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identifier	question
A16998	Ends on A?
A16998	],[ Amsterdam?
A36410	As these inform, accords with the former, the Iudge of quick and dead; where demanded first, What his Name was?
A36410	VVhence follows next Simon Magus alias Peter,& c. Saints and Devils become fellows; also Fool and Racha: what not?
A67506	Or if unlearn''d in Physick''s crabbed Laws, How the Distemper judge, or guess the Cause?
A67506	Pray when, or how, became this Homage due?
A67506	What has possess''d your Noddles with this Dream?
A67506	Whence can you boast your Knowledge, lest you own, By study of your Files you''re Learned grown?
A81066	Brother Revenge, now speak, is this not true?
A81066	Have I not made the brother kill the ● ● other, The little infant murther''d by the mother?
A81066	Have I not made the man to kill the wife, And made the woman end the husbands life?
A81066	How many men have I made, for your good, Most barbarously to shed each others bloud?
A81066	How many men have faln by me and you?
A81066	How many women have I Witches made, And to revenge their cause lent them my aid?
A81066	What is''t but I can doe?
A81066	What mischiefe have I left undone in Towns?
A81066	Which of your Feends can do more feats than I?
A45396	And if you shall demand, why I said not this thus particularly in the Paraphrase and Annotations on the places of the Revelation?
A45396	Can it in this case be said that the second Death is worse then this, and yet this second Death defin''d by a swift Annihilation?
A45396	For if that which is not, can not be eternally punished, how can the wicked be said to depart to eternal punishment when they are annihilated?
A45396	Is it not for this, because Origens Doctrine was deem''d an Heresy in the Church, and that of some ill and dangerous consequence to be believed?
A45396	Next then p. i. for Origens opinion, granting it right stated( as I think it is) I demand for what reason that is mention''d?
A45396	That according to the Rabbinical Notion, it signifies final and utter destruction?
A45396	Whence is all this?
A45396	in his life and health, should continue to him?
A16979	& vvill you vse the Q. autority to Atheism to force me to rely vpon you?
A16979	And vvher God moderateth& mentioneth the vvorld to come, he sayth: Haue the gates of death ben revealed to thee?
A16979	And vvill you rush to Gehēna because I vvill not rely vpon you?
A16979	Are you all together sold into syn?
A16979	But by vvhat diuinity did your G. put R. Codder to his oth to tell vvher I vvas?
A16979	Cā she svvear any for any but in some offense?
A16979	Greek?
A16979	Hovv did you vse Rich Codder Mastres Hiddes man: to make the Q. autority as a dotage?
A16979	Novv hovv did the heathen term the place of Torment?
A16979	Novv my L. vvhat gain can your G. have in deceaving all the realm to bring an heresie Papisticall into the Creed?
A16979	Will you haue the Q. to be a dog in her gouernemēt?
A16979	Ys the enforcing of an vnlavvfull oth a small matter vvith your G?
A16979	],[ Amsterdam?
A16979	is it an offense to clear an article by 20. yeares study, more then you haue taken, in vvriters currant among all men?
A16979	line 16 read shadovv of death?
A16979	or canst thou see the gates of the shadovv?
A16979	promise vpon a poinct of no sense: that I sought not to you?
A16979	vvhere he hath: vvho shall goe beyond the sea?
A02192	And what is the cause( I pray) that wicked wretches runne into al excesse and riot of sinne as they do?
A02192	And what shall hinder the being of fire in hell, when the extremity of tortures shall be put vpon the damned?
A02192	Another, Is it I, Lord?
A02192	But where is this religious care and godly resolution?
A02192	Diues a great personage, yet tormented in those flames: Quid profuit sibi superbia?
A02192	Esay speaking of this terrible fire, sayth: Who is able to dwell in this deuouring fire?
A02192	His reason is this, If Wood and the Worme be taken metaphorically, vvhy not then the fire also?
A02192	If it be Corporall, whether it burneth the body onely, or soule and body also?
A02192	If then it be graunted, that there is Substantiall fire in hell, the next question will bee, Whether it be Materiall, Corporall, or Spirituall?
A02192	Is it I, Lord?
A02192	Is it not because they lay not to heart this tormenting Tophet?
A02192	It is a common saying; But for hope the heart would burst; but they are shut out of all hope: and therefore who can expresse their torments?
