudden fall into a pit, and is drowned?
A20169Doth not a man sometimes breake his necke, falling from his horse?
A20169Doth not a mans experience tell him of many ill chances which haue befallen him?
A20169Doth not an axe head fli ● from the helue, when no such thing is intended, and slayes a man?
A20169Fifthly and lastly, Do all afflictions come by the prouidence of God?
A20169Fifthly, were these painfull nights appointed vnto Iob, not by fatall necessitie, or by chance and fortune, but by the prouidence of God?
A20169For a ● t thou able to make as good vse of afflictions as Dauid was?
A20169For do we not see yong men die as well as old?
A20169For else why doth he pray a- againe and againe, that the bitter cup might passe from him?
A20169For if iudgement begin at the house of God, what shall be the end of such as obey not the Gospell of God?
A20169For suppose that a man be robbed of all that he hath, is God the cause of the robbery?
A20169For what is more vnlikely, in the iudgement of flesh and bloud, to do good, then afflictions are?
A20169For what saith our blessed Sauiour?
A20169For, how doth he complaine in the sixt Psalme?
A20169For, were the moneths of Iob, moneths of vanitie?
A20169Fourthly, is it so, that God is the author of all afflictions?
A20169Fourthly, was griefe and smart irkesome and troublesome vnto Iob himselfe?
A20169God is our chiefe friend, and shall we thinke that our chiefe friend will seeke our bane?
A20169God is our tender Father, and can we thinke that a tender father will giue any thing to his beloued child, but that which is good and whole some?
A20169Hath God forgotten to be gracious?
A20169How came Iacob to distaste and to forsake Labans family, but by the affliction which he found by the change of Labans countenance?
A20169How came Paul to finish his dayes with comfort, but by this, that he had finished his course?
A20169How came the Prodigall sonne to be weaned from the citizens seruice, Luke 15. but by the affliction of hunger and want which he found in it?
A20169If any shall obiect further, and say; Do we not reade, that the Apostles reioyced, In that they were thought wothie to suffer rebuke for Christ?
A20169Is his mercie cleane gone for euer?
A20169Is it not because they are idle, and because they will not take the paines to heare so diligently, as their case requireth?
A20169Is it so, that all afflictions come by the prouidence of God?
A20169Marke the vpright man,& behold the iust: the end of that man is peace?
A20169Now my beloued, what greater signe is there of a true disciple, then selfe deniall?
A20169Now this fruitfulnesse did argue the goodnesse of the Tree; for how doth a Christian shew his faith, but by his workes?
A20169Now what greater argument is there of our spirituall rising with Christ, then if we mortifie our earthly members?
A20169Now what greater signe is there of a good and gracious estate, then to be sensible of the combat of the spirit against the flesh?
A20169Now what greater signe is there of a good estate, then is sinceritie?
A20169Now what more euident marke is there of a true Christian, then a sound faith?
A20169Now what surer signe is there of a blessed estate, then sincere inflamed loue to God?
A20169Or, why doth he crie, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
A20169Secondly, are Gods owne deare children subiect to grieuous and tedious afflictions?
A20169Secondly, did Iob endure a painfull and tedious griefe in his body?
A20169Secondly, is it so, that afflictions may be thus tedious vnto the children of God?
A20169Shall a trumpet be blowne in a citie, and the people not be afraid?
A20169Shall we iudge Iob to be an hypocrite ▪ if we heare him cursing the day of his birth?
A20169So what greater euidence that we are conceiued of Christ, then when we feele him sensibly st ● uggling in vs against the old Adam?
A20169Suppose ye, that those Galileans were greater sinners then all other Galileans, because they suffered such things?
A20169Therefore how is it possible that the end of the child of God should be vncomfortable?
A20169Thirdly, is it so, that afflictions may be thus tedious vnto Gods children?
A20169Thirdly, is it so, that all afflictions are from God?
A20169Thirdly, was Iob brought by his sicknesse to the sight of the vanitie of earthly things?
A20169Thou thinkest thou mayest do this soone enough when thou art old: but how doest thou know, whether thou shalt liue to be old, or no?
A20169We pretend that we loue God; but where is that awfull respect which we owe vnto him?
A20169What experienced Christian is there, but he is able to tell you, that the Sacrament by Gods blessing hath a notable confirming and establishing power?
A20169What greater euidence was there of Dauids blessed estate then this, to wit, that he walked in the vprightnesse of his heart in the midst of his house?
A20169What greater signe of a safe estate, then spirituall pouerty, felt and groned vnder?
A20169What is the reason that so many wauer?
A20169What knowest thou, but tha ● there is but a step betweene thee an ● heauen?
A20169What shall we speake of Naomie who named her self Mara or bitter, in respect of her bitter afflictions?
A20169What should we mention Ionas, who was exceedingly vexed and troubled, when he had no iust cause so to be?
A20169When I lie downe, I sa ● when shall I arise, and the night be gone?
A20169When did Satan most tempt Iob to curse God, but in the depth of his miserie and calamitie?
A20169Which being true, how can it possibly be, that the child of God hauing had at any time sound ioy, should die vncomfortably?
A20169Will the Lord cast off for euer?
A20169Yea but some possibly will obiect and say, Do we not see some men and women to liue long?
A20169Yea do we not see Physitians die as well as patients?
A20169Yea doth he not say further, that No man shall take away their ioy?
A20169Yea what saith Christ himselfe?
A20169Yea what saith our blessed Sauiour?
A20169Yea what shall we speake of Elias, who was euen wearie of his life, by reason of the idolatry and persecution in the dayes of Iesabel?
A20169Yea, do we not behold with our eyes, many Christians which depart out of this life with much heauenly ioy?
A20169Yea, what paines did Christ himselfe endure in the Garden, when he sweat water and bloud?
A20169You will then demand, Is it lawfull therefore for such as are in distresse to complaine?
A20169and may not I hope to liue as long as they?
A20169and shall we not through many tribulations enter into the kingdome of God?
A20169and what torment vpon the Crosse when he cried, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
A20169art thou any iote the more safe, because of thy securitie?
A20169did they passe away quickly like the Weauers shuttle?
A20169did they vanish away like smoake?
A20169hath he in anger shut vp his tender mercies?
A20169how woul ● men admire the happinesse of such begger as were in possibility euery houre to be aduanced to a kingdome?
A20169or suppose a man be wrongfully slandered, is God the cause of the slander?
A20169shall there be euill in a citie, and the Lord hath not done it?
A20169what surer testimony then the testimony of Gods owne Spirit bearing witnesse with our spirits that we are the children of God?
A20169when wilt thou say, It is enough?
A20169will he be fauourable no more?
A47613Alas Sirs, are not the shadows of the evening upon some of you?
A47613Alas, what is your life, you know not how soon death may come and knock at your doors, or look in at your windows?
A47613And certain I am, you have had many of these in this place, Nay, how many warnings have you had of the near approach of death?
A47613And hath not Gods spirit striven with you also?
A47613And shall none of these work upon you?
A47613Be you sure you shall hear the joyful sound?
A47613But again, Was not Jacob the interest of Labans family?
A47613But should there be Ministers and opportunities, yet you may be left to your selves, to ripen for Hell and ruin?
A47613But stay my soul, pray why so passionate grown, Wilt thou not suffer him to reap his own?
A47613Can he deliver his soul from the power of the grave?
A47613Can none deliver his own soul from the power of the grave?
A47613Can none deliver their own souls from the power of the grave?
A47613Can you close in with a better friend?
A47613Can you still stand it out against such precious patience and offers of grace?
A47613Consider of the shortness and uncertainty of your dayes?
A47613Do you know for certain the Gospel shall be continued to this Land?
A47613Do you know that you shall have all these helps continued to you?
A47613Doth the soul go to the grave?
A47613First, By way of Exhortation, Is it so Beloved, must all men die?
A47613First, Doth not some poor soul hear say, Oh what shall I do that I may be prepared for the grave?
A47613Hath not God afforded you the Gospel beyond what he hath to divers parts of the world?
A47613Have not you and I notwithstanding all this hearkened to a base deceitful heart, and inticeing and tempting Devil?
A47613Have we not grieved, burdened, yea even wearied him with our iniquities?
A47613Have you a heart, a mind, a desire indeed to be fitted for that hour?
A47613Have you not had Summons and Calls from thence?
A47613Have you not let him stand till his head was wet with the dew, and his locks with the drops of the night?
A47613Have you stouted it out against all Pains and Endeavours used for Spiritual awakenings, and are you yet alive?
A47613He having overcome, shall not he receive the Crown?
A47613How did God bless him for Jacobs sake?
A47613How dost thou think to escape the Judgement of God?
A47613How long hath he stood knocking at the doors of your hearts?
A47613How shall the harvest be gathered in, when the chief Labourer in this field is gone?
A47613How shall we then comfort our selves against death?
A47613I s Norcot dead?
A47613Is he not ready to take his farewell of you?
A47613Is it not a sad and most lamentable thing, thus to deal with a loving and gracious God?
A47613Is it so?
A47613Is my hand shortned, that it can not redeem?
A47613Is not one ▪ day with God, beholding his lovely face, better than a thousand?
A47613Is not this that a poor Saint longs for?
A47613Is the Grave the place prepared for all Living?
A47613Is the dark grave the appointed house for all living?
A47613It matters not who reproach us, if Conscience doth not?
A47613It may be you will ask where?
A47613Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
A47613May not the thoughts of this move thee to a preparedness for the grave?
A47613May we not say with the Prophet, No man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done?
A47613Ministers, nay, our choice and godly Pastors, must they die too?
A47613Must Fathers die, yea tender Fathers?
A47613Must Fathers, Husbands, Wives, Children, Ministres, and the dearest Friends we have dye?
A47613Must Friends, our dearest Friends die?
A47613Must Husbands die, dear Husbands?
A47613Must all die?
A47613Must all dye, the godly as well as the wicked?
A47613Must every Mothers child of us take up our Lodging there?
A47613Must that little cool house under ground hold us all?
A47613Nay, and hath not Conscience endeavoured to awaken you?
A47613Nay, have we not pierced him?
A47613Nay, what a gracious and powerful ministration of it hath there been continued for some time in this place?
A47613O grave where is thy victory?
A47613O how good is rest to a weary soul?
A47613O what a blessed thing it is to die in Christ?
A47613O will not this be to thy great advantage?
A47613Oh death where is thy sting?
A47613Oh how many able and godly preachers and others have we lost in a short space?
A47613Oh what a defiling, ensnaring, and bewitching world is this?
A47613Oh what a miserable creature hath sin made man, or rather man by sin made himself?
A47613Oh what is a greater trouble to a Child of God than indwelling sin?
A47613Oh what pains did he take with some of you, that so you might be ready?
A47613Oh what would some men give for such a friend?
A47613Oh, saith Joshua, what wilt thou do for thy great name?
A47613Shall Ministers spend their study, their breath, nay their strength, to no purpose: what will you do then in the end?
A47613Shall all means fail?
A47613Shall be deliver his Soul from the hand of the grave?
A47613Shall he call and cry to you and will you give him no entertainment?
A47613Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?
A47613Shall not our Friend go to rest?
A47613Shall the Gospel be preached in vain?
A47613Shall the goodness of God, that should lead to repentance, encourage and harden thee in thy iniquity?
A47613Shall the proudest and loftiest be brought down to the dust?
A47613Sinner what hast thou done, wilt thou sin away thy mercies, sin away thy Ministers?
A47613Some may say what doth a godly man gain by death?
A47613The Godly fail, and ceaseth for to be, Lord, is not this for our iniquity?
A47613The loss is great, oh how shall it be repaired?
A47613Then consider how much this calls upon you to be ready to die?
A47613Then poor sinners shall I prevail with you to prepare for death?
A47613Thirdly, How often hath the Lord called you, and yet you have rebelled?
A47613Was he not graciously calling upon you the last Lords day?
A47613Was not Lot the interest of Sodom?
A47613We have need of more, and Lord do''st thou take away these we have?
A47613What greater vexation to us?
A47613What hinders us of our joy and peace in Christ more than it?
A47613What man is he that liveth and shall not see death?
A47613What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?
A47613What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?
A47613What pains did he take with you, that you might not deceive your selves and miss at last of eternal life?
A47613What will stand your souls in greater stead, when you come to die than this?
A47613When a man hath worked hard all day and wearied himself, how willing is he to go to bed at night?
A47613When death sits upon your trembling lips, and you not prepared, what would you give for peace and pardon then?
A47613Where God gives many talents, he requires the improvement of them; what will become of Jerusalem and Capernaum in the day of Judgement?
A47613Who is able to conceive what a glorious place heaven is?
A47613Who would be unwilling to die, that hath an interest in Jesus Christ?
A47613Will God still suffer his holy Spirit to strive with you?
A47613Will any dare, that are sensible of the worth of their Immortal Souls, neglect this concern any longer?
A47613Will money do nothing, must I die, that have so great riches?
A47613Will you not yet open to Christ?
A47613for ever shall thy wrath burn like fire?
A47613hath it not oft made thee to cry out with St. Paul, Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of sin and death?
A47613hath not Death subdued them all?
A47613how many sharp checks and rebukes have you had from within?
A47613nay one half year?
A47613that is, Have I lost my power to redeem?
A47613where are those Troops of Israelites that excelled in patience, chastity, temperance, holiness and humility?
A3977711. shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave?
A3977718, 19. Who is a God like unto thee?
A3977721, 22. Who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me saith the Lord?
A3977724. and Satan assaulted him here as well as me, and therefore if Gods grace was sufficient for Paul, why not for me also?
A3977726. and therefore we may well ask the question, How they overcome?
A397773, 4. shall their unbelief make the Faith of God of none effect?
A3977733, 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect?
A39777And How is Death overcome?
A39777And at this are we sore afraid?
A39777And doth he not also add, weep for your selves?
A39777And doth not every day bear witness?
A39777And doth thy heart fail for fear hereof?
A39777And is not the presence and assistance of Christ enough to encourage thee against fear?
A39777And now O my Soul, Why art thou cast down?
A39777And what is the Consequence?
A39777And who almost is not afraid?
A39777And who that is but a natural man, doth not experience trembling and astonishment at the approach and sight of Death?
A39777And will not God much more forgive us though we fall oft, if we return and seek his face, Seeing his ways are far above our ways?
A39777And with what body do they come?
A39777Are not Believers afraid to die?
A39777Are they not all Clay of the same lump with other men?
A39777Are they not the Sons of men?
A39777Are they there kept in an everlasting Prison under locks, and bars that can not be opened?
A39777Are we not all here this day lamenting a very holy and Eminent Saint, and Servant of Jesus Christ fallen by the stroke of Death?
A39777Art thou to encounter death, hast thou apprehensions of its approaches towards thee?
A39777At this what heart of man can contain and possess himself without fear?
A39777But Lord?
A39777But are these becoming professing Christians, and worthy of the faith of the Resurrection?
A39777But if Believers be thus victorious, and their Victory be so great and Glorious which you tell us, as indeed it is, How do they obtain it?
A39777But man dieth and wasteth away; Yea man giveth up the Ghost, and where is he?
A39777But saith Natural Carnal reason, Is not this a great Paradox?
A39777But shall the Grave always contain them?
A39777But what more victory is this, than what unbelievers shall have, for they also shall rise again?
A39777But whence is all this?
A39777Can Satan be more malicious to destroy thee than the Lord is merciful to save thee?
A39777Can a maid forget her Ornaments, or a Bride her attire?
A39777Did making the Sepulchre sure, Sealing the stone, and setting a Watch forbid Christs Resurrection?
A39777Do we not know their generation?
A39777Doest thou doubt whether I will be with thee, seeing I have sent thee?
A39777Doest thou doubt whether thou shalt save Israel, seeing I have sent thee?
A39777Go in this thy might, thou shalt save Israel — Have not I sent thee?
A39777Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard?
A39777Hath not Christ disarmed thy Enemy?
A39777Hath not he overcome death, and opened the doors of the grave, and given thee the Victory?
A39777Have not I Commanded thee?
A39777Having found much formality in my duties on the Sabbath, and seeing my self lost in them, I put the question to my Soul, what if thou die this night?
A39777Hear Christ rebuking thee as sometimes he rebuked his disciples, Why art thou fearful, thou of little faith?
A39777Hereby I come to see that truth, the heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it?
A39777Hereupon I am made to cry out with St. Paul, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of Death?
A39777His Call, Have not I Commanded thee?
A39777How are the dead raised up?
A39777How did David behave himself when Iniquities prevailed over him?
A39777How far do we desire to remove death from us?
A39777How is he the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world, if he should cast off guilty Souls when they come unto him?
A39777How sad and damping are the very thoughts thereof to us?
A39777How soon have I healed up the wound that was given by the word?
A39777How wilt thou appear before God?
A39777I am poor and needy, O let me not be forgotten for ever, let not my expectation perish for ever, and now O Lord, what is my expectation?
A39777If I can not suffer shame for Christ, how shall I suffer greater persecutions?
A39777If a man die shall he live again?
A39777If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
A39777Is Death so weakly Armed, and art thou so strongly fortified, that thou mayest bid defiance to its Assaults?
A39777Is it not because of the darkness of our Evidence, and carelessness of gaining better assurance of life eternal?
A39777Is it not because we look upon death only with an eye of nature, and not with the eye of faith?
A39777Is it not from our inordinate affection to our worldly interest, our Carnal enjoyments and relations?
A39777Is not the Lord greater than thy heart?
A39777Is there not a fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness to wash in?
A39777Is thy state of sin so little dangerous, that thou mayest securely rest in it?
A39777Lord, When shall the day dawn, and the Day- Star arise in my heart?
A39777Now whence is all this but from the Love and mercy of God that he should be thus willing to have me take his Son?
A39777Now who am I that I should withstand God?
A39777O Death where is thy sting?
A39777O Death, where is thy sting?
A39777O Grave where is thy Victory?
A39777O death where is thy sting?
A39777O grave, where is thy Victory?
A39777Or is it not from the Conscience of some indulged sin, which we have not effectually mortified?
A39777Shall I bring to the Birth, and not cause to bring forth, saith the Lord?
A39777Shall I cause to bring forth and shut the Womb, saith thy God?
A39777Shall we give him less than a Song, a Song of thanksgiving?
A39777Simon lovest thou me?
A39777The voice of rejoycing and Salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord doth valiantly& c. Why?
A39777Their Parents, Brethren, and Sisters, are they not with us?
A39777Up, Is not the Lord gone out before thee?
A39777Was it not the end of Christs conquest to deliver his Saints, not only from the hurt, but from the fear of Death?
A39777Was not Abraham afraid when he thought he should be slain?
A39777What gain?
A39777What is it that we see?
A39777What is the hope of the hyprocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his Soul?
A39777What is thy hope?
A39777What man is he that liveth and shall not see death?
A39777What reluctance have we against the very Name of Death?
A39777What saith the Scripture?
A39777What then shall we render to the Lord?
A39777What then?
A39777What thinkest thou?
A39777When shall the Day- spring from on high, visit my Soul, to give light to him that sits in darkness, and in the shadow of death?
A39777Whence then have these men these mighty Works?
A39777Where lieth the great strength of these Samsons?
A39777Where then is the Victory?
A39777Who but must be appalled, confounded, amazed, terrified?
A39777Who ever hardened himself against this Terror of the Lord, and fell not under it?
A39777Who is he that Condemneth?
A39777Who knoweth what shall be on the morrow?
A39777Whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
A39777Why should I forsake my own Mercies?
A39777Why?
A39777Why?
A39777Would it not then be either a denial or a disparagement of Christs Victory, for a Saint to live in bondage to the fear of Death?
A39777and taken out its sting?
A39777and that we look at our dissolution more than at our resurrection?
A39777of it?
A39777or thy faithfulness in Destruction?
A39777or what a day may bring forth?
A39777shall he deliver his Soul from the hand of the grave?
A39777that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?
A39777who will believe it?
A39777yea Doth not the Lord go out with thee, and stand by thee in this thy last conflict?
A363269. and will not a Legion of them be as ready to seize one Soul?
A36326Am I going whither I would not, and yet do these Carriers make such haste?
A36326And did he hear him that Day, and could not he tell that Christ spake to him that day, except Christ added, to Day I say unto thee?
A36326And what Believer, as to outward Circumstances, was poorer and more loathsom than Lazarus?
A36326And why are your Hearts troubled?
A36326And yet the Angels of God did not disdain to carry this Poor Man''s Soul into Abraham''s Bosom?
A36326Angels were ordered to go for him, the Horses and the Chariots were sent to fetch him up: Why is his Chariot so long a coming?
A36326Are all of one Mind?
A36326Are the Gods, the Host of God, come to guard me on my way to Glory?
A36326Are these the Devils I did please?
A36326Are these they I did so daily serve, so readily yield unto?
A36326Are they not all ministring Spirits, sent forth to minister for them, who shall be Heirs of Salvation?
A36326Are ye all agreed to hurry me to Hell?
A36326As the Devil that possessed a Man, being asked, what is thy Name?
A36326Because of these Holy Angels in the Assembly watch your Carriage, shall they see your Eyes rolling after sinful Objects?
A36326By whom?
A36326Can not they give Assistance to me?
A36326Did not he hear him?
A36326Did not he know Christ then spake to him?
A36326Did they take him in their Arms, whom the Rich Man would not take and lay in any of his Out- houses?
A36326Do not the Angels of the Lord encamp round about them that fear him, to deliver them?
A36326Do you know in which?
A36326Doth his Promise fail for evermore?
A36326Hast thou finished thy Course?
A36326Hast thou fought a good Fight?
A36326Hast thou run thy Race?
A36326Hath God forgotten to be Gracious?
A36326Hath he in Anger shut up his tender Mercies?
A36326Hath he spoke the Word?
A36326Have our embraced Sins brought us to the Embracements of such cruel and merciless Tormentors?
A36326How am I rejoiced I shall have your Conduct in this Way I never went before?
A36326How may we imagine, with what direful Shriekings it will cry out and say, Who are all these?
A36326I must I must leave all my dearest Friends in this World; but what will be my Company in the next?
A36326If one Devil, in some frightful visible Shape, should appear to you in the deep and silent Night, what Terrour would the sight thereof fill you with?
A36326Is Christ mine?
A36326Is his Mercy clean gon for ever?
A36326Is my Journey like to be so short, when my Journey''s End will be so bad?
A36326Is there no Hope?
A36326Is there no escaping out of these Hands, I am so suddenly fallen into?
A36326Is there none in whom I might hope for help and Succour, in this distressed Case that I am in?
A36326Is there none to help?
A36326Is there none to whom I might look for a little Mercy?
A36326Is there not one amongst you all will stand my Friend?
A36326It may be, it goes out of the Body, not knowing whither it is going, and how then should it know its Way?
A36326Love should be reciprocal, in loving them that love us: Should not we love the Angels in Heaven, who are so ready to help us up to Heaven?
A36326May I not change my Lodging?
A36326May I not go back again from whence I came?
A36326No such Question there; Will the Lord cast off for ever?
A36326Not one to take my Part, to be on my Side?
A36326O ye Holy Ones, how glad am I to see you?
A36326Or do not you think nor care in which your Soul shall live and lodge for ever?
A36326Shall Heaven be mine?
A36326Shall they see you sleeping under the Word, or in time of Prayer?
A36326They could not in my Body have forced me to Sin; but now, just out of the Body, they do, they do, oh, what shall I do?
A36326They know when any Believer is dissolved by Death, and when his Soul is separated from his Body; else how should they know when to come for it?
A36326They know where any Believer dies, at home or abroad, on his Bed or in the Field, by Land or Sea; else how should they know where to come for it?
A36326Was he not a Beggar that wanted Bread?
A36326Was he not a Cripple, that could not go to, but was laid at the Rich Man''s Gate?
A36326Was he not only sore, but full of Sores, that a nice and squeamish Person would have disdained to look upon him, but much more to dress his Sores?
A36326What Black- Guard is this?
A36326What Difference hath one Hour made?
A36326What Indignation and Anger do they discover, as I go along, against any evil Spirits appearing to endanger me?
A36326What Madness did possess us, for small Profits of the World, to lose the Enjoyments of all the Happiness of Heaven?
A36326What Zeal do these Holy ones shew in protecting of me?
A36326What a Multitude of Sins by this would be prevented?
A36326What a miserable deceived Wretch was I, when in the Body, and how convinced of my Self- deceiving Flattery, as soon as separated from my Body?
A36326What burning Love do I feel in their Embracements?
A36326What if I should make an Error in my Death about my Eternal State?
A36326What if, while I am in the Body, I should suppose that I have the Truth of Grace, and when out of the Body find that I had none?
A36326What is all this Host I am fallen into, and am surrounded with?
A36326What means your Rage?
A36326What meer Creatures are more Noble and Excellent than the Holy Angels in Heaven?
A36326What need Christ add his asserting Verily, to these Words, I say unto thee to day?
A36326What need had Christ to speak the Words thus; Verily I say unto thee to day?
A36326What of the Believer is carried to that Place or State?
A36326When will it be here, that we might have a new Lodger in our Dwellings?
A36326When?
A36326Which, when the separated Soul perceives, enquires, Why so many?
A36326Whither do ye hurry me?
A36326Whither was the Soul carried; what was the Place or State to which it was transported?
A36326Whither will ye carry me?
A36326Why are ye cast down?
A36326Why so many so strong, to one so weak?
A36326Why so many to one?
A36326Why tarry the Wheels of his Chariot?
A36326Will he be Favourable no more?
A36326Will the Holy Scripture, wherein God''s Will and my Duty is revealed, bear me out, if I do this or that?
A36326Will you so grieve those that you hope shall be imployed, in carrying your Soul to Heaven?
A36326Would you grieve thus if I were going a Voyage to the Indies, in Hopes of Gain, with a safe and strong Convoy?
A36326Your Enquiries might be, How shall I love God more, please him better, and be more prepared for my Eternal State?
A36326but where shall it be?
A36326must I thus be posted to such grievous Torments, whence I shall never be delivered?
A36326to this dark and dismal Prison, for the fading Honours of a short and Transitory Life?
A36326ye Men of God, ye Sons of God, how do I rejoice to meet you?
A30620All these things considered, what cause have any of Gods people to be impatient?
A30620And can we think God doth not order his Creatures, and govern, and dispose of them, with as much wisdome as he made them?
A30620And ha''nt we cause?
A30620And if God do but what he may, what are we, that we should complain?
A30620And is there not reason then for you to be dumb, and to hold your peace?
A30620And must he not go, or will you be troubled if he go, when his Father and yours sends for him?
A30620And what wrought him to this pass?
A30620And will ye now be angry, and impatient, that God should rather have his will done, than you yours?
A30620And yet with what admirable patience doth he take it?
A30620Bethink your selves; Is not he who now afflicts you, one whose will you have often crossed?
A30620But can there be any good reason why you should be tormented, because God hath made one of yours happy so soon?
A30620But dare any of you undertake that?
A30620But in these Herse- cloaths this young Catechist you see Bound up, a little volum of Divinity; But why so fast?
A30620But shall we give and take?
A30620But what need we any farther witnesses of this truth?
A30620But who made your thought the rules that God must go by in the ways of his providence?
A30620But whose mouth must not presently be stopt, if God should say to us in our impatiency, what?
A30620But you will say to me, Do you think you can perswade us to all this?
A30620Consider, Doth not be afflict you, whom you have provoked to deal a great deal worse with you?
A30620Did I say, the afflictions of Gods Saints come from one that intends them no hurt?
A30620Did d Saul do Jesse any wrong, or did he think it would be so interpreted, when he sent for his son David to come and wait upon him at Court?
A30620Did you either make his Soul, or so much as one part or member of his Body?
A30620Did you frame him, and fashion him?
A30620Do not ask me how?
A30620Do we not all stand amazed at that Wisdome, by which the Heavens and Earth, and all Creatures in both were made?
A30620Doth he not storm, and rage?
A30620Ergo abiisse preces in sumos?
A30620Have ye not often made this your petition unto his Majesty?
A30620He would oft ask his Sister( who was somewhat younger than himself) whether she trusted in God, and loved God?
A30620Hearken once more, u Shall there be evil in the City, and the Lord hath not done it?
A30620His Father asked him, why he thought so?
A30620His Father speaking to him one day about the Devil and Hell, and things of that nature, asked him if he were not afraid to be alone?
A30620Hoc solum longae pretium virtutis habebis?
A30620How calm is he?
A30620How doth he take all this?
A30620How far from murmuring?
A30620How few such of his age are to be found?
A30620How fit and meet is it they should be dumb under his afflicting hand?
A30620How oft doth he destroy whole Kingdomes, and lay them wast, and not make breaches in private families only?
A30620How often must I break your reeds ere you will learn to take heed of leaning over much upon them?
A30620If we do it really and in good earnest, why do we repine when God takes but that, which is not only his own, but which we have freely given him?
A30620If we do not mean to give up our selves, and ours to God, why do we play the hypocrites, and pretend it?
A30620If you do not know those things already, why not?
A30620If you say, I may as well bid one in a cold fit of an Ague, that he should not be chill: How can I be patient under such sufferings as mine are?
A30620Ille hic qui tenui modulatus arundine Caelum est, Inter caelestes non Cherubinus erit?
A30620Is not this God who afflicts you, he whose will ye have prayed may be done on earth, as it is done in heaven?
A30620Is not this mocking of God?
A30620Is the Cup God hath given you to drink so bitter, that all those things are as good as nothing to sweeten it?
A30620Jobs wife was set on by the Devil to perswade her husband to this,( l) Curse God( saith she) and die: wilt thou still retain thy integrity?
A30620L. SAy, is''t not a sacred injury to rehearse Past griefs, and make you suffer o''re again in verse?
A30620May we not liken thee To Solomon in''s youth?
A30620May you( think you) set light by his will, and must he, mean while, do nothing to displease, or thwart yours?
A30620Must I come and ask your advice, and take your direction for what I am to do?
A30620Must I do nothing before I have first called you to counsel?
A30620Must my Wisdome be taught by your folly?
A30620Must things either be ordered as we judge fit, or else will we deny or doubt of Gods having any hand in them?
A30620Must you have a liberty to cross God, and God none to cross you?
A30620Must you not confess your selves to be fools, and unfit to be of his Counsel?
A30620No doubt he had sinful risings and motions in his heart( who doth not feel them?)
A30620Now what doth the Psalmist do in this case?
A30620Now when r God exacteth less of us than our iniquities deserve, what cause is there of complaining?
A30620One to whom you have walked contrary?
A30620Or do you think it equal?
A30620Or if any one had been wanting, could you have made up that defect?
A30620Repent( replyed his Father) do you know what repentance means, and what belongs unto it?
A30620Secondly, Affirmatively, How then is this dumbness to be understood?
A30620Shall I make Creatures for mine own sake, and shall not I( without your leave) dispose of them as I please?
A30620Shall not I( for all you) do what I think fit with mine own?
A30620Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the father of spirits?
A30620Some of Gods people have been so afflicted, that they might say, b Is there any bodies sorrow like unto my sorrow?
A30620Sweet St. was''t to keep pace in Hymns The hallowed Reason, with those winged Cherubims?
A30620Tell me, Is not God who hath taken your Child, he whose your Child was, infinitely more than he was yours?
A30620That so many thousand things, so various all the world over, should be governed and ordered by a providence?
A30620That spake the word, and caused all things to come out of nothing?
A30620Though you might challenge more interest in him, than any upon earth, yet what was your interest in him, if compared with Gods?
A30620To have part in Christ, to have Union and Communion with him, is there any thing in the World worth the talking of the same day with it?
A30620To know God and Christ, what an infinite mercy is it?
A30620Was it not your ambition he might go to heaven, and will you be troubled overmuch now he is gone?
A30620We are apt to think, how can this be?
A30620What a deal of service might he have done to God( in all likelihood) had he lived to old age?
A30620What a deal of service might he( in time) have done for God?
A30620What an instrument might he have been of Gods glory?
A30620What an instrument of Gods glory might he have proved?
A30620What can be more clear?
A30620What exception then can any man make against his Dominion, and absolute Soveraignty?
A30620What got Pharaoh by standing it out against God, and resusing to humble himself?
A30620What is the World and all that is in it unto God?
A30620What shadow of an objection can there lye against his Title?
A30620What thing is it that He can not bring out of any thing, that d commanded the light to shine out of darkness?
A30620What was it, that could possibly make a man take all this so patiently?
A30620When men meddle with persons and businesses, that they have nothing to do with, it is unsufferable, and who can bear it?
A30620Who could chuse but be struck dumb, if God should say, Where''s l the man that darkneth counsel, by words without knowledge?
A30620Who is that?
A30620Who made this Law?
A30620Who u ever hardned himself against him and prospered?
A30620Whose heart would not have been struck dead within him, by those tidings wherewith Samuel g acquainted Eli from God?
A30620Why then do you not lay your hands upon your mouth, and acquiesce in what he doth as best of all?
A30620Will none of those things, will not all of them countervail those losses and afflictions you are under?
A30620Will ye never leave digging to your selves broken Cisterns?
A30620Will you make vows to God, and break them when ye have done?
A30620Will you take on, as if it were more meet God should submit to your will, than you to his?
A30620Would you be in Canaan, before you be out of the Wilderness?
A30620You will say, would you have us old folks,( as this age) go learn the Catechism like children?
A30620a Behold he taketh away, who can hinder him?
A30620and what doth it import?
A30620and which way?
A30620b Where the word of a King is( though he be but a mortal man) there is power, and who may say to him, what dost thou?
A30620doth he not despond, and despair?
A30620e Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
A30620ergo dolori Indulgere?
A30620for zeal, may we not thee compare To Israels singer?
A30620h This evil is from the Lord,( saith that wicked King Jehoram) what should I wait for the Lord any longer?
A30620l I am vile, what shall I answer?
A30620o Do ye reap any thing, but what ye have sown?
A30620p May not God walk contrary to you, as well as you walk contrary to him?
A30620shall he that should of right be whipt with Scorpions, grumble when he is but corrected with rods?
A30620so great, so suddain, so unexpected, so irrepairable?
A30620whil''st we delight to wear His Memory like pendents in the ear?
A30620will you not take the coyn you pay?
A30620x Should it be according to thy mind?
A30620— quid tot durasse per annos Profuit immunem corrupti moribus aevi?
A195682 Whereat they stumble?
A19568And now it is come, to whom should it come, but unto you?
A19568And what doe they stumble at now?
A19568And will not yee who must bee the children of Abraham, or perish, walke in the way of so worthy a Father?
A19568Are they touched for sinne?
A19568Are yee not ashamed to offend such a GOD as I, who have neither beene a barren Wildernesse, nor a dry Land?
A19568Art thou allured?
A19568Art thou call''d in whithersoever thou goest?
A19568But hath he not now begun to strik?
A19568But how doth the wicked mans way become to bee darknesse?
A19568But may you not feare the danger of the second?
A19568But what is all this to our examples in this Warning- peece?
A19568But whereat ordinarily doe wicked men stumble?
A19568But why should I thinke darkenesse to bee the cause of their shame, seeing many of them have a great deale of knowledge?
A19568Call for them all, whom you are loth now to offend in pleasing GOD, and what can they doe?
A19568Can much Niter and much Sope doe it?
A19568Can thousands of Rammes, and ten thousand Rivers of Oyle?
A19568Can you say that you sin not when conscience checks, and saith, Doe it not?
A19568Christian: what was his Countrey, answered, Christian: what were his hopes, thoughts words, and deeds?
A19568Did not Acham the sonne of Zerah commit a trespasse in the accursed thing?
A19568Did not I deliver you from the Aegyptians and from the Amorites, from the children of Amon, and from the Philistims?
A19568Do ye desire to gaine to your soules from this?
A19568Doe they know that it implyes sorrow for sinne seene, purpose to forsake sin sorrowed for, and to returne unto God?
A19568Doe they not thinke it to bee nothing but a conviction for sinne, a sorrow for sinne, and a crying God mercy?
A19568Doe they not thinke it to bee the worke of an houre, when the whole life of a man were but enough for us to walke in that way?
A19568Doe they now stumble at the lapses and falls of those that seeme better than themselves?
A19568Doe they present this to their soules, that except they repent, they shall perish?
A19568Doe they stumble at the offence of their companions?
A19568Doe they stumble at the world?
A19568Doth not his Sun and raine blesse obdurate sinners?
A19568Doth poverty come as an armed man?
A19568Doth the wrath of GOD come?
A19568Doth thy way lye that way?
A19568Farewell companions, farewell time, farewell pleasure; farewell friends, farewell all your perswasions,& c. and shall I say welcome Hell?
A19568For doe they not shew great strength in sinne?
A19568Hath hee not let you see that there is no peace to the wicked?
A19568Hath not CHRIST promised his assistance in the Word of GOD, and Sacraments?
A19568Have they not read that GOD drowned the first world, first for imaginations?
A19568Have wee the confluence of all worlds goods?
A19568Hee that is a good Christian, should answer like that blessed Martyr, who when hee was asked what was his name?
A19568How is it darknesse?
A19568How it comes to be so?
A19568I asked him then whether some great sinne( not yet thought of) did not lye behind, to hinder the beames of Gods sweet grace from shining upon him?
A19568I feare you will die, and then what will become of you?
A19568I have neglected my Patients, who have put their lives into my hands, and how many soules have I thus murthered?
A19568If in such a case GOD withdraw his countenance and frowne, is it not worthy our notice?
A19568If it bee the way to Heaven, which of the Saints of GOD have gone before mee in it thither?
A19568If the way to Hell, why doe I walke in it still?
A19568If thou wert shut up in a dark prison, where thou couldst not have any fellowship with light, wouldst thou not thinke thy selfe in a wofull plight?
A19568Is it at the peaceable end of sinners?
A19568Is it not still at they know not what?
A19568Is the justice of GOD upon the world cleane gone out of minde, when his Church was in a Corner, and but a little flocke?
A19568Is the way delightfull?
A19568Is this the way to heaven?
A19568It is not bad enough to have these horrors and perplexities for sinnes and punishments?
A19568Lord, how doe they fall in darknesse, till they are turned backe into perpetuall rebellions, till they fall and rise no more?
A19568Now if you would know why the wayes of the wicked are thus said to be as darknesse?
A19568Or know they that it is accompanied( if it be saving) with an holy course in godlinesse and righteousnesse?
A19568Or that you have not bin disposed by your houres of error, to scandalize others, and neglect God and his worship?
A19568Or that you have not taken pleasure in what you have done?
A19568Receive the bloudy showers of devillish and worldly temptations, and how will ye stinke like Sodome and her Sisters?
A19568Receive the distilled dewes of grace from the Spirit of God, and what a sweet savour shall yee be in the nostrils of God, and man?
A19568Shall it fall like raine upon the barren Rockes and Mountaines without fruit?
A19568Shall it not move one soule to goe from the dens of sinne to GOD?
A19568Shall private persons and affaires( not worth a dunghill to the businesses of GOD) bee the onely object of bounty and munificence?
A19568So while ye are in this pitchy way, in the midst of laughter your heart is heavie: yee some- times feare the hurt yee may suffer, what if I bee sicke?
A19568Sometimes they are loth to offend their wicked companions; what?
A19568Then weigh with me these three particulars: 1 What it is to stumble?
A19568Though we could not perceive that he knew, GOD( to comfort) might hee not be knowne of God?
A19568Was not Abraham our Father justified by workes?
A19568What an hell will it be to you to saile by, before you come to hell, if ye repent not, and forsake not your sins?
A19568What an hell will this be to you before you come to hell, if you repent not?
A19568What are wee that we should sit in GOD''s chaire?
A19568What is all the world if wee could graspe it into an handfull?
A19568What is that to me?
A19568What is the way of the wicked?
A19568What matters it then to offend such, so they may please God?
A19568What now is to bee done, but that you see your wickednesse, and amend all?
A19568What shall I say to you Young men?
A19568Where are their companions now?
A19568Wherefore doe you harden your hearts as the Aegyptians and Pharaoh?
A19568Who knowes whether God may leave a blessing behind?
A19568Why it is darknesse?
A19568Why then will they not try what they can doe in vertue?
A19568Why will they neglect CHRISTS hand, which is put under to helpe?
A19568Why will they not be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might, that they may be able to doe all things through him that helpeth them?
A19568Will they more impotently stumble at the despaire of Gods mercy?
A19568Will ye still goe on in the wayes of sinne, though ye can not prosper?
A19568Will yee not take heed lest lesse policy make you to fall, as Eve fell, which was full of bitternesse to her and hers?
A19568Will yee not thinke of to day, while it is called to day?
A19568Will you be dismaied in any trouble, or cast off your confidence, as if Gods hand were tyed up now more than in those dayes?
A19568Will you say hee is my sweet Saviour still?
A19568Will you yet neglect so great salvation?
A19568Ye goe on in sinne, and thrive, and are merry, and what evill can come?
A19568Yea, but are they not deceived in the worke of it?
A19568You will say, They are in darknesse, how then can they spie such a hole in the coat of him that is better than themselves?
A19568eng Roger, William, d. 1636?
A19568what if I die?
A19568what if divine Iustice seaze upon mee?
A19568what is now to bee done?
A19568what shall become of me then?
A02735( I dare not say thou art God) yet heare the Scriptures speaking, haue not I said ye are Gods?
A02735A father hath two sons, the one offends, and is corrected; the other also offendeth,& is not corrected, why is the one corrected and not the other?
A02735And I pray you what is implied in all the titles and dignities of Christ?
A02735And as Peter saith, If iudgement first begin at the house of God, what shall the end be of thē which obey not the Gospell of God?
A02735And doest thou so loue me( which am but dust and ashes) to make me partaker of glorie with Christ?
A02735And how can there be any battaile, where there is not assaulting and resisting?
A02735And now my brethren that all is gone, where is the remaine of our religious hope?
A02735And now that I haue told thee, and thou hast heard all these speake, I aske with Salomon, what is his name?
A02735And now who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen: it is God that iustifieth, who shall cōdemne?
A02735And offer vp your prayers in the publike congregation of the saints of God?
A02735And what are wee but a kingly people; and a royall priesthood?
A02735And what is Zoar, other then that heauenly being?
A02735And what so comfortable to check all miserie; as to heare of mercie?
A02735And whence are these taken, or whither?
A02735And why should the righteous be afraid of death, by which they are thus taken away?
A02735And why then should we mourne immoderately for the death of the righteous?
A02735And wilt thou glorifie me with that glory which thou haddest with the father before the world was?
A02735And with the sweete Psalmist, Whome haue I in heauen but thee?
A02735As and if they might say, we haue seene in soule, we are come in body, there is the star, O where is the babe?
A02735Away away, get you hence, for who euer required these things at your hands, saith my God?
A02735But good Lord how long?
A02735But what of that?
A02735But why are we to consider their death?
A02735But why doe I speake of Popish women, whose vnderstandings are darker then the darkenes of Aegypt?
A02735Certainely, hee can not dye ill, which liued well ▪ Haue not many iust men beene slaine by the enemies sword?
A02735Christ hath taken away the sting of it: and therefore Paul saith, O death where is thy sting?
A02735Death is the reward of sinne: Christ hath satisfied for all their sinnes, wherefore should they beare this penaltie of sinne?
A02735Deum diligis, non audeo dicere Deus es: audi tamen scripturam dicentem, an non ego dixi, quod dij e ● ● is?
A02735Dost thou loue God?
A02735Dost thou loue earth?
A02735For as Christ saith, If these things be done to a greene tree, what shall be done to the dry?
A02735Hath not Christ dyed for the righteous, why then should they dye?
A02735Haue not many iust men been killed by theeues?
A02735Haue not many righteous men bin torne in pieces by wild beasts?
A02735Haue you light vp any candles?
A02735Hell where is thy victorie?
A02735Hereupon I inferre with the father, hos put amus quietos, quos inquieta vita viuorum solicitat?
A02735How can there be a victorie, wherothere is no battaile?
A02735How long without compassion shall we looke vpon him whom wee haue pierced?
A02735How long without repentance shall wee behold our miserie?
A02735If a man dye, shall he liue againe?
A02735In any commotion, whom doe rebels kill and spoile?
A02735Is it health, strength, or beauty?
A02735Is it wealth, riches, or aboundance of earthlie happinesse?
A02735Is it ● mperiall rule in this world?
A02735Is there a purging fire in hell must fyne vs for heauen?
A02735Is there ease in paine?
A02735Is there fire in water?
A02735Is there life in death?
A02735Is there light in darkenes?
A02735It is his will, and who dares wrest it?
A02735Lord, whō haue I in heauen but thee?
A02735May we not then praise the dead?
A02735May we think them at quiet whom the troublesome sturs of this world may vexe?
A02735N ● m mul ● i iusti nau ● sragio perierunt?
A02735Now the diuell is as a rebell in the Lords kingdome: whome then will he most trouble and assault?
A02735O death where is thy sting?
A02735O tremble for feare ye faithles generation, who dare yet say it is not finished?
A02735O wretched man that I am, who shall deliuer me from the bodie of this death?
A02735Oh how sweet the kisses of my Sauiour be?
A02735Once in the middest of her temptation, being demaunded by Master William Fox ▪ whether she did beleeue the promises of God, nor no?
A02735Or the soueraigndst plaister that can be deuised by arte or cunning, if it bee not applied to the wound or sore?
A02735Pope where is thy pride?
A02735Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of all his Saints: and shall their death bee vile and contemptible in our eyes?
A02735Purgatorie where is thy gaine?
A02735Quid tibi de alterius dono, si tu non dederis: why art thou proude of another mans gift, and thou giue nothing?
A02735Shall he say it is finished?
A02735Shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecutiō, or famine, or nakednes, or perill, or sword?
A02735Stephen called and said, Lord Iesus receiue my spirit: and shall we doubt of his desire euen then answered?
A02735Sweete Christ, where then is thy bloud?
A02735The Lord hath spoken, who can but tremble?
A02735The Lyon hath rored, who will not be afrayd?
A02735The best receite, if it be not taken?
A02735The taste is precious: do you not feele it?
A02735The works of Princes are much considered, and often talked of among the people; and ought not the Lords workes be much considered of vs?
A02735They are also taken away, but why?
A02735Thou wilt say vnto mee haue not many iust men perished by shipwracke?
A02735What am I poore wretch, that thou art so mindfull of me?
A02735What counsell shall I take, now I haue lost him that was my comfort?
A02735What is Sodome, other then this sinfull world?
A02735What may we learne thereby?
A02735What more acceptable then the welles of sweete water to a thirstie soule?
A02735What shall I do?
A02735What should I say more?
A02735What should I say more?
A02735When Lord, when shall I come and appeare before thy presence?
A02735When Saul was takē frō seeking his fathers asses, and annointed to be king ouer Israel, had his father Kish any reason to lament?
A02735Which way shall I turne me?
A02735Who would be vnwilling thus to be taken away?
A02735Why should this be so?
A02735Will he not rather wish himselfe to be there with him in the like case; then desire, that either he had stayed with him, or might returne againe?
A02735Yea haue not some of that sect scattered abroad slaunderous Libels of Master Beza his reuolting at his death?
A02735and shal we say it is not finished?
A02735and what is his sonnes name, if thou canst tell?
A02735and what is the foundation, be it of Beryll, Topaze, or Chrisolite?
A02735and whether she could pray?
A02735and whom haue I in earth besides thee?
A02735art thou come to destroy vs?
A02735from a factious world, to a heauenly being?
A02735from darkenes, to light?
A02735from death, to life?
A02735from night, to day?
A02735from sorrow, to solace?
A02735good in euill?
A02735how long by swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring, shall sinne breake out, and blood touch blood?
A02735how long without measure shall wee prouoke thy maiestie?
A02735is there truth in error?
A02735reioyce, or lament?
A02735rest in labour?
A02735shall life or death?
A02735sweete in sowre?
A02735that he is the doore, the shepheard, and the vine?
A02735the head will haue his members, the bridegroome his spouse, God his elect, and Christ his redeemed: and where will he haue them, but where he is?
A02735thou art earth ▪ Dost thou loue gold?
A02735was he not most willing to leaue her?
A02735what more pleasing then to heare of peace, in the time of warre?
A02735what so to be desired in this moyling world, as after toyle to heare of rest?
A47489( as I have said before of Two) i. e. Is he not to bring us to God, as well as God to us?
A474892 Art thou afflicted for thy sins?
A474892. let the Fruits of God''s Grace shine forth in your Lives: what shall we render to God for all his Covenant- Blessings?
A47489Although my House be not so with God; a little first by way of Explication: Although my House be not so with God, how is that?
A47489And doth not performing imply a Covenant or Promise he has made to do it?
A47489And doth not this respect as they confess, all his Seed?
A47489And if so, how could they be Two distinct Covenants?
A47489And may not Believers in Christ lay claim to Christ''s reward?
A47489And never from Christ''s Truth did start or swerve Shall Envy then his Name or Glory stain?
A47489Art poor?
A47489Art thou afraid thou shalt sometime or another depart from God, or fall away from him?
A47489Art thou backsliden from God?
A47489Art thou like a dry withered Tree?
A47489Art thou tempted?
A47489Art thou weary?
A47489But methinks I hear some poor sinner crying out, How may I come to be in this Covenant?
A47489Can a dead Man quicken himself?
A47489Can he deliver his Soul from the Hand of the Grave?
A47489Can others come to Christ who have not the like Faith and Repentance given to them?
A47489Can we believe before the Habit is infused from whence the Act proceedeth?
A47489Can we subdue the Powers of darkness, or break Satan''s Chains?
A47489Dare you not venture on Christ?
A47489Dare you plead it at God''s Bar?
A47489Did Christ enter into a Covenant for himself?
A47489Did he merit for himself, and for us only a conditional Covenant?
A47489Did not we all rise from the dead with Christ, vertually when he was raised?
A47489Do thy sins appear grievous to thee?
A47489Do we( saith the Apostle) make void the law through faith?
A47489Dost thou believe that thou canst not be saved, but by the Death of Jesus Christ?
A47489Dost thou fear Satan will be too hard for thee?
A47489Doth not Paul close his Epistles, with a sort of Prayer, to the Holy Spirit, as well to the Father, and to the Son?
A47489Doth not he begin the good Work in us, and will he not perform it unto the end?
A47489Faith is the Gift of the Promise, therefore not the Condition of it; they are Foederalia relata: Can a Promise or a Gift be a Condition of it self?
A47489God calls home his Ambssadours, a- pace, what may we expect?
A47489Hath Christ performed his part so in the Covenant of Redemption, that he hath no more to do, by vertue of his Mediatory Covenant?
A47489Have not I done his Business for him?
A47489How many years did he his Master serve?
A47489How would he have Gloried and have Blasphemed God, had not this Covenant been provided?
A47489I have found David my Servant, my Covenant shall stand fast with him; when did God find him, Was it not before the World began?
A47489I hope they may mean well, but may they not fear they mistake?
A47489I would know what that Reward is which Christ doth challenge, is it not Grace, Righteousness and Eternal Life for all the Elect?
A47489I would know whether all the Elect were not considered in Christ, and was it not for us that he entered into that Covenant?
A47489If Faith and Repentance be given to the Elect, who are saved?
A47489If you will say, it is a Promise to a Condition, what kind of Condition was it?
A47489Is it not said, The Seed of the Woman shall bruise his Head?
A47489Is it not that he might Quicken us, and Communicate of his Grace to us, as he is our Head and( Mediator) and we his Members?
A47489Is it this?
A47489Is not Christ the Mediator?
A47489Is not Union with Christ, the only way to the promised Blessings?
A47489Is not he the Author and Finisher of our Faith?
A47489Is not here Relief for thee, if thou art afflicted?
A47489Is not the Debter a party with the Surety, and so the Elect a party with Christ?
A47489Is the Covenant of Grace made with Christ for us?
A47489Is there no Help?
A47489Is there not all things that you want in Christ, and ● n this Covenant?
A47489Is this to get Union with Christ?
A47489Many we lost before, for which we mourn, And shall we Forty lose without a Groan?
A47489Must bring, Doth not that Obligation that was upon him, referr to the Covenant made with the Father?
A47489Must not Christ perform all these things for us?
A47489No Relief for your Souls in this Covenant?
A47489Now''t is question''d,( saith Reverend Cotton,) whether the Promise wherein the Lord giveth himself, be Absolute or Conditional?
A47489Or Prejudice wound him to death again?
A47489Or not deem him a Prince in Israel?
A47489Say if you can, what cause gave he to fear, He was not ev''ry way a Man sincere?
A47489Shall Christ and all Covenant Mercies be offered to you?
A47489Shall we not sigh for him who lately fell?
A47489Souls what aileth you?
A47489Souls, ● emember God calls it his Covenant, where is it called our Covenant?
A47489Thy Seed, Who doth he speak to?
A47489True, we merit nothing; but did not Christ merit all for us?
A47489VVere not all the Elect, or all Christ dyed for, vertually( as in our Head) reconciled to God by the Death of Christ?
A47489Was he sure or certain of any one Soul, as the Reward of all this hard Work and Sufferings?
A47489Was not then the Covenant of Grace as Ancient?
A47489Were not all that Christ died for, chosen in him before the foundation of the World?
A47489What are we able to do, when dead in Sin and Trespasses?
A47489What is the Purport of this Doctrine, as it is improved by our new Methodists?
A47489What short of Almighty Power can form the Image of God in the Soul, or create us again in Christ Jesus?
A47489Where is that Image now which thou stampt on his Soul?
A47489Why is Christ called a Quickening Spirit, and so full of Grace?
A47489Why, Is not the purport of it this?
A47489Wicked Men dye, so do the Godly, and as do the People, so do their Ministers, The Fathers, where are they?
A47489Will you make God a Liar?
A47489Will you plead your sincere Obedience?
A47489Will you venture your Souls upon it?
A47489With whom was the Covenant of Grace made?
A47489a Feast of fat Things provided for you, and will you make light of this Offer?
A47489above Christ, above the Salvation of your Souls; can you think God will give himself to you?
A47489and afraid thou shalt want Bread?
A47489and can any perform the Terms of this Covenant without Christ, in the Execution of his Office as our Mediator and Surety?
A47489and can there be such a noble Effect without the cause from whence it proceeds?
A47489and doth not the Apostle assure us that we shall much more be saved by Christ''s Life, if he reconciled us to God by his Death?
A47489and has he undertaken for our Souls as our Surety?
A47489and how few raised up in their stead?
A47489and is it not particularly implyed in those Words, he shall see his Seed?
A47489and not believe the Record he hath given of his Son?
A47489and the Prophets, do they live for ever?
A47489are we stronger than the strong Man ● rmed?
A47489art a wretched sinner?
A47489but 2 dly, Hath not he obtained Grace for us, to enable us to believe?
A47489but he only?
A47489but let out his Wrath upon him, and will he spare you?
A47489do you not tremble to think of the evil of sin?
A47489dost thou thirst?
A47489doth not Faith flow from a Principle of divine Life?
A47489doth not the Apostle argue from the greater Gift of God''s Grace to the lesser Gift?
A47489for your sins?
A47489how doth the Love of the Father abound towards us?
A47489how then can that be a distinct Covenant from the Covenant of Grace; is dead Man, vile, and depraved Man, capable to enter into a Covenant with God?
A47489i. e. Christ doth not believe for us; Who says he doth?
A47489in the Beauty of Holiness: Is Christ a true and proper Redeemer of all?
A47489is it ordered in all things and sure?
A47489is this Regeneration?
A47489or can he refuse to live that has life infused into him?
A47489or move before we have Life or are quickened?
A47489or, Will that Grace, God affords to all Men do it?
A47489that have your own sins and horrid guilt and pollution charged upon your own Souls?
A47489the Covenant of Grace?
A47489to undertake to enter into Covenant with God any more?
A47489was not Christ set up as Mediator from Everlasting?
A47489was not the Gift of Christ in his death for us a greater gift than the gift of the Spirit to us?
A47489what a dangerous state are we in?
A47489what good will this do you?
A47489what''s the cause of your Disquietments and Sorrow?
A47489why should we be of good chear upon his overcoming the World, if it was not for us, and to assure us that we shall overcome it?
A47489why, to his Servant, doth not these Promises referr to that Covenant made with Christ, which you call the Covenant of Redemption?
A47489will you value your base Lusts above God?
A47489would not he have said, Where is thy Creature Man, that thou madest but a little lower than the Angels, and made a Ruler over thy nether Creation?
A47489● ● l this building will fall to the ground; is this to take hold of the Covenant?
A39578& 27. without any impeachment to his Justice; What shall we say when we come under his hand in any of those chastisements that are laid upon us?
A39578Admit this: But I pray who hath done 〈 ◊ 〉?
A39578And can you suppose that he that is so absolutely knowing in the course of Justice, should doe me, or you Injustice, contrary to his knowledge?
A39578And have I not reason to bear it from his hands, from whose hands I have received so much good?
A39578And how can I wish to stand any longer?
A39578And if it be thus, why should I complain?
A39578And if we sinne against God, Shall we not be dumb when God afflicts us for our sin?
A39578And is there any wiser then God?
A39578And may not he dispose of the Creature that he is Lord of?
A39578And shall he be denied that liberty which his Creatures have, to dispose of his own work?
A39578And therefore when Gods time comes, Wilt thou not be willing to part with ● arth, that thou maist enjoy thy Heaven where it is?
A39578And when my turn is served, why should I grudge that others should be served as well as I?
A39578And will not you dispense with y ● ur supposed right to let him enjoy them after you have used them?
A39578And wilt thou not be content to part with those, since it leaves thee these?
A39578And yet would you have God bound to perpetuate your relations, during your pleasure, when you can not challenge them?
A39578Answer thy self, Why not thee as well as any?
A39578Are ye stronger then he?
A39578As if he had said, Oh my soul, dost thou consider from whom thy afflictions come, that thou thus complainest?
A39578As of Job, so it may well be said of him in after- times, Have you not heard of th ● Patience of Whitaker?
A39578But I have not quite done my expostulation; Could you challenge it of debt to have such relations?
A39578But What then is the meaning?
A39578But is he bound, because he hath done it to continue his course so long as I please?
A39578But it is a very great Question, Whether we have been like David in our afflictions?
A39578But what do I speak of an House, in Heaven?
A39578But what is the use?
A39578But what then will argue our silence upon this Consideration that God hath done it?
A39578Can there be a better way, or a fitter ● season then wisdom it self hath found out?
A39578Did God give them, and are you not content that you have had them so long 〈 ◊ 〉 he was pleased to spar ● them?
A39578Did ever any Paren ● lose such a childe, so 〈 ◊ 〉, so dutifull, so graci ● ● ●, as I have done?
A39578Did ever any woman lose such a Husband, so kinde, so pitifull, so bountifull, so helpfull to soul and body?
A39578Did he dispense with his right to let you enjoy them, though they were his?
A39578Do I not live with expectation to die?
A39578Do ye provoke God to anger?
A39578Do you know that God hath done it?
A39578Do you know who hath done it?
A39578Do you provoke the Lord to anger?
A39578Foolish man that sufferest thy self to be fired with thy Cross, dost thou know at whom thou murmurest and repinest?
A39578God hath done it, and wilt thou call him to account?
A39578God hath done it, who shall implead him?
A39578Have you been silent: Can you say?
A39578Have you moderated your passions, and not suffered the flouds to overflow the banks?
A39578He hath done it that may do what he will ●, will it not follow, that I must be silent towards him that doth it?
A39578He hath satisfied for me, and justified me by his bloud, who shall condemn?
A39578He hath seen folly in his Angels, and dost thou think to set up thy wisdom?
A39578He is the Almighty God, What canst thou do?
A39578He is the Judge of all the world, and shall not he do right?
A39578He that made Heaven and Earth according to his will, may not he doe what he will in Heaven and Earth?
A39578How glorious was God himself in that grace which was given to this Saint, by which he stood so invincibly in his sharp encounters?
A39578How illustrious did this grace of God make this Saint of God?
A39578How much more doth God love when he doth correct?
A39578I pray you who gave them or made them such to you?
A39578If any man that is afflicted say, Why me rather then another?
A39578If it be better for me to lose my childe, then to have it, to lose my wife then to have her, to lose my Name or Estate then to have it?
A39578Let us therefore put this question to our owne hearts in all our sufferings; My soul, which must give place to other?
A39578Must God have dependance on us?
A39578Must he that gives us such good blessings be made our debtour by the blessings which he gives?
A39578My Soul, dost thou know what this means?
A39578My will to the designe, counsell and glory of God, or Gods counsel and glory to my will?
A39578Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
A39578None can force him to retreat, or say to him, What doest thou?
A39578Now whence all this, and all the rest that breaks forth into a seab in mens carriages under affliction?
A39578Now who would not be silent under the Rod, which hears that the Rod speaks so much love to him, that with silence bears it as a childe?
A39578O grave, where is thy victory?
A39578Oh death, where is thy sting?
A39578Oh my Soul, Shall not grace make thee willing to put off thy natural life, to put on this living and immarcessible Crown?
A39578Oh my Soul, why dost thou linger?
A39578Oh now make use of this Consideration when you are under affliction, would you be dumb and silent under Gods hand?
A39578Or if we have, Whether it have been upon this Consideration, because God hath done it?
A39578Or shall we quit our dependance on him?
A39578Shall I not be willing to follow when so many, and such excellent ones, have gone before?
A39578Shall a conquered enemy, disanimate the Conquerour?
A39578Shall dust and ashes be angry with his Maker?
A39578Shall he that hateth right govern?
A39578Shall not he that is a free Agent have liberty to act freely?
A39578Shall not he that preacheth Heaven, be willing to die, that he may be in Heaven?
A39578Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?
A39578Shall the creature become wise, and direct his Maker?
A39578Shall we provoke God by sinne, and yet quarrell with God, when we have provoked him?
A39578Shall 〈 ◊ 〉 not desire, at least be ● ontent to die, that I may 〈 ◊ 〉 present with the Lord?
A39578Sometimes full of complaint under their burthens, Was ever sorrow like my sorrow?
A39578Thou hast to deal with God, not with man; What dost thou mean thus to lift up thy self?
A39578Thou speakest foolishly, O my soul, shall we receive good at the hands of God, and shall we not receive evil?
A39578Well, and 〈 ◊ 〉 you quarrel with him, or not be silent under his hand?
A39578Were they so good to you, and are they too good for God?
A39578What did Jonah get by his passion?
A39578What hath he got by bringing Christ to the Crosse, to the Grave?
A39578What have I done, or what could I do to oblige him to that which he hath done for me?
A39578What?
A39578When God hath put you into the prison, have you staid there, till his discharge hath been your warrant?
A39578When Jobs wife( stirred up by the Devil no question) came to stirre up discontent in him against God, Dost thou still retain thine Integrity?
A39578Whether we have been dumb, and not opened our mouths?
A39578Who ever hardened himself against God, and prospered?
A39578Who hath given him counsel, or of whom hath he learned understanding?
A39578Why doth a living man complain?
A39578Why is God a debtor unto me?
A39578Why then should I be troubled at death, which will case me of the trouble of ● ● y life?
A39578Will you complain, murmur, dispute, or pine away with sorrow, for what God hath done?
A39578Would any man that is heir to a Kingdom desire to live any where but in the Kingdom to which he is an heir?
A39578Wouldst thou not fain see that mansion that Christ went to prepare for thee?
A39578You can hardly be ● ilent under such afflictions; Now you complain, Was ever any sorrow like my sorrow?
A39578You might have had worse, and been crossed in them, as much as you were blessed, were they not the gifts and blessings of God?
A39578and not to please himself when he will, by changing of his course?
A39578are ye stronger then he?
A39578or man that is a worm suffer his bloud to heat, his passions to boyl up, if he consider that God hath done it?
A39578or will you condemn him that is most just?
A39578with God?
A66053( i. e.) What was the chief employment or business, which they should apply themselves to in this world?
A6605312, 13, God is greater than man, why dost thou strive against him?
A66053Among all these Innocent Offices and Rites of the Primitive Christians, was there any thing of prayer for souls in Purgatory?
A66053And Tully asserts it impossible to conceive of God without this perfection; Nos Deum nisi sempiternum intelligere quî possumus?
A66053And can any one judge it reasonable, that God should have less power over us, than we have over the works of our hands?
A66053And can any thing be more reasonable, than for that to be the chief business of a man''s life, which is the chief end of his Being?
A66053And can there be any thing better than what God appoints?
A66053And do the Prophets, or Princes, live for ever?
A66053And if it be supernatural, that grants the thing I am proving, namely such a Supreme Being as can alter the course of nature?
A66053And if there be any such, why are they not produced?
A66053And in speaking of these, where shall I begin?
A66053And is it not a shame for such an one, to be a slave to every slight trouble?
A66053And on the other side, if we consult experience; Who are the men most obnoxious to diseases?
A66053And then what ground can there be for any pretence to Religion?
A66053And what if they fall short of the shadow, when they have the substance, in a better and true Immortality?
A66053And who art thou O man that repliest against God?
A66053And who shall take care for the adjudging of them to their proper season?
A66053Are these things Nothing in our sight?
