This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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A40150 | And James saith in his General Epistle, Who is a Wise Man, and endew''d with Knowledge among you? |
A19494 | Nonne Deus eras via? |
A19494 | O what more hope could be thought vpon, except it were to bee Gods our selues? |
A19494 | O who can tel the greatnesse of this ioy? |
A19494 | What am I, that dare vndertake( being but dust and ashes, wormes meate) to enter into a description of the sacred and Coelestiall Kingdome of heauen? |
A19494 | Why did Abraham forsake his own natural countrey, and his fathers house, and to goe out he knew not whither? |
A19494 | Why did Moses forsake Egypt, and refused to bee called the son of Pharaohs Daughter? |
A19494 | what clapping of hands and sweete embracements one of another? |
A49864 | Fulfilling that saying, O Death where is thy Sting, O Grave where is thy Victory? |
A49864 | If it be asked, What Scripture is there for this? |
A49864 | Must it not be by the Rod which shall strike the Rock, so that the Waters of the Spirit shall gush forth, and overflow, for Healing? |
A49864 | Now as it was queried in my self, so it may be by others how those that are departed, shall be brought to Repent and believe in Christ for Salvation? |
A49864 | Then was it queried in me,( because there was yet so little appearance of this,) how long it might be, before This would come to effect? |
A87177 | 15. swallowed up in victory: O Death, where is thy sting? |
A87177 | Haven, where we shall be eternally secured from all these perils, and injoy perpetuall peace and reft? |
A87177 | How it comes into the soul? |
A87177 | How quetly did Iacob and Ioseph die, having finished all their earthly business? |
A87177 | O Grave, where is thy victorie? |
A87177 | Oh what mourn we for? |
A87177 | Or to whom have I done wrong?] |
A87177 | What power have I( saith he) that I should endure? |
A87177 | What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me? |
A87177 | Whom have I in Heaven but thee? |
A87177 | and why art thou disquietêd within me? |
A87177 | or what is my end if I should prolong my life? |
A87177 | shall they be in vain? |
A87177 | what can be more plea ● ing in the time of our nonage, then to think on that rich inheritance which we shall enjoy when we come to full age? |
A87177 | what tongue of Men or Angels can shew forth the same? |
A87177 | who is sufficient for these things? |
A26807 | A word that seem''d so presumptuous to an Independent Soveraign, that with indignation the King asked him, To whom he appeal''d? |
A26807 | And what is the Glory of the Temple made with Hands, to that admirable Fabrick that receiv''d its Being and Perfection immediately from God? |
A26807 | Are we pain''d with Diseases? |
A26807 | But how distant is the greatest Monarch in the World from the Eternal Son of God, the Prince of the Kings of the Earth? |
A26807 | But what are the Preparations of Earthly Kings, to the Preparation of God? |
A26807 | Did Philosophy inspire him with such Principles of Patience and Fortitude? |
A26807 | He lost his Life rather than his Obedience: And what will not the Father do for the Honour of his Son? |
A26807 | Here a glancing sight of his Goodness, how reviving is it? |
A26807 | How can there be a lively Hope of Heaven, that implies perfection of Holiness, when they neither seriously desire, nor endeavour to be Holy? |
A26807 | How can we be content with the Imperfections of the present State? |
A26807 | How does this Consideration upbraid us, that we are so unwilling to be dissolv''d, and to be with our best Friends in the best Place? |
A26807 | How fearful will the sight of God be to them? |
A26807 | How joyful a Complacency arises from the Communion with the blessed Redeemer, and the Saints in Heaven? |
A26807 | How joyful, how advantagious is a Heavenly Conversation? |
A26807 | How many afflicting Diseases, sad Occurrences, vexing Passions harras them? |
A26807 | How often are the strongest Empires dissolv''d and ruin''d? |
A26807 | How permanent, like the everlasting Spring from whence it flows? |
A26807 | How plain and necessary a Lesson is the vanity and shortness of the present Life? |
A26807 | How pure a Joy is infus''d to the Center of the Soul, and fills all its Desires? |
A26807 | How vain and impossible are the hopes of unrenewed Sinners? |
A26807 | How will the Saints rejoice in God their Saviour, in the view of the surprising Wonders of his Love? |
A26807 | If a Propriety and Interest in him, be productive of such a pure Joy, what will the everlasting Fruition be? |
A26807 | If the Design of that blessed Work was so pleasing, what is the Accomplishment? |
A26807 | If the unpurg''d Eye can not bear the Light of a Candle, how will it sustain the glorious Light of the Sun? |
A26807 | In short, Art thou in the Vale of Tears, languishing in Sorrow, and dying every Day? |
A26807 | In the next State how will they with restless Anguish remember their foolish Bargain, to exchange an everlasting Treasure for fading Toys? |
A26807 | In what Heart but that of the Son of God, could ever such compassion and charity be conceiv''d? |
A26807 | The Lord''s Day, in its Sacred employment, is their burden; how can they expect to enjoy an everlasting Sabbath Above? |
A26807 | Was ever Passenger so foolish, that being to pass over a narrow Strait of the Sea of a days sayling, makes Provisions for a Voyage of a Year? |
A26807 | What Recompence is correspondent to such astonishing Humiliation? |
A26807 | What a joyful Welcome will entertain us from God himself? |
A26807 | What exultation of Joy will there be, when the whole Family of Heaven shall meet together in their Father''s House? |
A26807 | What hath not the Son done for the Glory of his Father? |
A26807 | What is so worthy of reverence and admiration? |
A26807 | Where is our Faith in the Promises of God? |
A26807 | Where is our Love to our Redeemer and our Souls? |
A26807 | Who amongst the many pretenders to Wisdom, had a convincing knowledg of the Blessed Eternity to come? |
A26807 | Who had a glimpse of that Happiness that results from the sight of God in Glory? |
A26807 | Who shall ascend up to Heaven to raise us thither? |
A26807 | but how few effectually learn it? |
A26807 | how unlike themselves in their original Purity, and Glory? |
A26807 | or that will be at great cost to paint an Inn, and adorn it with rich Furniture, where he is to lodge but a Night? |
A26807 | that our Tears and Sorrows for leaving the Earthly Tabernacle, and the low Comforts of this Life, should continue till we come to the Gate of Heaven? |
A26807 | with infinite more cause have we, considering the incarnation of the Son of God, to say, Will God indeed dwell on Earth? |
A14380 | And shall my Soule turne Coward, feare and flie? |
A14380 | And shalt thou see? |
A14380 | And since this World is but meere Miserie: What is''t can hinder this my speedie pace, Which I must run, till I haue run my race? |
A14380 | And that my Soule i''th''end shall sure exult, Although the way seeme somewhat difficult? |
A14380 | And therein dwell I in Thee, Thou in Mee? |
A14380 | And what so scornefull, scoffing Cham so bold? |
A14380 | And what''s his price? |
A14380 | And who would not to Heau''n goe ioyfully, Though with Elias he in whirle- winds fly? |
A14380 | And why shouldst thou, a Sp''rit inuisible, Be pleas''d with things, both grosse and visible? |
A14380 | And, oh, what''s he? |
A14380 | Assuerus, his pompous Palaces? |
A14380 | Ay me, how long shall it be said to mee, Wait, wait, expect, and thou the time shalt see? |
A14380 | But Lord, it may be thou mayst say to mee, Alas, poore Soule, would''st thou my beauty see? |
A14380 | But here, this one Obiection may accrew, How it may come to passe, a Pearle should shew And represent this Man- God Christ our King? |
A14380 | But what sayes Rome to this? |
A14380 | Can Kingly fauours, wealth or dignitie? |
A14380 | Can Worldly power or Principalitie? |
A14380 | Can height or depth, things present, things to come? |
A14380 | Can worldly pleasures, pleasant vnto some? |
A14380 | Cloud- kissing pinacled Pyramides? |
A14380 | Could any valiant Iosuah, thinke you, choose But enter combate with the proudest Foe? |
A14380 | For why? |
A14380 | For why? |
A14380 | For, what''s this World? |
A14380 | How long( ô Lord) how long wilt thou prolong, Thy wrath t''appease and ease mee, from among These dire Death- threatning- dangers? |
A14380 | How oft hast thou beene my Soules meditation? |
A14380 | How oft haue I beene rauisht with desire, That vnto thee my Soule might once aspire? |
A14380 | How oft haue I both scorn''d and vili- pended Earths most vnpleasant pleasures quickly ended? |
A14380 | How oft haue I thee view''d with admiration? |
A14380 | How should my Soule thy prayses due record? |
A14380 | Is''t not most strong, inuincible, dureable? |
A14380 | O when shall I come and appeare in sight Of thee, the Sunne of righteousnesse most bright? |
A14380 | Of these and more than these, what now appeares? |
A14380 | Oh then, my Soule, what pleasure infinite? |
A14380 | Oh therefore silly, simple, sinfull Man, What greater madnesse? |
A14380 | Oh what an Ocean of most sweet delight? |
A14380 | Shall I not vnder- goe all miserie, In this my iourney to Heau''ns holy Land? |
A14380 | Shall Merchants venture both their liues and goods, For wealth and pelse through th''Oceans dangerous floods? |
A14380 | Shall doting Louers for their Ladies fight, And for their sakes account all danger slight? |
A14380 | Shall feare of death my Christian- courage quell, Since my sure ground, than his, is much more firme, And death to me is but my sorrowes terme? |
A14380 | Shall not my Soule controll that Enemie? |
A14380 | Shall then his Pagan- courage mine excell? |
A14380 | That Day of gladnesse neuer to decay, That Day of Iubile when all are glad, That Day when all reioyce, none can be sad? |
A14380 | Thus to behold with rauisht admiration The Lords bright face with sacred contemplation? |
A14380 | Treasure( said I?) |
A14380 | What excellent rare things are said of thee? |
A14380 | What feare- full, fault- full, or vn- faith- full Caine, Doth dare this Truth, deride, doubt or disdaine? |
A14380 | What impious Atheist dares it vn- true hold? |
A14380 | What man is capable to comprehend, Euen so great glorie God will then extend? |
A14380 | What of West- Indies Mines of massie Gold? |
A14380 | What of most precious Pearles of rarest price? |
A14380 | What of the richest Iewels to behold? |
A14380 | What talke wee of East Indian Marchandize? |
A14380 | What wilt thou say of this Beatitude? |
A14380 | What''s he would take Fraudulentioyes, and permanent forsake? |
A14380 | When shall I leaue this Wildernesse of wo, Wherein my Soule is tossed to and fro? |
A14380 | When shall I see Thee in it, It in Thee? |
A14380 | When shall my Soule by thine All- sauing hand, Be led with ioy from forth this Desert Land? |
A14380 | Which hast a heau''nly- blest originall? |
A14380 | Who could with vile pusillanimitie, So free a Coward- like denie? |
A14380 | Who then( I say) what''s he would be so base, As not this proffer gladly to embrace? |
A14380 | Why boast th''Aegyptians of their high- topt Spheares? |
A14380 | Why should the Worlds false promises delude thee? |
A14380 | Why shouldst thou pin thy thoughts on mortall things? |
A14380 | Why then shouldst thou thy selfe so low depresse? |
A14380 | Why then( my Soule) shouldst thou to th''Earth be thrall, Which hast a heau''nly blest originall? |
A14380 | Wilt thou the Sonne of Heau''ns All- sacred King, Offend thy Father for so vile a thing? |
A14380 | Wilt thou thy Birth right Esau- like forgoe, For one dire messe of Broth bewitching wo? |
A14380 | Wilt thou, a Princes Sonne, a heauenly Prince, Let Satans gilded Apples thee conuince? |
A14380 | Would any Gideon such a fight refuse? |