A02192	Now alas, if a man be bound hand and foot, and cast into a well fiue thousand fadomes deepe, what hope hath he of euer comming out?
A02192	So the damned soule may say, Good God, for how short a time of pleasure, how great a Kingdome haue I lost?
A02192	To come to later times, in the destruction of Ierusalem by Titus Vespasian, how few escaped there aliue?
A02192	What hath pride profited him?
A02192	Whether it be true substantiall fire, or fire allegoricall?
A02192	Whether there be true fire in Hel?
A02192	how shall I be able to indure the paines of Hell fire?
A02192	only Lot vvith his daughters: in the destruction of Iericho by the sword, how few escaped there aliue?
A02192	only Noah with his Family: in the destruction of Sodome by fire, how few escaped there aliue?
A02192	or what hath the pompe of riches done him good?
A02192	or whether these words( the burning thereof is fire) be taken allegorically?
A02192	or, who shall bee able to dwell in these euerlasting burnings?
A02192	quid diuitiarum copia?
A02192	what shall become of vs?
A02192	yea, when Inquisition shall bee made for the very thoughts of the vngodly: If the iust shall scarce be saued, where shall the sinner appeare?
A57245	10. it being so much opposed, who can utter those many things that are said against the truth?
A57245	13. if some enjoy more prosper prosper ty then others, must they therefore suffer a punishment ● ever to end?
A57245	15. was David born in Hell?
A57245	17. for if you prove all things, and cease from man and his traditions, will they not say ye are mad?
A57245	18. Who hath resisted his will?
A57245	2. would ye have it to be punished to the full in this life, and after in the world to come with a punishment never to end?
A57245	20. and many of them said he hath a devil and is mad, why hear ye him?
A57245	23. at what shall God be angry or unsatisfied?
A57245	3. to endure the said torment without end?
A57245	35. if God should only love them that love him, doe not the Publicans the same?
A57245	6. how is this true if they live for ever, and not die?
A57245	7, 8. if they be anywhere, how are they absent from God?
A57245	7. where shall Hell be?
A57245	By what meanes can Dives know Abraham from another, seeing as all confesse, his body is in the grave untill the Resurrection?
A57245	Fifthly, How could Dives speak to Abraham, his body being in the grave?
A57245	HEre is presented to thy view things new and old, when Christ and his disciples declared the truth: Some mocked, saying?
A57245	Have we not all cause to say herein, Where is the Scribe?
A57245	How could Dives see so far as Abrahams bosome is from hell?
A57245	How readest thou?
A57245	I see you are more bold to affirm, than able to prove; doth reason deny the punishment to be just, except it never end?
A57245	Is any so weak, as to imagine the earth will ever burn and never be consumed?
A57245	Is not this a full testimony against their Opinion of the torments of hell?
A57245	It saith, he saw Abraham; yet they say, hell is a place of utter darknesse: how can any thing be seen in a place of utter darknesse?
A57245	Know you any of the intention of God that is not revealed in his word?
A57245	Ludovick said, if I be saved, I be saved, If I be damned I be damned; the Papists say, if good works save us not, to what purpose shall we doe them?
A57245	Must we suffer the torments of Hell?
A57245	Ninthly, How shall Abraham send, seeing he hath no communion with us nor passage to us?
A57245	O death where is thy Sting?
A57245	O grave where is thy Victory?
A57245	See ye not the great doubting and uncertainty they are at among themselves?
A57245	Seventhly, How comes Dives to have such charity in hell to his Five Brethren, seeing he had none to them when on earth?
A57245	Sixthly, How shall Dives hear Abraham at so great a gulf and distance as heaven is from hell?
A57245	Tenthly, To what purpose will it be to send?
A57245	Therefore as the first death, so the second is a separation of soul and body, else how is it a death or a second death?
A57245	What fruit had ye of those things whereof ye are now ashamed?
A57245	When Christ declared the truth, the Priests cryed blasphemy; the high Priest rent his clothes, saying, he hath spoken blasphemys, what think ye?
A57245	Your opinion is fitter for Heathens than for Christians: if the Heathens do hold as you do, are we to believe in Religion as the Heathen?
A57245	[ who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?]
A57245	and how is the end of those things death?