A66053As for Revenge, how could it enter into the breast of him that hated nothing but that which makes us hateful to God?
A66053As for our fathers, where are they?
A66053As for us that are now to try how we can bear the want of those many blessings we enjoyed in him; What shall we say?
A66053Beasts and plants, the sun and stars; 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉; And what do you conceive your business to be?
A66053But are all complaints then in affliction unlawful?
A66053But now on the other side, what if there should be a Deity so holy, and just, and powerful, as is supposed?
A66053But what is that which we should consider?
A66053Can any rational man doubt, whether one of these were not a piece of Coyn, and the other a Grave- stone?
A66053Can that man be thought to need any further confutation or pursuit, who is forced to fly to such a retreat?
A66053Did not he appoint the time, and place, and part you are to act upon the Theater of this world?
A66053Did not he give you a being in the world?
A66053Do not fix your eye or your thoughts, chiefly upon the smart of them, without regarding the benefit of them?
A66053Do they expect Mathematical proof and certainty in Moral things?
A66053Do you consider what you are, and whence you came, and upon what business?
A66053Do you not knowingly and wilfully entertain prejudices against such things?
A66053For a man to take an Essay of the nature of any species of things from such particular instances, as in their kinds are monstrous?
A66053For let it be but impartially considered; what is it, that such men would have?
A66053From sickness and pain, from labour and danger, from sorrow, and fear, and care, and what not?
A66053Have you been true to so much light as you have received?
A66053He that gave hath power to take, and why should I resist?
A66053He that gives to men understanding, shall not be know?
A66053He that made the eye, shall be not see?
A66053How furious at the churlishness of Nabal?
A66053How is it possible for us to conceive of God, but as being Eternal?
A66053How is it, that very probably a considerable part of it is yet unknown?
A66053How much more, when for ought we know, they are taken away for our sins?
A66053How passionate at the death of Absolom?
A66053I would ask such, Have you seriously and impartially considered, what is alledged in this case?
A66053If the Jews would say so too, what could we have more?
A66053If the World had been eternal, How comes it to pass, that it is not every- where inhabited and cultivated?
A66053If thou mayest refuse the condion or work assigned thee, why may not another do so, and according to this, what order could there be in the world?
A66053In all this time, first of Pain, then of dreadful Apprehension, at last in the presence of Death; Who ever saw him dismaid?
A66053Is there any Equity or the least colour of Reason in this?
A66053Is there any thing imaginable more wild and extravagant amongst those in Bedlam, than this would be?
A66053Nay when shall I end, if I say all that may be spoken?
A66053Or have you not rather with- held it in unrighteousness?
A66053Others are Lunaticks or Ideots, should any man from hence infer, that there is no such thing as Reason?
A66053Quis dubitet, quin Mundus recens ac novus sit, cum Historia Graeca, bis mille annorum historiam vix contineat?
A66053Quis hunc hominem dixerit?
A66053Quis verò es tu?
A66053Remember them, says the Apostle: What, those that are present?
A66053Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
A66053Should not the nobility of our natures advance us to a more generous temper, and make us erect and chearful under such troubles?
A66053Should not the potter have power over the clay?
A66053So Tully relates of him, speaking to those of that Sect, Ubi igitur vestrum beatum& AEternum, quibus duobus verbis significatis Deum?
A66053Some men are born blind, or have lost their sight, will it hence follow, that there is no such thing in nature as Light or Colour?
A66053Thou foolish man( saith Epictetus) dost not thou desire that which may be most convenient for thee?
A66053Thou hast set thy servant amongst them that eat at thine own table, what right therefore have I to cry any more unto the King?
A66053Thus also hath it been with particular persons; Amongst the Heathen, what Elogies do we find in the honour of Socrates, Aristides, Cato, Epictetus?
A66053Unde est haec inquam fatis avolsa voluntas?
A66053Was there any thing of prayer to Saints departed this life?
A66053What can be more obvious than to infer a supreme Deity, from that order and government we may behold amongst the heavenly Bodies?
A66053What could be more inconsistent with the rules of Justice, and the wise ends of Government?
A66053What else made the Egyptian Kings lay out their wealth on Pyramids, and the like stupendious buildings?
A66053What kind of men are there any where, who have not of themselves this prenotion of a Deity?
A66053What kind of persons are those who enjoy the best state of health and the longest lives?
A66053What meant those in the unlettered Nations, by the much harder shifts they have made to convey any thing of themselves to Posterity?
A66053What moved the old Greeks and the Romans, with so much care and expence to leave Statues and other Monuments, with Inscriptions of their names?
A66053What reason have I to fight against God?
A66053What will become of Israel now thou art gone?
A66053What, with any intention to worship the Martyrs?
A66053When for ought we know, it was because the age was not worthy of them?
A66053Where is that blessed and eternal Being of yours?
A66053Where is there any thing amongst those who professChristianity, better and more becomingly said to this purpose?
A66053Whereas at another time, when he was not so careful to fix his thoughts upon this, how strangely is his carriage altered?
A66053Whether Ideots are not the wisest of men, and all others the veryest fools, according as they are at the widest distance from them?
A66053Whether lawful pleasures, which a man may reflect upon without any sense of guilt, be not much to be preferred before others?
A66053Whether those intellectual delights that flow from the conscience of well- doing, be not much better than any sinful sensual pleasure?
A66053Who ever found him surprized?
A66053Who would not think such a man to be strangely wild, and irrational, who could frame to himself any real scruples from such Considerations as these?
A66053Why doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sin?
A66053Why may not a man refuse to obey God in what he commands, as well as to submit to him in what he inflicts?
A66053Why should I desire things not desireable?
A66053Will it therefore follow, that Honey is not naturally sweet to our taste, because a sick palate doth not judg it to be so?
A66053Wo to him that striveth with his maker, shall the potsheard strive with the potsheards of the earth?
A66053and how great is his bounty?
A66053are they not such generally as are most vicious in their lives?
A66053aut quare?
A66053aut unde venisti?
A66053endow you with such a nature?
A66053how shall they to whom the Word of God never came be acquitted or condemned at the Great day?
A66053how vile and despicable in comparison to him, and how unfit to judge of his ways?
A66053or for preventing the total destruction of mankind?
A66053or heard a word from him, unbecoming a wise man, and a true Christian?
A66053or thy work, he hath no hands?
A66053put you into such a condition, wherein you should be subject to his government and disposal?
A66053sensual pleasures?
A66053shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, what makest thou?
A66053that any light affliction, which is but for a moment, should make our souls which are immortal to bow down under it?
A66053what is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that thou visitest him?
A66053where are they to be found?
A66053which are the two usual words whereby you describe the nature of God?
A66053who hath bablings?
A66053who hath contentions?
A66053who hath redness of eyes?
A66053who hath sorrow?
A66053who hath wounds without cause?
A59930''T is just with God to deny thee a future day, that acceptest not the present?
A5993010. and, Who ever hardned himself against God, and prospered?
A599307,& c. Whither shall I flee from thy presence?
A59930A friend for ever?
A59930Am I at war with all these lusts, or one or none?
A59930Am I at war with sin?
A59930Am I best pleased with those that are at peace with God?
A59930And are all his Actings against thee in a Hostile way?
A59930And are the Creatures waiting for a command from their great General to fall upon thee?
A59930And are they welcom to you, that come in Gods Name to make peace between him and you?
A59930And canst thou have no assurance of thy life, no not for an hour, no not for a minute?
A59930And do you like the terms, and cordially accept of peace with him upon these terms?
A59930And if so, may not God justly refuse now to be reconciled to thee?
A59930And is God an enemy unto thee?
A59930And is not then the getting into a reconciled estate with God, our greatest concern in the World?
A59930And now poor unreconciled Soul, shall I once more reason with thee?
A59930And now, Reader, what sayest thou, is it nothing to be under this threatning?
A59930And shall even enemies be at peace with them if for their good?
A59930And that it is really tendered in the Gospel and Ministry thereof, who can doubt that well considers that one Scripture?
A59930And what if God should give Satan a commission to fetch away thy unreconciled Soul this night?
A59930And will he grant none of thy requests, nor have any fellowship with thee?
A59930And wilt thou receive the Grace of God in vain?
A59930Are these things so?
A59930Are these things so?
A59930Are we stronger than he?
A59930Art thou yet in a reconciled estate?
A59930Behold, now I have peace with God, how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God, and so break my peace with him?
A59930But what are her gains?
A59930But what got they by standing out against God?
A59930By expostulating and reasoning the case: Turnye, turnye, for why will ye dye?
A59930Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong in the day when God shall deal with thee?
A59930Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the day when God shall deal with thee?
A59930Can you be in a reconciled estate without the use of means?
A59930Canst sind in thy self the Characters of a reconciled person?
A59930Come, Reader, do I intreat thee to thy loss or hurt?
A59930Come, wilt thou try, and use the means in good earnest?
A59930Did they do ill in standing out against God?
A59930Do you mourn for your former sinning against God, and offending him, as one mourneth for his onely Son?
A59930Does God take delight and pleasure in such?
A59930Examine your selves, say to thine own soul, Am I at peace with God?
A59930For are we able to meet God when he shall come against us?
A59930Give me leave therefore to ask you, Will you practise these directions or not?
A59930Have I at any time wondred at such a wretch, such a rebel as I should be received into the favour of God?
A59930Have I been in bitterness for it, as one that is in bitterness for his first born?
A59930Have we done our duty herein?
A59930How are they accounted of by you?
A59930How long have I been at war with it?
A59930How often doth he say his Father had sent him, and that he came to do the Will of him that sent him?
A59930I say, are these things so?
A59930If so, wouldst thou be in a reconciled estate?
A59930If thou canst not yet satisfie thy self, that thou art in a reconciled estate, how art thou affected?
A59930In the use of what means?
A59930Is it a comfort to you to think that God is reconcilable through Christ?
A59930Is it not for thy good?
A59930Is it not great rich grace and favour that god doth offer to be at peace with thee?
A59930Is it not thy Saviour, thy Saviour for all that thou knowest, that thou standest out against?
A59930Is it nothing to reject proffered peace and reconciliation with God?
A59930Is it thus with you?
A59930Is it thus with you?
A59930Is it thus with you?
A59930Is it without a Providence that this Book was put into thy hands, and that thou hast had a heart to read it?
A59930Is not such a happy estate desireable?
A59930Is this nothing?
A59930Is this thy case poor unreconciled Soul, what thinkest thou?
A59930Is this thy case?
A59930Know ye not the friendship of the world is enmity with God?
A59930Lord what ails thee, that thou art not startled, affrighted, sinking into a swoun at the thoughts thereof?
A59930May I not think my self to be something when I am nothing?
A59930May not I be mistaken, and think I am in an estate of peace and friendship with God, when in truth it is no such matter?
A59930Must we be diligent in seeking peace with God, that so we may be found of Christ in peace at his coming?
A59930Now are you thus joyful in God through our Lord Jesus Christ?
A59930Now do you do so?
A59930Poor Soul, what if this Scripture should be fulfilled in thee?
A59930Reader, shall I reason with thee?
A59930Say again, Am I in care now to please God, and in fear of offending him?
A59930Say also, Is it a grief of heart to me that any of mine should be found fighters against God?
A59930Say then, is not a reconciled estate a happy estate?
A59930Say to thy self in secret, and in good earnest, Have I mourned for my former enmity against God?
A59930Seeing Christ will come to judgment, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness?
A59930Shall all work together for their good?
A59930She was a Dorcas, why should not the Coats and Garments she made be shewed?
A59930She was a Woman that feared the Lord, and shall she not be praised?
A59930The Lord is on my side, I will not fear, what can man do unto me?
A59930Time was when I was at enmity with God, how came I to be in an estate of amity?
A59930What aids and assistances have I had?
A59930What are Ministers, and what is their Ministry unto me?
A59930What are your thoughts of the means prescribed, are they good?
A59930What conquests have I gotten?
A59930What harm will pardon, peace, reconciliation do thee?
A59930What hath God done towards making peace between Man offending and himself offended?
A59930What is the sin, the lust that I am at war with?
A59930What is to be done that we may make peace with God?
A59930What more shall I say unto thee poor unreconciled Soul, that refusest proffered peace?
A59930What more shall I say?
A59930What say you, are you at war with these?
A59930What success have I had?
A59930What sword, what word of God, what precept, what promise, what threatning is it, that I have either defended my self with, or offended my sin with?
A59930What thanks did I ever render to God for it?
A59930What this Peace and Reconciliation with God is?
A59930What this diligence is?
A59930What weapons have I made use of?
A59930What, to be an enemy to God, and to have God to be an enemy unto thee?
A59930When?
A59930Where''s that?
A59930Who can stand before his indignation, and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger?
A59930Why have I found grace in thine eys, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
A59930Why then will you not use them?
A59930Will God be a friend to such?
A59930Will not God deny them any request that is for their good?
A59930Wilt not wish first or last that thou hadst accepted of proffered peace with God?
A59930With all that he is, has, can do or procure?
A59930You have Children and other Relations, are you in pain and heaviness till they have made their peace with God?
A59930a potent, sworn, resolved, provoked, unavoidable, immortal enemy to thee?
A59930a thing to be laid to thy heels and not to your heart?
A59930and have we made our peace?
A59930and is it not ill in you to do the same?
A59930and now after all this, what cloke, what excuse can you have?
A59930are they, or is their Ministry much set by, by me?
A59930art in trouble about it, in care and fear about it?
A59930art thou an enemy to God, and is God an enemy unto thee?
A59930can you condemn them and not your selves?
A59930do you believe it?
A59930do you indeed believe them to be so?
A59930had I rather offend all the world than offend him?
A59930have we been diligent in making our peace with God?
A59930how long?
A59930how much?
A59930is it Pride, or Worldiness, or Wantonness, or what is it?
A59930is it a grief of heart to you, that any of yours should be at war with your God, with whom you now are at peace?
A59930is there peace between God and you?
A59930is there this care and fear in you?
A59930is this the happiness of a reconciled estate?
A59930is this thy case?
A59930may one believe thee?
A59930nay, but do you believe it?
A59930or can I venture to displease him, rather than to displease others?
A59930what faith Conscience?
A59930what rejoycing in Christ the Purchaser of it have I ever had?
A59930what sin was it that I mourned for?
A59930what was its name?
A59930what, and are you in bitterness for it, as one that is in bitterness for his first born?
A59930where?
A59930will it not bring upon thee double condemnation?
A59930wilt thou not be at the pains to think a little?
A59930with the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, the pride of life, all which do war against my soul?
A518338. as Elkana said to Hannah, Why weepest thou?
A51833After he had served his Generation by the Will of God, he fell asleep?
A51833Alas, who could choose but shed Tears, to part with such a blessed Companion as our Saviour?
A51833And shall I dispute his Will and Pleasure?
A51833And who, or what are we, that we should expect to be exempted from the same or worse Judgments?
A51833Ay, but how shall we do so?
A51833Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him?
A51833But what shall we do to make them Seed?
A51833But why,( invidious Death) O why so soon?
A51833Consider who decreed it; are you wiser than God?
A51833Dare I be impatient and fret at any of the Lord''s Dealings towards me?
A51833David calleth himself to an account, Why art thou so disquieted, O my Soul?
A51833David was comforted concerning Anmon, because dead, though he died in Sin: Or is it because they died so soon, which heightens your Loss?
A51833Do but ask your selves, why do I grieve now?
A51833Do you obey him as your highest Lord and Law- giver?
A51833Do you seek his Glory as your utmost End?
A51833Dost thou not prize and value God as thy Chief Friend, and rather have his Favour and Friendship, than to have the greatest Monarchs on thy side?
A51833Dost thou think thy self happier in being a Child of God, an Heir of Heaven, than if thou wert possessed of all the things of this lower World?
A51833Doth God say, Fear none of those things which ye shall suffer?
A51833Doth it not cry aloud, and tell us, that our Sins have reached Heaven?
A51833For who amongst the Sons of Harmony Can give due Praises unto thee?
A51833Hath God said, he will be with you while you are with him?
A51833Hath it not a Voice?
A51833Having one time ask''d very earnestly, Will not Christ receive me if I come to him?
A51833How blessed and happy are all those for whom this white Raiment is prepared?
A51833How can she he prepar''d for such a losty Theme?
A51833How happy are those that have the White Stone of Absolution, and have in it a new Name written?
A51833How insensible have we been of their Judgments and Calamities?
A51833How long shall vain Thoughts dwell within thee?
A51833How many Motives are here to Perseverance?
A51833How much Swearing, Lying, Stealing, Killing, and filthy Lewdness is to be found in this Land and Nation, and especially in this City?
A51833I e''n cry out with the Jailor, What shall I do to be saved?
A51833I humbly implore, that thou wilt not leave nor forsake the Work of thy own Hands: Thou canst make me clean; O when shall it once be?
A51833I that am so ill- deserving; I that am so undeserving, dare I presume?
A51833If I be found in this Number, how sad and deplorable will my Case be?
A51833If Men would cite their Affections before the Tribunal of Reason, and ask them what''s the matter why they are so violently stirr''d?
A51833Is God dearer to thee than all the World?
A51833Is it because so bad?
A51833Is it because they were so good that we mourn?
A51833Is it for your own Good you weep?
A51833Is it not to envy their Blessedness, to wish them alive again?
A51833Is it to do them good?
A51833Is not Christ better to thee than ten Wives, ten Children, ten Parents, a thousand times as much as thou hast lost?
A51833Is there Glory to be had hereafter, and shall not I endeavour to be a Sharer therein?
A51833Is there Glory, Honour, Immortality, and Eternal Life set before me, and yet shall I tire and wax weary?
A51833Just as a Martyr said, I have served Jesus Christ thus many Years, and should I deny him now?
A51833Lord, is it my Duty to be fitting and preparing my self for this blessed State, and for my Approach before thy awful Tribunal?
A51833Mark, we are so to him, and therefore why should we not account Christ to be so to us?
A51833None can stay his Hand, or say to him, What dost thou?
A51833O Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of Hosts, shall ever such a poor Worm as I be admitted to dwell with thee in thy Heavenly Temple?
A51833O miserable and wretched are they that are cast off by God; where shall they go for Comfort that have lost his Friendship and Favour?
A51833O when, when wilt thou bring me to Heaven, where these things will be of no Use nor Value to me?
A51833Or such rapturous Strains bring forth As may be adaequate to thy immensurable Worth?
A51833So why weepest thou?
A51833Such things have befallen me this Day, that if I had eaten the Sin- offering, should it be accepted with the Lord?
A51833The Cup that my Father hath given me, shall I not drink of it?
A51833The First Death is nothing in comparison of the Second: What''s Death Temporal, if compared to Death Eternal?
A51833The Question being propounded by poor doubting Souls thus, How shall we know whether God be our God?
A51833There is much of Peoples Conceits this way: But consider, what do you reckon the best of your Injoyments?
A51833This Earthly Tabernacle is tottering, and e''re long will tumble down; but in what plight is the poor Soul that now inhabiteth this ruinated Cottage?
A51833Thou art pleased to afflict me very sore, but I do not, I dare not, I will not say unto thee, What dost thou?
A51833To whom shall I betake my self for Relief and Mercy but to thee, O my gracious God?
A51833WHat a Cordial to the Godly is the first of Peter, the first Chapter, the second Verse, and so on?
A51833We are to Christ instead of all these Relations, and therefore why should not Christ be so to us?
A51833We are told it is reserved, but for whom?
A51833We find him in his greatest Agonies saying, Not my Will, but thine be done; and, the Cup that my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
A51833We that are Neighbours are apt very often in Discontent to say, What a serviceable and useful Person hath God taken away, and so many bad ones left?
A51833What Hope hath the Hypocrite, when God taketh away his Soul, or snatcheth it away?
A51833What Iniquity have you found in me, that you depart from me?
A51833What Provision hath it made against that Day when it must be turned out?
A51833What an Honour is this to be conferr''d upon poor Mortals?
A51833What did God mean, to give us such contrary Affections, if not that they should be acted in their Order and Time?
A51833What if he should repeat this amazing Judgment, and not only threaten, but actually destroy us?
A51833What is this momentary Life given us for, but to provide for our Departure hence, to labour to get an Interest in God and Christ?
A51833What shall I do to obtain Eternal Life?
A51833What should I go to for Comfort, if I had not the Word of the Eternal God to fly to?
A51833What''s the Lesson that I and all Persons ought to learn by the late dreadful Earthquake?
A51833What, didst thou not attempt to be A Denizon of Immortality?
A51833What, dost thou strive with him?
A51833What, will you not avoid some petty Sins that do highly offend your good God, and may cause him to hide his Face from you?
A51833What, will you not come to Christ, who alone can give you Life, Natural Life, and Spiritual Life, and Life Eternal?
A51833What, will you not do what in you lies, to frame your Doing to please the Lord?
A51833Wherefore should I fast?
A51833Who can think of these glorious Inhabitants, and not long to be with them?
A51833Who knoweth what a Day may bring forth?
A51833Who will be my Companions in the other World, if I am cast off by thee, and excluded from thy Presence?
A51833Who will say to him, What dost thou?
A51833Who would grudg at a little Pains, and Labour, and Difficulties, if at last he may overcome his Spiritual Enemies?
A51833Who would not desire to be with the Spirits of the just Men, who are made perfect?
A51833Why must her Night come, e''re sh''as ended Noon?
A51833Why, do you love him as your chiefest Good?
A51833am not I better to thee than ten Sons?
A51833and dare I still neglect it?
A51833and do you depend on him as your Paymaster and Benefactor?
A51833and that, except we repent, we shall likewise perish?
A51833and yet shall I be overwhelmed, and dejected, and distracted, for fear of Troubles and Calamities?
A51833can I bring him back again?
A51833can she, enfeebled, sing The Praises of an earthly Cherabim?
A51833hath it got an Interest in, and a Title to an enduring Substance; a House above, eternal in the Heavens?
A51833how unequally does Heaven bestow Its Favours on poor Mortals here below?
A51833how unreform''d are we, though we see how God deals with others of our Fellow- Creatures?
A51833or are they still at a distance?
A51833that God is angry and displeased with us?
A51833that these Affections should, like the Spokes, turn with the Wheel of Providence?
A51833who can express Th''Immensity of thy ubounded Tenderness?
A51833why art thou cast down within me?
A51833will he always call upon God?
A4925215. says the Apostle, shall I take the Members of Christ, and make them Members of an harlot?
A4925216. it is said there that a wise man feareth and departeth from evill, a wise man is jealous over his own heart, what followes?
A492522. Who is the Lord( sayes he) that I should obey his voice?
A4925221. sayes Elijah the Prophet to the people, How long will you halt between two opinions?
A492523. Who is that God( sayes hee) that shall deliver you out of my hands?
A492523. it is said there, that for a long time Israel was without the true God; without God, how so?
A49252A confident Challenge, in which he outbraveth Death, and all the powers of the Grave, O Death, where is thy sting?
A49252And again, it argueth little judgement and consideration; Wherein is this life valuable?
A49252And doest thou make no conscience of performing the vowes and covenants thou hast made with God?
A49252And now what a dismall Text have I here to handle, and what a doleful tragedy am I now to act?
A49252And there shall come in the last dayes scoffers, walking after their own lusts, saying, Where is the promise of his coming?
A49252And therefore( beloved) I beseech you look to it, and examine your selves; is not God undervalued sometimes, when your lusts are set in the throne?
A49252Are they atheists that doe neglect the duty of prayer?
A49252Are they atheists that live a disorderly life, and walk in a course of wickednesse all their dayes?
A49252Are you contentedly ignorant of Christ, and care not to know more?
A49252Are you such men as are without the spirit of Christ?
A49252Are you without Christ?
A49252Are you without a hearing ear, and an obedient heart to the Word of Christ?
A49252Are you without an unfeigned love to the person of Christ, or without a true and saving knowledg of Christ?
A49252Art thou a luke warm and indifferent man in matters of Religion?
A49252Art thou now in Christ?
A49252Art thou tempted to Atheisme?
A49252As it is with a man asleep in a ship, the ship may bring him home safe to the harbour, and yet he not know of it?
A49252But here me thinks I hear some kind of people ready to object against me, and say, What, doe you go about to beat us off from our hopes of heaven?
A49252But here some may object and say; What doe you tell us here in England, that wee are without God in the world?
A49252But then again why is their being aliens to the commonwealth of Israel put in the second place?
A49252Can we beleeve there is a heaven so excellent and glorious, and yet shun it?
A49252Christ is full of grace and truth, Why?
A49252Christ says to Saul; Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
A49252Did you ever make a powerfull prayer unto God for him?
A49252Did you ever see your misery without him?
A49252Did you ever sigh, and sob, and cry mightily unto God for him?
A49252Do you take greater industry, and complacency in the committing of sin, then ever you did in the performance of any holy duty?
A49252Do you think that Christ fel from heaven, into your bosome whether you would or no?
A49252Doe you labour still to resemble God in holinesse?
A49252Doe you labour to be holy as hee was holy?
A49252Doe you look on things after the outward appearance?
A49252Does thy conscience never trouble thee after the commission of sinnes?
A49252Doest thou any of these wayes entertain and harbour thoughts of Atheisme in thy heart?
A49252Doest thou make impunity to be a provocation to impiety?
A49252Doest thou place thy affections upon any thing in the world more then upon God?
A49252Doest thou professe to know God, and in thy works deny him?
A49252For the order of the words, Why is their being without Christ put in the first place of the Text, and their being without God put in the last place?
A49252He judged the cause of the poore and needy, then it was well with him; was not this to know me, saith the Lord?
A49252He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings; does not thy conscience tell thee O man, that thou dost not care for any command of Jesus Christ?
A49252How came you by Christ then?
A49252How doth God know?
A49252How many are there that can say, they never goe to God upon their knees in secret, to beg for grace and mercy from God?
A49252I am thy God all sufficient,( what then?)
A49252If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passed away, and all things are become new; are you new creatures?
A49252If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous doe?
A49252Is hatred and contempt of the people of God, a badge of an atheist?
A49252Let me ask you this question, Did you ever see an absolute necessity in your own souls, of getting an interest in Jesus Christ?
A49252Let me ask you this question, How can you evidence that you have an interest in Christ, by your walking?
A49252Now this being the case of every man, what shall we do?
A49252O Grave, where is thy victory?
A49252O Grave, where is thy victory?
A49252O Grave, where is thy victory?
A49252Or do you backslide from the wayes of Christ both in judgement, and in practise?
A49252Sayes the young man to Christ, What shall I doe to inherit eternall life?
A49252The High Priest was not upon pain of death to come to the Mercy- seat, unlesse he brought incense with him; now what does this signifie to us?
A49252The strength of sin is the Law] How is that to be understood?
A49252This challenge is illustrated by a Prolepsis or an Anticipation of an objection: some might ask, What is this sting of Death?
A49252Thou that sayest thou hast an interest in Christ, let me ask you this question, How came you by your interest in Christ?
A49252Though you do not do man wrong, yet doe you not your own souls wrong?
A49252Though you pay every man his own, yet do you give God his own?
A49252What are the characters of those men that are without any reall interest and propriety in God as their God, in a way of Covenant and relation?
A49252What benefit will it be to thee, that you do no body else wrong, when you doe your own souls wrong?
A49252What do you see in the world, or in the present life to make you in love with it?
A49252What is it to be a stranger to the Covenants of Promise?
A49252What is meant by the Covenants of Promise?
A49252What is the difference between a covenant and a promise?
A49252What is the difference between the Covenants and the Promise?
A49252What is the meaning of this, the body is dead because of sinne?
A49252What is this power of the Grave?
A49252Why is it called the covenants of promise?
A49252and beg the Father earnestly for him?
A49252and doest thou carry in thy minde a forgetfulnesse of the day of Judgement?
A49252and how shall we extricate our souls from such a labyrinth of endlesse horrour?
A49252and humble, and meeke, and lowly as hee was?
A49252are all your old sins passed away?
A49252are such as these atheists?
A49252are you not weary of misery and sin?
A49252can he judge through the thick clouds?
A49252can we hope for such an* incorruptible inheritance, and yet be afraid of it?
A49252can you evidence it to your own souls, that ever since you were first born, you were new born?
A49252do we count it a priviledge, or a misery, and a burden?
A49252doth not God rule and governe and preserve the World?
A49252hath God written the Sermons you have heard, not in your books, but in your hearts?
A49252have you a promise or any ground in scripture for your hopes?
A49252have you been ever washed with clean water, and those stains of sin and corruption wiped away from you?
A49252how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing?
A49252is not God sometimes very low in your estimation, and other things set above him?
A49252mark the next words) and saying, Where is the promise of his coming?
A49252or are you obstinately ignorant, and wil not learn more?
A49252or are you without a saving power derived from Christ, enabling you to mortifie your bosome lusts?
A49252or doest thou distrust the providence of God in times of trouble and distresse?
A49252or dost thou make no conscience of the performance of secret duties?
A49252or one Scripture ground for it?
A49252or rather do you not wrong God, and do him infinite indignities?
A49252or the witnesse of the Spirit for it?
A49252that in simplicity and godly sincerity, you have had your conversation here in this world?
A49252that we shall enter upon it too soon?
A49252thou wilt not forsake thy lusts, nor leave thy sins, and therefore what hast thou to do to meddle with my covenant of grace?
A49252to be in the Armes of our beloved Jesus?
A49252to fear an enemy so often vanquished by Christ and his Saints?
A49252to have the company of the body, or the company of Christ?
A49252what Prince would live uncrowned?
A49252what heir would whine when hee is called to come and take the inheritance?
A49252what thoughts have we of eternall life?
A49252would you bereave us of our hopes and drive us into despair?
A446731. Who it is that claims the Power here spoken of?
A446731. Who it is that claims, and asserts to himself this Power here spoken of?
A44673And What is their Life?
A44673And because we can not be positive, Will we therefore say or think, there can be no such thing, or nothing but dull inactivity in those Regions?
A44673And can you think to be related to him, upon other terms?
A44673And consider, how darest thou live otherwise in this Flesh, in this Earthly House, whereof he keeps the Keys, and can fetch thee out at his pleasure?
A44673And do we consider in what hand this Power is lodg''d?
A44673And do you not know that upon these ▪ you may?
A44673And dost thou not know there must be to this purpose, an express transaction between him and thee?
A44673And for the support of that, in the most principal Doctrines, and Laws of it, what is our prospect?
A44673And hath this no pleasant comfortable aspect upon a lost World?
A44673And how absurd were it to prefer this Temporary Kingdom to the Eternal one, and present serviceableness to this, to perpetual service in the other?
A44673And how much more?
A44673And if for a few, why not for many?
A44673And is that all?
A44673And should we complain, That he is put early, into a Station of much higher Dignity, than we thought of?
A44673And the same reason always remaining, why not for alwaies?
A44673And they that rest not Night or Day from such high and glorious employments, have they nothing to do?
A44673And was this the end a reasonable Spirit, was made for, when, without reason, sense were alike capable of the same sort of gratifications?
A44673And what a perverse distorted Mind is that, which can so much as wish it should be otherwise?
A44673And what else could any unbrib''d understanding conclude, or conceive?
A44673And what now remains to be ascertain''d?
A44673And what then, if we were required to draw up our petition?
A44673And what?
A44673And when we are told of many Heavens, above all which our Lord Jesus is said to have ascended; are all those Heavens, only empty solitudes?
A44673And whence should so common an impression be, but from a cause as common?
A44673And who are we?
A44673And why should we suppose them not replenish''t with glorious Inhabitants?)
A44673And would any one that hath a Child he delights in, wish him to be a Child always, and only capable of Childish things?
A44673And, Madam, who could have a more pleasant Retrospect, upon former days, than y ● u?
A44673Are we to make a less judicious estimate of the Works of God?
A44673Because that other World is Hades, and we see nothing, shall we make little, or next to nothing of it?
A44673But do they think to laugh away the Power of the Son of God?
A44673But do we not know God hath given him a Name above every Name?
A44673But how absurd were it to reckon the means of greater importance than the end it self?
A44673But how remote is it from you, upon Consideration, to wish your self back, into your juvenile State, and Circumstances?
A44673But how?
A44673But is there not equal reason to fear, that before the Day of Mercy come, there may be a nearer Day of Wrath, coming?
A44673But who sees not that Religion as such, hath a final reference to a future state?
A44673But will God be mocked?
A44673But yet more distinctly consider, why doth he here represent himself under this Character, He that liveth and was dead?
A44673Did secure Sinners consider this, how he beholds them with a flame in his Eye, and the Key in his hand, would they dare still to trifle?
A44673Do but consider him who makes the Discovery, and who would not expect from him the utmost efforts of Love and Goodness?
A44673Do not we?
A44673Doth it not signify infinite unlimited Power, and Goodness?
A44673Doth not this World owe so much to him?
A44673Doth this World owe less to him, that bears these Keys, than Egypt did to Joseph, when thus the Royal word went forth in reference to him?
A44673Either obliging, or not restraining them, requiring, or licensing them to do this or that?
A44673Enquire we, Do our Hearts repine at this Law?
A44673Had this been Redemption?
A44673Have you never said if thou go not with me, carry me not hence?
A44673He thought not himself concern''d to advise with any of us, about it, who, as his Counsellor, should instruct him?
A44673How bold an affront to their Soveraign Lord?
A44673How hopeful their Youth?
A44673How pleasant and diverting might their Childhood have been?
A44673How useful their Riper Age?
A44673I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no Man lift up his hand or foot in all the Land of Egypt?
A44673If there were but one single Instance hereof in an Age, who would not, with trembling expect the Issue?
A44673In the mean time, Is this Emmanuel''s Land?
A44673Is it no part of Christian watchfulness to wait for such an hour?
A44673Is it not fit every one should know under whose Government they live?
A44673Is it that he was to Die at all?
A44673Is not, God, the name of a Being incapable of limitation?
A44673Now, what do we mean to let our Souls hang in doubt?
A44673Only our own intervening death?
A44673Or can make it fit that the nobler and more excellent Nature, should be eternally subservient to the meaner, and more ignoble?
A44673Or can we live as if we thought so, without reproaching our Maker?
A44673Or doth he not observe?
A44673Or if it displease us, that our Relatives are not, by some special dispensation, excepted from the common Law of Mortality?
A44673Or is it a reasonable imagination, that by how much we are more capable of action, we shall be the more useless, and have the less to do?
A44673Or will we adventure to say, not denying his right, he did not use it well in this case?
A44673Shall meer pity towards this World greaten it above the other?
A44673VVhat Law, what Equity?
A44673Was it not absolute, and without limitation?
A44673What a faint, impotent, languishing thing is our Religion, how doth it dwindle into spritless, dead form without it?
A44673What a remarkable, significant, after that, is this?
A44673What are we now to look for upon such a Foundation, so firmly laid, and fully believed?
A44673What can tempt thee to stand out against such Power, and such Grace?
A44673What can that mean but that you are to receive him, and resign your selves?
A44673What can we now be unwilling of, that he would have us be, or do?
A44673What exempt jurisdiction, can we pretend our selves to belong unto?
A44673What is it that we find fault with in the removal of this or that person, that was near, and delightful to us?
A44673What it is about which this claimed Power is to be conversant?
A44673What now can be surer than this?
A44673What pretence can we have not to think others as apt to make the same request for them, and theirs?
A44673What sort of Power it is that this emblematical expression, signifies to belong to him?
A44673What would we wish to Mankind a sinning immortality on this Earth, before which a wise Heathen profest to prefer one Day vertuously spent?
A44673What?
A44673What?
A44673When we find a connection between Death, and Judgment, how will they contrive to dis- joyn them?
A44673Whereas that rational, religious, Soul- composing Thought, shall we receive good things at the hand of God, and not also evil things?
A44673Wherefore( says Holy Job) do the wicked live, become old, yea are mighty in power?
A44673Whose Arithmetick will suffice to tell how many they are?
A44673Why are we allowed a place and a time here?
A44673Why is not this World a flaming Theatre?
A44673Wilt thou accept me for thine, and resign thy self as mine?
A44673Would we not presently be for quelling, and suppressing it,& easily yield to be non- suited, without more ado?
A44673Would we wish there should never be a judgment Day?
A44673Would we wish this World to be the everlasting Stage, of indignities and affronts to him that made it?
A44673and that all the wise& righteous Councels of Heaven should be ranverst& overturned, only to comport with our terrene& sensual inclinations?
A44673and that he should be his, absolutely, and be dispos''d of by him, at his Pleasure?
A44673and when those many were expired, why not for as many more?
A44673as the Mother of a numerous and hopeful Offspring?
A44673by whose Beneficence, under whose Protection, and in whose name they may act so, or so, and by whose Authority?
A44673can any thing now, be more certain than that?
A44673or any Relatives of ours?
A44673or do we not?
A44673or for what?
A44673or that he Dy''d so soon?
A44673or that when all the Creation must be subject to him, wilt except thy self?
A44673or upon what terms?
A44673than why he had?
A44673that God should be a God to him entirely, and without reserve?
A44673that dar''st dispute his Title?
A44673to put it into express words?
A44673unto which, if we appeal, can we suppose it so untrue to its self, as not to assert its own Superiority?
A44673what?
A44673who is more fitly qualifyed to Judge, than he that hath these Keys?
A44673whom all the Power of Heaven and Earth hath no right to touch?
A44673whose Vranography to describe how far that is?
A44673why do we not drive things for them, to an issue?
A8551010 9. is set down the forme and tenure of the New Covenant?
A855102. p. 410. Who is that Them?
A855102.?
A8551035. except ye repent ye shall perish?
A8551036, 37. saying, What doth hinder me to be baptized?
A855106 How in the Petition, Forgive us our debts, we can pray for any thing more then assurance of pardon, when actual pardon is passed long before?
A85510Again, did not Christ lay repentance and faith upon the creature, when he said, repent and believe the Gospel?
A85510Alas, what profit are either of these to his forster father?
A85510Alas, what proportion is there betweene the debt and the acknowledgment?
A85510And Sirs, what shall I do to be saved?
A85510And a little after, How if a man never keep the Condition to which he bound himself in Baptism?
A85510And dare you bid such a one, continuing such, to lay hold on the promise of mercy?
A85510And did Christ or his Apostles( think you) preach any thing contradictory to free grace, or free gift?
A85510And doth not the Law of Fath, the Gospel, require faith on mans part, that Righteousnesse may be imputed?
A85510And here Sir, if I should produce some that doe assert it, should I not very prittely get me the odious name of malicious?
A85510And how sins can be actually pardoned before they be committed, and the guilt removed before it is contracted?
A85510And if this of salvation be as free, wil it not thence follow, that men may be saved in it though they never believe it, or so much as know it?
A85510And if you ask, wherefore?
A85510And in his next Chapter, stating this question, whether good works may be said to be necessary to justification and salvation?
A85510And is it not as proper to them now, as it was then?
A85510And what doth Zanchy, I pray you, here say more, then any of those whom you oppose?
A85510And when passed we from it?
A85510And would you know what this taking of Christ is, which he saith is precedently required?
A85510Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
A85510As it is written, How beautiful upon the mountaines are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things?
A85510But if it be by works, it is no more of grace, otherwise works are no more works; where it followes, what then?
A85510But when?
A85510But who( my good friend) shall be judge of this propriety?
A85510But you say, What can be laid upon the creature, that is not a work?
A85510By what Law?
A85510Can any imagine that the meaning of that Query of the Jaylor, Sirs, what shall I do to be saved?
A85510Can they be his people without dutiful subjection and obedience to him?
A85510Dare you say that Christ died for any so absolutely, as that they should be saved whether they did believe or no?
A85510Dare you tell him, That the Gospel belongs unto him even while he is such?
A85510Did you seriously consider what you spake when you said, if but to pay a rose, the tenure is not free?
A85510Do not the promises belong to sinners as sinners?
A85510Do they not speak the same things?
A85510Dost thou renounce the Divel?
A85510Doth he not in both places describe one and the same person, the person that is justified?
A85510Doth he say, If you will be my people?
A85510Doth he speak of the manifesto of Righteousnesse, and not rather of righteousnesse and justification it selfe, the being of it?
A85510Doth he that is to be justified bring any thing?
A85510Doth not God promise to do all?
A85510First,( My good friend) Are intimations of preaching Judaisme, Papisme, and Arminianism no calumnies?
A85510For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoycing?
A85510For your Quaerie, Whether it be conditional or absolute?
A85510How shall they hear without a Preacher?
A85510How the same man may be actually justified and quickned, and yet actually dead in regard of the same sins, at the same time?
A85510I beseech you tell me, doth not the Apostle speak of one and the same Justification in both places?
A85510I conceive it false, He is called so there: For who is the ungodly person spoken of there, but Abraham?
A85510I know there is great difference of judgement at this day, who are to be accounted the faithful Ministers of the Gospel of Christ?
A85510If it be asked concerning a faithful Minister when he dyeth, of what Disease he dyed?
A85510If your meaning( I say) be this, what do you but hold out mercy conditional, even as we do, and to what end have you raised all this dust and stir?
A85510Is faith Christ himselfe?
A85510Is it any gaine or pleasure to him, that thou makest thy waies perfect?
A85510Is it enough, my good friend, to make a thing evil, to say that Papists hold so?
A85510Is it nonsense to say so?
A85510Is it not the will of God to give Christ absolutely,& then salvation for Christs sake to them that do believe in him?
A85510Is not my Word like to a fire, saith the Lord, and like a hammer that beateth the rock in pieces?
A85510It followes, He gave some Apostles, and some Prophets, and some Evangelists, and some Pastors and Teachers: and for what end?
A85510May not this ill issue of your Doctrine lye heavy on your spirits?
A85510May not( my dear brother) the like use be made of your present Doctrine?
A85510May they not say, Seeing no conditions are required, nothing on our part is to be done, I may live as I list, for I can not break the Covenant?
A85510May we not say in this case that we have benefit?
A85510Moreover, is there not as great a care to be had of Antinomians and Libertines, with whom our English Church begins to be pestred?
A85510Now I pray, what doe they understand by that efficiency, but a meritorious efficiency?
A85510Now do not the Apostles averre as much when they answer this quaerie, what shall I do to be saved?
A85510Now if both these were true, would they be of moment to make you dissent from your godly brethren?
A85510Now this also failes: for, can a man be profitable to God, as a wise man is profitable to himselfe?
A85510Now what gave he?
A85510Or whether we may have a right to, and interest in, or actual enjoyment of these benefits without faith, or before faith?
A85510Shall I say here, That there is no reason why one gift should be more absolute then another?
A85510Shall the young man say, it is not free?
A85510Shall this person say, he was not freely forgiven, because it was on this condition, his acknowledgment?
A85510Shall this person say, the gift was not free because upon this condition?
A85510Sir, Whether nonsense or no, what is it you say to the places cited?
A85510Sir, what you me an by that expression, Doth not God promise to do all?
A85510So likewise, Where is boasting then?
A85510The Quaerie then will be, Whether this Righteousnesse of Christ be imputed to the sinner before he doth believe, or not till he believeth?
A85510The third excepted, which of these positions is maintained by any of those our Divines that hold conditions to be in the new Covenant?
A85510Thus Zanchy, and what have you gained by him in this particular, or your opposites lost?
A85510Thus far Olevian in that place: and who is there Sir, of these whom you oppose, that doth not say the same with him?
A85510To which you rejoyne, I demand, Whether that Promise be absolute or conditional?
A85510To which you reply by Interrogation: Is there any condition on mans part intimated here?
A85510Was it for this, my good friend, that you took the paynes to write so much out of the Doctor?
A85510We answer your Demand, Is there any condition on mans part?
A85510What can be said more expresly then this?
A85510What is the Law of Faith?
A85510What is the chaff to the wheat, saith the Lord?
A85510What profit is it to the Sunne, that wee receive its light into our houses?
A85510When was it so accounted?
A85510Why did you cite Aestius and Lessius, both Papists, among the Champions of your opinion?
A85510Without distinction they are all branded as Tythe- Mongers, Time servers, Antichristian, Self- seekers, and what not?
A85510Yea, is it not( think you) already made by divers?
A85510You add therefore farther; Did Adams doing merit life?
A85510and how shall they preach except they be sent?
A85510and most called away from the practice of Religion, to that needlesse disquisition of a curious speculation?
A85510because it is upon condition, he leaves his fathers cottage for it, he goes to school for it& c?
A85510must it needs be wholly cast away?
A85510of works?
A85510or to the spring, that we drinke of its water?
A85510or what else did the Apostle preach but the Gospel?
A85510or who is there of those against whom you alledge him, that doth not assert the very same?
A85510or, what other then that can be ascribed unto works?
A85510others thereby amazed, not knowing whom to follow?
A85510should be no more then this, What shall I do to be certified and assured of my Salvation?
A85510the grand benefit of Regeneration by him, before we have right to him?
A85510why else is it called a Law?
A6634638. to Souls and Bodies; in whom is this so exemplified as in the signally useful?
A66346Am I seriously concerned to see so many Sinners posting to Hell?
A66346Am I very solicitous for the Churches wellfare and the Nations happiness, so as to set my self to redress Evil and help the Good of each in my place?
A66346And can you own it without Blushings, and renting your very Hearts?
A66346And do dry Eyes, or a Face lifted up, agree hereto?
A66346And how generally is his Death lamented?
A66346And over- against your Names thus written, This Magistrate was no terror to Evil doers, no praise to such as did well?
A66346And this to the extent of my Power?
A66346And what Idiot could have made a weaker Choice, or taken a more foolish Course than you have done?
A66346Another time his joy was so great, that in an extasie he cried out, I can not contain it, what manner of Love is this to a poor Worm?
A66346Are my Talents less accountable for, than they were, or have I now more reason to think that my Abilities were not given for Publick use?
A66346Are not you more left to your selves in Duties and Temptations too?
A66346Are you an ill Magistrate, why should any others be better?
A66346Are you an unfaithful Minister, why should any others be more faithful?
A66346Are you careless of the common Liberties of your Country or City, why should any other, in your station, be more concerned?
A66346Are you indifferent about the Truth, Interest, and Gospel of Christ, why should any other in your circumstances more expose themselves?
A66346Are you strait- handed to the Poor, wherefore should others of your Estate be more liberal?
A66346But is this Excuse true?
A66346But, can there be the like for an unuseful Person?
A66346Can I think Christ a worse Master than before; or Heaven less worthy of my pains?
A66346Can a feble Mind, or unfortified Heart, persist in great Endeavours, and in the face of such Dufficulties steadily pursue his glorious End?
A66346Can he doubt the Truth of his several Graces?
A66346Can the Tempter still delude you to think, that you will have a pardon of your Unusefulness by such a Faith as doth not make you resolve to be Useful?
A66346Can you that never attempted, or soon fainted in serving God in your Generation, hope to reap as they who fainted not in well- doing?
A66346Can you, and not be humble, become all things to all Men, that you may win some, and be a Servant to all that you may gain the more?
A66346Consider your unusefulness, and see, is that a performance of this Engagement, or consistent with it?
A66346Dare I commend the unprofitable part of Mankind that I am thus about to justify; or condemn the eminently useful, whom now I seem resolved to censure?
A66346Did I begin to be Useful as soon as I was capable, and do I continue so to this time, or was I not far in years before I began?
A66346Did his many Labours abate their substance and tendency to common Good?
A66346Did not he create all things for himself?
A66346Did not you expect your Parents Care, the Magistrates Defence, your Ministers Labours, your Neighbours Favour and Help?
A66346Do others less need my help, or have I the leave of God to be remisser?
A66346Do you expect the same returns of Prayer, or use you to meet with them as formerly?
A66346Do you rejoyce in, and bless God for those who are useful, without envying the most eminent?
A66346Do you take all due pains, and use all good thrift that you may have somewhat to enable you to be profitable?
A66346Do you think God will be mocked, or that you can impose on him?
A66346Doth he afford you that communion with himself, and tokens of his favour, in which you were accustomed to relish the highest delight?
A66346Doth it become Men to be under the Conduct of such base Guides?
A66346Doth it not accuse you?
A66346Doth my Heart bleed at the miserable condition of the poor and distressed?
A66346Hath not he emptied your Mercies, embittered your Comforts, filled your Souls with Terrors, and encountred you with a frowning Countenance?
A66346Hath not he let Satan loose upon you or yours?
A66346Hath publick Service for God been your business in any measure?
A66346Hath the good that I have done in the World, been in proportion to my utmost Ability?
A66346Have I done good to as many persons as I had a Call to, and opportunity for?
A66346Have I done more already than Christ deserves at my hands, who died for me?
A66346Have not you already met with some remembrances, that God dislikes your selfish Ways and narrow Spirits?
A66346Have not you less of God in every Ordinance, and less success in your Performances?
A66346Have not your Graces abated in their Strength and Exercise?
A66346Have not your Ways been in all this unequal?
A66346Have you avoided being hurtful to others, tho''you could not profit them?
A66346Have you earnestly prayed for the Church of God, and the good of the Miserable World, bewailing the sorrows of the first, and the misery of the last?
A66346Have you no such secret misgivings as these?
A66346Have you not less Supports when Afflictions befal you?
A66346Have you not less composure, and fixedness of Heart, when dangers threaten you?
A66346Have you that free access into his presence as sometimes you found?
A66346His Care and Toil extended to every Place where he might be profitable: Of whom in an equal station can it be so truly said?
A66346How many whom he contributed to the Education of are useful Ministers?
A66346How needful is Wisdom to discern which is our present Duty, and what the greatest Good, when several appear in competition?
A66346How oft and long did they pray for his Life, as a publick Blessing?
A66346How unthankful are we to the giver of all our Gifts?
A66346How would you be dealt by, if you were in the case of the Poor or Distressed, and they in yours?
A66346If you think it is not your Duty, what sence can you put upon so many plain Scriptures that command it?
A66346In Ministerial Labours he was abundant; where was a more constant Preacher?
A66346In how many Places doth Religion flourish by his means?
A66346In such a Man many Graces and Virtues are associated, nay which can be wanting, yea or weak in the Constitution of this Person?
A66346Is it not in well- doing that I grow weary?
A66346Is it so?
A66346Is not this horrid Ingratitude to our Blessed Lord?
A66346Is this to be so?
A66346Is this to imitate or obey Christ whom you own for your Lord, and whose Livery you have put on?
A66346Judge the Spirit by the use others make of the same Abilities, how useless, how hurtful?
A66346Let me ask you, Have you really pitied the Distressed whom you could not relieve?
A66346Let us be ashamed, and duly humbled, for our unusefulness in our Generation Who of us falls not under the charge of this fault?
A66346May it not well fill you with confusion?
A66346Must it not present to you a sad account of great Omissions and many Neglects?
A66346Must not I shortly on a Death- bed reflect on what a barren life I am going to live, and the blessed Courses I put a stop too?
A66346Notions he took up for Truths, without search or other enquiry, then, is this the Opinion of a Man eminent with the Party I hope to live by?
A66346Now do not you think Christ is worth the faithfullest Service which ends in this manner?
A66346Now how comfortable will Death be to a Man thus well assured of eternal Happiness, and prepared for that wherein it will consist?
A66346Or hath it been very little, and inconsiderable, compared with what I could have done?
A66346Or have I not deserted it, after I made some hopeful beginnings?
A66346Or have not I utterly disregarded it?
A66346Or have not I wilfully exempted very many, to whom I stood obliged?
A66346Or, am not I one that slight the wickedness the World lies in, want Bowels to the distressed?
A66346Or, have you made the very Worship of God and your most seeming Obedience to subserve Carnal Ends?
A66346Or, were they the perishing Affairs of Life?
A66346Or, why should not I be as publick Spirited as they, if it be praise- worthy and useful in them?
A66346Ought not you to tremble at this prospect of Eternal Misery?
A66346Pray earnestly for exciting Grace, and be much in such Soliloquies as these, Am not I a Redeemed Sinner?
A66346Shall I disregard the end of my Being, break my Vows, be false to my trust?
A66346Shall I represent this as a Warning, or as an Encouragement to Service?
A66346Shall you who laid up nothing in store, no Treasure in Heaven, expect to be Rich there as they who did?
A66346That promise such Rewards to, and Assistances in it?
A66346That so approve of, and praise the Practice and Practisers of it, and brand the Name of such as Accursed who refused to do so?
A66346That threaten such sore Miseries to the Neglecters of it?
A66346Therefore may not I with reason ask you?
A66346They are to propagate the Interests of our blessed Redeemer,& c. But which of these can we subserve, if Self be not denied?
A66346Tho''I must agree that it''s folly to become liable to these Mischiefs, yet are all who are unuseful subject to endure them?
A66346To be a publick Plague, is a great reproach; what can be said worse of a Man when dead?
A66346To thy Children, Servants,& c. and how Eminent they may prove?
A66346To you of this Congregation,( for whose Salvation he was so concerned) shall I say, bewail the loss of him, when you are so sensible?
A66346Was not this that he might rule all, dispose of all, and be served by all?
A66346We thank thee, and bless thy glorious Name: But who am I, and what is my People, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort?
A66346Were they serving your Generation, and saving your own Soul?
A66346What Answer doth an awakened Conscience give to these Questions?
A66346What Ingratitude is it to live to your selves, and not to him who paid so dear for your Ransom?
A66346What Matters have sate closest to your Hearts?
A66346What Projects have had the chief Room in your Heads?
A66346What avail all Arguments, if they incline not our backward Hearts to Usefulness?
A66346What is it to such Bigots, if true Christianity prevail with Men, or Converts be multiplied, unless they become their Proselites?
A66346What may I meet with to awaken me out of this slothful Sleep?
A66346What mind can conceive the misery included in a condition made up of all the Woes these several expressions import?
A66346What place for Envy, when I see my self and others better served by every thing wherein another is advanced above me?
A66346What shall I be doing the residue of my time, if I cease to be useful?
A66346What work for Shame, and Sorrow, ay, and Fears too, will this make, compared with a vigorously useful Life?
A66346What''s more desirable than to Vseful in making others so?
A66346What''s the Language of your refusing to serve your Generation hitherto?
A66346When you desire an Estate or Gift, and bewail the want of them, is the later mostly because you can not be useful, and the former that you may be so?
A66346Where shall I begin, when so many Things present themselves?
A66346Where shall I stop if I recover not?
A66346Who ever knew him, from his very Youth, refuse to preach in any Place when asked?
A66346Who is sufficient for these things?
A66346Who would be Servants, private Soldiers, Seamen, Handicrafts- men,& c. if none were poor?
A66346Whose are all your Gifts and Estates which you have thus grudged?
A66346Whose are you your selves?
A66346Will the Powers or Riches he had on Earth guard him against the sorest Vengeance for the hurt he did?
A66346Yea, or doth not effectually produce this Usefulness as you are called thereto?
A66346You, his Children, live your Fathers Advice and Example, or what a Witness will he be against you?
A66346and shall I neglect the interests of my Redeemer?
A66346and will it suit with the Fancies of these Men?
A66346can you be unaffected when you receive this Answer?
A66346can your Consciences, as drowsie as they are, offer this Plea, and abide by it?
A66346for if so, who shall escape?
A66346how unprovided and ill prepared?
A66346it will be in vain to deny or diminish your Trust, and what Answer can you find that can satisfie him, or please your selves?
A66346or would I be content he should now more remissly intercede in my behalf?
A66346where will these declensions stop, if you allow them?
A42350A wavering weak Faith, to a sure Word?
A42350Again, Do you not cross the experiences of all the Saints, do they not they all give God and his service a good word?
A42350Alas, what is our always in abounding here; to the always of his rewarding hereafter?
A42350And have we any reason to think, that the same prejudice against Religion, continues not amongst many ungodly ones, in these last times?
A42350And if thou wilt do it, when mean''st thou to set about it, if not now?
A42350And is it not more desireable to be without these, than to need them and have them?
A42350And must not that Piece be admirably well drawn, which is most commended by those( if able to judge) that stand nearest, and look longest on it?
A42350And what proportion between a poor nothing Creature, and his nothing Service, to the having this infinitely Glorious God his portion?
A42350And, oh, how intent was she in Preparation for it?
A42350Are here all thy Children?
A42350Art thou to pray his Spirit will lift with thee, for so that 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, signifies, art thou tempted?
A42350But why hath God charged his peoples work with so much labour, travel, and trouble?
A42350But why, quoth Cyneas, may we not do that already without all this trouble?
A42350But will ye believe what a man saith, when his head is hot and light in the fit of a Fever, rather than when he is in his true and right temper?
A42350Can he, that rewards even the wicked for any work, in which he useth them, let his own faithful servants lose their pains?
A42350Cur ea quae ad usum diuturna esse non possunt, ad supplicium diuturna deposces?
A42350Did ever any man arrive at London by going from it?
A42350Do not these think it very easie to be Christians?
A42350Doth it not behove thee to make sure of an house above to receive thee, when thou art turned out of thy Earthly Tabernacle here?
A42350For this Captain non amat gementem Militem?
A42350Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
A42350Heaven wider than it is: But where, may some say, dwell these Men I am now directing my speech unto?
A42350Her awful fear of God, the little reverence we have of the Divine Majesty?
A42350Her charitable Spirit, and large Heart, whereby she concerned her self in the wants and miseries of others, the narrow and selfish Spirits of many?
A42350Her reverence in the Worship of God, the rudeness of many, who behave themselves therein, as if God Almighty, and they were fellows?
A42350Her zeal for God, our coldness?
A42350How can it but make them admire, to see so infinite a Glory the reward of so poor a labour?
A42350How doth this Blessed Soul now Carol forth the Praises of God in Heaven?
A42350How easie of access, for the meanest to come into her presence?
A42350How may her knowledge in the Scriptures, shame the ignorance of many of us?
A42350How then say you, that we labour upon such uncertainties?
A42350How unbecoming, to think any measure enough in thy duty, when the reward promised, is without all measure?
A42350How unsutable is it to pinch God in thy service, who is so magnificent in his reward?
A42350How unsutable to a Faithful Word, is a Faithless Heart?
A42350How will it ravish the Saints Heart, to receive so great a reward, at the end of so short a labour?
A42350I would ask such, how they know the Sun to be, when they see it shine?
A42350If any should ask, how do they know so assuredly there is this reward?
A42350If thou hast Food and Rayment here, and Heaven at the end, doth not God deal well with thee?
A42350In a word, How may her Patience, under great Afflictions, reproach the murmurings of many, when they feel but a little smart from a gentle Correction?
A42350Is it an easie thing to hate every false way?
A42350Is it easie to recover the strength of his resolutions, which his sins must needs have much loosned and weakned?
A42350Is it easie to repent, and bring forth the meet fruits of it, good works, and not to make them the Idol of our trust?
A42350Is it not a blessed thing to behold God face to face?
A42350Is not Heaven called a reward?
A42350Is the Husbandmans work laborious to plow up his stiff ground, and with many a weary step to go sowing his heavy land, especially in a wet season?
A42350Is the betrothed Spouse afraid of her Marriage day?
A42350Is there no way to have our Friends, unless we have them in our sight?
A42350Minimè quidem Deus est acceptor personarum: Nescio tamenquo pacto, virtus in Nobili plus placet; An fortè quia plus claret?
A42350Now is there any room left in this case for deliberation, when de vitâ aut morte aeternâ agitur?
A42350Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name; but who am I?
A42350Now these deficiencies and obliquities call for repentance, and is it easie for him to comply with this duty?
A42350O Death where is thy sting?
A42350O Grave, where is thy victory?
A42350O how great things hath God laid up for them that fear him?
A42350O how hard is it to kindle, or kindled, to keep this heavenly fire alive, on a hearth so damp and cold as our heart is?
A42350O how hard is this, where there is so much of the slave, even in those that are children?
A42350Oh how afraid to look into another world, or to think of going hence as they are?
A42350Oh how brave should he be, when his new Cloaths were on his back?
A42350Oh how meanly did she think of her self?
A42350Oh what Sots doth sin make men?
A42350Oh what then wilt thou say of thy past life, which is so thin sown with Holy Actions?
A42350Oh what''s the loss of such a treasure?
A42350The Ship, which when lying on ground, all the Teams in the Country could not draw off; how easily is it set a float when the Tide comes in?
A42350Their reward is an everlasting life; but their work and labour for the Lord, how short?
A42350Thirdly, Formalists and slothful Christians; and how many are these?
A42350This is such an infatuation, as the world can not shew the like; but who so blind as he, whose eyes are put out with Gospel- light?
A42350Thus the Heart which the Christian, by no pains and industry of his own, can raise out of its dullness and indisposition to Duty?
A42350To a sensual heart, what more unpleasing then Heavenly Meditations?
A42350Was Shimei unwise, who by going out of his Precincts to recover his run- away Servants, lost his own life?
A42350Was not this one that meant to go to Heaven in good earnest?
A42350We see even our Children, do love and obey us their Parents, though some of us have no Portion or Inheritance to leave them?
A42350What else( Christian) is death to thee, but what Jordan was to the Israelites?
A42350What joy remains to him that is in misery, to remember the years of pleasure he hath had?
A42350What pity is it a Scarlet Cloak should be sopt in a swill tub?
A42350What then is the Christians labour, which exerts the zeal and heat of his spirit?
A42350What, they leave the Fatness and Sweetness they are satiated with, for any thing that is to be got by a base sinner?
A42350What, they sin?
A42350When the poor Christian hath done his utmost to keep the Law, how far short doth he fall of that exact Rule?
A42350Which said unto God, depart from us, and what can the Almighty do for them?
A42350Who but the Devil himself, would present him, and his holy ways, in such black lines and lineaments to their thoughts?
A42350Who knocks more boldly at Heaven Gate to be let in, than they whom Christ will reject as workers of iniquity?
A42350Who, indeed, can exercise reason against God?
A42350Whose Death''s a publick loss?
A42350Why wilt thou, oh man, make that which is but temporary in the use, eternal is thy punishment?
A42350Wilt thou lose it, as Lysimachus did his worldly Kingdom, by staying to drink a draught of puddle water?
A42350Would Elkanah be thought better to his barren Wife, than ten Sons?
A42350and if it doth, must thou not become his Servant, do his work, or never look for his reward?
A42350and of their tears, that they could serve him no better, if they might have gone to Heaven, as these men hope to do?
A42350and what can discover Patience, but labour and trouble?
A42350and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort?
A42350and what reward can be expected where no work is done?
A42350and where is any one( who hath not first been convinced from some work of the Spirit) so bad, that is not yet thus kind to himself?
A42350and wilt thou devour that, which thou must be digesting in Hell with Torments, as endless as easless?
A42350as if they would turn again upon God, and snatch the Rod out of his hand?
A42350how affable, courteous, and lowly to the poorest?
A42350how shall I do to praise my God?
A42350how soon is it dispatched?
A42350is it now time to say, shall I labour to be saved, or shall I not?
A42350is not here enough to fill the Christians head with care, and his heart continually with an holy fear and trembling?
A42350is not yonder brave City worth Fighting for?
A42350not recovered from a Sickness, which is but an adjournment to death; but to have shot deaths gulf, and to be set everlastingly above it?
A42350now is it an easie work, for the Christian to keep his heart in a sincere compliance with, and respect to, this Law in his daily walking?
A42350or a Prince loth to cross a narrow Sea, to take possession of a wide Kingdom, and a rich Crown, that wait only for his coming?
A42350that could keep her Heart in tune for this high note, in her greatest bodily pains and dolours?
A42350the muddy pleasures of Sin for a season?
A42350their Plea had been more plausible, if they had said, what can the Unmighty do for them?
A42350this deserves that, why not that this?
A42350to bathe thy self in those Pleasures that are at his right hand?
A42350to be ever with the Lord?
A42350to be ready to every good work?
A42350to drink the wine of the Kingdom, in the Kingdom of Heaven it self?
A42350to have sound legs, then to be lame, and have crutches?
A42350what, or whom need he fear, that hath God for his Protector?
A42350who could sing them so sweetly, while these sharp Thorns were at her Breast?
A42350work, and never receive their reward?
A42350would he bear witness to the Name and Gospel of Christ, then pity thy self is its counsel?
A42350would he reprove a sinning Brother, then why will he be a busie body in other mens matters, and lose a Friend in doing a thankless office?
A42350wouldst thou have them labour, and never rest?
A42350yea, have they not commonly the strongest Faith, who have the weakest Grounds for it?
A42350yet what more delighted David?
A42831And do we act courageously for petty purchases; and faint and despond when we are to strive for Crowns and eternal Glories?
A42831And if all this be short, what will be available?
A42831And if his life be in trouble and discomfort; how terrible is it to reflect, that he must go from being miserable to be nothing?
A42831And if neither reason, nor so much as our senses, may be believ''d, what assurance can we have of any thing?
A42831And if the Master had such usage, what were the servants to expect?
A42831And is it not a glorious Excellency, that makes Men like the fountain of all perfection?
A42831And now did those poor Heathens hear the voice of a little Brook, and shall not we the noise of many Waters?
A42831And shall the Beasts act more reasonably than the professed Sons of Reason?
A42831And was not Tyranny well extirpated, when we were under an Army of Tyrants?
A42831And was not this a Liberty worth the Bloud, and Treasure that was spent to purchase it?
