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.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| A11063 | For why? |
| A11063 | M. Why dear Iesus? |
| A11063 | why? |
| A43229 | From hence we come to apply this preservasative against the plague and destruction; Who is the man whom the Lord will deliver? |
| A43229 | If one should aske me, whether I can know a man in whom Iesus Christ is crucified? |
| A58209 | Death hath nosting, Death is swallowed up in Victory; O Death where is thy sting? |
| A58209 | Now who knows which of these deaths are appointed for him? |
| A58209 | Shall there bee evil in the City, and the Lord hath not done it? |
| A58209 | What safety have wee then ▪ or what can be a more fearfuller enemy to man, than Pestilential Feavers? |
| A08813 | Ho, are you come, whom we expected long? |
| A08813 | I greatly feare an everlasting fire, Yet one thing more of thée I doe desire: Hast thou béen yet amongst the fiends of Hell? |
| A08813 | Is no hope left, that we with Christ may dwell? |
| A08813 | Thy pleasant Walks, in which thou took''st such pleasure? |
| A08813 | Where are thy sumptuous Buildings, and thy Treasure? |
| A08813 | Where is that Traine that did attend on thée? |
| A08813 | Where is thy Mirth? |
| A08813 | where is thy Iollitie? |
| A14004 | If we regard not him in our harts, why should hée lend vs his eares? |
| A14004 | If we wil listen vn ▪ to that, which hee would haue vs loath, why should not he loath that, to which we would haue him listen? |
| A14004 | Is God partiall? |
| A14004 | Is it in vaine to pray? |
| A14004 | Lord I know that I can not escape death, then why should I feare it: and if I must dye, why not now, if it so please thee? |
| A14004 | Thou hast bread now: thou maist be depriued of it by and by: or what if God deny it his word of blessing? |
| A14004 | We can double our sinnes, why can wee not, why should wee not double our suites for the pardon of them? |
| A14004 | What is the reason? |
| A14004 | Why? |
| A14004 | or respects he persons? |
| A70872 | Are they cal''d Rockes? |
| A70872 | How can meere Dust and Ashes thinke to last, When time and age the hardest Rockes doe wast? |
| A70872 | How many Preachers others helpe to save Yet b damne themselves? |
| A70872 | Or binde up broken, hearts, and chase from thence All feares and horrid Terrors? |
| A70872 | Rockes many e Winds, Stormes, Tempests undergoe: And doe not all the f Saints, whiles here, doe so? |
| A70872 | What Christian then can thinke himselfe t secure From Stormes, Winds, Floods, sith Christ did them endure? |
| A70872 | Which an Hell On Earth oft make in those wherein they dwell? |
| A70872 | Who is a Rocke save our God? |
| A70872 | and whiles they others gave The Food of life, have starv''d themselves to death: Others made Fertile, themselves barren Heath? |
| A70872 | who found Their Forts, strength, fafty upon Him, and flye To him alone in all their Miserie? |
| A55005 | And what grace to strengthen? |
| A55005 | I wish that every day among my first thoughts, one may be, What special business have I within doors? |
| A55005 | It is an unthankful sin, we deserved Hell and scape that, and are promised Heaven instead of it, are we not bound to referre other things to God? |
| A55005 | Our own, is not the life more than meat? |
| A55005 | Whether lately raging, and even but last day or night prevailing over me? |
| A55005 | and the body than rayment? |
| A55005 | and whether thou wilt endeavour to have thy mind in the perfectest temper or not? |
| A55005 | or even begun to obtain some vigour? |
| A55005 | wherein I have been exceeding feeble of late? |
| A55005 | within my soul, What sin to mortifie? |
| A02553 | 11 If the world would make me his Minion ● he could giue me but what he hath: and what hath he to giue? |
| A02553 | 22 What is man to the whole earth? |
| A02553 | As for his eye of reason; how dim is it in those things which are best fitted to it: What one thing is there in nature, which he doth perfectly know? |
| A02553 | If he professe to hate me, what can he doe but disgrace me in my name, impouerish mee in my state, afflict me in my body? |
| A02553 | If wee could imagine a beast to haue reaso, how could he be more absurd in his choice? |
| A02553 | What is Heauen to his Maker? |
| A02553 | What is, if this be not a reasonable kind of madnes? |
| A02553 | Why do I not account all ho ● res lost, wherin I enioy him not? |
| A02553 | what hearb, or flower, or worm that hee treads on, is there, whose true essence hee knoweth? |
| A02553 | what is earth to the Heauen? |
| A27456 | But how shall we know God is on our side? |
| A27456 | First, let us ingage in God''s Cause, then having the lawfull Authority of his Vice- gerent, who shall be against us? |
| A27456 | For what shall a man give in exchange of his Soul? |
| A27456 | For why should these let in a Beam Of Divine Light to trouble them; And call in doubt their pleasing Thought, That none believes what we are taught? |
| A27456 | How dangerous is such breach of Vows? |
| A27456 | How many times have we said, O Lord, spare me yet but this once, and I will live and amend? |
| A27456 | If God be for us, who shall be against us? |
| A27456 | Shall we sin that Grace may abound? |
| A27456 | VVHen we are tempted to any sin, let us say, with Joseph, Shall I doe this wickednesse, and sin against God? |
| A27456 | WHo? |
| A27456 | Was it not a great honour for Abraham, the Father of the Faithful, to have God to be his Friend, and to be called the Friend of God? |
| A27456 | What cause have we to be ashamed and repent of our Ingratitude and perfidious Promises? |
| A27456 | What great Dangers do we daily es ● ape by his mercy? |
| A27456 | Who can presume to find a Guard From Scorn, when Heaven''s so little spar''d? |
| A27456 | and how justly may we upbraid ourselves for it, abhorring our selves by reason of our Iniquities, and repenting in dust and ashes, as holy Job did? |
| A16892 | Diddest thou not also principally, worke this as by the hand of thine Annoynted, not suffering him to rest, untill all our deliverance was wrought? |
| A16892 | For, vvhat can not the prayer of Faith bring to passe? |
| A16892 | Jaggard?] |
| A16892 | Or which is farre worse, what are their deeper and more profound meditations and devotions, I meane, of their holy Iesuites, and Iesuited Catholikes? |
| A16892 | What hast thou to do to take my Covenant in thy mouth, seeing thou hatest to be reformed, and hast cast my words behinde thee? |
| A16892 | how shall I leave my great name to be blasphemed amongst my proud enemies? |
| A50098 | And how many colours are found out to make each pretence seem probable? |
| A50098 | But O Lord, what can I render unto thee, since all I have is thine? |
| A50098 | HOw perfect is thy Law, O God, which converteth souls; Thy Testimonies, O Lord, which make the wise simple, how sure are they? |
| A50098 | Hast thou so little work for me to do, that thou allottest me so short a time, and bringest upon me sorrows and weaknesses so fast? |
| A50098 | How difficult is it to determine which is right? |
| A50098 | How many characters read I in my heart, which I understand not; and how many see I there, which I can not read? |
| A50098 | How many lay claim to thy truth, that in the same particulars contradict each other? |
| A50098 | How many times do both my flesh and my heart fail me? |
| A50098 | How oft am I in a great straight, my Soul being dejected, and my Spirit confounded within me? |
| A50098 | How shall I approach thy presence with a proud heart, when the Mediator between thee and man admits none to him, but the humble and lowly? |
| A50098 | Into how many parties and interests are those that profess thy name devided? |
| A50098 | Lord whither should I go from thee? |
| A50098 | Why is it Lord, that I am thus straightned towards thee, who art so enlarged unto me? |
| A50098 | Why is it that my thanksgivings are usually confin''d to the very enquiry onely what I shall render unto thee for all thy benefits towards me? |
| A50098 | how dangerous to resolve at a rash adventure? |
| A50098 | how long shall I cry out by reason of the oppression of the enemy? |
| A50098 | how long stoppest thou thy ears and wilt not hear thy people pray? |
| A50098 | how oft am I at a loss, and know not what to think of my self? |
| A50098 | how uncomfortable to hover between uncertainties? |
| A50098 | since death is my passage into thy presence, why sufferest thou the thought thereof to be terrible unto me? |
| A26920 | But why did you not candidly recite those reasonings, by which in that place I manifested the question to be ridiculous? |
| A26920 | But, do you regard nothing in duty but the Essence? |
| A26920 | Did you not intimate in these words, that I make it as necessary to salvation as these words import? |
| A26920 | If a man have Ability and Opportunity, will not attending wholly to the work in hand, best Edifie him and further the success? |
| A26920 | Is it not you now that forget the case of weak Christians? |
| A26920 | Is it therefore no duty, because few perform it? |
| A26920 | Nay doth not your saying that if I do but say[ It is ridiculous, you must be silent] imply that I do but barely say so? |
| A26920 | Nothing at all the Integrity? |
| A26920 | Nothing the Degree? |
| A26920 | Now I perceive we differ indeed ▪ Do you think that neither unconverted nor unassured doubting persons, are called to Meditate much of Heaven? |
| A26920 | Or may I doubt lest you did for want of leisure, confound the several parts of my Writing? |
| A26920 | Tell me if you can, why the same arguing is not as strong against long Conference, or long Preaching? |
| A26920 | What if I had given you a scheme of the admirably accurate Method of Prayer, which is found in the Lords Prayer? |
| A26920 | What then? |
| A68256 | And see''st thou one to wrath that''s much inclind? |
| A68256 | And what''s our calling, but the Lords command? |
| A68256 | Art thou within boord there? |