A57245	can any speak without the organ of the body?
A57245	for if it be not to be read in the word of God, what have we to do with it?
A57245	how shall they be an abhorring to all flesh?
A57245	if thou be righteous, what givest thou unto him, or what receiveth he at thy hand?
A57245	if ye say Christ was to make satisfaction in both, his Godhead and Manhood: doth the Godhead need the help of the Manhood to make satisfaction?
A57245	or if thy righteousnesse be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
A57245	there was not any thing to suffer, but the Manhood of Christ; can the suffering of man satisfie God?
A57245	to his Off- spring?
A57245	what new doctrine is this?
A57245	where is the disputer of this world?
A57245	will not the whole world contain a record of the actions of one man?
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?
A03406	Ah that a creature frozen in despaire These flames should''bide, and not dissolue to aire Curst that I am, how can my heart containe So vast a sorrow?
A03406	And stony fruits are hard vnfruitfull hearts?
A03406	Are there no Serpents on the Libian sand, But hither all transported to torment With scorching stings, and poisons deadly sent?
A03406	But stay, what wonders doe mine eyes behold?
A03406	But what I heard, what mortall tongue can tell, Or eare containe, and not in sunder riue?
A03406	But whither runnes my madnesse?
A03406	Can not I plucke one feather from thy wing, Recall one houre of thousands vainely spent, Wherein I might my wretched age lament?
A03406	Can not these cries, that drowne th''harmonious chime Of all thy spheares, some tender pittie moue?
A03406	Cracke all mine arteries with tortures tride, Yet must more stormes, more wrackfull woes abide?
A03406	Did I at once my treasures all designe?
A03406	Did I enioy,( or were they all but dreames?)
A03406	Did all like leaues, fly with your flitting breath, And leaue you naked in that storme of death?
A03406	Doe all my veines with liquid sulphur swell?
A03406	Fond wretched soule to chase a wild desire To this sad fall, and for fraile earthly toyes Loose an eternall Iubile of ioyes?
A03406	Hath Nilus left no issue on his strand, But all his monsters in this dungeon pent?
A03406	Hath onely here dire Mischiefe chose to dwell, And heauiest Sorrow sunke his caue to Hell?
A03406	How deepe ingulfed in this caue of night?
A03406	How far, how far from all supernall Light Am I thrust downe by rude imperious hands?
A03406	How fast chain''d vp in euerlasting bands, Here to abide th''Almighties fiercest ire, Whose frowne a flash, whose wrath''s eternall fire?
A03406	How haue I rauell''d out the knotty thread Of mortall life, that in our prime of yeeres Hides wormes and dust within a flowery bed?
A03406	How oft the sword of vengeance did we see Brandisht ag ● inst our Luxury, and pride, Voluptuous surfets, lust, and tyranny?
A03406	How wrackt, and swallow''d, as in Seas, and Sands?
A03406	In one dead sea are all my pleasures drown''d, All comforts wrackt, and neuer to be found?
A03406	Infernall sergeants, whether will yee hale A wretched creature?
A03406	Is all my flesh a fire?
A03406	Is there no beame of mercy shines aboue?
A03406	Must I for anguish euer howle among These hideous fiends, and gnaw this banefull tongue?
A03406	Must woe and mischiefe euer be my theame?
A03406	My bones the brands?
A03406	My sinewes all divul''st with passion fell?
A03406	My swarmes of friends?
A03406	Nor( that which fairer seem''d,) my glittering Gold?
A03406	O eares, why deafe vnto the prophets sound: O hands, why were yea lame to render right?
A03406	O eyes, why were yea blind to heauenly light?
A03406	O feet, why slow to haue safe vertue found?
A03406	O knees, why stiffe, and strange to hallowed ground?
A03406	Of friends and parasites your pompous traine?
A03406	Rather two Saints, that in that State appeare?
A03406	Rich Vales?
A03406	Shall I nere more thy ioyfull face behold, Thy face, O Heauen, where lasting beauties shine?
A03406	Still must I call for death, yet keepe the graue?
A03406	Still must I howle at heauen, and bite my chaine, And gnash my teeth through horrour of my paine?
A03406	The angry engines of hot Heauen, to fright, And start old Chaos from the deepes of night?
A03406	The wrath of Heauen who feeles and trembles not?