A14380 | Wouldst thou be Rich? |
A14380 | Yea, shall the Ship- Boy gladly vnder- goe All hazzards which or Sea or Shore can show? |
A14380 | Yea, what a most profound and pure Abysse; Thus to behold the Lord of Lords, is this? |
A14380 | here''s Eternity, Wouldst thou Liue- merry? |
A14380 | how can it bee?) |
A14380 | must not then this Citie needs be stable? |
A14380 | tell me, if thou can? |
A14380 | that would not leaue most glad Worlds Vanities, so finite, base and bad For Pleasures infinite? |
A14380 | when shall I see that day? |
A14380 | ô, here''s true Wealth indeed: Wouldst thou Liue- euer? |
A30209 | 13. but what''s a tenth: what''s one in ten? |
A30209 | 14. what saist thou? |
A30209 | 18, 19. canst thou answer this question sinner? |
A30209 | Are there few that be saved? |
A30209 | But is not Christ the gate or entrance into this heavenly place? |
A30209 | But mark, there shall be an handful; what''s an handful when compared with the whole heap, or what''s an handful out of the rest of the world? |
A30209 | But some may say, how will they seek to enter in? |
A30209 | But what do you mean by these three questions? |
A30209 | But will this plea do? |
A30209 | But you will say, how should we try our graces? |
A30209 | But you will say, what is it to strive lawfully? |
A30209 | Can thine heart endure, or can thy hands be strong in the day that I shall deal with thee saith the Lord? |
A30209 | Esau, did dispise his birth- right, saying, what good will this birth- right do me? |
A30209 | First, What doth this word strive, import? |
A30209 | God forbid that we should have been such sinners, but Lord, give an instance; when was it, or where? |
A30209 | Hark again, the sweet morsels of sins will then be fled, and gone, and the bitter burning fruits of them only left, what saist thou now sinner? |
A30209 | How do they shew themselves to be true under the first of these? |
A30209 | How do they shew themselves to be true under the second? |
A30209 | How do they shew themselves to be true under the third? |
A30209 | How doest thou finde them in outward trials? |
A30209 | How should we strive? |
A30209 | I come now to the third question, namely but why should we strive? |
A30209 | I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou maiest know and try their way, what follows? |
A30209 | I say again, how will they strive for this? |
A30209 | If Judgment begins at the house of God, what will the end of them be that obey not the Gospel of God? |
A30209 | If these poor creatures were in the world again, would they sin as they did before? |
A30209 | Methinks this word heaven, and this eternal life, what is there again either in heaven or earth like them to provoke a man to strive? |
A30209 | O poor professor, what wilt thou do at this day, at the day of thy trial& judgement? |
A30209 | Oh when men are sick of sin, and afraid of damning, what a text is that, where this word saved is ● ound? |
A30209 | Peter asks thee another question, to witt, If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly, and sinners appear? |
A30209 | Poor sinner awake, eternity is coming,& his son, they are both coming to judge the world, awake; art yet asleep? |
A30209 | Secondly, the second question, is how should we strive? |
A30209 | Shall I come to particulars with thee? |
A30209 | This is Peters question, canst thou answer it, sinner? |
A30209 | We reade in the book of the Revelations, of the holy citie, and that it had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve Angels, but what did they do there? |
A30209 | What doth this word, strive, import? |
A30209 | When the prophet speaks of the saved under this metaphor of gleaning, how doth he amplify the matter? |
A30209 | Why should we strive? |
A30209 | and so, consequently, say unto God, depart from us, for we desire, not the knowledg of thy ways, or what''s the Almighty that we should serve him? |
A30209 | and there are many in the world of his mind to this day: tush( say they,) they talk of being born again, what good shall a man get by that? |
A30209 | and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? |
A30209 | and yet all this is included in this word, saved, and in the answer to that question, are there few that be saved? |
A30209 | can ● t thou drink hell fire? |
A30209 | cover thy self thou canst not, go for a Christian thou canst not, stand against the Judge thou canst not; what wilt thou do? |
A30209 | do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the- Lord? |
A30209 | for it will little profit thee to think of the blessed kingdom of heaven, if thou wantest a birthright to give thee inheritance there? |
A30209 | how art thou cut down to the ground that didst weaken the nations? |
A30209 | how doest thou find thy self under the most high enjoyment of grace in this world? |
A30209 | is this he that separated from us, but how is he fallen with us into the same eternal damnation with us? |
A30209 | or wilt thou be desperate and venture all? |
A30209 | or wilt thou take time to do it? |
A30209 | stand among the wicked thou then wilt not dare to do; where wilt thou appear sinner? |
A30209 | to be saved from sin, from hell, from the wrath of God, from eternal damnation, what is like it? |
A30209 | what a disappointment is here? |
A30209 | what a disappointments here? |
A30209 | what is like it? |
A30209 | what wilt thou do? |
A30209 | what''s the gleanings to the whole crop? |
A30209 | what, is like being saved? |
A30209 | why then I had as good never seek: who told thee so? |
A30209 | will the wrath of God be a pleasant dish to thy ta ● t? |
A30209 | wilt thou answer this question now? |
A30209 | would they neglect salvation as they did before? |
A30209 | would you have us run into temptation to try if they be ● ound or rotten? |
A30209 | yea, I say again, if judgement must begin at them, will it not make thee think, what shall become of me? |
A30209 | yea, what a word of worth and goodness and blessedness is it to him that lies continually upon the wrath of a guilty conscience? |
A67772 | An ● how am I served accordingly? |
A67772 | And are they to be endured everlastingly? |
A67772 | And indeed, if the gates of the City be of Pearl, and the streets of Gold; what then are the inner rooms, the dining and lodging chambers? |
A67772 | And now for conclusion: Are the Joys of Heaven so unspeakable and glorious? |
A67772 | And what makes the difference? |
A67772 | And what shall I say more? |
A67772 | And withal lose their part and portion in the Kingdom of Heaven, as the Word of God expresly tells us? |
A67772 | As consider, If a dark dungeon here be so loathsom, what is that dungeon of eternal, of utter darkness? |
A67772 | As tell me, Will not their blood be required at your hands, if they perish through your neglect? |
A67772 | As what says the Apostle? |
A67772 | As, Dost thou desire beauty, riches, honour, pleasure, long life, or whatever else can be named? |
A67772 | As, Who would not obtain Heaven at any rate, at any cost or trouble whatsoever? |
A67772 | But, oh wretched Caitiff that I am; how hath the Devil and my own deceitful and devilish heart deluded me? |
A67772 | Christ our Redeemer and Elder- brother? |
A67772 | Dance hoodwinkt into this perdition? |
A67772 | Do we delight in good company? |
A67772 | Do you ask what Heaven is? |
A67772 | FIrst, Is it so, that the torments of Hell are so exquisite? |
A67772 | For as St. Paul tells us, The heart of man is not able to conceive those joyes; which being so, How should I be able to express them in words? |
A67772 | For if the brightness of the body shall match the Sun, what will the glory and splendour of the soul be? |
A67772 | For this incorruptible Crown of Glory in Heaven? |
A67772 | Fourthly, Is it so? |
A67772 | Hath Christ done so much for us, and shall we deny him any thing he requireth of us? |
A67772 | He who brings even idle words to judgment, and forgets not a thought of disobedience, how will he spare our gross negligence and presumption? |
A67772 | Hearken we unto Christs voice, in all that he saith unto us, without being swayed one way or another, as the most are? |
A67772 | Hell in Scripture is called a Lake, that burneth with fire and brimstone; and, than the torment of the former, what more acute? |
A67772 | How does this hang together? |
A67772 | How glorious and wonderful is the Maker thereof, and the City where he keeps his Court? |
A67772 | How is it that we are not more affected therewith? |
A67772 | How sweet then shall our knowledge in heaven be? |
A67772 | How then should we admire the love and bounty of God, and bless his Name, who for the performance of so small a work, hath proposed so great a Reward? |
A67772 | How will it end? |
A67772 | How wouldst thou toss and tumble, and turn from one side to another? |
A67772 | If material fire be so terrible, what is Hell- fire? |
A67772 | If the earnest penny be so precious and promising here; What shall the principal, and full crop and harvest of happiness in Heaven be? |
A67772 | If then the beginning and first fruits of it be so sweet, what shall the fulness of that beatifical Vision of God be? |
A67772 | In whom there is nothing but amiable, comfortable, delectable? |
A67772 | It will put thee to a demur, What have I done? |
A67772 | Now consider, Is one hours twitche of the worm of conscience here? |
A67772 | Now what heart would not bleed, to see men run headlong into those tortures that are thus intolerable? |
A67772 | Oh that men would believe the God of truth( that can not lye) touching spiritual and eternal things, but as they do these temporary and transitory? |
A67772 | Or in case we have peace of conscience, alas, how often is it interrupted with anguish of spirit? |
A67772 | Or that light from whence it receives its light? |
A67772 | SEcondly, Are the Joys of Heaven so unspeakable and glorious? |
A67772 | The Angels and Saints our Comforts and Companions? |
A67772 | The holy Ghost our Comforter? |
A67772 | Then wilt thou say, O that I had been more wise, or that I were now to begin my life again; then would I contemn the world with all its vanities? |
A67772 | What am I now aabout? |
A67772 | What is a thousand years? |
A67772 | What is eternity of hell torments? |
A67772 | What little enough to do, to obtain eternity? |
A67772 | What pleasure shall we take in the company of Saints and Angels? |
A67772 | What then can be more equal, then that thou shouldst suffer everlastingly? |
A67772 | What then will it be to lie in flames of fire? |
A67772 | What though it be usual with men, to have no sense of their souls till they must leave their bodies? |
A67772 | What will it be to enjoy the immediate presence, and glory of God our Father? |
A67772 | What''s a Fetter to a Dungeon? |
A67772 | Whether he finds not his joy to be like to the joy of harvest? |
A67772 | Whether will this course tend? |
A67772 | While we are here, how many clouds of discontent have we to darken the Sunshine of our Joy? |
A67772 | Who would not serve a short Apprenticeship in Gods service here, to be made for ever free in glory? |
A67772 | Will it not be sad to have Children and Servants rise up in judgment against you, and to bring in Evidence at the great Tribunal of Christ? |
A67772 | Will not this be sad? |
A67772 | Yea more, is Heaven so unspeakably sweet and delectable, is Hell so unutterably doleful? |
A67772 | Yea, are all these, and all other pains that can be named put together, but shadows and flea- bitings to it? |
A67772 | Yea, how can we be thankful enough for so great a blessing? |
A67772 | Yea, how little, how nothing, are the poor and temporary enjoyments of this life, to those we shall enjoy in the next? |
A67772 | Yea, how oft do those Russians that deny God at the Tap- house, preach him at the Gallows? |
A67772 | Yea, is one minutes twitch of a tooth pulling out so unsufferable? |
A67772 | Yea, what pain can we think too much to suffer? |