| A68256 | Balam makes answere, Must I not take heedo To speake, but what the Lord hath sure decreede? |
| A68256 | But how shall I this know? |
| A68256 | For why? |
| A68256 | Good Ioseph saith, shall I commit this thing, And so offend my God by trespassing? |
| A68256 | If thou canst say, why did I thus offend; Against this gratious God, thus good, thus kind? |
| A68256 | Marke this, good Christian, and this Rule ● ● ist try, Woul''dst thou thy heart keepe soft continually? |
| A68256 | May be thou lt thinke, why may not, I, as they, So sinne, and liue? |
| A68256 | Seest thou a man is given much to sweare? |
| A68256 | Stocks, Stones,& Beasts, each one of them''s a creature And thou no more; But wilt thou better be? |
| A68256 | The Righteous sinns not, cause he feareth God: The Wicked sinns not; Why? |
| A68256 | The Scripture saith, in Amos, you may reade; Can two together walke, not well agreede? |
| A68256 | To Christ the yong man comes, and thus he sayn, Master, What shall I doe heaven to obtayne? |
| A68256 | What doft thou gayne, by hearing of that same, That might reviue thy soule in troublous state, If Gods Word hearing thou forgetst it streight? |
| A68256 | What gaynes the man, that finds the wood, which might Him cherrish in a cold and frosty night, If home he bring it not( I doe enquire?) |
| A68256 | When Balack said, what hast thou done to me? |
| A68256 | Yea wicked Balaam cryed, I can not goe Beyond Gods word, to doe or lesse or moe; And why? |
| A47386 | ( As) what signifies the Persian, Grecian, or the Roman Empires now? |
| A47386 | And then, what honour, what ambition can be greater, then to conquer so great a Conqueror? |
| A47386 | HOw weak is our Faith, in the matter of Death; and how strong the frailty of our nature, that makes us fear to go, where we desire to be? |
| A47386 | How fit is it then to consider this? |
| A47386 | Where are those Great, Glorious, Glistering Bubbles now? |
| A47386 | and what can sinful man ask more, then forgiveness of all past sins, and Grace to sin no more? |
| A47386 | and what can we wish for more, then to have what we ask? |
| A47386 | do we in health and prosperity, approach God with the same vigour in our Prayers, as in our sickness? |
| A47386 | dost thou complain because thou canst not sleep ten hours every night, when Nature doth require but five? |
| A47386 | who has not, or may not fall so? |
| A40678 | BUt where is the Papist all this while? |
| A40678 | But how came Solomon to be so much behind hand? |
| A40678 | But was not this Gratis Dictum of Abraham? |
| A40678 | But what is now become of Ninive? |
| A40678 | Did not he herein speak without- book? |
| A40678 | First, Pride; Point child, Where are you fine? |
| A40678 | HOw bluntly and abruptly doth the seventy third Psalm begin? |
| A40678 | Hence ariseth a question, how such nailes could be usefull? |
| A40678 | How cometh the great Treasure of our Land to be low, and the Debts therof so high? |
| A40678 | How cometh this transposition? |
| A40678 | How many new Gentlemen have started up out of the Estate of that ancient Knight? |
| A40678 | How much hath Sir Iohn Stowel lost? |
| A40678 | How much of Man was there then in bruit Creatures? |
| A40678 | How much of bruitishnesse is there now in Men? |
| A40678 | Is this a time for those who are sinking for the same cause, to quarrel and fall out? |
| A40678 | Know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the Kingdom of God? |
| A40678 | No, answered he: What then, said he, Are you an Anabaptist? |
| A40678 | ONce a Goaler demanded of a Prisoner, newly committed unto him, whether or no he were a Roman Catholick? |
| A40678 | VVhat( say they) had he left? |
| A40678 | WHat may be the cause why so much cloth so soon changeth colour? |
| A40678 | What Civill Christian would not plead for a Dumb man? |
| A40678 | What false Herauldry have we here, Presumption on Presumption? |
| A40678 | What hath the Lord Craven lost? |
| A40678 | What may be the reason why so many now a- daies are carried about with every wind of Doctrine, even to scoure every point in the Compass round about? |
| A40678 | What( said the other) are you a Brownist or a Quaker? |
| A40678 | What, never wise? |
| A40678 | Where are you fine? |
| A40678 | Whither more, or more unjustly hard to decide? |
| A40678 | how much is my expectation frustrated and defeated? |
| A40678 | that Solomon, when he had ended his excellent Prayer, he BLESSED the People, But was not this Invading the Sacerdotal function? |
| A40678 | where and when did God give him a promise to provide him a lamb? |
| A66403 | And is this a stage for ignorance& imposture to play their parts on? |
| A66403 | And therefore how presumed you to reform your selves? |
| A66403 | And yet can no man say unto him, Sir, why do you so? |
| A66403 | But have you any use of your Free- will in either righteousness; I mean that imputed, or this inherent? |
| A66403 | Do Protestants therefore challenge any other righteousness, besides that of Christ''s, which is imputed? |
| A66403 | Do all Interpret? |
| A66403 | Do not you observe how the Catholicks, Protestants, and especially the Brownists, and Anabaptists do fit all their turns out of the Holy Scriptures? |
| A66403 | HAve you any other points of our Religion that you stumble at? |
| A66403 | HOw then do you learn out of the Scriptures, that you are to be justified, and saved before God? |
| A66403 | How is God principally served, and loved of me? |
| A66403 | How is this Faith first wrought? |
| A66403 | How shall I know that I begin to have Faith? |
| A66403 | I, but how will you answer Antiquity? |
| A66403 | I, but where was your Church before this reformation began? |
| A66403 | Or have you any other rule, and ground of your faith? |
| A66403 | WHy hath God made me a reasonable Creature, and not( as well he might) of a meaner kind? |
| A66403 | What is Faith? |
| A66403 | What is the infallible mark of true, and justifying Faith? |
| A66403 | What is the meaning of St. James, when he saith, That we are justified by works, and not by Faith only? |
| A66403 | What is the meaning of this assertion of S. Pauls, that we are justified by faith alone? |
| A66403 | Why doth God so much require of me faith, and belief? |
| A66403 | Would you like it well a Protestant should say, that your Church was founded upon Courtship and popularity? |
| A66403 | on which of these senses, and imaginations is your faith rooted? |
| A66403 | or peradventure, have you some odd capritchious kind of interpretation of your own apprehension to direct you in these businesses? |
| A17408 | 32. so as all Christ is his proper portion: and how is Christ his? |
| A17408 | 9 The Anointing that is vpon vs, may assure vs,& establish vs. Was there euer any King anointed of God to be a King, that made doubt of the Kingdome? |
| A17408 | 9 To conclude this first sort of promises, what knowest thou what GOD may bring thee vnto, notwithstanding thy weakenesse? |
| A17408 | And therefore seeing you are but trauelers here, why turne you againe at the barking of euery dog? |
| A17408 | But how shall I beleeue all this? |
| A17408 | But is there no condition on our part? |
| A17408 | But what if I bee ouercome? |
| A17408 | But when I am tempted, how may I know that I am not ouercome of the temptation? |
| A17408 | First, obserue that the promises are in some scriptures called in the singular number, the Promise: and why so? |
| A17408 | Frō hence the Prophet asketh: Hath he smitten him, as hee smote them that smote him? |
| A17408 | How can we fall away from it? |
| A17408 | If it were no more, but the profit hee hath by the prayers of the godly all ouer the world: were it not a great fauor? |
| A17408 | If the fauour of great persons be so much accounted of; what reckoning is to be made of Gods fauour, who is Lord of Lords? |
| A17408 | If they were ordinary reproches, it would not so much trouble mee, but they are vile things which are obiected against mee? |
| A17408 | If thou say thou hast strong inclinations to sinne, or strange temptations, or great impediments, or many aduersaries and discouragements? |
| A17408 | If thou say thy infirmities may alienate the Lord from thee? |
| A17408 | Let this, I say, bee told to his soule, can hee be dismaid? |
| A17408 | Ninthly, why should we be troubled at that which is the lot of all the Saints? |
| A17408 | Now for the second; If any aske how GOD will do this? |
| A17408 | Now if it bee life eternall, how can it end? |
| A17408 | Now this is an instance beyond exception: For, what condition more vile, then of a seruant? |
| A17408 | Now, how shall a man be dismaied, that hath Gods spirit within him, to harten him, and assist him, and refresh him, and make glad his heart? |
| A17408 | Secondly, what knowest thou what God will yet doe with them? |
| A17408 | What should the seruant complaine of, when his Lord and Master is called Beelzebub? |
| A17408 | When Dauid is thus encountred, if you aske, what hee did? |
| A17408 | Who can tell the excellency of the Manna that is hid? |
| A17408 | Why? |
| A17408 | Yee haue the Spirit of God in you, what need you care, what the world accounts of you? |
| A17408 | am I not in a desperate condition, if the temptation haue preuailed ouer me? |
| A17408 | and what crosses were likely to be disregarded of God sooner, then these domesticall indignities? |
| A17408 | will not the Peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding, keepe his heart and minde, and that constantly for euer? |
| A72189 | 9. and whom is it spoken of? |
| A72189 | And 2. those vaine and unruly guests must bee turned out of doores, without any warning, they have staid there long enough; too long; How long? |
| A72189 | And after the Day of Judgement, mens thoughts shall prove their greatest executioners: what are the cords God lashes you with to all eternity? |
| A72189 | But how oft doth the heart nod, and fall asleepe, and runne into another world, as men in dreames doe? |