A03406	Those bounteous Fields with Oliue blest, and Vine?
A03406	Those slumbering yeeres, I did in pleasure spend, Why did they wake in death, in woe expire?
A03406	Those swelling Hils, the lofty walkes of pride?
A03406	Through rage and anguish must I still blaspheame, And fry, and freeze, with heat, and cold extreame?
A03406	Two sunnes at once embeam''d with flaming Gold?
A03406	What Diademes they weare?
A03406	What Fury in my bowells built her Hell?
A03406	What change is this?
A03406	What heauy darknesse, highest Lord of Light, Doth thus oppresse me in this dreadfull place?
A03406	What hideous storme of all confused woes My sense with paine, my soule with horrour smites?
A03406	What is lifes winter to this spring of yeeres, But a loose meteor in fraile beauties skies, Disperst with sighes, and dropt away in teares?
A03406	What strange impressions in so high a spheare?
A03406	What thrones they hold?
A03406	What tyrant ioyn''d these adamantine bands?
A03406	When first I suckt the poysons of the world, Why drew I not destruction from the skies?
A03406	Where are my Robes?
A03406	Where is that coast, where safety doth reside?
A03406	Where now your roabes so gorgeous to behold?
A03406	Where''s now that wealth would counter- poize my woes?
A03406	Where''s now your power, you, that proudly could Lead your blind Goddesse in a golden chaine?
A03406	Which how it doth,( all comfort quite to kill,) With banefull steames this odious prison fill?
A03406	Who sees the Sunne enthron''d in burning Gold, And not the Father of all heauenly light, That doth aduance this mirrour to the sight?
A03406	Why dost thou mocke with euer- blazing fires These ceaslesse torments, to enrage my woe?
A03406	Why were not sheetes of flaming sulphur hurl''d Vpon my cradle?
A03406	Wrackt is my hope?
A03406	Your mounts of Gold rais''d in your worldly raigne?
A03406	and my Wine?
A03406	and to this desert bay Will my lost comfort neuer find the way?
A03406	faire Brooks, whose straying course, like mine, So pleasant seem''d, and downeward did decline?
A03406	how I raue?
A03406	how sadly slow Was vengeance, arm''d to strike the deadly blow?
A03406	if here they once arriue, How sharply will their miseries rebound Vpon my heart, and gall each bleeding wound?
A03406	my junkets?
A03406	my torments in this fiery Lake, At whose dread Name the peccant soule should quake, Who can expresse?
A03406	nor did mischiefe rise In earthly damps to blast my hatefull eyes, That neuer fixt on Heauen?
A03406	thy highest straine What voyce can reach, to sing thy happi''st raigne?
A03406	to what depth of woe Must I descend in this Cimmerian vale?
A03406	what Palmes in triumph beare?
A03406	what Roabes, that shine( Not like my purple, but) like rayes Diuine?
A03406	what wonder strikes mine eare?
A03406	will the ioyfull day Of gracious mercy neuer dawne againe?
A64987	10. Who shall lay any thing to your charge, when God hath justified you?
A64987	14. Who among us shall dwell with devouring Fire?
A64987	22. and how feircely then will it burn?
A64987	4. Who would set the Briers and Thorns against me in Battel?
A64987	6. Who can stand before his indignation?
A64987	ANd now Sinners what will you do?
A64987	And alas ● … what will you( that are Ungodly) do in a time of general calamity?
A64987	And by consequence every moment, while such, in danger of being drag''d sorth to execution?
A64987	And if the skirts of England were turned up, what filthiness would there appear under them?
A64987	And to whom can this be applyed?
A64987	As if they should have said: Pray who are you that take upon you to speak thus unto us?
A64987	B ● … sides how can we conceive that any Subterranean fire should have power to reach and dissolve the Heavens?
A64987	Do you know whom you serve?
A64987	Hath Sodom and Gomorrah provoked God to destroy them with Fire from Heaven?
A64987	Have you been under convictions of Sin?
A64987	How happy are those who have made their Peace with God, when some men will not be at peace with them?
A64987	How long will Eternity last?
A64987	How long will ye slumber in such imminent danger, ye Graceless and Christless persons?
A64987	How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation?