A67772 | Yea, who can utter the sweetness of that peace of Conscience, and spiritual rejoycing in God, which himself hath tasted? |
A67772 | Yea, who would not be a Philpot for a month, or a Lazarus for a day, or a Stephen for an hour, that he might be in Abrahams bosome for ever? |
A67772 | a Gallows to Hell- fire? |
A67772 | and confess that in sincerity of heart, which they oppugned in wantonness? |
A67772 | how would it charm their mouths, appall their spirits, strike fear and astonishment into their hearts? |
A67772 | or as men rejoyce when they divide a spoil? |
A67772 | than the smell of the latter, what more noysome? |
A67772 | the presence chamber of the great Monarch of Heaven and Earth? |
A67772 | the torments of Hell so woful and dolorous? |
A67772 | those delights and pleasures, that are reserved for the glorified Saints, and Gods dearest darlings in heaven? |
A67772 | what then may we think of the maker and builder thereof? |
A86127 | 12, 13. Who can understand his Errors? |
A86127 | Above all, it shall be wholly filled with ● nspeakable Delight and Satisfaction; ● hat, do I say, it shall be filled? |
A86127 | Alas, how shall I present my self before the Majesty of the most righteous and upright Judge? |
A86127 | But dare I presume to think to deceive the all- wise God? |
A86127 | Come my Soul, ascend to higher Thoughts, Hopes and Labours, and away with thy soft Wishes and dull Endeavours are these fit for seeking Eternal Joys? |
A86127 | Hath God told me, that can not lye, and shall I not have the Faith to believe him? |
A86127 | How, O God, hath Corruption depraved me? |
A86127 | How, O God, ● hall Satisfaction restore me? |
A86127 | I have no Heart to ask what hope can I have that I shall obtain? |
A86127 | IS it so? |
A86127 | If our Prison yield such fair contentments what will he do for us in his Royal Court? |
A86127 | If then I ● ashamed to be seen, how shall I be assur''● to be received? |
A86127 | If we find such Comfort in this stormy time of Tears, what may we expect in the sweet Sun shine of Joy? |
A86127 | In what Pollutions have wallowed? |
A86127 | Is it so? |
A86127 | Is this, O Lord, the wages of Sin? |
A86127 | Life, wherefore then dost thou kill Death, and wherefore dost thou then endure? |
A86127 | Lord, do these things for me, and more abundantly than I am able to ask or think, for Jesus Christ his sake? |
A86127 | Master, who shall I do to inherit eternal Life? |
A86127 | Moses saw God but imperfectly, and while, and his Face did shine; how the ● shall they shine, who shall perfectly see 〈 ◊ 〉 Face for ever? |
A86127 | O Christ, how can I forget thy Goodness? |
A86127 | O Glorious City, when shall I enter into thee, when shall I possess and enjoy thee? |
A86127 | O sweet Security ▪ what can be sufficiently said of thee? |
A86127 | O weak Man, wherefore art thou troubled? |
A86127 | O what is Man that thou art 〈 ◊ 〉 ful of him, or the Son of Man that t ● ● hast any regard for him? |
A86127 | Say unto God how terrible In all thy Works art thou? |
A86127 | Shall I be faint- hearted? |
A86127 | Tell me, I pray thee, what Entertainment hath intangled thee into th ● Love of this Life? |
A86127 | W ● ● reward shall I give unto the Lord, for the benefits he hath done for me? |
A86127 | Was it not enough for thee to draw me to destruction, but thou must all so take from me both the sense of my Grief, and the sight of my Danger? |
A86127 | What do you? |
A86127 | What dost thou fin ● therein but wanting and wishing; fro ● whence ariseth two Tortures of the Mind Hope and Fear? |
A86127 | What hast thou done? |
A86127 | What then shall I term thee? |
A86127 | Wherefore stand ye looking about? |
A86127 | Who is this coming out of the Wilderness, leaning upon her Well beloved? |
A86127 | alas, what shall become of me? |
A86127 | altho''thou lov''st not sin in Man; what hath our filthy flesh worthy of this Honour? |
A86127 | an ● consequently the Cure of the one and the Care of the other? |
A86127 | and in what perplexities an now plunged? |
A86127 | and yet, how dare I remember thy Greatness? |
A86127 | comfortless and forsaken Wretch whither shall I go? |
A86127 | doth a slow pace become a Man that is resolv''d for Eternity? |
A86127 | from how high a pitch ● Happiness hast thou dejected me? |
A86127 | how amiable are thy dwellings, thou Lord of ● osts? |
A86127 | how art thou busied there in, as the Spider that consumeth her ow ● Bowels in weaving curious Nets only to catch Flies? |
A86127 | how can I believe thee, and not admire thee? |
A86127 | how can I hope for thee, and not extol thee? |
A86127 | how can I think of thee, and not long for thee? |
A86127 | how do they distress, how do they distract me? |
A86127 | how shall my fearful Face behold him? |
A86127 | how terrible will he cast his Countenance upon me? |
A86127 | if this be your Country, whether do you range? |
A86127 | if this be your Pasture, whither do you stray? |
A86127 | in what Pat ● have I walked? |
A86127 | is my Case so deplorable and desperate? |
A86127 | is there Mercy in store for such a Rebel? |
A86127 | is this the punishment of wicked Doers? |
A86127 | it shall be inebriated, not having the sence of any other thing; what, do I say wholly? |
A86127 | must my Frolicks die into everlasting Burnings? |
A86127 | must my jolly Hours be turn''d into bitter Weepings and Wailings? |
A86127 | must my sinful Life end in the entring into those eternal Flames? |
A86127 | shall I be a Coward? |
A86127 | shall these and others resolve to part with anything, so much as their very Lives for their Saviour''s Sake? |
A86127 | to enter into this thy Heavenly Habitation, prepared ● or thy glorious estate? |
A86127 | to whom shall I see ● for succour? |
A86127 | what a lamentable loss hast thou incurred? |
A86127 | what a woeful exchange hast thou made? |
A86127 | what do I behold in th ● Infernal Lake? |
A86127 | what dost thou? |
A86127 | what hast thou done? |
A86127 | what shall I term thee? |
A86127 | where ar ● thou? |
A86127 | where is thy Joy ● where is thy Love, wherewith thy though ● shou''d be inflam''d? |
A86127 | which passed ● ay the time of this Life either in Idleness in Evil; what an endless Chain of Calaty have your short Joys linked together? |
A86127 | whither do you wander, if this be your home? |
A86127 | who can be in love with this Life full of misery, that hath any hope, faith and confidence in thy Mercy? |
A86127 | who shall have pity and compassion upon me? |
A86127 | with what a World of Woes hast thou inclos''d me? |
A86127 | 〈 ◊ 〉 how deep a Gulf of Misery hast thou depressed me? |
A02904 | And if thou be death, why doest thou endure? |
A02904 | And if thou doe denie this, then tell mee what kind of sinne is there which thou hast not committed? |
A02904 | And who is blind, but hee that suffereth himselfe to bee sold for a slave? |
A02904 | And who is deafe but ye, unto whom I have sent my messengers? |
A02904 | Hast thou not read in the Gospell, that there shall be weeping& wailing, and gnashing of teeth? |
A02904 | Have men their right sences? |
A02904 | Hearken( sayth Esay) Oyee deafe and yee blind, open your eyes that you may see, Who is blind but my servant? |
A02904 | How did I let pa ● ● ● the fruitfull yeares of aboundance, and did not enrich my selfe? |
A02904 | How long wilt thou tarrie, untill thou fully resolve to doe it? |
A02904 | How was I blinded with things present? |
A02904 | I know not whether I may truly tearme thee, either life or death: for if thou be life, why dost thou kill? |
A02904 | If men be mooved with gaine and commodity, what greater commoditie can there be than to attaine life everlasting? |
A02904 | If the feare of perils doe move us; what greater perill can there bee than death, the houre thereof being so uncertaine, and the account so strait? |
A02904 | If thou beleeve it, and doest not provide for it, how canst thou bee thought a reasonable man? |
A02904 | If thou beleeve not this, how art thou then a Christian? |
A02904 | If thou hadst not feared the dreadful day of judgement? |
A02904 | If thou hadst not looked for any other life? |
A02904 | Is there any wit or judgement in this world? |
A02904 | May it be thoght that men are become beasts, that provide onely for the time present? |
A02904 | O yee scattered sheepe, wandering out of your right way, if this be your sheep- coat, whether goe you backeward? |
A02904 | Oh, what thing could any man imagine more miserable, and more woorthie of compassion? |
A02904 | Or have they peradventure so dimmed their eye sight, that they can not looke before them? |
A02904 | Thou that hast thine eares open, wilt thou not give eare hereunto? |
A02904 | Thou that seest so many things, wilt thou not suffer thy selfe to see this? |
A02904 | Were it not meet, that that time which thou hast hetherto given to the world to thy flesh, and to the devill, should suffice? |
A02904 | What anguish and sorrow shall there be in his heart? |
A02904 | What appetite hast thou left unexecuted, notwithstanding that thou didst beleeve in almightie God, and that thou wert a Christian? |
A02904 | What art thou then? |
A02904 | What greater injurie, what greater despight can bee done, than so to contemne his divine majestie? |
A02904 | What greene meddow is there, in which thou hast not( at the least in desire) feasted thy letcherous lust? |
A02904 | What hath all thy former life been, but a web of sinnes, a sinke of vices, a way full of brambles and thornes, and a froward disobedience of God? |
A02904 | What madnesse can bee greater, than to chuse one torment, to gaine another by; rather than with one rest to gaine another rest? |
A02904 | What meane you? |
A02904 | What smaller request could there bee desired than this? |
A02904 | What travell and paines would not a man willingly take to escape even one onely day, yea, one houre, the very least of these torments? |
A02904 | What tree is there forbidden that thou hast not beholden with thine eyes? |
A02904 | What wise man would not desire, that all labour and paine of the world were imposed unto him? |
A02904 | Where be their wits? |
A02904 | Where is now become the understanding, judgement, and reason, which thou hast of a man? |
A02904 | Where is the applying of thy wits, thy judgement, and the discourse and reason which thou hast of a spirituall man? |
A02904 | Where is the judgement of men nowe become? |
A02904 | Where is their light, where is their force? |
A02904 | Wherefore did I not looke before me? |
A02904 | Who is he that can lament, and will not lament at this? |
A02904 | Who is hee that hath not cause to resolve himselfe wholly into teares to weepe and bewaile his manifold offences? |
A02904 | Who would relie the everlasting affaires of the life to come, upon the gliding ▪ slipperinesse, and running streame of our uncertaine life? |
A02904 | Why art thou not afraid of so horrible, so certaine, and so assured perils and daungers? |
A02904 | Why doest thou not rather give credit unto faith, than to thine owne opinion and judgement? |
A02904 | Why doest thou not then discredit all other witnesses with this one assured testimonie? |
A02904 | Why dost thou then shrinke backe? |
A02904 | Why suffer you such an excellent benefit to bee wilfully lost for not taking so little paines? |
A02904 | and that thou shouldest bestow some little time of that which remaineth, to serve him, who hath given thee all that thou hast? |
A02904 | do they understand what these words import? |
A02904 | or are they peradventure persuaded, that these are onely the fables of Poets? |
A02904 | or doe they thinke, that this appertaineth not to them, orels that it was onely meant for others? |
A02904 | what art thou able to alledge for excuse of thy great negligence? |
A02904 | what thing hath been set before thine eyes, that thou hast not wantonly desired? |