A42831And were not things come at length to a good pass, when men in Buff durst proclaim themselves the only Legal Authority of the Nation?
A42831And what was this Belief of theirs?
A42831And when one says, here''s Religion, and another says, there''s Religion; a third will scornfully ask, where''s Religion, and what''s Religion?
A42831And when they come to such Sacred places as this, with what rude boldness do they enter Gods house?
A42831And why may not the Spirit of God, working by an active Faith and Endeavour, fix Habits and Inclinations on the Soul, as prevalent as those?
A42831Are there Flowers in the Wilderness and none in the Garden?
A42831But is there not a cause for all this?
A42831But the coming Day will set all right, and effectually resolve Pilate''s Question, What is Truth?
A42831Can a Finite spirit bear such excess?
A42831Do the wild Beasts of the Forest hear his voice, and shall not the Sheep of his own Fold obey him?
A42831Doth not Nature it self teach you, that if a Man have long Hair, it is a shame unto him?
A42831FOr the First, Who are the scoffers meant?
A42831For can the regenerate be full of all manner of concupiscence, and at the same time be crucified to the Flesh, and its affections and lusts?
A42831For what are all the pleasures and contentments of the World, but as so many rays of that Sun and emanations of that fountain?
A42831For what is it to be happy but to be united to God?
A42831For who can bear that dazzling Glory?
A42831For who is rewarded for actions that are prefectly anothers, or who is punish''d for what he could not help?
A42831Hast thou an Arm like God, or canst thou Thunder like him?
A42831Having sin dwelling in him; and a captive to sin; and obeying the Law of sin; and yet free from the law of sin and death?
A42831He hath shewed thee O man what is good: and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do Justice, and love Mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
A42831He saith he is a Prophet, but how shall we know it, where are his Miracles?
A42831He that resists, resists the Ordinance of God, saith the Apostle; and who can lift up himself against the Lords Anointed and be guiltless?
A42831How can they do good, that are accustomed to do evil?
A42831How can those think of parting with their possessions and enjoyments, that have nothing else to expect?
A42831How easie hath it made the way to this glorious reputation?
A42831How else will you vindicate the Justice of God in all the odd and confused occurrences of this World?
A42831How is it with the Sects in respect of peaceableness?
A42831How small were the troubles of thy night, to the pleasures of this day?
A42831How unworthy art thou of this sight of Glory?
A42831IF any now should ask me, Whether this Doctrine of Universal Love do not tend to Universal Toleration?
A42831IT is a question that hath much exercised the wits of the Curious, whether there be any decay in nature?
A42831If He be call''d Belzebub, what must they look for?
A42831If a man die, shall be live again?
A42831If thou dost well, shalt thou not be accepted?
A42831Is it not fit that the Gospel should at length appear to have been the power of God, and no creature of melancholy or design?
A42831Is our Maker pleas''d with our sighs; or is there any Musick or sweetness to Him in our groans and tears?
A42831Is this He whom the flesh and world tempted me so often to deny; and whose interest could do so little with me?
A42831Is this the Saviour I loved so little?
A42831It is no Question, I hope, whether God, or the Creature is to be first chosen; whether Heaven or Hell be better?
A42831LOVE is the bond and tye of Christian Communion; How can two walk together except they are agreed?
A42831Let him that is without Errour, throw the first Stone at the Erroneous; but if he begins, that is obnoxious himself, what favour can he expect?
A42831May it not shame us, that we need Instruction from the Creatures that have no understanding?
A42831No dream of imagination, or interest of any lust; but as simple as Innocence, and as clear as the virgin light?
A42831Now what man in his wits, would run the venture of such fatal losses and miseries, for such trivial Nothings of advantage?
A42831O how shall I answer this Judge?
A42831Ought it not to be at last confest and known, that Religion was a great Reality, and no cunningly devised Fable?
A42831Repentance is turning, Turn ye, turn ye, why will ye dye?
A42831The Ninevites repented when they might have doubted, who is this Jonah?
A42831The pleasures of Eternity crouded into a moment: Did unfaln Angels ever know such another?
A42831Though the way is strait, yet''t is certain; or if it were otherwise, who would not venture his pains upon the possibility of such an issue?
A42831Was it such comfort that our Lord promised to those that mourn?
A42831We were made for Happiness, and Happiness all the World seeks: who will shew us any good?
A42831Were not all miscarriages of Government well mended, when Government was thrown up by the roots?
A42831Were they enlightened by a single Planet, and we not so by numerous Constellations?
A42831Were we not well freed from evil Counsellors, when we made Kings of the worst we had?
A42831What are the consequences, and effects of it?
A42831What difficulties in my Duty, too great for Divine Aids?
A42831What is the evil and malignity of the humour?
A42831What is the example of a wicked, sensual, wretched World, to that of the Holy Jesus; and all the Army of Prophets, Apostles and Martyrs?
A42831What is there in the World, that it should be loved more than God?
A42831What pains are we to undergo in the narrow and difficult way, that the Glory which is at the end of it, will not compensate?
A42831What profit in those designs whose objects are vanish''d with thy hopes?
A42831What shall they do then; whither shall they go?
A42831What shall we do then?
A42831What sort of Scoffers we may suppose here meant?
A42831What toying, talking, gazing, laughing, and other rude follies may we observe in the midst of the most solemn parts of worship?
A42831What would a Stone be the better for being accounted one of the Ancient Pillars of Seth?
A42831When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on earth?
A42831Where was thy reason?
A42831Where''s your infinite goodness and bounty, that suffers its servants always to be neglected?
A42831Whither am I going?
A42831Whither shall I flee from thy Spirit?
A42831Who can tell the exact moment when the night ends, and the dawn enters?
A42831Who would think now that such a Spirit as this, that so highly pretends to exalt Grace, should really disparage it, and undermine it?
A42831Why should my noble Faculties, that were designed for glorious ends, be led into infamous practices by base Usages, and dishonourable Customs?
A42831Why was light given unto man?
A42831With what sad pangs of sorrow should we lay our Friends into the Grave; if we had cause to be assured that they were lost eternally?
A42831Yea, why didst thou determine on the unreasonable side?
A42831and how could we reflect upon our own mortality, if we were to look for no farther Being?
A42831and how injurious were thy complaints to so glorious an expectation?
A42831and how more unworthy of the favour of this glorious and triumphant Jesus?
A42831and how much carelesness and irreverence do they express in their very looks and garb?
A42831and how much slightness and playsomness in speaking of serving God, being devout, saying prayers, and such like serious things after it?
A42831and was not the disease well cured, when the Body was destroyed?
A42831and was this that Lord I was so careless to obey?
A42831and what does unite us to God but Love?
A42831and what have I done?
A42831and what is the Flesh, that it should have more of our time and care, than the great interests of our Souls?
A42831and what is the love of God but Religion?
A42831and who is so ridiculous to digg for the wind to fill his Sails, or to endeavour to set to Sea without it?
A42831and why were they not alwayes such in thy esteem?
A42831carnal, and yet not walking after the flesh, but after the Spirit?
A42831couldst thou not look beyond the grates of flesh, or didst thou see, and wouldst betray me into this danger and this misery?
A42831disregard his promises, and slight his threatnings?
A42831do we as much as impose any penance upon our external persons?
A42831do we in them afflict our souls with penitence, and Godly sorrow?
A42831he is a stranger to our Countrey, to our Laws, to our Religion, and shall he lead us?
A42831how can these things consist?
A42831how shall we do this?
A42831is there no Remedy, no way?
A42831must we sit down in despondency, in despair of Mercy?
A42831one in whom sin revives while he dies; and yet one that is dead to sin?
A42831or a piece of wood in beeing esteemed a Sacred Relique of the Cross?
A42831or can there be more transport in ten thousand Hallelujahs?
A42831or hadst thou any thing of more necessity, or concernment to engage thy thoughts?
A42831or the world an enjoyment like those rewards he will now dispense?
A42831or thy little policies of equal moment with the affairs of this day?
A42831or whether all things are not still, as they were from the beginning, in all their kinds, and in all the degrees of their vigour, and perfection?
A42831or will he applaud himself in having made Hell his sport, when he feels it?
A42831or will his Wit recreate and support him when he shall be call''d to the Bar?
A42831or, how can they bear up under the burdens and vexations of this state, that can not relieve themselves by the hopes of a better?
A42831saith the transported admirer, How reasonable was thy Faith; and how unjust were thy Fears?
A42831sold under sin, and yet free from sin?
A42831throw off his easie yoke, as an intolerable burthen, and choose darkness, death and misery before light, and life, and glory?
A42831was it cold, indifferent, unconcerned assent only?
A42831was the sordid flesh a better friend than that triumphant Jesus?
A42831was this the time I did so coldly expect, and so indifferently regard?
A42831were thy pleasures comparable to the joyes of the happy expectants of this Time?
A42831wert thou diverted by greater matters?
A42831what can I say to my Judge?
A42831what can the fondling flesh, and eht world do for thee?
A42831what peace or temper among such principles?
A42831what relish now in those pleasures that are gone out in stenchand shame?
A42831what shall I say to the black indictment that lies against me?
A42831what to my self?
A42831what will become of an almighty and omniscient Justice if sinners are never call''d to an accompt?
A42831what, that can justifie a Division?
A42831when our Armed Masters murdered men in the Streets, and threatned the ancient Metropolis of the Nation, with Gunpowder and Granadoes?
A42831where are his Credentials from Heaven to justifie our Belief of him?
A42831where was thy Providence?
A42831where was thy Self- love?
A42831where were thy reflections?
A42831who can stand before a Throne surrounded with incomprehensible Light and Flame?
A42831who then shall be saved?
A42831why did I abuse his love, and reject his addresses?
A42831why did we not go from the darkness of the Womb to that of the Grave; and cease to be, assoon as we had a Being?
A42831why was the Sun suffer''d to see a thing so miserable?
A42831will he have any heart to droll when the Sentence is past?
A42831will he shew himself good company among the Devils and his Angels; or make pastime of Heaven and Religion, amid the flames of Brimstone?
A42831will his mirth hold when the Judge shall appear?
A42831yea what will it be at that day?
A42831— Lord, are there Few that be saved?
A270488.35, 36. to the end[ Who shall separate us from the love of God?
A27048A ● as, what should a faithfull Minister do, for the saving of your souls?
A27048Am I beset with sin, and compassed with infirmities, and racked by my own distempered passion?
A27048Am I maliced by dissenting adversaries?
A27048And alas, how quickly are they gone, when once God sees them ripe for heaven?
A27048And can there be any thing in the will of God, that his servants should inordinately fear?
A27048And can we live in daily pain and weariness, and not be willing of release?
A27048And doth not thy heart desire this?
A27048And first, you may hence be easily resolved, Whether Death be truly penal to the godly?
A27048And hast thou not far better and more in heaven?
A27048And if so, why then shouldst thou not be more willing to die, and be with Christ and all his holy ones, that are so much more excellent then we?
A27048And if thou be not willing, what makes thee wish, and groan, and pray, and labour in the use of means?
A27048And is it not haynous then to deny him with the heart and life; and to deny him the love and obedience that is properly due to God?
A27048And is not this enough for us to know?
A27048And is not this the case of all those millions, whose souls now see face of Christ?
A27048And is there any thing in this that thy soul is against, and which thou dost not value above this wor ● d?
A27048And may we not bear a while the sorrows that shall have so good an end?
A27048And shall death seem intolerable to us, that letteth in our souls to Christ?
A27048And shall we grieve that they are not here, when to be here, would be their grief?
A27048And shall we not more boldly trust the will of God then of our dearest friend?
A27048And shall we stick at the uncloathing of our souls, in order to their everlasting Rest?
A27048And shall we think much to die for such a gain?
A27048And was Heaven the spring and motive of thy obedience, and the comfort of thy life?
A27048And will not he perfect the conquest which he hath begun?
A27048And would we be thus still?
A27048And yet he doth not therefore disown them, and turn them out of his family; but is tender of them in their froward weakness, because they are his own?
A27048And yet we say, we believe, and hope, and labour, and wait for the same felicity ● Shall the happiness of our friends be our sorrow and lamentation?
A27048Are thy friends lamenting thee, and grieved to see the signs of thy approaching death?
A27048Are we not hasting after them at the heels, and do we not hope to live with them for ever?
A27048Art thou better then Noah, and Abraham, and David?
A27048Art thou loath to leave thy friends on earth?
A27048Art thou not delivered from the reign and tyranny of it, which thou wast once under?
A27048Art thou under pains, and consuming sicknesses?
A27048But if we might pass from earth to heaven, as from one room to another, what haste should we make in our desires?
A27048But now what a pillar is here for faith?
A27048But to our selves, that are brought out of Aegypt into the Wilderness, how desirable is the promised Land?
A27048But what comfort is all this to me that know not whether I have part in Christ or no?
A27048But what is it that an hypocrite will not do to escape Death?
A27048But when the glorious King of peace hath put all his enemies under his feet, what then is left to make disturbance?
A27048But when we stand over the grave, and see our friends laid in the dust, how mortified do we seem?
A27048Can we have grace and not be weary of these corruptions?
A27048Can we have life, and not be pained with these diseases?
A27048Canst thou think that Christ hath purchased, and offered, and promised that which he will not give?
A27048Could we but come to Heaven as easily as innocent Adam might have done if he had conquered, what wings would it add to our desires?
A27048Couldst thou not joyfully see the coming of Christ, if it were this day( if thou have done thy work, and art assured of his love?)
A27048Did Christ ever shew himself unkind to thee?
A27048Did he ever give thee cause to think so poorly of his Love and grace, as thy doubts do intimate thou dost?
A27048Did he take flesh purpose ● y that he might die and rise, and shew us how he will raise his members?
A27048Did men but know the difference between the death of the holy and the unholy, which doth not appear to fleshly eyes, how speedily would they turn?
A27048Did they not lie as thou dost, and die as thou must, and pass by death to the life which they have now attained?
A27048Didst thou pray for that which thou wouldst not have?
A27048Do they privily lay snares for me, and watch my halting, and seek advantage against my name, and liberty and life?
A27048Do they seem so hard and grievous to thee, that thou wilt venture thy soul in thy state of sin, rather then accept of them?
A27048Do you dislike the sins of the Professors af Godliness?
A27048Do you know how near you are to judgement, and will you fearlesly thus heap up wrath, and lay in fewell for the everlasting flames?
A27048Do you love l ● fe, or do you not?
A27048Do you think they would wish themselves again on earth?
A27048Dost thou fear the dreadfull: face of death?
A27048Dost thou know what thy Brethren are now enjoying,& what the Heavenly Host are doing?
A27048Dost thou not hate it, and set thy self against it as thy enemy?
A27048Dost thou not know that all his children have their frowardness, and are guilty of their unkindnesses to him?
A27048Had you not far rather be thus changed then abide on earth?
A27048Hadst thou rather have liberty to commit it, or be delivered from it?
A27048Hadst thou rather travail with us, then dwell with us?
A27048Hast thou laboured for it, and denyed thy self the pleasures of the world for it?
A27048Hast thou not found him kind when thou wast unkind, and that he thought on thee when thou didst not think on him?
A27048Hath he conquered death for himself alone, and not for us?
A27048Hath he not broken the heart of thy pride and worldliness, and sensuality and made thee a new creature?
A27048Hath he taken our Nature into Heaven, to be there alone and will he not have all his members with him?
A27048He was found of thee,( or rather found thee) when thou soughtest not after him: and can be reject thee now thou criest and callest for his grace?
A27048How carefull are we to keep in these lamps, and to maintain the oyl?
A27048How dealt he with the Disciples, that fell asleep, when they should have watcht with Christ in the night of his great agony?
A27048How earnestly should we pray?
A27048How grievous is it to us that we can love him no more, nor be more assured of his love to us?
A27048How joyfully should we think and speak of Heaven?
A27048How joyfully will the soul& body meet, that were separated so long?
A27048How much the imitation of such examples would conduce to the sanctifying of families, is easie to be apprehended?
A27048How noble a creature doth it destroy?
A27048How readily would our Thoughts run out to Christ?
A27048How seriously should we meditate and conser of Heaven?
A27048How terrible is death to an earthly- minded man that had neglected his soul for a treasure here, which must then be dissipated in a moment?
A27048If it be a sin to crack our faith by some particular error, what is it to dash it all to pieces?
A27048If it be odious in your eyes, to deny some particular Ordinance of God, what is it to neglect or prophane them all?
A27048If not, why are you afraid of death?
A27048If so, I would know of thee, whether this be not from the spirit of Christ within thee?
A27048If so, be assured that it is not without Holiness, that thou choosest and preferrest Holiness?
A27048If thou hadst no sin, what use hadst thou of a Saviour?
A27048If thou say that it is not his unkindness, but thy own that feeds thy doubts; I further ask thee, Is he not kind to the unkind?
A27048If you ask, How is all this to be ascribed to Christ?
A27048If you do, why then are you loth to pass into everlasting life?
A27048Indeed we may say, O Death, where is thy sting?
A27048Is it Christ that your heart is thus averse to, or is it only Death that standeth in the way?
A27048Is it God and heaven, or is it Death?
A27048Is it not for Christ and his benefits that thy heart thus worketh, and thou dost all this?
A27048Is it nothing to be dead in sins and trespasses?
A27048Is it seemly for thee to lament thus at the door, when they are feasted with such unconceivable joys within?
A27048Is not all this grievous to an honest heart?
A27048Is not this the case of many among you?
A27048Is the presence of Christ less desirable in thy eyes, then the presence of such sinfull worms as we, whom thou art loth to part with?
A27048Is there a gracious soul, that groaneth not under the burden of these miseries?
A27048Is there no remedy?
A27048Is this a time to fear and mourn, when thou art entring into endless joy?
A27048It is hard to win their hearts to such a state of Hap ● in ● ss, that can not be obtained but by yielding unto death?
A27048Moreover art thou not truly willing to yield to all the terms of grace?
A27048Must not your Teacher say, He sent to you, and was willing to have done his part, and you refused?
A27048Must there a place be empty, and a voice be wanting in the Heavenly Chore, lest we should miss our friends on earth?
A27048Must thy tender flesh be turned t ● rotness and dust?
A27048Must we let them go?
A27048Nay what a treasure of everlasting consequence, do these two words express?
A27048Now if we will vigorously appear for God, against a sinfull generation, how many will appear against us?
A27048O Sirs, do you know what you are doing?
A27048O grave where is thy Victory?
A27048O grave, where is thy victory?
A27048O what a brutish thing is flesh?
A27048O what should we do for the saving of careless, senseless souls?
A27048Once thou wast a despiser of God and his holy wayes: but now it is far otherwise with thee?
A27048Or dost thou not love their names, and wouldst thou not be with them?
A27048Our thoughts of it would be still sweet, and these would be a powerfull Spring to action?
A27048Shall the face of death discourage us from desiring such a bessed day?
A27048Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
A27048Shall we believe, and fly from the end of our belief?
A27048Shall we desire and pray, and be afraid of attaining our desires, and lest our prayers should be heard?
A27048Shall we hope, and be loth to enjoy our hopes?
A27048Shall we spend our lives in labour and travail, and be affraid of coming to our journeys end?
A27048She was very Exemplary in self- denyal and humility: And having said this much, what abundance have I comprehended?
A27048Suppose that I, and such as I, were the friends that thou art loth to leave: What if we had dyed long before thee?
A27048Take heed lest Christ say,[ I have lent them my messengers long enough in vain; From henceforth never fruit grow on them?
A27048Tell me plainly, hadst thou rather keep thy sin, or leave it?
A27048The Lord doth gently question with him[ Dost thou well to be angry?]
A27048The deterred, discouraged soul moves slowly in the way of life: Whereas if Death were not in our way, how chearfully should we run towards Heaven?
A27048Then where is the man that will stand forth and break a jest at godliness, or make a scorn of the holy diligence of believers?
A27048They were once on earth as low as we: and we shall be shortly in heaven, as high as they: Am I now in flesh, in fears, in griefs?
A27048We should long so earnestly to be in Heaven, if Death were not in the way, that nothing could easily stop us in our course?
A27048What a bondage is it, that our souls are so entangled with the creatures?
A27048What a multitude of the most haynous sins are daily committed through the fears of death?
A27048What a word of Hope and Joy is this, that[ Christ is risen?]
A27048What an unreasonable thing is unbelief?
A27048What an unspeakable comfort would this be to a dying man?
A27048What else is Death but the ending of our Time?
A27048What if the patient understand not how blood letting cureth the infected blood that is left behind?
A27048What is it that is ungrateful to you in your meditations of your change?
A27048What saith thy heart now to those terms?
A27048What suffering then can be so great, in which a believer should not rejoyce, when he is before hand promised a gracious end?
A27048What then wilt thou think of all these disquieting distrustfull thoughts that now so wrong thy Lord and thee?
A27048What though at the present it be not joyous, but grievous( in it self?)
A27048What was it that rejoyced thee all thy life, in thy prayers, and sufferings, and labours?
A27048What way so ● owl that we would not travail, to our beloved home?
A27048What?
A27048When we have so full assurance, that at last this enemy also shall be destroyed?
A27048Where there is one on earth, how many are there in Heaven?
A27048Who is so mad as wilfully to sin with Death in his eye?
A27048Who then is the wise and knowing man amongst you?
A27048Who would not be spit upon, and made the scorn of the world for a day, if he might have his will for it as long as he liveth on earth?
A27048Who would not enter willingly into the fight, when he may before hand be assured, that the field shall be cleared of every enemy?
A27048Who would not submit to any labour or toyl for a day, that he might win a life of plenty and delight by it?
A27048Why dost thou doubt( poor humbled soul) of thy interest in Christ, that must make the conquest?
A27048Why then art thou not as loth to stay from them?
A27048Why thus it was once with the millions that are now triumphing with their Lord?
A27048Will thy Physitian therefore cast thee off, because thou art sick?
A27048Would it not rejoyce your hearts, if you were sure to live, to see the coming of the Lord, and to see his glorious appearing and retinue?
A27048Wouldst thou have our company?
A27048Wy shouldst thou be afraid to go the way that all the Saints have gone before thee?
A27048Yea hath not Christ already subdued so many of thy enemies, as may assure thee he will subdue the rest?
A27048and be not his Image it self upon thee?
A27048and begun that life in thee, which may assure thee of eternal life?
A27048and canst thou think it seemly to be so unlike them, that art passing to them?
A27048and is not this a pledge that he will do the rest?
A27048and must thou lie in darkness till the Resurrection, and thy body remain as the Common earth?
A27048and now art thou afraid to enter in?
A27048and part with any thing to attain it?
A27048and rather here suffer with us then reign in heaven with Christ and us?
A27048and shall thy approaches to it be thy sorrows?
A27048and shall we grudge that they are gone a day, or week, or year before us?
A27048and should we not be so far weary of such a life as this, as to be willing to depart and be with Christ?
A27048and so detained from the love of God?
A27048and that he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his?
A27048and that his blood and grace is sufficient to save thee, from greater sins then those that trouble thee?
A27048and that no man can be saved except he be converted and born again?
A27048and that thou shouldst cast away the joy of the Lord which is thy strength, and gratifie the enemy of thy peace?
A27048and that you must first seek the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness?
A27048and the motions of the new and heavenly nature, which is begotten in thee by the Holy Ghost?
A27048and what can be more necessary to a comfortable end, then faithfully to use it while we have it?
A27048and whether it be not only lothness to die, and not a lothness to be with Christ?
A27048and who doth not dread the name, or at least the face of Death?
A27048and will he after all this break his promise, and leave us in the dust for ever?
A27048and will he now forget thee, and end in wrath that begun in Love?
A27048and wouldst thou not be thus perfected in soul and body?
A27048and yet had we rather dwell with sin, in tempting, troubling, corruptible flesh, then lay them by, and dwell with Christ?
A27048and yet wilt thou pass into it with heaviness?
A27048are thine eyes held waking, and doth trouble and sorrow waste thy spirit?
A27048are we not all agreed, that God is to be preferred before the world?
A27048do they weep when they see thy pale face, and consumed body, and when they hear the sighs and groans?
A27048doth they flesh in thy heart fail thee, and thy friends prove silly comforters to thee?
A27048especially when they lament their own unkindness?
A27048how bitterly will they reproach us?
A27048how carefully would they live?
A27048how constantly, painfully and resolvedly w ● uld they labour?
A27048how falsly will they slander us, and say all manner of evil against us?
A27048how fervently would they pray?
A27048how full they are of God, and how they are ravished with his Light and Love?
A27048how seriously would they meditate?
A27048must he therefore plead against his Physitian, and say, It will not be done, because he knoweth not how it s done?
A27048or is it only because you fear lest you have no interest in his Love, and shall not attain the blessedness which you desire?
A27048or unwilling to receive thee, and have mercy on thee?
A27048or who so dead as with death in h ● s eye, to refuse to live a godly life, if he have any spiritual light and feeling?
A27048or would they take it kindly of you, if you could bring them down again into this world, though it were to reign in wealth and honour?
A27048so did they by David, and many other now with Christ?
A27048that such horrid thoughts of unbelief should look into our minds, and stay so long, and be so familiar with us?
A27048that we find continually so much of the creature, and so little of God upon our hearts?
A27048the love of life, and the love of ease; the fear of death, and the fear of suffering?
A27048then Peter& Paul and all the Saints?
A27048was it not the hopes of heaven?
A27048would it not be the greatest joy that you could desire?
A27048would you not gadly do it?
A27048yea, in every prayer, what do we else but confess them, and lament them, and groan for help, and for deliverance?
A27048● nd will you live as if you had nothing but the world to mind, when you are even ready to step into the endless world?
A63741* But besides this; If God leaves any remains of Sin in us, what remains are they, and of what sins?
A637416. as one of the fundamental points of Christian Religion?
A63741Abraham''s faith without Abraham''s works is nothing: for of him that hath faith, and hath not works, S. James askes, can Faith save him?
A63741All shall be damned who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness: Does not every man believe this?
A63741An cuiquam licere putas, quod cuivis non licet?
A63741And I pray consider; can there be any forgiveness of sins without repentance?
A63741And after all this, in the conduct of Government what remedy can there be to those that call themselves Tender Consciences?
A63741And do not we see and feel that at this very day the Pride of men makes it seem impossible for many persons to obey their Superiors?
A63741And how many men are there amongst us who are therefore enemies to the Religion, because it seems to be against their profit?
A63741And how will those evil Guides themselves abide in Judgment, when the Angels of wrath snatch their abused People into everlasting Torments?
A63741And if it be said that Laws may be mistaken; it is true, but may not an Oath also be a Perjury?
A63741And if you do your duty as you can, do you think the failure will be on Gods part?
A63741And is it not more likely he will relapse, if the sickness be not wholly cured?
A63741And is it not plainly said in Scripture, Vnless ye repent ye shall all perish?
A63741And is it not the best, the surest way to cure the Pride of our hearts, by taking out every root of bitterness, even the root of Pride it self?
A63741And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing that I do?
A63741And this is the only way which Christ hath taught us: if you ask, What is Truth?
A63741And truly what is the hope of man?
A63741And what can be answered to this?
A63741And what is now to be done?
A63741And what more?
A63741And what then do you think will be the event of those Assemblies, where he that presents the prayers of all the people is hateful to God?
A63741And which of us all stands here this day, that does not need God''s pardon and the Kings?
A63741Are all the practices of Geneva or Scotland recorded in the word of God?
A63741Are not the temptations to little sins very little?
A63741At, at, Quintilium perpetuus sopor Vrget: cui pudor& justitiae soror Incorrupta fides, nudaque veritas Quando ullum invenient parem?
A63741Basil, a man almost equal to the Apostles?
A63741Believest thou this?
A63741But I pray consider, can any man have Faith that denyes God?
A63741But I pray consider; what is hating of any man, but designing and doing him all the injury and spite we can?
A63741But I, like David, will cry out, Where are thy loving- kindnesses which have been ever of old?
A63741But first, who ever did so that could help it?
A63741But how shall this come to pass, since we all find our selves so infinitely weak and foolish?
A63741But if Christianity be so excellent a Religion, why are so very many Christians so very wicked?
A63741But if Envy be the accuser, what can be the defences of Innocence?
A63741But is there any man in the World that does all that he can do?
A63741But is there no remedy for this?
A63741But is there not great difference in the Thing commanded?
A63741But now consider, what think we of this Proposition?
A63741But tell me, Where are those great Masters, who while they liv''d, flourish''d in their studies?
A63741But the question is, whether any man that is covetous or proud, false to his trust, or a Drunkard, can at the same time be a child of God?
A63741But the wonder is the less; for we know when God said to Jonas, doest thou well to be angry?
A63741But then 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, who are these Stewards and Rulers over the houshold now?
A63741But what are you the better if any man should pretend to teach you whether every Angel makes a species?
A63741But what course must be taken with Tender Consciences?
A63741But what if our Princes or our Prelates command things against the Word of God?
A63741But what then again?
A63741But what then?
A63741But what''s that to us who saw it not?
A63741But will we do nothing else?
A63741By this you may try your faith, if you please, and make an end of this question: Do you believe in the Lord Jesus, yea or no?
A63741Can any man be justified that does not love God?
A63741Can any thing be beyond this?
A63741Can not Christ redeem us, and cleanse us from all our sins?
A63741Can not a Christian mortifie the deeds of the body?
A63741Can not a man deny God by works as much as by words?
A63741Can not sin be avoided?
A63741Can not the works of the Devil be destroyed?
A63741Can the Prince give Laws to the peoples will, and can the people give measures to the Princes understanding?
A63741Can the definition of a Christian be, that a Christian is a man that rails against Bishops and the Common Prayer- book?
A63741Can we become a Law unto our selves, and can not the word and power of our Superiors also become a Law unto us?
A63741Could the poor Demoniack that liv''d in the Graves, by the power of the Devil break his iron chains in pieces?
A63741Do not all men desire to end their dayes in Religion, to dye in the arms of the Church, to expire under the conduct of a religious man?
A63741Do not we see this by daily experience?
A63741Does he leave the remains of Pride?
A63741Does not every good man overcome all the power of great sins?
A63741Does not he hate Christ that dishonours him, that makes Christs members the members of an harlot?
A63741Faith indeed is a title and relation to Christ; it is a naming of his names, but what then?
A63741First Christ, and then they that are Christ''s: But what shall become of them that are not Christs?
A63741For did not our blessed Saviour say, that an Oath is the end of all questions, and after depositions are taken, all Judges go to sentence?
A63741For do we not see by experience that nothing of equal loudness does awaken us sooner than a mans voice, especially if he be called by name?
A63741For how shall any man preach against sin, or affright his people from their dangers, if he denies Gods justice?
A63741For let any man consider, can the Faith of Christ, and the hatred of God stand together?
A63741For the matter of giving offences, what scandal is greater than that which scandalizes the Laws?
A63741For till that be done, how can any man tell where the fault lies, or whether it can be done or no?
A63741For what do we think of those that detain the Faith in Unrighteousness?
A63741For what think we of those that did miracles in Christs name, and in his name cast out Devils?
A63741For will God bless them, or pardon them, by whom so many Souls perish?
A63741Hast thou sinned?
A63741Have not they Faith?
A63741Have we so much faith as to think it possible that two Rivals of a Crown should love so dearly?
A63741Have you any hope, or any faith when you say that Prayer?
A63741He that saith he hath not sinned, is a liar; but what then?
A63741How can a wicked man understand the purities of the heart?
A63741How shall he reconcile the penitents, who is himself at enmity with God?
A63741How shall he that hath not tasted of the Spirit by contemplation, stir up others to earnest desires of Coelestial things?
A63741I can say no more, but to expostulate with them in those upbraiding words of God in the Prophet; Do they provoke me to anger saith the Lord?
A63741I have tried all the ways I can to bring thee home, and what shall I now do unto thee?
A63741I shall for the tryal of our faith ask one easie question; Do we believe that the story of David and Jonathan is true?
A63741I, that''s the point; but who can watch alwayes?
A63741If God teaches us, then all is well; but if we do not learn Wisdom at his feet, from whence should we have it?
A63741If a man strikes his Neighbor, and sayes, Am not I in jest?
A63741If faith alone will not do it, what will?
A63741If one mans Conscience can be the measure of another mans action, why shall not the Princes Conscience be the Subjects measure?
A63741If we can besaved without Charity and keeping the Commandments, what need we trouble our selves for them?
A63741If we did hate all sins as we hate these, would it not be as easie to be as innocent in other instances as most men are in these?
A63741If you do not think so, why do you not leave it?
A63741Is it not a monument of a lasting reproach, that one of the Popes of Rome condemned the Bishop of Sulzback for saying that there were Antipodes?
A63741Is it not a piece of our Catechism, the first thing we are taught, and is it not the last thing that we practise?
A63741Is it to be supposed that a Godly man is better enabled to determine the Questions of Purgatory of Transubstantiation?
A63741Is not Repentance a forsaking all sin, and an intire returning unto God?
A63741Is not such a Law, a Law without an obligation?
A63741Is not the Adultery of the eye easily cured by shutting the eye- lid?
A63741Is not the Government a part of it?
A63741Is there no comfort after all this?
A63741It is very hard when the Prince is forc''d to say to his rebellious Subject, as God did to his stubborn People, Quid faciam tibi?
A63741Many shall be purified, and made white, and tryed; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and what then?
A63741May not every man chuse whether he will obey or no?
A63741Must it always be so?
A63741Nay, if from these we have not sufficient causes, and arguments of Faith, how shall we be able to know the will of Heaven upon Earth?
A63741Now among all the pretensions of Reformation, who can tell better what is, and what is not, true Reformation, than he that is truly Reformed himself?
A63741Now consider; Do not we every day pray in the Divine Hymn called Te Deum, Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin?
A63741Now which of these says true?
A63741Or can any man love God and sin at the same time?
A63741Or is it harder to overcome a little sin than a great one?
A63741Or is the Conscience of the Superior bound to relax his Laws if the Inferior tells him so?
A63741Or what good shall the people receive, when the Bishop layes upon their head a covetous or a cruel, an unjust or an impure hand?
A63741Quid enim vultis me otiosum à Domino comprehendi?
A63741Remember your dignity to which Christ hath called you: shall such a man as I flee, said the brave Eleazar?
A63741Saucior invidiae morsu, quaerenda medela est, Dic quibus in terris sentiet aeger opem?
A63741Scilicet expectes ut tradat mater honestos Atque alios mores quam quos habet?
A63741Shall the Execution of the Law be suspended as to all such persons?
A63741Shall they reign with Christ who evacuate the death of Christ, and make it useless to dear Souls?
A63741Some men are drunk with Phancy, and mad with Opinion: Who believe more strongly than boyes and women?
A63741That doth not feed and clothe these members?
A63741That''s not possible: and can not a man as well deny God by an evil action, as by an heretical Proposition?
A63741That''s well: but shall all Christians have the Spirit?
A63741The Spirit of God is our teacher: he will abide with us for ever to be our teacher: he will teach us all things; but how?
A63741The Subject should rather say, Quid me vis facere?
A63741The next enquiry is, What must the dis- agreeing Subject do when he supposes the Superiors command is against the Law of God?
A63741The same question I am to ask concerning the words of my Text: Does S. Paul mean this of himself, or of some other?
A63741Therefore labour against every part of it, reject every proposition that gives it countenance; pray to God against it all; and what then?
A63741This device produced the conferences at Poissy, at Montpellier, at Ratisbon, at the Hague, at many places more: and what was the event of these?
A63741WHat the Eunuch said to Philip, when he read the Book of the Prophet Isaiah; Of whom speaketh the Prophet this, of himself, or some other man?
A63741Well it may be so: but were it not better that you did doubt?
A63741Well, to what purpose is all this?
A63741Well: there''s our Teacher told of plainly: But how shall we obtain this teacher, and how shall we be taught?
A63741What Learning is it to discourse of the Philosophy of the Sacrament, if you do not feel the vertue of it?
A63741What excellency was there in the journeys of the Patriarchs from Mesopotamia to Syria, from the Land of Canaan into Aegypt?
A63741What is it to me that Rome was taken by the Gauls?
A63741What is that?
A63741What is the matter?
A63741What is the reason of this difference?
A63741What is there more in death?
A63741What made Abraham the friend of God?
A63741What makes these evil, these dangerous and desperate Doctrines?
A63741What man of ordinary prudence and reputation can be tempted to steal?
A63741What remedy after all this?
A63741What shall we do now?
A63741What then is to be done?
A63741What will thou have me to do?
A63741What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee?
A63741When Man was not, what power, what causes made him to be?
A63741Where is Athanasius, rich in vertue?
A63741Where is Gregory Nyssen, that great Divine?
A63741Where is Hyppolitus, that good man, 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, that gentle sweet person?
A63741Where is Ignatius, in whom God dwelt?
A63741Where is S. Dionysius the Areopagite, that Bird of Paradise, that celestial Eagle?
A63741Where is that Evodias, the sweet savour of the Church, the Successor and Imitator of the holy Apostles?
A63741Where is the blessed Quire of Bishops and Doctors, who shined like Lights in the World, and contained the Word of Life?
A63741Where is the fault?
A63741Whether Faith as a Good Work, or Faith as an Instrument?
A63741Whether Faith as it is Obedience, or Faith as it is an Access to Christ?
A63741Whether as a Hand, or as a Heart?
A63741Whether as a sign, or as a thing signified?
A63741Whether by inherent worthiness, or adventitious imputation?
A63741Whether by introduction, or by perfection?
A63741Whether by its own innate Vertue, or by the efficacy of the Object?
A63741Whether in the first beginnings, or in its last and best productions?
A63741Who can deny this?
A63741Who is he that condemneth?
A63741Why can not men with patience hear their titles questioned?
A63741Why do almost all men that go to Law for right hate one anothers persons?
A63741Why not from Abraham?
A63741Why?
A63741Will God receive the oblation that is presented to him by an impure hand?
A63741Will a Physitian purposely leave the Reliques of a disease, and pretend he does it to prevent a relapse?
A63741Will a Son contend with his Father?
A63741[ What shall we do to work the works of God?
A63741and can any man boast of his passive Obedience that calls it Persecution?
A63741and can not he who hath the Spirit of God dissolve the chains of sin?
A63741and can not the thoughts of the heart be turned aside by doing business, by going into company, by reading or by sleeping?
A63741and if he thinks God is just, why is not he confounded that with his own mouth pronounces damnation against himself?
A63741and is a temperate man alwaies a better Scholar than a Drunkard?
A63741and is not Pope Nicholas deserted by his own party for correcting the Sermons of Berengarius, and making him recant into a worse error?
A63741and must sin for ever have the upper hand, and for ever baffle our resolutions, and all our fierce and earnest promises of amendment?
A63741and upon inquiry shall find, that his Ministring Shepherds were Wolves in Sheeps cloathing?
A63741and what is it now to Camillus if different religions be tolerated amongst us?
A63741and what is the individuation of the Soul in the state of separation?
A63741and what made his offer to kill his Son to be so pleasing to God?
A63741and what thanks could the sons of Israel deserve that they sate still upon the seventh day of the week?
A63741and who but a mad man would trouble their heads with the intangled links of the phantatick chain of Predestination?
A63741and who is so carefully to be observed, lest he be offended, as the KING?
A63741and who so readily suspect their Teachers as they who are governed by chance, and know not the intrinsick measures of good and evil?
A63741and yet are they greater and stronger than a mighty Grace?
A63741are the triffling Ceremonies of their publick Penance recorded in the four Gospels?
A63741beyond damnation?
A63741but all this you will think is but a sad story: What?
A63741but if you do think so, why are ye not zealous for it?
A63741do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
A63741for Religion?
A63741hath God given more to a private than to a publick hand?
A63741have not they faith?
A63741is the gift of Chastity the best way to reconcile Thomas and Scotus?
A63741no: for the Body of Religion?
A63741not so much: for the Garment of the Body of Religion?
A63741or for what price would he be tempted to murder his friend?
A63741or whether it be permitted to us to live with Lust or Covetousness acted with all the Daughters of Rapine and Ambition?
A63741shall we go from hence, and be no more seen, and have no recompense?
A63741what are you the wiser if you should study and find out what place Adam should for ever have lived in if he had not fallen?
A63741what is there less in sleep?
A63741what then?
A63741what''s the matter?
A63741where is there a man but the more he studies and enquires, still he discovers nothing so clearly as his own Ignorance?
A63741wherefore then( God said) were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
A63741whether we are to live good lives or no?
A63741who are so hard to be perswaded as fools?
A01045& aere Aere ciere alios, Martemque accendere cantu?
A01045* Now, if these sinnes bee remitted in the moment of dissolution, what can followe after that moment, but eternitie of blessednesse?
A0104530. Who can complayne of that estate, wherein all men are alyke with him?
A0104550 Quaestio, 〈 ◊ 〉 moriuntur justi, qui ● ● ● ● ● missa sunt peccata?
A010456. yet howe astonished was hee at the sight of the LORD?
A01045; but also with joye, and say, How beautifull vpon the mountaynes are the feete of him that bringeth good tydinges?
A01045Adde interpretationem illam Augustini; Quid est ergo( inquit) CVM TRADIDERIT REGNVM DEO ET PATRI: Quasi modo non habeat Regnum DEVS& Pater?
A01045Adspicis horrendis vt circumfusa tenebris Moesta subobscuris Phoebe caput occulat vmbris Pullatis invecta rotis?
A01045Adspicis vt ferrugineo velatus amictu Tristior Eois Phoebus consurgat ab vndis?
A01045Adspicis vt nimio rumpantur Saxa boatu, Horridaque indignas repetant vt monstra Cavernas?
A01045Adspicis vt tremulis mortem prognosticet alis Halcyonum lachrymosa cohors, vtque agmine facto Imbrem, Hyememque ferant mundo, tristem que ruinam?
A01045Aemulo Contendo nisu qua volastis praevii Venâ Poëtae fervidâ?
A01045Ah quantus HEROS inclytus tot dotibus( Mox ilicet) vobis fuit?
A01045All the brethren of the poore doe hate him; howe much more doe his friendes goe farre from him?
A01045An non dura nimis, nimis heu mihi justa dolendi Causa datur?
A01045An potiùs vindicis i ● a DEI?
A01045An tu silebis mater ABREDONIA, Et sancta nutrix artium, Quarum Lycei fama docti verticem Aequavit astris editum?
A01045And shall wee not wit, when GOD departeth, but bee as Sampson?
A01045And therefore, Quis quaeri potest se in ea conditione esse, in qua nemo non est?
A01045And, A wounded spirit, sayd Salomon, who can beare?
A01045Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord IESVS CHRIST at His comming?
A01045Armatumue pedo aut funda, quam saepe furentes Avertisse lupos stabulis; tunc vidimus ipsi, Nunc meminisse juvat?
A01045Art not Thou from everlasting, O LORD my GOD, my Holie One?
A01045Art thou not rather translated to Heaven?
A01045As for that they object, That the bodie being a base, vyle, contemptible, and corrupted thing, how can it bee awakened to glorie?
A01045Audens Pegasi vestigia Praeverto plantis?
A01045Bone DEUS,& quis mihi heìc, vel Angelus desuper, dictionem materiae parem?
A01045But if that Sions Lord, who treads vpon the Sphears, Shal blesse this Church with such a Guide?
A01045But what a lodging house?
A01045But what if they be both left, and condemned to Hel fire, shall they haue anie comfortable societie, or fellowship together?
A01045But what of all this rich and precious Crowne, which was made vp of so rare Iewels, if wee finde not engraven in it, HOLINESSE TO THE LORD?
A01045But what?
A01045But, first, what is that to the purpose?
A01045C. What?
A01045C. Wmquhill Commilitons, why should yee thinke it strange, To see a Church that''s militant, subjected to a change?
A01045CUR bombarda minor majorque tonitrua bombis Assimulant?
A01045CVR non stemma patrum pictum ac insignia gentis?
A01045CYnthia, qui ● nuper, tenebrosa expalluit vmbra?
A01045Caetera quid memorem?
A01045Campus aget gemitus?
A01045Castalidum valeas qui delineare dolores?
A01045Cernis vt oppositis carmen Lachrymabile ventis Accinat indignis Pallas comitata Camoenis?
A01045Christ?
A01045Corruit,& sacri quid Celsa Corona Lycaei, Quiddue Dicasterii, turbidine, ruptus Apex?
A01045Crudeles Parcas?
A01045Crudelia Coeli Sidera?
A01045Crudelia dicam Numina?
A01045Cui?
A01045Cum vero omne sacrum mors importuna prophanet, Cur vitio vertis, diripuisse bonos?
A01045Cur non te Lacbesis Phoebo lucente necavit?
A01045DEUM Immortalem, quorsum adeò in singulis( cùm quae ad vitam, tùm quae ad mortem tam chari capitis spectant) minutulus?
A01045DEVS de hoc mundo recedenti tibi immortalitatem pollicetur,& tu dubitas?
A01045DEVS est qui justificat: Quis est qui condemnet?
A01045DOMINVS fortitudo vitae meae: à quo pavebo?
A01045Daedaliusque Tholus media testudine Templi?
A01045Dare not those greene Trees at the axe repyne?
A01045Deinde autem quali subsectio sedeat DEVS qui infinitus est& immensis, intra se ipse magis creaturam cunctam continens?
A01045Deseris?
A01045ERgòne( Dii faveant) sine Rege& Remige, Puppis Regia, per pelagi rabiem jactata, pererrat Exposita innumeris Palinuro absente periclis?
A01045ERoo jaces venerande Senex, Clarissime Praesul; Et tantum famae vivis in ore vagae?
A01045Ecqua soli facies?
A01045Eheu queis lachrymis, queis vlulatibus, Tam chari capitis funera flebimus?
A01045Et Vos Aonides, quondam pia Numina, Musae, Praesertim, cur non vetuisti gratus Alumnum Phoebe mori?
A01045Et emensi quae spes superesse laboris Ulla potest?
A01045Et infirmum illud conditionis humanae,( postquam tamen Verbum caro factam est) divinitati copulavit aeterna?
A01045Et paulo post; DEVS tecum loquitur,& tu mente incredula perfidus fluctuas?
A01045Explicet, aut posset lachrymis aequare dolorem?
A01045Fare age, quae ● antos Umbrae meruere dolores?
A01045Fluctibus& tumidis littora nostra quatis?
A01045For what although the bodies bee burnt in ashes, bee devoured of beasts, eaten of fowles or fishes?
A01045For what is our hope, or joye, or crowne of rejoycing?
A01045For who can call that a Resurrection?
A01045Fremant illi, meditentur inania, perstrep ● nt, numquid non implebitur?
A01045Funera, cum Tumulum praeterlabere recentem?
A01045Haec mea magna fides?
A01045Hanc quis scribet?
A01045Hast thou consented?
A01045Hath anie Riches, Ioye, or Honour, and is not Holie?
A01045Herculeâve dolens pignora caesa manu Ingemis?
A01045Heu Coridon Coridon, non te fata improba nobis Eripiunt?
A01045Heu Coridon Coridon, quae te fata improba nobis Eripiunt?
A01045Heu Coridon Coridon, quae te fata improba nobis Eripiunt?
A01045Heu Coridon Coridon, quae te fata improba nobis Eripiunt?
A01045Heu Coridon Coridon, quae te fata improba nobis Eripiunt?
A01045Heu Coridon Coridon, quae te fata improba nobis Eripiunt?
A01045Heu Coridon Coridon, quae te fata improba nobis Eripiunt?
A01045Heu Coridon Coridon, quae te fata improba nobis Eripiunt?
A01045Heu Coridon Coridon, quae te fata improba nobis Eripiunt?
A01045Hic labor extremus, longarum haec meta viarum?
A01045How can wee cease from teares, when wee remember now, The loving aspects of thy face, the terrors of thy brow?
A01045How innocent should those hands ● ee that serue?
A01045How is he not worthie of thy Bread, who hath obtayned one and the selfe- same Baptisme with thee?
A01045How many haue sought after the lyfe of your most Reverende Father?
A01045How modest and graue was his carriage?
A01045How much then was the Crowne to bee esteemed, which was called Graminea, given for the safetie of the whole Armie?
A01045How often in lyke manner before his departure did hee thus comfort vs?
A01045How then can they be condemned after death, to grievous and intollerable payns in Purgatorie?
A01045Howe carefull to eschewe all vncleannesse, in thoughtes, wordes, and actions?
A01045Howe cleane, then, should hee bee, who carrieth in the bosome of his owne conscience, those living Vessels, to the Temple of Aeternitie?
A01045Howe pure the tongue, that vttereth those wordes?
A01045If Hee bee so terrible to vs nowe, howe dreadfull shall Hee bee heereafter, when we shall stand before Him, at death, or at judgement?
A01045If the Godlie haue such reason to welcome death chearfullie when it commeth, ought they not to desire, and long for it, before it come?
A01045If the ministration of death written and ingraven in stones, was glorious,& c. how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious?
A01045Ille non erat ipse?
A01045In my difficult service at Edinburgh, how oftē haue I bene refreshed with his pious& prudent directions, and advice?
A01045Insano& juvat indulgere dolori?
A01045Insolito riguit terra nivosa gelu?
A01045Insolitumue furens placidi maris aequora turbas?
A01045Interea, antiquae quae sint Fundamina Navis Prima rogat: primi quae sint Monumenta Magistri Scripta manu, vitreo Neptuui impressa Sigillo?
A01045Ioann, Vbi audivit ● oc David?
A01045Ire iterū in lacrimas* largosque effundere fletus?
A01045Is anie learned, or eloquent,& not holie?
A01045Is it anie wonder then, that the Holie One of Israell is provoked to anger?
A01045Is''t so with SION?
A01045Item; Si non spes fuisset resurrectionis, qualis esset ossium cura, vt de corruptibilibus ossibus praeciperent justi?
A01045Knoweth not the LORD by His infinite wisdome, where the smallest part of the dust, wherein their bodies are dissolved, lyeth?
A01045Luctificoue sono murmura dira boas?
A01045MENS mea, solicito cur me labefacta dolore Conficis?
A01045MYstarum quid turba queunt?
A01045Manet in nobis gaudium DOMINI nostri, etiam in agone adhuc constitutis: quanto magis in statu gloriae permanebit in nobis in secula feculorum?
A01045Mantua, num puduit, dum sic in vota vocasti Barbara fraxineos fagineosque Deos?
A01045Meritosque ex ordine honores Solvimus?
A01045Misceri ante oculos tantis clamoribus vrbem?
A01045Moestis quin funeris vmbris Inferias& justa damus?
A01045Mollē excute fomnū, Ocyus evigila,& velis immitte Rudentes: Nonne vides vt nunc maria vndique& vndique coelū?
A01045Nec bonitas, nec te potuit tua plurima Virtus Incolumem servare tuis?
A01045Nec licitum* extremas audire& reddere voces?
A01045Next, you my Reverend Colleagues, his much respected Presbyters, why continue you your mourning, lyke Orphanes destitute of a father?
A01045Nimiusque fefellit Corda dolor?
A01045No sooner, yea, before wee begin to bee borne, wee begin to bee sicke: Quis ille qui non aegrotat in hac vita?
A01045Nonne vides Helenam, proram puppimque tenentem Assolet adflictis cladem quae inferre Carinis?
A01045Num afflictio, num angustia, num persecutio, num fames, num nuditas, num periculum, num gladius?
A01045Num omnes in ignorantia sumus?
A01045Num propterea animum despondebo, quia non patior propter justitiam,& propter CHRISTVM, sed propter meam injustiam?
A01045Numquid ingemere ipse vetes?
A01045Nunquid de panitentia tractatū est, antequam obsisterent Novatiani?
A01045Nunquid jaces afflicta?
A01045Nuper an Herculeis Nautae incubuere lacertis, Dedaleâque vnctos sinuabant arte Rudentes?
A01045Nuper an aurato radiabat Prora pyropo: Celsaue Hyperboream tangebant vela Booten?
A01045Nûm effoeta senectus ▪ Vis morbi?
A01045O Graue, where is thy victorie?
A01045O thou my priest, whither hastenest thou without mee thy Deacon?
A01045On the contrarie; Is a man poore, base, vnlearned, rude, and everie way contemptible?
A01045Or with Simeon here; Lord, now let thy servant depart in peace ▪ Or with the Sayncts, saying; How long, O Lord, which art holie, and true?
A01045PHILOM HEu, quanta ingentis video spectacula luctus?
A01045Pennis Daedali Annitor?
A01045Praesidium perdis misera Elphinstonia tellus?
A01045Primo omnium DEVS qui incorporeus& invisibilis est, sedere aut stare quomodo potest?
A01045Proemia posse rear solvi?
A01045Putas qualis tunc erit splendor animarum, quando solis claritatem habebat lux corporum?
A01045QUid primo de te dicam?
A01045Qua nobis salus esse potest nisi jesunio eluerimus peccata nostra?
A01045Quaeque levet curas respuis aeger opem?
A01045Quaere ergo quem locum habeas sub pedibus DEI tui; Nam necesse est haebeas, aut gratiae, aut poenae?
A01045Qualis erit Coelo radianti Lucifer orbe, Iustorum qui tot millia salva dedit?
A01045Qualis illic Coelestium Regnorum voluptas sine timore moriendi,& cum ● ternitate vivendi?
A01045Quam saepe gementem PATRICIVM vidimus,& flebiliter deplorantem audivimus Ecclesiae nostrae Scoticanae intestina dissidia?
A01045Quam summa et perpetua foelicitas?
A01045Quam tenellum illi cor?
A01045Quanta mens ac indoles Iam despicit teriae pilam?
A01045Quanto est majus, quanto fortius, quanto laudabilius ita credere vt se speret moriturus, sine fine victurum?
A01045Quare?
A01045Queis oculis Urnam plenam, vacuamue Cathedram Cernemus?
A01045Quenam igitur sunt quae praestolantibus eum praeparantur?
A01045Qui inimici ponuntur scabellum pedum ejus?
A01045Qui quidem proprio filio non pepercit, sed pro nobis omnibus tradidit ● um, quomodo non etiam cum eo omnia nobis gratificabitur?
A01045Qui talem tanti genuere parentes?
A01045Quid enim magnum erat videndo non mori eos qui crederent, credere se non moriturum?
A01045Quid ergo?
A01045Quid faciant luctu pectora pressa gravi?
A01045Quid fletu vacuum?
A01045Quid igitur dicemus ad haec?
A01045Quid inquam?
A01045Quid moestae superest proli, charisque propinquis?
A01045Quid multis?
A01045Quid multis?
A01045Quid prius heic, quid posterius, quid denique dicam?
A01045Quid vela pando?
A01045Quid vixisse juvat( clamant) quid libera fatis Vita, quid aeternas proderit esse deas?
A01045Quid, taceam, attonitusve querar?
A01045Quid?
A01045Quin carmine sacro Placamus manes?
A01045Quin tecum nobis bona tot, bona tanta perirent?
A01045Quis est ille qui vincit mundum, nisi qui credit quod IESVS est Filius DEI?
A01045Quis figere Legem dolori quiverit?
A01045Quis intentabit crimina adversus electos DEI?
A01045Quis non ad meliora festinet?
A01045Quis non longum languorem trahit?
A01045Quis non peregre constitutus properaret in Patriam regredi?
A01045Quis nos separabit à charitate CHRISTI?
A01045Quis nostra potest damna rependere?
A01045Quis tale damnum sarciat?
A01045Quo nos malus abstuli terror In diversa trahens animos?
A01045Quo sine Rege ruis?
A01045Quomodo enim Filium suum Dominum nominaret?
A01045Quoties in vos& pro vobis Miserecordiae 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 effusa?
A01045Quò nunc quò nostra Carina Tendet?
A01045Quô sacerdos sine diacono properas?
A01045Remember you not how carefull hee was, not to leaue you comfortlesse?
A01045Respondet Apostolus; Si DEVS pro nobis, quis contra nos?
A01045Scìlicet amitto, curae casusque levamen?
A01045Secula?
A01045Sed quid Codre agimus?
A01045Sed quid dolemus?
A01045Sed quid nos frustra scopulis impingimus vndas, Aut quid nos tanto deflemus funera luctu FORBESII?
A01045Sed quis Academiae cernenti talia sensus?
A01045Seeing that, Qui in vita moritur per viti ●, certò in morte transire oportet ad aeterna supplicia?
A01045Si DEVS pro nobis, quis contra nos?
A01045Si quis afflictae conscientiae Christianus ex me quaerat; Quid igitur si ipse mihi peccato meo inimicitias procuraverim,& calamitates accersiverim?
A01045Sidere quo constructa ratis sit?
A01045Solare vt juba ● Insigne toti SCOTIAE Moestis ademptum coetibus mortalium Praesul cadit FORBESIVS?
A01045Spretor abis Palinure?
A01045Stromatum; Si quis( inquit) altercans dicat:& quomodo fieri potest vt caro imbecilla resistat potestatibus& spiritibus dominationum?
A01045Talia cernenti quae mens mihi?
A01045Tanta latere diu potuerunt munera?
A01045Temperet à lacrymis?
A01045Tene tulit rapidas Fortuna secunda per vndas Hactenus indemnem?
A01045The other is, how, and in what sense, these whom it comprehendeth, are sayd to die in the Lord?
A01045The true Christian may not onelie meet approaching death, with cowrage, and say, O death, where is thy sting?
A01045Then rotten stocke how neare''s that fall of thyne?
A01045Therefore sayeth the Psalmist,( without anie exception) What man liveth, and shall not see death?
A01045Therfore Basil, having propounded the question, Why GOD did not take from vs the power of sinning?
A01045To what purpose had the Worthie and Heroicke Founders of that UNIVERSITIE left it, if it had fallen?
A01045Transtra per& latebras, imasque in puppe cavernas Quisque suum curabat opus?
A01045Tu ne etiam moreris longa dignissime vita Tu ne etiam Coridon?
A01045Tum senior, curis multùm confectus& aevo Thaerus ad haec Domino: quorsum ô quorsum ista Ministros Poscis?
A01045Ubi audivit hoc David?
A01045Ubi erit David,& non ei sit Dominus?
A01045Urbe domum, nusquam coram data copia fandi?
A01045Ut intrepidi cum Davide dicamus; DOMINVS lux mea& salus mea: à quo timebo?
A01045Ut tarda moretur Nescio quae Torpedo Ratem, quam provida primùm Cura ENPHINSTONII vestris commiserat vndis?
A01045Utque Athamantaeo jampridem percitus oestro Spumea arenoso Nereus ciet aequora fundo, Adverso adversas conturbans vortice moles?
A01045Utque ad Hyperboreum torpens Balena Booten Horrida continuo convolvat pectora planctu ▪ Epotas patulis efflans è naribus vndas?
A01045Utque anxia Coeli Sidera, sollicito renuent sua lumina mundo?
A01045Utque impulsa gravi rerum Nattura dolore Visa sit immensi reserare repagula Mundi?
A01045V. And art thou gone, deare ghost?
A01045Vbi tua, ô Sepulchrū[ vel ô Inferne, 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉] victoria?
A01045Vbi tuus, ô mors, stimulus?
A01045Was not this HOLINESSE?
A01045What advantageth it a man, to gayne the whole vvorlde, if hee lose his soule?
A01045What can wee but hope for Vertue from that hand, as Elisha receaved Vertue from the Cloake of Elijah?
A01045What integritie should wee require of him?
A01045What joye was to all honest minded men in his promotion?
A01045What man should not bee infinitelie punished by His Holinesse for sinne, if Hee were not restrayned by His infinite Mercie?
A01045What might not be expected from him, who was Consulendo prudens, eloquendo facundus,& agendo fortis?
A01045What mischiefe followed the death of Samuel, David, Salomon, and Iosias?
A01045What more Divine thing can there bee, than to bee a worker with GOD, in procuring the salvation of men, for whom the Blood of CHRIST was shed?
A01045What religion?
A01045What say I, in that Church?
A01045What sleepe, then, is lyke to this Sleepe?
A01045What then?
A01045What thinge should bee so pure and cleane, as the soule, that receaveth so great and so worthie a Spirit?
A01045What would you haue?
A01045Where is this HOLINESSE, that ought to bee, and that may bee so aboundantlie in vs?
A01045Where is thy Sting?
A01045Where is thy Victorie?
A01045Wherefore should wee then mourne for him?
A01045Wherefore wilt thou not giue so much as thy olde Coat to him, who shall one day receaue the Robe of immortalitie with thee?
A01045Who is hee that languisheth not?
A01045Who is hee( sayeth hee) that is not sicke in this lyfe?
A01045Who, I pray you, gaue the Pope such a crown?
A01045Why cast wee all the fault vpon our enemie, since our owne wickednesse giveth him strength?
A01045Why desirest thou that to bee expressed by the tongue, which the heart can not conceaue?
A01045Why labourest thou to excuse thy falls, by accusing of another?
A01045With what a fatherly and tender affection did he embrace me, when first I receaved holie Orders,& had a station neare to his?
A01045and by His infinite power, is Hee not able to collect them altogether?
A01045and doest thou not, laying aside all carnall cogitation, beholde with a free and pure mynde, the thinges that are in Heaven?
A01045and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?
A01045and what Sleepe more to bee desired than IT, were not the Bed wherein IT is enjoyed, seemeth to lessen all the former happinesse?
A01045and, consequentlie, not to torment, and punish it, when it is fullie fred from all those vicious inclinations, and motions?
A01045faustoque Magistri Omine, concordi festiva Celeusmata voce Nautarum exhilarata cohors geminabat?
A01045for as the wicked man dying, may say vnto death, as Ahab sayd to Eliah, Hast thou found mee, O myne enemie?
A01045hast thou found mee faynte hearted?
A01045haue not Aire, Earth, and Seas, Spent teares at ARON''S funerall?
A01045how easilie may Hee call backe those thinges that were, and quicken the dead?
A01045it was not hitherto thy custome to offer sacrifice without thy helper?
A01045layde their snares, consulted together in heart, and made a league agaynst him, and others with him?
A01045naufrago ponto ratem Committo?
A01045nil vota piorum, Nil castae valuere preces, gemitusque profusi?
A01045num degenerem probasti?
A01045nunquam sacrificium sine ministro offerre consueveras?
A01045or of the reliques of thy dishes, who is with thee invited to the Banquet of Angels?
A01045or what may hinder their present admission and enterance into their Masters joy?
A01045potest dici praecellentius potestate, quae etiam carnem hominis ad dexteram DEI collocavit?
A01045quae te, quae tarda moratur Vis Remorae, irati vastum per inane profundi Tendentem, validisque aptantem Carbasa ventis?
A01045queis ante tuum disrupta fenestris Regia Puppis erat Regimen?
A01045quid denique?
A01045quid in me displicuit pater?
A01045quid non lachrymabile restat?
A01045quid?
A01045quis acerbo froena dolori Injiciat, tanti truculentâ in morte Magistri?
A01045quis enim quis ferreus vdis Temperet à Lachrymis?
A01045quis potis esse Sensus?
A01045quove Marini Principis arbitrio, per tot vada caerula ponti Hactenus emersere?
A01045respondens illi quaestioni DOMINI ▪ Quomodo ergo David in spiritu dicit ● um Dominum,& c. Quomodo( inquit) nos diceremus nisi á te disceremus?
A01045speaketh, be pleasant in His sight?
A01045spoliisque beâvit opimis Improbus invicti labor,& pia cura Magistri?
A01045that is, And who will not earnestlie desire to dwell there, for the peace, the pleasure, the aeternitie, and the sight of GOD there?
A01045v. Howe carefull then should wee be, to purge our selues from all vncleannesse of the flesh, and of the spirit?
A01045what is GOD, which neyther the eye hath seene, nor the eare hath heard, nor hath entered into the heart of man?
A01045what is there in mee nowe hath displeased thee?
A01045what testimonies at his death had we of his loue?
A01045what wisdome& soliditie was in his advysses?
A01045who shall deliver mee from the bodie of this death?
A01045yea, if hee were nowe speaking to you, would hee not say?
A01045— Quid hoc ad DEI Servos quòs Paradisus invitat, quos gratia omnis& copia regni Coelestis expectat?
A01045— si in judicii severitatē capax illa Dei virgo ve ● tura est desiderare quis audebit à DEO judicari?
A01045† O mors, crudelis best ● a, amaritudo amarissima, foetor& horror filiorum Adam, quid fecisti?
A26786''T is observable how passionately the afflicted Psalmist complains, Will the Lord cast off for ever?
A26786''T is of great Efficacy to reflect upon our selves, Whither do my Thoughts and Desires tend?
A26786A Carnal Wretch, urged by the sting of a brutish Desire, with what impatience doth he pursue the Pleasures of Sin that are but for a season?
A26786A considering Christian will reject them with indignation, saying with Joseph, How can I do this great Wickedness, and sin against God?
A26786A covetous Man, how greedily does he pursue the Advantages of the present World that passes away, and the Lusts thereof?
A26786A lively firm perswasion of the excellence and eternity of the Reward, what miraculous effects would it produce?
A26786A ‖ Prince will not endure that his free Favours should be made a Law to him, and the special Privilege of some be extended to all?