A64987	I beseech you all with the greatest seriousness to examine your selves, whether you be in a state of Nature, or in a state of Grace?
A64987	I beseech you examine which of the two ways you are walking in; is it the broad way of Sin and wickedness?
A64987	If a short time of misery here on Earth seem long, what will an eternity of misery seem to be in Hell?
A64987	Is it desirable to dwell with devouring Fire?
A64987	Is not destruction to the wicked, and a strange punishment unto the workers of Iniquity?
A64987	Let me therefore exhort you without any delay to come out of the broad way of Sin, It is the way of Hell, and will you proceed any further in it?
A64987	Look doest thou not see a horrible deep and large pit filled with horribly burning Fire, and that Fire filled with damned Men and Women?
A64987	Need you value then the wrath of men, when you are delivered from the wrath of God?
A64987	O what an evil thing and a bitter is it to Sin against God, and hereby to provoke him unto anger?
A64987	O whether can we flee to hide us from the wrath of God, and shelter us from his fiery indignation?
A64987	Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy Conversation and Godliness?
A64987	The spirit of man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear?
A64987	Thirdly, Abundance of Idleness was the third Sin of Sodom, and when did this Sin more prevail then in our licentious age?
A64987	Thus blind and sottishly Superstitions these people are; But is the anger of the Lord hereby appeased?
A64987	Use of Reproof and Terrour for the awakening of the Wicked and Ungodly, out of their carnal security ▪ HOw long will ye sleep O ye Sinners?
A64987	W ● … o knoweth the power of thine anger?
A64987	What is more common than this Sin of drunkenness both in City and Countrey?
A64987	When awakened by the Earth- quake, and the impression of guilt made by God upon his conscience; Sirs, what shall we do to be saved?
A64987	When will Eternity end?
A64987	Whoredom and Adultrey, what more common in this debauched generation?
A64987	and are they indeed prepared for the wicked, and all graceless, Christless persons as their deserved portion?
A64987	and do you think what your wages will be?
A64987	and doest thou not perceive thy self hastning forward in the way to this place of burning?
A64987	and who can abide in the feirceness of his anger?
A64987	and will nothing rouze you, and awaken you out of this sleep?
A64987	and wilt thou go forward still?
A64987	are they changed?
A64987	are they reformed?
A64987	are they so dreadful, beyond any burnings that ever have been, both in regard of feirceness and duration?
A64987	are you resolved it shall prove the sleep of death?
A64987	do you know what Hell is?
A64987	do you know what is before you?
A64987	do you know whom you speak to?
A64987	do you lead new and Holy lives?
A64987	do you see the end of a sinful course?
A64987	do you think to escape in this way?
A64987	have no Heavenly dews and showers of the Word yet melted and softned you, no Fire and Hammer new- moulded and framed you?
A64987	have you been called already so long, so loud, so frequently, so fervently, and yet do you deafen your ear?
A64987	have you been threatned with Death, and Wrath, and Misery for ever, and yet not startled, yet stupid and senseless?
A64987	have you been told so often of your guilt and danger, and yet harden your ● … art?
A64987	have you new and clean hearts?
A64987	have your hearts been like so many brazen walls, beating back all the Arrows of reproof, and threatnings which have been shot at you?
A64987	how dreadful the lashes of your consciences will be, when they are let loose( as Gods executioners) with full rage upon you?
A64987	how little reason have those to fear the wrath of any here, who are delivered from the wrath to come?
A64987	how many are there that guzzle, and swill in drink without measure?
A64987	how many golden seasons do they let slip, wherein they might make provision for eternity?
A64987	how safe is that treasure, which is laid up in Heaven, far beyond the reach of Thief or Rust or Flames of Fire?
A64987	how would you be affrighted?
A64987	if God let fall some scalding drops of his wrath upon the spirit, if he kindle a spark of Hell- fire in ye conscience, who can endure it?
A64987	if you can not endure the sparks of Hell- fire, how will you endure the flames, and most burning heat thereof?
A64987	or are they like Cley and Mud, which groweth the more hard and obdurate under the Sun and Light of the Gospel which hath shined upon you?
A64987	or is it the narrow way of Faith and Holiness?
A64987	pray stay untill we make choice of you and place you in that office: shall we submit our selves to be judged by one so contemptible?