| A72189 | But now let the minde be occupied and busied about good things, and things belonging to our peace, how unsteady is it? |
| A72189 | But what were the first thoughts Iob had, upon the newes of the losse of all? |
| A72189 | By them wee chiefly sanctifie him in our hearts, by them wee walke with God, and shall we not make conscience of them? |
| A72189 | First, which yet first is as great a folly as any other, imitating children herein; for is it not childish to make clay pies, and puppets? |
| A72189 | For besides that reasoning power, deliberating power, whereby wee aske our selves continually, what shall wee doe? |
| A72189 | Fourthly, if you looke to the worke and power of grace, wherein lies it, But in bringing every thought into obedience? |
| A72189 | How long shall thy vaine thoughts lodge within thee? |
| A72189 | How long, sayes the Lord, shall they lodge therein? |
| A72189 | How pretious are they? |
| A72189 | I made a convenant with mine eyes, why should I thinke upon a Maide? |
| A72189 | If injuries be offered us by others, what doe our thoughts distill out of those wrongs, but thoughts of revenge? |
| A72189 | Sixthly, if you looke to the issue of things: what shall be the subject of that great inquest at the Day of Judgement? |
| A72189 | So when sorrow is up, how doth it make us study the crosse that lights upon us? |
| A72189 | Take an experiment of this in Schollers( whose chiefe worke lies in this shop) how many precious thoughts are spent this way? |
| A72189 | When David walked alone, what extravagancy did his spirit run into? |
| A72189 | Would they bee rich? |
| A72189 | but the observing and keeping the thoughts in boūds: wherin lies the difference between sincere hearted Christians and others? |
| A72189 | let the ground lye fallow, and what weeds will there soone grow in it? |
| A72189 | what doe they study? |
| A72189 | what else are such fancies as these? |
| A40662 | * Peter was grieved, because our Saviour said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? |
| A40662 | And is not thy Word in generall the Text at Large of every Preacher? |
| A40662 | And when all my daily task is ended, why should I grudge then to go to Bed? |
| A40662 | And yet why should I not write? |
| A40662 | And yet, how many good Comments was this Prayer then capable of? |
| A40662 | Are not my Applications to man, more frequent then my Addresses to my Maker? |
| A40662 | Are the Charters of Grace granted to them, good to me? |
| A40662 | Besides, can one Commit one Sin more, and but one Sinne more? |
| A40662 | Both are for the Liberty of the Subject; Can they meet Evener? |
| A40662 | Both are for the Priviledges of Parliament; Can they come closer? |
| A40662 | But how comes he to Contradict himself, by his own Confession, in his next Epistle? |
| A40662 | But what if my Friend will not Shake hands with me? |
| A40662 | But who hath believed our Report? |
| A40662 | Can I hope that thou wouldest Remember my Prayers, when I had almost forgotten that I had prayed? |
| A40662 | Can my singing of Psalmes be pleasing to thy Eares, which is unpleasant to my own? |
| A40662 | Do I not love his Smiles, more then I fear Heavens Frowns? |
| A40662 | HOw wrangling and litigious were we in the time of Peace? |
| A40662 | How many Pious Passages, of farre later date, have I forgotten? |
| A40662 | I LORD, HOw neer was I to danger, yet escaped? |
| A40662 | If I my self build not, shall I snatch the Axe, and Hammer from him that doth? |
| A40662 | If to get their number be so difficult, what is it to get their Pardon? |
| A40662 | Is it because I am an ill Proficient in this point, that I must not turn over a new leafe, but am still kept to my old Lesson? |
| A40662 | Is there not a thin Vaile laid over thy Word, which is more rarified by Reading, and at last wholly worn away? |
| A40662 | Lord grant me one suite, which is this? |
| A40662 | May I not with him, Continue some Commerce of Kindnesse? |
| A40662 | May I not, by the same proportion, make an old Prayer new? |
| A40662 | Must the Earth of Necessity be Sad, because some ill- natured Starre is Sullen? |
| A40662 | Must the new Foe, quite justle out the old Friend? |
| A40662 | O whither will my mind saile, when distemper shall steer it? |
| A40662 | Or rather have I not Cause to fear, that thou remembrest my Prayers too well, to punish the Coldnesse and Badnesse of them? |
| A40662 | Or was it because I came with more appetite then before? |
| A40662 | The Apostle* saith, VVho planteth a Vineyard& eateth not of the Fruit thereof? |
| A40662 | Though the Amity be broken on his side, may not I Preserve my Counter part entire? |
| A40662 | Was ever more hope of worth in a lesse Volume? |
| A40662 | Whence comes this miscarriage? |
| A40662 | Whither will my Fancy run, when diseases shall ride it? |
| A40662 | Why art thou so heavie, O my soul? |
| A40662 | Why now, and no sooner did I see it? |
| A40662 | Yet he was Peters Brother, and a good man, and an Apostle, why did not Christ take the two pair of Brothers? |
| A40662 | was it not pitty to part them? |
| A01648 | A crust of bread is not due vnto my deserts: How much lesse then are all these externall goods which thou doest heap vpon mee? |
| A01648 | But who can reckon vp the treacherous assaults and invasions of the devill? |
| A01648 | Fayth is Prayers chiefe Attendant, CHRIST the Way: GOD''S Sprite both moues, and help? |
| A01648 | How doeth it goe against my stomacke to forgiue him? |
| A01648 | How long, Lord just and true, how long shall their enemies prevaile, and say, There, there, so would wee haue it? |
| A01648 | I attend vnto the light of thy precepts: and what doe I finde in the course of my yeares that are past, but darknesse and blindnesse? |
| A01648 | I examine my lyfe that is past: and what else doe I beholde, but a filthie stinking cloake of sinne? |
| A01648 | If thou wilt call me to appeare according to the severity of thy justice, how shall I come before thee? |
| A01648 | If thou wilt enter into judgement, who shall stand? |
| A01648 | O most innocent Iesu, what hast thou to doe with the sentence of death? |
| A01648 | O thou lover of man, whose delight is with the sonnes of men, who can worthilie set foorth the prayse of thy loue to man? |
| A01648 | O thou most beautifull amongst the sonnes of mē, what hast thou to doe with spittings vpon thee? |
| A01648 | O thou most righteous, what hast thou to doe with whips and bonds? |
| A01648 | What am I worme that thou shouldest bee so prodigallie bountifull for saving mee? |
| A01648 | What couldest thou, O Lord, haue done more for vs, or what could wee haue done more agaynst thee? |
| A01648 | What had it profited vs to haue beene borne, vnlesse by Christ thou hadst delivered vs when wee were captivated through sinne? |
| A01648 | What had it profited vs to haue beene redeemed, vnlesse thou hadst by thy word declared vnto vs the great benefit of our redemption? |
| A01648 | What is there in heaven or in earth of more pryce and excellencie, than that bodie which is vnited to thy Sonne personallie? |
| A01648 | What should it profit a man, to bee free from his sicknesse, and presentlie to fall into a worse relapse? |
| A01648 | What should it profite to bee absolved from sins past, vnlesse grace bee conferred to leade a godlie lyfe? |
| A01648 | What vse were there of a treasure that is hid, and a light that is put vnder a bushell? |
| A01648 | What were then my deserts? |
| A01648 | Who am I, most beautifull Brydegroome, that for mee the most filthie vassall of sinne, and whore of the devill, thou hast not refused to die? |
| A01648 | Who am I, most bountifull Creatour, that for mee most vile creature, thou hast not beene afrayde of the passion of the crosse? |
| A01648 | Who am I, most mightie Lord, that for mee disobedient servant, thou thy selfe wouldst become a servant so manie yeares? |
| A01648 | Who can enumerate those divers species of herbs, which thou doest everie yeare cause the earth to bring foorth to cure vs? |
| A01648 | Who can in wordes comprehende those sundrie kindes of living creatures, which were made for mans vse, and doe yet all serue him? |
| A01648 | Who can reckon vp the sinnes of his youth? |
| A01648 | Who can reckon vp those divers kindes of nutriments, which thou hast created, and doest as yet produce out of the earth vnto this day to nowrish vs? |
| A01648 | Who can sufficientlie in words expresse those bowels of thy mercie? |
| A01648 | Who can tell how oft hee offendeth? |
| A01648 | Who can therefore reckon vp the riches of thy bountie? |
| A01648 | Who knoweth how of thee offendeth? |
| A01648 | Who knoweth how oft hee offendeth? |
| A01648 | Who knoweth the sorrow of the heart, that is in a great straite by reason of offences? |
| A01648 | Why doe they imitate the furie of wolues ▪ when as they know that the bl ● ● ● of Christ the immaculate Lambe ● ● as poured out for vs? |
| A01648 | Yea, who can in mynde conceaue the worthinesse thereof? |
| A01648 | yea, who can in mynde conceaue the greatnesse, and the riches of thy goodnesse? |
| A03092 | And how much better is awe than terror? |
| A03092 | And what greater assurance can there be, than for Being it selfe to lay its being to pawne? |
| A03092 | Canot he that hath vouchsafed an issue in Christ from eternall death, vouchsafe an issue from all temporall evills? |
| A03092 | Dead stones in an Arch uphold one another, and shall not living? |
| A03092 | Death rather borrowes our life of us, than robbes us of it; and the glory of the Sunne findes a Resurrection, why not the Sonnes of Glory? |
| A03092 | EAch Night is but the past dayes Funerall, and the Morning his Resurrection; Why then should our Funerall sleepe be other than our sleepe at night? |
| A03092 | For what is there under heaven not troublesome, besides that which is called pleasure? |
| A03092 | HOw easie is it for us to mistake our owne estates? |