A26786An ambitious Person, with what an intemperate height of Passion does he chase a Feather?
A26786An verè extribuit nobis omnia quae promisit,& de solo die judicii nos fefellit?
A26786And are Heaven and Hell such trivial things as to be left to an Uncertainty?
A26786And are not sensual Men equally guilty of such monstrous Folly?
A26786And are their Bodies taken from the Vein of a Rock, and not composed of Flesh and Blood as well as others?
A26786And are there not many visible examples of holy heavenly Christians, to whom grosser sensual Pleasures are unsavory and contemptible?
A26786And can it be extended to humane Affairs, if there be no other than the present state, wherein the Righteous are afflicted, and the Wicked prosper?
A26786And can you be guilty of such a cruel Indifference, such a desperate Carelessness, as to leave eternal Salvation and Damnation to a peradventure?
A26786And did Men truly believe and fear the Law of God, threatning Hell for Sin, would they dare to commit it, though invited by pleasant Temptations?
A26786And do not the most evident Principles of Reason and universal Experience prove, that this World can not afford true Happiness to us?
A26786And how admirable will he appear to the Sense and Soul of every glorified Saint?
A26786And how attractive is the Divine Likeness to an holy Eye?
A26786And how dear and joyful is the presence of the Saints to Christ?
A26786And how dreadful is it to appear before the Tribunal of God, and expect an uncertain Sentence?
A26786And how guilty and miserable will those Sinners be that when Christ has opened Heaven to us by his Blood, refuse to enter into it?
A26786And if Men were perswaded that Sin is attended with eternal Death, would they drink in Iniquity like Water?
A26786And if his Anger be so terrible when he chastises as a compassionate Father, what is his Fury when he punishes as a severe Judg?
A26786And if the belief were equal, would not Men do or suffer as much for obtaining what is infinitely more valuable?
A26786And if ye offer the Lame and Sick, is it not evil?
A26786And is it not most just, that Treason against the Great and Immortal King, should be revenged with Everlasting Death?
A26786And is it not very becoming Believers joyfully to ascend to the Seat of Blessedness, to the happy Society that inspires mutual Joys for ever?
A26786And is not Integrity and Honesty in our dealings with Men more easy and comfortable than Fraud and Oppression?
A26786And is not the blessed Bosom of Christ their Port?
A26786And is there not infinitely more reason we should labour to please God, who is the most liberal, and rich, and certain Rewarder of all that seek him?
A26786And it may be said to this our last Enemy, in the Words of the Prophet to the bloody King, Hast thou killed, and taken Possession?
A26786And know ye not that the Vnrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God?
A26786And our Saviour upbraids the Pharisees, How can ye believe, which receive Honour one of another, and seek not the Honour that comes from God only?
A26786And shall not he render to every Man according to his Works?
A26786And shall the World that passes away with the Lusts thereof, turn our Affections from the undefiled immortal Inheritance?
A26786And shall we not value the judgment of Men when they are best instructed, and give credit to their Testimony when they are sincere?
A26786And to the other part of the Question, Why the Saints remain in the state of Death for a time?
A26786And what a blessed Rest do they find in the compleat fruition of his Goodness?
A26786And what can be more provoking, than for a Trifle to transgress the Law of God, and equally despise his Favour and Displeasure?
A26786And what is more becoming his excellent Goodness, than to reward the Works of Mercy with saving Mercy?
A26786And will such Prayers prevail?
A26786Annon longe gloriosius fuit, quandoquidem totum pro nobis agebatur, ut non modo passio corporis, sed etiam cordis affectio pro nobis faceret?
A26786Are Temperance and Chastity as hurtful to the Body, as Luxury and Lasciviousness, the essential parts of Carnal Felicity?
A26786Are not Men concern''d in another manner in the Affairs of this World?
A26786Are their Passions, like Solomon''s brazen Sea, unmoveable by any Winds of Temptations?
A26786Are they entirely exempted from the impression of Objects, and the lower Affections?
A26786Are they not equally capable of Eternal Rewards?
A26786Are they not equally the Off- spring of God, and equally ransomed by the most precious Blood of his Son?
A26786Art thou become like us?
A26786As the Man in the Parable of the Marriage- Feast, when taxt for his presumptuous intrusion without a Wedding- Garment, How camest thou in hither?
A26786But how brightly do they appear in his Exaltation?
A26786But how desperate is the madness of Sinners?
A26786But how easily do Men deceive and damn themselves?
A26786But how much less than the glorious Excellencies of the supernatural Divine Life, wherein the Saints reign with God for ever?
A26786But how rare and disused a Duty is this?
A26786But suppose a dying Person with true Tears and unfeigned persevering Affections returns to God; Can he have a comfortable Assurance of his Sincerity?
A26786But what Man is he that lives, and shall not see Death?
A26786But what dear satisfaction is it to be united to that chosen consecrated Society Above, who love one another as themselves?
A26786Can any Punishment less than Eternal, expiate such Impieties?
A26786Can it then be pretended that the Yoke of Christ is heavy, and his Law hard?
A26786Can there be an Expectation, or Desire, or Capacity in Man of enjoying an Happiness beyond what is Infinite and Eternal?
A26786Can they be assur''d of Life one Hour?
A26786Can two incongruous Natures delight in one another?
A26786Can we become too like God, when a perfect conformity to him is our Duty and Felicity?
A26786Can we have too much of Heaven upon the Earth?
A26786Can we imagine any design, any insincerity in his Words?
A26786Consider what Sincerity or moral Value is in Religion that meerly proceeds from bitter Constraint?
A26786Could he speak this of himself without the injury and indignation of the other Disciples?
A26786Do they hope to soften the Judg by Submissions and Deprecations?
A26786Doth his Promise fail for evermore?
A26786Et quos vivificabat mors, nihilominus& trepidatio robustos,& moestitia laetos& taedium alacres& turbatio quietos facecet,& desolatio consolatos?
A26786For what can be more desirable than conformity to the Nature of the blessed God?
A26786For what do I spend my Strength, and consume my Days?
A26786For what is the weak light of our Minds, to the pure Eyes of his Glory?
A26786God forbid: For then how shall God judg the World?
A26786God forbid: for then how shall God judg the World?
A26786Hath he forgotten to be gracious?
A26786Hath he in anger shut up his tender Mercies?
A26786He replied, I see them; but how many having invocated Neptune, yet perish''d in the Ocean, and never came to pay their Vows for Deliverance?
A26786Here, after all our labour and toyl, how little Knowledg do we gain?
A26786How beautiful and pleasant is the Day of Eternity, after such a dark tempestuous Night?
A26786How bitter is Death that deprives a carnal Wretch of all the Materials of his frail Felicity?
A26786How boldly did they encounter Death that interpos''d between them and the sight of his Glory?
A26786How can the Thoughts be fixt on invisible things so distant from Sense, if always conversant with secular Objects that draw them down?
A26786How can we reasonably conceive, that God, in favour to the Reprobates, should cross the established order of Creation?
A26786How careful to prevent the Sentence of Death, of Imprisonment, of Banishment?
A26786How circumspect should we be in all our Ways, since every Action shall be reviewed by our Judg?
A26786How comes it to pass that Men are not always under the actual fear of Death, but subject to the revolutions of it all their Lives?
A26786How comfortable is it to his People that he who loved them above his Life, and was their Redeemer on the Cross, shall be their Judg on the Throne?
A26786How difficult to order the Affections, to raise what is drooping, and suppress what is rebellious?
A26786How diligent to obtain some temporal Advantage?
A26786How do they complain of the vain World, and their vainer Hearts, when Experience has convinc''d them of their woful Folly?
A26786How do they forget themselves, neglect the Body, and retire into the Mind, the highest part of Man, and nearest to God?
A26786How does the remembrance of such Evils produce a more lively and feeling fruition of such Happiness?
A26786How earnestly do they seek for Death, but can not find it?
A26786How happy is that state of Love?
A26786How hard is it to be continually watching the Heart that Corruptions do not break out, and the Senses that Temptations do not break in?
A26786How hardly are Men induc''d to set about it?
A26786How is it possible he should condemn those for whom he died, and who appear with the impressions of his reconciling Blood upon them?
A26786How joyful is the performance of that Service which more immediately is directed to the honour of the Divine Majesty?
A26786How joyfully are they received into Heaven by our Saviour and the blessed Spirits?
A26786How just is it that those who are the Slaves of the Devil, and maintain his Party here, should have their Recompence with him for ever?
A26786How justly shall they be for ever deprived of it?
A26786How many Enemies of our Salvation are lodg''d in our own bosoms?
A26786How many from glorious Beginnings have made a lamentable End?
A26786How many have been terrified from their clearest Duty and resolved Constancy?
A26786How many have finally miscarried in shooting that Gulph, to one that has arrived safe at Heaven?
A26786How many specious Errors impose upon our Understandings?
A26786How many that presume, upon their Youth and Strength, to delay Repentance, are suddenly cut off?
A26786How many will not discern nor censure that Folly in themselves, which they will condemn in others for extream Madness?
A26786How many, when sick, hope either by the Vigour of Nature, or the Virtue of Medicines, to overcome the Disease?
A26786How often are the Learned sickly?
A26786How often are the People of God here in miserable Perplexities?
A26786How often are the Scenes and Habits chang''d in the time of one Man?
A26786How often do they break forth in the sorrowful Words of the Apostle, We have been toiling all Night, and caught nothing?
A26786How often does Experience convince us of the Inefficacy of a Sickbed- Repentance?
A26786How pleasantly does Time slide away in the company of our beloved Friends?
A26786How precious and joyful will the Presence of Christ be to the Saints?
A26786How reviving is it that Christ, whose Glory was the end and perfection of their Lives, shall dispose their states for ever?
A26786How strangely and mightily does Salvation with Eternal Glory affect the Soul?
A26786How suddenly did his Blood congeal, and his warmest quickest Spirits die in his Heart?
A26786How uncertain is it whether God will accept the Addresses of such at last?
A26786How unreasonable is it that a Soul capable of God, should cleave to the Dust?
A26786How valiant were the Martyrs in expressing acts of Love to Christ?
A26786How vastly different are their Apprehensions of Temporal Things in the review, from what they were in their vicious Desires?
A26786How will he be confounded at his former Folly?
A26786How will it confound those abject Wretches to be a spectacle of Abhorrence and Scorn before that Universal Glorious Confluence?
A26786How will it ravish the Saints to behold an immortal Loveliness shining in one another?
A26786How will it transform him into another Man, with new Valuations, new Affections and Resolutions, as if he were born again with a new Soul?
A26786How will the sight of his glorious Perfections in the first moment quench our extream Thirst, and fill us with Joy and Admiration?
A26786How will the tormenting Passions be inflam''d?
A26786How will they be ashamed of their foul and permanent Deformity in the Light of that glorious Presence?
A26786How will they be astonisht to appear in all their Pollutions before that bright and immense Theatre?
A26786How will they be confounded to stand in all their Guilt before that sublime and severe Tribunal?
A26786How will they curse their Creation, and wish their utter extinction, as the final Remedy of their Misery?
A26786How will they pine with envy at the sight of that triumphant Felicity, of which they shall never be Partakers?
A26786How wretchedly do we forfeit the Prerogative of the reasonable Nature, by neglecting our last and blessed End?
A26786How zealous an Indignation did the Son of God express against the obdurate Pharisees?
A26786If Men did seriously believe such an excellent Reward, as the Gospel propounds, would it be a cold unperswasive Motive to them?
A26786If Sin with an eternal Hell in its Retinue be chosen and embrac''d, is it not equal that the rational Creature should inherit his own choice?
A26786If they do not, how prodigious is their impiety?
A26786In corde versaris?
A26786In cubile intras?
A26786In what an Extasy of wonder and pleasure will they be, from the fresh memory of what they were, and the joyful sense of what they are?
A26786In what various pathetick Forms does he express the same Affection?
A26786Indeed the Searcher and Judg of Hearts will accept him: but how doubtful and wavering are his Hopes?
A26786Is it not evident then beyond the most jealous suspicion, God is desirous of our Happiness?
A26786Is it not just that those who would continue under the dominion of Sin, should forfeit all their claim to the Divine Mercy?
A26786Is it to raise an Estate, to shine in Pomp, to enjoy sensual Pleasures for a little while, and after the fatal term to be no more for ever?
A26786Is not Heaven the Country of the Saints?
A26786Is not their Birth from above, and their tendency to their Original?
A26786Is there any Sin of a more mortal Guilt?
A26786Is there any difference between the Souls of the rich and great in the World, and the Souls of the poor and despised?
A26786Is there such Charity in Hell to the Souls of others?
A26786Is this to give Glory to God?
A26786Let us be seriously excited to apply our selves with inflamed desires and our utmost diligence to obtain this unchangeable Happiness?
A26786Lucerna ardet?
A26786Lucerna extincta est?
A26786Men delay Repentance upon the Presumption of a long Life: But what is more uncertain?
A26786Negationem quanta compellunt, ingenia carnificum,& genera poenarum?
A26786Notes for div A26786-e26110 Ut corpus redimas ferrum patieris& ignes: ut valeas animo quicquam tolerare negabis?
A26786Now how charming is the Conversation of one that is wise and holy, especially if the sweetness of Affability be in his Temper?
A26786Now if Everlasting Glory be despised, what remains but endless Misery to be the Sinner''s Portion?
A26786Now in cases of great Moment and Hazard, what Diligence, what Caution should be used?
A26786Now what are these Appearances of Beauty and Pleasure, compar''d with a Blessedness that is truly infinite?
A26786Now what induc''d him to place a singular Love on the Elect?
A26786Now who can unfold the infinite Volume of Ages in Eternity?
A26786O how do they rejoice and triumph in the Happiness of one another?
A26786O how transporting is the comparison of these wide and contrary extreams?
A26786O what a marvellous change will it make in him, of Carnal into Spiritual?
A26786Of the innumerable Assembly above; is there any Eye that weeps, any Breast that sighs, any Tongue that complains, or any appearance of Grief?
A26786Offer it now to thy Governour, will he be pleased with it, to accept thy Person, saith the Lord of Hosts?
A26786Or are his Promises uncertain, and his Reward small?
A26786Or can they appeal to an higher Court to mitigate or reverse the Sentence?
A26786Or do they think, by a stubborn Spirit, to endure it?
A26786Or, do they think to resist the execution of the Sentence?
A26786Quam suave carete suavitatibus istis?
A26786Quanto est majus quanto fortius quanto laudabilius ita credere, ut se speret moriturus sine fine victurum?
A26786Qui quum amitteret doluit, an qui quum amitteret lusit?
A26786Quid enim magnum erat vivendo eos non m ● ● i qui crederent se non morituros?
A26786Quis enim satis explicet verbis, quantum mali sit non obedire tanto potestatis imperio,& tanto tenenti supplicio?
A26786Quis magis negavit, qui Christum vexatus, an qui delectatus amisit?
A26786Shall I cherish vain Hopes, vain Aims and Desires of obtaining Happiness in a perishing World?
A26786Shall not God search it out, for he knows the very secrets of the heart?
A26786Shall our last Enemy always detain his Spoils, our Bodies, in the Grave?
A26786Shall the vanishing appearance, the fleeting Figure of Happiness be preferred before what is substantial and durable?
A26786Shall we not then consider Heaven the Mansion of Blessedness, and Hell the Seat of Misery and Horror?
A26786St. Paul himself breaks forth into a mournful Complaint, O wretched Man that I am, who shall deliver me from this Body of Death?
A26786Suppose that Justice should allow Omnipotence to translate such a Sinner to Heaven, would the Place make him happy?
A26786Tertullian propounds it as a powerful incentive to the Martyrs, Quis ergo non libentissimè tantum pro vero habeat erogare, quantum alii pro falso?
A26786That Reproach is more justly due to Infidels under the Gospel, than to Israel in the Prophet: Who is blind as my Servant?
A26786The Lamp appear''d, and being demanded what it knew of him?
A26786The Prophet breaks forth in an Extasy, How beautiful are the feet of the Messengers of Peace, those that bring glad- tidings of Salvation?
A26786The Psalmist breaks forth, Whom have I in Heaven but Thee?
A26786Then the wretched Captive shall upbraid the proud Conqueror, Art thou become weak as we?
A26786Therefore God vindicates the Equity of his Proceedings with Men by their own Principles, and with tender pity expostulates, Why will ye die?
A26786This is visible in Men who are wholly led by Sense, how sagacious, how sollicitous are they to accomplish their Ends and base Designs?
A26786This so astonish''d the Apostles, that they cried, Who then can be saved?
A26786Those who are possess''d with a noble Passion for Knowledg, how do they despise all lower Pleasures in comparison of it?
A26786Thus the Apostle with abhorrence rejects the Question, Is God Vnrighteous who taketh Vengeance?
A26786Thus the wise King declares, Doth not he that ponders the Heart consider it?
A26786To a wise and pondering Observer, what comparison is there between Shadows and Dreams, and substantial everlasting Blessedness?
A26786Were they uncapable of hearing the Divine Commands?
A26786What Excuses can they alledg, why they did not believe and obey the Gospel?
A26786What Instance can be of equal moment with that of entertaining the Son of God?
A26786What Person, though inflam''d with thirst, would drink a Glass of cool Liquor, if he suspected that deadly Poison were mix''d with it?
A26786What Pleasure is comparable to that which springs from a pure Conscience, from a godly, righteous and sober Conversation?
A26786What Rancour, Reluctance, and Rage, against the just Power that sentenc''d them to Hell?
A26786What Reciprocations of Endearments are between them?
A26786What Repentings will be kindled within them, for the stupid neglect of the great Salvation so dearly purchased, and earnestly offered to them?
A26786What Spirit of Errour possesses them?
A26786What Visions of Horror, what Spectacles of Fear, what Scenes of Sorrow are presented to the distracted Mind by the Prince of Darkness?
A26786What a Favour would they esteem it to be annihilated?
A26786What a Storm of Passions is raised, to lose all his good things at once?
A26786What a confounding discovery will be made of secret Wickedness at the last day?
A26786What a dishonour is it to the God of Glory, that proud Dust should fly in his Face, and controul his Authority?
A26786What a provocation, that the reasonable Creature, that is naturally and necessarily a Subject, should despise the Divine Law and Lawgiver?
A26786What an impression of Glory is in the Saints, who see his Perfections in their infinite lustre?
A26786What are the prepared Plagues, by infinite Justice and Almighty Wrath for obstinate Sinners?
A26786What better Earnest can we have, that the strength of Death is broken?
A26786What can be more glorious, than to be conform''d to the humanity of the Son of God?
A26786What can interrupt, much less put an end to the Happiness of the Saints?
A26786What endearing entercourse is there between the most perfect Lover and his Spouse inspir''d with the same pure Flam?
A26786What impatience and indignation against themselves for their wilful Sins, the just cause of it?
A26786What is the cause of this prodigious security?
A26786What is the lashing with a few Rushes, to a blow given by the hand of a Giant that strikes dead at once?
A26786What is the present momentany Life that so enamours us?
A26786What is this lower World that chains us so fast?
A26786What powerful Charm obstructs their true judging of things?
A26786What reasonable Person would neglect a Disease that may prove deadly, and rely on extreme Remedies?
A26786What resentments, what resistance of Nature did he suffer?
A26786What stupid Brutes are they, who for momentany Delights, incur the fiery Indignation of God for ever?
A26786What triumphs of Joy follow?
A26786When their Folly shall be exposed before God, Angels, and Saints, in what extream confusion will they appear before that glorious and immense Theatre?
A26786Where are the delicious Fare, the Musick, the Purple, and all the carnal Delights of the rich Man?
A26786Whither will they cause their Shame to go?
A26786Who among us can dwell with devouring Fire?
A26786Who can distinguish between Royal Dust taken out of magnificent Tombs, and Plebean Dust from common Graves?
A26786Who can fully conceive the Extent and Degrees of that Evil?
A26786Who can know who were rich, and who were poor; who had Power and Command, who were Vassals, who were remarkable by Fame, who by Infamy?
A26786Who can pluck them out of the Hands and Bosom of a Gracious God?
A26786Who can sound the Depths of his Displeasure?
A26786Who hath first given unto him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?
A26786Who is so vain as to please himself with an imagination of Immortality here?
A26786Who knows the Power of his Anger?
A26786Who knows the Power of thine Anger?
A26786Who would not joyfully sacrifice Life and all its Indearments, to obtain true Blessedness, which others do for the vain Appearance of it?
A26786Whoever saw a more glorious Victory over all the tender and powerful Passions of humane Nature?
A26786Why should Heaven court a Worm?
A26786Will he be favourable no more?
A26786Will it be my last Account, how much by my Prudence and Diligence I have exceeded others in temporal Acquisitions?
A26786Will it be profitable for a Man to gain the World, and lose his Soul?
A26786Will the Gain of the World compensate the Loss of the Soul and Salvation for ever?
A26786Will the remembrance of sensual Delights allay the Torments of the Damned?
A26786With what Life and Alacrity will the Saints in their blessed Communion celebrate the Object of their Love and Praises?
A26786With what an unimaginable tenderness do they embrace?
A26786With what earnest affections did St. Paul desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ?
A26786With what excellent Discourses do they entertain one another?
A26786Yet how many are ashamed of this Glory?
A26786Yet how neglectful in things of highest importance?
A26786You Serpents, you Generation of Vipers, how should you escape the Damnation of Hell?
A26786and he that keepeth thy Soul, doth not he know it?
A26786but how much more beautiful is the face of the Author of our Peace and Salvation?
A26786how do they upbraid our indifferent Desires, our dull Delays and cold Endeavours, when such a high Prize is set before us?
A26786how many neglect their Duty, and defer their Happiness?
A26786how unable to answer one Article of a thousand charg''d upon them?
A26786how willingly do they deceive themselves?
A26786nay, where Vice receives the natural reward of Vertue, Honour and Felicity, and Vertue the just wages of Vice, Disgrace and Sufferings?
A26786nonne veluti numinis occursu obstupefacti essemus?
A26786shall I fall down to the stock of a Tree?
A26786shall a Man be more pure than his Maker?
A26786that he, who esteems every act of their Charity and Kindness done to his Servants as done to himself, shall dispense the blessed Reward?
A26786what anxious Fears are in his Breast, lest he builds upon a sandy Foundation?
A26786when the diseased Body can not live, and the disconsolate Soul dare not die, what Anxieties surround it?
A26786when the original Fountains of Wisdom, as clear as deep, shall be open''d, what sweet Satisfaction will be shed abroad in their Spirits?
A26786where Sins of the deepest stain and the lowdest cry are unpunish''d; and the sublime and truly heroick Vertues are unrewarded?
A26786who among us can remain with everlasting burnings?
A26786with what moving Expressions declared the Vanity and Brevity of worldly things?
A26786† Quae justior venia in omnibus causis, quam voluntarius, an quam invitus peccator implorat?
A23622''t is well?
A2362214. the Margin and given such a promise to him thereupon, and will not you put in for a share, neither in the praise, nor the promise?
A2362246. and will not you own it with your practise?
A23622A selfish Spirit is unworthy of a Christian: are the common concernments of Gods Glory, and the prosperity of the Church, much upon your hearts?
A23622Again, hath Christ recorded his Name in your hearts?
A23622Again, how do You stand affected towards Holiness?
A23622Against which of these Rules have I offended, in the day foregoing?
A23622Ah vile and putrid Carkases?
A23622Ah what a Block doth Unbelief make of man?
A23622Alas what will their favour avail you?
A23622Alas, hath he not a thousand ways, both outward and inward, to make up a little outward disadvantage to us?
A23622Alas, what do I here?
A23622Am I a mourner for the sins of the Land?
A23622An heir of Glory?
A23622And O that the Lord might be loved the better, and glorified the more for our sakes: Will you tell us wherein we may shew our love to Him?
A23622And Oh what hard and stupid hearts have we?
A23622And are you all fat and well liking?
A23622And how great a Solace was this in his Sufferings, when he could be in a Goal, and in Heaven at once?
A23622And how great and how near is it?
A23622And how much Super- natural Revelation presupposeth, and findeth ready to entertain it and befriend it in the Light and Law of Nature?
A23622And if the friends do rejoyce, how much more doth the father?
A23622And if this be true, I pray you, tell me whether GOD heth not dealt well with us in counting us worthy of this little Tribulation for his Name?
A23622And of all the wrath of God, that hath been lately manitested and reveal''d from Heaven against us, more ways then I am able to express?
A23622And on the other side, alass, how ordinary is it for Zeal to make a bussle in the Dark, and for those that are very earnest to be very blind?
A23622And once again, when the righteous turueth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, shall be live?
A23622And shall the Grant of Heaven signifie little with thee?
A23622And shall we be insensible of such a stroke?
A23622And should not they walk more cautiously, and charily, than any alive, that are under so exact and curious an Eye?
A23622And still would justifie and 〈 ◊ 〉 God, and say, Shall I receive good at God''s hand, and no evil?
A23622And therefore God comes in and interrupts them, why what''s the matter with you, can you tell why you take on in this fashion?
A23622And what have we to do, but to believe, and wait, and love, and long, and look out for his coming, in which is all our hope?
A23622And what is thy business without Gods Blessing?
A23622And where saith he of mourning thou art mad, and of sorrow, What is it that thou doest?
A23622And why for them?
A23622And why is this World so much forsaken?
A23622And will he come?
A23622And will you miss of all, for want of Patience?
A23622And will you not be much more ashamed, that God and Conscience should find you tardy?
A23622Are You at peace with no sin, or do you not hide some Iniquity as a sweet morsel under your Tongue?
A23622Are not we his Jewells?
A23622Are there no secret Stitches at the Hearts of any of you, upon this consideration?
A23622Are they capable of the mysteries of your trade, and are they not capable of the plain principles of Religion?
A23622Are they in Health?
A23622Are you for the present World, or for that to come?
A23622Are you for your Temporal enjoyments, or do you seek for Glory, Honour, and Immortallty?
A23622Are you more affraid of sin than ever?
A23622Are you more earnest upon the duty of Mortification?
A23622Are you naked and are you not afraid?
A23622Are you naked and not ashamed?
A23622Are you not betrothed unto Christ?
A23622Are you yet willing to turn?
A23622As he doth of joy and laughter, Where do you find a blessing poured out on laughter, as you do on tears and mourning?
A23622As the Father hath given him, so do your hearts give him a Name above every Name: Is Christ uppermost with you in your estimations and affections?
A23622Ask your self, what sin have I committed, what duty have I omitted?
A23622At least no further returns?
A23622Being asked by a Friend, How he could be so well contented to lie so long under such weakness?
A23622Being often askt by my self and others, how it was with his Spirit in all this weakness?
A23622Believed thou this?
A23622Beloved, GOD hath used you like Fondlings now, rather than like Sufferers: What shall I say?
A23622Beloved, shall not the Vessel be for the use of the Porter that made it?
A23622Beloved, what can you do?
A23622Besides, is not ours a Religion of self- denial?
A23622Besides, the Husbandman hath long patience, and will not you have a little patience?
A23622Beware they be not found among the Families that call not upon Gods Name; for why should there be wrath from the Lord upon your Families?
A23622Brethren beloved, How fares it with your Souls?
A23622Brethren, how stands it with you?
A23622Brethren, shall I yet prevail with you?
A23622Brethren, what are you for?
A23622But O what shall we render?
A23622But alas, how long shall I be a seeking?
A23622But alas, though those things are duly to be considered too, yet what good am I like to do?
A23622But alas, what are they the better for any, for all this?
A23622But alas, what are we, and what is this little that we call our All?
A23622But be of good comfort, the shame of Holiness is real Glory: how confidently doth Paul shake his Chain?
A23622But have you all done this?
A23622But is he gone to Heaven too soon?
A23622But it may be you will say, how shall I know if I am an object of Electing love?
A23622But one cast for Eternity, and will You not be carefull to throw that well?
A23622But tell me my Beloved, is he a loser any way?
A23622But we may now cry out as the Psalmist, in his complaint, O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame?
A23622But what Repentance did he seek with tears?
A23622But what do I speak of my Love?
A23622But what shall I say?
A23622But where shall I begin, or when should I end?
A23622But who are Christs Sheep?
A23622But why should I doubt of your acceptance, who have so readily embraced me in all our converses?
A23622But why, my Pylades, why is thy stile towards me changed?
A23622But will it suit with such a state of sin and danger, as the best of you are in?
A23622But will you now?
A23622But you will ask me, For whom shall we weep then?
A23622Can Fulness fill you?
A23622Can Omnipotence secure you?
A23622Can a woman forget her Child, that she should not have compassion on the Son of her Womb?
A23622Can all Content you?
A23622Can not your consciences witness, can not your families 〈 ◊ 〉 you have not?
A23622Can they undo your souls?
A23622Can unsearchable Riches suffice you?
A23622Can you bring me Scripture- proof?
A23622Can you forget your Children?
A23622Can you shew me the Marks of the Lord Jesus?
A23622Chear up, my Brethren, look what a Crown, what a Kingdom here is; What say you?
A23622Christians, shall he that hath gotten an inriching Office boast of his Booty?
A23622Christians, where are your affections?
A23622Could you make out your Claim?
A23622Deaths can stand before it?
A23622Did I eat, drink for the glory of God?
A23622Did not God find me on my Bed, when he looked for me on my knees?
A23622Did not I arise from the 〈 ◊ 〉 without dropping any thing of God there?
A23622Did not I mock with God when I pretended to 〈 ◊ 〉 a blessing, and return thanks?
A23622Did not I rashly make, nor falsly break some promise?
A23622Did not I sit down with an higher end than a Beast, meerly to please my Appetite?
A23622Did they not know what they are, born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward, so that they have a natural tendency to it?
A23622Did you ever read or hear of a man so mad as to run upon the swords point, to avoid the scratch of a Pin?
A23622Did you set out for God to day?
A23622Do I first seek the kingdom of heaven, and the righteousness thereof?
A23622Do I live in nothing that I know or fear to be a sin?
A23622Do I speak any thing but what God hath spoken?
A23622Do I think Heaven will drop into my mouth?
A23622Do I think to be crowned, and yet never fight?
A23622Do You follow after Holiness?
A23622Do You hate every sin and long to be rid of it as your most irksome burden?
A23622Do You hunger and thirst after it, and desire it more than any Temporal good?
A23622Do You in your very Hearts, prefer a Godly strict Life in communion with and conformity to God, before the greatest prosperity of the World?
A23622Do You thirst for Holiness?
A23622Do any of you Question whether you are so happy as to have your Names recorded above?
A23622Do but view it believingly and considerately, as it is darkly drawn there, and tell me, what think you of that worthy portion, that goodly Heritage?
A23622Do not you know who hath said to you so often, Remember me?
A23622Do these Letters come to none that are yet unsanctified?
A23622Do they prosper?
A23622Do you abstain from sin out of fear, or out of dislike?
A23622Do you ask for marks how you may know your souls be in a thriving case?
A23622Do you believe this?
A23622Do you believe yet?
A23622Do you choose it?
A23622Do you desire the Preparatives of Languages, and Philosophy?
A23622Do you eat and sleep by rule?
A23622Do you grow more out of love with mens esteem, and set less by it?
A23622Do you hate every sin as the Sheep doth the Mire?
A23622Do you look for an high degree of Zeal?
A23622Do you love it?
A23622Do you need Motives?]
A23622Do you not find your selves uncovered?
A23622Do you not know that you are naked?
A23622Do you not know that you do in vain name the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, except you depart from iniquity?
A23622Do you prize it above all Prosperity and worldly Greatness?
A23622Do you regard no Iniquity in your Hearts?
A23622Do you strive against, and oppose all Sin, though it may seem never so necessary, never so natural to you, or have you not you secret Haunts of evil?
A23622Do you take more delight in the Word than ever?
A23622Do you take more notice of God in every thing, than heretofore?
A23622Do you think it is enough to remember him for an hour?
A23622Do you thirst after God, and after grace, more than heretofore?
A23622Do you throughly believe?
A23622Doth he not own us for his Members, for his Children?
A23622Doth not Conscience say, Thou art the man?
A23622Doth not my Master deserve more than theirs?
A23622Doth not sin sit light?
A23622Fear is a slavish principle: do you find that you are acted less by fear, and more by love?
A23622First, Lest while Christ is in your mouths, the world run away with your hearts: There is many a seeming Professor that will be found a meer Idolater?
A23622For First, He hath bestowed more on them than on others: Now where much is given, much shall be required; Can you think of that without trembling?
A23622God hath said it, and who shall reverse it?
A23622Hath he his everlasting Rest too soon?
A23622Hath not God been out of mind?
A23622Hath not God said, that if we suffer with him we shall also Reign with him; and that these light afflictions work for us a weight of Glory?
A23622Hath not Mercy wooed them?
A23622Hath not he reproved the greatest for his Peoples sakes, saying, reproach not mine anointed?
A23622Hath the Law of the Lord been in my mouth as I fat in my House, went by the way, was lying down, and rising up?
A23622Have I been diligent in the duties of my Calling?
A23622Have I been much in Holy Ejaculations?
A23622Have I been often looking into mine own Heart, and made conscience of vain thoughts?
A23622Have I bridled my Tongue, and forced it in?
A23622Have I come into no company where I have not dropped something of God, and left some good savour behind?
A23622Have I desrauded no man?
A23622Have I digested the Sermon I heard last?
A23622Have I done any thing more than ordinary for the Church of God, in this time extraordinary?
A23622Have I dropped never a lye in my Shop or Trade?
A23622Have I redeemed my time from too long or needless visits, idle imaginations, fruitless discourse, unnecessary sleep, more than needs of the World?
A23622Have I spoke evil of no Man?
A23622Have I took care of my Company?
A23622Have I 〈 ◊ 〉 it over?
A23622Have You chosen the way of Gods Precepts, and had rather live Holily than be allowed to live in your sins?
A23622Have any ventured themselves upon him in his way, but he made good every word of the Promise to them?
A23622Have not I given way to the workings of Pride, or Passion?
A23622Have not I neglected, or been very overly in the reading God''s Holy Word?
A23622Have not I prayed to no purpose, or suffered wandering thoughts to eat out my duties?
A23622Have you been soundly convinced of your sins?
A23622Have you done it all accordingly?
A23622Have you never a Sacrifice to lay upon his Altar?
A23622Have you no sense and feeling of it?
A23622Have you taken him for your blessedness?
A23622He answered, What, is God my Father, Jesus Christ my Saviour, and the Spirit my sweet Friend, my Comforter, and Sanctifyer, and Heaven my Inheritance?
A23622He bears your names, but where?
A23622He hath you upon his heart, but why?
A23622He hath 〈 ◊ 〉 of You; Yet How do his) Compassions melt over perishing Sinners?
A23622He lived as if he had been quickned with that saying,( which I have somewhere met with in Tertullian) Quid prodest esse, quod esse non prodest?
A23622Heaven out of sight?
A23622His glorious Recompence too soon?
A23622How closely doth he cling?
A23622How did it look?
A23622How do You pray with all Prayer and Supplication, if You do not with Family Prayer?
A23622How do many men take on, when they are crost in prosecution of their lusts, and hindred in their sins, which is in deed a great mercy?
A23622How do your Souls prosper?
A23622How excellently able was he to deal with the Naturalist at his own Weapons, aud to shame them that call Religion an unproved or unreasonable thing?
A23622How feelingly doth he cry out at the hurt of his poor Members on Earth?
A23622How fully doth he Relie upon God?
A23622How is it then that you read not the Sentence passed on the fruitless Tree?
A23622How it 〈 ◊ 〉 to 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 to you?
A23622How long shall I live at such a distance from my God, at such a distance from my Countrey?
A23622How long will you continue in an unprofitable and customary Profession?
A23622How long will 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, and follow 〈 ◊ 〉 Leasing, and trust in lying Words?
A23622How long ye simple ones, will you love 〈 ◊ 〉?
A23622How many friendly Visits from those that you could but little expect of?
A23622How merciful was God to him, whom he hath taken to himself, and how severe to us, in this Stroke?
A23622How much ado have many poor Saints had at last to put into this harbour?
A23622How much are you behind- hand?
A23622How much are you grown?
A23622How often are we called upon to weep in Scripture?
A23622How often do Princes forsake their greatest Favourites?
A23622How often have you heard that sweet Word since you came hither?
A23622How shall I reach them?
A23622How tenderly should they walk, that are entrusted with such a Jewel?
A23622How throughly had he searched the Writings of Philosophers?
A23622How were we mistaken?
A23622How will you look upon him whom you have pierced?
A23622I have sent you an help on purpose: what shall all my perswasions be but speaking in the wind?
A23622I heard a worthy Minister say of him once,( not withont much admiration) Whence hath this man these things?
A23622I know you do: but who is there that will leave his sins for me?
A23622I know you lov''d him, as there was cause enough you should; but say in truth, have you Improv''d him?
A23622I mean at my requests: with whom shall I prevail to give up himself in strictness and self denial to the Lord?
A23622I might tell you, God but I would have you that God hath[ laid out] upon You; but who can tell what he hath[ laid up] for them that fear him?
A23622I pray, I hear, I read, but may not a meer Hypocrite do all this?
A23622I remember your strict walkings, your holy converse, your many tears: will you lose the things that you have wrought?
A23622I say, driving them violently down the hill, till they be choaked in the Water, and drowned irrecoverably in the Gulf of endless Perdition?
A23622I shall bring it to a speedy issue: Do you Question whether Christ hath taken your Names?
A23622I was once affected with the Picture of a devout man, to whom a voice came down from Heaven, saying, Quid vis fieri prote?
A23622If the Reward of Religion would be presently in hand, who would not be Religious?
A23622If the earnest be so great, what will the Possession be?
A23622If you ask, What Labours he hath left behind him?
A23622In his trespass that he hath trespassed, shall he not die?
A23622In the day time, he would( seasonably) ask People, How did you set out to day?
A23622Is Christ more precious than all the World to you?
A23622Is Christ within You?
A23622Is he got home to his Fathers house too soon?
A23622Is he with God, and Christ, and Angels, and glorified Saints too soon?
A23622Is his Image and Superscription there?
A23622Is it for this world, or for the world to come?
A23622Is it meat and drink of you, to do the Will of God?
A23622Is it not enough to have a whole eternity of Happiness yet behind?
A23622Is it not from him that you fetch every breath?
A23622Is it wisdom after you have begun in the Spirit, to end in the flesh?
A23622Is not he the Rock that begat you?
A23622Is not here a worthy Portion, a goodly Heritage?
A23622Is not this best of all for him?
A23622Is piety more diffusive than ever with you, doth it come more abroad with you, out of your Clossets into your Houses, your Shops, your Fields?
A23622Is the Communion of Saints worth the venturing for?
A23622Is the Name of Jesus deeply engraven upon your Souls?
A23622Is the Name of Jesus the Beloved name with you?
A23622Is there no other Name under Heaven so dear and sweet to you?
A23622Is there not much more advantage accordingly?
A23622Is there not some practice that You are not willing to know is a sin for fear you should be forced to leave it?
A23622Is this a strange, thing?
A23622Is this that which your very hearts are set upon?
A23622Is thy name written in Heaven, and yet dost thou not rejoyce?
A23622Is weekly Catechising up in every one of your Families?
A23622It is not only expedient for me, but it is expedient for you?
A23622It is the Glory of God, and will you count it your shame?
A23622Kiss the Son: Why shouldst thou 〈 ◊ 〉 in the way?
A23622Know you not that we are the Apple of his Eye?
A23622Know you not, that you must wrestle with Principalities and Powers?
A23622Know you not, that your fleshly lusts do war against your souls?
A23622Let me ask you, Is Heaven upon your Hearts?
A23622Let them have your prayers as duly as their meals, is there any of your families, but have time for their taking food?
A23622Let us think with our selves, what though our Purses, our Estates, may thrive better in a place of a larger maintenance?
A23622May not Christ say to some among you, Behold these three years have I come, seeking fruit, and finding none?
A23622Men do not use to die in jest: Who will impoverish himself to enrich his Friend?
A23622Must not you be shortly forgot among the Dead?
A23622My most dearly beloved mine own howels in the Lord, will you satisfie the longings of a travelling Minister?
A23622Nay, is he not an infinite gainer?
A23622Nothing for a Prisoner of Jesus Christ?
A23622O Brethren, look within; Are you not more indeared one to another?
A23622O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, said Christ, and O Taunton, Taunton, may I say from him, how often?
A23622O Man, is Christ thine, and yet dost thou live at a low rate and Comfort?
A23622O Sinners, where will you then appear?
A23622O man, hast thou a charge of Souls to answer for, and dost thou not yet bestir thy self for them, that their Blood be not found in thy Skirts?
A23622O my Pylades, what shall I say unto thee now I begin to write, where shall I begin, when shall I end?
A23622O sinners, cast your selves into his Arms?
A23622O sleepy Professors, how long will you drive on in this heavy course?
A23622O where shall we find a sitting sacrifice?
A23622O wherein may you rejoyce me?
A23622O why will you flatter your selves, and wilfully deceive your own selves?
A23622Often ask your Hearts, What if God should this night require my Soul?
A23622Oh make sure of Heaven betimes, walk humbly with God, beware of a proud heart and a lofty spirit; abhor your selves, else God will not accept you?
A23622Oh my dear Friends, What have your sins done?
A23622Oh when shall I be where my heart is?
A23622Oh?
A23622Once more, hath Christ drawn out his own similitude upon You?
A23622Once you could say with David, I am a companion to all them that fear thee: is it so now?
A23622Onely believe and wait: What not watch with him one hour?
A23622Or Christs Patent for thy Sonship and Partnership with himself be like a Cypher?
A23622Or is there a more even spun thred of holiness through your whole course?
A23622Or shall he do more for a crop of Corn, than you will do for a crop of Glory?
A23622Or the Merchant sit down and give up his hopes, when within sight of the Harbour?
A23622Or too great for him?
A23622Or will the Husbandman 〈 ◊ 〉, and give up all for lost, when he sees the fields even white for the Harvest?
A23622Pride is the Timpany, passion the Feavour of the mind; how restlesly raging is the mind where they reign?
A23622Shall I commend to you the Lesson that I am about to learn?
A23622Shall I leave the fatness of the Olive, and sweetness of the Fig- tree, and of the Vine, and go and put my trust under the shadow of the Bramble?
A23622Shall I not be content without Limbs and Health?
A23622Shall I tell you of the thing which shall be hereafter?
A23622Shall a man put forth to Sea and reckon upon nothing but the calm?
A23622Shall not Gods Priests be Cloathed with Righteousness, and shall not Princes Live above the rate of Peasants?
A23622Shall not the servant Trade for his Master with whose goods he is entrusted?
A23622Shall the Children of the Kingdom, the Candidates of Glory, the chosen Generation, the Royal Priesthood, be like other men?
A23622Shall we have tears enough to waste upon our petty Losses, and not to have a tear to spend on this Inestimable and Irreparable one?
A23622Sinner, art thou not yet melted?
A23622So much bounty and kindness, and no returns of Love?
A23622So that it may be said of you, as it was once of Israel when Moses was a way, that you are naked; And what, are you in Laodicea''s case indeed?
A23622Soul, believest thou this?
A23622Suffer me to be free with thee, where should I pour out my Soul, if not into thy bosom?
A23622Suppose Christ should put that awakening Question to you, What do you more than others?
A23622Suppose I should ask you one by one, Where are your Evidences for Heaven?
A23622Suppose he had willed you to burn our Temples, would you have done it at his request?
A23622Sure your Lot is fallen in an happy place; What in the Bosom of Christ?
A23622Surely I have done and suffered more for you then this comes to: will you deny me?
A23622Take heed you make not God a Lyar: His Word is nigh you: Have you not the Writings in your hands?
A23622The Lord incourage you in it: yet give me leave to ask you what you have gained?
A23622The Lord is not unrighteous to forget this: Is not this upon record with him, and sealed up among his Treasures?
A23622The earnest and pittiful beggings of a poor Prisoner, do use to move some Bowels: hear O Friends, will you do nothing for a Minister of Christ?
A23622Their Patience is it?
A23622There are many that have in a great measure learnt this lesson, and why should not we be some of them?
A23622Thou givest them Medicines, and 〈 ◊ 〉 them when they be Sick, and dost thou not so much 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 Swine?
A23622Thou providest Meat and Drink for 〈 ◊ 〉 agreeable to their Natures, and dost thou not the 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 thy Beasts?
A23622Travellers Lots: know you not that you are in a strange Land?
A23622Treasure up much in Heaven: What profit is it that you have more than others?
A23622WHat Subject fitter for this sad Occasion, then a Theam of Weeping?
A23622Was not mine Appetite too hard for me?
A23622Was there not more of custome, and fashion in my Family Duties, than of Conscience?
A23622Were it not pity to lose all this for want of Diligence and Patience?
A23622Were you never within sight of Death?
A23622What are our Interests unless as they may be subservient to his Interest?
A23622What are we for but for God?
A23622What can you say to this question?
A23622What charges are there like to be?
A23622What continual molestation am I subject to by reason of this flesh?
A23622What did then trouble you most?
A23622What did you wish for most at that time?
A23622What dost thou do for thy children, and Servants?
A23622What doth our Faith serve for?
A23622What hath GOD been doing ever since you came to this Prison?
A23622What hath GOD been doing, but pouring out his Love upon you?
A23622What hath your barrenness, and your unfruitfulness, and your backsliding done?
A23622What have I, what do I more than others?
A23622What have You so many Family 〈 ◊ 〉, Family wants, Family Mercies, what and yet no Family Prayers?
A23622What have you the power of loving for, but that you should love him?
A23622What have you your Authority for, if not to use it for God, and the good of their souls?
A23622What if Bonds and Banishments abide us for a season?
A23622What if it be hard at first?
A23622What if men should be angry with you, have they the Keys of Hell, and of Death?
A23622What if we have but a little in the World?
A23622What is a Candle for, but to be burnt?
A23622What is it worth a year?
A23622What is my life unless I am serviceable?
A23622What know you not your own selves?
A23622What mean you to live at Uncertainties?
A23622What progress in Grace?
A23622What room hath Christ in you?
A23622What shall neither Gods charge, nor your promise, nor profit hold you to your work?
A23622What should Travellers look for else?
A23622What spoil have you made upon your Corruptions?
A23622What though You are much upon the spending 〈 ◊ 〉?
A23622What though it should seem slow?
A23622What though we can not distinguish the Tares from the Wheat?
A23622What though you seem to have lost Ministers, Husbands, Friends for a Season?
A23622What tire by the way, or think of looking back, when Heaven is the prize?
A23622What were your Morning Thoughts?
A23622What will not men do to screw themselves into the favour of the Mighty?
A23622What( my Brethren) shall we be 〈 ◊ 〉 than Publicans?
A23622What, do you think that all this doth signifie nothing?
A23622What, doth he wish that he were back again with you?
A23622What, shall the Husbandman have more patience for the Fruits of the Earth, than you for the pretious fruits of your Faith?
A23622What, to this day without solemn catechizing in your houses?
A23622What?
A23622What?
A23622When he Fed you, have you prosper''d?
A23622When he could, after the terrible torment of Convulsions, have the foresight and taste of Heavenly Pleasures?
A23622When shall I receive the Purchase of my Saviour, the fruit of my prayers, the harvest of my labours, the end of my Faith, the Salvation of my soul?
A23622When shall it once be?
A23622When such as he are hous''d, what dreadful storms may there be like to fall?
A23622When will God open my Lips, that I may stand up and praise him?
A23622Whence do you think this came?
A23622Where else should you bestow your Loves?
A23622Where is that immortal soul of yours like to be lodged for ever?
A23622Wherein have I denyed my self this day for God?
A23622Whether you are upon his heart?
A23622Who can tell the Mercies that you have received here?
A23622Who ever gave Demonstration of the reallity of his Love at so dear a rate as Christ hath done?
A23622Who in all the Earth should admire and commend this Love if I should not?
A23622Who shall condemn?
A23622Who will follow Christs Colours?
A23622Whom you have persecuted?
A23622Whose account my Beloved, is like to be so great as yours?
A23622Whose great Salvation you have neglected and despised?
A23622Why criest thou for 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉?
A23622Why should Beltshazzars charge be against you?
A23622Why should it not be thus?
A23622Why should the Lord repent that he had made you?
A23622Why should you die?
A23622Why should you die?
A23622Why what''s the matter?
A23622Why will you die?
A23622Why will you forsake your own Mercy?
A23622Why, my beloved, have ye not other manner of things then these to grieve for?
A23622Will a man be easily perswaded to lose his life?
A23622Will any of you think of returning into Egypt?
A23622Will it not, thinkest thou my dear Heart?
A23622Will not all this make you 〈 ◊ 〉, for your stay?
A23622Will not you return Love for so much Love?
A23622Will the Garrison yield when relief is at hand?
A23622Will you answer the Calls of Divine Providence?
A23622Will you not be made clean?
A23622Will you not spin a fair thread of it, if while you are pursuing after earthly things, you lose your soul in the 〈 ◊ 〉?
A23622Will you reject me now also?
A23622Will you set forth in a Journey, and promise your selves nothing but fair- way and fair weather?
A23622Will you suffer your Jewells to lie in the Dirt, or make no reckoning of them whether they are lost?
A23622Wilt thou do no more for immortal Souls, than thou wilt do for thy Beasts that perish?
A23622Would you chose holiness and strictness, if it were to do again?
A23622Would you have taken up the Profession of Christ, though you had foreseen all this that is come and coming?
A23622Would you plant Nurseries for the Church of God?
A23622Would you remove the Incumbent, or prevent the impending Calamities?
A23622Would you that God should build your Houses, and bless your Substance?
A23622Yea, but this is not that I beg of you; will you gratifie me indeed?
A23622Yea, what is this to all I have to tell You?
A23622You have had supplies; to what purpose is it, unless you love GOD the more?
A23622You will call them up, and force them to do your work; and should you not, at least be as zealous in putting them upon Gods work?
A23622[ What do you more than others?]
A23622amongst Devils, or amongst Angels?
A23622and all my pains but labouring in the fire?
A23622and debase himself to admiration below his own degree to contract affinity with him?
A23622and divest himself of his honour to advance him?
A23622and do you more highly prize, and more diligently seek after conformity to him, and the fruition of him than any, than all the goods of this World?
A23622and doth the World abate in your esteem?
A23622and have we any of this little to spare for him?
A23622and is your greatest delight( ordinarily, and when you are your selves) in the thoughts of God, and in your conversings with God in Holy Exercises?
A23622and let none of his works, nor words pass without some careful attention, and observation?
A23622and prayed it over?
A23622and stick between the Womb and the World?
A23622and that your own hearts are not true to you, but deceitful above all things?
A23622and the Ship against the Voyage?
A23622and the daily workings of corruption a continual grief of mind to you?
A23622and though Religoin may cost you dear, do you resolve if God will assist you by his Grace, to go through with it, let the cost be what it will?
A23622and upon all occasions turning aside to talk with God in some short Ejaculations?
A23622and use all Gods means against it as far as you know them?
A23622and would you not be put to a blush, to give me an answer?
A23622and your utter inability to lick your selves whole again by your own duties?
A23622are the sins of others your sorrows?
A23622are they in a thriving case?
A23622are you believers, and yet are affraid you shall be loosers by Christ?
A23622are you fit to die yet?
A23622are you grown more universally consciences, more strict, more humble, and more sensible of your many and great defects, then you were before?
A23622are you more in love with secret Prayer, and more abundant in it?
A23622are you more strict and severe than ever in the duty of daily Self- examination, and holy Meditation?
A23622are you not marvellous tender of being slighted?
A23622are you often darting up your souls Heaven- wards?
A23622are you sure of Heaven yet?
A23622are your sins a greater pain to you than heretofore?
A23622are your very hearts set upon the glorifying and enjoying of God, as your greatest happiness, which you desire more than Corn and Wine and Oyl?
A23622are your very infirmities, your great afflictions?
A23622beloved, what else have you strength for, but for God?
A23622but how?
A23622can I produce Chapter and Verse to justifie my self?
A23622can I prove by Scripture my claim to Heaven?
A23622can any thing be too good for him?
A23622can not you be content with your 〈 ◊ 〉 dinary Seasons, but are ever and anon making extraordinary Visits to Heaven?
A23622can save you or damn you at his pleasure?
A23622can they pardon your sins?
A23622can they send you to Hell?
A23622can you ever enter into Gods Hill, without you be of clean hands, and a pure heart?
A23622can you heartily value, and love them that think meanly of you?
A23622can you rejoyce to see others preferred before you?
A23622canst thou find time to eat in, and not time to Pray in?
A23622did not Obed Edom, and his House, get the blessing by entertaining the Ark there?
A23622did the poor woman call upon her friends and neighbours to rejoyce together with her at the finding of a lost Groat?
A23622do I not build without a foundation?
A23622do I venture my Salvation upon meer uncertainties?
A23622do not I know in my very heart that I must be converted or condemned?
A23622do the wounds in Gods Name and Glory go deep into you?
A23622do you come off more freely with God, and answer his Calls, and open at his knocks, with more Alacrity and readiness of mind?
A23622do you go more out of your selves?
A23622do you grow more universally conseiencious?
A23622do you hold the Reigns harder upon the Flesh than ever?
A23622do you hope to get in at the wide Gate, in the broad way?
A23622do you indeed not know that he that runs most hazard for Christ, doth express most love to Christ, and shall receive the greatest reward?
A23622do you keep a stricter watch upon your Appetites?
A23622do you live upon Christ as the Spring of your life, and make more use of him upon all occasions than ever?
A23622do you look more frequently to the things not seen than ever?
A23622do you love me?
A23622do you make good the ground from which you were formerly often beaten off?
A23622do you manage your talk and your Trade, by the rules of Religion?
A23622do you not fetch all your bread from Gods door?
A23622do you ponder upon, and pray over his Word, and his Providences?
A23622do you set a stronger guard upon your Tongues?
A23622do your bear upon you the marks of the Lord Jesus?
A23622do your cares for and desires after the World abate?
A23622do your souls prosper?
A23622doth every one of your Consciences acquit you?
A23622doth he dwell in your Hearts?
A23622doth he maintain servants, and shall not he look for their Work?
A23622doth it journey with you, and buy and sell for you?
A23622doth the house of Saul grow weaker and weaker, and the house of David stronger and stronger?
A23622doth the main work go on?
A23622doth your care of your ways abate, or doth it increase, by the constant use of this duty?
A23622for thy wonted Liberties, for thy former plenty, and variety wherewith the Lord hath blessed thee?
A23622go and talk with dying men, and see what apprehensions they have of the World?
A23622had you rather be the holiest than the richest and greatest in the World?
A23622hath it the casting voice in all you do?
A23622hath not the Word been brought to their Doors?
A23622have not many of our own standing in Religion lest us far behind them?
A23622have they not been called under the Wings of Mercy?
A23622have they not been followed from the Publick, to their own Houses?
A23622have they not been intreated?
A23622have they not been sought unto?
A23622have you a more jealous eye upon your hearts?
A23622have you found out another a nearer way to Heaven?
A23622have you laid hold on eternal life?
A23622have you made sure work for everlasting?
A23622have you past the straits of the New- Birth?
A23622hear you not the 〈 ◊ 〉 of his Bowels?
A23622his he 〈 ◊ 〉 is 〈 ◊ 〉 within him, And shall not this 〈 ◊ 〉 your 〈 ◊ 〉?
A23622his 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 are kindled together; and that not this 〈 ◊ 〉 You 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉?
A23622how little, how very little would our love be, it he had it all, infinitely less than the Glow- worm to the Sun, or the Attome to the Universe?
A23622how long shall I spend my days in wishing and desiring, when my glorified Brethren spend theirs in rejoycing and enjoying?
A23622how long shall the Lord Jesus stretch our his hands toward you?
A23622how long shall the patience of God wait for you?
A23622how long will you stay in the place of the breaking forth of Children?
A23622how much work have we yet to do?
A23622if they be pleased, can they stand between the Wrath of God and you?
A23622is not this he that can crucifie you or release you?
A23622is the Maintenance certain and sure?
A23622look upon your crucified Lord: do you not see a sacred stream flowing out of every Member?
A23622more Liberty, more Comfort, more Health, more Wealth, than others?
A23622of your damnable and undone condition in your selves?
A23622or a little Ale or vain mirth, or loose company?
A23622or a little of the gain of unrighteousness?
A23622or do you think God hath never a Blessing for those that shall with much Self- denial entertain his Messengers, his Saints, his Worship?
A23622or he that hath obtained the Kings Patent for an Earldome, glory in his Riches and Honour?
A23622or our esteem or reputation, unless we may hereby glorifie him?
A23622or to run upon a roaring Canon, rather than indanger his being wetshod?
A23622precious above all; next to your Hearts?
A23622save your souls?
A23622secure your Eternal concernments?
A23622speak conscience, Is there never an one within the hearing of this Letter, that is a neglecter of this duty?
A23622suppose there be somewhat more danger to him that gives the Minister entertainment?
A23622that I did but know the words that would pierce them?
A23622that I knew how to do you good: Ah?
A23622that I must be sanctified, or can never be saved?
A23622that Your Father should bless You?
A23622that glory and immortality will be gotten with a wet finger, with cold prayers, and heartless wishes, while the world carries the main of my heart?
A23622that we are ready to cry out, if the first fruits be so sweet, what will the Harvest be?
A23622the Author of your being and well- being?
A23622though you 〈 ◊ 〉, hard, and 〈 ◊ 〉?
A23622to do loose sinner?
A23622to enter at the strait gate, and never strive?
A23622to get the race, and never run?
A23622to no ignorant sinner?
A23622to no unfound professor?
A23622to overcome Principalities and Powers, and never wrestle?
A23622to what use do you put your faculties?
A23622too too really lost?
A23622upon a bed of Flames, or in the joys of Paradise?
A23622what Language can we better speak, or more agreeable to the dark Providence that we are under, then Sighs, and Cries and Lamentations?
A23622what an endless work hath such an one to do?
A23622what designs do I drive at?
A23622what did he get by it when he gained Naamans Talents, and came off with his Leprofie?
A23622what doth the Creature signifie separated from his God?
A23622what else should I do all my days, but love, and fear, and preach, and praise, so good a God?
A23622what good am I like to get?
A23622what is my chief care?
A23622what progress do you make in Sanctification?
A23622what seekest thou?
A23622what think you of the horrible Abominations, and woful desolations of the Land?
A23622what think you of your own sias, with all their bloody aggravations?
A23622what time, what Sabboths, Sormons, Sacraments, are upon the matter lost?
A23622what was the Candle made for( saith one) but to be burnt?
A23622what, when God, that can not lie, hath said, If you live after the flesh, you shall die?
A23622when shall I be set at liberty from this Prison of my body?
A23622when shall it once be?
A23622when shall these Fetters of mine be knocked off?
A23622where is all there favour or good will, when they or you come to die?
A23622where is your Zeal for the Lord of Hosts?
A23622whereas you were wo nt to come with an ill- will to holy duties, do you come to them as a hungrie Stomach to its Meats?
A23622wherefore serves joy or desire, but to long for him and delightfully to embrace him?
A23622wherein we may best please and serve Him?
A23622wherewithall shall we come before the Lord, or bow our selves to the Most High God?
A23622whether art thou going?
A23622which way do I bend my course?
A23622who can tell how often, would Gods servants have gathered you, and you would not?
A23622who will be intreated by me to set upon neglected duties, or reform accustomed sins?
A23622who will come under his Banner?
A23622whosoever will, let him take of the Waters of Life freely; what miss of life when it is to be had for the taking?
A23622why hast thou lost the old and wonted strain of our former pleasing familiarity?
A23622why should not you be all happy?
A23622why should your Creator say, he hath made you in vain?
A23622will it no way content you to dwell in plenty, peace, and safety your selves, except you may see peace upon Israel?
A23622will slender returns suffice you in answer to such a love?
A23622will you give your hands, your names to him?
A23622will you not be made clean?
A23622will you perish when mercy wooes you?
A23622will you run into everlasting burnings with your eyes open?
A23622will you subscribe to his Laws, and consent to his Offices, and be at through defiance with all his Enemies?
A23622will you yet come in?
A23622would you lighten my burden?
A23622would you loosen my bonds?
A23622would you make glad my heart?
A23622would you that your Children should bless you?
A23622yet where are our graces, our souls, like to thrive any way answerable to what they are in this?
A23622you can not think of it in every step in your Journey; but without intending some glory to God by serving his will in your place and station?
A23622you did run well, who hath hindred you?
A23622〈 ◊ 〉, what a discouragement to your teacher is this?
A36905( How is this, Who puts this vile Body into such a Glorioui fashion?
A3690516. saying, O who, who shall deliver this poor Soul from the cruel jaws of all- devouring Death?
A369052. Who made thee Lord over thy Brothers Conscience?
A3690521. began to expostulate, and say unto him, What thing is this that thou dost?
A3690533. yet it was but for a common Friend: But what was all that to the death of a Husband?
A369054. Who shewed the Beggar kindness in his Life?
A369054. did in their very first word say, Come let us make us Bricks; Bewraying their Foolishness: What?
A369059. Who will lead me into the strong City?
A369059. and yet even at that time smote him with his sword in the fifth ribb, and shed out his bowels to the ground that he died?
A36905Abstain from Adultery, for it is rottenness to thy Bones; Dost thou thy Soul?
A36905Alas, How improvident are they, who never take care to provide for thy Journey?
A36905Among so many doubtful, so many various, so many sudden Accidents, what security, or what mind to sin among so many Incertainties?
A36905And are the precious things of Eternity utterly to be forgotten, or disregarded?
A36905And art thou heartily perswaded, that Heaven is only worth the looking after?
A36905And dost thou Father, cry''d they, fear death?
A36905And dost thou soundly believe, that there is a future state of Infinite joy, and eternal Sorrow?
A36905And hast thou no time, capacity, understanding, or will, to work out thy Salvation, with fear and trembling?
A36905And hast thou throughly pondered the certain uncertainty of all temporal Enjoyments?
A36905And he said, What shall I cry?
A36905And how clear is that of Plato, concerning a better Life?
A36905And how many art thou?
A36905And how many art thou?
A36905And is it too soon to remember our Creator, when we have seen many as Young as we are, breathe their last?
A36905And now being refreshed with these Fragrant Leaves, what shall I say?
A36905And shall nothing of all this abate thy Fears, silence thy Complaints, and bring thee to a Chearful Submission?
A36905And then seventhly and lastly, He desires man seriously to consider, what is behind him?
A36905And there will come in the last days Scoffers, walking after their own Lusts, saying, Where is the Promise of his Coming?
A36905And we may well demand of the Patient, Wilt thou commit thy self to the Cast of Eternity?
A36905And what became of his soul?
A36905And what if thou hast not seen him with thy bodily eyes?
A36905And what more heavenly than the thought of Immortality?
A36905And what other Lecture is read here, or taught, but God''s decree of Man''s Mortality?
A36905And what so sweet a sight once to blessed Abraham, as Sarah?
A36905And when we are Arrested by the cold Hands of Death, how Pale and Wan to all shall we seem?
A36905And where did your Father die?
A36905And who can choose but weep for the shortness of our Lives?
A36905And wouldst thou not die?
A36905Are Stones thus endued with anger?
A36905Are here Titles enough?
A36905Are not Men Leaves, whom Sickness, like dry Leaves and juiceless Flowers, tos ● … es to and fro, and variously sports with?
A36905Art thou better than he?
A36905Art thou not ashamed to reserve the Remains and Dregs of Life to God?
A36905Art thou truly Godly?
A36905At this Hour, What would a man give to secure his Soul?
A36905Attend the first words Christ spake to a Woman after his Resurrection, was it not, Why weepest thou?
A36905Augustus the Emperor, the last day of his Life, asked his Friends that were about him, whether he seemed to them to have acted the play of Life well?
A36905BEhold, I beseech thee, lying at the Pool of Bethesda, a Beggar; a Beggar do I say?
A36905Barak having asked, Where are the Princes of the Nations?
A36905Behold how a little old Woman glories in her Age; what would she have done had she compleated the Centure?
A36905Behold( said he) while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?
A36905Being demanded what next?
A36905Bereaved New- England, where are thy Tears, at this Ill- boding Funeral?
A36905Blessed Author, art thou yet Alive?
A36905Blessed is the Soul of him that feareth the Lord; in whom putteth he his trust, and who is his strength?
A36905But are we not ashamed that so many Christian Boys and Girls have joyfully endured what we Men could not bear without weeping and complaints?
A36905But art thou at Rest from thy Labours?
A36905But he believing himself call''d to the Grave, strook the Ground with his Hand, adding these Words, I come, Wherefore dost thou call me?
A36905But how did he live?
A36905But how do I know that?
A36905But how shall they know this that never endeavouted to learn?
A36905But into whose hands must this Hippo fall, now the Austin of it is taken away?
A36905But is it a matter of any moment in what place we lay the bodies of our deceased friends?
A36905But is it not all one in what part of the ground I bury my Husband, so I lay his body in a place that is set apart for that purpose?
A36905But is this the adversity for which he was born, according to King Solomon?