A64987	shall it insensibly and effectually usher you to Hell before you are aware?
A64987	shall we indeed be judg''d by such a fellow as you?
A64987	thought he, what a wicked place is Sodom, that it should not yeild Ten righteous persons?
A64987	what comfort can you have upon a Bed of Sickness?
A64987	what is Fire fed by Wood in comparison with Fire fed by the breath of God?
A64987	what is the Fire of Mans kindling in comparison with the Fire of Gods kindling?
A64987	what mean ● … this hast?
A64987	what means this eager pursuance of lust?
A64987	what refuge in a time of trouble?
A64987	what shall we think of the flanting apparel, the Antique and Apish fashions, of the ruffling Gallants in our Nation?
A64987	what sleep under the light?
A64987	what sleep upon the brinks of the burning Lake?
A64987	what then will become of us, who have shared with them in the same guilt, and have deserved the same punishment?
A64987	what though you should lose your estates?
A64987	who among us shall Inhabit everlasting burnings?
A64987	who can bear such horrible burnings?
A64987	who can endure such devouring fire?
A64987	who shall condemn you when God hath acquitted you?
A64987	why so furious?
A64987	will you dare to go on in that broad way of Sin, which ere long will open under you, and let you down into the horrible gulp of unquenchable burnings?
A64987	yet since you are not in danger of losing your Souls; what though you should be thrown into a Prison on Earth?
A64987	yet will you hold fast your sins, resolving not to let them go what ever they cost you?
A64987	you are a bold and saucy fellow to tell us of wickedness; Will you needs be our Iudge?
A64987	you are partakers of the Humane Nature, are you partakers of the Divine Nature?
A64987	you have been all born once, have you been born again?
A64987	you have been born of the Flesh, have you been born of the Spirit?
A64987	you have born the Image of the Earthly Adam, do you bear the Image of the Heavenly Adam?
A30203	& c. appear with gladness against thee at the terrible day?
A30203	26. saith he, Nevertheless they were disobedient for all thy goodness towards them, and rebelled against thee,( but how?)
A30203	6. that is comparable to the pleasures, profits, and glory of this World?
A30203	Again, If they hear not Moses, and the Prophets,& c. As if he had said, Thou would''st have me send one from the Dead unto them, what needs that?
A30203	All they, that is, that are in hell shall say, Art thou become weak as we?
A30203	Amaziah having sinned against the Lord, he sends to him a Prophet to reprove him: But Amaziah sayes, ● orbear, wherefore shouldst thou be smitten?
A30203	And did they make them welcome?
A30203	And do you think the Lord will sit still( as I may say) and let thy Tongue run as it lists, and yet never bring you to an account for the same?
A30203	And must we be all alone?
A30203	And why so?
A30203	And why?
A30203	Art thou become like unto us?
A30203	Art thou such an one as regards not these things?
A30203	Art thou troubled with cross Children, cross Relations, cross Neighbours?
A30203	As first, Dost thou delight to sin against plain commands?
A30203	As if he should say, What need have they that one should be sent to them from the dead?
A30203	Besides, was the Gospel so freely, so frequently, so fully tendered to thee, and yet hast thou rejected all these Things?
A30203	But for all this, how thick, and by heaps, do these wretches walk up and down our streets?
A30203	But now, when didst thou feel the power of this first part of the Scripture, the Law, so mighty as to strike thee dead?
A30203	But why is it said, Let him dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue?
A30203	But ye ungodly fathers, how are your ungodly children, roaring now in hell?
A30203	But you will say, How doth the Law kill and strike dead the poor Creature?
A30203	But you will say, What needs all this ado, and why is all this time and pains spent in speaking to this, that is surely believed already?
A30203	Canst thou read this, O thou wicked sinner, and yet go in sin?
A30203	Canst thou think of this, and defer Repentance one hour longer?
A30203	Consider thus with thy self; Would I be glad to have all, every one of my sins to come in against me to inflame the justice of God against me?
A30203	Cry, why so?
A30203	Did we not found an Alarum in thine Ears, by the Trumpet of God''s Word day after day?
A30203	Did we not run, ride, labour, and strive abundantly( if it might have been) for the good of thy Soul,( though now a damned Soul?
A30203	Did we not tell thee of these Things?
A30203	Did we not tell thee sin would damn thy Soul?