A02904 | what wouldest thou have done more, if thou hadst not had any faith at all? |
A02904 | who shall bee those so fortunate and happie that are elected for thee? |
A02904 | why dost thou refuse peace and true quietnesse? |
A02904 | why dost thou refuse the gentle offers and sweet callings of thy pastor? |
A02904 | yea, Where is at the least their selfe- love, which seeketh evermore for his own profite, and is much afraid of any losse? |
A12185 | 10. and then wee may triumphantly insult with Paul, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? |
A12185 | Alas, where is the affection of love? |
A12185 | All goe together, GOD, and the things of GOD: What doe wee talke of loving GOD, and despise Christians, and Religion? |
A12185 | And can wee place it better then upon devine things, whereby we are made better our selves? |
A12185 | And have wee not more cause comparing the grounds of our affection, when wee have more then they in those times? |
A12185 | And if it bee so, what affection is answerable but admiration? |
A12185 | And is there any of us that can not say that GOD hath dealt specially in giveing them some mercie more then to others? |
A12185 | And so by way of contraries for ills, what are the greatest ills? |
A12185 | And so for sobrietie; what forceth a moderate use of all things here? |
A12185 | And so from us back againe to God, what are the things wee performe to him? |
A12185 | And what are all good actions but love well place ●? |
A12185 | And where were patience? |
A12185 | And with all to humble our selves, and to say with the Psalmist, Lord what is Man, that thon so farre considerest him? |
A12185 | And yet how many spirits edged by the Divell, oppose all that is good, and will not give way to Gods Spirit? |
A12185 | Are wee greater than Paul and Peter, the great Apostles of the Jewes and Gentiles? |
A12185 | As Saint Peter sayth, Iohn 6. when Christ asked them, Will you also forsake me? |
A12185 | As, is there not cōfort now in a litle glimpse, when God shines upon a Christians soule, when he is as it were in heaven? |
A12185 | Behold what love hath the Father shewed us, that we should bee called the sonnes of God? |
A12185 | But alas, what is it to that that they shall know? |
A12185 | But it will bee sayd by some weake conscience, how shall I know I love God, when I love the world, and worldly things? |
A12185 | But then for our soules, what food hath he for that? |
A12185 | But what affection is due and suiting to the estate of a Christian? |
A12185 | But what hath God prepared? |
A12185 | But why doth he set down any qualification at all, and not say, for Christians? |
A12185 | But why for them that love him, more than for any other thing? |
A12185 | Can a man say he loves him, whose company hee cares not for? |
A12185 | Can a man that lookes for these excellent transcendent things, be too careful of his life? |
A12185 | Could man when he was worse then dust, in a lost damned estate, think of redemption? |
A12185 | Doest thou defile thy selfe, and live in sinful courses, and hast thou this hope? |
A12185 | Doest thou love God? |
A12185 | Doest thou love God? |
A12185 | Doest thou pretend thou lovest GOD, if thou carest not for these? |
A12185 | Doest thou value thy selfe as a member of Christ, and an heire of Heaven, as a Christian above all conditions in this world? |
A12185 | Doth God delight in a meeke, broken, humble spirit? |
A12185 | Esteeme likewise carries our thoughts: Wouldest thou know what thou esteemest highly? |
A12185 | For a man to be nothing in Religion, and all that comes from him to be dead, and still- borne, to bee abortive actions who would bee in such a cafe? |
A12185 | For how could he look for love from us in a state of corruption, when the best thing in us was enmitie to him? |
A12185 | For if God had not revealed it, who could ever have devised it? |
A12185 | For if divine authority cease in the Gospel, what were it? |
A12185 | For shame, shall we be so Atheisticall? |
A12185 | For wee should begin the life of heaven, upon earth, as much as may bee; and what is that, but a blessing and praising of God? |
A12185 | For when is truth knowne, but when in particulars wee stand for it, and will neither betray it, nor do any thing that doth not benefit a Christian? |
A12185 | God hath prepared them, and he hath prepared them for those that love him; but how shall wee know that God hath prepared them for us? |
A12185 | Hast thou with Mary, made choyce of the better part? |
A12185 | Hath God set up a profession of Religion, and doe wee thinke that we must bee beholding to his, and our enemy for any base contentments? |
A12185 | How can wee love God with all our might, except as farre as our might extends our love extends? |
A12185 | How doest tho ● know thou art good? |
A12185 | How farre doth thy activitie, thy power, thy sphere, that thou canst doe any thing, stretch? |
A12185 | How shall I know I love God? |
A12185 | How shall our soules be filled at that time? |
A12185 | How shall we know whether these things be prepared for us or no? |
A12185 | Idolls of the World? |
A12185 | If a litle joy here bee so pleasant and comfortable, that it makes us forget our selves, what will bee that eternall joy there? |
A12185 | If a man should have asked them why they wold suffer their bodies to be misused thus when they might have redeemed all this with a little quiet? |
A12185 | If he should see hell open,& the terrours there, for him then to abstraine from sinne, what glory were it? |
A12185 | If the things that God hath prepared for his children, be secret and excellent, how then come we to know them at all? |
A12185 | If these excellent things in the Gospell bee secret, how come we to know them? |
A12185 | In the time of danger, whither doth thy soule run? |
A12185 | Indeed where shall a man have comfort in many passages of his life, if he finde it not in religion? |
A12185 | Is it Religious wayes, and religious company? |
A12185 | Is it not a vaine thing to looke for light from darknesse? |
A12185 | Is there such contentment in the delights of this world, that are the delights of our pilgrimage? |
A12185 | It is full of devices& inventions to please: therefore ● t thinkes, can I give consent in loving such, and such? |
A12185 | It is such an affection as sets the soule on worke to thinke, wherein may I give content to such a person? |
A12185 | It sets the minde on worke to studie, wherein shall I please God? |
A12185 | It will be objected, may we not love any thing but God, and holy things? |
A12185 | It will keepe us from all sin: what is any sin, but the abuse of love? |
A12185 | Kings prepare great matters for those they meane to advance: what shall wee thinke then God will doe for his friends? |
A12185 | Lord how doe I love thy Law? |
A12185 | May we not love the creatures at all? |
A12185 | Now the judgement apprehending God and his love to bee the best thing to make us happy, prizeth it above all, Whom have I in heaven but thee? |
A12185 | Now where these things possesse not the soule, how can wee say, that wee love God? |
A12185 | Our love is the best thing in the World, and who deserves it better then God, and Christ? |
A12185 | Shall a man thinke by a penny to merit a thousand pound, by a little performance to merit things that are above the conceit of men and Angels? |
A12185 | Shall men talke of love to GOD, and their affections are stirred up I know not whereabout? |
A12185 | Shall not wee presently disdaine any proud conceits? |
A12185 | Shall we envie when they shall shortly be turned naked out of this world to the place of torment? |
A12185 | Should not our lives be almost angecall? |
A12185 | That good woman she loved much, why? |
A12185 | The cause of it is his free love: but if you aske mee what qualification the persons must have? |
A12185 | The soule that loves God, and Christ, sayth, Is there any good people, any that carry the image of God, and Christ? |
A12185 | Therefore darke disputes of election& predestination, at the first especially, let them go: how standest thou affected to God, and to good things? |
A12185 | Thirdly, by arguing from the lesse to the greater: If peace of conscience bee so sweet here; what is eternall peace? |
A12185 | This should shame us, when they in darke times so loved the truth of GOD, and wee see all cleare and open, and yet are cold? |
A12185 | Those therfore that will part with nothing for God, nor for Religion, and the Truth, when they are called to it, doe they talke of love to GOD? |
A12185 | To let us know that religion and holinesse is a matter of power, Wouldst thou know what thou art in religion? |
A12185 | Wee can see nothing but the goodnesse of God, what is all the Creatures but Deus explicatus, God unfolded to our senses? |
A12185 | Wee have made choyce of thee, whither shall wee goe? |
A12185 | Wee see men of excellent parts are enemies to that they teach themselves, opposing the power of the Gospell: whence is all this? |
A12185 | Were it not for the joyes of heaven, where were hope? |
A12185 | What a base thing is it for a man to suffer such a sweete streame as love a holy current to run into a sinke? |
A12185 | What a shame is it, that when God hath given us such a sweet affection as love, that hee should not have our love againe? |
A12185 | What are all the Creatures, but Gods goodnesse? |
A12185 | What doe we heare but his good in those delights that come that way? |
A12185 | What doe we professe our selves? |
A12185 | What doe wee hate, but what is opposite to that we love? |
A12185 | What doest thou thinke of most, and highest? |
A12185 | What duty more necessary than to love God? |
A12185 | What enforceth the keeping of a good conscience in all things? |
A12185 | What forceth this, but the consideration of a glorious condition in another world? |
A12185 | What is the Gospel without the Spirit of Christ, to discover the minde of God to us? |
A12185 | What is the bent of thy soule? |
A12185 | What is the worke of faith? |
A12185 | What is thy choyce? |
A12185 | What is true grace, but joy, and love and delight in the best things, and all others spring from love? |
A12185 | What is wonderment? |
A12185 | What manner of men should wee be in all holy conversation, Considering what things are layd up in heavē,& we have the first fruits of them here? |
A12185 | What preparation? |
A12185 | What tho we should have of the world? |
A12185 | What will become of a man in this uncertaine world, if hee have not somewhat where hee may place his content? |
A12185 | What, did hee wonder at his love of GODS Law, when the Canon was so short? |
A12185 | When shall a man use the world, as though hee used it not? |
A12185 | Where were the exercise of faith, if it were not for hope of such an estate which feeds faith? |
A12185 | Whither goest thou man? |
A12185 | Whither should wee goe from him for contentment? |
A12185 | Who can comprehend the love of God, that gave his sonne? |
A12185 | Who could discover those things that are meerly supernaturall, but God himselfe? |
A12185 | Who would endure any thing for Christ, if it were not for a better estate afterwards? |
A12185 | Who ● nowes the things of man but the spirit of a man? |
A12185 | Why doth God reveale these things in the word? |
A12185 | Why doth he not goe to the root of all? |
A12185 | Why doth he not say, to them that believe in h ● m? |
A12185 | Why doth hee not say, For those that God loves? |
A12185 | Why not for those that God hath elected? |
A12185 | Why? |
A12185 | Why? |
A12185 | and shall we build upon the authoritie of the Church for these truthes? |
A12185 | and when are we angry, but when that we love is opposed, and wronged? |
A12185 | and who knowes the things of God, but the spirit of God? |
A12185 | but what bee these things that wee feele, and see, to those in another world, that wee can not apprehend for the greatnesse of them? |
A12185 | doest thou breake into heaven? |