A36905But now he is Dead, wherefore should I Fast?
A36905But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast?
A36905But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast?
A36905But our Love was firm, it was strong, yea strong as death; and who then can blame me if my sorrows in some measure keep pace with my love?
A36905But should not the first depart, what would be left?
A36905But some will say, Shall we meet with our Friends again departed in the Faith?
A36905But weigh the matter well; canst thou be for ever happy, and not be with Christ?
A36905But what advantage to the dead are the tears of the living?
A36905But what is the meaning of the Phrase to Die?
A36905But what was the word I spoke last?
A36905But whether or no is Sickness a Benefit, and Death an Evil?
A36905But why did he put the Lime into those hollow parts?
A36905But why do we deny, and lift up our Noses?
A36905But why dost thou number thy few days?
A36905But why sit I musing in these pensive thoughts when I should rather prepare for the burial of the dead?
A36905But why?
A36905But will these eager Desires open the Gate of Heaven to me?
A36905By what Law?
A36905By what authority doest thou impose thy particular light and perswasion upon thy brother;& that so, as almost to un- saint him?
A36905By whom?
A36905Can I bring him back again?
A36905Can I bring him back again?
A36905Can I say more than this?
A36905Can a draught of my tears fetch him back again to life?
A36905Can any thing be counted an advantage, when the Soul loseth God, and it self, in the getting of it?
A36905Can my sighs inspire life into his bosom?
A36905Canst thou behold the Sufferings of a Sister and wink at them?
A36905Canst thou once suppose, thou shalt ever be an Inhabitant upon the Earth?
A36905Canst thou rejoice, when thou thinkest how many shall put on Crowns of Glory, and yet thy self have no part, or lot in that matter?
A36905Canst thou then dream of any Mansion or Abiding place here?
A36905DEmosthenes being asked, What he thought most Essential to Eloquence?
A36905Death is a Tribute and a Duty to be paid by all, why then art thou troubled?
A36905Did God think me worthy of this time?
A36905Did I ever approach thee with a Countenance chearful?
A36905Did not my Jesus cause Lazarus to arise when he had been four days dead?
A36905Did not thy Saviour Christ foresee his Death, and that a most sharp one, for thirty years and more?
A36905Did the Wise Man intend that a Brother is born to bring Adversity?
A36905Did ● … thou think Death would have been content with words?
A36905Didst thou ever see me the sadder for this?
A36905Didst thou hope it would suffer thee to talk, while all others suffer?
A36905Do thou rather enquire what is done in Heaven among the Saints?
A36905Do we admire at this once dying, wherein thou mayst find private and concealed Deaths?
A36905Do ye not find that by dropping of the Water, and the passage of the Sand the upper Glass empties and the lower Glass fills?
A36905Do''st thou then groan under natural weaknesses and infirmities?
A36905Dost not thou hope in Heaven?
A36905Dost thou accuse Nature?
A36905Dost thou exalt thy self?
A36905Dost thou expect one more potent than Job?
A36905Dost thou grow deaf, or art thou falling asleep?
A36905Dost thou humble thy self?
A36905Dost thou know, Oh Man, that thou must shortly give up the Ghost?
A36905Dost thou live long?
A36905Dost thou refuse the Scourges, the Thornes, the Cross?
A36905Dost thou remember the Folly of the Gluttonous Servant?
A36905Dost thou remember thy Saviour?
A36905Doth Christ weep upon the consideration of Lazarus Death?
A36905Doth such a man die by an ordinary sickness, having his understanding, and memory continued to the end?
A36905FAlling Sick of a Fever, a Friend asking him how he did?
A36905Fifthly, What is against him?
A36905First, What he is by nature, what he is in himself?
A36905For what firmness can there be in the matter of Flesh?
A36905For what is man?
A36905For what is your Life?
A36905Fourthly, What is above him?
A36905GOOD Lord, what is the Life of Man?
A36905GOod Lo ● …, 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 so 〈 ◊ 〉 ● … re is no returning from 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉?
A36905God calls thee now, exhorts thee now, expects that thou shouldst now repent, and dost thou delay?
A36905Good People, had you the Reversion of a Rich Living, or Office, would you weep because it is faln into your Possession?
A36905HE said, I bless God, I have all my Senses entire, but my Heart is in Heaven; and, Lord Jesus, Why should''st thou not have it?
A36905HOW old art thou?
A36905Has he not spoke enough, that can perswade with one word or a nod?
A36905Hast thou considered the good Father of his Family?
A36905Hast thou not hitherto profited more then so childishly to fear Death?
A36905Hast thou not learnt in so many years calmly, quietly, and undisturbedly to die?
A36905Hath God, with this Serjeant of his, sent his Angels to fetch thee; and art thou loath to go?
A36905Hath the infinitely wise and gracious God, only given thee opportunities and abilities to desire, and hasten thy eternal ruin?
A36905Have I ever accused thee?
A36905Have I ever found fault with thy Government?
A36905Have I misapplied the parts which thou gavest me?
A36905Have I taken a course for the place of his Rest, where his cold body may be laid to sleep?
A36905Have you not signed it?
A36905He fell into some Languishments, attended with a Fever, which in a few days brought him into the Pangs( may I say?
A36905He hath lived, he hath lived; what was this but every day to cause himself to be carried forth and buried?
A36905He that deliver''d the three Children, did he desert the Maccabees?
A36905He that formed the Muscles, the Bones, the Nerves, the Veins, the Marrow, out of the same Clay, Can he not form the same, out of the same again?
A36905He used to say, If want of Charity be tormented in Hell, what will become of the Covetous?
A36905Here you may see an acknowledgment of his own imbecillity,& weakness in recovering his dead Child, can I bring him back again?
A36905His Soul is gone; whither?
A36905His weeping Friends,( and how many of them?)
A36905How can these numerical Bodies rise?
A36905How can we be said not to die, when we live among the dead?
A36905How evil?
A36905How great is the madness of those that commence long hopes?
A36905How great will be his Thought when it is without any hinderance from these material Organs that now obstruct its Operations?
A36905How kindly did an Angel comfort Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, when they early came to visit the holy Sepulchre of our Lord?
A36905How knowest thou but that it may be as convenient for thee?
A36905How late is it then to begin to live, when thou art iust at the end of it?
A36905How long canst thou awake without refreshment of sleep?
A36905How long canst thou labour without the relief of rest?
A36905How many Thieves do steal away our Lives, while we perceive not what we lose?
A36905How many dost thou deceive?
A36905How many fall with a revengeful Mind, though with an Innocent Hand?
A36905How many has Death prevented in the midst of their wickedness, and cut off half the Crime?
A36905How many snatch''d away in the attempt, have receiv''d the reward of their Impiety?
A36905How many, to whom thou promisest old Age, dost thou cut off in the midst of their Course?
A36905How much do litigious Suits and Diseases snatch from us?
A36905How much time does our Meals, our Recreation, our Play, our Discourse, our Sleep, our Idleness takes up?
A36905How shall we sing the Lord''s Song in a strange Land?
A36905How stupid a thing then is to dispose of Age?
A36905How then shall I make my way to Heaven?
A36905How unlike to Christ is this Spirit?
A36905How, nothing?
A36905How?
A36905I am Mortal, and do I wonder at Death?
A36905I ask how the first body was Created?
A36905I follow thee, O merciful Father, I follow thee: And wherefore should I refuse, when thou callest me nearer to thee?
A36905I must out of the world, how have I lived when I was in the world?
A36905I there applyed my self[ Ad meum novissimum, to my last thing,] what man liveth, and shall not see death?
A36905IN sickness, O Christian, if thou art asked, how thou do''st?
A36905If God be on our side who can be against us?
A36905If all my Life makes but one little drop, Why then so many Death''s my Course to stop?
A36905If he, who as this Bell tells me, is gone now, were some Excellent Artificer, who comes to him for a Cloak, or for a Garment now?
A36905If never,''t were another thing, but if at any time, why not now?
A36905If then to Morrow, why not to Day?
A36905If thou askest Seneca, What is Man?
A36905If thou shewest that thy Disease may be overcome, at least endur''d?
A36905If you say no, what means your four carriage to the People of God?
A36905In his Bed, said the other; where your Father, your Grandfather, and the rest of your Ancestors?
A36905In his Sickness he was visited by a Friend, who finding him fall''n asleep, when he waked, asked how he did?
A36905In the same is our Life to finish, our Works to be examined, and we are then to know how it will go with us for ever and ever?
A36905Is it not a small thing, I pray thee, that thou having abundance of Meat, shouldst see him starve for Bread?
A36905Is it not all one, whether in the fields, or whether in our Golgotha''s?
A36905Is it not like unto a Bubble, which quickly swelleth to a considerable bigness, and as quickly sinketh again?
A36905Is it not like unto the Grass which groweth up and flourisheth in the Morning, but is cut down before the Evening come?
A36905Is it so, that it is a Christ- like Frame of Spirit to be deeply affected with, and to weep over the death of such as are truly pious?
A36905Is it true tha ● … our Dear and Pi ● … s Relations that are dead and go ● … wi ● … never return to us again?
A36905Is my hand shortened, that it might not help?
A36905Is not God able to enliv''n the Clay, with the same breathing of his Spirit as formerly?
A36905Is not this, O my God, a holy kind of raising up seed to my dead brother, If I, by the meditation of his death, produce a better life in my self?
A36905Is there a Lion in the way?
A36905Is there a necessity that what perishes once should always Perish?
A36905Is this the fruit of thy long and frequent Instruction?
A36905Is this thy Imitation of so many worthy Saints of God, whom thou hast seen entertain the violentest Death with Smiles and Songs?
A36905Is thy Life tak''n from thee?
A36905It is he that justifies; who is he that condemneth?
A36905Let the matter be urged home, is everlasting damnation by all means possible, to be prevented?
A36905Life therefore what is it?
A36905Looking upon the Block, and kneeling, she said, Will you take it off before I lay it down?
A36905Lord tell me, tell me when?
A36905Lord who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle?
A36905Lord, for it is very unhonest; Or dost thou love thy Credit?
A36905Man giveth up the Ghost, and where is he?
A36905Man giveth up the Ghost; and where is he?
A36905Many Dishes?
A36905Mark, the Angel of the Lord encampeth round about his Children, to deliver them: From what?
A36905Miserable diminitive Mortals, wherefore d''ye teach long Hopes?
A36905Moreover, as Death helps us to our Rest, so it is our Rest: Why should we fear it?
A36905Most excellent is the saying of Job, they that saw him shall say, where is he?
A36905Must I then now be sick?
A36905Must I thus die before I am gray?
A36905Must all professors be condemned by thee, because they can not see with thy eyes, and tread in thy steps?
A36905My Soul hath thirsted after God the Fountain of Life, when shall I come and appear before the Face of my God?
A36905NOw where am I?
A36905No, Madam, replied the Executioner; then she tied a Handkerchief before her Eyes, and feeling for the Block, said, What shall I do?
A36905No; Of what then?
A36905No; of thy End?
A36905Not a drop?
A36905Now I would sain know of thee, O sick Man, what concerns it thee, what is transacted in Germany, France, Italy, or Spain?
A36905Now to comment upon this same place, we may make the like question, and give the very self- same Answer, Nonne omnia Pulvis nonne Fabula?
A36905O Men, you dreamt that you were happy and blessed; but of all those things which ye had, which ye hoped for, what do ye retain?
A36905O Mortals, Over- late is to Morrow''s life, live to day; pay your Salary to day; mourn for your Sins to day, for who has assured ye of to morrow?
A36905O death where is thy sting?
A36905O grave, where is thy Victory?
A36905O my dearly beloved Friends, consider what you are all by nature?
A36905O truely Splendid Misery?
A36905O what shall I do for my head, my guide, my heart, my Husband?
A36905O what tie can be so great as that of affection?
A36905O what would I not do to call him back again?
A36905Of thy Beginning?
A36905Oh Grave, where is thy Victory?
A36905Oh my Soul, are the things of time only or chiefly to be minded?
A36905Oh press thy Soul hard with these thoughts, how it is like to go with thee, when thou first steppest into Eternity?
A36905One praying by his Bed- side, asked him if he heard the Prayer?
A36905Or can a poor guilty Worm endure with ease, the burden of infinite Wrath?
A36905Or can any thing be had upon Earth, that will hold ever?
A36905Or can the thoughts of Heaven be any otherwise comfortable, than as thou believest it to be thy Heaven?
A36905Or canst thou be whereChrist is, and not die?
A36905Or doth thy natural timorousness, or unpreparedness, put a check to the vehemency of thy Desires?
A36905Or is endless glory no whit desirable?
A36905Or may Hell be supposed to be a tolerable Habitation?
A36905Or rather to comfort us in the time of Adversity?
A36905Or tell where Death is not, if drops can kill?
A36905Or what becometh of his Soul, when it hath once taken its leave of the body?
A36905Or what good things( of any long continuance) are to be found in so weak a Subject?
A36905Or whoever did he despise that called faithfully upon him?
A36905Or, what is it, that thou so much stickest at?
A36905Our Elisha is gone, and now who must next year invade the Land?
A36905Q What if thou hadst liv''d longer, wouldst not thou have made the same complaint?
A36905Quaeritur Aegistus quare sit factus Adulter?
A36905Quid dabis pro animâ tuâ tunc, qui nunc pro nihi ● … o das illam?
A36905Rather will it not do me good?
A36905SEest thou, frail Man, the Emblem of thy State?
A36905Secondly, An acknowledgment of his own Imbecillity and weakness, Can I bring him back again?
A36905Secondly, What is within him?
A36905Shall Hereticks and Pagans give Death a better welcome than thee?
A36905Shall I fear my end, when I know I must have an end?
A36905Shall I fear my last gasp, that puts an end to all my Sighs?
A36905Shall he deliver his Soul from the Hand of the Grave?
A36905Shall his Angels stand waiting to convey thy departed Soul home with Songs of Triumph?
A36905Shall the vain Heathens shew so much Courage in Death, and Christians, trusting in God, be afraid and tremble?
A36905Shall we be troubled upon Earth, because our Friends are at rest under it?
A36905Should it be asked, what is most necessary for a sick Person?
A36905Sick people think a Day a Month, a Month a Year, a Year an Age: How many Ages could this Man but think so many Years?
A36905Sixthly, What is before him?
A36905So that we may say with Nieremberg, How many things are to pass in that Moment?
A36905Sometimes a little Fever; what do I say?
A36905St. Lawrence upon the Gridiron?
A36905Such love as ours did not always possess the hearts of some as nearly allyed?
A36905TELL me, my Dear Seneca, whom Pliny with an Elogy to be envy''d calls the Prince of Learning, tell me what thou thinkst of Death, especially immature?
A36905Tears are both unreasonable and unseasonable, why weepest thou?
A36905Tell me how God Created Heaven and Earth out of nothing?
A36905Tell me how the Bones grow in the Womb of her that is with Child: Can you tell how the Child is framed?
A36905Th''exact Idea of thy hasting Fate?
A36905That thou flourishing in Purple and Silk, would see Lazarus lye in Rags?
A36905That thou seeing even thy Dogs have pity on him, thou wouldst have no pity upon him thy self?
A36905The First is this, If thou art Dust and Ashes, wherefore art thou proud, thou Dust and Ashes?
A36905The Introduction; and whether Sickness be an Evil?
A36905The Lord gave me my Child, and now hath he taken him away from me again, therefore why should I any longer fast and mourn?
A36905The Lord is my Light and my Health: Whom shalt thou fear?
A36905The Soul of my Neighbour, this Bell tells me, is gone out; Whither?
A36905The first circumstance of the Rich man is, to know what became of his Body?
A36905The most admirable Job, almost by way of complaint interrogates the Deity; And dost thou so soon cast me down?
A36905The same, watch ye, how often doth St. Paul reiterate?
A36905Then I shall with joy look back upon thee, O sad Messenger, and triumph over thee, saying, Oh Death, where is thy ● … ing?
A36905Then asking his Friends, if he acted his part well, when they answered, Yes; why then, says he, do you not all clap your hands for me?
A36905Then inferred the other, And dost not thou fear to go to Sea?
A36905Then said the Mariner, and do not you fear to go to Bed, so Fatal to all ● … our Predecessors?
A36905Then turning his Face, and seeing some by, he said; Are you so nigh?
A36905There is a Courage also in the Bed of Sickness: Shall I leave a Feaver, or that me?
A36905There''s the Question; the Answer followeth in the next, It is even a Vapour,& c. First of the Question, What is your Life?
A36905These( I say) I am sure to see, and to partake with them in Joy; why then should not I be willing to dye, to enjoy their perpetual Society in Glory?
A36905Thirdly, What is before him?
A36905This Night thy Soul shall be taken from thee, and who shall inherit what thou hast scrap''d together?
A36905Thou art going a long a ● … d unknown Journey; and whither wouldst thou?
A36905Thou being therefore Earth, why art thou Proud, thou Dust and Ashes?
A36905Thou canst not give an account of thy own Production, nor find out the Work of God in forming the Body?
A36905Thou demandest what is the utmost space of Life?
A36905Thou hast begun well, who, what shall hinder thee?
A36905Thou, who art sick, canst thou imitate this poor Man?
A36905Thus Sitenus, being tak''n by Midas, and ask''d, what was the best thing could happen to Man?
A36905Thy Pains, Do they afflict thee?
A36905Thy Sleeps, Are they short and interrupted?
A36905To die by little and little, is first to mortifie our lesser sins, and not to say with Lot, Is it not a little one?
A36905To me he was a Brother, but now to the Worms: And what loss can be more deplorable than the loss of a Brother?
A36905To me he was a Friend but now to the Grave: and what loss can be greater than the loss of a Friend?
A36905To which the Seaman waving a reply?
A36905To whom Death; Fond Banquet for the Grave, said he, couldst thou not prepare in so many Years; that hast had so many warnings from me already?
A36905Truth, Love thee, O Epictetus, How agreeable are all these things to Christian Doctrine?
A36905Tully where, In Learning so profound?
A36905Upon his way, he looking behind him espied Dr. Latimer coming after, and called to him with a chearful Voice, saying, O Brother, are you there?
A36905VVHO will not stand upon his guard against the Efforts of Death that threatens us every Hour, who has appointed no time when he intends to meets us?
A36905VVHhen he came to Newgate, several came to visit him, to whom he gave Ghostly Consolation?
A36905VVIth Seneca, I demand of thee, O my sick Friend, why dost thou wonder at thy Miseries?
A36905VVhat hast thou to do with News and false Reports?
A36905VVhat may be done to day, why defer ye to another day perhaps never to come?
A36905VVhat meant that great Personage?
A36905VVhat then is Man?
A36905VVhat then?
A36905VVhat wouldst thou have, O 〈 ◊ 〉 Man?
A36905VVhen shall I come?
A36905VVhere dost thou fly about the VVorld, and beg at the Cottages of Beggars?
A36905VVhere''s Aristole?
A36905VVherefore dost thou bow in vain to every Coach that whirls by thee?
A36905VVhy dost thou make Faces?
A36905VVhy lingrest thou bright Lamp of Heaven?
A36905VVhy should I be offended?
A36905WHat do I do?
A36905WHat more certain in Human things than Death?
A36905WHat shall I do, said the Rich Man in his Heart, because I have not room for 〈 ◊ 〉 Fruits of my Land?
A36905WHat wouldst thou?
A36905WHerefore art thou troubled?
A36905Was it thus that hitherto thou hast lost all thy time?
A36905Was there ever, saith the Son of Syrach, any one confounded that put his trust in the Lord?
A36905Well, sayst thou, but if I know him, it is but very little, I never saw him in all my Life?
A36905What Discourse could be more kind, friendly, and familiar than this?
A36905What Ears hadst thou, that wouldest not hear his cry?
A36905What Eyes hadst thou that wouldest not see his Sores?
A36905What Hands hadst thou that would not be stretched out to give, What Heart hadst thou that would not melt in thy Body?
A36905What Hour or Moment is more certain to thee than to another?
A36905What Husband can think so of his Wife, and not melt?
A36905What Joy?
A36905What Man is he that liveth, and shall not see Death?
A36905What Soul hadst thou, that would not pity his silly Soul, this wretched Body, poor Lazarus?
A36905What a hard case it is to be at the same time, both poor and sick?
A36905What are we?
A36905What art thou afraid o ● …?
A36905What became of Germany when Luther was dead?
A36905What became of Prague when Jerom was dead?
A36905What became of his Body being dead?
A36905What became of his Body being dead?
A36905What became of his Soul?
A36905What became of his Soul?
A36905What comfort can it bring to his body of earth, to have it cabined in the Grave with his dispersing ashes?
A36905What conception can I have of a separated Soul( says a late Writer) but that''t is all Thought?
A36905What desirest thou?
A36905What did be desire of thee but only Crumbs to save his Life?
A36905What do we do, O Christians?
A36905What does fourscore years avail that man that idly spends them?
A36905What does now my Kingdom, what do all my Guards avail me?
A36905What dost thou fear and shrug, and tremble at, Oh my Soul, thou peevish froward Creature?
A36905What dost thou fear?
A36905What dost thou labour, what dost thou toyl for, O Man?
A36905What dost thou say of Sickness?
A36905What evil can that be which proceeds from the Fountain of Goodness?
A36905What harm will it do me?
A36905What has a Pilgrim to do with Flowers and Pibbles, if he return not to his Countrey?
A36905What has he now more than he that liv''d but Eight?
A36905What hath Christianity done to thee, if thy fears be still Heathenish?
A36905What have I now more to do with the World?
A36905What if I prove Sick?
A36905What if thou knowest not one Angel in all the Heavens?
A36905What if thou shouldst be in the number of those?
A36905What is Death?
A36905What is Life?
A36905What is Mortal Life, saith St. Gregory, but a way?
A36905What is a long fear of Death but a long Torment?
A36905What is above you?
A36905What is against you?
A36905What is all this but to look on friends, rather as Gods than men, as if all sufficiency were included in them only?
A36905What is beceme of Caesar now?
A36905What is before you?
A36905What is behind you?
A36905What is below you?
A36905What is here but tumbling and tossing, Cares, Miseries, Griefs of Body and Mind?
A36905What is the end of all men?
A36905What is there that thou canst call a Novelty?
A36905What is within you?
A36905What is your Life?
A36905What keeper of time so sparing, that may not find something worthy to exchange with his time?
A36905What little content do I take in any company on Earth, where I meet with shiness?
A36905What love so great as of a Brother and Sister?
A36905What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?
A36905What meanest thou then vain Fear?
A36905What more dost thou believe, thou dost nothing if thou art temperate in sickness?
A36905What other Answer would God return?
A36905What sayest thou to these things, Oh my Soul?
A36905What sayst thou, my sick Friend?
A36905What secret Devil did guide both the tongue and the hand of Joab, when under the colour of friendship he asked Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother?
A36905What sha''l I remember any more?
A36905What shall I do?
A36905What shall I mention the Child kill''d by an Isicle dropping upon his Head from the Penthouse?
A36905What shall I say of the hardness of this screwing Rich Mans Heart?
A36905What shall be the issue of the Disease?
A36905What shall such intimate familiar friends do, as the Soul and Body are, which have lived together from the Womb with so much delight?
A36905What shall we now say?
A36905What shame possesses us if we blush not at these things?
A36905What so necessary as the thought of Death?
A36905What so sweet a spectacle to the World, as Sarah?
A36905What then, my sick Friend, do the things of the Earth trouble thee?
A36905What then?
A36905What use shouldest thou that livest make of this now?
A36905What was the meaning of this, but only to intimate these words?
A36905What were the Nine Hundred Ninety Nine Years of Methuselah?
A36905What will become of thee to Morrow, when thy whole Body shall be but one Pool, one continued Wound?
A36905What wilt thou give then for thy Soul to save it, who dost so prodigally throw it away now for nothing?
A36905What would I not give to have him restored to life again?
A36905What wouldst thou more?
A36905What wouldst thou more?
A36905What''s the reason?
A36905What, can earthen Walls raise up such Pride in Men?
A36905What, doth Mary''s weeping set Jesus Christ a weeping?
A36905What?
A36905When are his Teeth prepar''d for Food?
A36905When is Man able to go?
A36905When shall I come to appear before the presence of God?
A36905When thou accompaniest another to the grave, dost thou conclude thus with thy self the very next time that any death is spoken of, it may be mine?
A36905When to speak?
A36905When?
A36905Whence it appears, that if she sleep, she shall do well; and shall we take it ill, that our Friends are well?
A36905Where are now those complaining sick people?
A36905Where are those thousands fed by this Crucified Lord?
A36905Where are thy Parents?
A36905Where are thy Sixty?
A36905Where hast thou left thy Seventy?
A36905Where is it?
A36905Where is it?
A36905Where is now the power and strength of my Empire?
A36905Where is thy Fath?
A36905Where is thy S ● … ing, O Grave?
A36905Where then is not Death, if Lions of Stone can kill?
A36905Where wilt thou find thy Fourscore?
A36905Wherefore art thou afraid, O Man, of short hope?
A36905Wherefore d''ye undertake such a vast heap of Business?
A36905Wherefore do we desire and pray that the Heavenly Kingdom may come, when our Earthly Captivity so much delighteth us?
A36905Wherefore do we expostulate with Death?
A36905Wherefore do we not follow the Council of the Son of Syras?
A36905Wherefore do we so earnestly wish for the fulfilling of Christs Kingdom, when we had rather serve the Devil here, then raign with Christ there?
A36905Wherefore do we trust to Death?
A36905Wherefore do ye delay?
A36905Wherefore do ye expect a Truce?
A36905Wherefore do ye pretend immature Age?
A36905Wherefore do ye think upon delay?
A36905Wherefore dost thou not follow him that goes crying so loudly before thee?
A36905Wherefore then do we set our Minds upon vain things?
A36905Wherefore then dost thou add a Disease of mind to sickness of Body?
A36905Wherefore then dost thou complain in vain, and fester thy Wounds with the Nails of Impatience?
A36905Wherefore then dost thou repine?
A36905Which words contain two general parts, a Question and an Answer; What is your Life?
A36905Whither do we run to be punish''d for ever?
A36905Whitherto have tended all thy serious Meditations?
A36905Who can forbear a Tear at the Funeral of a Friend?
A36905Who can praise that man, who departing out this life shall complain and say, I have not lived long enough?
A36905Who does not readily rise from a hard Bed?
A36905Who is he that sets a value upon Time, that prizes a Day, or understands that he dies daily?
A36905Who is he whom you call Father, every time you pray?
A36905Who knows whether the Gods to this days sum Will add to Morrow, though but just to come?
A36905Who of all that multitude speaks one word for so great a Benefactor?
A36905Who saw it come in, or who saw it go o ● … t?
A36905Who shall Cure thee?
A36905Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen?
A36905Who shall separate us from the love of God in Christ?
A36905Who shall tell me that?
A36905Who so hard- hearted, as to deny so small a Duty to the Sick?
A36905Who spared not his own Son, but gave him for us all; how shall he not with him, give us all things?
A36905Who will warrant things to pass, as thou disposest them?
A36905Who would not hear them?
A36905Whoever continued in his fear and was forsaken?
A36905Why Lord, dost thou now break off my Life?
A36905Why art thou angry with those that mind thee of the approaching danger?
A36905Why art thou insatiable?
A36905Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my Soul?
A36905Why boasts the fond vain- glorious World Whose Joys are transitory?
A36905Why can he not be called back again?
A36905Why did I not give Lazarus a ● … rumb of Bread?
A36905Why did I shew Lazarus no mercy on Earth?
A36905Why didst not thou permit me to make up the full hundred?
A36905Why do we fear to die?
A36905Why do you look on them as if you would eat them up?
A36905Why dost thou change thy former good Resolutions?
A36905Why dost thou complain against thy self?
A36905Why shall I weep, and cry thus mournfully both day and night, seeing he is dead and gone?
A36905Why should I alive refuse it?
A36905Why should I fear to restore that which I received upon that condition?
A36905Why should he either fear one or t''other, who is conscious to himself, that a Man ought not to fear any thing but death?
A36905Why should not I tell thee the Portion that is prepared for thee?
A36905Why shouldst thou spend thy Quiver on my head?
A36905Why so?
A36905Why then do I take on, as if I either suspected his happiness, or doubted of following him?
A36905Why then should I not sorrow for the loss of such a Brother?
A36905Why then, O Man, canst thou not imitate Christ upon the Cross?
A36905Why therefore do we fear at last?
A36905Why therefore, O my Soul, shouldst thou be loth to part upon fair terms?
A36905Why tremblest thou?
A36905Why weepest thou?
A36905Why with a slow Consumption, cruel Death, Dost thou deprive me slowly of my Breath?
A36905Why, O Clay, dost thou murmur against the Potter?
A36905Why, O dying Friend, dost thou set apart to Morrow, or the next Day for thy Salvation?
A36905Why?
A36905Will it not be so in Heaven?
A36905Will the enjoying of sinful pleasures, or empty lying vanities, for a few minutes, recompence the loss of Heaven it self?
A36905Wilt thou inlarge thy Bar ● …?
A36905Worm of a Man, what wouldst thou have?
A36905Would Chance have us adore her lawless will?
A36905Would not he be the Laughing- stock of others, who being Condemned among many, should beg to be the last Executed?
A36905Would not this Rich Man afford thee some out- house to lie in, to shroud thee from Storms and Tempests?
A36905Wouldest thou have me abandon the Gaiety of Masks?
A36905Wouldst thou have an Abstract, an Epitome of all Humane Life?
A36905Wouldst thou have it in Man?
A36905Wouldst thou have more signal Arguments?
A36905Wouldst thou live?
A36905Yea, Man giveth up the Ghost and where is he?
A36905Yea, he reproved them, and said unto them, Why trouble ye the Woman?
A36905Yes, he did: But what then?
A36905You ask how the same Body can be restored?
A36905You warn us of approaching Death, and why May we not know from you what''t is to dye?
A36905and bemoan himself as if his life were broken off in the third Act?
A36905and full of Sores too?
A36905and hold communion with him, and yet not know him?
A36905and to appoint that time for Devotion, which thou canst no otherwise employ?
A36905and was troubled, and said, Where have ye laid him?
A36905and why perswade you me, now I am at the point of death, to abate of that rigor, which I all my life have used?
A36905but a Vapour that appeareth but a little?
A36905can I bring him back again?
A36905can I put life into him?
A36905can I revive him?
A36905cursed, cursed, most accursed Soul, Where am I now?
A36905had GOD any glory by me?
A36905had men any good by me?
A36905is it not enough that many of them may know thee?
A36905is it not like unto a Vapour, which appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away?
A36905makes answer himself, and saith, The earth hath swallowed them up all?
A36905must I Be forc''d to live when I desire to die?
A36905my good friends, where are your years?
A36905no, no: What is it then that thou dost desire?
A36905no: Or thou wouldest have some delicate Meat?
A36905no: Or thou wouldest sit at the Table with his Sons and Servants?
A36905no: Would not his Wife intreat her Husband for thee?
A36905no: would not his Children speak for thee?
A36905no: would not his servants pity thee?
A36905nonne in paucis ossibus memoria eorum conservatur?
A36905or for Counsel, if he were a Lawyer?
A36905or have I not power to deliver?
A36905or how is it with thee?
A36905said the pious Wadsworth, in his Answer to the Fear of Death; and dost thou say thou knowest none in Heaven?
A36905united to God by faith and love?
A36905unless we accompt Cares, Troubles, Pains, Vexations, and Sins for Advantages: Or what would he have had more, had he liv''d Eight Hundred?
A36905verse 4 The lasting of a thousand years, what is it in thy sight?
A36905verse 8 Now, Lord, sith things this wise do frame, what help do I desire?
A36905were not made of things which do appear: How were these things done?
A36905what Child can reflect upon the impossibility of ever seeing his Father or Mother more, and not be overwhelmed with grief?
A36905what Friends are those that howl?
A36905what Parent can consider this, with respect to his Child, and not mourn?
A36905what Riches do we seem to heap, what Honours do we invest our selves withal, what Pleasures do we seem to enjoy?
A36905what Wife can have such a thought of her Husband, and not faint?
A36905what are you born of God?
A36905what is it thou wouldst have?
A36905what would then these wretches do?
A36905when I know that all things have their end?
A36905when I shall make a journey to Heaven?
A36905where is Solomon the Wise, Or Sampson strong in Fight; Where is the lovely Absalom; Or David''s dear Delight?
A36905wherefore art thou perplexed?
A36905wherefore should I take on thus sadly, being all is in vain?
A36905which of them darest thou touch or taste of?
A36905who shall rest in thy holy place?
A36905who would not be in the Rich man''s state?
A36905who would not comfort them?
A36905who would not pity them?
A36905why Do thy Steeds tread so slowly on?
A36905why art thou not satisfied?
A36905why dost thou refuse the Cup?
A36905wouldst thou not that I should drink the Cup which the Father provided for me, which Christ mingled for me?
A36905yet all these are but a Dream, how short, and how vain?
A36905yet hast thou not believed in him whom thou hast not seen, and rejoiced with joy unspeakable, and full of glory?
A36905— What art thou then afraid of?
A69886& c ▪ Behold( saith Abraham) I am but Du ● and Ashes, and yet dare I to speak un ● my Lord?
A69886( How is this, Who puts this vile Body into such a Glorio ● i fashion?
A6988616. saying, O who, who shall deliver this poor Soul from the cruel jaws of all- devouring Death?
A698862. Who made thee Lord over thy Brothers Conscience?
A6988621. began to expostulate, and say unto him, What thing is this that thou dost?
A6988633. yet it was but for a common Friend: But what was all that to the death of a Husband?
A698864. Who shewed the Beggar kindness in his Life?
A698864. did in their very first word say, Come let us make us Bricks; Bewraying their Foolishness: What?
A698869. Who will lead me into the strong City?
A69886Abstain from Adultery, for it is rottenness to thy Bones; Dost thou thy Soul?
A69886Alas, How improvident are they, who never take care to provide for thy Journey?
A69886All ▪ What a hard case it is to be at the same time, both poor and sick?
A69886Among so many doubtful, so many various, so many sudden Accidents, what security, or what mind to sin among so many Incertainties?
A69886And are the precious things of Eternity utterly to be forgotten, or disregarded?
A69886And art thou heartily perswaded, that Heaven is only worth the looking after?
A69886And dost thou Father, cry''d they, fear death?
A69886And dost thou soundly believe, that there is a future state of Infinite joy, and eternal Sorrow?
A69886And hast thou no time, capacity, understanding, or will, to work out thy Salvation, with fear and trembling?
A69886And hast thou throughly pondered the certain uncertainty of all temporal Enjoyments?
A69886And he said, What shall I cry?
A69886And how clear is that of Plato, concerning a better Life?
A69886And how many art thou?
A69886And how many art thou?
A69886And is it too soon to remember our Creator, when we have seen many as Young as we are, breathe their last?
A69886And now being refreshed with these Fragrant Leaves, what shall I say?
A69886And shall nothing of all this abate thy Fears, silence thy Complaints, and bring thee to a Chearful Submission?
A69886And then seventhly and lastly, He desires man seriously to consider, what is behind him?
A69886And there will come in the last dayes Scoffers, walking after their own lusts, saying, Where is the Promise of his coming?
A69886And there will come in the last days Scoffers, walking after their own Lusts, saying, Where is the Promise of his Coming?
A69886And we may well demand of the Patient, Wilt thou commit thy self to the Cast of Eternity?
A69886And what became of his soul?
A69886And what more heavenly than the thought of Immortality?
A69886And what other Lecture is read here, or taught, but God''s decree of Man ▪ s Mortality?
A69886And what so sweet a sight once to blessed Abraham, as Sarah?
A69886And when we are Arrested by the cold Hands of Death, how Fale and Wan to all shall we seem?
A69886And where did your Father die?
A69886And who can choose but weep for the shortness of our Lives?
A69886And wouldst thou not die?
A69886Are Stones thus endued with anger?
A69886Are here Titles enough?
A69886Are not Men Leaves, whom Sickness, like dry Leaves and juiceless Flowers, tosles to and fro, and variously sports with?
A69886Art thou better than he?
A69886Art thou not ashamed to reserve the Remains and Dregs of Life to God?
A69886Art thou truly Godly?
A69886At this Hour, What would a man give to secure his Soul?
A69886Attend the first words Christ spake to a Woman after his Resurrection, was it not, Wh ● weepest thou?
A69886Augustus the Emperor, the last day of his Life, asked his Friends that were about him, whether he seemed to them to have acted the play of Life well?
A69886BEhold, I beseech thee, lying at the Pool of Bethesda, a Beggar; a Beggar do I say?
A69886Ba ● ak having asked, Where are the Princes of the Nations?
A69886Behold how a little old Woman glories in her Age; what would she have done had she compleated the Centure?
A69886Behold( said he) while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?
A69886Being demanded what next?
A69886Beloved, could we not be content to live, yea, to dye with this sentence which hath born, and brought unto us these six places of consolation?
A69886Bereaved New- England, where are thy Tears, at this Ill- boding Funeral?
A69886Blessed Author, art thou yet Alive?
A69886Blessed is the Soul of him that feareth the Lord; in whom putteth he his trust, and who is his strength?
A69886But are we not ashamed that so many Christian Boys and Girls have joyfully endured what we Men could not bear without weeping and complaints?
A69886But art thou at Rest from thy Labours?
A69886But hath God appointed that thou must once dye, and afterwards come to Judgment?
A69886But he believing himself call''d to the Grave, strook the Ground with his Hand, adding these Words, I come, Wherefore dost thou call me?
A69886But he dies well who dies willingly ▪ Who does not readily rise from a hard Bed?
A69886But how did he live?
A69886But how do I know that?
A69886But how shall they know this that never endeavouted to learn?
A69886But into whose hands must this Hippo fall, now the Austin of it is taken away?
A69886But is it a matter of any moment in what place we lay the bodies of our deceased friends?
A69886But is it not all one in what part of the ground I bury my Husband, so I lay his body in a place that is set apart for that purpose?
A69886But is this the adversity for which he was born, according to King Solomon?
A69886But now he is Dead, wherefore should I Fast?
A69886But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast?
A69886But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast?
A69886But our Love was firm, it was strong, yea strong as death; and who then can blame me if my sorrows in some measure keep pace with my love?
A69886But say the Earth will not render when the Lord shall call?
A69886But should not the first depart, what would be left?
A69886But some will say, Shall we meet with our Friends again departed in the Faith?
A69886But weigh the matter well 〈 … 〉 thou be for ever happy, and not be with Christ ● … st thou be where Christ is, and not die?
A69886But what advantage to the dead are the tears of the living?
A69886But what is the meaning of the Phrase to Die?
A69886But what is the meaning of the Phrase to Dye?
A69886But what shall the Dust make answer saith David?
A69886But what then, is there no fan to purge the chaff from the wheat, is there no difference betwixt the good and the bad?
A69886But what was the word I spoke last?
A69886But whether or no is Sickness a Benefit, and Death an Evil?
A69886But why did he put the Lime into those hollow parts?
A69886But why do we deny, and lift up our Noses?
A69886But why dost thou number thy few days?
A69886But why sit I musing in these pensive thoughts when I should rather prepare for the burial of the dead?
A69886But why?
A69886But will these eager Desires open the Gate of Heaven to me?
A69886But you will demand the second time what then, shall not all rise?
A69886But, they will further ask by whose authority shall they rise?
A69886But, what then, shall the Wicked sing ● ● so?
A69886By what Law?
A69886By what authority doest thou impose thy particular light and perswasion upon thy brother;& that so, as almost to un- saint him?
A69886By whom?
A69886Can I bring him back again?
A69886Can I bring him back again?
A69886Can I say more than this?
A69886Can a draught of my tears fetch him back again to life?
A69886Can any thing be counted an advantage, when the Soul loseth God, and it self, ● n the getting of it?
A69886Can my sighs inspire life into his bosom?
A69886Can sweet, and sower fruit come from the same tree?
A69886Canst thou behold the Sufferings of a Sister and wink at them?
A69886Canst thou once suppose, thou shalt ever be an Inhabitant upon the Earth?
A69886Canst thou rejoice, when thou thinkest how many shall put on Crowns of Glory, and yet thy self have no part, or lot in that matter?
A69886Canst thou then dream of any Mansion or Abiding place here?
A69886DEmosthenes being asked, What he thought most Essential to Eloquence?
A69886Death is a Tri ● ● te and a Duty to be paid by all, why then art ● ou troubled?
A69886Did God think me worthy of this time?
A69886Did I ever approach thee with a Countenance chearful?
A69886Did not my Jesus cause Lazarus to arise when he had been four days dead?
A69886Did not thy Saviour Christ foresee his Death, and that a most sharp one, for thirty years and more?
A69886Did the Wise Man intend that a Brother is born to bring Adversity?
A69886Did ● ● thou think Death would have been content with words?
A69886Didst thou ever see me the sadder for this?
A69886Didst thou hope it would suffer thee to talk, while all others suffer?
A69886Do all die alike?
A69886Do thou rather enquire what is done in Heaven among the Saints?
A69886Do we admire at this once dying, wherein thou mayst find private and concealed Dea ● hs?
A69886Do ye not find that by dropping of the Water, and the passage of the Sand the upper Glass empties and the lower Glass fills?
A69886Do''st thou then groan under natural weaknesses and infirmities?
A69886Dost not thou hope in Heaven?
A69886Dost thou accuse Nature?
A69886Dost thou exalt thy self?
A69886Dost thou expect one more potent than Job?
A69886Dost thou grow deaf, or art thou falling asleep?
A69886Dost thou humble thy self?
A69886Dost thou know, Oh Man, that thou must shortly give up the Ghost?
A69886Dost thou live long?
A69886Dost thou refuse the Scourges, the Thornes, the Cross?
A69886Dost thou remember the Folly of the Gluttonous Servant?
A69886Dost thou remember thy Saviour?
A69886Doth Christ weep upon the consideration of Lazarus Death?
A69886FAlling Sick of a Fever, a Friend asking him how he did?
A69886Fifthly, What is against him?
A69886First, What he is by nature, what he is in himself?
A69886For first, thy dead Men shall live: with ● y dead both shall they arise: What''s all this but a manifest proof of the Resurrection?
A69886For shall the Potter do what he will with his clay, and shall not God do what he will?
A69886For what firmness can there be in the matter of Flesh?
A69886For what is Death, but a privation of life; a separation of the Soul, from the Body?
A69886For what is man?
A69886For what is ● our Life?
A69886For why Beloved?
A69886Fourthly, What is above him?
A69886GOOD Lord, what is the Life of Man?
A69886GOod Lord, is it so that there is no returning from the Grave?
A69886God calls thee now, exhorts thee now, expects that thou shouldst now repent, and dost thou delay?
A69886Good People, had you the Reversion of a Rich Living, or Office, would you weep because it is faln into your Possession?
A69886HE said, I bless God, I have all my Senses enti ● … but my Heart is in Heaven; and, Lord Jes ● … Why should''st thou not have it?
A69886HOW old art thou?
A69886Has he not spoke enough, that can perswade with one word or a nod?
A69886Hast tho ● not learnt in so many years calmly, quietly, and undisturbedly to die?
A69886Hast thou considered the good Father of his Family?
A69886Hast thou not hitherto profited more then so childishly to fear Death?
A69886Hath God, with this Serjeant of his, sent his Angels to fetch thee; and art thou loath to go?
A69886Hath the infinitely wise and gracious God, only given thee opportunities and abilities to desire, and hasten thy eternal ruin?
A69886Have I ever accused thee?
A69886Have I ever found fault with thy Government?
A69886Have I misapplied the parts which thou gavest me?
A69886Have I taken a course for the place of his Rest, where his cold body may be laid to sleep?
A69886Have you not signed it?
A69886He fell into some Languishments, attended with a Fever, which in a few days brought him into the Pangs( may I say?
A69886He hath lived, he hath lived; what was this but every day to cause himself to be carried forth and buried?
A69886He that deliver''d the three Children, did he desert the Maccabees?
A69886He that formed the Muscles, the Bones, the Nerves, the Veins ▪ the Marrow, out of the same Clay, Can he not form the same, out of the same again?
A69886He used to say, If want of Charity be tormented in ▪ Hell, what will become of the Covetous?
A69886Here the Lord himself ▪ Is my hand shortened, that it might not help?
A69886Here you may see an acknowledgment of his own imbecillity,& weakness in recovering his dead Child, can I bring him back again?
A69886His Soul is gone; whither?
A69886His weeping Friends,( and how many of them?)
A69886How can these numerical Bodies rise?
A69886How can we be said not to die, when we live among the dead?
A69886How evil?
A69886How great is ▪ the madness of those that commence long hopes?
A69886How great will be his Thought when it is without any hinderance from these material Organs that now obstruct its Operations?
A69886How kindly did an Angel comfort Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, when they early came to visit the holy Sepulchre of our Lord?
A69886How knowest thou but that it may be as convenient for thee?
A69886How late is it then to begin to live, when thou art iust at the end of it?
A69886How long canst thou awake without refreshment of sleep?
A69886How long canst thou labour without the relief of rest?
A69886How many Thieves do steal away our Lives, while we perceive not what we lose?
A69886How many dost thou deceive?
A69886How many fall with a revengeful Mind, though with an Innocent Hand?
A69886How many has Death prevented in the midst of their wickedness, and cut off half the Crime?
A69886How many snatch''d away in the attempt, have receiv''d the reward of their Impiety?
A69886How many, to whom thou promisest old Age, dost thou cut off in the midst of their Course?
A69886How much do litigious Suits and Diseases snatch from us?
A69886How much time does our Meals, our Recreation, our Play, our Discourse, our Sleep, our Idleness takes up?
A69886How shall we sing the Lord''s Song in a strange Land?
A69886How stupid a thing then is to dispose of Age?
A69886How then shall I make my way to Heaven?
A69886How then ● all the adulterous eye, the coveteous ● ye, the envious eye, the haughty, and ● ornfull eye, be able to look God in ● e face?
A69886How unlike to Christ is this Spirit?
A69886How?
A69886I am Mortal ▪ and do I wonder at Death?
A69886I ask how the first body was Created?
A69886I follow thee, O merciful Father, I follow thee: And wherefore should I refuse, when thou callest me nearer to thee?
A69886I must out of the world, how have I lived when I was in the world?
A69886I there applyed my self[ Ad meum novissimum, to my last thing,] what man liveth, and shall not see death?
A69886IN sickness, O Christian, if thou art asked, how thou do''st?
A69886If God be on our side who can be against us ▪ Who spared not his own Son, but gave him for us all; how shall he not with him, give us all things?
A69886If all my Life makes but one little drop, Why then so many Death''s my Course to stop?
A69886If he, who ● this Bell tells me, is gone now, were some ● xcellent Artificer, who comes to him for a ● ● ak, or for a Garment now?
A69886If never,''t were another thing, but if at any time, why not now?
A69886If then to Morrow, why not to Day?
A69886If thou askest Seneca, What is Man?
A69886If thou shewest that thy Disease may be overcome, at least endur''d?
A69886If you say no, what means your sour carriage to the People of God?
A69886If you shall ask me, how they shall arise?
A69886In his Bed, said the other; where your Father, your Grandfather, and the rest of your Ancestors?
A69886In his Sickness he was visited by a Friend, who finding him fall''n asleep, when he waked, asked how he did?
A69886In the same is our Life to finish, our Works to be examined, and we are then to know how it will go with us for ever and ever?
A69886Is his Soul gone to Heaven or to Hell?
A69886Is it not a small thing, I pray thee, that thou having abundance of Meat, shouldst see him starve for Bread?
A69886Is it not all one, whether in the fields, or whether in our Golgotha''s?
A69886Is it not like unto a Bubble, which quickly swelleth to a considerable bigness, and as quickly sinketh again?
A69886Is it not like unto the Grass which groweth up and flourisheth in the Morning, but is cut down before the Evening come?
A69886Is it so, that it is a Christ- like Frame of Spirit to be deeply affected with, and to weep over the death of such as are truly pious?
A69886Is not God able to enliv''n the Clay, with the same breathing of his Spirit as formerly?
A69886Is there a necessity that what perishes once should always Perish?
A69886Is there ● Lion in the way?
A69886Is this the fruit of thy long and frequent Instruction?
A69886Is this thy Imitation of so many worthy Saints of God, whom thou hast seen entertain the violentest Death with Smiles and Songs?
A69886Is thy Life tak''n from thee?
A69886Is ● t true that our Dear and Pi ● us Relations that are ● ead and gone will never return to us again?
A69886It is he that justifies; who is he that co ● demnesh?
A69886It may be necessary for you to think on Job''s Question, Man giveth up the Ghost, and where is he?
A69886Let the matter be urged home, is everlasting damnation by all means possible, to be prevented?
A69886Life therefore what is it?
A69886Looking upon the Block, and knecling, she said, Will you take it off before I lay it, down?
A69886Lord tell me, tell me when?
A69886Lord who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle?
A69886Lord, for it is very unhonest; Or dost thou love thy Credit?
A69886Man giveth up the Ghost, and where is he?
A69886Man giveth up the Ghost; and where is he?
A69886Mark, the Angel of the Lord encampeth round about his Children, to deliver them: From what?
A69886Miserable diminitive Mortals, wherefore d''ye teach long Hopes?
A69886Moreover, as Death helps us to our Rest, so it is our Rest: Why should we fear it?
A69886Most excellent is the saying of Job, they that saw him shall say, where is he?
A69886Must I then now be sick?
A69886Must I thus die before I am gray?
A69886Must all professors be condemned by thee, because they can not see with thy eyes, and tread in thy steps?
A69886My Soul hath thirsted after God the Fountain of Life, when shall I come and appear before the Face of my God?
A69886NOw where am I?
A69886No, Madam, replied the Executioner; then she tied a Handkerchief before her Eyes, and feeling for the Block, said, What shall I do?
A69886No; Of what then?
A69886No; of thy End?
A69886Now I would fain know of thee, O sick Man, what concerns it thee, what is transacted in Germany, France, Italy, or Spain?
A69886Now the Second Thing regardable, is, If thou art Ashes, why such a deal of Care in Pampering thy Body, which the hungry Worms are to devour to morrow?
A69886Now to comment upon this same place, we may make the like question, and give the very self- same Answer, Nonne omnia Pulvis, nonne Fabula?
A69886Now, Lord, sith things this wise do frame, what help do I desire?
A69886O Men, you dreamt that you were happy and blessed; but of all those things which ye had, which ye hoped for, what do ye retain?
A69886O Mortals, Over- late is to Morrow''s life, live to day; pay your Salary to day; mourn for your Sins to day, for who has assured ye of to morrow?
A69886O death where is thy sting?
A69886O grave, where is thy Victory?
A69886O my dearly beloved Friends, consider what you are all by nature?
A69886O truely Splendid Misery?
A69886O what shall I do for my head, my guide, my heart, my Husband?
A69886O what tie can be so great as that of affection?
A69886O what would I not do to call him back again?
A69886Of thy Beginning?
A69886Oh Grave, where is thy Victory?
A69886Oh press thy Soul hard with these thoughts, how it is like to go with thee, when thou first steppest into Eternity?
A69886One praying by his Bed- side, asked him if he heard the Prayer?
A69886Or can a poor guilty Worm endure with ease, the burden of infinite Wrath?
A69886Or can any thing be had upon Earth, that will hold ever?
A69886Or can the thoughts of Heaven be any otherwise comfortable, than as thou believest it to be thy Heaven?
A69886Or is endless glory no whit desirable?
A69886Or may Hell be supposed to be a tolerable Habitation?
A69886Or rather to comfort us in the time of Adversity?
A69886Or tell where Death is not, if drops can kill?
A69886Or what becometh of his Soul, when it hath once taken its leave of the body?
A69886Or what good things( of any long continuance) are to be found in so weak a Subject?
A69886Or whoever did he despise that called faithfully upon him?
A69886Or ● oth thy natural timorousness, or unpreparedness, ● ut a check to the vehemency of thy Desires?
A69886Or, ● hat is it, that thou so much stickest at?
A69886Our Elisha is gone, and now who must next year invade the Land?
A69886Q What if thou hadst liv''d longer, wouldst not thou have made the same complaint?
A69886Quaeritur Aegistus quare sit factus Adulter?
A69886Qui potuit i d quod non erat producere, ut aliquid esset, i d quod jam est, cum ceciderit, restituere non potuerit?
A69886Quid dabis pro animâ tuâ tunc, qui nunc pro nihilo das illam?
A69886Rather will it not do me good?
A69886SEest thou, frail Man, the Emblem of thy State?
A69886SEest thou, frail man, the Emblem of thy State?
A69886Secondly, An acknowledgment of his own Imbecillity and weakness, Can I bring him back again?
A69886Secondly, Awake and sing: Who?
A69886Secondly, What is within him?
A69886Shall Hereticks and Pagans give Death a better welcome than thee?
A69886Shall I fear my end, when I know I must have an end?
A69886Shall I fear my last gasp, that puts an end to all my Sighs?
A69886Shall any demand?
A69886Shall he deliver his ▪ Soul from the Hand of the Grave?
A69886Shall his Angels stand waiting to convey thy departed Soul home with Songs of Triumph?
A69886Shall not the wicked rise, as well as the godly?
A69886Shall the body of Paul be scourged, and ● nother for it be glorified?
A69886Shall the vain Heathens shew so much Courage in Death, and Christians, trusting in God, be afraid and tremble?
A69886Shall the weak Earthen Vessel,( as the Prophet speaketh) rise up against the Potter, and say, Now I am made, I will not be broken in pieces?
A69886Shall they live, and not live again; and yet both true?
A69886Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in destruction?
A69886Shall we be troubled upon Earth, because our Friends are at rest under it?
A69886Should it be asked, what is most necessary for a sick Person?
A69886Sick people think a Day a Month, a Month a Year, a Year an Age: How many Ages could this Man but think so many Years?
A69886Sometimes a little Fever; what do I say?
A69886St. Lawrence upon the Gridiron?
A69886Such love as ours did not always possess the hearts of some as nearly allyed?
A69886TELL me, my Dear Seneca, whom Pliny with an Elogy to be envy''d calls the Prince of Learning, tell me what thou thinkst of Death, especially immature?
A69886Tears are both unreasonable and unseasonable, why weepest thou?
A69886Tell me how God Created Heaven and Earth out of nothing?
A69886Tell me how the Bones grow in the Womb of her that is with Child: Can you tell how the Child is framed?
A69886Th''exact Idea of thy hasting Fate?
A69886Th''exact Idea of thy hasting Fate?
A69886That thou flourishing in Purple and Silk, would see Lazarus lye in Rags?
A69886That thou seeing even thy Dogs have pity on him, thou wouldst have no pity upon him thy self?
A69886The First is this, If thou art Dust and Ashes ▪ wherefore art thou proud, thou Dust and Ashes?
A69886The Introduction; and whether Sickness be an Evil?
A69886The Lord gave me my Child, and now hath he taken him away from me again, therefore why should I any longer fast and mourn?
A69886The Lord is my Light and my Health: Whom shalt thou fear?
A69886The Soul of my Neighbour, this Bell tell me, is gone out; Whither?
A69886The first circumstance of the Rich man is, to know what became of his Body?
A69886The lasting of a thousand years, what is it in thy sight?
A69886The most admirable Job, almost by way of complaint interrogates the Diety; And dost thou so soon cast me down?
A69886The same, watch ye, how often doth St. Paul reiterate?
A69886Then I shall with joy look back upon thee, O sad Messenger, and triumph over thee, saying, Oh Death, where is thy Sting?
A69886Then asking his Friends, if he acted his part well, when they answered, Yes; why then, says he, do you not all clap your hands for me?
A69886Then inferred the other, And dost not thou fear to go to Sea?
A69886Then said the Mariner, and do not you fear to go to Bed, so Fatal to all your Predecessors?
A69886Then turning his Face, and seeing some by, he said; Are you so nigh?
A69886Then what art thou, Oh poor Worm, that thou shouldest once Dream that thou canst null or make void this Ordinance and Decree of Heaven?
A69886There is a Courage also in the Bed of Sickness: Shall I leave a Feaver, or that me?
A69886There''s the Question; the Answer followeth in the next, It is even a Vapour,& c. First of the Question, What is your Life?
A69886These( I say) I am sure to see, and to partake with them in Joy; why then should not I be willing to dye, to enjoy their perpetual Society in Glory?
A69886They shall rise indeed, but it shall be to their ruine, and their greater ruine; and their great fall?
A69886Things which are seen ▪ were not made of things which do appear: How were these things done?
A69886Thirdly, The earth shall cast up?
A69886Thirdly, What is before him?
A69886This Night thy Soul shall be taken from thee, and who shall inherit what thou hast scrap''d together?
A69886Thou art going a long and unknown Journey; and whither wouldst thou?
A69886Thou being therefore Earth, why art thou Proud, thou Dust and Ashes?
A69886Thou canst not give an account of thy own Production, nor find out the Work of God in forming the Body?
A69886Thou demandest what is the utmost space of Life?
A69886Thou hast begun well, who, what shall hinder thee?
A69886Thou wert ripe for Death long before?
A69886Thou, who are sick, canst thou imitate this poor Man?
A69886Thus Sitenus, being tak''n by Midas, and ask''d, what was the best thing could happen to Man?
A69886Thus far concerning the first particular Circumstance, the Son warning even Almighty God by the mouth of Isaiah the Prophet?
A69886Thy Pains, Do they afflict thee?
A69886Thy Sleeps, Are they short and interrupted?
A69886To die by little and little, is first to mortifie our lesser sins, and not to say with Lot, Is it not a little one?
A69886To me he was a Brother, but now to the Worms: And what loss can be more deplorable than the loss of a Brother?
A69886To me he was a Friend but now to the Grave: and what loss can be greater than the loss of a Friend?
A69886To which the Seaman waving a reply?
A69886To whom Death; F ● nd Banquet for the Grave, said he, couldst thou not prepare in so many Years; that hast had so many warnings from me already?
A69886Truth, Love thee, O Epictetus, How agreeable are all these things to Christian Doctrine?
A69886Tully where, In Learning so profound?
A69886Upon his way, he looking behind him espied Dr. Latimer coming after, and called to him with a chearful Voice, saying, O Brother, are you there?
A69886VVHO will not stand upon his guard against the Efforts of Death that threatens us every Hour, who has appointed no time when he intends to meets us?
A69886VVIth Seneca, I demand of thee, O my sick Friend, why dost thou wonder at thy Miseries?
A69886VVhat hast thou to do with News and false Reports?
A69886VVhat may be done to day, why defer ye to another day perhaps never to come?
A69886VVhat meant that great Personage?
A69886VVhat then is Man?
A69886VVhat then?
A69886VVhat wouldst thou have, O impatient Man?
A69886VVhen shall I come?
A69886VVhere dost thou fly about the VVorld, and beg at the Cottages of Beggars?
A69886VVhere''s Aristole?
A69886VVherefore dost thou bow in vain to every Coach that whirls by thee?
A69886VVhy dost thou make Faces?
A69886VVhy lingrest thou bright Lamp of Heaven?
A69886VVhy should I be offended?
A69886WHat do I do?
A69886WHat more certain in Human things than Death?
A69886WHat shall I do, said the Rich Man in his Heart, because I have not room for the Fruits of my Land?
A69886WHat wouldst thou?
A69886WHerefore art thou troubled?
A69886Was it thus that hitherto thou hast lost all thy time?
A69886Was there ever, saith the Son of Syrach, any one confounded that put his trust in the Lord?
A69886We must one day see the Lord ● ith these very eyes, that now we carry ● bout us: and how shall we be able to ● ook on him with defiled eyes?
A69886Well, sayst thou, but if I know him, it is b ● very little, I never saw him in all my Life?
A69886What Discourse could be more kind, friendly, and fami ● iar than this?
A69886What Ears hadst thou, that wouldest not hear his cry?
A69886What Eyes hadst thou that wouldest not see his Sores?
A69886What Hands hadst thou that would not be stretched out to give, What Heart hadst thou that would not melt in thy Body?
A69886What Hour or Moment is more certain to thee than to another?
A69886What Husband can think so of his Wife, and not melt?
A69886What Joy?
A69886What Man is he that liveth, and shall not see Death?
A69886What Marble Eyes distill not showr''s of Tears?
A69886What Soul hadst thou, that would not pity his silly Soul, this wretched Body, poor Lazarus?
A69886What Stoick Heart is not harrast with Fears To ken this Embleme, to revolve this Book, Where Death''s Memento''s stand where e''re you look?
A69886What are thou afraid o ●?
A69886What are we?
A69886What became of Germany when Luther was dead?
A69886What became of Prague when Jerom was dead?
A69886What became of his Body being dead?
A69886What became of his Body being dead?
A69886What became of his Soul?
A69886What became of his Soul?
A69886What comfort can it bring to his body of earth, to have it cabined in the Grave with his dispersing ashes?
A69886What conception can I have of a separated Soul( says a late Writer) but that''t is all Thought?
A69886What desirest thou?
A69886What did be desire of thee but only Crumbs to save his Life?
A69886What do we do, O Christians?
A69886What does fourscore years avail that man that idly spends them?
A69886What does now my Kingdom, what do all my Guards avail me?
A69886What dost thou fear and shrug, and tremble at, Oh my Soul, thou peevish froward Creature?
A69886What dost thou fear?
A69886What dost thou labour, wh ● dost thou toyl for, O Man?
A69886What dost thou say of Sickness?
A69886What evil can that be which proceeds from the Fountain of Goodnsss?
A69886What harm will it do me?
A69886What has a Pilgrim to do with Flowers and Pibbles, if he return not to his Countrey?
A69886What has he now more than he that liv''d but Eight?
A69886What hath Christianity done to thee, if thy fears be still Heathenish?
A69886What have I now more to do with the World?
A69886What if I prove Sick?
A69886What if thou knowest not one Angel in all the Heavens?
A69886What if thou shouldst be in the number of those?
A69886What is Death?
A69886What is Life?
A69886What is Mortal Life, saith St. Gregory, but a way?
A69886What is a long fear of Death but a long Torment?
A69886What is above you?
A69886What is against you?
A69886What is all this but to look on friends, ● ather as Gods than men, as if all sufficiency ● ere included in them only?
A69886What is become of Caesar now?
A69886What is before you?
A69886What is behind you?
A69886What is below you?
A69886What is here but tumbling and tossing, Cares, Miseries, Griefs of Body and Mind?
A69886What is the end of all men?
A69886What is there that thou canst call a Novelty?
A69886What is within you?
A69886What is your Life?
A69886What keeper of time so sparing, that may not find something worthy to exchange with his time?
A69886What little content do I take in any company on Earth, where I meet with sh ● ● ess?
A69886What love so great as of a Brother and Sister?
A69886What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?
A69886What meanest thou then vain Fear?
A69886What more dost thou believe, thou dost nothing if thou art temperate in sickness?
A69886What other Answer would God return?
A69886What sayest thou to these things, Oh my Soul?
A69886What sayest thou, Oh my Soul, are the things of time only or chiefly to be minded?
A69886What sayst thou, my sick Friend?
A69886What shall I mention the Child kill''d by an ● sicle dropping upon his Head from the Penthouse?
A69886What shall I remember any more?
A69886What shall I say of the hardness of this screwing Rich Mans Heart?
A69886What shall be the issue of the Disease?
A69886What shall such intimate familiar friends do, as the Soul and Body are, which have lived together from the Womb with so much delight?
A69886What shall we now say?
A69886What shame possesses us if we blush not at these things?
A69886What so necessary as the thought of Death?
A69886What so sweet a spectacle to the World, as Sarah?
A69886What then, my sick Friend, do the things of the Earth trouble thee?
A69886What then?
A69886What use shouldest thou that live ● ● make of this now?
A69886What was the meaning of this, but only to intimate these words?
A69886What were the Nine Hundred Ninety Nine Years of Methuselah?
A69886What will become of thee to Morrow, when thy whole Body shall be but one Pool, one continued Wound?
A69886What wilt thou give then for thy Soul to save it, who dost so prodigally throw it away now for nothing?
A69886What would I not give to have him restored to life again?
A69886What wouldst thou more?
A69886What wouldst thou more?
A69886What''s the reason?
A69886What, can earthen Walls raise up such Pride in Men?
A69886What, doth Mary''s weeping set Jesus Christ a weeping?
A69886What, lying at a Gate ▪ and full of Sores too?
A69886What?
A69886What?
A69886When are his Teeth prepar''d for Food?
A69886When is Man able to go?
A69886When shall I come to appear before the presence of God?
A69886When thou accompaniest another to the grave, dost thou conclude thus with thy self the very next time that any death is spoken of, it may be mine?
A69886When to speak?
A69886When?
A69886Whence it appears, that if she sleep, she shall do well; and shall we take it ill, that our Friends are well?
A69886Where are now those complaining sick people?
A69886Where are these harps of their tongues?
A69886Where are those cristal glasses which were so long since broken?
A69886Where are those thousands fed by this Crucified Lord?
A69886Where are thy Parents?
A69886Where are thy Sixty?
A69886Where hast thou left thy Seventy?
A69886Where is it?