| A03092 | How easie is it to detest those sinnes in others, which wee flatter in our selves? |
| A03092 | How easily is that Theefe induced to steale, that knowes his Receiver? |
| A03092 | How many have dyed by hoping too much? |
| A03092 | How many would die did not hope sustaine them? |
| A03092 | How unseemly is it when a grave Cassock shall be lined with a wanton Reveller? |
| A03092 | If not healing with good works be justly punishable, what torment is there for those that wound with evill? |
| A03092 | Is it because Sinne, like to Sathan, where it hath got possession, is desirous to hold it, and knowes it is fully ejected by a free confession? |
| A03092 | Many drops make a shower; and what difference is it, to be wet either in the Raine, or in the River, if both be to the skin? |
| A03092 | Nature hath too slow a foot to follow Religion close at the heele: Who can expect our dull flesh should wing it with the flights of the soule? |
| A03092 | O Lord, since wee have sinned, why should we be niggardly of that action, wherein we may at once give glory unto Thee,& reliefe to our soules? |
| A03092 | Or is it out of an idle misprision of shame, which whilest it should be placed in offending, is mis- placed in disclosing our offence? |
| A03092 | Shall we contemne his necessity, who perhaps is so much more rich in grace, as he is poor in estate? |
| A03092 | THere is no man so pure in whom we may not mislike somewhat: and who may not as justly mislike somewhat in us? |
| A03092 | The grain is sowne pure, yet comes up with chaffe and huske: Hast thou a good son? |
| A03092 | The idle curiositie of Dinah bred all this mischief: what great evills arise from small beginnings? |
| A03092 | WHat an unworthy thing is it, that wee should pittie a beast over- loaden, and yet take no pittie of a Brother? |
| A03092 | WHy should we vexe our selves because another hath vexed us? |
| A03092 | Wee need not bee bidden to avoid an enemy, but who would run away from his friend? |
| A03092 | What a snare hath wealth proved to many? |
| A03092 | What matter is it to me, who he be that admonishes mee? |
| A03092 | When he shall be heavenly in the pulpit only? |
| A03092 | When the lawlesnesse of youth knows where to finde pitty and toleration, what mischiefe can it forbeare? |
| A03092 | Who can not pray for his daily bread, when hee hath it in his Cup- bourd? |
| A03092 | Who sees an Oxe grazing in a fat and rank pasture, and thinks not that hee is neere to the slaughter? |
| A03092 | Why should we live like beasts, pusht at by all the world for loftinesse? |
| A03092 | Why should we not as well wake to our Resurrection, as in the Morning? |
| A03092 | Why then should wee be so foolish to rest our hearts upon any of them? |
| A03092 | and for Life it selfe to lay life to pawne? |
| A03092 | and with crimes that make a loose one odious? |
| A03092 | he is Gods, not thine: Is he evill? |
| A03092 | nay maketh his heart a kind of heaven, a Temple, a Holy of Holies, wherein Incense is offered unto God? |
| A03092 | or because the tongue is so fee''d with self- love, that it is loth to be drawn to any verdict against the heart or hands? |
| A03092 | or because thorow a guiltinesse of deformity, it hides it selfe in the brest where it is once entertained, and hates the light? |
| A03092 | or like Waspes, stinging upon every touch? |
| A03092 | prevention than confusion? |
| A44560 | And how apt is hasty and in- considerate zealt to pass a grievous censure, where there is no other ground for it but meer misprision? |
| A44560 | And whence is it? |
| A44560 | And whither would our new lights have led us? |
| A44560 | And who but joyns with that Ecphonesis of the Father? |
| A44560 | Are unclean and wanton desires accustomed guests to his soul? |
| A44560 | As S. Paul say''s of speaking with several tongues, would not he that come''s in say you are mad? |
| A44560 | But if I seriously reflect on my self may I not finde a traiterous Judas within mine own home? |
| A44560 | COme Death, and antedate thy blow; Why are thy Charriot wheels so slow? |
| A44560 | Can I not ask my Father and he would give me more then ten Legions? |
| A44560 | Can not we be content to be admitted into his House except we ransack his closet and Cabinet; to be of his court except we be his Secretarys? |
| A44560 | Do charming looks smooth up her face? |
| A44560 | Hath pride and Ambition the throne in his heart? |
| A44560 | Have I found thee, O mine enemy? |
| A44560 | He runneth upon God, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his buckler, but whence such a grosse stupid insensiblenesse? |
| A44560 | How else should the Scripture be fulfilled? |
| A44560 | How great folly is it in us, to permit our selves to the hurry, of these blind and hood- wink''t, yet impetuous guides? |
| A44560 | How many refuse to take up the weapons and enter the Lists; and cry these are hard saings, who can bear them? |
| A44560 | How severely is Pilate condemned at my tribunal for sentencing my Saviour? |
| A44560 | I ever thought it more safe to be drawn forth and forced by importunities to set our hands to that Work for which, who is sufficient? |
| A44560 | I may startle, and disown it; Judas himself would not answer to his name, but put it of with a, Master, is it I? |
| A44560 | Is Time grown slugge? |
| A44560 | O Fools and slow of heart: but why so? |
| A44560 | On the other side, where is the misery and contemptiblenesse, the nakednesse and hunger, the aches the soars and the stench of the poor man? |
| A44560 | So when those that are without hear of so many dissensions and brawles such jangling opinions among us, will they not think us mad? |
| A44560 | The Devil comes often a pleading for some sinnes sub forma pauperis; Is it not a little one? |
| A44560 | The cup which my Father hath given, shall I not drink? |
| A44560 | What Red Sea can have so much horrour? |
| A44560 | What strange effects of this Sorcery have we seen in our daies? |
| A44560 | Whither are all the Rich man''s joyes fled in which his soul was steeped and inebriated? |
| A44560 | Who would not goe and sell all that he hath for the purchase of such a Pearl? |
| A44560 | Why trouble ye the woman? |
| A44560 | Why? |
| A44560 | and what people ever more rebellious then they? |
| A44560 | fretteth against the Lord, he is carelesse and rageth; but what''s the effect? |
| A44560 | or expectest thou wages for what deserveth stripes? |
| A44560 | or hast no dart To smite through such a willing heart? |
| A44560 | were not most of our new principles and opinions mere Decoys, and Captains chosen( though silently) to lead us back in a return into Egypt? |
| A44560 | yea, who would not barter his Trifles for an immarcescible Crown? |
| A39934 | 27, 35. would you see him Dead and Buried? |
| A39934 | 3 Ioab to be an obsequious knave, to do any thing that the king commands him against a faithfull servant to Ioab himself: shall I and my Lord Ioab? |
| A39934 | 60. would you see his Resurrection? |
| A39934 | And how did Christ love us? |
| A39934 | Art thou willing to part with any thing for him, that having found this treasure, canst thou presently hide it in thy heart? |
| A39934 | Art thou willing to sell all that thou hast to purchase this Field, this Treasure, this Wisdom? |
| A39934 | But how shall I come to Christ, that I may find mercy? |
| A39934 | But what are the grounds and reasons that Gods people fall from him by their iniquities? |
| A39934 | Dost thou eye Jesus Christ by faith? |
| A39934 | Dost thou see fulness of satisfaction in the merits, death, and passion of Christ? |
| A39934 | First may be from Gods Command, ● O Israel return unto me; turn you from from your evil waies, For why will ye dy O house of Israel? |
| A39934 | For until we be wounded, what need can we find of a medicine? |
| A39934 | God imploys Moses upon a service of great concernment; I will send thee to Pharoah saith God: I my Lord? |
| A39934 | Hath Jesus Christ purchased heaven for Believers? |
| A39934 | Hath he promised to satiate the hungry soul? |
| A39934 | If the Lord attain his end, he desires no more: For why should ● e when he hath his end? |
| A39934 | Is God so full of glory and Majesty? |
| A39934 | Is Jesus Christ the chief desire of thy soul? |
| A39934 | Is not the love of Christ to be esteemed by us? |
| A39934 | Is thy heart affected with the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ? |
| A39934 | Isaiah being in a vision in the presecne of God, and seeing the nature of the service unto which he was called; cryethout, woe is mee, for I am undon? |
| A39934 | It hath pleased the Father that in him all fullness should dwell: would you see Christ promised? |
| A39934 | No wise man will send a fool of an errand, who will set a fresh Souldier over an army, or intrust a dumb man with an Ambassadge? |
| A39934 | Objection may arise, Is God such a merciful God? |
| A39934 | Or with Friend, how camest thou hither? |
| A39934 | Our Saviour speaks of a deserved love as a thing not to be looked on, not worth any reward: For if ye love them that love you, what thanks have ye? |
| A39934 | Seemeth it, saith David,( being moved by the Courtiers to entertain the offer of Sauls daughter) a light thing to be the Kings Son in law? |
| A39934 | Shall we still persist and go on in sin? |
| A39934 | Until we can find our selves heart- sick of sin, what need can we find to our selves of a Physician? |
| A39934 | Well, Where shall I rest for Comfort ▪ In the Father? |
| A39934 | Who more laborious than the Husbandman, that doth desire to reap the fruit of his sowing? |
| A39934 | Who ought to be more diligent than a Christian, who intends to reap the hoped for fruit of eternal happiness? |
| A39934 | Would ye behold Christs Nativity? |
| A39934 | Would you behold his Passion? |
| A39934 | Would you see him at the Right hand of his Father in heaven? |
| A39934 | Would you see him coming from heaven to Judge the quick and the dead? |
| A39934 | Would you see his Assention? |