A12185 | doest thou love God, and divine things, and delight in them? |
A12185 | doth God require our affections for himselfe? |
A12185 | for what is the Gospell but a revelation of such things as naturall men could never invent? |
A12185 | how can love and strangenesse stand together? |
A12185 | into a sweet place, to refresh that? |
A12185 | is it the feare of God above all things? |
A12185 | is there such contenment in holy company ● here? |
A12185 | may we not love the Creatures, because it is here specified as a note of those, that these things are prepared for those that love God? |
A12185 | must not the heart, and all be new molded againe? |
A12185 | or call upon God? |
A12185 | or call upon God? |
A12185 | or to thy friends if thou bee a worldly minded man? |
A12185 | sayth hee, Lord, whither shall wee goe? |
A12185 | shall I bee cast downe with this crosse, that have things that eye hath not seene, nor eare heard,& c. Prepared for me? |
A12185 | shall I lose all for pettie poore things, that are within my owne reach and compasse? |
A12185 | shall they merit the glory to bee revealed, that is so great that eye hath not seene,& c. What proportion is there? |
A12185 | shall wee talke of merit? |
A12185 | the great things that God hath prepared for those that he hath chosen to salvation? |
A12185 | the joyes of heaven by Christ, and the misery of hell, from which wee are delivered, and redeemed by Christ? |
A12185 | therefore how could God foresee any thing in us, when he could see nothing but enmity and darknesse in our dispositions by nature? |
A12185 | those that the eye can see, that wee can feele, and heare of, and conceive? |
A12185 | to look for love from enmity and hatred? |
A12185 | to thy purse, if thou bee a rich man? |
A12185 | what motive more effectuall than the Gospell? |
A12185 | what peculiar things are they that God hath reserved for his owne Children, for those that love him? |
A12185 | what shall there be in heaven? |
A12185 | what will become of us? |
A12185 | when thou carriest a soule in thy breast, and in that soule the affection of love, how is that set? |
A12185 | where is esteeme? |
A12185 | whether wee bee capable of these things or no? |
A12185 | which way goes that? |
A12185 | whither is the poynt of it set? |
A12185 | whither is thy love carried, and thy delight, and joy, those affections that spring from love? |
A12185 | who can comprehend the excellency of Christs gift? |
A12185 | who would turne a sweete streame into a sinke, and not rather into a garden? |
A12185 | why should wee goe out of religion to content our selves in ● vain recreations& pleasures of sinne for a season, when wee have abundance in God? |
A60608 | ( saith Salvian, speaking of Good men) they are pleased, and can approve their present fortune: Are they made contemptible? |
A60608 | * Cur duos Scipiones Poenus oppressit? |
A60608 | 243 Reasons for it, why? |
A60608 | 52 L. Learning 125 M. Miseries of Mankind represented 288 From God; why? |
A60608 | A company of poor outward things, so transient, so apt to change? |
A60608 | And Is there not( say they) the same Necessity for the one, as for the other, against the Atheist''s Pretentions? |
A60608 | And if so, then( I say) Can not Mankind in general be said to be subject to them, and afflicted by them, under the meer notion of Punishments? |
A60608 | And if so, what kind of certainty can such men presume upon to encourage them in this undertaking, for their own sufficient happiness in this World? |
A60608 | And in many cases are they not observ''d to meet even harder usages than those that be enormously vitious? |
A60608 | And now I appeal to any Theistical mind to tell me, Whence can all this be? |
A60608 | And then how is God concern''d in such fatal miscarriages? |
A60608 | And then, Do not the reason of the sad mention''d intolerable consequence recurr? |
A60608 | And then, Why may not we as reasonably have the same Thoughts of a Wise and Merciful GOD, as to the case in hand? |
A60608 | And upon the same account, comforting Martia, greatly afflicted for the Death of her Son, he could then say, Why run you to his Sepulchre? |
A60608 | And, What imperious Proprietors will their Children be apt to make themselves, in their decaying Parents Houses and Fortunes? |
A60608 | And, Wherefore boldest Thou thy tongue( saith the Other) when the Wicked devoureth the man that is more Righteous than he? |
A60608 | And, do they not pass along in their mortal Durations, with the same severe circumstances of natural Troubles, and sad Accidents, as other men? |
A60608 | Anne ipse privilegium impetravi ab invidia& avaritia, inexorabilibus tyrannis? |
A60608 | Are they not as afflictively sick, poor, and old? |
A60608 | Are they poor? |
A60608 | As when he saith,* Why did the Carthaginian oppress the two Scipio''s? |
A60608 | As, Why does the way of the Wicked prosper? |
A60608 | At si inutile ministeriis est corpus, quidni oporteat educere animunm laborantem? |
A60608 | Belief of a Deity 213 C. Conscience of Evils 16 Contemplation 143 Chiefest Good 406 Covetousness 115 D. Dead- Mens Future State conceal''d, and why? |
A60608 | But what saith the Heathen world to all this? |
A60608 | Can it give the Mind a Beatitude, without its own allowance or consent? |
A60608 | Cur Hannibal Marcellum interemit? |
A60608 | Cur iniquis potestatibus universa succumbunt? |
A60608 | Cur inter nos quoque sors bonorum durior, quam malorum? |
A60608 | Cur probi jacent, improbi convalescunt? |
A60608 | En quid amicum paro? |
A60608 | How much less than a man was he in the one, and how much more than an ordinary Saint in the other? |
A60608 | I say, Where things are thus insecure, What considering Mind can suggest a Reason of being Happy by any the greatest Enjoyments? |
A60608 | I say, when these various cases happen, What''s then become of that Reward, or that which is Tropically like it? |
A60608 | If he did believe it, with what Integrity could he so often express himself to the contrary? |
A60608 | If he did not believe it, Why did he deal so insincerely with Apollonius, as to put him upon such a delusive hope in his distress? |
A60608 | If there were no such thing as a Real Friendship in the world, what entertainment would a false, and a barely- pretended kindness obtain? |
A60608 | In short, Can that be a man''s sufficient Happiness, of whose enjoyment he can not be one hour secure? |
A60608 | Or did ever any skilful Person pretend to give any such infallible rules of it, as might be universally accommodable? |
A60608 | Or, Can the Mind have satisfaction, and be unsatisfy''d at the same time? |
A60608 | Pauperes sunt? |
A60608 | Proh dii immortales Quam obtabiliter iter illu ineundum, quam jucundur esse debet, quo confecto, nulla reliqua cura, nulla so licitudo futura sit? |
A60608 | Quae enim potest in vita esse jucunditas, quum dies& noctes cogitandum sit, jam jamque esse moriendum? |
A60608 | Quando Leoni Fortior cripuit vitam Leo? |
A60608 | Quid ergo expiationes, procurationes ▪ que, quo pertinent si immutabilia sunt Fata? |
A60608 | Quid homini inamicissimus? |
A60608 | Quid opus est partes deslere? |
A60608 | Quî fit, O Mecaenas, ut nemo quam sibisortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fo rs objecerit, illâ Contentus vivat? |
A60608 | Retirement in order to a quiet Life: Can it secure a man from all the effects of contempt, the certain attendant of a design''d privacy? |
A60608 | Shall such obscure senses, that are so easily deceived? |
A60608 | Si totum quod in hoc mundo; est curae& gubernaculo& indicio Dei; Cur melior multo sit Barbarorum conditio, quam nostra? |
A60608 | They can despise Honour: Are they sorrowful? |
A60608 | They can rejoice in their Mourning: Are they infirm and sick? |
A60608 | This the last difficulty: but Why did GOD permit all this? |
A60608 | What Power can stem such a strong Tide? |
A60608 | What Science is it, that was ever yet believed by the judicious to be brought to any tolerable perfection? |
A60608 | What a Gratification and Pleasure would the thought of this be to every rational Enemy of Mankind? |
A60608 | What can be added more to compleat his misery? |
A60608 | What man can be certain of enjoying one hours Health more, or of Bread for another daies subsistence, or of his very Life for three moments to come? |
A60608 | What privilege can I claim against the devouring Tyranny of the Covetous, and the Envious( saith Neirembergius)? |
A60608 | What shall I say of the Cares and uneasy Affairs of the Rich and Great, to support an empty show in the world? |
A60608 | What shouldst thou desire, but a present Annihilation or Transition? |
A60608 | When shall he die, and his Name perish? |
A60608 | Who can without a passion behold how much a stranger a poor old Father and Mother are sometimes made to their own Estates and Circumstances? |
A60608 | Why did Hannibal prevail upon Marcellus and kill him? |
A60608 | Why do the Good meet a harder portion in this Life, than those that are Wicked? |
A60608 | and can any Argument be reasonably thence deduced, to bring the Truth of the Religion they abuse into question? |
A60608 | how sweet is that Journey,( speaking of Dying) which being ended, all cares and troubles shall be determined and finished? |
A60608 | in common Miseries as well as the Evil? |
A60608 | lugere gestiunt: In honori sunt? |
A60608 | or can a Box of writings or a Chest defend their Wealth from the harassings of War, and all other the common accidents of humane Life? |
A60608 | or how can a created moral Agent be so accounted either by God or Man upon such an omission? |
A60608 | or what influence had it upon their minds? |
A60608 | or, How comes it to pass that it should be so? |
A60608 | paupertati delectant: Lugent? |
A60608 | quo nemore unquam Expiravit Aper majoris dentibus Apri? |
A60608 | shall a little soul, that knows not it self? |
A60608 | shall a vain and empty Name and Glory? |
A60608 | the First? |
A60608 | wherefore are they happy, that deal Treacherously? |
A65777 | After this can I love any thing but my Lord JESUS CHRIST? |
A65777 | Alas, I who was not, what could I love? |
A65777 | Alas, what do I talk of Men? |
A65777 | And by what vertue think we, is this strange wonder wrought, but that musick is to our inward, as dancing or running to our outward parts? |
A65777 | And canst thou, my Soul, after this, think any Crosse heavy, and affliction hard to endure? |
A65777 | And do you think God is displeased so highly with you, your self using all this care and diligence? |
A65777 | And do you think that the common desire of Knowing is a Passion of so triviall a consequence? |
A65777 | And how far reaches this operation? |
A65777 | And if the very next Aire to that which enters into your body be different, can that which enters be the same? |
A65777 | And if we love any thing more then it is amiable, do you think that love is reasonable? |
A65777 | And is it not reasonable that every lovely thing should be lov''d? |
A65777 | And is this more, perhaps, then that thy immortall flesh should nourish my mortall Carcase? |
A65777 | And when these things are in their perfection, can you tell what it is that therein delights you? |
A65777 | And why all this; this ingenious cruelty, to disguise a poor Man into so monstrous an Object of disdainfull Malice? |
A65777 | And why do you not mention too the feign''d Histories& Romances which the world is full of? |
A65777 | And why do you not reflect that Celestiall spirits are able to attend all things at once? |
A65777 | And why( if you have reflected upon it) is it troublesome to have overhearers of your discourse? |
A65777 | Are heavenly affections subject to change? |
A65777 | Art thou daunted at the sight of danger? |
A65777 | But above all, what can be so ravishing, as to understand we are in the direct path towards those great felicities promised us in the next life? |