A30203	Did we not tell thee, that without Conversion, there was no Salvation?
A30203	Did we not venture our Goods, our Names, our Lives?
A30203	Didst thou never hear of the intollerable Roarings of the Damned Ones that are therein?
A30203	Do but mark the words, All Scripture is profitable: All, take it where you will, and in what place you will; All is profitable, for what?
A30203	Doest thou believe the Scripture to be the word of God?
A30203	Dost thou believe the Scriptures to be the word of God?
A30203	Dost thou examine thy self whether thou be in the Faith or no, having a command in Scripture so to do?
A30203	Dost thou give diligence to make thy Calling and Election sure, because God commandeth it in Scripture?
A30203	Dost thou not hear them say, Send one from the dead to prevent my father, my brother, and my fathers house from coming into this place of torment?
A30203	Examine again Dost thou labour after those qualifications that the Scriptures do describe a child of God by?
A30203	Examine, dost thou stand in awe of sinning against God, because he hath in the Scriptures commanded thee to abstain from it?
A30203	For had ye believed Moses( saith he) ye would have believed me?
A30203	From what?
A30203	Hark, dost thou not hear the bitter Cryes of them that are but newly gone before?
A30203	Hast thou valued sin at a higher rate than thy soul?
A30203	Have they not Moses and the Prophets?
A30203	He that was in darkness, or he that was in light?
A30203	He that was in everlasting joy, or he that was in everlasting torments?
A30203	How long ye simple ones, will you love simplicity?
A30203	How long?
A30203	How loth wilt thou be, to be thrust away from the Gates of Heaven, and how loth wilt thou be to be deprived of the Mercy of God?
A30203	How many Souls do you think Balaam, with his deceit, will have to answer for?
A30203	How many Souls have they been the means of destroying, by their Ignorance, and corrupt Doctrine?
A30203	How many blows and wounds doth it cause?
A30203	How many poor Souls hath Bonner to answer for think you?
A30203	How many times doth it( as James saith) curse man?
A30203	How many, Mahomet?
A30203	How many, the Pharisees, That hired the Souldiers to say the Disciples stole away Jesus?
A30203	How oft didst thou read the sweet counsels and admonitions of the Gospel, to accept of the grace of God?
A30203	How often didst thou hear us tell thee of these Things?
A30203	How often didst thou read the promises, yea, the free promises of the common salvation?
A30203	How rightly hath God met with thee?
A30203	How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation?
A30203	How so?
A30203	How willingly wilt thou set foot forward towards the Lake of Fire?
A30203	How willingly would''st thou hang on them, and not let them go?
A30203	How would we have laboured to have closed in with it?
A30203	I remember he alledged many a Scripture, but those I valued not; the Scriptures, thought I, what are they?
A30203	I ● there hope?
A30203	If you say, No: What means your sowr carriage to the People of God?
A30203	Lazarus, Who was he?
A30203	Men and brethren, what shall we do to be saved?
A30203	Mother, can not you do me some good?
A30203	Nay, I do not like of that answer; Hear Moses and the Prophets?
A30203	No, But mocked the Messengers of God, and despised his words: And was that all?
A30203	O Father, can not you help me?
A30203	O Lord Jesus, what a Load didst thou carry?
A30203	O how righteously doth his Sentence pass upon thee?
A30203	O how will the Drunkard cry, for leading their Neighbours into drunkenness?
A30203	O therefore, will not this aggravate thy torment?
A30203	Oh how unwilling wilt thou be, to let thy Father go to Heaven without thee, thy Mother or Friends,& c. go to Heaven without thee?
A30203	One would have thought that this had been a small request, a small courtesie, one drop of water, what is that?
A30203	Or how is it with thy soul?
A30203	Secondly, Dost thou slight and scorn the counsels contained in Scriptures, and continue in so doing?
A30203	Shall I content my self with a Heaven, that will last no longer than my life ▪ time?
A30203	Shall not then these mournfull groans pierce thy flinty heart?
A30203	Soul consider, is it not miserable to lose Heaven for 20, 30, or 40 Years sinning against God?
A30203	The Record, you will say, what is that?
A30203	The promises that are in the Gospel, Oh, how do they comfort them?
A30203	The tongue, how much mischief will it stir up 〈 ◊ 〉 a very little time?