A69886Where is it?
A69886Where is now the power and strength of my Empire?
A69886Where is thy Fath?
A69886Where is thy Sting, O Grave?
A69886Where then is not Death, if Lions of Stone can kill?
A69886Where wilt thou find thy Fourscore?
A69886Wherefore art thou afraid, O Man, of short hope?
A69886Wherefore d''ye undertake such a vast heap of Business?
A69886Wherefore do we desire and pray that the Heavenly Kingdom may come, when our Earthly Captivity so much delighteth us?
A69886Wherefore do we expostulate with Death?
A69886Wherefore do we not follow the Council of the Son of S ● ras?
A69886Wherefore do we so earnestly wish for the fulfilling of Christs Kingdom, when we had rather serve the Devil here, then raign with Christ there?
A69886Wherefore do we trust to Death?
A69886Wherefore do ye delay?
A69886Wherefore do ye expect a Truce?
A69886Wherefore do ye pretend immature Age?
A69886Wherefore do ye think upon delay?
A69886Wherefore dost thou not follow him that goes crying so loudly before thee?
A69886Wherefore then do we set our Minds upon vain things?
A69886Wherefore then dost thou add a Disease of mind to sickness of Body?
A69886Wherefore then dost thou complain in vain, and fester thy Wounds with the Nails of Impatience?
A69886Wherefore then dost thou repine?
A69886Which words contain two general parts, a Question and an Answer; What is your Life?
A69886Whither do we run to be punish''d for ever?
A69886Whitherto have tended all thy serious Meditations?
A69886Who can forbear a Tear at the Funeral of a Friend?
A69886Who can withhold from mingling Tears with Grief, To see this Tyrant reign as Monarch chief?
A69886Who is he that sets a value upon Time, that prizes a Day, or understands that he dies daily?
A69886Who is he whom you call Father every time you pray?
A69886Who knows whether the Gods to this days sum Will add to Morrow, though but just to come?
A69886Who of all that multitude speaks ▪ one word for so great a Benefactor?
A69886Who saw it come ● n, or who saw it go out?
A69886Who shall Cure thee?
A69886Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen?
A69886Who shall praise thee in the pit?
A69886Who shall separate us from the love of God in Christ?
A69886Who so hard- hearted, as to deny so small a Duty to the Sick?
A69886Who will warrant things to pass, as thou disposest them?
A69886Who would not hear them?
A69886Who?
A69886Whoever continued in his fear and was forsaken?
A69886Whose Joys are transitory?
A69886Why Lord, dost thou now break off my Life?
A69886Why art thou angry with those that mind thee of the approaching danger?
A69886Why art thou insatiable?
A69886Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my Soul?
A69886Why can he not be called back again?
A69886Why did I shew Lazarus no mercy o ● ● arth?
A69886Why did not give Lazarus a crumb of Bread?
A69886Why didst not thou permit me to make up the full hundred?
A69886Why do we fear to die?
A69886Why do you look on them as if you would eat them up?
A69886Why dost thou change thy former good Resolutions?
A69886Why dost thou complain against thy self?
A69886Why shall I weep, and cry thus mournfully both day and night, seeing he is dead and gone?
A69886Why should I alive refuse it?
A69886Why should I fear to restore that which I received upon that condition?
A69886Why should he either fear one or t''other, who is conscious to himself, that a Man ought not to fear any thing but death?
A69886Why should not I tell thee the Portion that is prepared for thee?
A69886Why shouldst thou spend thy Quiver on my head?
A69886Why so?
A69886Why then do I take on, as if I either suspected his happiness, or doubted of following him?
A69886Why then should I not sorrow for the loss of such a Brother?
A69886Why then, O Man, canst thou not imitate Christ upon the Cross?
A69886Why therefore do we fear at last?
A69886Why therefore, O my Soul, shouldst thou be loth to part upon fair terms?
A69886Why tremblest thou?
A69886Why weepest thou?
A69886Why with a slow Consumption, cruel Death, Dost thou d ● prive me slowly of my Breath?
A69886Why, O Clay, dost thou murmur against the Potter?
A69886Why, O dying Friend, dost thou set apart to Morrow, or the next Day for thy Salvation?
A69886Why, how can this be?
A69886Why?
A69886Will it not be so in Heaven?
A69886Will the enjoying of sinful pleasures, or empty lying vanities, for ● few minutes, recompence the loss of Heaven ● t self?
A69886Wilt thou inlarge thy Barn?
A69886Wilt thou shew a mira ● ● to the Dead; or shall the Dead rise up a ● ● praise thee?
A69886Worm of a Man, what wouldst thou have?
A69886Would Chance have us adore her lawless will?
A69886Would not he be the Laughing- stock of others, who being Condemned among many, should beg to be the last Executed?
A69886Would not this Rich Man afford thee some out- house to lie in, to shroud thee from Storms and Tempests?
A69886Would you know the reason hereof in a word?
A69886Wouldest thou have me abandon the Gaiety of Masks?
A69886Wouldst thou have an Abstract, an Epitome of all Humane Life?
A69886Wouldst thou have it in Man?
A69886Wouldst thou have more signal Arguments?
A69886Wouldst thou live?
A69886Yea, Man giveth up the Ghost and where is he?
A69886Yea, he reproved them, and said unto them, Why trouble ye the Woman?
A69886Yes, he did: But what then?
A69886You ask how the same Body can be restored?
A69886You warn us of approaching Death, and why May we not know from you what''t is to dye?
A69886and bemoan himself as if his life were broken off in the third Act?
A69886and hold communion with him, and yet not know him?
A69886and to appoint that time for Devotion, which thou canst no otherwise employ?
A69886and was troubled, and said, where have ye laid him?
A69886and why perswade you me, now I am at the point of death, to abate of that rigor, which I all my life have used?
A69886be taken out of this World?
A69886but a Vapour that appeareth but a little?
A69886can I bring him back again?
A69886can I put life into him?
A69886can I revive him?
A69886cursed, cursed, most accursed Soul, ● Where am I now?
A69886for which no mercy is shewed to me in Hell ▪ ● hat shall I do?
A69886had GOD any glory by me?
A69886had men any good by me?
A69886he that hath made man of nothing, shall he not be able to raise him again out of the dust at the last day?
A69886how shall these windows be opened, which have so long since been dampned up with clay?
A69886how shall they awake?
A69886how shall they sing the song of the Lord in a strange language?
A69886how shall they sing?
A69886into everlasting Happiness, or into Everlasting Misery and Torments?
A69886is it not enough that many of them may know thee?
A69886is it not like unto a Vapour, which appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away?
A69886makes answer himself, and saith, The earth hath swallowed them up all?
A69886must I Be forc''d to live when I desire to die?
A69886my good friends, where are your years?
A69886no ▪ Many Dishes?
A69886no, no: What is it then that thou dost desire?
A69886no: Or thou wouldest have some delicate Meat?
A69886no: Or thou wouldest sit at the Table with his Sons and Servants?
A69886no: Would not his Wife intreat her Husband for thee?
A69886no: would not his Children speak for thee?
A69886no: would not his servants pity thee?
A69886nonne in paucis ossibus memoria eorum conservatur?
A69886or dost thou know how to bribe Death, that it may alwayes stand at a distance?
A69886or for Counsel, ● he were a Lawyer?
A69886or have I not power to deliver?
A69886or how is it with thee?
A69886or whither goes his Soul when it is once gone out of his Body?
A69886said the pious Wadsworth, in his Answer to the Fear of Death; and dost thou say thou knowest none in Heaven?
A69886say she plead Antiquity of possession so many thousand years?
A69886shall I make answer, when I am turned and resolved into Dust?
A69886shall Paul ● ear in his Body the marks of the Lord Jesus, and not bear in the same body the crown of his glory?
A69886shall he cause to travail, and shall be not bring forth?
A69886these well tuned Cymbals?
A69886unless we accompt Cares, Troubles, Pains, Vexations, and Sins for Advantages: Or what would he have had more, had he liv''d Eight Hundred?
A69886what Child can reflect upon the impossibility of ever seeing his Father or Mother more, and not be overwhelmed with grief?
A69886what Friends are those that howl?
A69886what Parent can consider this, with respect to his Child, and not mourn?
A69886what Riches do we seem to heap, what Honours do we invest our selves withal, what Pleasures do we seem to enjoy?
A69886what Wife can have such a thought of her Husband, and not faint?
A69886what are you born of God ▪ united to God by faith and love?
A69886what doth the holy Ghost say, yea, and nay; can sweet and bitter water come from the same fountain?
A69886what is it thou wouldst have?
A69886what would then these wretches do?
A69886when I know that all things have their end?
A69886when I shall make a journey to Heaven?
A69886when the elect, and chosen people of God have a dissolution of Soul and Body: Whether their hope of rising any more dyeth with them?
A69886where is Solomon the Wise, Or Sampson strong in Fight; Where is the lovely Absalom; Or David''s dear Delight?
A69886wherefore art thou perplexed?
A69886wherefore should I take on thus sadly, being all is in vain?
A69886which of them darest thou touch or raste of?
A69886who hath pure eyes, and can not behold iniquity and sin?
A69886who shall be the Author of that Resurrection?
A69886who shall rest in thy holy place?
A69886who would not be in the Rich man''s state?
A69886who would not comfort them?
A69886who would not pity them?
A69886why Do thy Steeds tread so slowly on?
A69886why art thou not satisfied?
A69886why dost thou refuse the Cup?
A69886wouldst thou not that I should drink the Cup which the Father provided for me, which Christ mingled for me?
A69886yet all these are but a Dream, how short, and how vain?
A69886yet hast thou not believed in him whom thou hast not seen, and rejoiced with joy unspeakable, and full of glory?
A69886— What art thou then afraid of?
A69886〈 … 〉 what if thou hast not seen him with thy 〈 … 〉 eyes?
A13752& quanta haec felicitas?
A13752( Hee bringeth in God speaking thus) dost thou envie me my owne possession?
A13752( brethren) Grovell still on the earth?
A13752( right Iobs Wife, as shee speakes to him) wilt thou still retaine thy trust?
A13752( saith David) how long Lord, how long?
A137521 Passively, where is thy sting?
A13752107. what is the reason of this?
A1375214. there is crying out concerning the comming of God, the sinners in Sion, the hypocrites are afraid, what is their feare?
A1375216. boast her selfe of her scituation, that shee dwelt in the clefts of a rocke?
A137522 Actively, where is thy sting?
A137522. and by and by againe, Know you not that we shall judge the Angels?
A1375222 And he said, while the Child was yet alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, who can tell whether God will be gracious to me that the Child may live?
A1375223 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast?
A1375224. that wee might be dead to sinne, and live to righteousnesse: Why did Christ beare your sinnes in his bodie upon the Tree?
A137527. can we thinke that now it is farre off?
A13752?
A13752A body hast thou prepared for mee( saith hee in the Psalme) why?
A13752A great matter of terrour to wicked men, that this Judge shall be the great God: for who is able to stand before him, when he is angrie?
A13752A great wrath, what is that?
A13752A man is afraid hee shall lose his children, or his friends, what is the reason?
A13752A man is afraid of Death, why?
A13752A man should therefore strive to checke himselfe, and to suffer others to checke him, Why is it thus?
A13752A man will avoid an infectious disease, that is mortall and deadly, and pestilentiall, and the like; Why?
A13752A prisoner in the Lord, what is that?
A13752A wicked eye is supposed to a single eye: a double eye is a wicked eye: What is a single eye?
A13752Abraham is alive, why so?
A13752Againe secondly; Doth God doe it to strengthen faith in a man?
A13752Againe, Secondly thou mayest know it by the newnesse of thy life: whether dost thou feele a spirituall life wrought in thee?
A13752Againe, come to your affections, what is it you delight in?
A13752Againe, dost thou see the children of God full of temptations, full of feares and disquietnesse of spirit in their death?
A13752Againe, doth the Divell terrifie thee?
A13752Againe, doth this spirituall life appeare outwardly also by thy speeches and actions?
A13752Againe, hath GOD given thee any strength over temptations?
A13752Againe, hath God caused the light of his countenance to shine upon thy heart?
A13752Againe, how little comfort, nay how little have you company with those friends you desire?
A13752Againe, in regard of the evills of the world, they are enemies too: but how?
A13752Againe, is there a change in thy outward actions?
A13752Againe, sometimes this worke of Judging is appropriated to the Saints: Know yee not that the Saints shall judge the world?
A13752Againe, thou maist know it by thy progresse in thy vivification: Dost thou grow in grace daily?
A13752Againe, when you doe looke on it, doe you looke upon it as a ruler, or as an enemie?
A13752Againe, you lose no necessary convenience neither, the rich man loseth no riches by death; he loseth his money, doth he lose his riches therefore?
A13752Ah poore spirited men, what can be sharpe or hard unto us, who have learned to despise death it selfe?
A13752Alas how little, what a small or no agreement is betweene them?
A13752Alas is it a small matter thus to slight the Law of God?
A13752Alas what shall become of a world of men and women?
A13752Alas( beloved) are these times to pride up our selves in vanitie?
A13752Alas, durst men goe on without repentance in any course of sinne, if they tooke themselves as condemned men( in truth) by vertue of the Law?
A13752Alas, had not the people of Israel the Arke?
A13752Alas, what are the goods of this life, when they are compared: with eternall damnation?
A13752Alas, what shall the little shrubbes in the Wildernesse doe, when the tall Cedars of heaven shall bee shaken?
A13752All sorrow, and griefe of heart, and disquiet of spirit, that ariseth from terrour of conscience, are they not hence, because of sinne?
A13752Am I a God at hand( saith the Lord) and not a God a farre off?
A13752Am I impatient and repine at that?
A13752Am not I happy?
A13752An argument ab utili, is an argument of great prevayle: what will not men doe for Profit?
A13752And God that hee might shew his long- suffering and Patience, bore with the world, saith Saint Peter; With what world?
A13752And O wretched wight, saith Saint Austin, how hast thou deserved so much ill of thy selfe, as among all thy goods, to be only thy selfe bad?
A13752And death is reckoned amongst the speciall favours and priviledges Christ hath given to his Church; All are yours, what all?
A13752And dost thou not joy to thinke of this comming?
A13752And dost thou not looke with patience?
A13752And have wee not cause to bewaile the generall securitie that is amongst us?
A13752And hee said, What shall I crie?
A13752And how is that?
A13752And how is the charge?
A13752And how is this expressed by life?
A13752And how many divine Histories have beene turned into fables, when things have beene deliuered by tradition from hand to hand, and from man to man?
A13752And how should our thoughts alwayes flie up to God, since there is nothing but rottennesse and putrifaction found here in the world?
A13752And how there?
A13752And if any Examples have this force, have not these much more?
A13752And if any prompted by Iudas shall object against this Solemnitie, and prolixe ceremonie ut quid perditio ista?
A13752And if they be all so unconstant, what a foole art thou to set thy heart upon them?
A13752And if ye say, but who is there that doth not expect the second comming of Christ?
A13752And in regard of Death, why should we feare that?
A13752And is it not an excellent thing for a man to have nothing to doe with Death when it commeth?
A13752And is it not yet time to cease?
A13752And is this a signe of security?
A13752And let the Lords marriners come to them, and say Up sleeper, call upon thy God, why dost thou not doe thy first workes?
A13752And may not we as well as they that lived in the Ages before us, for wee see no appearance of his comming, no more then was many hundred yeares since?
A13752And shall death separate us from that we hope for?
A13752And shall wee say that wee are not asleepe?
A13752And so to receive Christ as a King, would you know what a King he is?
A13752And the Philosopher who being demanded whether the living or the dead were more in number?
A13752And the Princes court have a Ziba?
A13752And the reason of this action and carriage, for I said, Who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to mee that the child may live?
A13752And then God shall say; Were these the things I gave you time for?
A13752And then lastly, the wofull bargaine in such an exchange, What is a man profited?
A13752And then the Petition followeth, Give me, because I will not take it of my owne head: Give me, What?
A13752And then what followes?
A13752And to conlude, above all let us encourage our selves, by the fruit and recompence of all this expectation; what is that?
A13752And what Death is meant here?
A13752And what can be more desired?
A13752And what can we expect there wants?
A13752And what doth hee meane by death?
A13752And what is a man profited, if he gaine the world, and lose his owne soule?
A13752And what is hee at the best?
A13752And what so sweet a sight once to blessed Abraham, as Sarah?
A13752And what was her care?
A13752And what wisedome did hee wish, hee might apply his heart unto?
A13752And when the Scripture calleth them vanitie, what doth it meane, but that they are emptie things?
A13752And when they can not but know them, how doe they labour for distinction?
A13752And where doth God teach, but in the Scripture?
A13752And which of us is there that doth not arme Death with that sting?
A13752And who is there here almost that suffereth not a losse in her?
A13752And why should we thinke that there should come any alteration after, more then before?
A13752And why?
A13752And will you lose your soules for that that is nothing?
A13752Another saith, what shall I doe when I am old, and can not take paines for my living?
A13752Are all men Gods stewards?
A13752Are not these the objects of reproach, and contempt amongst an unrighteous generation?
A13752Are not these they that support the land by their prayers, and hold up all by their standing in the gappe?
A13752Are not they strangers that are not capable of honours, of possessions in the place wherein they live, as being not free Denizens of the place?
A13752Are not they strangers that are out of their proper place?
A13752Are not they strangers that have double Impost, and double customes, and the greatest taxations layd upon them?
A13752Are not they strangers, that have different lawes, and divers customes, and another Prince to rule and command them?
A13752Are these times to runne after the sensuall, and sinfull courses of an ungodly generation?
A13752Are wee able to stand before God, when hee is angrie with us?
A13752Are you carefull to doe good, to persevere in the practise of godlinesse, because hee that shall come, will come, and will not tarry?
A13752Are you carefull to let fall worldly affections, because you have a comfortable apprehension of heavenly joyes?
A13752Are you carefull to turne your course from sinne, because you would not lye open to the judgement of condemnation?
A13752As Phocion said to one, that by the same sentence of the Judges was to dye with him; Art thou not glad to fare as Phocion doth?
A13752As Saint Ierom speakes to Paula mourning for her daughter; Art thou angrie Paula, because I have made thy child mine?
A13752As if hee should say, There is a time comming when Crownes shall bee given: but to whom?
A13752Asif he should say; What a bold part?
A13752Be often thinking of the comming of Christ: often put this question to your soules; What if Christ should now come?
A13752Being asked what evidences she had for her salvation?
A13752Beloved, how could we answer to these things?
A13752Blessed are they that dye in the Lord, for they rest from their labours: and who would not dye here, that hee may dwell with God there in rest?
A13752Blessed is the man that judgeth wisely of the poore, why so?
A13752Brethren, is it not thus?
A13752But God deferreth the promise of his comming?
A13752But I hope, you have beene at prayer in your family, have you not?
A13752But Saint Peter answers these scoffers that asked, Where is the promise of his comming?
A13752But againe secondly, if you make a peaceable death to bee the reward of the Righteous, what say you to this?
A13752But againe, a mans selfe must be armed, or else hee can not incounter with his enemie, What is our Armour against Death to keepe off that blow?
A13752But alas what shall I say?
A13752But alas, you will say, if hee be so great a God; so glorious, how shall such a poore wretch as I, stand before him?
A13752But doe we not reade that immediatly before the seventy years captivity, there were more Prophets then in many yeares before?
A13752But hapily thou maist say, how shall I know that the day of Death, is the day of dissolution, and this kind of dismission?
A13752But here is the thing: What is the bent of thy heart?
A13752But here it may bee objected( for the clearing of the point) May not a Christian seeke himselfe in the things that hee doth?
A13752But here perhaps some may aske why eternall life should not be the wages of righteousnesse, as well as death the wages of sinne?
A13752But here this question may be demanded: but by what meanes now doth Christ convey this spirituall life to his children?
A13752But here this question may bee demanded; but is not this Resurrection of the body, a benefit common to the wicked?
A13752But how are workes in this sense said to follow the dead?
A13752But how commeth it to passe that it is not thus?
A13752But how commeth it to passe that there is so little regard of God?
A13752But how could you have beene acquainted with their faith; if you had not heard of their clothing?
A13752But how did Iobs patience appeare in the Afflictions, in the changes of his life?
A13752But how did he live?
A13752But how doth a man make afflictions worse?
A13752But how many of those promises, as well as those other purposes, come to nothing?
A13752But how must we resist him?
A13752But how shall I know whether Death when he commeth, shall find a sting in me or no?
A13752But how shall a man in such actions of mercie, and bountie, and liberalitie, make it appeare that hee doth good?
A13752But how shall we come to heaven?
A13752But how shall wee come to be awakened?
A13752But how shall wee doe this?
A13752But how then come little children to die before they have committed any sinne actually?
A13752But if there be good evidences of a Saint translated to glory, shall we mourne as men without hope?
A13752But if this be so, what shall we say to further miserie?
A13752But now hee is dead, wherefore should I fast: Can I bring him backe againe?
A13752But now hee is dead, wherefore should I fast?
A13752But now, hee is dead, wherefore should I fast?
A13752But of what of this?
A13752But of whom?
A13752But some will say, by what instrument will he destroy the world?
A13752But some will say, these Examples were after Davids time, What were these to him?
A13752But that man that lives by faith is without feare; As Peter when hee began to sinke, saith Christ, Why dost thou feare?
A13752But the next word is, Looking for what?
A13752But then againe beside that conversation we have with beleevers, the ● … e are many men in the world that expect certaine duties from us?
A13752But then how terrible is Derth, when it commeth in compleate Armour, as it doth against a person in whom Sinne remaineth in its full power?
A13752But then if the dead be blessed, why doe wee not die, that wee may be blessed?
A13752But then you will say, Why must there be such a wayting for this?
A13752But there being divers kinds of death, which of them is here meant?
A13752But there shall be no such thing here: God is the Iudge of all the earth, and shall not hee doe right?
A13752But they might say, vertue, that is that that guideth a man in all Morralls, in all the course of his life and conversation?
A13752But this is also limited, it shall bee destroyed, to whom?
A13752But this is the occasion of trouble to Christians?
A13752But to the wicked, saith God, what hast thou to doe, to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenants in thy mouth?
A13752But to whom?
A13752But was it past?
A13752But we have many discouragements to good?
A13752But what are these blessed fruits, what is the profit accruing to the soule of the people of God by this meanes?
A13752But what comfort have we in the meane time, if Death be not destroyed till then?
A13752But what comfortable thing is this, that here Saint Iohn is commanded to write?
A13752But what course then shall wee take, that wee may finish our course with joy?
A13752But what hath the righteous done?
A13752But what if hee doe not?
A13752But what if temporall judgements and afflictions befall them, is this for their owne sinne, or for the sinne of their Parents?
A13752But what though you should have both temperance and Patience, these are but morall vertues?
A13752But what was his behaviour under all these?
A13752But what?
A13752But when is a man fit for death?
A13752But when will Christ doe this?
A13752But where is the man that takes these things to heart?
A13752But where is the man that yet gets out of the bed of security, that commeth out of his sleepe to meet the Lord?
A13752But where sayth the Spirit so?
A13752But wherefore have wee spoken all this?
A13752But who are blessed then?
A13752But why doe you speake these words?
A13752But why wilt thou trust in a thing of nothing?
A13752But wouldest thou have the sting of death pulled out before death come?
A13752But yee will say; Is this the propertie of the Elect and faithfull?
A13752But yet are not these as Lillies among thornes?
A13752But you will say, how is it possible?
A13752But you will say, indeede there are mansions, but there are aboundance to receive them, what shall we doe?
A13752But you will say, may a man desire death?
A13752But( quoth he) whom else dost thou thinke happy?
A13752But, how can this be?
A13752By the Apostles leave, we may be bold to quit another question with him, what the Apostle meanes to expresse it thus?
A13752By way of detestation in the first verse, and part of the second, What shall we say then, shall we continue in sinne that Grace may abound?
A13752Call upon me in the day of trouble, I will heare thee and deliver thee, and what shalt thou doe?
A13752Can I bring him back againe?
A13752Can a man hide himselfe from God in any secret place?
A13752Can there be a greater stupiditie, then to make a man die twice?
A13752Can we read of the mourning of Ioseph, of Hannah, of Iob, of Ieremie, of Ierusalem and not bee moved?
A13752Can you got any thing by it?
A13752Carnall Joy: will you know what the event of it will bee?
A13752Certainly, we have cleansed our hearts in vaine; in vaine wee have washed our hands in innocencie: in vaine we labour to live godly lives; Why?
A13752Come from praying to hearing the Word preached; how can a man heare the word profitably without patience?
A13752Come to another, that hath a wife: all his care is for her: oh my wife and children, if I should die, and leave them poore, what should I doe?
A13752Come to men in their shops, and dealings, and see them dead in their worldlinesse, and covetousnesse; and shall we say they are alive to God?
A13752Come yee blessed,& c. for what you have done to these you have done to me, hee is in heaven; and so Saul, why dost thou persecute me?
A13752Could God at the first draw all things out of nothing, and can not God as well bring together all againe, when they are turned to nothing?
A13752Could hee make that body of thine out of the dust of the earth, and can not he raise that body, when it is turned to dust?
A13752Could hee unite that body to the soule in the time of the Creation, and can not he unite it at the time of the Resurrection?
A13752Cressus the Lybian( a man happy in his great achievements) asked Solon; Pray( quoth he) tell mee, what man dost thou thinke happie?
A13752David cries out, hee roared for the disquitnesse of his spirit, his bones were broken, he was sore vexed, Lord how long?
A13752David tooke this course at other times, Why art thou cast downe, oh my soule, why art thou disquieted within mee?
A13752David, wee see, checks himselfe, he had a curbe to bridle his passions; Why art thou cast downe, oh my soule?
A13752Death is the greatest amazement a man can meet withall in the World, but what can Death doe?
A13752Descend into thy owne heart; It is that that the Lord lookes for, that a man should say, What have I done?
A13752Did Christ come for this end?
A13752Did God give onely one Table?
A13752Did I bestow time on you, for to bee spent about such things as these?
A13752Did nor hee acknowledge that few and evill were the dayes of his pilgrimage?
A13752Did not he that was a man after Gods owne heart, that had a speciall promise that his house should continue for ever?
A13752Did the people reforme?
A13752Dives, hee lived a voluptuous life, had he not a sting for it?
A13752Do they endure to the very death?
A13752Doe good to all men; What doth the Apostle meane, that every man should receive the fruits of our Beneficence?
A13752Doe not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?
A13752Doe not these demonstrate that it is lawfull to desire death?
A13752Doe not ungodly men and sinners beleeve the comming of Christ, and that he shall come to judge the quick and dead?
A13752Doe the glittering shewes of outward things make thee begin to over- fancie them?
A13752Doe we thinke to live by Christ, and not serve Christ?
A13752Doe wee finde this joy in our hearts?
A13752Doe wee not now beate our breasts, and hang downe our heads, and rend our hearts, and punish our selves for our sinnes, that God may not punish them?
A13752Doe wee not see God hath beene mercifull to many sinners, why may he not be so to me too?
A13752Doe wee not see by all this discourse a plaine difference betweene godly men and unbeleevers?
A13752Doe wee not see this daily in the death of others before us: such a one is dead, where is his body now?
A13752Doe you call this as if not, brethren?
A13752Doe you love your name?
A13752Doe you thinke the Lord speakes not as he meaneth?
A13752Doest thou not looke earnestly?
A13752Doest thou( I say) know this Doctrine, and so know it as to practise it?
A13752Dost thou complaine that thou canst not beare afflictions patiently?
A13752Dost thou complaine that thy affections are unruly, and set upon wrong objects?
A13752Dost thou complaine that thy heart is hard and stonie?
A13752Dost thou complaine that thy understanding is darke and blinde?
A13752Dost thou consider for what cause God sendeth Death abroad into the world?
A13752Dost thou consider this with thy selfe, as thou oughtest to doe?
A13752Dost thou consider what Death will doe to thee when it commeth?
A13752Dost thou daily get ground of thy corruptions?
A13752Dost thou desire unfeignedly, that the same may bee wrought in thy heart?
A13752Dost thou determine still, still to amend that that still troubleth thee?
A13752Dost thou feele a spirituall life wrought inwardly?
A13752Dost thou feele this change inwardly in thy soule?
A13752Dost thou grieve at thine owne weaknesse, to whom the thought of Death is sometime troublesome and unsavourie?
A13752Dost thou labour to know what happinesse comes by Death to those that feare the Lord?
A13752Dost thou love those that excell in vertue?
A13752Dost thou not know that there is one that shall judge him and thee?
A13752Dost thou remember mee, O Lord?
A13752Dost thou still continue to fight with the lusts of thy flesh by the spirituall weapons that God hath ordained for thee?
A13752Dost thou thinke to have an eternall rest in heaven, and wilt not give God a rest here?
A13752Dost thou thinke to live by me, and not worke to me?
A13752Dost thou waite for Christs comming, and yet runne from Christs ordinances?
A13752Dost thou when thou hearest this speech of Simeon, wish that thou wert able to use the like words, with the like resolution?
A13752Doth God awaken thy conscience by the preaching of his word?
A13752Doth God doe this for this end, that he may humble a man?
A13752Doth God pervert judgement, or doth the Almigty pervert Iustice?
A13752Doth God smite thee with someafflictions, if with losses?
A13752Doth hee offer a gracious message of peace to thy soule?
A13752Doth hee speake peace at any time by the ministerie of his Word?
A13752Doth it appeare outwardly in thy speeches, is there a change there?
A13752Doth it fill a man so, as that hee needs no more?
A13752Doth it quiet the conscience?
A13752Doth it raise murmuring, and impatiencie of spirit?
A13752Doth not every man make this profession of his faith; I beleeve that Iesus Christ shall come to judge the quick and the dead?
A13752Doth not the Lord say to his servant Moses, No man can see my face and live?
A13752Doth not the chiefe of the Apostles intreat us as Pilgrims and strangers, to abstaine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule?
A13752Doth not the holy Patriarch that wrestled with God, and had principalitie over him?
A13752Doth not your owne experience tell you this?
A13752Doth such a man die by an ordinary sicknesse, having his understanding, and memorie continued to the end?
A13752Doth the desire of having thy owne will prevaile against the desire of submitting to Gods will?
A13752Doth this testifie our life in Christ, that wee are dead to sinne?
A13752Doth thy heart condemne thee?
A13752Durst they adde drunkennesse to thirst?
A13752Elijah was removed from earth to heaven in a firie chariot, shall Elisha weepe because hee enjoyeth him not?
A13752Even as the Prophet observed in his time, so now who doth not see all the world at rest and at peace?
A13752Even so it is with many of us, that professe the teaching of Grace; Alas, how doe we waste time insensibly?
A13752Every evening call thy selfe to an account; What have I done this day?
A13752Every place hath a conseruing vertue in it: Doth this world preserve man?
A13752Every place is adequate to the thing placed in it; is this world adequate to man?
A13752Examine therefore whether thou be come forth of the grave of sinne?
A13752First Death is to answer to this 〈 ◊ 〉, where is thy s ● … ng?
A13752First, because it was against reason, wherefore should I fast?
A13752First, by the progresse of thy Mortification: Is sinne daily more and more mortified in thee?
A13752First, by thy forsaking of sinne, whether hast thou left those sinnes thou formerly livedst in?
A13752First, consider how unprofitable a man, a Christian man is, when he is asleepe: What is a man when he is asleepe?
A13752First, of what death doth the Apostle here speake of, that sinne is the sting of?
A13752First; are naturall parents thus to their children?
A13752For as the Apostle saith, Doe you not know that as long as a man liveth, his wife is subject to him, and shee must not converse with another?
A13752For if they could exempt, how should pietie have the reward?
A13752For our spirituall enemies: Will any man feare a wounded foe?
A13752For the evills of the world: Why should we feare them?
A13752For the first of these, what is meant by sleepe?
A13752For the other two, you will say, if they be none of mine, why doe I meddle with them?
A13752For unlesse the dead should arise, how can Death be destroyed?
A13752For what is a man profited if hee gaine the whole world, and lose his soule?
A13752For what is there in all the World that can comfort a man indeed besides this, much lesse compared with this?
A13752For what is your life?
A13752For what is your life?
A13752For what was he?
A13752For who can give life, but the God of life, that hath life in himselfe?
A13752For, what is it that men are evill spoken of, is it not for this, and that particular evill?
A13752For, why should she that had done no hurt, doe hurt to her selfe?
A13752Fourthly, and lastly, why the Apostle doth bestow this exhortation upon sleepy persons that can not heare what he saith?
A13752Fourthly, whence are these mourners?
A13752Fourthly; Doth God doe it for this end, that he may make thee better prepared for death?
A13752Give me: What?
A13752Glorifying God, and being thankefull to him is all the tribute wee are to pay to this our royall Lord; and shall we deny him this?
A13752God grant they bee not so violent, and full of ominous precipitations that they portend our sudden ruine?
A13752God hath a time to doe that great worke that he hath now purposed: What is that worke?
A13752God takes them out of a valley of teares, shall we mourne unsatiably for those that are tooke out of the valley of teares?
A13752God the Father, saith hee, hath given all authoritie to his Sonne to judge, Why?
A13752God to comfort the distressed Church in the time of calamitie, for their affliction( saith he) they shall have double; Double what?
A13752God will bee knowne a God of truth, what he hath promised he will performe in due time: only what doth he expect of thee?
A13752Godlinesse is great gaine;( but how?)
A13752Gods Word?
A13752Goe out my soule, goe out, why tremblest thou?
A13752Had I fetched but one sigh, should it not have made thy life a perpetuall sigh: But when I have done so much for thy sake, shall it be lost?
A13752Had I shed but one teare, should it not have broken up a fountaine of teares in thee?
A13752Had not every one cause to lavgh at the folly of this Emperour?
A13752Had not the Churches of Asia, the golden Candlesticke?
A13752Had they not the Temple?
A13752Haman aimed at himselfe: when the King asked him, what should be done to the man whom the King would honour?
A13752Hast thou Faith?
A13752Hast thou hope?
A13752Hast thou knowledge?
A13752Hast thou love?
A13752Hast thou prevailed over the assaults of Sathan, and other of thy enemies?
A13752Hath any one had the keeping of this booke of thy conscience?
A13752Hath hee made thee a conquerour?
A13752Hath not God made foolish the wisedome of this world?
A13752Hath not the Lord sent the destroying Angell amongst us, that hath smitten thousands in our streets?
A13752Hath that awakned us?
A13752Have I ever heard that I have a great worke to doe, and that I have but a little time to doe it in?
A13752Have not all beene frustrate of their expectation?
A13752Have not all things continued as they were, since the beginning of the Creation for so many thousand yeares?
A13752Have they found such sweetnesse in these sinnes, that wee walke on in the same?
A13752Have they not enemies from within, and enemies from without?
A13752Have they not teares, and that in abundance, for their meat, and for their drinke?
A13752Have yee thus disarmed Death?
A13752He thought, whom should the King honour but himselfe?
A13752Hee afflicteth thee in thy body, hee might have afflicted thee in thy soule, and a wounded spirit who can beare?
A13752Hee fell upon the necke of a Gentleman that sate close to him, who perceiving that he was not well, asked him how he did?
A13752Hee gave them repentance after many sins committed, why may he not doe so to me?
A13752Hezekiah turneth his face to the wall and wept, oh shall the grave give thankes unto thee?
A13752His inward condition how oft doth it change?
A13752How are men drawne to bee obedient?
A13752How are they none of his, you will say?
A13752How can that bee?
A13752How can these stand together?
A13752How can we remember our Creatour in the dayes of our age, when our memorie and all other faculties of the soule are decaied?
A13752How can wee say then; that all good and holy persons have a peaceable departure?
A13752How can you beleeve, since you seeke honour one of another, and not the honour that commeth of God only?
A13752How darest thou thinke of giving up that swearing soule of thine to the Judge of heaven and earth?
A13752How doe I love my body, as my fellow servant, and eschew it as mine enemie?
A13752How doe wee know that the Moone shines on the earth by a borrowed light?
A13752How doth God know it?
A13752How doth drunkennesse stagger, and reele in every street?
A13752How doth pride vaunt, and boast it selfe in every Church and assembly, though it be cryed downe never so much?
A13752How easie is it for the wind to blow away ashes?
A13752How entertaine you the motions of sinne?
A13752How hath God smitten this Land?
A13752How have these moved you?
A13752How is it then that we are such our selves?
A13752How is that?
A13752How is that?
A13752How long Lord, how long before this( that the Apostle tells us of) will be?
A13752How long shall this be?
A13752How lovely were the Ninivites?
A13752How many Divine truths have beene turned into lies?
A13752How many are there that are extraordinary ignorant in the meanes how to escape the sting of Death?
A13752How many extreamly secure, that never in their lives, yet thought earnestly upon this, how they may die with comfort, and end their dayes in peace?
A13752How many points are there in Religion, that many men are willingly ignorant of?
A13752How many promises and threatnings after doe wee reade of, wherein he never failed of the performance of what he spake, the least tittle?
A13752How many that doe put all to a desperate adventure, God made us, and hee must save us, and wee shall doe as well as please God, and there is an end?
A13752How many times and places of Scripture sets forth the shortnesse, and uncertaintie of our life, by sundry similitudes and comparisons?
A13752How must our understandings lay hold upon God, and treasure him up in our memories ▪ How must our affections and desires worke toward him?
A13752How prove you that?
A13752How prove you that?
A13752How proveth hee that?
A13752How resplendant shall the soules of the righteous bee, in the beatificall vision of Gods excellencies?
A13752How shall Christ appeare to be righteous in his Law, except he have a rule whereby unrighteousnesse shall be discovered?
A13752How shall I beare the pangs of Death, when they come?
A13752How shall I disarme it, that I may looke death in the face with comfort?
A13752How shall I prepare for Death?
A13752How shall a man come to exercise Patience in such a case as this?
A13752How shall that appeare?
A13752How shall that bee done?
A13752How shall we doe that?
A13752How shall we reconcile these, when it is said, Christ and the Saints shall judge?
A13752How shall wee beare Christs yoake, when the Grashopper is a burthen unto us?
A13752How should it teach us to pray with David; Lord teach mee thy way, and lead me in the right path, because of mine enemie?
A13752How should not death then be rather a day of misery to bee trembled at, then a day of happinesse to bee longed for?
A13752How should this be done?
A13752How should wee be diligent to get the hope of a better life, seeing this is so little worth having?
A13752How then doth it stand every one upon now, while wee have time, to labour to have interest in those joyes?
A13752How unfit is a sleepie man for the actions of life, and of his calling?
A13752How will you disarme the tongues of malicious slanderous persons, and deprive them of their viperous speech?
A13752How wonderfull shall that divine capacitie be, that shall be capable of God himselfe for a perpetuall residence?
A13752How?
A13752How?
A13752I am called on to awake, I am in a dead sleepe; can I heare if I be in a dead sleepe?
A13752I am going out of the company of men, and whither then?
A13752I confesse my selfe a poore, wretched, and grievous sinner, how shall I stand before him?
A13752I demand therefore of thee: Dost thou know that the confident and comfortable expectation of Death is the worke of the Holy Ghost in Gods servants?
A13752I did it for this end, for( saith he) I said, who knoweth whether the Lord will bee gracious to mee, that the childe may live?
A13752I goe now out of the bodie, and whither then?
A13752I goe out of the world, and whither then?
A13752I have done with the Question the Apostle propounds; What is your life?
A13752I have smitten them with blasting and mildew, and yet they have not returned unto mee: What then?
A13752I have smitten them with the pestilence, after the manner of Egypt, and yet they have not returned unto mee: What then?
A13752I have smittenthem( saith God in the fourth of Amos) with cleannesse of teeth, and yet they have not returned unto me: What then?
A13752I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
A13752I know againe, that there is a question made by Iob; Wherefore is light given to a man that is in miserie, and life to the bitter in soule?
A13752I must out of the world, how have I lived when I was in the world?
A13752I said in my prosperitie( saith David) I shall never bee mooved, thou Lord hast made my mountain so strong; but what followeth upon it?
A13752I said of laughter thou art madde, and of mirth, what doth it?
A13752I say, how can the Doctrine of Popery beget a peacefull death, when it teacheth an expectation of such an hellish Purgatory?
A13752I say, who shall take up the matter with God in such a case as this when the offence strikes against God, and his ordinances, and his worship?
A13752I shall not need to stand to prove it: You will aske me, how it will be raised from this place?
A13752I, Christ hath done this for himselfe( perhaps) but what is this to us?
A13752Iacob, and Rebecca, in that case; why did Rebecca use that devise in getting the blessing with Iacob?
A13752If Cain had done thus; if he had put the question to himselfe as GOD did, Why art thou wroth?
A13752If Christ hath a bottle for every teare shed for him, how much more for every drop of bloud?
A13752If David had done thus, would hee have runne out to that excessive expression for his sonne?
A13752If I can not endure a light crosse, a small affliction, doe I murmure at that?
A13752If Ionah had done thus, if hee had considered what reason hee had to bee angrie;( as GOD putteth the question to him; dost thou well to bee angrie?)
A13752If a day- labourer come at night and demand pay: the Master will aske him, what worke hee did?
A13752If a man fill his belly with gravell, what hath hee gotten by it?
A13752If charitie commands thee to cover the naked, sayth Saint Ambrose, how much more to burie the dead?
A13752If for every idle word, what then for thy swearing and cursing, and lying?
A13752If he had said no more but this, Who knoweth whether the childe may live?
A13752If hee be able to come off, it is well enough, though it be performed in never so ill a manner: Why?
A13752If hee rejoyce in any thing, what reason have I for it?
A13752If hee should come now I am in my calling, in my worldly businesse, doe I follow it with a heavenly disposition as I ought to doe?
A13752If hee should come now I am in the Church, am I hearing the Word with that affection that I ought to heare it with?
A13752If hee sorrow for a thing, what reason have I for it?
A13752If it be wealth: doth it satisfie the soule?
A13752If it bee so hard a thing to stand to the command of the Law, how hard a thing will it bee to stand under the penaltie and censure of the Law?
A13752If it were not for these promises, how were it able for Christians to get over the rubbes and hinderances that lye in the way of this expectation?
A13752If sinne in thee bee as a dead thing, how doest thou looke upon it?
A13752If so be contrition of heart and sorrow for sinne?
A13752If the Commandement of Christ concerning obedience seeme harsh, then how harsh a saying shall that be, depart yee cursed into everlasting fire?
A13752If the very sight of the Serpent afright us now the sting is out, what would it have done, if the sting had still remained?
A13752If there be a Purgatorie for Soules after this life, why not for bodyes also which need as much pu ● … ging as soules?
A13752If they that obeyed not Moses Law died, of how much sorer judgement shall they bee guiltie of, that disobey the Gospel of Christ, the law of faith?
A13752If this be possible to be had, how shall the servants of God get it?
A13752If this bee not the estate of this Land at this day, what meanes the complaints, the heavinesse of the spirits of the Prophets?
A13752If this were all, what great matter were there in Religion?
A13752If this world should last alwayes, where were Gods justice?
A13752If two mites cast into the treasurie shall be taken notice of, what thinke yee of ten talents?
A13752If we thinke that the hand of God is upon them for these sinnes, how is it that wee are not awakened?
A13752If wee could attaine this pitch to live without feare that nothing should trouble us, were it not a happy condition?
A13752If wee take the words as spoken by way of insultation, ô mors ubi est aculeus tuus?
A13752If yee aske me who it is that is here called a Steward?
A13752If you aske me who is the Master?
A13752If you could enjoy any present good by sinne, there were somewhat to bee pleaded: but what is it?
A13752In a word, when death surprizeth most men, and that in all postures of the bodie; why is dying here called going?
A13752In particular labour to strengthen faith, make God our strong Tower, and live by faith, hee shall not be afraid of ill tydings; why?
A13752In the feare of man there is a snare: what doth feare doe?
A13752In the next place, Why doth the Apostle call upon sleepers to awake out of sleepe?
A13752In what company?
A13752In what height are all these actions to be boyled up?
A13752In what place hath shee lived, and hath not left a savour behinde her?
A13752Indeed all the comfort that the soule is capable of is this, that the sting of death is tooke away?
A13752Iob and Moses expressed it so, and so Isaiah here, to shew that Death is never sudden to the mercifull and righteous man, why?
A13752Ionah, when the Lord chalenged him for his anger, Dost thou well to bee angrie?
A13752Is Ephraim my Deare sonne?
A13752Is God lesse mercifull?
A13752Is all feare prohibited?
A13752Is grace in thee, as the house of David, as that grew stronger and stronger, so doth grace in thee?
A13752Is grace like a young man, as it is in every member of Christ?
A13752Is it Hell?
A13752Is it a pleasant and comfortable thing to be driven from Gods house, and from our owne houses?
A13752Is it honour that I am ambitious of?
A13752Is it not dangerous to despise the Judge?
A13752Is it not thus with many of you?
A13752Is it not thus with us at this day?
A13752Is it not thus with us, in these dead and secure times that wee live in?
A13752Is it pleasure, we are in love with, and dote upon?
A13752Is it possible that there should be a generation in the world, that should doubt of the Iudgement to come?
A13752Is it possible then that a man may lose his soule that is so precious?
A13752Is it so that yee kill them with unkindnesse?
A13752Is it such a sorrow as drawes thee to God?
A13752Is it such a sorrow as makes thee confesse, and then purpose amendment?
A13752Is it worth this sorrow, or this joy?
A13752Is not it so( beloved) with many of us?
A13752Is not much part of our life spent without any fight of our friends?
A13752Is not this Chius ad Choum?
A13752Is not this security?
A13752Is sinne in thee like an old man, as it is in every member of Christ?
A13752Is sinne in thee like the house of Saul, as that waxed weaker and weaker, so doth corruption in thee daily?
A13752Is there any good reason for it?
A13752Is there any of the houshold of Faith( as the Text saith, and as the Scripture calls them) unto whom I may shew kindnesse for the Lords sake?
A13752Is there not a maine necessitie to seeke the meanes to preserve us in the compasse, and seales of grace?
A13752Is there not an appointed Time to man upon Earth?
A13752Is there not an appointed time to man, are not his dayes, as the dayes of a hireling?
A13752Is there not some lust, some sinne that still holds thee captive in this Grave, to which thou willingly, and wittingly obeyest?
A13752Is this now a question, what meanes the agony of the Apostle?
A13752Is this so?
A13752Is this the matter of your prayer to God?
A13752Is this the proofe of conjugall love?
A13752Is this to be as if you had no wife and children?
A13752It is but a dull grace, it is meerely passive?
A13752It is certain, but who will Christ save?
A13752It is not for you to know these times: Then beloved, why should we have an eare to heare, where God hath not a tongue to speake?
A13752It is riches that we set our hearts upon?
A13752It is true indeed, it is the common opinion, Doth a man lye quietly?
A13752It is true, God hath given us such and such favours and mercies, hath offered us such and such opportunities, but what is this?
A13752It is well to have abundance, saith nature, and sence, we can not be without it?
A13752It may be now thou wilt demand of me, What shall I doe, that I may be ready?
A13752It teacheth a man to strive and wrestle and contend against death, why?
A13752It was altogether bootlesse, Why should I fast?
A13752It was the expression of the Widow of Sarepta to the Prophet Eliah; Art thou come to call my sinnes to remembrance, and to slay my childe?
A13752It will be here said, whence commeth this?
A13752Item, so much for such apparell, for such entertainment, for such building of Walks and Galleries; What nothing for the servants of God?
A13752Judgement, what is that?
A13752Last of all, shall there be a change that shall befall every sonne of man?
A13752Lastly, hath Christ conquered Death and Hell and that for us?
A13752Lastly, is it life we build upon?
A13752Let him proove his owne worke: by what shall he prove it?
A13752Let mee die, saith Seneca, and what hurt comes by that?
A13752Let mee talke with thee of thy judgements, Why doth the wicked prosper, and they that transgresse thy commandements?
A13752Let not your hearts be troubled; But how shall wee helpe it?
A13752Likewise when Gerardus was giving up the ghost, the Spirit spake in him, O Death where is thy sting?
A13752Lord dost thou call for this blessing back againe?
A13752Lord, since thou hast kept us from being beneath for our iniquities, should wee sinne more?
A13752Lord, what is man, that thou art mindful of him, or settest thy hart upon him?
A13752Lord, what is man, that thou art mindfull of him, or the son of man, that thou desirest him?
A13752Make the heart of this people fat, make their eares heavy: and why so?
A13752Man dieth and ● … steth away, and giveth up ▪ the ghost, and where is he?
A13752Marke what Solomon saith, Wilt thou trust in a thing of nothing?
A13752May not the Angell of the Lord returne that answer, as hee did in the first of Zephany; All the world is at rest?
A13752May not the Church have a Balaam?
A13752May not the Lord say of us, as hee did of the people in Ieremies time?
A13752May not young men rejoyce in pleasures, in friends, in honours, in wealth?
A13752May wee not rather feare that God will avenge the quarrell of his servants upon an ungracious, and ungratetull people they live amongst?
A13752Moriar?
A13752Morte nihil certius, As sure as Death, is an ordinary Proverbe; What man is hee that liveth, and shall not see death?
A13752Much more ought it to be so here in this heavenly contract betweene Christ and his faithfull Spouse: should not here the Spouse bee sicke of love?
A13752Must young men be carefull to chase away all carnall joy, and to get spirituall joy, that beginneth in godly sorrow?
A13752Nay, he loseth himselfe in living to himselfe: What shall it profit a man to winne the whole world, and lose himselfe?
A13752Nay, is it not that that hinders your blessednesse and happinesse?
A13752Nay, shall wee goe further and come neerer, not onely in the world, but in the Church, that there should be such as doubt of that time and day?
A13752Nay, what dishonours you, and exposeth you to reproach, and shame, and obliquie, is it not sinne?
A13752Nay, what is sinne indeed, but impatience in a sense?
A13752No hee offered up his Isaac; as if the Text had expressed Abrahams language thus; O Lord my God, what is it that thou callest for?
A13752No such matter; What then?
A13752Not at all?
A13752Not the most?
A13752Now I may say with that Father, what shall hee doe when hee comes to judge, that was able to doe thus, when he was to be judged?
A13752Now I say when such wrong and injury is done to God, shall not God take a time to right himselfe of those that injure him?
A13752Now I say, is not Christs glory a whit diminished in his abasement?
A13752Now a worldly man doth the duty too: but how?
A13752Now alas how unfit is a sleepie man, either to expect, or to repell an enemie?
A13752Now all the enemies of a Christian are either reconciled, or conquered and foyled, and what then need he feare them?
A13752Now hee withdrawes himselfe from the soule, and what is the end of it?
A13752Now how doe wee know that the heart of man is fed and releeved, and supported with comfort from without it selfe, with borrowed and received comfort?
A13752Now tell me if these men live not in a carnall sleepe?
A13752Now the Faith of Gods servants in conflict, so sometime it is in conflict with feare, and sadnesse of spirit, Why art thou cast downe, oh my soule?
A13752Now the Question is, what he resolveth to doe?
A13752Now then, if thou waite for Christ in truth, how commeth it, that thou dost not love him?
A13752Now thou hast a great deale of health, a great deale of strength, but hast thou beene the better for Gods service?
A13752Now wee know what the sting is, let us enquire where it is?
A13752Now what are the Graces?
A13752Now what doth Abraham doe?
A13752Now what is it to die in Christ in a large sense?
A13752Now, What is it to bee in this, as if hee had no wife?
A13752Now, as it is in this case with a tree; will you know when it is dead?
A13752Now, what have yee done( beloved) to disarme death?
A13752O Death where is thy sting?
A13752O Death, where is thy sting?
A13752O Grave where is thy victory?
A13752O Hell, where is thy victorie?
A13752O death where is thy sting?
A13752O grave where is thy victory?
A13752O grave, where is thy victorie?
A13752Of Death in the first sence, David demandeth, who is hee that liveth, and shall not see death, and shall hee deliver his soule from the hand of hell?
A13752Of Death in the second sense, Saint Paul enquireth, how shall wee that are dead to sinne live any longer therein?
A13752Of any other life but this, wee may aske the question in the words of the Apostle, What is it?
A13752Oh Absalom, my sonne, my sonne,& c. What great reason had hee for this?
A13752Oh my beloved, what are all our afflictions?
A13752Oh that we had learned this excellent lesson, that the Apostle teacheth the Corinths here, what wondrous happy people should wee be?
A13752Oh what shall I doe then to secure my selfe from the great, from the strong, arme of death?
A13752Oh who can dwell with devouring fire?
A13752Oh why doe not wee make our eyes as fountaines to bewayle our sinnes?
A13752Oh( saith Abner to Ioab) knowest thou not, that this will be bitternesse in the end?
A13752Oh, but Death is disarmed, the sting of it is taken away, what a singular comfort is it then to you that Death is comming?
A13752Oh, saith the Apostle, what reason have you to build on to day, and to morrow, when yee know not what a day will bring forth?
A13752On the other side: what is the reason why infidelity doth presently bring judgements upon men?
A13752One saith Lord, what would become of me if I should loose my wife?
A13752Or as that great King said to Nehemiah; Why is thy countenance sad?
A13752Or what will you doe?
A13752Our grace?
A13752Our selves?
A13752Perishing is one step beyond death?
A13752Quid regnat ● … res patuerit,& c. what shall he doe when he comes to reigne, that was able to doe thus, when he was to die?
A13752Saint Pa ● … l ubi stimulus tu ● … 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, O Death where is thy sting?
A13752Saith Nabal: shal I take my bread, and my drink, and give it to a man that I know not?
A13752Salvation is brought: to whom?
A13752Say within yourselves: How long Lord, am I like to continue below?
A13752Secondly, great trialls for great Christians, because who is more able to susteine great trialls then great Christians?
A13752Secondly, hath Christ destroyed Death, and hath hee both the keyes of Death and of Hell?
A13752Secondly, here is Davids pietie expressed in this, Who knoweth whether the Lord will bee gracious to mee?
A13752Secondly, it is altogether bootlesse and needlesse; Can I bring him backe againe?
A13752See the difference betweene two persons, the one is afraid of every one he meeteth, the other is not; what is the reason?
A13752See what the end of it was; Thou foole( saith the Lord) this night they shall fetch away thy soule, and then whose shall these things bee?
A13752See, here is a faithfull, a hopefull man, and yet doth not die patiently: what would the Father say?
A13752See, is not the Land as secure as they of Laish, or worse?
A13752Seeing all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought wee to be in all holy conversation and godlinesse?
A13752Shall I goe on in this vanity?
A13752Shall a Traytour presume on the Kings favour, and Mordecai be out of the Kings grace?
A13752Shall a man be afraid of his owne good?
A13752Shall a man be saved by a halfe Faith, by a peece of Faith?
A13752Shall not the Iudge of all the world doe right?
A13752Shall shee want a memoriall?
A13752Shall the Scripture say that hee perisheth, whose name is in the bundle of life, written in heaven?
A13752Shall the beasts of the Forrests bee afraid of the Lyon, more then the poore wormes of the earth, of the mighty God of heaven and earth?
A13752Shall theeves and burglaries watch at midnight to breake the house, and cut mens throates, and wilt not thou watch to save thy selfe?
A13752Shall they waite, and earnestly desire the first comming of the Sonne of God in humilitie, and humanitie and basenesse?
A13752Shall this be your practice when you come home?
A13752Shall we feare those sinnes that we are humbled for, and which God hath made as if they had never beene?
A13752Shall we say we are not in danger?
A13752Shall we thinke that they have this expectation?
A13752Shall wee come to the tryall?
A13752Shall wee doe the contrary to all this, and yet thinke that all will bee well?
A13752She had such children as S. Austin speakes of, and he saith, they are those children that women are saved by; What children, saith he?
A13752Shee dwelt among you: who is he that can speake ill of her?
A13752So Iob meaneth, when hee speakes in the same manner, If a man die, shall hee live againe?
A13752So Peter denyed his Master out of feare; What is the reason that a Minister doth not sometimes reproove sinne?
A13752So how can a Christian exercise himselfe in the actions of his generall Calling, when he sleepes?
A13752So if men would put the question to themselves concerning their affections: as, concerning love, why doe I set my heart upon such and such things?
A13752So in another place the same Apostle, when hee would take men off from judging, saith hee; Iudge nothing before the time: Why?
A13752So likewise here, is it possible that there should be righteousnesse toward God, when there is not mercie toward men?
A13752So likewise worldly businesse, when a man loveth much employment, much businesse, he can not abide to thinke of death, Why so?
A13752So others in Scripture, did not their plentifull tables, and voluptuous courses bring a sting on them?
A13752So take a spirituall man; what is the reason hee delights in spirituall things?
A13752So the Apostle makes the argument, Hee that loveth not his brother whom hee hath seene, how can hee love God whom hee hath not seene?
A13752So the Prophet Ieremy telleth Baruch in the captivity, Seekest thou great things for thy selfe?
A13752So then the ground is this, that man that hath no enemies; that man that can not possibly be molested with any evill, what need hee feare?
A13752So then, wouldest thou have peace in death?
A13752So thinke with your selves, If I can not endure a little, how shall I endure more?
A13752So when we sleepe, and slumber, and tumble, and tosse our selves in dead securitie, how unprofitable are we to Gods glorie, and to our owne selves?
A13752So you may see in other servants of God, that this was alwayes the reason of any indirect course they tooke?
A13752So, are wee not glad to fare as the holy Patriarkes, Prophets, and Apostles have done, and to goe after them?
A13752So, how will you take away the sting of death?
A13752So, remember that thou in thy life time haddest riches, but how didst thou imploy them?
A13752Sometimes so overcome with the violence of the disease, as that( it may be) they speake impertinently and idlely, it may bee sinfully?
A13752Soule, soule( saith he) take thine ease, eate, drinke, and bee merry: and why so?
A13752Stretch out the dutie of Patience then; hast thou waited a weeke?
A13752Such as makes thee cry to him for power and strength?
A13752Suppose it be Prayer; How can a man goe on in the duty of prayer without Patience?
A13752Suppose now, a man comes and meets with a Citizen in his businesse, and say to him; How have you spent this day?
A13752Tell mee, when thou findest those corruptions whereof, and for which thou speakest against thy selfe, Dost thou allow them or not?
A13752That escaped the pestilence, that they should fall by the sword, by the hand of Nebuchadnezar: Why so?
A13752That say to the Gold, thou art my God; and to honour, thou art my glory?
A13752That servant that saith in his heart, my Master deferreth his comming, and therefore hee eates, and drinkes with the drunken: what is the issue of it?
A13752That you desire this heavenly temper, I doubt not I should offer violence to Charitie, the Queene of Graces, if I should thinke otherwise?
A13752The Angell told Zacharie that he should have joy and gladnesse at the birth of his sonne, why?
A13752The Antecedent or Condition, is this; If in this life onely wee have hope in Christ; what then?
A13752The Apostles were troubled with these kind of scoffers; Where is the promise of his comming?
A13752The Lord is my light, and my salvation, whom shall I feare?
A13752The Reason is, in regard there is the same maker of one, as of another; Wee have all one Father( sayth the Prophet) and hath not one God created us?
A13752The Saints of God in former ages 1600. yeares agoe waited for Christ comming; but were they losers by it though he came not?
A13752The faithfull are said to endure as seeing him that is invisible: how doe they endure?
A13752The fashion of the world, What is that?
A13752The first is this, you know life it consists in the union of a man, with the principle of life?
A13752The fourth and the last, is the wofull disadvantage by such an exchange, What is a man profited?
A13752The fourth difficultie was, when the workes follow the dead?
A13752The health thou hast had: how hast thou spent thy strength and thy health?
A13752The intention of their desire, In this wee groane,& c. That wee are strangers, doe not the sacred Oracles declare?
A13752The life simply considered, is the subject of the Apostles question, What is your life?
A13752The like speech you have ordinarily in the mouthes of persons; Is there any affliction like mine?
A13752The next question is, what sinne the Apostle speakes of, when he saith, the sting of death is sinne?
A13752The question is, what a man resolveth upon in this?
A13752The reason he did sinke was feare, and why did hee feare?
A13752The second thing remaineth, and that is, why the holy Ghost expresseth Gods proceedings, by way of reckoning, or calling to an account?
A13752The soules under the Altar, they crie, How long Lord, holy and just, wilt thou not revenge our bloud upon them that are upon the earth?
A13752The third Question is, in what respect Sin is the sting of Death?
A13752The third difficultie was, whither the workes follow the dead?
A13752The well is deepe, where is the bucket?
A13752Then it teacheth us first, not to busie our selves in judging one another, why?
A13752There be onely two things, that I shall observe in the whole words?
A13752Therefore examine whether dost thou find spirituall life wrought in thy whole soule or no?
A13752Therefore how should this teach us circumspect walking?
A13752Therefore the Apostle Paul telleth us of a certaine sting it hath, Oh Death where is thy sting?
A13752Therefore the Apostle Saint Paul when he would stirre up Timothy to the worke of the Ministrie, what is the Argument that hee useth?
A13752Therefore the Apostle saith, Death can not separate from the love of God in Christ; What shall then?
A13752Therefore what reason is there that Parents should call their sinnes to remembrance, in the miseries that befall their children?
A13752Therefore yee have God himselfe set as a patterne of Patience: Follow God as deare children; wherein?
A13752Therefore( saith the Apostle) I desire to be dissolved, and to bee with Christ, and this( quoth hee) it is melius, it is better: Better?
A13752Therefore, saith the Church, Why is the living man sorrowfull?
A13752They would not receive him, saith the Text; Why?
A13752Thirdly, and lastly, consider your actions, consider your conversation; doth sinne get strength, or is it weakened?
A13752Thirdly, it must bee so; or else if both these were not, and in this order wrought: what difficultie were there in the life of a Christian?
A13752Thirdly, know that Gods delayes are never long: at the longest they are but for a short time: what if he delay a yeare?
A13752Thirdly, where is this long home?
A13752Thirdly, who they are that must arise out of sleepe?
A13752This Faith in Christ the Law doth not teach, the former Covenant would not accept: What?
A13752This course God himselfe tooke with Adam called him to account for his cariage in the garden: Adam( saith he) where art thou?
A13752This is a hard saying, who can beare it?
A13752This is the dutie of Christians, and are not they Strangers?
A13752This is the way to bring ill upon them, when men will needs bee miserable is it not just with God they should?
A13752This must be bought; but what must we give for it?
A13752This was the case of old Eli, a good man, yet neverthelesse the hand of God was gone out against his house and familie, and what was the reason of it?
A13752This will be the reckoning of fooles at the last, What hath pride profited us?
A13752Thou child of the divell and enemy to all righteousnesse, wilt thou not cease to pervent the right wayes of God?
A13752Thou foole, this night may thy soule bee taken away, and whose possessions shall then thy carefull and only gettings bee?
A13752Thou foole, this night thy soule shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
A13752Thou foole, this night thy soule shall bee taken from thee; then whose shall those things bee, that thou hast provided?
A13752Thou hast so many thousands, What hast thou done out of this to releeve the poore?
A13752Thou hopest so?
A13752Thou that hopest, thou shalt never see Death; come answer God in thy conscience: dost thou keepe the saying of Christ or no?
A13752Thou unrighteous person that wilt not sanctifie the Lords day, how darest thou give up that unholy soule of thine to the holy God?
A13752Thus you have his first answer to those scoffers, that said, Where is the promise of his comming?
A13752To judgement, what is that?
A13752To looke on Christ in one office, and to thinke to bee saved onely by that without concurring, and concomitating in the other offices?
A13752To the body of man, how doth it weaken and contract the Spirits?
A13752To what serves this waste?
A13752Was Abraham rich?
A13752Was Constantine an Emperour?
A13752Was David a King?
A13752Was Iacob rich?
A13752Was his griefe so aggravated, as hee could not still behold her face?
A13752Was it love to the soules of his brethren, that hee would not have them damned?
A13752Was it thinke yee?
A13752Was this a matter for David so much to grieve, and to be troubled at?
A13752Well then, wouldest thou prepare for Death?
A13752Well yet I know( saith Solomon) that it shall not goe well with them in the end, neither shall the wicked prolong his dayes; Why?
A13752Well, what of this?
A13752Well, what will the Lord doe?
A13752Well; what of this?
A13752Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
A13752Wert thou carefull to serve God yesterday?
A13752What Lord?
A13752What a great matter was this?
A13752What a height of sinne is this that is in many men, which to their other sinnes adde a presumptuous claime to heaven, when they have no right to it?
A13752What a wofull and heavie day will this be to all the wicked and ungodly?
A13752What actions doe you?
A13752What answer made Iehu to Ioram, when hee demanded, Is it peace Iehu?
A13752What are his wings?
A13752What are the grounds of thy desire?
A13752What are the signes whereby wee may bee convinced of securitie?
A13752What are your opinions, and judgements, concerning your owne wayes?
A13752What becomes of the hope of the Hypocrite( said Iob) when God takes away his soule f?
A13752What blessing gave the friends of Rebecka at her departure?
A13752What care is there amongst men to get wealth, and many times lose their soules in getting the world?