| A39934 | and is Iesus Christ so willing to imbrace us when we come unto him, and seek to him by those we 〈 ◊ 〉 which he hath appointed us in his Word? |
| A39934 | and of the children of wrath to make us heire of ● ● ● vation? |
| A39934 | and shall we reject this cup of Salvation? |
| A39934 | between the King of heaven, and the Daughter of Pharaoh what proportion? |
| A39934 | doth he command us to come unto him and drink i ● we thirst; not to sip but drink? |
| A39934 | doth he continually knock at the door of our hearts for entrance, and shall we not let him in? |
| A39934 | for my sins that have been so sinfull beyond measure? |
| A39934 | in our drunkenness, prophaness, contempt of Gods word, of his Ministers? |
| A39934 | in that he being the Son of God, humbled himself, to become a servant to men, to make us Sons and j ● ynt- heirs with himself? |
| A39934 | saith our Saviour, Do not even the Publicans the same? |
| A39934 | salvation to the repentant soul? |
| A39934 | shall ou ● Saviour Iesus Christ beg of us to be reconciled unto him, to come unto him to take his yoak? |
| A39934 | was his love an ordinary love? |
| A39934 | with what an awfulness and dreadfull reverence of his Majesty should I come before him to beg pardon for my sins? |
| A39934 | 〈 ◊ 〉 how must we come Christ, that we may be accepted? |
| A23765 | But Lord, what am I, the worst of men, that I should have any part of this Sacrament, who have so often despised him, and his sufferings? |
| A23765 | HOw long shall I seek Counsel in my Soul, and be so vexed in my heart? |
| A23765 | Hast thou called me from mine own Country, and from my Fathers house, and now to be forsaken by thee? |
| A23765 | Hath God forgotten to be gracious? |
| A23765 | Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord heal me, for my bones are vexed; my soul also is sore troubled; how long wilt thou punish me? |
| A23765 | Have pity on me now in the time of mercy, and condemn me not when thou comest to judgment: For what profit is there in my blood? |
| A23765 | How amiable are thy dwellings, O Lord God of Hosts? |
| A23765 | How long Lord, wilt thou hide thy self, for ever? |
| A23765 | How long wilt thou forget me O Lord, for ever? |
| A23765 | How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? |
| A23765 | I am a Dog, how shall I presume to take the Childrens bread? |
| A23765 | I will behave my self wisely, with a perfect heart, O when wilt thou come unto me? |
| A23765 | If thou Lord shouldest be extream to mark what is done amiss, O Lord who may abide it? |
| A23765 | If thou Lord, wilt be extream to mark what is done amiss, O Lord, who may abide it? |
| A23765 | If thou, O Lord, be extreme to mark what is done amiss; O Lord, who may abide it? |
| A23765 | Is his mercy clean gone for ever? |
| A23765 | LOrd, I am not worthy thou shouldest come under my roof; I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men? |
| A23765 | Lord, how long, how long shall the Wicked triumph? |
| A23765 | Lord, who shall abide in thy Tabernacle? |
| A23765 | My soul followeth hard after thee, O when wilt thou come unto me? |
| A23765 | My soul is athirst for God, even for the Living God: When shall I come and appear before the presence of God? |
| A23765 | O Lord God of Hosts, who is like unto thee? |
| A23765 | O Lord, what is man that thou shouldest so regard him, as to send thy Beloved Son to suffer such bitter things for him? |
| A23765 | O Lord, where is thy old loving kindness, which thou swarest unto David thy Servant in thy Truth? |
| A23765 | O Lord, who may abide it? |
| A23765 | O Lord, why oppressest thou my Soul, and hidest thy face from me? |
| A23765 | O be thou my strength, who am not able of my self to struggle with the slightest temptations: how often have I turned my back in the day of battel? |
| A23765 | O blessed Lord, how long shall Christendom continue the vilest part of the world, a sink of all abominable pollutions, which even Barbarians detest? |
| A23765 | O where are thy bowels? |
| A23765 | Shall I alone be excluded from thy mercy? |
| A23765 | Why art thou cast down O my Soul, and why art thou so disquieted within me? |
| A23765 | are they all forfeited by one offence against thee? |
| A23765 | are they restrained? |
| A23765 | canst thou endure to behold it in thine arms into which it now throws it self with all the force it hath? |
| A23765 | doth his promise fail for evermore? |
| A23765 | hath he in anger shut up his tender mercy? |
| A23765 | how long shall my Enemies triumph over me? |
| A23765 | how long shall so ungodly a sinner stand in thy Judgment, or such a sinner in the Congregation of the Righteous? |
| A23765 | how many of these Sacramental Vows have I violated? |
| A23765 | my soul is parch''d and dried up; my spirits are consumed by the heat of thy displeasure; may I not now beg one drop of comfort from thee? |
| A23765 | nay, which are not become even habitual, and accustomary to me? |
| A23765 | or how shall this spiritual Manna, this food of Angels be given to one who hath chosen to feed on husks with Swine? |
| A23765 | shall it expire in cries and tears when it calls for mercy? |
| A23765 | shall it miscarry full of prayers and longings after thee? |
| A23765 | what is become of thine ancient loving kindness? |
| A23765 | who shall dwell in thy holy Hill? |
| A23765 | yea, canst thou let it die of love to thee, for that hath brought me thus far to seek thee, and wilt thou suffer it to die at thy feet? |
| A40668 | A Large Bill but it must be discharged Can one City spend according to this weekely rate, and not be Bankerupt of People? |
| A40668 | And he said unto me, these are they who have come out of great Tribulation,& c. How comes the Elder when asking a question to be said to answer? |
| A40668 | And one of the Elders answered saying unto mee, what are these who are arrayed in white robes, and whence came they? |
| A40668 | And was this all? |
| A40668 | Are not our credits embarqud in the same Bottom, so that they swim or sinke together? |
| A40668 | Are there any which unjustly possesse the Houses of others? |
| A40668 | At least wise must not my short be called for, to make up the reckoning? |
| A40668 | At what Ordinary or rather Extraordinary do they diet? |
| A40668 | But O how shall God make my Bed, who have no bed of mine owne to make? |
| A40668 | But O where shall such be found, not resenting of the faultes and factions of their Fathers? |
| A40668 | But alasse how little their Leggs? |
| A40668 | But doe not our two Fasts more Peremptorily affirme and avouch our mutuall malice and hatred? |
| A40668 | But hath not this Inquiry, more of curiosity then Religion? |
| A40668 | But now; what if his Sonnes had not sinned? |
| A40668 | But 〈 ◊ 〉 not this the lively Em ● lem of my naturall cor ● uption? |
| A40668 | Can their pelfe prosper? |
| A40668 | Doe not all these Qualifications mystically Center themselves in my Saviour? |
| A40668 | HOW large Houses doe they build in London on little Ground? |
| A40668 | HOw comes it to passe that Groanes made in men by Gods Spirit can not bee uttered? |
| A40668 | Hast thou done what is disputable whether it be well done? |
| A40668 | Hast thou thy body unjustly imprisoned, or thy goods violently detained, or thy credit causelesly defamed? |
| A40668 | Have I no ● commanded thee? |
| A40668 | Have not many now adaies the same sicknesse in their Soules? |
| A40668 | How farre are his wayes abo ● e our apprehensions? |
| A40668 | How foule is my stomach to turne all foode into bad humours? |
| A40668 | How happy is their condition, who have God for their Interpreter? |
| A40668 | How many excellent Divines have these sad times hastened to their long home? |
| A40668 | How many have beene sorrow- shot to their Heart? |
| A40668 | How many trouble themselves about the Revelatiou, who might bee better busied in plaine Divinity? |
| A40668 | How much of my life is lavisht away? |
| A40668 | How well it fits him, and he it? |
| A40668 | How wide are our conjectures, when they guesse at Gods judgements? |
| A40668 | Is it a measuring cast whether it be lawfull or no? |
| A40668 | LOrd, how come wicked thoughts to perplex me in my Prayers, when I desire and endeavour onely to attend thy S ● rvice? |
| A40668 | May I not be admitted an Auditour at his Petitions, were it onely to say AMEN thereunto? |
| A40668 | O the distractions of our age? |
| A40668 | Severall Closset- Chappells, for those of the same Bed and Board? |
| A40668 | Those are farre worse,( and may not such be found?) |
| A40668 | Was Joshua a dunce or a coward? |
| A40668 | Was it a pious or politique designe to forbid such the r ● ceiving of the Sacrament; their spirituall food? |
| A40668 | Were the dwellers and lodgers in London weekly to cast Lotts, who should make up this two hundred, how would every one be affrighted? |
| A40668 | What dammage hath unwarie Rhetorick done to Religion? |
| A40668 | What shall I pay to my Land- Lord? |
| A40668 | When Iron gave Obedience, how can Wood make opposition? |
| A40668 | When two Messengers being sent together on the same Errand fall out and fight by the way, will not the worke be worse done then if none were employed? |
| A40668 | Why not? |
| A40668 | Why so slow? |
| A40668 | Why so? |
| A40668 | Yea ● barren Fig- tree bare 〈 ◊ 〉 fruit of Annoyance, Cut it downe why cumbreth it the groun ●? |
| A40668 | and raced, and pierced, and bruised, and broken one another? |
| A40668 | and what was all this? |
| A40668 | could Satans clutches snatch the Fan, what worke would he make? |
| A40668 | did his witt or his valour want an edge? |
| A40668 | is not this putting the evill day far from me, the ready way to bring it the nearest to me? |
| A40668 | was Iob''s labour lost, and his Sacrifice of none effect? |
| A40668 | what? |
| A40668 | when Jacob slept on the* ground who would not have had his hard lodging, therewithall to have his heavēly dreame? |
| A14795 | And so by a retrogradation how litle? |