A65777 | But at least, shall the Soul then participate by the Body such pleasures, as now she does by her senses? |
A65777 | But how then can he say not mine, of that which he will have done? |
A65777 | But is there no further admittance( O glorious King of Love) for those who have so happily enter''d thy Palace? |
A65777 | But is there no remedy for this distressed Soul? |
A65777 | But shall I see then whatever I will, of all that passes in this world? |
A65777 | But what will you think, if every one hath as cleare a sight of all your circumstances, as your own heart? |
A65777 | But what wofull spectacle is that Pilate presents to the People, which causes so great and loud cries? |
A65777 | But whence comes it( my dearest Lord) that those, whom thou scourgest with greatest severity, are most obedient to thy commands? |
A65777 | But whither am I straid? |
A65777 | But why do I cry and murmure? |
A65777 | But why then didst Thou set set thine Eye upon me, preferring this wretch before so many thousands? |
A65777 | But, Is He Purely Loving, and has no Ends in all He does? |
A65777 | But, is it possible that all these great knowledges shall fall to my share, if I come to Heaven? |
A65777 | But, why did I ask whether I was better then others? |
A65777 | Can Angels boast of such priviledges, of such tendernesses, of such Extasies of Thy love? |
A65777 | Can there be a more reasonable desire? |
A65777 | Can two things in any respect unlike one another, proceed from the same causes in no respect differing from one another? |
A65777 | Can you wish for more? |
A65777 | Did you never observe, when some hard businesse has been explicated, according as you understood it or not, you would say, you had it or had it not? |
A65777 | Do you hurt him, when you offend him? |
A65777 | Do you then believe he is in heart vext and griev''d, as we are, when we are angry? |
A65777 | Do you therefore remember the answer our Saviour gave to the Sadduces concerning Marriage in the next world? |
A65777 | Do you, peradventure, doubt whether you shall be partaker of the sight of God? |
A65777 | Does Man''s Hand break the Body of my Saviour? |
A65777 | Father and Mother, Brothers and Sisters, Kinsfolk and Friends, what is''t you have done for me? |
A65777 | First what''s His Extraction? |
A65777 | For if it be onely in this Negative, why should that be promised for a happiness? |
A65777 | HItherto it goes well, but in so great a happinesse and so glorious a State, is there but one content? |
A65777 | Health and Pleasure, Riches and Honour, what charmes have you comparable to this ravishing object of love? |
A65777 | How can he choose, I offending him so perpetually? |
A65777 | How can this be? |
A65777 | How easily the comparison of this world misleads you in the estimation of the next? |
A65777 | How the beating of divers weights and figures upon our senses, can beget the skill of knowing all things? |
A65777 | How truly spake he that said, I know my self a Man, that is, a proud and yet a wretched thing? |
A65777 | I have often felt such a thought passe within me, but what do you inferre from thence? |
A65777 | In fine, what lamenesse were it in Almighty God, to have his will more ample then his understanding could direct? |
A65777 | Is He Bountifull and magnificent? |
A65777 | Is He Noble and of an ancient race? |
A65777 | Is He powerfull? |
A65777 | Is He rich? |
A65777 | Is it possible you can not endure to be belov''d beyond your desert? |
A65777 | Looke well into the causes of your body: Doe you thinke the Aire contributes nothing? |
A65777 | Manna raining from Heaven for those that can get to the shoar of that former Red Sea of loves flouds? |
A65777 | Might I be the cause why my Mother& Nurses fed me as soon with wholesome Doctrine as with their Milk? |
A65777 | My Father has promis''d, can he deny himself? |
A65777 | Nay, even amongst those who are sincere and cordiall friends, how soon may therebe a change? |
A65777 | O Eternall Wisdome, how truly didst Thou say, It was thy delight to be with the Sons of Men? |
A65777 | O ill- requited Master? |
A65777 | O my God, what do I see? |
A65777 | O when will the happy day come, that I shall sit at this Fountain- head, and not need with pain to draw the water of pleasure? |
A65777 | Peradventure, did I love Thee? |
A65777 | Plants more wondrous then these: who can choose but be delighted to see a little Flower or Meal hidden in the earth, and peep out again? |
A65777 | Quid mihi est in coelo;& à te quid volui super terram? |
A65777 | See you not that other Histories and these are of one nature, though of different fashions? |
A65777 | Shall I fear that I am not in state to receive his Body, when the very preparing my self, and having a true will to go meet Him, puts me in state? |
A65777 | Shall I for ever apprehend my past sinnes, still in fear whether they are forgiven? |
A65777 | Shall I not rather, in the very moment of terrour, turn me to Him, of whose readinesse to receive me I can not doubt? |
A65777 | Shall I seek into the rationall Soul? |
A65777 | Shall I seek outward Medicines for my wounds, whose ulcerousnesse onely consists in bereaving me of Love? |
A65777 | Shall then, the friendship or love of any Creature have power to draw my affection from God? |
A65777 | Tell me then, what is it that pleases you in all these things? |
A65777 | Then I must employ my time in gaining knowledge, and governing my self according to it; but what should I seek to know? |
A65777 | Then is all corporeall pleasure to be left with this world? |
A65777 | Think you not these excellent witts found great pleasure in their contemplations? |
A65777 | Thou invitest us to come to thee, shall this be our entertainment? |
A65777 | Was I mightier or richer then they? |
A65777 | Was I nobler or more excellent then they? |
A65777 | Was it for this thou wert nurst by the purest of Women, and carried in the hands of Angels, lest thou shouldst at any time offend thy tender feet? |
A65777 | Was it for this thy body was fitted to thee of Virgin- bloud, untoucht by men and Angels? |
A65777 | Was my Wit or Parts beyond others? |
A65777 | Well then, do you take pleasure in company of friends with whom you can be free? |
A65777 | What Court, what Maske, what Shew can feign or counterfit so much, as Heaven will afford you reall objects to be ravished with? |
A65777 | What could''st thou see in me, dread Lord, that might move thy will to select me from that Masse of non- Entity? |
A65777 | What do I say, as truly: and not, even, more: in a far more excellent manner? |
A65777 | What do you now conceit of the base love of this world? |
A65777 | What dost expect, if this be not enough to set thee on fire? |
A65777 | What excuse can we alledge against the dreadfull Nescio Vos? |
A65777 | What fair gilt door is that which dazzles so my sight to look on? |
A65777 | What may be the reason of this incredible excesse? |
A65777 | What miserable penurious blasts are these to blow the coals of Love? |
A65777 | What more extravagant then to think that the will, which can not swerve from doing the best, should work without a best? |
A65777 | What must I do to redresse the disorder of my soul? |
A65777 | What need I say Yes, to you that know better then my self the most hidden thoughts of my heart? |
A65777 | What pretence can we offer to be placed on the right? |
A65777 | What shall I say of Christ and his Apostles, of Bishops, Martyrs and Hermites? |
A65777 | What shall I say to you? |
A65777 | What should set two Armes, two Legs, two Eyes, just such a number of Fingers and Toes upon every man? |
A65777 | What then canst thou say? |
A65777 | What think you then, where reason( as I asked before) is in full height, can any thing there be omitted which is reasonable to be done? |
A65777 | What think you? |
A65777 | What would you have? |
A65777 | What''s this I see on that once- comely visage? |
A65777 | When shall I arrive at this sweet ravishment and extasie? |
A65777 | When you go to these Maskes and great meetings, do you not take pleasure to be seen, as well as to see what passes there? |
A65777 | Where is then the God of Elias? |
A65777 | Wherein do you conceive the likenesse to Angels consists? |
A65777 | Whereof what variety, my soul, hast thou from thy God? |
A65777 | Who commands the Sea- men to burn under the Equator, and freeze by the Poles, to replenish me with Dainties? |
A65777 | Who has not heard that it discharges the venome of the Tarantula in Apulia? |
A65777 | Why am I good by half''s, since I am entirely thy Designe? |
A65777 | Why do I moan, to whom there is left neither rest in this world, nor hope in the next? |
A65777 | Why do you offend him so often? |
A65777 | Why dost Thou not either suspend thy mercies, or make us more sensible of our duties? |
A65777 | Why dost thou moane so pittifully? |
A65777 | Why permittest Thou so unsufferable ingratitude? |
A65777 | Why should you fear the lesse, if you be sure of the greater? |
A65777 | Why then is one of them his, the other his Fathers? |
A65777 | Why, do you conceive that God can command any unreasonable thing, especially there, where reason is in it''s perfection? |
A65777 | Why, take away this, and anger is nothing but a will to punish you; and can you think God hath such a will? |
A65777 | With all this, is he wise? |
A65777 | Yet let me say one thing more: Can you conceive how in a Bean or Acorn, or a Mustard- seed, lies the Herb or Tree which we see spring out of them? |
A65777 | a more cleer and confident subject of hope? |
A65777 | a more violent and enforcing cry to heaven? |
A65777 | and if any person have any lovelinesse, that there should be a poize and proportion of love for every grain of it in him? |
A65777 | and in plain truth be Reliques of Him, of His glorious Flesh and immortall Bloud? |
A65777 | and see the union of the two worlds? |
A65777 | are any two things exactly like one another? |
A65777 | are the Heavens become of Iron, that no drop of dew can distill down to refresh a languishing Soul? |
A65777 | are the eternall springs of Libanus dryed up? |
A65777 | are thy bowels of mercy petrifyed into Adamant? |
A65777 | can I conceive without trembling, or speak without horrour? |
A65777 | can I love any thing but the Love of my blessed SAVIOUR? |
A65777 | can there be a more unquestionable plea? |
A65777 | canst thou chuse but be vexed and enraged at thy Flesh and Blood, which, against all evidence, will force thee to esteem unfortunatenesse an Evil? |
A65777 | canst thou love, or expresse it, beyond this? |
A65777 | do Mans teeth rend and mangle the Sacred vesture of Deity? |
A65777 | do Starres encrease and wane like sublunary meteors? |
A65777 | do you not hear them set for Governours of corporeall things, even men deliver''d to their charge? |
A65777 | does not the excesse of thy griefs disturb a little thy memory? |
A65777 | find you no delight in them? |
A65777 | hast thou deliberately reflected on the force and consequence of those strange engaging words? |
A65777 | here I do nothing but offend my God, and there what can I expect, but a just Judge of my perpetuall offences? |
A65777 | how can I counterfeit to the Light, which shines into every corner of my Conscience, and shewes my self so cleerly to me? |
A65777 | how can a poor heart frame such a variety of Members as are necessary to the perfect body of a man? |
A65777 | how can we chuse but have a share of Him perpetually in us? |
A65777 | how undutifull a disobedience is this, in respect of the obsequious service tender''d him at his baptisme? |
A65777 | is the face of Death so frightfull to thee? |
A65777 | is this the fruit of all thy teachings? |
A65777 | is this the profit of all those stupendious wonders thou hast done before them? |
A65777 | is this the reward for all thy benefits? |
A65777 | must he alone tread the winepresse of sour grapes, alone drink of this bitter Cup? |