A13752What cause of feare is here left, what occasion of perplexitie?
A13752What comfort, and peace, and joy, will it procure to the conscience then?
A13752What could have beene more emphatically spoken?
A13752What daunts a man at the apprehension of death, and makes him have no delight in thinking of Judgement to come?
A13752What day is that?
A13752What death is it that is due to sinne?
A13752What did shee?
A13752What did you when you received the Sacrament?
A13752What doe men rest on, to secure, and perswade themselves of imunitie from wrath and impunitie?
A13752What doe we meane( beloved) to suffer our sinnes to stand upon the score?
A13752What dost thou mourne and lament, and hang downe the head, and all for losse of such as are departed and gone to rest with God?
A13752What dost thou mourne for most?
A13752What dost thou suffer, but thou maiest have suffered a great deale more?
A13752What doth Death bring with it to make it fearfull?
A13752What exercise should a Christian use?
A13752What foolish disorderly speeches proceed from men in the time of affliction?
A13752What fruit will these things bring then?
A13752What glory will he get when he shall throw the Divell, and wicked men into hell fire?
A13752What greater happinesse?
A13752What hardneth men in securitie?
A13752What hast thou lost, but thou maiest have lost a great deale more?
A13752What have I said if it were a Mariage solemnitie?
A13752What have we to doe?
A13752What have you done with all your time?
A13752What hurt was done to David?
A13752What if hee should come and take mee asleepe, have I made my peace with God before I went to rest?
A13752What if hee should come now while I am feasting, should he take mee as one feasting with feare lest I should sinne against God in my mirth?
A13752What if unreasonable men deale with us, have wee not reason to feare ill from them?
A13752What is a chaine of Pearle, to a chaine of warme and successive teares, beaten out of the rocks of a broken and contrite heart?
A13752What is a double- minded man?
A13752What is a man profited if hee gaine the whole world, and lose his owne soule?
A13752What is a man profited, if he shall gaine the whole world and lose his soule?
A13752What is a man profited, if hee shall gaine the whole world, and lose his soule?
A13752What is a man profited?
A13752What is all this, but to looke on friends, rather as Gods then men, as if all sufficiencie were included in them only?
A13752What is all thy life?
A13752What is drunkennesse, but the impatience of sobrietie?
A13752What is honour but a blast?
A13752What is it but a breathing in of the soule againe, the lighting of the candle againe?
A13752What is it now to Keepe the saying of Christ?
A13752What is it that brought Death into the world?
A13752What is it that disquieteth men ordinarily, and makes them that they can not think of Death with comfort, but this?
A13752What is it that giveth a man boldnesse, and takes away shame from him at the comming of Christ?
A13752What is it that hinders men from distributing, and communicating?
A13752What is it that makes men hold the world so fast?
A13752What is it to see Death?
A13752What is pride, but the impatience of humilitie?
A13752What is that simplicitie?
A13752What is that that accompanies it?
A13752What is that thou findest in a friend, that thou mayest not findin God?
A13752What is that?
A13752What is that?
A13752What is that?
A13752What is that?
A13752What is the End and rule of a faithfull steward in all his dispensations in the house of his Master?
A13752What is the Wise mans verdict of all things under the Sunne?
A13752What is the blessednesse of the creature, but to obtaine his end?
A13752What is the burthen of the Lord?
A13752What is the end of all men?
A13752What is the end of the creature, but the glory of the Creatour?
A13752What is the ground of this?
A13752What is the happinese of the creature, but the injoying of God?
A13752What is the reason his delight is in the Saints; and the more spirituall any one is, the more he delights in them?
A13752What is the reason of it?
A13752What is the reason that there is all that care tooke, for food for the body?
A13752What is the reason that we feare it inordinatly?
A13752What is the reason we are so faint- hearted?
A13752What is the reason?
A13752What is the reason?
A13752What is the thing that a man is most subject to feare in this World?
A13752What is the wisdome of Gods stewards?
A13752What is there in man but miserie?
A13752What is this hee would have?
A13752What is this life of ours, but as a ship that is driven by a gale of breath?
A13752What is this then, No man?
A13752What is this, but the churlish reply of Nabal to the servants of David?
A13752What is uncleannesse, but the impatience of chastitie?
A13752What made them live ● … o to God, and not to themselves as they did?
A13752What makes them so gripple of the earth, and to cleave so close to the things of this life?
A13752What man is hee that liveth, and shall not see death, shall hee deliver his soule from the hand of the grave?
A13752What man is hee that liveth, and shall not see death?
A13752What man living can divine when, and how, and where Death will seize upon him?
A13752What meanes her fainting in the Canticles?
A13752What meanes the character of a true Christian?
A13752What meanes the earnest longing of the Spouse?
A13752What meanes the heroicall encouragement of old Hilarion, Egredere anima, egredere, quid times?
A13752What meanes the prophanation of the Sabbath?
A13752What meanes the words of old Simion in the flames; Thus to die, is to live?
A13752What meanes this groaning, and thirsting in my Text?
A13752What meanest thou, O sleeper?
A13752What meaneth Saint Paul?
A13752What need Faelix tremble, to heare Paul dispute of righteousnesse and judgement to come, if hee might be unrighteous, and a Christian too?
A13752What need I tell you more?
A13752What need the Lord reckon with men, he may proceed by way of a Iudge, but he saith, come give an account of thy stewardship?
A13752What neede wee meete evills halfe way?
A13752What neglect would there be of the soule, the better part of a man?
A13752What of all this?
A13752What of that?
A13752What peace( said hee) so long as the whoredomes of thy mother Iezabel, and her witchcrafts are so many?
A13752What peace, when these make a partition betwixt your soules and the Lord?
A13752What perfection speakes he of here?
A13752What power?
A13752What powerfull matter were there in Religion, if a man might hold his sinnes, and yet bee a Christian, and a beleever, and be in Christ too?
A13752What reason have they to be commanded to expect and wish, and waite for the comming of Christ, when he commeth not in so long a time?
A13752What security have they for it?
A13752What shall I get by going on in a course of a sinne, when I can looke for nothing then, but a sentence of wrath to be denounced against me?
A13752What shall I speake of those unjust, injurious, usurious persons, whose jawes are as knives to cut those that they deale with?
A13752What shall poore sinfull man doe, when the Angels shall be afraid?
A13752What shall we say of this now?
A13752What shall wee say then hereunto?
A13752What shall wee speake of other things?
A13752What shall wee thinke of them that oppose, that seeke to oppresse puritie of heart and life?
A13752What sinnes doe they most feare, and most avoide?
A13752What so sweet a spectacle to the world as Sarah?
A13752What then( may some object) doe the dead sleepe out all their time from the breathing out their last gaspe, to the blowing the last trumpe?
A13752What then?
A13752What then?
A13752What therefore is the meaning?
A13752What though you doe holy actions, that are good for the matter, would you be found doing of them, with unfit and unprepared hearts?
A13752What time is that?
A13752What to doe?
A13752What use is there of it?
A13752What use makest thou of this to thy selfe?
A13752What use shouldest thou make of this now?
A13752What use shouldest thou that livest make of this now?
A13752What was the blessing upon the first couple?
A13752What was the issue of it?
A13752What was the manner of Gods blessing the Iewes after their returne from the captivity?
A13752What was the reason that Aaron yeelded to make an Idoll for the people of Israel, and so joyned in Idolatry with them?
A13752What was the reason that Abraham and Sarah did equivocate?
A13752What was the reason that hee was acquainted with sorrowes and griefes, and miseries, both from God and men?
A13752What will be thy consolation then?
A13752What will become of thee?
A13752What will it boote me( will the soule reason) to keep my sins when Christ will come to judge me for my sins?
A13752What will you doe?
A13752What wilt thou say for thy selfe?
A13752What would become of me if the times should be hard, if there should be a deare yeare?
A13752What''s the reason of it?
A13752What''s the reason?
A13752What, for bare eating?
A13752What, not before?
A13752What, not suffer?
A13752What, shall I say that these died in true peace?
A13752What; doe you judge sinne worthy to live, and your selves not dead the while?
A13752What?
A13752What?
A13752When Death commeth and findeth out these, they may say as Ahab did to Eliah, and more truly a great deale, hast thou found me, oh mine Enemie?
A13752When Death commeth to a wicked voluptuous person, and telleth him, I am here come for thee, thou must appeare before God, what can this man say?
A13752When God threatneth punishment, shall not men be awakened?
A13752When I kept close my sinnes, my bones were consumed, and I roared for the disquietnesse of my soule; what followed?
A13752When Sara was dead, though Abraham loved her deare in her life, remove my dead out of my sight?
A13752When a man is in this case, how shall he exercise patience?
A13752When a poore wretch is a dying, and shall begin to reflect backe on his life, what have I done?
A13752When doe robbers and theeves assault the house?
A13752When doth a man despise the Commandement?
A13752When is that?
A13752When shall that great day of the Resurrection come, when all shall bee brought together?
A13752When the case is this, when the will of God, crosseth thy will: what now prevaileth?
A13752When the light is gone, is there not a great losse to have a candle put out?
A13752When the objects and occasions of sinne are presented to you, how stand you affected then?
A13752When thou accompaniest another to the grave, dost thou conclude thus with thyselfe, the very next time that any death is spoken of, it may bee mine?
A13752When we are called together to give attendance upon the preaching of the Word; then thinke, what am I come hither for?
A13752Whence is it that men, that are not at peace with God, yet flatter themselves that they shall doe well?
A13752Where are his friends, and his companions now?
A13752Where are my sighes and groanes, have they vanished into the ayre?
A13752Where is I say that Repentance, when I find so much sinne?
A13752Where is any man that takes occasion by what he heares abroad, or sees at home, to enter into the reformation of his owne house, of his owne heart?
A13752Where is his wealth and his estate, for which many flattered him, and fawned upon him?
A13752Where is it that the Ministers have not beene threatning judgement, and telling you that God is comming out to bee avenged upon a sinfull nation?
A13752Where is it?
A13752Where is now our hope?
A13752Where is now their comfort?
A13752Where is our wisedome?
A13752Where is that Faith, when I find so much wavering and quaking, so much aptnesse to distrust, and almost to dispaire?
A13752Where is that burthen of the Lord?
A13752Where is the knowledge of the Doctrine of the Gospell?
A13752Where is the man that gloried in his abundance, and store, and thought himselfe the only happy man?
A13752Where is the promise of his comming?
A13752Where is the promise of his comming?
A13752Where is the wise?
A13752Where shal men see the face of an alteration?
A13752Wherefore is the living man sorrowfull?
A13752Wherefore should they mortifie their earthly members?
A13752Wherefore was this?
A13752Whether are thy affections and meditations heavenly and spirituall?
A13752Whether can you with comfort looke for the comming of Christ or no?
A13752Whether dost thou find this change in thy heart and affections?
A13752Whether flyeth his hope?
A13752Whither?
A13752Who are the men of this world?
A13752Who are the men that are cryed downe most by the world, that are most opposed, and injured by all men?
A13752Who are they that escape wrath?
A13752Who art thou that fearest mortall man?
A13752Who art thou( saith the Apostle) that judgest thy brother?
A13752Who can tell the dust of Iacob?
A13752Who can truly say to himselfe; I am sure, I shall not die this houre?
A13752Who ever suspected and dreamed, that it was possible for mercifull men to perish?
A13752Who gaines by the smallnesse of the Epha, the greatnesse of the shekle, the refuse of the wheate?
A13752Who knoweth that the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
A13752Who shall separate us from the love of God in Christ?
A13752Who undertakes the doing of it?
A13752Who will follow a false guide?
A13752Who would beleeve the consummation, the period of the world, if our bodyes were immortall?
A13752Why are men as bad after the Sacrament as before?
A13752Why art thou cast downe, O my soule?
A13752Why art thou lazie?
A13752Why brethren, who knoweth the power of those sharpe temptations which may then beset him?
A13752Why complainest thou of the misery in Hell?
A13752Why didst thou say Oh David there is no bands in their death, and they are not in changes like other men?
A13752Why doe we all this while goe from my Text?
A13752Why doe we make boast of pietie to God, that men can not judge of?
A13752Why doe we not take off our sinnes by godly sorrow?
A13752Why doe yee not consider that your soule is as a Citie?
A13752Why doe you not labour for faith in him?
A13752Why doth God doe this?
A13752Why doth he not so?
A13752Why doth the Apostle thus triumph?
A13752Why not my person as well as anothers?
A13752Why not to order all the changes of my life, as well as another mans?
A13752Why should I doe this?
A13752Why should we rest in such things as these?
A13752Why so?
A13752Why so?
A13752Why so?
A13752Why then doe yee make it the propertie of Beleevers, since every man beleeveth and lookes for it?
A13752Why then is not the health of my people restord?
A13752Why to him?
A13752Why will the Lord visit Ierusalem with lights, to find out these men?
A13752Why, but when must we looke for it then?
A13752Why?
A13752Why?
A13752Why?
A13752Why?
A13752Why?
A13752Why?
A13752Wicked men see his glory, what priviledge then betweene them and the godly?
A13752Will God accept the blinde, and the lame; the leane, and the withered for a sacrifice?
A13752Will God call thee to a reckoning?
A13752Will a man be found idleing in the market- place, when hee should be working in the Vineyard?
A13752Will not God be offended and displeased?
A13752Will you be as greedy of the transitorie vanities of this life, as in former times?
A13752Will you thus studie to practise Repentance, and Faith, and Obedience?
A13752Wilt thou have Christ to bee the object, either of thy faith or hope, and wilt thou not grow then in these?
A13752Wilt thou prophane the sanctified day of rest?
A13752Would I have the judgement of God find me in this company?
A13752Would he not have stopped that Passion?
A13752Would you be feasting, when God would have you mourning?
A13752Would you be found comming to the Sacrament unprepared?
A13752Would you be found praying perfunctorily, and carelesly?
A13752Would you have comfort in Christs comming to Judgement?
A13752Would you have joy, and pleasure unspeakable, and glorious?
A13752Would you have peace, and quiet?
A13752Would you then have the same happinesse after?
A13752Would you therefore bee found doing of holy duties, and not in a right manner?
A13752Would you therefore hold up your heads with comfort and with joy?
A13752Wouldest tho ● … reape liberally in that day?
A13752Wouldest thou appeare before Christ so in judgement?
A13752Wouldest thou be content to have thy oathes brought before Christ in judgement?
A13752Wouldest thou be found an Usurer?
A13752Wouldest thou be found guiltie of Sabbath- breaking at the day of Judgement?
A13752Wouldest thou bee lesse liberall now in the time of the Gospell, then they were under the Law?
A13752Wouldest thou then bee freed from the second Death, hell, and destruction, when thou art dead?
A13752Wouldest thou then have this comfort at that day?
A13752Write, what?
A13752Yea, but how can any bee sayd to dye in the Lord, that is continuing his Member, sith Christ hath no dead Members?
A13752Yea, but if this be all the fruit of our afflictions and tentations, that we shall be made patient, what great matter is that?
A13752Yea, but you will say, those that are already dead, can not dye, what then is the meaning of this phrase, the dead that dye in the Lord?
A13752Yes( saith the Apostle) All things were made by water too, and yet they were destroyed by water, and why not then by fire?
A13752Yet did not hee acknowledge that hee was a stranger as well as his fathers were?
A13752You have heard what hee was in publicke, but what was hee in private?
A13752You that are such as I have now said, thinke in your consciences, what, would you die?
A13752You will say if this be so, what will become of the greatest part of Christians, who are afraid to die?
A13752Your Fathers, where are they?
A13752Your fathers where are they?
A13752a Deceiver?
A13752a drunkard, and yet bee saved?
A13752a faithfull servant his wages?
A13752a few amongst many men?
A13752a height that many are raised to, out of favour rather then desert?
A13752a new opinion of Christ?
A13752a new opinion of the members of Christ?
A13752a prophane person?
A13752a prophaner of the Sabbath, and yet bee in Christ?
A13752a scoffer?
A13752a speedie racer his prize?
A13752a valiant souldier his crowne?
A13752and a desperate wicked guide?
A13752and are found in the Cell, and Cave of darknesse, wherein they desire to sleepe for ever?
A13752and are not Christians while they are here out of their place?
A13752and are not these strangers?
A13752and are not we here in the world upon these termes?
A13752and are there any Jewels like unto these?
A13752and are these conversations fit for the Saints?
A13752and are they not strangers?
A13752and bow before the high God?
A13752and bring diseases?
A13752and dost thou converse with living Christians?
A13752and dost thou goe forward in thy Christian course?
A13752and dost thou manifest the graces of the Spirit in the conscionable performance of all the duties of thy generall, and particular calling?
A13752and doth not a true labourour merit his pay?
A13752and doth not hee that dictateth to another, both tell him what hee shall write, and bid him write it?
A13752and drives thee out of thy selfe?
A13752and have we not great reason to try, and to suspect our selves, touching our standing towards God?
A13752and here to the labourers pay?
A13752and how carefull should wee be to walke worthy of it?
A13752and how shall I get to bee partaker of this Resurrection?
A13752and how unfit and unable, and indisposed is a man that slepes in sinne, to the actions of spirituall life?
A13752and if they be empty, why likewise doe I meddle with them?
A13752and may we not say, wee have beene smitten, and yet have not felt it?
A13752and shall not my soule be avenged on such people as this?
A13752and shall not we earnestly expect his second comming in glory, to manifest not only his glory, but our glory?
A13752and so likewise concerning their sorrow and anger, and every thing, Why is it thus?
A13752and some times death it selfe?
A13752and still be mad after backe and belly?
A13752and studie to cry and call for it, and use all your indeavour?
A13752and such an utter neglect of the soule?
A13752and that Christ is as truely united with you, as that you ate and dranke?
A13752and the Prophets, doe they live for ever?
A13752and the Prophets, doe they live for ever?
A13752and the barre have a Demosthenes?
A13752and the bitternesse of that losse to Iacob?
A13752and the other halfe in businesse and pleasure?
A13752and the sweetnesse of imaginarie gaine, what proportion hath it with the bitternesse of so great a losse?
A13752and what hath riches brought us?
A13752and what is inspiring but a kinde of dictating to all the Pen- men of the holy Ghost?
A13752and what is that?
A13752and what is there for me to doe before I goe out of this world?
A13752and what is there in riches, that thou mayest not have much more in God?
A13752and when he shall visit, what shall I answer?
A13752and whence are these Mourners?
A13752and whether doth it appeare outwardly?
A13752and whether hast thou left the grave of thy sinne?
A13752and who doth not beleeve that hee shall come to judge the quicke and the dead?
A13752and who may encounter with this enemie with safetie?
A13752and who shall remaine with consuming fire?
A13752and why art thou disquieted in mee?
A13752and why was this?
A13752and will he not now be so in heaven, when hee is in blessednesse?
A13752and will you lose heaven for that that is needlesse?
A13752and yet are they not now tributary to the Turke?
A13752any of those things wherewith they like Idiots make themselves laugh at?
A13752are not his desires infinitely extended beyond the same?
A13752are not they partakers of this benefit from the resurrection of Christ, as well as the godly?
A13752are these the endings of thy life, the fruits of thy opportunities?
A13752are they not all separated from him?
A13752are they not summed up to my hand by the Apostle?
A13752are they not those who have the God of this world to raigne in their hearts?
A13752are they now so contemptible or meane, that no violence is requisite?
A13752are they pleasing to you, because they tend to the killing of sinne?
A13752are they so emptie, when your houses appeare so full?
A13752are they water spilt upon the ground, not to be gathered up?
A13752are wee not men?
A13752art thou still complaining for want of them?
A13752as Arrowes in a Bow, to shoot at you, when Death laieth hold on you?
A13752as they suffer nothing, so doe they nothing?
A13752aske what is your life?
A13752but a care to know him, a feare to offend him, a studie to obey him: and when is that to bee done?
A13752but are all the dead blessed?
A13752but how?)
A13752but this a, holy care to make provision for another world, seeing in this there was no continuance?
A13752but this, to make himselfe his end?
A13752by what meanes shall I attaine this first Resurrection to this spirituall life?
A13752can I bring him backe againe?
A13752can not you live comfortably, and die blessedly without sinne?
A13752can not you live, and be happy without it?
A13752can you be a whit better by it?
A13752can you live a day longer, or an houre more happy?
A13752canst thou now speake to men in the language of Canaan, and to God in the voyce of his Spirit crying Abba, Father?
A13752did not I send thee into the world for this end, to get Grace, to get Faith, to make up thy accounts with mee thy God, and hast thou no regard to it?
A13752died he like a Lambe?
A13752doe not these Translations 〈 ◊ 〉 well agree as harpe and harrow?
A13752dost thou confesse them, and lament them or not?
A13752dost thou gather from thence the certaintie of thy owne death?
A13752dost thou looke upon it as a thing that thou art afraid of?
A13752doth he expostulate with God?
A13752doth it enlighten the darknesse of these prisons of nature?
A13752doth this speculation discharge us from the tribute, or make the payment thereof the easier?
A13752except you say, that onely those shall bee judged by it, that have beene under the preaching of the Gospell, and have had the helpe of the Scriptures?
A13752for I will dye to see thee: who would not dye for the present, to dwell ever where his hope is?
A13752for a potter to breake in pieces a vessell of clay?
A13752for apparell for the body?
A13752for health for the body?
A13752for what wrestle you?
A13752had GOD any glory by mee?
A13752had he many yeares to enjoy that which hee had laid up for many yeares?
A13752had his soule any whit the more ease?
A13752had men any good by me?
A13752hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
A13752hast thou imployed it for Gods glory or no?
A13752hast thou left the societie of sinners?
A13752hast thou not alwayes had it in thy owne possession?
A13752hath any one accused thee wrongfully?
A13752hath any one wrote it by mistake?
A13752hath hee fulfilled it in this case to her?
A13752hath hee his memorie to the end?
A13752hath not God given thee better things then hee, that thou shouldest murmure and whine, and weepe for want of them?
A13752hath the Lord washed mee, and shall I defile my selfe againe?
A13752have I furthered my account against the day of reckoning, that I may give it up with joy?
A13752have they not afflictions layd upon them in the greatest measure?
A13752have they not beene crying thus this seven, ten, twentie yeares?
A13752heare this voyce, sith hee was in a spirituall rapture, which usually shutteth up all the doores of the senses?
A13752here thou art supported in the expectation of a farre more exceeding weight of glory: art thou ready to faint under thy labours?
A13752here thou shalt finde a time of rest, and of reaping: doth the time seeme over- long, that thy patience begins to flag?
A13752how can he answer this before God?
A13752how doe I hate it as my clogge, and reverence it as my fellow- heire?
A13752how doth hee behave himselfe?
A13752how glorious was the King in sackcloth, sitting in his throne of dust and ashes?
A13752how have I carried my selfe there?
A13752how have I lived?
A13752how is it, that wee goe on in unrighteousnesse, in prophaning the Lords day, in neglecting the house of God, and our owne families?
A13752how little time have we to enjoy our friends we rest on?
A13752how long Lord?
A13752how long?
A13752how many would dwell in monuments with those whom they have honoured, or affected in their lives?
A13752how must our endeavours be carryed toward God?
A13752how shall he come to it?
A13752how soone all of us, or any of us shall bee dismissed, who knowes?
A13752how soone is beautie ecclipsed by deformitie?
A13752if I bee a Master, where is my feare?
A13752if I should loose my children?
A13752if not our owne miseries( for which we blesse God) yet doe not the miseries of other Nations, the Churches of God require this?
A13752if there were no more but thus, that a man might settle upon some actions of Religion, and so bee effectually changed?
A13752if these duties be done coldly, what are they worth?
A13752if till then it play the domineering Enemie?
A13752in Heaven, or in Earth, Purgatorie, or Hell?
A13752in his praying, in his hearing, in his reading?
A13752is it fit that he that is a prisoner at the Barre should come and leape up into the place of the Iudge, and sit in his seat?
A13752is it for my only sonne Isaac, the sonne of my love, the sonne of thy promise, the sonne of my age?
A13752is it not for my profit?
A13752is it not his earnest prayer unto God?
A13752is not Heaven compared to servants wages?
A13752is not halfe of it spent in sleep in the night?
A13752is not this peculiar unto the Saints in this life?
A13752is not this securitie, and a dead sleep?
A13752is there any knowledge in the most high?
A13752it is so long since his promise was made, and yet there is none of his comming, Wilt thou still retaine thine integritie?
A13752it were nothing to bee a Christian; nay who would not bee one?
A13752labour for grace in thy life; wouldest thou end thy dayes happily?
A13752let us aske the question what is riches, but thicke clay?
A13752let us aske the question, what is pleasure?
A13752live they so poore, and you so richly clad?
A13752must it needs be that the body being now no way amiable, but noisome, must be conveyed out of a mans sight?
A13752must they not through many afflictions enter into the kingdome of heaven?
A13752my owne creature?
A13752no children?
A13752no friend to mourne after him, when he was buried in the earth?
A13752not a fast, for so many fasts?
A13752not a groane for so many miseries which I indured?
A13752of reverence of his name?
A13752of setting up his worship in their houses, and in their hearts?
A13752oh Grave, where is thy victory?
A13752one wickednesse to another?
A13752or are they distastefull, because they give you not rest in your sinnes?
A13752or hath he lesse interest in thy estate?
A13752or in what manner must we tender these services to God in this kind?
A13752or is there a striving, and using all meanes to be rid of it?
A13752or like mare mortuum, without any motion or operation at all?
A13752or loose my estate?
A13752or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith?
A13752or rather what did shee not, to winne those children from Poperie( in which they have beene brought up) and to bring them to the true service of God?
A13752or shall the dead celebrate thy praise?
A13752or she to him?
A13752or take away the stench from these under- ground houses?
A13752or that the Apostle, when he saith here absolutely and determinatly, that thus and thus you must doe if you be Christians, if you be brethren?
A13752or the sonne of man, that hee should bee just with God?
A13752or was it necessary that the carkasse it selfe must be conveyed away?
A13752or what is it that I thus eagerly pursue?
A13752or what may bee the ground thereof?
A13752or whom have I defrauded?
A13752or whose asse have I taken?
A13752our owne sins?
A13752our strength laid down by weaknesse?
A13752quis mort ● … us mori potest?
A13752quoties volui?
A13752remember that thou haddest wisedome, and learning, and knowledge, but what good had the Church or Common- wealth by it?
A13752remember that thou hadest Authoritie, and office, and place in the Church or Common- wealth, but what service didest thou doe to God?
A13752shall I doe this thing, and sinne against God?
A13752shall I goe to Angels and Saints, or to divels?
A13752shall I goe to Heaven or to Hell?
A13752shall I have a beeing or not, in miserie or in happinesse?
A13752shall not they be raised, and quickned, as well as the godly, by Christ his Resurrection?
A13752shall not wee expect that comming of his, wherein we shall be married to himselfe, and whereby we shall be tooke up to himselfe?
A13752shall wee not have infirmities still?
A13752she answered, good: whether she doubted not?
A13752so much time I have spent, or mispent inapparell, in vanitie, in eating, in drinking, in swaggering; What comfort is this to his soule?
A13752some part of thy estate, some friend, some comfort of thy life, some one or other particular comfort: could he not have done more?
A13752such as makes thee rest on him for abilitie?
A13752such as makes thee to fall before him, and judge thy selfe worthy to be damned, and submit to his Justice?
A13752that a Magistrate doth not sometimes reforme that that is amisse?
A13752that a man should dismember himselfe?
A13752that cast scornes upon puritie and holinesse?
A13752that comes with a broken heart to begge for forgivenesse of his sins past, and to beg for mercy for the time to come?
A13752that he is not carefull and industrious in the keeping and maintaining of that hee heares, and the framing himselfe according to it?
A13752that he should doe it, that was called the Father of the faithfull?
A13752that is sayth Saint Austine, where is sinne wherewith wee are stung and poysoned?
A13752that we feare the losse of the things of this world?
A13752that when you heare a Funerall Sermon, it might comfort you to thinke, It will not be long before my time shall come, before my time shall bee?
A13752that which shall bee perfected in the presence and full fruition of Christ?
A13752the Husband can comfort thee, who can comfort thee so much as God?
A13752the Husband can doe thee no good without God, who can doe thee so much good as God?
A13752the Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
A13752the Text answereth, all the dead that die in the Lord; That dye in the Lord?
A13752the Word of God?
A13752the directions for a holy life, which is the best preparation for Death; where shall we find them, but in the Scripture?
A13752the sinnes of others?
A13752they are such as whom hee sanctifies; and will hee sanctifie such as by union with him are dead to sinne, and alive to God?
A13752they cryed out, What city is like unto this great city?
A13752they seeme strange to us?
A13752this Citie especially with the Pestilence?
A13752this heavenly joy?
A13752to be a reproach to all the world?
A13752to feare that that comes from God?
A13752to set things in order?
A13752to the racers garland?
A13752to the souldiers crowne?
A13752to what purpose is it?
A13752to what use were a power of godlines, spoken of in Scripture?
A13752to which Death speaketh the Apostle?
A13752unrighteous in any course?
A13752upon what ground did hee take this course?
A13752was it because his soule indeed was washed in the bloud of Christ?
A13752was it not a pledge to you of your interest in Christ, and of your union with him?
A13752was it not feare( in that particular) of men more then God?
A13752was it not this, bee fruitfull, and multiply?
A13752was it not this, that their streets should be full of boyes, and girles?
A13752was it not thy selfe that made this impression upon thy conscience by thy owne guilt?
A13752was it not written with thy owne hand?
A13752was it so?
A13752was there no well- willers to him, that had benefit by his pietie to mourne for the righteous man?
A13752was there none like to himselfe?
A13752was there such love to the kingdome of Christ in hell, that Dives would have his brethren converted?
A13752was this for their owne sinne, or for the sinne of their Parents?
A13752was this the covenant made betweene them?
A13752wee have seene him in the Sunne, how demeaned hee himselfe in the shade?
A13752well may it minister a little food to this beast of ours, which we carry about us, but can it afford the least favorie morsell to the soule?
A13752were these groanes fuliginous vapours from a malecontented spirit?
A13752what Altars erected?
A13752what Idolatries?
A13752what Temples built?
A13752what a presumptuous part is this, that thou shouldst judge thy brother?
A13752what are all the afflictions of our selves, to the least drop of gall that hee tasted, to the least scourge which hee suffered?
A13752what are the motives that incourage thee, to long for the comming of the Lord Jesus?
A13752what are the things we doe so much pride our selves in?
A13752what are those garments which are the labour of a worme, to these robes that are the worke of Gods Spirit?
A13752what becommeth of these men?
A13752what bringeth death upon us?
A13752what calmnesse of spirit?
A13752what can not make an end of us, if a small drop of water congealed can doe it?
A13752what can you spare nothing for Christ, and the distressed members of the Church all this while?
A13752what canst thou alledge for thy selfe?
A13752what care have yee taken to breake sinne apieces, that it may not be as a sword ready drawne for the hand of death when it commeth?
A13752what carking and caring for this earthly Tabernacle?
A13752what comfort is here?
A13752what courses have you taken?
A13752what deifying of the body would follow?
A13752what desolations would follow in Cities, in Townes?
A13752what dost thou hope for most?
A13752what dost thou rejoyce in most?
A13752what good have I done?
A13752what good have I received?
A13752what great advantage commeth by patience?
A13752what great matter were there?
A13752what greater enmitie?
A13752what ground shall wee have that have nothing in our selves?
A13752what hast 〈 ◊ 〉 to say aga ● … the 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 God?
A13752what have your workes been?
A13752what hope of entring into rest?
A13752what if Christ will put clay upon a mans eyes in order to sight?
A13752what if the life of a man?
A13752what if twenty, thirty, fourty yeares?
A13752what is it that I seeke after?
A13752what is it?
A13752what is the endeavour of thy wholeman?
A13752what is the meanes to relieve my soule, and to supply my wants?
A13752what is the strength of thy mind?
A13752what is this if it be rightly considered?
A13752what is thy time?
A13752what meanes the great neglect of Familie- duties?
A13752what need Agrippa stand out in the mid- way?
A13752what need any of the labours of a Christian?
A13752what need hee be but halfe perswaded to bee a Christian?
A13752what neede wee create to our selves such troubles?
A13752what not a teare, for so many teares?
A13752what pride, what elevation would follow?
A13752what shall we thinke of these persons?
A13752what singular thing were there in a Christian, above any man in the world?
A13752what strength hath sinne?
A13752what superstitions?
A13752what thing is their in the World that is worthie your labour?
A13752what varietie of Ceremonies instituted to the body?
A13752what wrong had the man to take on thus?
A13752what''s meant by his going, or gate?
A13752what, that wee might adde any praise unto the dead?
A13752when he shall say unto us, where are my teares?
A13752when is the time that the wrath of God shall smoake?
A13752when should godlinesse come to the full recompence?
A13752when wee are not able to beare our selves, but bow under the sole waight of age?
A13752where Christ?
A13752where God is?
A13752where Sunne and Moone are, nothing lesse; Where then?
A13752where are my watchings?
A13752where have I beene?
A13752where is his long home?
A13752where is that godly sorrow that I called for, for the sins of thy life?
A13752where is the Scribe?
A13752where is the disputer of this world?
A13752where is the repentance I called for at thy hands?
A13752where is thy victorie?
A13752where is thy victorie?
A13752where shall wee finde this joy in the World?
A13752whether are the studies, and desires of thy soule set upon heavenly things?
A13752whether dost thou find this change wrought in thy understanding and judgement?
A13752whether hast thou a new judgement, and thoughts, and opinion of God, and of the wayes of God?
A13752whether hast thou left the societie of sinners, of prophane persons?
A13752whether hast thou new desires, new affections, spirituall inclinations?
A13752whether his buckler was not in his enemies hands?
A13752which way are thy affections carried?
A13752who are led captive by him?
A13752who are so farre from groaning to depose this Tabernacle, that they groane at the least intimation of dissolution?
A13752who dares promise to himselfe the late evening, or secure himselfe of the least atome or moment of time?
A13752who ever heard of the like?
A13752who ever perished being innocent?
A13752who hath bewitched you?
A13752who knew her but reported well of her?
A13752who seeke those things that are above?
A13752who sees a man that is asleepe that workes in his Calling that can doe any good in it?
A13752who setteth himselfe on these holy and conscionable courses?
A13752who shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
A13752who that loveth, who that hopeth, would not be where his love, where his hope is?
A13752who told thee that thou wert naked?
A13752who was now bereft of his dearely- beloved Wife, by the fruit of whose wombe hee had reaped such increase of blessing?
A13752who would know the vertue of it, that it is not onely salt to the body to keepe it sweet, but the life, the beauty, the comlinesse of the body?
A13752who would mind heavenly things?
A13752whom have I oppressed?
A13752whom is it that thou callest for?
A13752whom wee have nayled to the Crosse: whose Ministers wee haue reviled?
A13752whose servants wee have reproached?
A13752whose sides wee have pierced?
A13752why art thou disquieted within me?
A13752why did none of the inspired Prophets pray for the release of their soules?
A13752why doe not I hasten to die?
A13752why doe you strive and contend so much?
A13752why dost thou not rejoyce that thou shalt be rid of the divell?
A13752why dost thou seeme to envie this blessing of mine?
A13752why is thy countenance fallen?
A13752why no better?
A13752why no more?
A13752why should our beleefe bee abated for all the scorne and despite of the world that is cast upon the profession of the faith of Christ?
A13752why should she to escape the hands of the Nocent, lay violent hands upon her selfe that was innocent?
A13752why then are wee so much afrayd of death, which can no more hurt us then a hornet or waspe after her sting is plucked out?
A13752why what is our honour but a breath?
A13752will God say?
A13752will you be as idle and carelesse, as negligent and slothfull in making after these graces as before?
A13752wilt thou blaspheme the great and glorious name of God?
A13752wilt thou doe nothing for thy owne selfe?
A13752wilt thou lie, and steale, and whore, and yet tell mee thou lookest for that blessed hope?
A13752wilt thou want only abuse the creatures of God, in drunkennesse?
A13752with those everlasting burnings?
A13752with what face shall wee appeare before our Saviour at his Tribunall, when he shall demand of us his teares, his watchings and fastings?
A13752would God have me trifle out my time?
A13752would I have it seise upon mee in this imployment, in this businesse, in this action?
A13752would not have what hee hopeth for?
A13752would you in truth have freedome from the feare of death, which Christ hath purchased?
A13752yet in consideration of The end of his life losse of his God extremitie of his paine eternitie of all What is a man profited?
A13752you can not without Christ, why doe you not then studie more for Christ?
A13752you get a little wealth by unrighteousnesse, is it gaine?
A13752you must die, and stand before God, and how can you stand before God in your sinnes?
A13752you see some of Gods servants are held under the feare of death, and that all their life long, how shall we be freed from this feare?
A41017( God saith it is no more) wilt thou account that thy voyage is yet scarcely begun?
A41017( He bringeth in God speaking thus) dost thou envy me my own possession?
A41017( brethren) Grovel still on the earth?
A41017( faith David) how long Lord, how long?
A41017( right Jobs Wife, as she speaks to him) wilt thou still retain thy trust?
A410171 Passively, where is thy sting?
A41017107. what is the reason of this?
A410172 Actively, where is thy sting?
A41017A body hast thou prepared for me,( saith he in the Psalm) why?
A41017A great matter of terrour to wicked men, that this Judge shall be the great God: for who is able to stand before him, when he is angry?
A41017A great wrath, what is that?
A41017A man is afraid he shall lose his children, or his Friends; what is the reason?
A41017A man is afraid of Death, why?
A41017A man should therefore strive to check himself, and to suffer others to check him, Why is it thus?
A41017A man that expects the coming of a King to his house: will he therefore be secure, and do nothing because he knows certainly that the King will come?
A41017A man will avoid an infections disease, that is mortall and deadly, and pestilential, and the like; Why?
A41017A poor child that is new born, and hath nothing that discovereth reason almost, but the shape of a man?
A41017A prisoner in the Lord, what is that?
A41017A third Quaerie is, Whether Saint Paul spake all this, as out of a self- confidence, without having an eye to Gods Divine assistance therein?
A41017A wicked eye is supposed to a single eye: a double eye is a wicked eye: What is a single eye?
A41017Abraham is alive, why so?
A41017Again secondly; Doth God do it to strengthen faith in a man?
A41017Again somtimes this work of Judging is appropriated to the Saints: Know yee not that the Saints shall judg the world?
A41017Again, Secondly, thou maist know it by the newness of thy life: whether dost thou feel a spiritual life wrought in thee?
A41017Again, come to your assections, what is it you delight in?
A41017Again, dost thou see the Children of God full of temptations, full of fears and disquietnesse of spirit in their death?
A41017Again, doth the Divel terrifie thee?
A41017Again, doth this spiritual life appear outwardly also by thy speeches and actions?
A41017Again, hath God caused the light of his countenance to shine upon thy heart?
A41017Again, how little comfort, nay how little have you company with those friends you desire?
A41017Again, in regard of the evils of the world, they are enemies too: but how?
A41017Again, is there a change in thy outward actions?
A41017Again, thou maist know it by thy progress in thy vivification: Dost thou grow in grace daily?
A41017Again, when you do look on it, do you look upon it as a ruler, or as an enemy?
A41017Again, you lose no necessary convenience neither, the rich man loseth no riches by death; he loseth his money, doth he lose his riches therefore?
A41017Againe, do not men feare those outward actions which expose them to the censure of men on earth, and unto punishment here?
A41017Againe, hath GOD given thee any strength over temptations?
A41017Ah poor spirited men, what can be sharp or hard unto us, who have learned to despise death it self?
A41017Ala ● … is it a small matter thus to slight the Law of God?
A41017Alas how little, what a small or no agreement is between them?
A41017Alas what shall become of a world of men and women?
A41017Alas( beloved) are these times to pride up our selves in vanity?
A41017Alas, durst men go on without repentance in any course of sin, if they took themselves as condemned men( in truth) by vertue of the Law?
A41017Alas, had not the people of Israel the Ark?
A41017Alas, what are the goods of this life, when they are compared with eternal damnation?
A41017Alas, what shall the little shrubs in the Wilderness do, when the tall Cedars of heaven shall be shaken?
A41017All sorrow, and grief of heart, and disquiet of spirit, that ariseth from terrour of conscience, are they not hence, because of sin?
A41017Am I a God at hand( saith the Lord) and not a God a far off?
A41017Am I impatient and repine at that?
A41017Am not I happy?
A41017An argument ab utili, is an argument of great prevail: what will not men do for Profit?
A41017And O wretched wight, saith Saint Austin, how hast thou deserved so much ill of thy self, as among all thy goods, to be only thy self bad?
A41017And be said, What shall I cry?
A41017And death is reckoned amongst the special favours and priviledges Christ hath given to his Church; All are yours, what all?
A41017And dost thou not joy to think of this coming?
A41017And dost thou not look with patience?
A41017And have we not cause to bewail the general security that is amongst us?
A41017And he said, while the Child was yet alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, who can tell whether God will be gracious to me that the Child may live?
A41017And he said, while the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said who can tell, whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
A41017And how is that?
A41017And how is the charge?
A41017And how is this expressed by life?
A41017And how many divine Histories have been turned into fables, when things have been delivered by tradition from hand to hand, and from man to man?
A41017And how should our thoughts alwaies flie up to God, since there is nothing but rottenness and putrifaction found here in the world?
A41017And how there?
A41017And if any Examples have this force, have not these much more?
A41017And if any prompted by Judas shall object against this Solemnity and prolixe ceremony, ut quid perdetio ista?
A41017And if they be all so unconstant, what a fool art thou to set thy heart upon them?
A41017And if ye say; but who is there that doth not expect the second coming of Christ?
A41017And in regard of Death, why should we fear that?
A41017And is it not an excellent thing for a man to have nothing to do with Death when it cometh?
A41017And is it not yet time to cease?
A41017And is this a sign of security?
A41017And let the Lords Marriners come to them, and say, Up sleeper, call upon thy God; why dost thou not do thy first works?
A41017And may not we as well as they that lived in the Ages before us, for we see no appearance of his coming, no more then was many hundred years since?
A41017And shall death separate us from that we hope for?
A41017And shall we say that we are not asleep?
A41017And so to receive Christ as a King, would you know what a King he is?
A41017And the Philosopher who being demanded whether the living or the dead were more in number?
A41017And the Princes Court have a Ziba?
A41017And the reason of this action and carriage, for I said, Who ● … a ● … tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me that the child may live?
A41017And then God shall say; Were these the things I give you time for?
A41017And then lastly, the woful bargain in such an exchange, What is a man profited?
A41017And then the Petition followeth, Give me, because I will not take it of my own head: Give me, What?
A41017And then what follows?
A41017And to conclude, above all let us encourage our selves, by the fruit and recompence of all this expectation; what is that?
A41017And what Death is meant here?
A41017And what can be more desired?
A41017And what can we expect there wants?
A41017And what doth he mean by death?
A41017And what is a man profited, if he gain the world, and lose his own soul?
A41017And what is he at the best?
A41017And what so sweet a sight once to blessed Abraham, as Sarah?
A41017And what was her care?
A41017And what wisdome did he wish, he might apply his heart unto?
A41017And when the Scripture calleth them vanity, what doth it mean, but that they are empty things?
A41017And when they can not but know them, how do they labour for distinction?
A41017And where doth God teach, but in the Scripture?
A41017And which of us is there that doth not arm Death with that sting?
A41017And why should we think that there should come any alteration after, more then before?
A41017And why?
A41017And will you lose your souls for that that is nothing?
A41017And, who is there here almost that suffereth not a loss in her?
A41017Another faith, what shall I do when I am old, and can not take pains for my living?
A41017Are all men Gods Stewards?
A41017Are not these the objects of reproach, and contempt amongst an unrighteous generation?
A41017Are not these they that support the land by their prayers, and hold up all by their standing in the gap?
A41017Are not they strangers that are not capable of honours, of possessions in the place wherein they live, as being not free Denizens of the place?
A41017Are not they strangers that are out of their proper place?
A41017Are not they strangers that have double Impost, and double customes, and the greatest taxations laid upon them?
A41017Are not they strangers, that have different lawes, and divers customs, and another Prince to rule and command them?
A41017Are our dayes to come to be numbred?
A41017Are these times to run after the sensual, and sinful courses of an ungodly generation?
A41017Are we able to stand before God, when he is angry with us?
A41017Are we commanded to have an eye to the time that is yet to come?
A41017Are you careful to do good, to persevere in the practise of godliness, because he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry?
A41017Are you careful to let fall worldly affections, because you have a comfortable apprenension of heavenly joyes?
A41017Are you careful to turn your course from sin, because you would not lie open to the judgement of condemnation?
A41017As Phocion said to one, that by the same sentence of the Judges was to die with him; Art thou not glad to fare as Phocion doth?
A41017As Saint Jerome speaks to Paula mourning for her daughter; Art thou angry Paula, because I have made thy child mine?
A41017As he desired all vain pomp and oftentation should be laid aside at his funerals;( For what have I done, said he, that I should deserve it?)
A41017As if he should say, There is a time coming when Crowns shall be given: but to whome?
A41017As if he should say; What a bold part?
A41017As if he should say?
A41017As the Church speaks in the Lamentations; Consider all that pass by, is there any affliction like my affliction, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me?
A41017Being asked what evidences she had for her salvation?
A41017Beloved, how could we answer to these things?
A41017Bildad in Job, calleth it the King of terrours, What doth Death bring with it to make it fearful?
A41017Blessed are they that die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours: and who would not die here, that he may dwell with God there in rest?
A41017Blessed is the man that judgeth wisely of the poor, why so?
A41017Brethren, is it not thus?
A41017But God deserreth the promise of his coming?
A41017But I hope, you have been at prayer in your family, have you not?
A41017But Saint Peter answers these scoffers that asked, Where is the promise of his coming?
A41017But again secondly, if you make a peaceable death to be the reward of the Righteous, what say you to this?
A41017But alas what shall I say?
A41017But alas, you will say, if he be so great a God, so glorious; how shall such a poor wretch as I, stand before him?
A41017But do we not read that immediatly before the seventy years captivity, there were more Prophets then in many years before?
A41017But happily thou maist say, how shall I know that the day of Death, is the day of dissolution, and this kind of dismission?
A41017But here is the thing: What is the bent of thy heart?
A41017But here it may be objected( for the clearing of the point) May not a Christian seek himself, in the things that he doth?
A41017But here it will be demanded, how came he to behold a righteous man?
A41017But here perhaps some may ask why eternal life should not be the wages of righteousness, as well as death the wages of sin?
A41017But here this question may be demanded: but by what means now doth Christ convey this spiritual life to his children?
A41017But here this question may be demanded; but is not this Resurrection of the body, a benefit common to the wicked?
A41017But how are works in this sence said to follow the dead?
A41017But how cometh it to pass hat it is not thus?
A41017But how cometh it to passe that there is so little regard of God?
A41017But how could you have been acquainted with their faith, if you had not heard of their clothing?
A41017But how did Jobs Patience appear in the Afflictions, in the changes of his life?
A41017But how did he live?
A41017But how doth a man make afflictions worse?
A41017But how many of those promises, as well as those other purposes, come to nothing?
A41017But how shall I come to have interest in God?
A41017But how shall I know whether Death when he cometh, shall find a sting in me or no?
A41017But how shall a man in such actions of mercy, and bounty, and liberality, make it appear that he doth good?
A41017But how shall we come to be awakened?
A41017But how shall we come to heaven?
A41017But how shall we do this?
A41017But how then come little children to die before they have committed any sin actually?
A41017But if there be good evidences of a Saint translated to glory, shall we mourn as men without hope?
A41017But if this be so, what shall we say to further misery?
A41017But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast: Can I bring him back again?
A41017But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast?
A41017But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast?
A41017But now, he is dead, wherefore should I fast?
A41017But of whom?
A41017But some will say, by what instrument will he destroy the world?
A41017But some will say, these Examples were after Davids time, What were these to him?
A41017But that man that lives by faith is without fear; As Peter when he began to sink, faith Christ, Why dost thou fear?
A41017But the next word is, Looking for what?
A41017But then again beside that conversation we have with beleevers, there are many men in the world that expect certaine duties from us?
A41017But then how terrible is Death when it cometh in a compleate Armour, as it doth against a person in whom Sin remaineth in its full power?
A41017But then if the dead be blessed, why do we not die, that we may be blessed?
A41017But there being divers kinds of death, which of them is here meant?
A41017But there shall be no such thing here: God is the Judg of all the earth, and shall not he do right?
A41017But they might say, vertue, that is that that guideth a man in all Morrals, in all the course of his life and conversation?
A41017But this is also limited, it shall be destroyed, to whom?
A41017But this is the occasion of trouble to Christians?
A41017But to the wicked, saith God, what hast thou to do, to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenants in thy mouth?
A41017But to whom?
A41017But was it past?
A41017But was there not a cause, when through the sides of David she struck at all true devotion?
A41017But we have many discouragements to good?
A41017But what are these blessed fruits, what is the profit accruing to the soul of the people of God by this means?
A41017But what comfort have we in the mean time, if Death be not destroyed till then?
A41017But what comfortable thing is this, that here Saint John is commanded to write?
A41017But what course then shall we take, that we may finish our course with joy?
A41017But what hath the righteous done?
A41017But what if he do not?
A41017But what if temporal judgments and afflictions befall them, is this for their own sin, or for the sin of their Parents?
A41017But what of this?
A41017But what though you should have both temperance and Patience, these are but moral vertues?
A41017But what was his behaviour under all these?
A41017But what?
A41017But what?
A41017But when I have done so much for thy sake, shall it be lost?
A41017But when is a man fit for death?
A41017But when will Christ do this?
A41017But when will this be?
A41017But where faith the Spirtt so?
A41017But where is the man that takes these things to heart?
A41017But where is the man that yet gets out of the bed of security, that cometh out of his sleep to meet the Lord?
A41017But wherefore have we spoken all this?
A41017But who are blessed then?
A41017But who are they that sleep?
A41017But why do you speak these words they seem strange to us?
A41017But why with thou trust in a thing of nothing?
A41017But wouldest thou have the sting of death pulled out before death come?
A41017But ye will say; Is this the property of the Elect and faithful?
A41017But yet are not these as Lillies among Thorns?
A41017But you will say, how is it possible?
A41017But you will say, indeed there are mansions, but there are abundance to receive them, what shall we do?
A41017But( quoth he) whom else dost thou think haypy?
A41017But, how can this be?
A41017By the Apostles leave we may be bold to quit another question with him, what the Apostle means to express it thus?
A41017By way of detestation in the first verse, and part of the second, What shall we say then, shall we continue in sin that Grace may abound?
A41017Call upon me in the day of trouble, I will hear thee and deliver thee, and what shalt thou do?
A41017Can I bring him back again?
A41017Can a man hide himself from God in any secret place?
A41017Can there be a greater stupidity, then to make a man die twice?
A41017Can we read of the mourning of Joseph, of Hannah, of Job, of Jeremy, of Jerusalem and not be moved?
A41017Can you get any thing by it?
A41017Carnal Joy: will you know what the event of it will be?
A41017Certainly, we have cleansed our hearts in vain; in vain we have washed our hands in innocency: in vain we labour to live godly lives; Why?
A41017Come from praying to hearing the Word preached; how can a man hear the word profitably without Patience?
A41017Come they not hence, even of your Lusts, that Warre in your Members?
A41017Come to another, that hath a wise: all his care is for her: oh my wife and children, if I should die, and leave them poor, what should I do?
A41017Come to men in their shops, and dealings, and see them dead in their worldliness, and covetousness; and shall we say they are alive to God?
A41017Come ye blessed,& c. For what you have done to these you have done to me, he is in heaven; and so Saul, why dost thou persecute me?
A41017Could God at the first draw all things out of nothing, and can not God as well bring together all again, when they are turned to nothing?
A41017Could he make that body of thine out of the dust of the earth, and can not he raise that body, when it is turned to dust?
A41017Could he only as in the case of the harlots, call for a sword to kill a child, and not call for it to defend a righteous man?
A41017Could he see it, and could he suffer it, and be only an idle spectator at so sad a tragedy?
A41017Could he unite that body to the soul in the time of the Creation, and can not he unite it at the time of the Resurrection?
A41017Cressus the Lybian( a man happy in his great achievements) asked Solon; Pray( quoth he) tell me, what man dost thou think happy?
A41017David cries out, he roared for the disquietness of his spirit, his bones were broken, he was sore vexed, Lord how long?
A41017David took this course at other times, Why art thou cast down, oh my soul, why art thon disquicted within me?
A41017David, we see checks himself, he had a curb to bridle his passions; Why art thou cast downe, oh my soule?
A41017Death is the greatest amazement a man can meet withal in the World, but what can Death do?
A41017Did Christ come for this end?
A41017Did God give only one Table?
A41017Did I bestow time on you, for to be spent about such things as these?
A41017Did his hand sway the Scepter, and was his head invested with the Crown, contentedly to look on so sorrowful a sight?
A41017Did not he acknowledge that few and evil were the dayes of his pilgrimage?
A41017Did not he that was a man after Gods own heart, that had a special promise that his house should continue for ever?
A41017Did the people reform?
A41017Dives he lived a voluptuous life, had he not a sting for it?
A41017Do good to all men; What doth the Apostle mean, that every man should receive the fruits of our Beneficence?
A41017Do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?
A41017Do not these demonstrate that it is lawful to desire death?
A41017Do not ungodly men and sinners believe the coming of Christ, and that he shall come to judge the quick and the dead?
A41017Do the glittering shews of outward things make thee begin to over- fancy them?
A41017Do they endure to the very death?
A41017Do we find this joy in our hearts?
A41017Do we not now beat our breasts, and hang down our heads, and rend our hearts, and punish our selves for our sins, that God may not punish them?
A41017Do we not see God hath been merciful to many sinners, why may he not be so to me too?
A41017Do we not see by all this discourse a plain difference between godly men and unbelievers?
A41017Do we not see this daily in the death of others before us: such a one is dead, where is his body now?
A41017Do we think to live by Christ, and not serve Christ?
A41017Do you call this as if not, brethren?
A41017Do you love your name?
A41017Do you think I lay any great weight upon all this?
A41017Do you think the Lord speaks not as he meaneth?
A41017Doe we not think he would mourn to save his life?
A41017Does the fear of Gods Wrath put us in mind of Death?
A41017Dost thou beleeve that which concerns thee touching thy misery, and so apply that to thy self, to make thee a penitent sinner?
A41017Dost thou complain that thou canst not bear afflictions patiently?
A41017Dost thou complain that thy affections are unruly, and set upon wrong objects?
A41017Dost thou complain that thy heart is hard and stony?
A41017Dost thou complain that thy understanding is dark and blind?
A41017Dost thou consider for what cause God sendeth Death abroad into the world?
A41017Dost thou consider this with thy selfe, as thou oughtest to do?
A41017Dost thou consider what death will do to thee when it cometh?
A41017Dost thou daily get ground of thy corruptions?
A41017Dost thou desire unfeignedly, that the same may be wrought in thy heart?
A41017Dost thou determine still, still to amend that that still troubleth thee?
A41017Dost thou feel a spiritual life wrought inwardly?
A41017Dost thou feel this change inwardly in thy Soul?
A41017Dost thou grieve at thine own weakness, to whom the thought of Death is sometime troublesome and unsavory?
A41017Dost thou labour to know what happiness comes by Death to those that feare the Lord?
A41017Dost thou love those that excel in vertue?
A41017Dost thou not know that there is one that shall judge him and thee?
A41017Dost thou not look earnestly?
A41017Dost thou pray the Lord so to assure thee of his favour in Christ, that death may be desired before it comes, and welcome when it is come?
A41017Dost thou still continue to fight with the lusts of thy flesh by the spiritual weapons that God hath ordained for thee?
A41017Dost thou think to have an eternal rest in heaven, and wilt not give God a rest here?
A41017Dost thou think to live by me, and not work to me?
A41017Dost thou wait for Christs coming, and yet run from Christs ordinances?
A41017Dost thou when thou hearest this speech of Simeon, wish that thou wert able to use the like words, with the like resolution?
A41017Dost thou( I say) know this Doctrine, and so know it as to practise it?
A41017Doth God awaken thy conscience by the preaching of his word: Descend into thy own heart?
A41017Doth God do this for this end, that he may humble a man?
A41017Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty pervert Justice?
A41017Doth God smite thee with some afflictions, if with losses?
A41017Doth he offer a gracious message of peace to thy soule?
A41017Doth he speak peace at any time by the ministery of his Word?
A41017Doth it appear outwardly in thy speeches, is there a change there?
A41017Doth it fill aman so, as that he needs no more?
A41017Doth it quiet the conscience?
A41017Doth it raise murmuring, and impatiency of spirit?
A41017Doth not every man make this profession of his faith; I believe that Jesus Christ shall come to Judge the quick and the dead?
A41017Doth not the Lord say to his servant Moses, No man can see my face and live?
A41017Doth not the chief of the Apostles intreat us as Pilgrims and strangers, to abstaine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soul?
A41017Doth not the holy Patriarch that wrestled with God, and hath principality over him?
A41017Doth not your own experience tell you this?
A41017Doth such a man die by an ordinary sicknesse, having his understanding, and memory continued to the end?
A41017Doth the desire of having thy own will prevail against the desire of submitting to Gods will?
A41017Doth this testifie our life in Christ, that we are dead to sin?
A41017Doth thy heart condemn thee?
A41017Durst they add drunkenness to thirst?
A41017Elijah was removed from earth to heaven in a firie chariot, shall Elisha weep because he enjoyeth him not?
A41017Eor if they could exempt, how should piety have the reward?
A41017Et quanta 〈 ◊ 〉 felicitas?
A41017Even as the Prophet observed in his time, so now who doth not see all the world at rest and at peace?
A41017Even so it is with many of us, that profess the teaching of Grace; Alas, how do we waste time insensibly?
A41017Every evening call thy self to an account; What have I done this day?
A41017Every place hath a conserving vertue in it: Doth this world Preserve man?
A41017Every place is adequate to the thing placed in it; is this world adequate to man?
A41017Examine therefore whether thou be come forth of the grave of sin?
A41017First Death is to answer to this Interrogatory, where is thy sting?
A41017First consider how unprofitable a man, a Christian man is, when he is asleep: What is a man when he is asleep?
A41017First ingeneral I answer, Why should any mans eye be evil because Gods is good?
A41017First, because it was against reason, wherefore should I fast?
A41017First, by the progress of thy Mortification: Is sin daily more and more mortified in thee?
A41017First, by thy forsaking of sin, whether hast thou left those sins thou formerly livedst in?
A41017First, it is a change which shall put a period to all his changes in this life: his outward condition, how oft doth it change?
A41017First, of what death doth the Apostle here speak of, that sin is the sting of?
A41017First, the Angels are incorporeal, who can act quicker then I can think?
A41017First; are natural parents thus to their children?
A41017For as the Apostle saith, Do you not know that as long as a man liveth, his wife is subject to him, and she must not couverse with another?
A41017For judgement?
A41017For the evils of the world: Why should we fear them?
A41017For the first of these, what is meant by sleep?
A41017For the other two, you will say, if they be none of mine, why do I meddle with them?
A41017For unless the dead should arise, how can Death be destroyed?
A41017For what is a man profited if he gain the whole world, and lose his soul?
A41017For what is that incommunicable glory that God will not give to another, but this, to make himself his end?
A41017For what is there in all the World that can comfort a man indeed besides this, much less compared with this?
A41017For what is your Life?
A41017For what is your life?
A41017For what was he?
A41017For who can give life, but the God of life, that hath life in himself?
A41017For, what is it that men are evil spoken of, is it not for this, and that particular evil?
A41017For, why should she that had done no hurt, do hurt to her self?
A41017Fourthly, and lastly, why the Apostle doth bestow this exhortation upon sleepy persons that can not hear what he saith?
A41017Fourthly, whence are these mourners?
A41017Fourthly; Doth God do it for this end, that he may make thee better prepared for death?
A41017From whence come Warres, and Fightings among you?
A41017Give me: What?
A41017Glorifying God, and being thankful to him, is all the tribute we are to pay to this our royal Lord; and shall we deny him this?
A41017Go out my soul, go out, why tremblest thou?
A41017God grant they be not so violent, and full of ominous precipitations that they portend our sudden ruin?
A41017God hath a time to doe that great work that he hath now purposed: What is that work?
A41017God hath cast it behind his back, why should we cast it in the teeth of Davids memory?
A41017God hath forgotten it, why should man remember it?
A41017God takes them out of a valley of tears, shall we mourn unsatiably for those that are took out of the valley of tears?
A41017God to comfort the distressed Church in the time of calamity, for their affliction( faith he) they shall have double; Double what?
A41017God will be known a God of truth, what he hath promised he will performe in due time: only what doth he expect of thee?
A41017Godliness is great gain;( but how?)
A41017Gods Word?
A41017Had I setched but one sigh, should it not have made thy life a perpetual sigh?
A41017Had I shed but one tear, should it not have broken up a fountain of tears in thee?
A41017Had not every one cause to laugh at the folly of this Emperour?
A41017Had not the Churches of Asia, the golden Candlestick?
A41017Had they not the Temple?
A41017Haman aimed at himself: when the King asked him, what should be done to the man whom the King would honour?
A41017Hast thou Faith?
A41017Hast thou hope?
A41017Hast thou knowledge?
A41017Hast thou love?
A41017Hast thou prevailed over the assaults of Sathan, and other of thy enemies?
A41017Hath any one had the keeping of this book of thy conscience?
A41017Hath he made thee a conquerour?
A41017Hath not God made foolish the wisdome of this world?
A41017Hath not the Lord sent the destroying Angel amongst us, that hath smitten thousands in our streets?
A41017Hath that awakned us?
A41017Have I ever heard that I have a great work to do, and that I have but a little time to do it in?
A41017Have not all been frustrate of their expectation?
A41017Have they not enemies from within, and enemies from without?
A41017Have they not tears, and that in abundance, for their meat, and for their drink?
A41017Have ye thus disarmed Death?
A41017Have you never seen a wanton child run a firebrand against the Hearth or back of the Chymney, and so on a suddain make a skie of sparks?
A41017He afflicteth thee in thy body, he might have afflicted thee in thy soul, and a wounded spirit who can bear?
A41017He fell upon the neck of a Gentleman that sate close to him, who perceiving that he was not well, asked him how he did?
A41017He gave them repentance after many sins committed, why may he not do so to me?
A41017He looked upon Death through Christ, the Saviour of the world?
A41017He thought, whom should the King honour but himself?
A41017Heard, with what ears could Saint John hear this voyce, sith he was in a spiritual rapture, which usually shutteth up all the doors of the sences?
A41017Hezekiah turneth his face to the wall and wept, oh shall the grave give thanks unto thee?
A41017His inward condition how oft doth it change?
A41017How are men drawn to be obedient?
A41017How are they none of his, you will say?
A41017How can that Crown be said to be rendered as due, unless first it was bestowed as free?
A41017How can that be?
A41017How can these stand together?
A41017How can we say then, that all good and holy persons have a peaceable departure?
A41017How can you beleeve, since you seek honour one of another, and not the honour that cometh of God only?
A41017How darest thou think of giving up that swearing soul of thine to the Judge of heaven and earth?
A41017How doth God know it?
A41017How doth drunkenness stagger and reel in every street?
A41017How doth pride vaunt, and boast it self in every Church and Assembly, though it be cryed down never so much?
A41017How easie is it for the wind to blow away ashes?
A41017How easily can God make an ill conditioned and unseasonable autumn, defeat the promises of the most pragnant Spring, and Summer?
A41017How entertain you the motions of sin?
A41017How hath God smitten this Land?
A41017How have these moved you?
A41017How is it then that we are such our selves?
A41017How is that?
A41017How is that?
A41017How long Lord, how long before this( that the Apostle tells us of) will be?
A41017How long shall this be?
A41017How lovely were the Ninivites?
A41017How many Divine truths have been turned into lies?
A41017How many are the dayes of thy servant?
A41017How many are there that are extraordinary ignorant in the means how to escape the sting of Death?
A41017How many extreamly secure, that never in their lives, yet thought earnestly upon this, how they may die with comfort, and end their dayes in peace?
A41017How many points are there in Religion, that many men are willingly ignorant of?
A41017How many promises and threatnings after do we read of, wherein he never failed of the performance of what he spake, the least tittle?
A41017How many prophane ones, that set light by Death, being apt to say like those Epicures, Edamus,& c. Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die?
A41017How many that do put all to a desperate adventure, God made us, and he must save us, and we shall do as well as please God, and there is an end?
A41017How many times and places of Scripture sets forth the shortness, and uncertainty of our life, by sundry similitudes and comparisons?
A41017How must our affections and desires work toward him?
A41017How must our understandings lay hold upon God, and treasure him up in our memories?
A41017How prevalent are three syllables pronounced by a penitent heart, I have sinn''d, to move the God of mercy to mercy?
A41017How prove you that?
A41017How prove you that?