| A14795 | And when I see them often foxed, methinke the Proverbe sutes those sutes, What is the fox but his case? |
| A14795 | Are the Lords waies as your waies that wee must goe to the King of heaven as unto a King on earth? |
| A14795 | Are there then more Christs? |
| A14795 | Because the sonne was worse used then the servants on earth, shall the servants therefore bee sooner heard then the Sonne in heaven? |
| A14795 | Each night is but the pastdayes funerall, and the morning his Resurrection: Why then should our funerall sleepe bee other then our sleepe at night? |
| A14795 | For in receiving benefits, who will not( with Euclio in Planutus) finde a third hand to reach out to take them? |
| A14795 | For what a poore ambition is it to bee the best man in a City? |
| A14795 | For what more loathsome stench, and noisome smells can a new opened sepulcher belch out, then these venomous open throated slanderers? |
| A14795 | For who will sow those barren sands, where hee knowes hee must not onely not expect a good harvest, but bee sure to loose his seed and labour? |
| A14795 | HOw cunningly doth the Prince of darknesse take on him the forme of an Angell of light? |
| A14795 | He that will be drunke, what will he not be, when he is drunke? |
| A14795 | How often have seeming- saints prooved divels? |
| A14795 | How shall my GOD glorifie mee, if I should give his glory to another? |
| A14795 | How silently and undaunted doe they meet death and give it entrance with small resistance? |
| A14795 | I see many drops make a shower: and what difference is it, whether I be wet either in the raine, or in the river, if both be to the skinne? |
| A14795 | I should, it is not too much, why should I make it lesse? |
| A14795 | If Heaven bee thus fold, what benefit has my poverty, by the price already paid? |
| A14795 | If I keepe the goodnesse I have''t is not enough: Why doe I not make it more? |
| A14795 | If I shall be heard onely in the name of his sonne, why should I use the name of his servants? |
| A14795 | If he bid me aske for peace onely in the name of the Prince of peace, why should I mention the Lady Mary? |
| A14795 | If he bid me come unto him, shall I goe unto another? |
| A14795 | If hee were so blamed that imployed not one talent well, what would become of mee, if I had ten, and abused them? |
| A14795 | If life affoord the best no better fate, How welcome is that death, that betters that bad state? |
| A14795 | If life be such( as such life is t is sure) When tales and times find ends why should life still indure? |
| A14795 | If my life be but my walke, and heaven my home, why should I desire a long journey? |
| A14795 | Is another better, or am I too good to goe in mine owne errands to the Almighty? |
| A14795 | Mercy still pardons, sinne doth still offend, And being endlesse both, where shall I end? |
| A14795 | My evill when it commeth may make my griefe too great, why then should my griefe before it comes make my evill greater? |
| A14795 | Or if wee must, yet if my King bid me come shall I send an other? |
| A14795 | Since then the glory of the sunne findes a Resurrection, why should not the sonnes of glory? |
| A14795 | Were it a want of manners, or a want of obedience to come when I am bid? |
| A14795 | What Europe to the whole Earth? |
| A14795 | What a Shire to the whole Island? |
| A14795 | What that Earth to a Starre? |
| A14795 | What that Starre to Heaven? |
| A14795 | What this Island to the Continent of Europe? |
| A14795 | What though I am not so happy as I desire? |
| A14795 | What''s a City to a Shire? |
| A14795 | What''s the earth when trimmest drest To that cristall spangled dwelling? |
| A14795 | When the LORD therefore of the Vineyard commeth, what will he doe to these Husbandmen? |
| A14795 | Where then shall I begin, with hope to shew How great both are, who both exceeding know? |
| A14795 | Wherein are the poore blessed, if pardon shall bee purchased onely by expense? |
| A14795 | Who would not war- fare end and travells cease To live at home in rest and rest at home in peace? |
| A14795 | Why not to the declining sunne in adversity, as( like Persians) to the rising sunne of prosperity? |
| A14795 | Why offended at the cold change of affection in my Summer- friends? |
| A14795 | Why should they feare man, when man would not obey GOD? |
| A14795 | Why should we not as well awake to our Resurrection, as in the morning? |
| A14795 | Why vexed at the quaking fit of a quartane ague? |
| A14795 | Written by A. W. — Ego cur acquirere pauca Si possim invidear? |
| A14795 | Yet in these times what is more common or more practised then this ingratitude? |
| A14795 | and being slipt downe from the top of reasonable sense, where stoppeth he from tumbling downe into a beastly sensuality? |
| A14795 | and that to the Heaven of Heavens? |
| A25963 | Ah God, how great is thy greatnesse? |
| A25963 | Ah Lord God, how much better is it thus to have thee, then to have all things out of thee? |
| A25963 | Ah Lord God, that art so glorious here in Grace, how transcendently glorious art thou in Glory? |
| A25963 | Ah how good is thy great goodnesse? |
| A25963 | Ah how low, how low is it, to know any thing but thee, O God? |
| A25963 | Ah how sweet a thing is it to serve the Lord? |
| A25963 | Ah if I could, if I could, alwaies possesse these, what would I care for them? |
| A25963 | Ah if the want of the World be so sweet when in its want we find no want, how sweet then, yea how much sweeter is Heavens fulnesse? |
| A25963 | Ah what a most deformable thing is man? |
| A25963 | And dost thou find that all that thou dost is nothing to what thou wouldst, and desirest and longest to do? |
| A25963 | And if our Joys be so great here on earth, in the midst of fears, Ah how great shall they be in Heaven? |
| A25963 | Art thou conformable to Christ thy head, thy husband, thy Lord, and thy King? |
| A25963 | Awake, awake, from the dead thou carelesse man, why sleepest thou? |
| A25963 | But Ah then how incomprehensible and great is the love of the Creator, for, and unto us his Creatures? |
| A25963 | But what is man that he should be clean, and the Son of man that is borne of a woman, that he should be righteous? |
| A25963 | Death Ah how comly art thou in the sight of all Gods children? |
| A25963 | Dost thou feel thy heart heartily to long for the knowledge of God and all his waies, to love, fear, serve, honour and obey him? |
| A25963 | Dost thou much more love heaven for God than God for heaven? |
| A25963 | How loathsome, Ah how loathsome am I to my self, and yet not so much by much as I would be? |
| A25963 | How much nothing, O Lord, is all other things to thee: And how much above all things, O Lord, art thou to me? |
| A25963 | How small a thing, how poor a thing, and how low a thing, is and are all things? |
| A25963 | How sweet, O God, Oh God how sweet are thy Sweets? |
| A25963 | How weary, Ah how weary am I of my self? |
| A25963 | How willingly, ah how willingly would such a one be poor in the world to have and possess these? |
| A25963 | If then its best be so bad, what is its worst? |
| A25963 | Is Christ better to thee than all things? |
| A25963 | Is there nothing in heaven so dear and pretious unto thee as is thy God, thy Christ, nor in all the earth in comparison of him? |
| A25963 | We ● e it not, and would it not be much better for me, that I were not, and that I never had been? |
| A25963 | What a stinking Carrion is man? |
| A25963 | What hath the King more than the beggar, or what is he more? |
| A25963 | What is it to have all things out of God, and besides God? |
| A25963 | What is my life, or my self, if it be not spent for thee, and what are all my daies? |
| A25963 | What, shall we be sorry for that God is so good unto us? |
| A25963 | Wilt thou alwaies be comforted and rejoyce? |
| A25963 | Wilt thou live eternally? |
| A25963 | Wilt thou live happy? |
| A25963 | and say, that he doth us too much good; how dare any man choose any condition for himself? |
| A25963 | how beautiful, Ah how beautiful is thy beautifulnesse? |
| A25963 | how deliciously sweet is thy sweetnesse? |
| A25963 | how doth he rejoyce, and leap and skip, and sing for joy, that he is with him alone? |
| A25963 | how lovely, Ah how transcendently lovely is thy lovelinesse? |
| A25963 | if it s all be worth nothing at all, why wilt thou then be such a fool? |
| A25963 | who would not fight for Christ against all his enemies, and adversaries, knowing that they are already conquered and made his foot- stool? |
| A07678 | ( who in their kinde praise God) and man to dishonour him by vsurping the benefit of rest and sleepe, without acknowledging them his owne gifts? |
| A07678 | And admit hee attaine vnto it, is this the happinesse he aymes at? |
| A07678 | And did he not confound the ministers of their intended torments in his Iustice? |
| A07678 | And hauing spent all, as( in Gods iust iudgment) many of them doe, as daily experience sheweth, what becomes of them? |
| A07678 | And how can he acknowledge them his gifts without thankesgiuing vnto him for them, and prayer to him to enioy them? |
| A07678 | And how can wee thinke to enioy quiet& rest in safty, if we cal not vpon him, that is our keeper and the giuer of rest, sleepe and health? |
| A07678 | And would not all men desire, and couet to bee in his like estate? |
| A07678 | But what happinesse is there in any of these? |
| A07678 | But what intended he by this his flattery? |
| A07678 | Can these men pray for a blessing vpon their vocations and labours? |
| A07678 | Dauid a man chosen after Gods owne heart, how was he vexed on all sides, inward and outward? |
| A07678 | Did hee perish there? |
| A07678 | Did not the powerfull and preuayling hand of God, the Angell of his presence, miraculously preserue them in his mercie? |
| A07678 | For example, was not Daniel in a desperate danger, being cast into the hungry Lyons Denne? |