A30203	There was a certain rich man,& c. But why are the ungodly held forth under the notion of a rich man?
A30203	Think thus with thy self; What ▪ shall I lose a long Heaven for short pleasure?
A30203	Think you ▪ that they upon whom the ● ● ower of Siloe fell, were sinn ● rs above others?
A30203	To whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest?
A30203	Was thy Soul worth so much, and didst thou so little regard it?
A30203	Wast thou not told of Hell- fire, those intollerable flames?
A30203	Were the Thunder- Claps of the Law so terrible, and didst thou so slight them?
A30203	What good will all my companions, fellow jesters, jeerers, lyars, drunkards, and all my wantons do me?
A30203	What good will my profits do me?
A30203	What sayest thou sinner, will not this perswade thine heart, nor make thee bethink thy self?
A30203	What, shall I lose Heaven for this World?
A30203	What, shall I regard Lazarus?
A30203	What, shall I so far dishonour my fair sumptuous and gay house, with such a scabbed creep- hedg as he?
A30203	Why do you look on them, as if you would eat them up?
A30203	Why?
A30203	Will it not be glorious for thee to be in glory with them, while others are in unu ● terable torments?
A30203	Will it not be glorious to enter then with the Angels and Saints into that glorious Kingdome?
A30203	Will my sins do me good then?
A30203	Wilt thou be like that simple one named in the 7. of Proverbs, That will be drawn to the slaughter by the cord of a silly lust?
A30203	Wilt thou be like the Bird that hasteth to the snare of the Fowler?
A30203	Wilt thou be like the silly flie, that is not quiet, unless she be either intangled in the spiders web, or burned in the Candle?
A30203	Wilt thou stop thine ears, and shut thy eyes?
A30203	Would I be glad to have all, and every one of the Ten Commandements, to discharge themselves against my soul?
A30203	Wouldest thou be glad to be kept out of heaven with a back well cloathed, and a belly well filled with the dainties of this world?
A30203	Wouldest thou be glad to have all thy good things in thy life time, to have thy heaven to last no longer then while thou dost live in this world?
A30203	Wouldest thou be willing to be deprived of eternal happiness and felicity?
A30203	Yea, did we not even kill our selves, with our earnest intreatings of thee to consider of thine Estate, and by Christ to escape this dreadful day?
A30203	Yet did we not tell thee, that God, out of his love to sinners, sent Christ to die for them, that they might( by coming to him) be saved?
A30203	You will say, what is that?
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A30203	and several filthy blind Priests?
A30203	and what good will my vanities do, when death sayes he will have no nay?
A30203	and wilt thou not regard?
A30203	and ye scorners delight in scorning, and ye fools hate knowledg?
A30203	but thou wouldst not, thou regardest it not, thou didst slight all?
A30203	have they not Moses and the Prophets?
A30203	have they not had my Ministers and Servants sent unto them, and coming as from me?
A30203	how comfortable to those that believe them?
A30203	how didst thou discover thy Love to Man in thy thus suffering?
A30203	how would I affect his Doctrine, and close in with it?
A30203	how would I square my life thereby?
A30203	sc ● ubbed, beggarly Lazarus?
A30203	shall I buy the pleasures of this world at so dear a rate, as to lose my soul for the obtaining of that?
A30203	such a promise, and such a promise, O how sweet is it?
A30203	than God, Christ, Angels, Saints, and Communion with them in Eternal Blessedness and Glory?
A30203	that some body would stop them from coming, lest they also come into this place of Torment, and be damned as I am: How will it torment me?
A30203	that you did but believe this, that you did but consider this, and say within your selves, What, shall I be contented with my portion in this World?
A30203	what place in Hell will be hot enough for thee to have thy Soul put into, if thou shalt persist, or go on still to adde Iniquity to Iniquity?
A30203	what, seek for the living among the dead?
A30203	whither shall I go when I die?
A30203	who would not be in the rich mans state?
A30203	will these help to turn the hand of God from inflicting his fierce anger upon me?
A30203	will they be able to help me when I come to fetch my last breath?
A30203	will they help to ease the pains of hell?
A30203	▪ T is true, I do love my sins, my lusts, and pleasures; but what good will they do me at the day of death, and of judgement?