A65777 | my Father is all Truth, dare I offer to falsifie his Word? |
A65777 | my Father is essentially Goodnesse, can I make him go lesse? |
A65777 | of the love of Dogs and Birds? |
A65777 | or brought I my self to believe and hope in Thee; to love Thee, and those Rewards thou hast prepar''d for them that follow thee? |
A65777 | or search the Conduits and passages by which knowledge is conveyed through the Body to the Spirit? |
A65777 | or that any one by his command can love you more then himself does? |
A65777 | or wherein consists the due ordering of it? |
A65777 | so, deserving preferrence; since I have or can have no good, but from Thee? |
A65777 | that it is mingled with Mine, as Wine with Water; as two melted Waxes incorporate themselves? |
A65777 | then, still to mount up higher to the never- bodied Spirits, and see their Being, their Natures, their Operations, their Quires, their Hierarchies? |
A65777 | to what a point hast Thou let me be brought?) |
A65777 | upon what slight grounds perhaps took they this opinion? |
A65777 | was''t I that led me to a liking of the true Religion, that only Path of Heaven? |
A65777 | what bitter- sweets must they of necessity cause? |
A65777 | what can it imagine greater? |
A65777 | what can you desire more? |
A65777 | what goods have you wisht me? |
A65777 | what means this unusuall strife& contention in thy own brest? |
A65777 | what more delightsome, then to enjoy a clear serenity of mind, free from those errours we see our Neighbours tossed and turmoyl''d in? |
A65777 | what must thou do to assure thy chief interest, and make thy self secure Mistresse of so great, so glorious pretensions? |
A65777 | what of the so fruitfull devouter Sexe? |
A65777 | what proportion do they bear to Thy wealth? |
A65777 | what should make it spring and shoot out into other vitall parts? |
A65777 | what then must thou do, my poor Soul, wavering yet betwixt hope and fear of these so important contraryes? |
A65777 | what wishes can you make to deserve the least share in my Affection? |
A65777 | what''s this my eyes behold? |
A65777 | who set the multitudes of unhappy Creatures, buried in the bowels of Metallick Hills, and consumed in the Marishes of Brasil, to labour for me? |
A65777 | who was ever mov''d to so difficult undertakings, by any worldly designe? |
A65777 | why did my Mother rejoyce to hear me cry, and to receive the newes that I was a living Soul? |
A65777 | why they prepar''d Priests& Masters to guide& frame my tender Age? |
A65777 | why was I born to see the Sun? |
A65777 | why? |
A65777 | would you be the Center of this great Circumference? |
A65777 | would you have nothing done, but you should have a share in''t? |
A43583 | ''t is said, that Hezekiah wept sore: Why so? |
A43583 | Affliction is Gods Physick, which makes sick, but prepares for sweet health; and shall we frustrate Gods ends in this also? |
A43583 | Ah, Sirs, what think you? |
A43583 | Alas what have any of us, but what we have received? |
A43583 | Alas, Sirs, is Eternity nothing with you? |
A43583 | Alas, what Merit, either of congruity or condignity, can there be in Man to obtain Heaven? |
A43583 | Alas, what is Heaven to us unless we be fit for it? |
A43583 | Alas, what loveliness could God see or foresee in us to make us Children, then heirs of God, joynt- heirs with Christ? |
A43583 | Alas, what should a Fool do with a great Estate? |
A43583 | Alas, will you trust the Fiend of Hell to bring you to Heaven? |
A43583 | Am I an adopted child of God? |
A43583 | Am I converted to God, and brought through the pangs of regeneration? |
A43583 | Am I justified? |
A43583 | And are not they fools that trust these, and will not try by the word what they affirm? |
A43583 | And are these think you, fit for this Heavenly imployment to all Eternity? |
A43583 | And are you content to do so in temporals? |
A43583 | And are you not certain whether you do enter by death into eternal happiness or misery, and yet can you be quiet? |
A43583 | And can we have that comfort and confidence in meeting the Bridegroom of our Souls as is fit? |
A43583 | And can we think God will carry them to Heaven that never struck a right stroke, or never did one hours work for God, that he would accept? |
A43583 | And can you think to escape the strict tryal of the omniscient God? |
A43583 | And have not such dayes and duties been solemn heart- melting opportunities? |
A43583 | And have you solemnly and faithfully tryed your title to Heaven? |
A43583 | And have you the Spirit of his Son in your hearts to cry Abba Father? |
A43583 | And if God glorifie his Justice in thy confusion, thy mouth is stopped, and thou must justifie him for ever with flames about thine Eares? |
A43583 | And if thou be conscious of giving them just occasion, thou confessest thy fault and humblest thy self to them? |
A43583 | And if you feel unruly motions, can you pray them down, and through grace calm them? |
A43583 | And indeed to what purpose should they or we live, when our work is done? |
A43583 | And is not every Mercy sweetened by thankfulness? |
A43583 | And is not thankfulness a natural duty? |
A43583 | And must he falsifie his word to gratifie you? |
A43583 | And the Haven to the weather- beaten Mariner? |
A43583 | And this thou canst truly say, that God is more thy exceeding joy, and Christ more precious to thy Soul then ever? |
A43583 | And thou canst not be quiet till thou seekest Reconciliation? |
A43583 | And what bold intruder art thou, that darest expect to claim such an Inheritance as Heaven without the relation of a Son? |
A43583 | And will you madly venture your immortal Souls on such grounds as you dare not try? |
A43583 | Are Heaven and Hell bug- bears, or meer imaginations of brain- sick fools? |
A43583 | Are not thy affections more spiritualized towards dearest Relations? |
A43583 | Are not your hearts treacherous? |
A43583 | Are we not ashamed of our loytering and lagging behind? |
A43583 | Are you for Heaven or Hell? |
A43583 | Are you not more endeared to Saints as Saints, though poor, or disobliging, and of a different perswasion? |
A43583 | Art thou a child of God or a child of the Devil? |
A43583 | Art thou not more glad when corruptions are mortified then gratified? |
A43583 | Art thou not more taken up with Gods Mercies, to give him the glory of them, then any personal content thou hast in them? |
A43583 | Besides, I stand upon habitual meetness chiefly: What art thou man in point of state? |
A43583 | But I said, how shall I put thee among the Children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of Nations? |
A43583 | But how come they by this high Honour? |
A43583 | But if there be no such change,( as I doubt there is not) how can I be quiet? |
A43583 | But is this a making meet for Heaven or Hell? |
A43583 | But was not dying upon the Cross for the sins of Men a principal piece of Christs work? |
A43583 | But what are we better unless we be partners of this priviledge? |
A43583 | But what is the marrow and main design of this Gospel- revelation? |
A43583 | But what proportion can the best Services of the best Men bear to this Eternal Reward? |
A43583 | But you will say, is none meet for Heaven but such as have assurance? |
A43583 | Can I follow the Rules and prescriptions that my Lord hath laid down; To deny my self, take up his Cross and follow him? |
A43583 | Can rational persons think to escape the ditch by winking? |
A43583 | Can the sin- revenging God and the guilty sinner hold intimate correspondence till they be reconciled? |
A43583 | Can these poor fig- leaves of temporary Righteousness secure you from divine Vengeance? |
A43583 | Can you be content to stand by that another day, that you dare not put to the tryal here? |
A43583 | Can you charm a Beast with Musick? |
A43583 | Can you imagine God will deface or lay aside his immaculate Holiness, to take you from the Swine- sty into his holy Sanctuary? |
A43583 | Can you imagine that our Lord Jesus( who is the door- keeper keeper of Heaven) will admit any but those that he saith he will entertain? |
A43583 | Can you not sink your selves low enough? |
A43583 | Can you think to wrest Heaven out of Gods hands whether he will or not? |
A43583 | Canst thou not more rejoyce in the gifts, graces, holiness, usefulness of others, though it obscure thine? |
A43583 | Committing all to God, thou findest provisions have been strangely made? |
A43583 | Consider sinner, whose word shall stand? |
A43583 | Dare you so directly contradict our blessed Saviour, and give him the lye? |
A43583 | Dearly Beloved, A Desire after Happiness is so ingraven in the Nature of Man, that it was never put to the debate, whether he would be happy or no? |
A43583 | Death it self is the day break of eternal brightness to the Child of God; and is not this worth thanking God for? |
A43583 | Discriminating kindnesses call for the greatest gratitude: What did God see in any of us that might procure for us Heaven? |
A43583 | Do not publick concerns of Church or Nation lye nearer thy heart daily? |
A43583 | Do not your hearts eccho back, with your[ probatum est] setting your seal to these things? |
A43583 | Do those graces within me answer the characters of such in the Scriptures? |
A43583 | Do we not bring dishonour to God, and discredit to our Religion by our backwardness? |
A43583 | Do you fill up every vacancy with some useful business for Earth or Heaven? |
A43583 | Do you not daily depend on God for new Mercies? |
A43583 | Do you not more concern your selves for the Souls of Relations and others in Prayer and Discourse? |
A43583 | Do you spend your time better then formerly? |
A43583 | Do you think such dirty dogs shall ever trample on this golden pavement? |
A43583 | Do you think there is such a thing as a groundless presumption, or rotten hope that will give up the ghost? |
A43583 | Dost thou not account thy self the greatest of Sinners, least of Saints, and by the grace of God thou art what thou art? |
A43583 | Dost thou not delight now in what thou didst disdain? |
A43583 | Dost thou not love them in the Lord, and the Lord in them, and canst freely part with them upon Gods call? |
A43583 | Dost thou not more sensibly understand the sweet life of faith in temporals? |
A43583 | Doth my Soul eccho to the experiences of Saints in the word of God? |
A43583 | Doth not our slavish fear of death shew thee? |
A43583 | Doth not the sense of divine love extort from you more tears of godly sorrow, and more vehement hatred of all sin, purely it is offensive to God? |
A43583 | Drawing out bowels of compassion for and to such as are fallen? |
A43583 | Give diligence to make your Calling and Election sure: And what then? |
A43583 | God is merciful, but he is also just; Christ dyed for sinners, but do you imagine all shall be saved by him? |
A43583 | Gods or thine? |
A43583 | Hast thou not changed thy company, courses, manner of life? |
A43583 | Hast thou not experienced a change from Nature to Grace, from Death to Life? |
A43583 | Hast thou not learned more faithfully and discreetly to manage the duty of private admonition of an offending Christian? |
A43583 | Hast thou not seen thy woful state by Nature? |
A43583 | Hast thou not the things that accompany Salvation? |
A43583 | Hast thou that renovation that necessarily accompanies Salvation? |
A43583 | Hath Christ come into the world to no purpose? |
A43583 | Hath he not told us in his infallible word who shall be saved, and who shall be damned; and will you believe God or your own self deluding hearts? |
A43583 | Hath not God been dealing with thy heart, as he useth to deal with such as he designs for Heaven? |
A43583 | Hath not God helpt you to be dispatching your work off your hands, Spiritual, Temporal, Relative and Publick? |
A43583 | Hath not this new birth cost thee griefs and groans, prayers and tears? |
A43583 | Hath not your Faith been more vigorous in its actings upon your dear Lord? |