| A07678 | How many men yet are there of conceit, that they can pray when they list, and how they list? |
| A07678 | How many tryals, crosses, troubles and afflictions, had that most meekest man Moses? |
| A07678 | How then can our prayers but bee heard and answered, seeing they proceed from Gods own Spirit, that dwelleth in vs? |
| A07678 | Is not this chiefest happinesse to bee accepted of God as h ● s onely Treasure? |
| A07678 | Lord thou knowest, hee is enemie to thee, how much more vnto mee? |
| A07678 | Nay, can they, or doe they pray at all? |
| A07678 | Norden, John, 1548- 1625? |
| A07678 | Norden, John, 1548- 1625? |
| A07678 | Saint Paul was a man Diuinely qualified, and yet hee accounteth himselfe of the number of them that know not what to pray, as hee ought: what then? |
| A07678 | Shall the Parents beare the shame of their Children that kick against all good counsell, and will obstinately run to their owne ruine? |
| A07678 | Should reasonable man so neerely resemble vnreasonable creatures? |
| A07678 | Should wee not pray at all, because wee know not how, or what to pray as we ought? |
| A07678 | The three children in the seuenfold hot Furnace, were they consumed? |
| A07678 | The truely faithfull in deed haue a promise, that if they open their mouthes, God will hil them And what is it but to assist them in their prayers? |
| A07678 | This being thine owne promise, Lord, and thou knowing my faith( though weake) and my repentance, what should hinder thy mercies in forgiuing my sinns? |
| A07678 | Thou art the strength of my life, of whom, or of what, should I be afrayd? |
| A07678 | Though to mee weake creature, the night is most dangerous; but that thou art my light and my saluation, what, or whom, therefore need I to feare? |
| A07678 | WHat difference doth christian experience find between a carnall worldling, and a man truely fearing God? |
| A07678 | What a happy man was Nabuchadnezzar in his glorious palace? |
| A07678 | What a miserable man was Iob on the dunghill? |
| A07678 | What fruit had they in it? |
| A07678 | What greater affliction could befall a mortall man? |
| A07678 | What lose then these seeming miserable men, when for their momentanie sufferings, they shall receiue a perpetuall reward? |
| A07678 | What then? |
| A07678 | Who then, or what shall seperate vs from the loue of Christ, in and by whom wee haue firme hope to attaine vnto this so great happinesse? |
| A07678 | Why then shall faithfull men feare or be affrayd at the ● alice, and furious threates of whatsoeuer roaring Tyrant? |
| A07678 | Would not all men admire this mans happinesse? |
| A07678 | and my sinnes being forgiuen, what should hinder that thy sweet saying ▪ Be thou whole, and I shall be whole? |
| A07678 | and what a glorious Monarch was Balteshasher, who feasted one thousand of his Vassall Princes at once? |
| A07678 | and what an vnhappy man was Joseph in prison? |
| A07678 | doth not like experience tell vs? |
| A42148 | And hath not God this promise made to thee, That thou by him shalt ne''re forsaken be? |
| A42148 | But if he will not thee deliver, then Wilt thou submit unto the lusts of men? |
| A42148 | But some it''s like will yet be asking me, Within what year or month this time will be? |
| A42148 | But to be minded spiritually, Is life and peace to perpetuity: A carnal mind''gainst God is enmity, Nor is it subject to his Law; but why? |
| A42148 | But what, is''t now a crime to Preach and Pray, That I must lie in Prison night and day? |
| A42148 | Can any one think or imagine how Christ should be said to reign on earth? |
| A42148 | Canst thou, my soul, delight to be or dwel Within devouring fire? |
| A42148 | Doth Christ now reign& rule amongst those men That swear, and curse, and drink,& roar, and then Fall out and quarrel, fight and kill, and whore? |
| A42148 | How can Rome be the Bride of Christ, who by Her whorish tricks the Bridegroom doth deny? |
| A42148 | If so, then certainly We must them heed as God''s pure mind, for then Came they to any by the will of men? |
| A42148 | Nothing can her to grief or sorrow move; How can she mourn, that hath her fill of Love? |
| A42148 | Of whom''t was said, These men do prophesie; What, for my sake, saith he, dost thou envie? |
| A42148 | Or have they got no maw To do me right? |
| A42148 | Or would he not allow Their subjects unto them such honor give, Under whose Government they then did live? |
| A42148 | Or, whether any man did ever know That Peter was so proud, men kist his toe? |
| A42148 | Saith David in his Psalms, The Heathen rage, Vain things imagine; what doth this presage? |
| A42148 | Suppose, I say, that thou hadst all these things, And all the glory this world with it brings, What art the near? |
| A42148 | Then Christ to this them answered, and said, Oh fools, and slow of heart for to believe, What all the Prophets spake wo n''t you receive? |
| A42148 | Then Saul astonisht, says, Lord, who art thou? |
| A42148 | Then dost thou lose thy All for his dear sake? |
| A42148 | Was''t ever known that any were asham''d That trusted in him, though they might be blam''d By wicked men? |
| A42148 | What loss ca n''t be? |
| A42148 | What needst thou care for all thy foes? |
| A42148 | What should the reason be? |
| A42148 | What that communication was they had? |
| A42148 | Whom have I in Heaven but thee? |
| A42148 | Why should I then with Prison- bonds be frighted( Tho in my bonds I am by many slighted?) |
| A42148 | Why shouldst thou man so long in Prison lye? |
| A42148 | Why shouldst thou then seek great things for thy self? |
| A42148 | Would they be us''d so by Romes brats, and be Forc''t to conform to Romes idolatry? |
| A42148 | ],[ London? |
| A42148 | or canst thou make good chear Where everlasting, cruel burnings are? |
| A42148 | or canst thou tell How dreadful''t is? |
| A42148 | what''s that? |
| A42148 | who would not walk a path That dirty is, if it an ending hath In Rest and in unutterable Joys, Rather than one that leads to nought but toys? |
| A51388 | ( Whither art thou going?) |
| A51388 | 1. Who, And what art thou? |
| A51388 | 1. who and what art thou? |
| A51388 | 1. who and what art thou? |
| A51388 | 2. where hast thous been? |
| A51388 | 2. where hast thous been? |
| A51388 | 3. where art thou now going? |
| A51388 | 3. where art thou now going? |
| A51388 | 4. whither art thou going? |
| A51388 | 4. whither art thou going? |
| A51388 | And if in colder Climates, their Bodies had required Covering and Vestments? |
| A51388 | And the Earth brought forth its Encrease without any Labour or Tillage? |
| A51388 | And why, for the Trifles of Mortality, art thou so disquieted within me? |
| A51388 | How many Emblems of the Resurrection have we frequently before our Eyes? |
| A51388 | How should the LORD GOD take Offence at your doing that, which will most certainly make you so like to himself, and his own Divine Essence? |
| A51388 | How weak are then the Projects, and how vain the Imaginations of poor Mortal Wights? |
| A51388 | I have yet one question to ask of certain Persons, who are rightly stiled Modern Sadduces, and that is, For what Reason they deny the Resurrection? |
| A51388 | Is there any of you, who knows the Ordinances of Heaven, or can set the dominion thereof in the Earth? |
| A51388 | O Almighty GOD, Maker of all things Visible and Invisible, How wonderful and unsearchable are all thy Works? |
| A51388 | Of which, I am sure, you can give but very slender Reasons, No more than of the Treasure of the Snow, the Hail, or Hoary Frost? |
| A51388 | On the contrary, What would I now give? |
| A51388 | Or once imagine, That He who made all things out of nothing, should not be able, when ever he pleases, out of something to make any thing? |
| A51388 | Or the Dust of Iron to the Load- stone? |
| A51388 | Or to come nearer to our own Terrestial Globe: Who is he that gathers and holds the Wind in his fists? |
| A51388 | Or what Opportunities did he ever lose of attempting to frustrate God''s gracious Designs? |
| A51388 | Or why the Skin of an Eele or Snake should give present ease, to the violent pain of the Cramp? |
| A51388 | Or why they should at all doubt God''s Omnipotence? |
| A51388 | Q. Whither art thou going? |
| A51388 | There is yet a third Sense, in which this Question( Whither art thou going?) |
| A51388 | What art thou now doing? |
| A51388 | What art thou now doing? |
| A51388 | What is his Name, and what is his Son''s Name, if you can tell me? |
| A51388 | What reason can any Philosopher give, why the bark of a Tree in Peru should be a ready Cure for a Fever or Ague? |
| A51388 | What satisfaction have I now? |
| A51388 | Where hast thou been? |
| A51388 | Where hast thou been? |
| A51388 | Wherefore is Light given to him that is in Misery, and Life unto the bitter in Soul? |
| A51388 | Whether Flesh had been allowed them for Food, as well as Fruits and Herbs? |
| A51388 | Which of you can bind the sweet Influences of Pleiades, or loose the Bands of Orion? |
| A51388 | Whither art thou going? |
| A51388 | Who can give a rational accout of Straws jumping to the jett? |
| A51388 | Who has bewitch''t you to outdo the Pagans, Turks and Infidels? |
| A51388 | Who is he that can deliver himself from the hand of the Grave? |
| A51388 | Who is he that has bound the Waters in a Garment? |
| A51388 | Who is that has established all the ends of the Earth? |
| A51388 | Who long for Death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden Treasures? |
| A51388 | Who, And what art thou? |
| A51388 | Why then art thou cast down so often, O my Soul? |
| A51388 | in what parts of the World they had inhabited? |
| A51388 | unless Thou be pleased to send some Guardian Angel, as well to lead and guide, as to aid and assist me? |
| A19502 | & how louingly haue I winked at thy transgressions? |
| A19502 | & thinkest thou now, that for thy euill deeds I will vtterly forsake thee, seeing it is among my praises, that the worke which I begin, I perfect it? |