A41017How proveth he that?
A41017How resplendant shall the soul of the righteous be, in the beatifical vision of Gods excellencies?
A41017How shal Christ appear to be righteous in his Law, except he have a rule whereby unrighteousness shall be discovered?
A41017How shall I bear the pangs of Death, when they come?
A41017How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed, or how shall I defie, whom the Lord hath not defyed?
A41017How shall I disarme it, that I may look death in the face with comfort?
A41017How shall I prepare for Death?
A41017How shall a man come to exercise patience in such a case as this?
A41017How shall that appear?
A41017How shall that be done?
A41017How shall we do that?
A41017How shall we reconcile these, when it is said, Christ and the Saints shall judge?
A41017How should it teach us to pray with David; Lord teach me thy way, and lead me in the right path, because of mine enemy?
A41017How should not death then be rather a day of misery to be trembled at, then a day of happiness to be longed for?
A41017How should this be done?
A41017How should we be diligent to get the hope of a better life, seeing this is so little worth having?
A41017How then doth it stand every one upon now, while we have time, to labour to have intrest in those joyes?
A41017How unfit is a sleepy man for the actions of life, and of his calling?
A41017How will you disarm the tongues of malicious slanderous persons, and deprive them of their viperous speech?
A41017How wonderful shall that divine capacity be, that shall be capable of God himself for a perpetual residence?
A41017How?
A41017How?
A41017I am called on to awake, I am in a dead sleep; can I hear if I be in a dead sleep?
A41017I am going out of the company of men, and whither then?
A41017I confess my self a poor, wretched, and grievous sinner, how shall I stand before him?
A41017I demand therefore of thee: Dost thou know that the confident and comfortable expectation of Death is the work of the Holy Ghost in Gods servants?
A41017I did it for this end, for( saith he) I said, who knoweth whether the Lord will be gratious to me, that the child may live?
A41017I go now out of the body, and whither then?
A41017I go out of the world, and whither then?
A41017I have done with the Question the Apostle propounds; What is your life?
A41017I have smitten them with blasting and mildew, and yet they have not returned unto me: What then?
A41017I have smitten them with the pestilence, after the manner of Egypt, and yet they have not returned unto me: What then?
A41017I have smitten them( saith God in the fourth of Amos) with cleanness of teeth, and yet they have not returned unto me: What then?
A41017I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
A41017I know again, that there is question made by Job; Wherefore is light given to a man that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?
A41017I must out of the world, how have I lived when I was in the world?
A41017I said in my prosperity( saith David) I shall never be moved, thou Lord hast made my mountain so strong; but what followeth upon it?
A41017I say who shall take up the matter with God in such a case as this, when the offence strikes against God, and his ordinances, and his worship?
A41017I, Christ hath done this for himself( perhaps) but what is this to us?
A41017If Cain had done thus; if he had put the question to himself as GOD did, Why art thou wrath?
A41017If Christ hath a bottle for every tear shed for him, how much more for every drop of bloud?
A41017If David had done thus, would he have run out to that excessive expression for his son?
A41017If I can not endure a light cross, a small affliction, do I murmur at that?
A41017If Jonah had done thus, if he had considered what reason he had to be angry;( as GOD putteth the question to him; dost thou well to be angry?)
A41017If a day- labourer come at night and demand pay: the Master will ask him, what work he did?
A41017If a man sill his belly with gravel, what hath he gotten by it?
A41017If charity commands thee to cover the naked, saith Saint Ambrose, how much more to bury the dead?
A41017If for every idle word, what then for thy swearing and cursing, and lying?
A41017If he had said no more but this, Who knoweth whether the child may live?
A41017If he rejoyce in any thing, what reason have I for it?
A41017If he should come now I am in my calling, in my world business, do I follow it with a heavenly disposition as I ought to do?
A41017If he sorrow for a thing, what reason have I for it?
A41017If it be so hard a thing to stand to the command of the Law, how hard a thing will it be to stand under the penalty and censure of the Law?
A41017If it be wealth: doth it satisfie the soul?
A41017If it were not for these promises, how were it able for Christians to get over the rubbs and hinderances that lie in the way of this expectation?
A41017If sin in thee be as a dead thing, how dost thou look upon it?
A41017If so be contrition of heart and sorrow for sin?
A41017If the Commandment of Christ concerning obedience seem harsh, then how harsh a saying shall that be, depart ye cursed into everlasting fire?
A41017If the Wrath of man be so fierce, what is the wrath of God?
A41017If the smoke of mans anger can do this, what can not the flame of Gods wrath do, even consume us to very ashes?
A41017If the very sight of the Serpent afright us now the sting is out, what would it have done, if the sting had still remained?
A41017If there be a Purgatory for Souls after this life, why not for bodies also which need as much purging as souls?
A41017If this be not the estate of this Land at this day, what means the complaints, the heaviness of the spirits of the Prophets?
A41017If this be possible to be had, how shall the servants of God get it?
A41017If this were all, what great matter were there in Religion?
A41017If this world should last alwayes, where were Gods justice?
A41017If two mites cast into the treasury shall be taken notice of, what think ye of ten talents?
A41017If we take the words as spoken by way of insultation, ô mors ubi est aculeus tuus?
A41017If we think that the hand of God is upon them for these sins, how is it that we are not awaked?
A41017If ye shall not perform these duties, it is a small comfort for us, that we have freed our souls?
A41017If you ask me who is the Master?
A41017If you could enjoy any present good by sin, there were somewhat to be pleaded: but what is it?
A41017In a Warre there must be Enemies, with whom to encounter, quis enim oertat nisi inimicum habet?
A41017In a word, when death surprizeth most men, and that in all postures of the body; why is dying here called going?
A41017In particular labour to strengthen faith, make God our strong Tower, and live by faith, he shall not be afraid of ill tydings; why?
A41017In the fear of man there is a snare: what doth fear do?
A41017In the next place, Why doth the Apostle call upon sleepers to awake out of sleep?
A41017In what company?
A41017In what height are all these actions to be boyled up?
A41017In what place hath she lived, and hath not left a savour behind her?
A41017Indeed all the comfort that the soul is capable of is this, that the sting of death is took away?
A41017Ionah, when the Lord challenged him for his anger, Dost thou well to be angry?
A41017Is Death thus discharged, hath Christ changed the nature of Death, and freed all his Members from the sting of the temporal and fear of eternal death?
A41017Is Ephraim my Dear son?
A41017Is God lesse merciful?
A41017Is all fear prohibited?
A41017Is grace in thee, as the house of David, as that grew stronger and stronger, so doth grace in thee?
A41017Is grace like a young man, as it is in every member of Christ?
A41017Is it Hell?
A41017Is it I Lord?
A41017Is it I Lord?
A41017Is it a pleasant and comfortable thing to be driven from Gods house, and from our own houses?
A41017Is it honour that I am ambitious of?
A41017Is it not it so( beloved) with many of us?
A41017Is it not thus with many of you?
A41017Is it not thus with us at this day?
A41017Is it not thus with us, in these dead and secure times that we live in?
A41017Is it pleasure, we are in love with, and dote upon?
A41017Is it possible that there should be a generation of the world, that should doubt of the Judgment to come?
A41017Is it possible then that a man may lose his soul that is so precious?
A41017Is it riches that we set our hearts upon?
A41017Is it so that ye kill them with unkindness?
A41017Is it such a sorrow as draws thee to God?
A41017Is it such a sorrow as makes thee confesse, and then purpose amendment?
A41017Is it the meditation of death that makes us wise?
A41017Is it worth this sorrow, or this joy?
A41017Is not half of it spent in sleep in the night?
A41017Is not much part of our life spent without any sight of our friends?
A41017Is not this Ghius ad Choum?
A41017Is not this security?
A41017Is sin in thee like an old man, as it is in every member of Christ?
A41017Is sin in thee like the house of Saul, as that waxed weaker and weaker, so doth corruption in thee daily?
A41017Is there any good reason for it?
A41017Is there any of the houshold of Faith( as the Text faith, and as the Scripture calls them) unto whom I may shew kindness for the Lords sake?
A41017Is there not a main necessity to seek the means to preserve us in the compass, and seals of grace?
A41017Is there not some lust, some sin that still holds thee captive in this Grave, to which thou willingly, and wittingly obeyest?
A41017Is this now a question, what means the agony of the Apostle?
A41017Is this so?
A41017Is this to be as if you had no wife and children?
A41017It is but a dull grace, it is meerly passive?
A41017It is certain, but who will Christ save?
A41017It is not for you to know these times: Then beloved, why should we have an ear to hear, where God hath not a tongue to speak?
A41017It is that that the Lord looks for, that a man should say, What have I done?
A41017It is true indeed, it is the common opinion, Doth a man lye quietly?
A41017It is true, God hath given us such and such favours and mercies, hath offered us such and such opportunities, but what is this?
A41017It may be now thou wilt demand of me, What shall I do, that I may be ready?
A41017It teacheth a man to strive and wrestle and contend against death?
A41017It was altogether bootlesse, Why should I fast?
A41017It was the expression of the Widdow of Sar epta to the Prophet Eliah; Art thou come to call my sins to remembrance, and to slay my child?
A41017It will be here said, whence cometh this?
A41017Item, so much for such apparel, for such entertainment, for such building of Walks and Galleries; What nothing for the servants of God?
A41017Job and Moses expressed it so, and so Isaiah here, to shew that Death is never sudden to the merciful and righheous man, Why?
A41017Judgment, what is that?
A41017Last of all, shall there be a change that shall befal every son of man?
A41017Lastly, How God, as it in the Text, can suffer righteous men to perish in their righteousness, and wicked men to flowrish in their iniquity?
A41017Lastly, hath Christ conquered Death and Hell and that for us?
A41017Lastly, is it life we build upon?
A41017Let him prove his own work: by what shall he prove it?
A41017Let me die, saith Seneca, and what hurt comes by that?
A41017Let me talk with thee of thy judgments, Why doth the wicked prosper, and they that transgress thy commandements?
A41017Let not your hearts be troubled; But how shall we help it?
A41017Likewise when Gerardus was giving up the ghost, the Spirit spake in him, O death where is thy sting?
A41017Lord dost thou call for this blessing back again?
A41017Lord since thou hast kept us from being beneath for our iniquities, should we sin more?
A41017Lord, what is man, that thou art mindful of him, or settest thy heart upon him?
A41017Lord, what is man, that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou desirest him?
A41017Make the heart of this people fat, make their ears heavy: and why so?
A41017Man dieth and wasteth away, and giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
A41017Man is like to vanity?
A41017Man suffereth for his sin ● … let us search our wayes?
A41017Mark what Solomon faith, Wilt thou trust in a thing of nothing?
A41017May not the Angel of the Lord return that answer, as he did in the first of Zecha ● …; All the world is at rest?
A41017May not the Church have a Balaam?
A41017May not the Lord say of us, as he did of the people in Jeremies time?
A41017May not young men rejoyce in pleasures, in friends, in honours, in wealth?
A41017May we not rather fear that God will avenge the quarrel of his servants upon an ungracious, and ungrateful people they live amongst?
A41017Morior?
A41017Morte nihil certius, As sure as Death, is an ordinary Proverb; What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?
A41017Much more ought it to be so here in this heavenly contract between Christ and his faithful Spouse: should not hear the Spouse be sick of love?
A41017Must young men be careful to chase away all carnal joy, and to get spiritual joy, that beginneth in godly sorrow?
A41017Nay, he loseth himself in living to himself: What shall it profit a man to win the whole world, and lose himself?
A41017Nay, is it not that that hinders your blessedness and happiness?
A41017Nay, shall we go further and come neerer, not only in the world but in the Church, that there should be such as doubt of the time and day?
A41017Nay, what dishonours you, and exposeth you to reproach, and shame, and obliquie, is it not sin?
A41017Nay, what is sin indeed, but impatience in a sense?
A41017No he offered up his Isaac; as if the Text had expressed Ahrahams language thus; O Lord my God, what is it that thou callest for?
A41017No such matter; What then?
A41017Not at all?
A41017Not the most?
A41017Now I may say with that Father, what shall he do when he comes to Judge, that was able to do thus, when he was to be judged?
A41017Now I say when such wrong and injury is done to God, shall not God take a time to right himself of those that injure him?
A41017Now I say, is not Christs glory a whit diminished in his abasement?
A41017Now a worldly man doth the duty too: but how?
A41017Now alas how unfit is a sleepy man, either to expect, or to repel an enemy?
A41017Now all the enemies of a Christian are either reconciled or conquered and foyled, and what then need he fear them?
A41017Now he withdraws himself from the soul, and what is the the end of it?
A41017Now how do we know that the heart of man is fed and relieved, and supported with comfort from without it self, with borrowed and received comfort?
A41017Now tell me if these men live not in a carnal sleep?
A41017Now the Faith of Gods servants in conflict, so sometime it is in conflict with fear, and sadness of spirit; Why art thou cast down oh my soul?
A41017Now the Question is, what he resolveth to do?
A41017Now then, if thou wait for Christ in truth, how cometh it, that thou dost not love him?
A41017Now thou hast a great deale of health, a great deal of strength, but hast thou been the better for Gods service?
A41017Now we know what the sting is, let us enquire where it is?
A41017Now what are the Graces?
A41017Now what doth Abraham do?
A41017Now what is it to die in Christ in a large sense?
A41017Now, What is it to be in this, as if he had no wife?
A41017Now, as it is in this case with a tree; will you know when it is dead?
A41017Now, what have ye done( beloved) to disarme death?
A41017O Death where is thy sting?
A41017O Death, where is thy sting?
A41017O Grave where is thy victory?
A41017O Grave where is thy victory?
A41017O Grave, where is thy victory?
A41017O Hell, where is thy victory?
A41017O death where is thy sting?
A41017Observe, Moses having spoken of the wrath of God in the foregoing verse, Who knoweth the power of thine anger?
A41017Of Death in the first sense, David demandeth who is he that liveth, and shall not see death, and shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hell?
A41017Of any other Life but this, we may ask the question in the words of the Apostle, What is it?
A41017Of comfort( may some say) that is impossible to arise naturally from this Text, can meat come from the devourers, can any good come out of a Gallilee?
A41017Oh Absolom, my son, my sow,& c. What great reason had he for this?
A41017Oh but Death is disarmed, the sting of it is taken away, what a singular comfort is it then to you that Death is coming?
A41017Oh grave where is thy victory?
A41017Oh my beloved, what are all our afflictions?
A41017Oh that we had learned this excellent lesson, that the Apostle teacheth the Corinths here, what wondrous happy people should we be?
A41017Oh what shall I do then to secure my self from the great, from the strong, arme of death?
A41017Oh who can dwell with devouring fire?
A41017Oh why do not we make our eyes as fountains to bewayle our sins?
A41017Oh( saith Abner to Joab) knowest thou not, that this will be bitterness in the end?
A41017Oh, faith the Apostle, what reason have you to build on to day, and to morrow, when ye know not what a day will bring forth?
A41017On the other side: what is the reason why infidelity doth presently bring judgements upon men?
A41017One faith Lord, what would become of me if I should loose my wife?
A41017Or as that great King said to Nehemiah, Why is thy countenance sad?
A41017Or what will you do: will you be as idle and careless, as negligent and slothful in making after these graces as before?
A41017Our best dayes first run, and our worst at the last: And shall we offer that indignity to the Divine Majesty, as to offer him the Devils leavings?
A41017Our grace?
A41017Perishing is one step beyond death?
A41017Quantum valent tres syllabae, Peccavi?
A41017Quid regnatores patuerit,& c. what shall he do when he comes to reign, that was able to do thus, when he was to die?
A41017Remember the Apostles question, Where is the disputer?
A41017Saint Paul ubi stimulus tuus 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉, O death where is thy sting?
A41017Saith Nabal: shall I take my bread, and my drink, and give it to a man that I know not?
A41017Salvation is brought: to whom?
A41017Say within your selves: How long Lord, am I like to continue below?
A41017Secondly, How infants, who never committed actual sin, are subject to death; and which is more, to damnation it self?
A41017Secondly, great tryals for great Christians, because who is more able to sustain grear tryals then great Christians?
A41017Secondly, hath Christ destroyed Death, and hath he both the keyes of Death and of Hell?
A41017Secondly, here is Davids piety expressed in this, Who knoweth whether the Lord will be gracious to me?
A41017Secondly, it is altogether bootless and needless; Can I bring him back again?
A41017See the differences between two persons, the one is afraid of every one he meeteth, the other is not, what is the reason?
A41017See what the end of it was; Thou fool( saith the Lord) this night they shall fetch away thy soul, and then whose shall these things be?
A41017See, here is a faithful, a hopeful man, and yet doth not die patiently: what would the Father say?
A41017See, is not the Land as secure as they of Laish, or worse?
A41017Seeing all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness?
A41017Shall I go on in this vanity?
A41017Shall I think of that which torments and afflicts my Spirit, and causeth sadness and pensiveness of mind?
A41017Shall a Traytour presume on the Kings favour, and Mordecai be out of the Kings grace?
A41017Shall a man be afraid of his own good?
A41017Shall a man be saved by a half Faith, by a peece of Faith?
A41017Shall she want a memorial?
A41017Shall the Scripture say that he perisheth, whose name is in the bundle of life, written in heaven?
A41017Shall the beasts of the forrests be afraid of the Lyon, more then the poor worms of the earth, of the mighty God of heaven and earth?
A41017Shall theeves and burglaries watch at mid- night to break the house, and cut mens throats, and wilt not thou watch to save thy self?
A41017Shall they wait, and earnestly desire the first coming of the Son of God in humility, and humanity and baseness?
A41017Shall this be your practice when you come home?
A41017Shall we come to the trial?
A41017Shall we do the contrary to all this, and yet think that all will be well?
A41017Shall we fear those sins that we are humbled for, and which God hath made as if they had never been?
A41017Shall we say we are not in danger?
A41017Shall we think that they have this expectation?
A41017She dwelt among you: who is he that can speak ill of her?
A41017So Job meaneth, when he speaks in the same manner, If a man die, shall he live again?
A41017So Peter denied his Master out of fear; What is the reason that a Minister doth not sometimes reprove sin?
A41017So are we not glad to fare as the holy Patriarks, Prophets, and Apostles have done, and to go after them?
A41017So at the end of the world, it is said, that those that are alive shall be caught up and changed, in the twinckling of an eye?
A41017So for the manner of doing holy duties Would you be found praying pefunctorily, and carelesly?
A41017So how can a Christian exercise himself in the actions of his general Calling, when he sleeps?
A41017So if men would put the question to themselves concerning their affections: as, concerning love, why do I set my heart upon such and such things?
A41017So in another place the same Apostle, when he would take men off from judging, saith he, Judg nothing before the time: Why?
A41017So likewise Josiah, when he read the book of the Law, and saw what was threatned against the sins of the people, his heart melted within him: and why?
A41017So likewise here, is it possible that there should be righteousness toward God, when there is not mercy toward men?
A41017So likewise worldly business, when a man loveth much employment, much business, he can not abide to think of death, Why so?
A41017So others in Scripture, did not their plentiful tables, and voluptuous courses bring a sting on them?
A41017So remember that thou in thy life time haddest riches, but how didst thou imploy them?
A41017So take a spiritual man; what is the reason he delights in spiritual things?
A41017So the Apostle makes the argument, He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
A41017So the Prophet Jeremy telleth Baruch in the captivity, Seekest thou great things for thy selfe?
A41017So then the ground is this, that man that hath no enemies; that man that can not possibly be molested with any evil, what need he fear?
A41017So then, wouldest thou have peace in death?
A41017So think with your selves, If I can not endure a little, how shall I endure more?
A41017So, how will you take away the sting of death?
A41017Some bark at his Provedence, as if he perceived not these things; How doth God know, and is there knowledge in the most high?
A41017Sometimes so overcome with the violence of the disease, as that( it may be) they speak impertinently and idely, it may be sinfully?
A41017Soul, soul( faith he) take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry: and why so?
A41017Stretch out the duty of Patience then; hast thou waited a week?
A41017Such as makes thee cry to him for power and strength?
A41017Suppose it be Prayer; How can a man goe on in the duty of prayer without Patience?
A41017Suppose now, a man comes and meets with a Citizen in his business, and say to him; How have you spent this day?
A41017Tell me, when thou findest those corruptions whereof, and for which thou speakest against thy self, Dost thou allow them or not?
A41017That escaped the pestilence, that they should fall by the sword, by the hand of Nebuchadnezar: Why so?
A41017That say to the Gold, thou art my God; and to honour, thou art my glory?
A41017That servant that saith in his heart, my Master deferreth his coming, and therefore he eats, and drinks with the drunken: what is the issue of it?
A41017That you desire this heavenly temper, I doubt not, I should offer violence to Charity, the Queen of Graces, if I should think otherwise?
A41017The Angel told Zachary that he should have joy and gladness at the birth of his son, why?
A41017The Antecedent or Condition, is this; If in this life onely we have hope in Christ; What then?
A41017The Apostles were troubled with these kind of scoffers; Where is the promise of his coming?
A41017The Child- son cometh also, and what doth he bring with him?
A41017The Life simply considered is the subject of the Apostles question, What is your life?
A41017The Reason is, in regard there is the same maker of one, as of another; We have all one Father( saith the Prophet) and hath not one God created us?
A41017The Saints of God in former ages 1600. years ago waited for Christs coming; but were they losers by it though he came not?
A41017The faithful are said to endure as seeing him that is invisible: how do they endure?
A41017The fashion of the world, What is that?
A41017The first is this, you know life it consists in the union of a man, with the principle of life?
A41017The first whereof is this; Whether Saint Paul did not, under this profession, boast in a kind of vaunting ostentation?
A41017The fourth and the last, is the woful disadvantage by such an exchange, What is a man profited?
A41017The fourth difficulty was, when the works follow the dead?
A41017The fourth, and last Querie is, How Saint Paul came to know so assuredly, that there was a Crown of Righteousness laid up for him in Heaven?
A41017The health thou hast had: how hast thou spent thy strength and thy health?
A41017The intention of their desire, In this we grown,& c. That we are strangers, do not the sacred Oracles declare?
A41017The like speech you have ordinarily in the mouths of persons; Is there any affliction like mine?
A41017The next question is, what sin the Apostle speaks of, when he faith, the sting of death is sin?
A41017The question is, what a man resolveth upon in this?
A41017The reason he did sink was fear, and why did he fear?
A41017The second thing remaineth, and that is, why the holy Ghost expresseth Gods proceedings, by way of reckoning, or calling to an account?
A41017The souls under the Altar, they crie, How long Lord, holy and just, wilt thou not revenge our bloud upon them that are upon the earth?
A41017The third Question is, in what respect Sin is the sting of Death?
A41017The third difficulcy was, whither the works follow the dead?
A41017The well is deep, where is the bucket?
A41017The work of Gods spirit in the regenerate soul, it is but a creature, a work of God, and God will not have men trust in any such thing, in what then?
A41017There be only two things, that I shall observe in the whole words?
A41017There is nothing amiable but wisdome, and if we despise ber, what is there of this worlds good, whereon we many set our love and affection?
A41017Therefore examine whether dost thou find spiritual life wrought in thy whole Soul, or no?
A41017Therefore how should this teach us circumspect walking?
A41017Therefore the Apostle Paul telleth us of a certain sting it hath, Oh death where is thy sting?
A41017Therefore the Apostle Saint Paul when he would ● … ir up Timothy to the work of the Ministry, what is the Argument that he useth?
A41017Therefore what reason is there that Parents should call their sins to remembrance, in the miseries that befall there children?
A41017Therefore ye have God himself set as a pattern of Patience: Follow God as dear children; wherein?
A41017Therefore( saith the Apostle) I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, and this( quoth he) it is melius, it is better: Better?
A41017Therefore, saith the Church, Why is the living man sorrowful?
A41017They would not receive him, saith the Text; Why?
A41017Thirdly, and lastly, consider your actions, consider your conversation; doth sin get strength, or is it weakened?
A41017Thirdly, faith Solomon; all that cometh 〈 ◊ 〉 vanity?
A41017Thirdly, it must be so; or else if both these were not, and in this order wrought: what difficulty were there in the life of a Christian?
A41017Thirdly, know that Gods delayes are never long; at the longest they are but for a short time: what if he delay a year?
A41017Thirdly, where is this long home?
A41017Thirdly, who they are that must arise out of sleep?
A41017This Faith in Christ the Law doth not teach, the former Covenant would not accect: What?
A41017This course God himself took with Adam, called him to account for his carriage in the Garden: Adam( saith he) where art thou?
A41017This is a hard saying, who can bear it?
A41017This is the duty of Christians, and are not they Strangers?
A41017This is the end of all men?
A41017This is the way to bring ill upon them, when men will needs be miserable is it not just with God they should?
A41017This must be bought, but what must we give for it?
A41017This was the case of old Eli, a good man, yet nevertheless the hand of God was gone out against his house and family, and what was the reason of it?
A41017This will be the reckoning of fools at the last, What hath pride profited us?
A41017Thou child of the divel and enemy to all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right wayes of God?
A41017Thou fool, this night may thy soul be taken away, and whose possessions shall then thy careful and only gettings be?
A41017Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be taken from thee; then whose shall those things be, that thou hast provided?
A41017Thou hast so many thousands, What hast thou done out of this to releeve the poor?
A41017Thou that hopest, thou shall never see Death; come answer God in thy conscience: dost thou keep the saying of Christ or no?
A41017Thou unrighteous person that wilt not sanctifie the Lords day, how darest thou give up that unholy soul of thine to the holy God?
A41017Thus you have his first answer to those scoffers, that said, Where is the promise of his coming?
A41017To despise Gods commandement, what?
A41017To judgment, what is that?
A41017To look on Christ in one office, and to think to be saved only by that without concurring, and concomitating in the other offices?
A41017To the body of man, how doth it weaken and contract the Spirits?
A41017To what serves this wast?
A41017Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me, they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord is it I?
A41017Was Abraham rich?
A41017Was Constantine an Emperour?
A41017Was David a King?
A41017Was Jacob rich?
A41017Was his grief so aggravated, as he could not still behold her face?
A41017Was it love to the souls of his brethren, that he would not have them damned?
A41017Was it think ye?
A41017Was this a matter for David so much to grieve, and to be troubled at?
A41017We desire to live, and have we no desire to live well?
A41017We see Death playes the Tyrant still, it killeth and spoyleth, as fast as it did?
A41017Well then, wouldest thou prepare for Death?
A41017Well yet I know( saith Solomon) that it shall not go well with them in the end, neither shall the wicked prolong his dayes; Why?
A41017Well, what of this?
A41017Well, what of this?
A41017Well, what will the Lord do?
A41017Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
A41017Wert thou carefnl to serve God yesterday?
A41017What Lord?
A41017What Use is there of it?
A41017What a great matter was this?
A41017What a height of sin is this that is in many men, which to their other sins add a presumptuous claim to heaven, when they have no right to it?
A41017What a shame shall it be, if when our age shall ask with Iudas, Is it I?
A41017What a woful and heavy day will this be to all the wicked and ungodly?
A41017What actions do you?
A41017What answer made Jehu to Joram, when he demanded, Is it peace Jehu?
A41017What are his wings?
A41017What are the grounds of thy desire?
A41017What are the signs whereby we may be convinced of security?
A41017What are those?
A41017What are your opinions, and judgments, concerning your own wayes?
A41017What becomes of the hope of the Hypocrite( said Job) when God takes away his soul?
A41017What blessing gave the friends of Rebecca at her departure?
A41017What can we love, if our hearts be not enamoured with wisdome?
A41017What care is there amongst men to get wealth, and many times lose their souls in getting the world?
A41017What cause of fear is here lest, what occasion of perplexity?
A41017What children, saith he?
A41017What comfort, and peace, and joy, will it procure to the conscience then?
A41017What could have been more emphatically spoken?
A41017What daunts a man at the apprehension of death, and makes him have no delight in thinking of Judgment to come?
A41017What day is that?
A41017What death is it that is due to sin?
A41017What did she?
A41017What did you when you received the Sacrament?
A41017What do men rest on, to secure, and perswade themselves of immunity from wrath and impunity?
A41017What do we mean( beloved) to suffer our sins to stand upon the score?
A41017What dost thou mourn and lament, and hang down the head, and all for loss of such as are departed and gone to rest with God?
A41017What dost thou mourn for most?
A41017What dost thou suffer, but thou maiest have suffered a great deal more?
A41017What exercise should a Christian use?
A41017What foolish disorderly speeches proceed from men in the time of affliction?
A41017What fruit will these things bring then?
A41017What glory will he get when he shall throw the Divel, and wicked men into hell fire?
A41017What greater enmity?
A41017What greater happiness?
A41017What hardneth men in security?
A41017What hast thou lost, but thou maiest have lost a great deal more?
A41017What have I said, if it were a Marriage solemnity?
A41017What have we to do?
A41017What have you done with all your time?
A41017What hurt was done to David?
A41017What if he should come and take me asleep, have I made my peace with God before I went to rest?
A41017What if he should come now while I am feasting, should he take me as one feasting with fear lest I should sin against God in my mirth?
A41017What if he were pleased to abate of legal extremity, and mercifully to remit much thereof who shall say unto him, why dost thou so?
A41017What if unreasonable men deal with us, have we not reason to fear ill from them?
A41017What is Solomon to Christ?
A41017What is a chain of Pearl, to a chain of warm and successive tears, beaten out of the rocks of a broken and contrite heart?
A41017What is a double minded man?
A41017What is a man profited if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
A41017What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole World, and loose his own Soul?
A41017What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own Soul?
A41017What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul?
A41017What is a man profited?
A41017What is a man the better for hiding and locking up his sin in his bosome?
A41017What is all this, but to look on freinds, rather as Gods then men, as if all sufficiency were included in them only?
A41017What is all thy life?
A41017What is drunkennesse, but the impatience of sobrietie?
A41017What is honour but a blast?
A41017What is it but a breathing in of the soul again, the lighting of the candle again?
A41017What is it for a man to be wise for the world and a fool for heaven?
A41017What is it now to Keep the saying of Christ?
A41017What is it that brought Death into the world?
A41017What is it that disquieteth men ordinarily, and makes them that they can not think of Death with comfort, but this?
A41017What is it that giveth a man boldness, and takes away shame from him at the coming of Christ?
A41017What is it that hinders men from distributing, and communicating?
A41017What is it that makes men hold the world so fast?
A41017What is it to see Death?
A41017What is pride, but the impatience of humilitie?
A41017What is that simplicity?
A41017What is that that accompanies it?
A41017What is that thou findest in a friend, that thou mayest not find in God?
A41017What is that?
A41017What is that?
A41017What is that?
A41017What is that?
A41017What is the End and Rule of a faithful Steward in all his dispensations in the house of his Master?
A41017What is the Wife mans verdict of all things under the Sun?
A41017What is the blessedness of the creature, but to obtain his end?
A41017What is the burthen of the Lord?
A41017What is the end of all men?
A41017What is the end of the creature, but the glory of the Creator?
A41017What is the ground of this?
A41017What is the happiness of the creature, but the injoying of God?
A41017What is the reason his delight is in the Saints; and the more spiritual any one is, the more he delights in them?
A41017What is the reason of it?
A41017What is the reason that there is all that care took, for food for the body?
A41017What is the reason that we fear it inordinatly?
A41017What is the reason we are so faint- hearted?
A41017What is the reason?
A41017What is the reason?
A41017What is the wisdom of Gods Stewards?
A41017What is there in man but misery?
A41017What is this he would have?
A41017What is this life of ours, but as a ship that is driven by a gale of breath?
A41017What is this then, No man?
A41017What is this to live, unless we know how to live well, and to make a right use of our time?
A41017What is this, but the churlish reply of Nabal to the servants of David?
A41017What is uncleannesse, but the impatience of chastity?
A41017What made them live so to God, and not to themselves as they did?
A41017What makes the word of God so ineffectual?
A41017What makes them so gripple of the earth, and to cleave so close to the things of this life?
A41017What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death, shall be delive ● … his soul from the hand of the grave?
A41017What man living candivine when, and how, and where Dea ● … h will seize upon him?
A41017What meaneth Saint Paul?
A41017What means her fainting in the Canticles?
A41017What means the earnest longing of the Spouse?
A41017What means the heroical incouragement of old Hilarion, Egredere anima, egredere, quid times?
A41017What means the prophanation of the Sabbath?
A41017What means the words of old Simion in the flames; Thus to dy is to live?
A41017What means this groaning, and thirsting in my Text?
A41017What need Foelex tremble, to hear Paul dispute of righteousness and judgment to come, if he might be unrighteous, and a Christian too?
A41017What need I tell you more?
A41017What need the Lord reckon with men, he may proceed by way of a Judge, but he saith, come give an account of thy Stewardship?
A41017What need we meet evils half way?
A41017What neglect would there be of the soul, the better part of a man?
A41017What not before?
A41017What of all this?
A41017What of that?
A41017What peace( said he) so long as the whoredomes of thy mother Jezabel, and her witchcrafts are so many?
A41017What peace, when these make a partition betwixt your souls and the Lord?
A41017What perfection speaks he of here?
A41017What power?
A41017What powerful matter were there in Religion, if a man might hold his sins, and yet be a Christian, and a beleever, and be in Christ too?
A41017What reason have they to be commanded to expect and wish, and wait for the coming of Christ, when he cometh not in so long a time?
A41017What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man whom we esteem, should be sorrow to himself, and his death be grief to us?
A41017What saies he?
A41017What security have they for it?
A41017What shall I get by going on in a course of sin, when I can look for nothing then, but a sentence of wrath to be denounced against me?
A41017What shall I speak of those unjust, injurious, usurious persons, whose jawes are as knives to cut those that they deal with?
A41017What shall we say of this now?
A41017What shall we say then hereunto?
A41017What shall we speak of other things?
A41017What shall we think of them that oppose, that seek to oppress purity of heart and life?
A41017What sins do they most fear, and most avoid?
A41017What so sweet a spectacle to the world as Sarah?
A41017What then( may some object) do the dead sleep out all their time from the breathing out their last gasp, to the blowing the last trump?
A41017What then?
A41017What then?
A41017What therefore is the meaning?
A41017What though it be a great while since the promise was made: for all this we must not think that God is slack as men account slackness?
A41017What though you do holy actions, that are good for the matter, would you be found doing of them, with unfit and unprepared hearts?
A41017What time is that?
A41017What to do?
A41017What use makest thou of this to thy self?
A41017What use shouldest thou make of this now?
A41017What use shouldest thou that livest make of this now?
A41017What was the blessing upon the first couple?
A41017What was the issue of it?
A41017What was the manner of Gods blessing the Jewes after their return from the captivity?
A41017What was the reason that Aaron yeelded to make an Idol for the people of Israel, and so joyned in Idolatry with them?
A41017What was the reason that Abraham and Sarah did equivocate?
A41017What was the reason that he was acquainted with sorrows and griefs, and miseries, both from God and men?
A41017What will be thy consolation then?
A41017What will become of thee?
A41017What will it boot me( will the soul reason) to keep my sins when Christ will come to judg me for my sins?
A41017What will you do?
A41017What wilt thou say for thy selfe?
A41017What wise man will give thanks for that, which he hath no certainty that he doth enjoy?
A41017What would become of me if the times should be hard, if there should be a dear year?
A41017What''s all the Light of Reason but darkness it self, to bring us to the Light Everlasting?
A41017What''s the reason of it?
A41017What''s the reason?
A41017What, for bare eating?
A41017What, not suffer?
A41017What, shall I say that these died in true peace?
A41017What; do you judge sin worthy to live, and your selves not dead the while?
A41017What?
A41017What?
A41017When Death cometh to a wicked voluptuous person, and telleth him, I am here come for thee, thou must appear before God, what can this man say?
A41017When God threatneth punishment, shall not men be awakened?
A41017When I kept close my sinnes my boues were consumed, and I roared for the disquietnesse of my soul; what followed?
A41017When Sara was dead, though Abraham loved her dear in her life, remove my dead out of my sight?
A41017When a Saint is removed, a Pillar is removed, a Pillar of the house, and of the Earth, and must there not be danger when the Pillar is gone?
A41017When a man is in this case, how shall he exercise Patience?
A41017When a poor wretch is a dying, and shall begin to reflect back on his life, what have I done?
A41017When do robbers and theeves assault the house?
A41017When doth a man despise the commandement?
A41017When is that?
A41017When shall that great day of the Resurrection come, when all shall be brought together?
A41017When the case is this, when the will of God, crosseth thy will: what now prevaileth?
A41017When the light is gone, is there not a great loss to have a candle put out?
A41017When the objects and occasion of sin are presented to you, how stand you affected then?
A41017When we are called together to give attendance upon the preaching of the Word; then think, what am I come hither for?
A41017Whence is it that men, that are not at peace with God, yet flatter themselves that they shall do well?
A41017Where are his friends, and his companions now?
A41017Where are my sighs and groans, have they vanished in the ayr?
A41017Where is I say, that Repentance, when I find so much fin?
A41017Where is any man that takes occasion by what he hears abroad, or sees at home, to enter into the reformation of his own house, of his own heart?
A41017Where is his wealth and his estate, for which many flattered him and fawned upon him?
A41017Where is it that the Ministers have not been threatning judgement, and telling you that God is coming out to be avenged upon a sinful nation?
A41017Where is it?
A41017Where is now our hope?
A41017Where is now there comfort?
A41017Where is our wisedome?
A41017Where is that Faith, when I find so much wavering and quaking, so much aptness to distrust, and almost to dispaire?
A41017Where is that burthen of the Lord?
A41017Where is the knowledge of the Doctrine of the Gospel?
A41017Where is the man that gloried in his abundance, and store, and thought himself the only happy man?
A41017Where is the promise of his coming?
A41017Where is the promise of his coming?
A41017Where is the wise?
A41017Where shall men see the face of an alteration?
A41017Where''s the man that brings to his remembrance the sins of his years that are past?
A41017Wherefore is the living man sorrowful?
A41017Wherefore should they mortifie their earthly members?
A41017Wherefore was this?
A41017Whether Saint Paul did well to Commemorate, and make mention of his gracious Actions, and good Deeds?
A41017Whether are thy affections and meditations heavenly, and spiritual?
A41017Whether dost thou find this change in thy heart and affections?
A41017Whether you can with comfort looke for the coming of Christ or no?
A41017Whither?
A41017Who are the men of this world?
A41017Who are the men that are cryed down most by the world, that are most opposed, and injured by all men?
A41017Who are they that escape wrath?
A41017Who art thou that fearest mortal man?
A41017Who art thou( saith the Apostle) that judgest thy brother?
A41017Who can tell the dvst of Jacob?
A41017Who can truly say to himself; I am sure, I shall not die this hour?
A41017Who ever suspected and dreamed, that it was possible for merciful men to perish?
A41017Who gains by the smallness of the Epha, the greatness of the shek ● … e, the refuse of the wheat?
A41017Who knoweth that the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
A41017Who shall separate us from the love of God in Christ?
A41017Who undertakes the doing of it?
A41017Who will follow a false guide?
A41017Who would beleeve the consummation, the period of the world, if our bodies were immortal?
A41017Whom have I in Heaven but thee?
A41017Why are men as bad after the Sacrament as before?
A41017Why art thou lazy?
A41017Why brethren, who knoweth the power of these sharp temptations which may then beset him?
A41017Why camest thou down hither?
A41017Why complainest thou of the misery in Hell?
A41017Why didst thou say Oh David there is no bands in their death, and they are not in changes like other men?
A41017Why do we all this while go from my Text?
A41017Why do we make boast of piety to God, that men can not judge of?
A41017Why do we not take off our sins by godly sorrow?
A41017Why do ye not consider that your soul is as a City?
A41017Why do you not labour for faith in him?
A41017Why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquities?
A41017Why doth God do this?
A41017Why doth he not so?
A41017Why doth the Apostle thus triumph?
A41017Why have you done so?
A41017Why not my person as well as anothers?
A41017Why not to order all the changes of my life, as well as another mans?
A41017Why should I do this?
A41017Why should we rest in such things as these?
A41017Why so?
A41017Why so?
A41017Why so?
A41017Why then do ye make it the property of Believers, since every man believeth and looks for it?
A41017Why then is not the health of my people restored?
A41017Why then should we weep for the death of aged persons, when it can be but the second part of their Funeral?
A41017Why to him?
A41017Why will the Lord visit Jerusalem with lights, to find out these men?
A41017Why, but when must we look for it then?
A41017Why?
A41017Why?
A41017Why?
A41017Why?
A41017Why?
A41017Why?
A41017Why?
A41017Wicked men see his glory, what priviledge then between them and the godly?
A41017Will God accept the blind, and the lame; the lean, and the withered for a sacrifice?
A41017Will God call thee to a reckoning?
A41017Will a man be found idleing in the market- place, when he should be working in the Vineyard?
A41017Will any man fear a wounded foe?
A41017Will not God be offended and displeased?
A41017Will you be as greedy of the transitory vanities of this life, as in former times?
A41017Will you thus study to practise Repentance, and Faith, and Obedience?
A41017Wilt thou have Christ to be the object, either of thy faith or hope, and wilt thou not grow then in these?
A41017Wilt thou prophane the sanctified day of rest?
A41017Would I have the judgement of God find me in this company?
A41017Would he not have stopped that Passion?
A41017Would you be feasting, when God would have you mourning?
A41017Would you be found coming to the Sacrament unprepared?
A41017Would you have comfort in Christs coming to Judgment?
A41017Would you have joy, and pleasure unspeakable, and glorious?
A41017Would you have peace, and quiet?
A41017Would you then have the same happinesse after?
A41017Would you therefore be found doing of holy duties, and not in a right manner?
A41017Would you therefore hold up your heads with comfort and with joy?
A41017Wouldest thou appear before Christ so in judgment?
A41017Wouldest thou be content to have thy oaths brought before Christ in judgment?
A41017Wouldest thou be found an Usurer?
A41017Wouldest thou be found guilty of Sabbath- breaking at the day of Judgment?
A41017Wouldest thou be less liberal now in the time of the Gospel, then they were under the law?
A41017Wouldest thou reap liberally in that day?
A41017Wouldest thou then be freed from the second Death, hell,& destruction, when thou art dead?
A41017Wouldest thou then have this comfort at that day?
A41017Wouldst thou have it taste bitter?
A41017Write, what?
A41017Yea, but how can any be said to die in the Lord, that is continuing his Member, sith Christ hath no dead Members?
A41017Yea, but if this be all the fruit of our afflictions and tentations, that we shall be made patient, what great matter is that?
A41017Yea, but you will say, those that are already dead, can not die, what then is the meaning of this phrase, the dead that die in the Lord?
A41017Yes( saith the Apostle,) All things were made by water too, and yet they were destroyed by water, and why not then by fire?
A41017Yet did not he acknowledg that he was a stranger as well as his fathers were?
A41017You have heard what he was in publick, but what was he in private?
A41017You that are such as I have now said, think in your consciences, what, would you die?
A41017You will say if this be so, what will become of the greatest part of Christians, who are afraid to die?
A41017You will say, what is it to believe in Christ?
A41017Your Fathers, where are they?
A41017Your fathers where are they?
A41017a Deceiver?
A41017a drunkard, and yet be saved?
A41017a faithful servant his wages?
A41017a few amongst many men?
A41017a height that many are raised to, out of favour rather then desert?
A41017a new opinion of Christ?
A41017a new opinion of the Members of Christ?
A41017a prophane person?
A41017a prophaner of the Sabbath, and yet be in Christ?
A41017a scoffer?
A41017a speedy racer his prize?
A41017a valiant souldier his crown?
A41017and a disperate wicked guide?
A41017and are found in the Cell, and Cave of darkness, wherein they desire to sleep for ever?
A41017and are not Christians while they are here out of their place?
A41017and are not these strangers?
A41017and are not we here in the world upon these termes?
A41017and are there any Jewels like unto these?
A41017and are these conversations fit for the Saints?
A41017and are they not strangers?
A41017and bring diseases?
A41017and by and by again, Know you not that we shall judge the Angels?
A41017and dost thou converse with living Christians?
A41017and dost thou go forward in thy Christian course?
A41017and dost thou manifest the graces of the Spirit in the conscionable performance of all the duties of thy general, and particular calling?
A41017and doth not a true labourer merit his pay?
A41017and doth not he that dictateth to another, both tell him what he shall write, and bid him write it?
A41017and drives thee out of thy self?
A41017and have we not great reason to try, and to suspect our selves, touching our standing towards God?
A41017and here to the labourers pay?
A41017and how before the high God?
A41017and how careful should we be to walk worthy of it?
A41017and how shall I get to be partaker of this Resurrection?
A41017and how unfit and unable, and indisposed is a man that sleeps in sin, to the actions of spiritual life?
A41017and if they be empty, why likewise do I meddle with them?
A41017and may we not say, we have been smitten, and yet have not felt it?
A41017and shall net my soul be avenged on such people as this?
A41017and shall not we earnestly expect his second coming in glory, to manifest not only his glory, but our glory?
A41017and so likewise concerning their sorrow and anger, and every thing, Why is it thus?
A41017and some times death it self?
A41017and still be mad after back and belly?
A41017and study to cry and call for it, and use all your endeavour?
A41017and such an utter neglect of the soul?
A41017and that Christ is as truly united with you, as that you eat and drank?
A41017and the Prophets, do they live for ever?
A41017and the Prophets, do they live for ever?
A41017and the bar have a Demosthenes?
A41017and the bitterness of that loss to Jacob?
A41017and the other half in businesse and pleasure?
A41017and the sweetness of imaginary gain, what proportion hath it with the bitterness of so great a loss?
A41017and what hath riches brought us?
A41017and what is inspiring but a kind of dictating to all the Pen- men of the holy Ghost?
A41017and what is that?
A41017and what is there for me to do before I go out of this world?
A41017and what is there in riches, that thou mayest not have much more in God?
A41017and when he shall visit, what shall I answer?
A41017and whence are these Mourners?
A41017and whether doth it appear outwardly?
A41017and whether hast thou left the grave of thy sin?
A41017and who doth not beleeve that he shall come to judge the quick and the dead?
A41017and who may encounter with this enemy with safety?
A41017and who shall remain with cousuming fire?
A41017and why was this?
A41017and will he not now be so in heaven, when he is in blessedness?
A41017and will you lose heaven for that that is needless?
A41017and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness?
A41017and yet are they not now tributary to the Turk?
A41017any of those things wherewith they like Idiots make themselves laugh at?
A41017are not his desires infinitely extended beyond the same?
A41017are not they partakers of this benefit from the resurrection of Christ, as well as the godly?
A41017are these the endings of thy life, the fruits of thy opportunities?
A41017are they not all separated from him?
A41017are they not summed up to my hand by the Apostle?
A41017are they not those who have the God of this world to reign in their hearts?
A41017are they pleasing to you, because they tend to the killing of sin?
A41017are they so empty, when your houses appear so full?
A41017are they water spilt upon the ground, not to be gathered up?
A41017are we not men?
A41017art thou still complaining for want of them?
A41017as Arrows in a Bow, to shoot at you, when Death layeth hold on you?
A41017as they die the death of their bodies, so to make them suffer a death in our memories?
A41017as they suffer nothing, so do they nothing?
A41017ask what is your life?
A41017boast her self of her scituation, that she dwelt in the clefts of a rock?
A41017but a care to know him, a fear to offend him, a study to obey him: and when is that to be done?
A41017but are all the dead blessed?
A41017but how?)
A41017but this, a holy care to make provision for another world, seeing in this there was no continuance?
A41017by what means shall I attain this first Resurrection to this spirituall life?
A41017can I bring him back again?
A41017can not you live comfortably, and die blessedly without sin?
A41017can not you live, and be happy without it?
A41017can we think that now it is far off?
A41017can you be a whit better by it?
A41017can you live a day longer, or an hour more happy?
A41017canst thou now speak to men in the language of Canaan, and to God in the voice of his Spirit, crying Abba, Father?
A41017did not I send thee into the world for this end, to get Grace, to get Faith, to make up thy accounts with me thy God, and hast thou no regand to it?
A41017did this make those that before were rebellious against God, come in and accept of the conditions of peace, and forsake their sins, and turn to God?
A41017died he like a Lamb?
A41017do not these Translations as well agree as harp and harrow?
A41017dost thou confesse them, and lament them or not?
A41017dost thou gather from thence the certainty of thy own death?
A41017dost thou look upon it as a thing that thou art afraid of?
A41017doth he expostulate with God?
A41017doth it inlighten the darkness of these prisons of nature?
A41017doth this speculation discharge us from the tribute, or make the payment thereof the easier?
A41017except you say, that only those shall be judged by it, that have been under the preaching of the Gospel, and have had the help of the Scriptures?
A41017for I will die to see thee: who would not die for the present, to dwell ever where his hope is?
A41017for a potter to break in pieces a vessel of clay?
A41017for apparel for the body?
A41017for health for the body?
A41017for what wrestle why do you strive and contend so much?
A41017had GOD any glory by me?
A41017had he many years to enjoy that which he had laid up for many years?
A41017had his soul any whit the more ease?
A41017had men any good by me?
A41017hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
A41017hast thou imployed it fot Gods glory or no?
A41017hast thou left the society of sinners?
A41017hast thou not alwayes had it in thy owne Possession?
A41017hath any one accused thee wrongfully?
A41017hath any one wrote it by mistake?
A41017hath he fulfilled it in this case to her?
A41017hath he his memory to the end?
A41017hath he of a postern made it a street- door, of an out- let of mortal life, an in- let of immortality?
A41017hath not God given thee better things then he, that thou shouldest murmure and whine, and weep for want of them?
A41017hath the Lord washed me, and shall I defile my self again?
A41017have I furthered my account against the day of reckoning, that I may give it up with joy?
A41017have they found such sweetness in these sins, that we walk on in the same?
A41017have they not afflictions laid upon them in the greatest measure?
A41017have they not been crying thus, this seven, ten, twenty years?
A41017here thou art supported in the expectation of a far more exceeding weight of glory: art thou ready to faint under thy labours?
A41017here thou shalt find a time of rest, and of reaping: doth the time seem over- long, that thy patience begins to flag?
A41017his hope, Whither slyeth his hope?
A41017how can he answer this before God?
A41017how come we to gain so little comfort by the preaching of the Word?
A41017how do I hate it as my clogg, and reverence it as my fellow- heir?
A41017how doth he behave himself?
A41017how glorious was the King in sackcloth, sitting in his throne of dust and ashes?
A41017how have I carried my self there?
A41017how have I lived?
A41017how is it, that we go on in unrighteousness, in prophaning the Lords day, in neglecting the house of God, and our own families?
A41017how little time have we to enjoy our friends we rest on?
A41017how long Lord?
A41017how long?
A41017how many would dwell in monuments with those whom they have honoured, or affected in their lives?
A41017how must our endeavours be carried toward God?
A41017how shall he come to it?
A41017how soon all of us, or any of us shall be dismissed, who knows?
A41017how soon is beauty ecclipsed by deformity?
A41017if I be a Master, where is my fear?
A41017if I should loose my children?
A41017if not our own miseries( for which we bless God) yet do not the miseries of other Nations, the Churches of God require this?
A41017if the frown of a King strike a man dead, what power is there in the looks of an angry God to bring us to nothing?
A41017if there were no more but thus, that a man might settle upon some actions of Religion, and so be effectually changed?
A41017if these duties be done coldly, what are they worth?
A41017if till then it play the domineering Enemy?
A41017in Heaven, or in earth, Purgatory, or Hell?
A41017in his praying, in his hearing, in his reading?
A41017is it fit that he that is a prisoner at the Barre should come and leap up into the place of the Judg, and sit in his seat?
A41017is it for my only son Isaac, the son of my love, the son of thy promise, the son of my age?
A41017is it not for my profit?
A41017is it not his earnest prayer unto God?
A41017is not Heaven compared to servants wages?
A41017is not this peculiar unto the Saints in this life?
A41017is not this security, and a dead sleep?
A41017is there any knowledg in the most high?
A41017it is so long since his promise was made, and yet there is none of his coming, Wilt thou still retain thine integrity?
A41017it shall taste bitter and reprove thee; taste sweet?
A41017it shall taste sweet and comfort thee; taste betwixt both, bitter- sweet?
A41017it were nothing to be a Christian; nay who would not be one?
A41017labour for grace in thy life; wouldest thou end thy dayes happily?
A41017let us ask the question what is riches, but thick clay?
A41017let us ask the question, what is pleasure?
A41017live they so poor, and you so richly glad?
A41017must it needs be that the body being now no way amiable, but noisome, must be conveyed out of a mans sight?
A41017must they not through many afflictions enter into the kingdome of heaven?
A41017my own Creature?
A41017no children?
A41017no freind to mourn after him, when he was buried in the earth?
A41017not a fast, for so many fasts?
A41017not a groan for so many miseries which I indured?
A41017of Death in the second sence, Saint Paul enquireth, how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?
A41017of reverence of his name?
A41017of setting up his worship in their houses, and in their hearts?
A41017one wickedness to another?
A41017or are they distasteful, because they give you not rest in your sins?
A41017or hath he less interest in thy estate?
A41017or in what manner must we tender these services to God in this kind?
A41017or is there a striving, and using all means to be rid of it?
A41017or like mare mortuam, without any motion or operation at all?
A41017or loose my estate?
A41017or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith?
A41017or rather what did she not to win those children from Popery( in which they have been brought up) and to bring them to the true service of God?
A41017or shall the dead celebrate thy praise?
A41017or take away the stench from these under- ground houses?
A41017or that the Apostle, when he saith here absolutely and determinatly, that thus and thus you must do if you be Christians, if you be brethren?
A41017or the son of man, that he should be just with God?
A41017or was it necessary that the carkasse it self must be conveyed away?
A41017or what is it that I thus eagerly pursue?
A41017or what may be the ground thereof?
A41017or whom have I defrauded?
A41017or whose asse have I taken?
A41017or 〈 ◊ 〉 to him?
A41017our health overcome by sickness, our life overtaken by Death?
A41017our own sins?
A41017our strength laid down by weakness?
A41017quoties volui?
A41017remember that thou haddest wisedome, and learning, and knowledg, but what good had the Church or Common- wealth by it?
A41017remember that thou hadest Authority, and office, and place in the Church of the Common- wealth, but what service didest thou doe to God?
A41017shall I do this thing, and sin against God?
A41017shall I go to Angels and Saints, or to divels?
A41017shall I go to Heaven or to Hell?
A41017shall I have a beeing or not, in misery or in happiness?
A41017shall not they be raised, and quickned, as well as the godly, by Christ his Resurrection?
A41017shall not we expect that coming of his, wherein we shall be married to himself, and whereby we shall be took up to himself?
A41017shall we not have infirmities still?
A41017she answered, good: whether she doubted not?
A41017so much time I have spent, or mispent in apparel, in vanity, in eating, in drinking, in swaggering; What comfort is this to his soul?
A41017some part of thy estate, some friend, some comfort of thy life, some one or other particular comfort: could he not have done more?
A41017such as makes thee rest on him for ability?
A41017such as makes thee to fall before him, and judge thy self worthy to be damned, and submit to his Justice?
A41017that a Magistrate doth not sometimes reform that that is amisse?
A41017that a man should dismember himself?
A41017that cast scorns upon purity and holiness?
A41017that comes with a broken heart to beg for forgiveness of his sins past, and to beg for mercy for the time to come?
A41017that he is not careful and industrious in the keeping and maintaining of that he hears, and the framing himself according to it?
A41017that he should do it, that was called the Father of the faithful?
A41017that is faith Saint Austin, where is sin wherewith we are stung and poysoned?
A41017that we fear the loss of the things of this world?
A41017that we might be dead to sin, and live to righteousness: Why did Christ bear your sins in his body upon the Tree?
A41017that when you hear a Funeral Sermon, it might comfort you to think, It will not be long before my time shall come, before my time shall be?
A41017that which shall be perfected in the presence and full fruition of Christ?
A41017the Husband can comfort thee, who can comfort thee so much as God?
A41017the Husband can do thee no good without God, who can do thee so much good as God?
A41017the Text answereth, all the dead that die in the Lord; That die in the Lord?
A41017the Word of God?
A41017the directions for a holy life, which is the best preparation for Death; where shall we find them, but in the Scripture?
A41017the precious Sons of Sion comparable to fine Gold, how were they esteemed as earthen Pitchers, the work of the hand of the Potter?
A41017the sins of others?
A41017there, that like Jeremy, have their eyes as fountains of water, to weep day and night for the afflictions of the people of God?
A41017they are such as whom he sanctisies; and will he sanctisie such as by union with him are dead to sin, and alive to God?
A41017they cryed out, What city is like unto this great city?
A41017this Citie eipecially, with the Pestilence?
A41017this heavenly joy?
A41017thou shalt have thy life for a prey: Baruch was wondrously disquieted, he complained that the Lord had added grief to his sorrow; What grief was that?
A41017to be a reproach to all the world?
A41017to fear that that comes from God?
A41017to set things in order?
A41017to the racers garland?
A41017to the souldiers crown?
A41017to what purpose is it?
A41017to what use were a power of godliness, spoken of in Scripture?
A41017to which Death speaketh the Apostle?
A41017unrighteous in any course?
A41017upon what ground did he take this course?
A41017was it because his sonl indeed was washed in the bloud of Christ?
A41017was it not a pledge to you of your interest in Christ, and of your union with him?
A41017was it not fear( in that particular) of men more then God?
A41017was it not this, that their streets should be full of boyes, and girls?
A41017was it not thy selfe that made this impression upon thy conscience by thy owne guilt?
A41017was it not written with thy own hand?
A41017was it so?
A41017was there no well- willers to him, that had benefit by his piety to mourn for the righteous man?
A41017was there none like to himself?
A41017was there such love to the kingdome of Christ in hell, that Dives would have his brethren converted?
A41017was this for their own sin, or for the sin of their Parents?
A41017was this the covenant made between them?
A41017we have seen him in the Sun, how demeaned he himself in the shade?
A41017well may it minister a little food to this beast of ours, which we carry about us, but can it afford the least savory morsell to the soul?
A41017were these groans fuliginous vapours from a malecontented spirit?
A41017what Alters erected?
A41017what Idolatries?
A41017what Temples built?
A41017what a presumptuous part is this, that thou shouldest judg thy brother?
A41017what are all the afflictions of our selves, to the least drop of gall that he tasted, to the least scourge which he suffered?
A41017what are the motives that incourage thee, to long for the coming of the Lord Jesus?
A41017what are the things we do so much pride our selves in?
A41017what are those garments which are the labour of a worm, to these robes that are the works of Gods Spirit?
A41017what becometh of these men?
A41017what bringeth death upon us?
A41017what calmness of spirit?
A41017what can not make an end of us, if a small drop of water congealed can do it?
A41017what can you spare nothing for Christ, and the distressed members of the Church all this while?
A41017what canst thou alledge for thy selfe?
A41017what care have ye taken to break sin apieces, that it may not be as a sword ready drawn for the hand of death when it cometh?
A41017what carking and caring for this earthly Tabernacle?
A41017what comfort is here?
A41017what courses have you taken?
A41017what deifying of the body would follow?
A41017what desolations would follow in Cities, in Towns?
A41017what dost thou hope for most?
A41017what dost thou rejoyce in most?
A41017what good have I received?
A41017what good have Idone?
A41017what great advantage cometh by patience?
A41017what great matter were there?
A41017what ground shall we have that have nothing in our selves?
A41017what hast thou now to say against the chosen of god?
A41017what have your works been?
A41017what hope of entring into rest?
A41017what if the the life of a man?
A41017what if twenty, thirty, forty, years?
A41017what is it that I seek after?
A41017what is it to live, and to have our hearts all the dayes of our lives void of grace and piety?
A41017what is it?
A41017what is the endeavour of thy whole man?
A41017what is the means to relieve my Soul, and to supply my wants?
A41017what is the strength of thy mind?
A41017what is the wisdome of man to the wisdome of God?
A41017what is this if it be rightly considered?
A41017what is thy time?
A41017what means the great neglect of Family- duties?
A41017what need Agrippa stand out in the mid- way?
A41017what need any of the labours of a Christian?
A41017what need he be but half perswaded to be a Christian?
A41017what need we create to our selves such troubles?
A41017what not a tear, for so many tears?
A41017what pride, what elevation would follow?
A41017what shall poor sinful man do, when the Angels shall be afraid?
A41017what shall we think of those persons?
A41017what singular thing were there in a Christian, above any man in the world?
A41017what strength hath sin?
A41017what superstitions?
A41017what thing is there in the World that is worthy your labour?
A41017what variety of Ceremonies instituted to the body?
A41017what wrong had the man to take on thus?
A41017what''s a man the better for being rich and honourable in this world, if in the end his Soul be lost?
A41017what''s meant by his going, or gate?
A41017what''s the wealth and honour of the world, to the happiness of the Soul?
A41017what''s this life without godliness?
A41017what, that we might add any praise unto the dead?
A41017when he shall say unto us, were are my tears?
A41017when is the time that the wrath of God shall smoak?
A41017when should godliness come to the full recompence?
A41017when we are not able to bear our selves, but bow under the sole weight of age?
A41017where Christ?
A41017where God is?
A41017where Sun and Moon are, nothing less; Where then?
A41017where are my watchings?
A41017where have I been?
A41017where is his long home?
A41017where is that godly sorrow that I called for, for the sins of thy life?
A41017where is the Scribe?
A41017where is the disputer of this world?
A41017where is the repentante I called for at thy hands?
A41017where is thy victory?
A41017where is thy victory?
A41017where shall we find this joy in the World?
A41017wherefore are they happy that deal very treacherously?
A41017whether are the studies, and desires of thy soul set upon heavenly things?
A41017whether dost thou find this change wrought in thy understanding and judgement?
A41017whether hast thou a new judgement, and thoughts, and opinion of God, and of the wayes of God?
A41017whether hast thou left the society of sinners, of prophane persons?
A41017whether hast thou new desires, new affections, spiritual inclinations?
A41017whether his buckler was not in his enemies hands?
A41017which way are thy affections carried?
A41017who are led captive by him?
A41017who are so far from groaning to depose this Tabernacle, that they groan at the least intimation of dissolution?
A41017who dares promise to himself the late evening, or secure himself of the least atome or moment of time?
A41017who ever heatd of the like?
A41017who ever perished being innocent?
A41017who hath bewitched you?
A41017who knew her but reported well of her?
A41017who seek those things that are above?
A41017who sees a man that is asleep that works in his Calling that can do any good in it?
A41017who setteth himself on these holy and conscionable courses?
A41017who shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
A41017who that loveth, who that hopeth, would not be where his love, where his hope is?
A41017who told thee that thou were naked?
A41017who was now berest of his dearly- beloved Wife, by the fruit of whose wombe he had reaped such increase of blessing?
A41017who would know the vertue of it, that it is not only salt to the body to keep it sweet, but the life, the beauty, the comliness of the body?
A41017who would mind heavenly things?
A41017whom have I oppressed?
A41017whom is it that thou callest for?
A41017whom we have nayled to the Cross?
A41017whose Ministers we have reviled?
A41017whose servants we have reproached?
A41017whose sides we have pierced?
A41017why art thou disquieted within me?
A41017why dest thou not rejoyce that thou shalt be rid of the devil?
A41017why did none of the inspired Prophets pray for the release of their souls?
A41017why do not I hasten to die?
A41017why dost thou seem to envy this blessing of mine?
A41017why is thy conntenance fallen?
A41017why no better?
A41017why no more?
A41017why should our belief be abated for all the scorn and despite of the world that is cast upon the profession of the Faith of Christ?
A41017why should she to escape the hands of the Nocent, lay violent hands upon her self that was innocent?
A41017why then are we so much afraid of death, which can no more hurt us then a hornet or wasp after her sting is plucked out?
A41017why what is our honour but a breath?
A41017will God say?
A41017wilt thou blaspheme the great and glorious name of God?
A41017wilt thou do nothing for thy own self?
A41017wilt thou lie, and steal, and whore, and yet tell me thou lookest for that blessed hope?
A41017wilt thou wantonly abuse the creatures of God, in drunkenness?
A41017with those everlasting burnings?
A41017with what face shall we appear before our Saviour at his Tribunal, when he shall demand of us his tears, his watchings and fastings?
A41017would God have me trifle out my time?
A41017would I have it seize upon me in this imployment, in this business, in this action?
A41017would not have what he hopeth for?
A41017would you in truth have freedome from the fear of death, which Christ hath purchased?
A41017yet in consideration of The end of his life The loss of his God The extremity of his pain The eternity of all What is a man profited?
A41017you can not without Christ, why do you not then study more for Christ?
A41017you get a little wealth by unrighteousness, is it gain?
A41017you must die, and stand before God, and how can you stand before God in your sins?
A41017you see some of Gods servants are held under the fear of death, and that all their life long; how shall we be freed from this fear?
A41017● … ve not all things continued as they were, since the begining of the Creation for so many thousand yeares?
A41017〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 〈 ◊ 〉 where is thy plea or thy indictment?