A43583 | Have I made a covenant with God, and taken God for my God, and given my self to him? |
A43583 | Have I the essential characters of a Christian? |
A43583 | Have not many young ones and others out- stript us, and are got to Heaven, that set out after us? |
A43583 | Have they a good Title to it? |
A43583 | Have we any greater matters to mind? |
A43583 | Have you not been more constant and inlarged in the duty of secret Prayer, with shorter intermissions and more favouriness? |
A43583 | Have you not been more frequent and serious in renewing your Covenant with God? |
A43583 | Have you not got power over your Passions, to regulate them? |
A43583 | Have you not more incomes of grace and assistance in duties both as to matter and manner? |
A43583 | Have you not taken all for granted without a serious proving of your state, meerly because you would have it so? |
A43583 | How can they dispatch their work, that never begun it to purpose? |
A43583 | How can they evidence a title to Heaven that have none? |
A43583 | How can you own God in the next strait, that are so much in arrears? |
A43583 | How do men thankfully celebrate Christs Nativity? |
A43583 | How is it that thou wilt manifest thy self to us, and not unto the world? |
A43583 | How is that? |
A43583 | How is that? |
A43583 | How long Lord, shall my Soul be at a distance from thee? |
A43583 | How sweet is home to the weary Traveller? |
A43583 | How uncertain about our Title to this Inheritance? |
A43583 | I Answer, in general it must be supposed that you have a title, which is your habitual meetness, or else how can you be assured of it? |
A43583 | I may find rest? |
A43583 | If I be, when or how did my Soul pass through the pangs of the new birth? |
A43583 | If I should come to you one by one, and pose you with this solemn question, Friends whither bound? |
A43583 | If drink be so refreshing to the thirsty soul, oh how sweet are those rivers of pleasures? |
A43583 | If it be so pleasant for the Eyes to behold the Sun, how amiable is the Son of Righteousness? |
A43583 | If it be uncomfortable to us, it will be unprofitable to you? |
A43583 | If thou think any body is offended by thee, is it not more a real trouble to thee then formerly? |
A43583 | If you say Soul take thine case, and God say, Devil take his Soul: Whether of these think you, will prevail? |
A43583 | Impenitency to your sin? |
A43583 | In closing more fully with promises? |
A43583 | Is he grown so full of charity to Souls? |
A43583 | Is it not more the grief of thy heart when God is dishonoured, his Spirit grieved, his Gospel reproached by the sins of profane or professours? |
A43583 | Is not gratitude for Spiritual Mercies, a great evidence of your interest in them? |
A43583 | Is not the Devil a cheat? |
A43583 | Is not the Heavenly Inheritance Gods own to give? |
A43583 | Is not thy heart daily more weary of the world, and longing for Heaven? |
A43583 | Is not thy principle, rule, end, otherwise then formerly? |
A43583 | Is not your Repentance more Evangelical? |
A43583 | Is security your best fence against misery? |
A43583 | Is the infinite all- seeing God grown so weak or blind that you can couzen or conquer him? |
A43583 | Is there an Heaven or Hell after this life, or is there not? |
A43583 | Is there not a reality in Satans temptations, to draw or drive us from God and future happiness? |
A43583 | It s not as I say, or you say, but as God himself saith; do I say any thing but what the holy God saith in the Bible? |
A43583 | Let us be ashamed of our slackness; what have we been doing with all that time, these helps and priviledges we have had? |
A43583 | Let us be glad and rejoyce, and give honour to him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his Wife hath made her self ready: But how is she ready? |
A43583 | May not all be cleansed alike then? |
A43583 | Must our sweat and labour be in vain? |
A43583 | Must the Earth be forsaken for thee? |
A43583 | Must the immutable God falsifie his word to save chee against his will, yea, against thy will? |
A43583 | Must these be par- boilings for everlasting burnings? |
A43583 | Must you needs add drunkenness to thirst? |
A43583 | My grand enquiry is, what must I do to be saved? |
A43583 | Nay can you be content with an Hell in both worlds? |
A43583 | Nay is not this a mean to continue them? |
A43583 | Nay, what did he not see in us to turn his stomach against us? |
A43583 | Now, Sirs, consider, shall you receive this grace of God in vain? |
A43583 | O Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? |
A43583 | O grave where is thy victory? |
A43583 | O no, it will never be: Heaven and Hell will as soon joyn as God and an unregenerate sinner: Will the holy God take such vipers into his bosom? |
A43583 | O saith the Christian, what shall I do with this untoward heart? |
A43583 | O saith the believing Soul, if meat be so sweet to an hungry stomach, how much more excellent is Gods loving kindness? |
A43583 | Object against it and disprove it; but must not the Word of God judge you another day? |
A43583 | Oh Sirs, do you know what Heaven is? |
A43583 | Oh Sirs, if you should but look down into that stupendious gulf, what a change would it work in your hearts? |
A43583 | Oh how unmeet am I for this glorious state or high honour? |
A43583 | Oh this word for ever is amazing, A godly man in company sate in a deep muse, and being demanded what he was thinking of? |
A43583 | Or are there no Devils or Spirits, and so by consequence no God? |
A43583 | Or be mortified to things below, that have their portion in this present life, were never divorced from their lusts, and have no treasure above? |
A43583 | Or can you bribe him to let you in with fair words or large gifts? |
A43583 | Or can you bring him to your melody, or make him keep time with your skilful quire? |
A43583 | Or dare you stand to plead in his face that you are qualified and meet for Heaven, when he tells you, that you are not? |
A43583 | Or do you think he will admit those that he saith he will keep out? |
A43583 | Or do you think that the gates of Heaven are as wide as the gates of Hell, or that as many shall be saved as damned? |
A43583 | Or give this Inheritance of Saints to the Devils slaves? |
A43583 | Or within us what preparation for Heaven? |
A43583 | Our Lord himself, cryed dying, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
A43583 | Peat your fingers off from the world? |
A43583 | Say with Calvin,[ Vsquequo Domine?] |
A43583 | Shall all the Ordinances be lost upon you? |
A43583 | Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee? |
A43583 | Shall you not be there soon enough? |
A43583 | Tell not me that thou hast done this or that good work, but art thou savingly converted from sin to God? |
A43583 | That I have done this or that? |
A43583 | The former is like some high Mountains, that are above Storms and Clouds, as they say Olympus is clear and beautiful? |
A43583 | The necessity of Christ and grace? |
A43583 | Then what shall a poor doubting Soul say of it self, that is dark, and much discouraged as many a good Soul is? |
A43583 | There''s holy company above of Saints, but they can not abide to be near them on Earth, how then can they like to be associated to them in Heaven? |
A43583 | These are the astonishing thoughts of a poor doubtful dying Soul: And is this Man meet for Heaven? |
A43583 | This is Gods way to get assurance: Have I the conditions of Gospel- promises, Faith and Repentance? |
A43583 | This is a pitiful ruinous Cottage, when shall I be brought into the Kings Pallace? |
A43583 | This new Jerusalem is built all of Free- stone, and shall not our shoutings echo, grace, grace to the Head- stone, Jesus Christ? |
A43583 | To knit your minds, and raise your affections to God, and sometimes suggest words to you? |
A43583 | Upon what terms stand I for another world? |
A43583 | VVhat is Heaven but the injoyment of God? |
A43583 | Was not Hezekiah a Godly Man? |
A43583 | Was not his Soul in a readiness for death? |
A43583 | Weaken your corruptions, and purge and furbish your Souls, as vessels for the high shelf of glory? |
A43583 | What Conceptions ought we to have of the blessed God? |
A43583 | What beast will run into a pit or praecipice? |
A43583 | What can I do? |
A43583 | What cleanly person can endure to have a filthy swine a bed and board with him in his Parlour or Bed- chamber? |
A43583 | What could God see in us to attract his heart to us? |
A43583 | What else have you to do in the world? |
A43583 | What fruits hath it brought forth in me? |
A43583 | What ground hast thou to own me? |
A43583 | What is Hell then for, that''s so oft mention''d in the Bible? |
A43583 | What is that habitual meetness for the Inheritance of the Saints in Light, without which Men can never attain to it, or have eternal possession of it? |
A43583 | What is the change wrought in a Man by Gods H. Word and Spirit, before he can safely conclude himself passed from Death to Life? |
A43583 | What mad man will refuse this gift that is better then Gold? |
A43583 | What pains would you take? |
A43583 | What saving work hath passed upon my heart? |
A43583 | What say you to these things? |
A43583 | What sayest thou? |
A43583 | What staggerings in our Faith of the reality of unseen things? |
A43583 | What stamp, what sheep- mark can I shew, as the fruit of Gods being at work on my Soul, and an earnest of this glorious Inheritance? |
A43583 | What strict observers of the Sabbath were the Scribes and Pharisees? |
A43583 | What tears, fears, what groans and agonies hath it cost me? |
A43583 | What think you, can any secretly steal in unknown to him, or forcibly thrust in against his will? |
A43583 | What work is it that God sets before Men to dispatch and manage? |
A43583 | What''s become of the many warnings we have had in our selves and others? |
A43583 | What, are you content with a Heaven here, and an Hell hereafter? |
A43583 | When are men cleansed, is it[ in Articulo mortis] in the passage of the Soul out of the Body? |
A43583 | When occasions of sinning are removed, rather then afforded, though it cost thee dear? |
A43583 | When thousands are left, why art thou taken? |
A43583 | When will it be over? |
A43583 | Where''s this new Creature, the Divine Nature, the Image and Seed of God working Heaven- wards? |
A43583 | Whither are you going? |
A43583 | Why may not my glory rejoyce? |
A43583 | Why should not then my heart be glad? |
A43583 | Why so? |
A43583 | Will he set the Crown on Rebels heads? |
A43583 | Will not your mouth be stopt, and Conscience fly in your face? |
A43583 | Will you believe it? |
A43583 | Yes doubtless, for he dare appeal to God that he had walked before him in truth, and with a perfect heart: What then was the matter? |
A43583 | Yet after all this canst thou not say, thou art nothing, deservest nothing but Hell? |
A43583 | You must give account of Sabbaths, Sermons, Sacraments, shall they be the savour of death unto death to you, or the savour of life unto life? |
A43583 | You will say how can any man be said to dispatch his work till his life be done? |
A43583 | You''l say, can I make my self meet for Heaven? |
A43583 | and are these fit to live with God till brought nigh? |
A43583 | and can two walk together except they be agreed? |
A43583 | and can you think to overturn his appointed Will, or contradict his Councels? |
A43583 | and how can dryed stubble dwell with consuming fire? |
A43583 | and is such a dead block meet to converse with the living God? |
A43583 | and is this fit to dwell with an Holy God till sanctified? |
A43583 | and the Prophets do they live for ever? |
A43583 | and what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? |
A43583 | being more weighted with the necessity of their Conversion? |
A43583 | have you no better a friend then Satan? |
A43583 | what do I here? |
A43583 | with darkness? |