| A19502 | & thinkest thou that I am lesse wise and louing in dealing with mine? |
| A19502 | & was he againe so louing, that when hee saw them humbled, his affection was inflamed,& compelled him to reueale himselfe vnto them? |
| A19502 | & will he let thee faint in following him, who would not let thē faint, who were to go from him? |
| A19502 | And as for the worke of my saluation, seeing it is a worke that my GOD will worke in despite of thee, wherefore shall I regard thy testimonie? |
| A19502 | Are not these the vndoubted tokens of my Grace in thee? |
| A19502 | Call to minde my workes of old, and what I haue done to thee since thou canst remember: how cared I for thee in thy young and tender yeeres? |
| A19502 | Canst thou deny but that thou hast felt my power working in thy Soule? |
| A19502 | Esteemest thou that my wounds are ineffectuall? |
| A19502 | Haue I not made thee to giue Christs name a publike testimonie, with thine owne disaduantage? |
| A19502 | Haue I not sometime stirred thee vp in great feruencie, to call on the Name of the Lord? |
| A19502 | How oft hast thou found this, when thou wert sicke of loue, I haue strengthened thee with the Flagons of my Wine,& comforted thee with my Apples? |
| A19502 | IS my mercy onely for a day, or for a yeere? |
| A19502 | If he was so carefull to satisfie their bodily necessities, will he neglect the spirituall necessities of his owne? |
| A19502 | If in thy selfe thou seekest it, remember what thou art doing: wilt thou haue the Lord bound and obliged to thee? |
| A19502 | Is it not among my praises, that I am able to doe exceeding abundantly aboue all that my Children can aske or think of me? |
| A19502 | Is there any truth so vndoubted, but thou darest deny it at any time? |
| A19502 | Knowest thou not, that as the Heauens are aboue the Earth, so my thoughts are aboue thine? |
| A19502 | Looke backe now& see; did not the Angel of my presence leade thee, whē thou haddest neither wisedome nor strength to gouerne thy selfe? |
| A19502 | O Lord, how can it be possible, that my Soule can liue here in this absence from thee? |
| A19502 | O My beloued, why fearest thou, and art so cast downe and disquieted within thy selfe? |
| A19502 | O my distrustfull Soule, wilt thou once learne to trust in the mercy of thy God assuredly? |
| A19502 | Oh that these feelings might for euer abide with me: what trouble would not be easie, where thy comforts are present? |
| A19502 | Or art thou content to seeke it in me? |
| A19502 | Remembrest thou not that the Tempter hath assaulted thee, but I haue with- drawne the occasion of sin? |
| A19502 | The SOVLE reioyceth in the LORD O Lord, if such comfort be in thy crosse, what is in thy Crowne? |
| A19502 | Was Ioseph so wise, as to conceale his tender affection from his brethren, till he brought thē to an humble acknowledging of their sin? |
| A19502 | Will any Phisicion powre out a rare oyntment, either where no need is; or else, where it can not profit? |
| A19502 | and if it bee aboue thee, how much more aboue all that thou canst do? |
| A19502 | and if on the contra ● ● thou doest denie it, a ● ● therefore the more vnsure of saluation? |
| A19502 | and if thy disposition in the earth were such as it should be, then what remaineth, but that the prais of his mercy should fall to the ground? |
| A19502 | and thinkest thou, that my Father would haue my bloud to be shed in vaine? |
| A19502 | and when the occasion serued, did not I restraine and hold back the Tempter? |
| A19502 | and when thou sinnedst, with what long patience haue I wayted thy turning? |
| A19502 | and why thē wilt thou not trust in my mercies to the end? |
| A19502 | canst thou denie now, that my mercy preserued thee from many sins, whereunto thy nature was prone, and ready to haue declined? |
| A19502 | countest thou thy sinnes so deadly, that my merit and vertue can not cure them? |
| A19502 | did I not then begin to acquaint thee with the knowledge& feare of my Name? |
| A19502 | dost thou well to bee angry with my chastisements? |
| A19502 | hast thou not considered that my mercy is aboue all my workes? |
| A19502 | haue I not made thee a wrestler against thy inordinate lusts? |
| A19502 | how much more then is it aboue thee, who art nothing in comparison of my works? |
| A19502 | if no miserie were in thee, whereupon should his mercy be manifested? |
| A19502 | or doth sin so possesse thee, that beside it, also there is not in thee a will to do good,& a loue to righteousnesse? |
| A19502 | or is it for euer& euer toward those whom I haue made mine in Christ Iesus? |
| A19502 | or shall it be sayd ▪ his mercy saued thee not? |
| A19502 | or that there is no force in my sufferings? |
| A19502 | was it for thy good deedes that first I entered into friendship with thee? |
| A19502 | why refusest thou to take vp my crosse and follow me, and to taste of that cup which I dranke before thee, and for thee? |
| A19502 | why therefore shall I enter into disputing with thee any more? |
| A19502 | why thē wilt thou match thy sins with my mercies? |
| A19502 | why wouldest thou so extoll thy euill deeds, that thou shouldest extenuat my rich mercies; or in any way cōpare the one with the other? |
| A19502 | will Nature doe such things? |
| A19502 | will he not answere thee, who cries vnto him? |
| A19502 | will he not care for thee who hast waited vpon him, not three dayes, but many yeeres? |
| A19502 | will he not saciate thee, who seekes him? |
| A19502 | wilt thou be thine own Sauiour? |
| A19502 | wilt thou measure my mercies with so narrow a span, as to think I haue no more to giue, then thou hast an heart to receiue? |
| A19502 | wilt thou restraine my mercies, and limit them within so narrow bounds, as to think they can not be extended ouer all thy transgressions? |
| A65793 | Again consider, what a needy creature thou art: look upon thy garments, how many trades have there been imployed in making them up? |
| A65793 | Again, if thou reflect thy eyes upon the life of the rest of men, how much more intolerable labours shall you see undertaken for lighter rewards? |
| A65793 | And how fraile also are these things, which chance, or a disease will take from thee? |
| A65793 | And then, wherein is it that thou excellest another? |
| A65793 | And who can promise thee they shall be good? |
| A65793 | Art thou skilfull in affairs of Commonweals? |
| A65793 | Besides, of what great frailty is it? |
| A65793 | But for a wise man, with whom should he be angry? |
| A65793 | But the whole life of such as practise arts, and sciences, how much doth it excell others? |
| A65793 | But what follows the period of this short life, who is able to express? |
| A65793 | Conclude, what a banquet, what a charger of dainties, what an one, and how rich a potion of all health, hath God mingled for thee with his own hand? |
| A65793 | Dost thou desire knowledge? |
| A65793 | Dost thou lose one quarter of an houre? |
| A65793 | Dost thou take away one dish of a halfpeny? |
| A65793 | Fortitude? |
| A65793 | From whence are so many become maimed, and creeples, ● ffected by mutual wounds? |
| A65793 | From whence are so many wars and slaughters, and the threads of so many mens lives cut asunder in one day? |
| A65793 | From whence are the swarms of so many of the rest of diseases; whereof some are common and naturall? |
| A65793 | How great a part of Man- kind are intangled in these calamities? |
| A65793 | How high is he? |
| A65793 | How much is it fit thou shouldst not endure that any thing should be compared with him, or be vouchsased any honour at all when he is mentioned? |
| A65793 | How uncomely is it to expresse any affection to good chear? |
| A65793 | In beauty? |
| A65793 | In strength or nimblenesse? |
| A65793 | Lastly, art thou profitable to many, being excellent in any art? |
| A65793 | Moreover, the vertues of the body, how little praise deserve they? |
| A65793 | Nobility? |
| A65793 | Now as for the excellencies of the soul, what are they? |
| A65793 | Now he that hath got a custome of it, what is he good for? |
| A65793 | Pleasure? |
| A65793 | The most part thou dost by habit, that is, naturally; in what thing therefore is it that thou preferrest thy self before others? |
| A65793 | Thee he did know, better then thou dost thy self? |
| A65793 | Then for medicines? |
| A65793 | What great fortitude therefore is it, to make a change of life which is most pleasant, into death to be suffered by torments? |
| A65793 | What should I but adde, how a Community is for the most part neither of a certain number, nor a limited time? |
| A65793 | What should I speak of the attentive care of thy substance, whereby to nourish and enrich them? |
| A65793 | What should I speak, how wholly ignorant we are of humane actions, and what belongeth to our very selves? |
| A65793 | Where are now the heads of those Monarchs and Emperours, who made the world to tremble? |
| A65793 | Where are the cunning and crafty fetches of State Polititians? |
| A65793 | Where are those admirable works of Artificers, that have proved nothing impossible for industry to perform? |
| A65793 | Where are those martiall armies of mighty Conquerours? |
| A65793 | Where are those soaring wits of Philosophers, which comprehended the secrets of Heaven and Earth? |
| A65793 | Where is the vigorous perswasion of Oratours, or the alluring sweetnesse of Poets? |
| A65793 | Whichsoever happens, with what a torment of thy bowells art thou divided, and as it were torn away from so dear pledges? |
| A65793 | and how much more, if thou neglectest to come at all? |
| A65793 | and how strong? |
| A65793 | and how wise? |
| A65793 | are those any thing fewer that are gathered together for thy food? |
| A65793 | as also for the building, and furniture of thy house? |
| A65793 | from how many creatures, herbs, elements, and countries have they been fetched? |
| A65793 | how abundant? |
| A65793 | how almighty? |
| A65793 | how every way to be honoured, and wholy desireable? |
| A65793 | how glorious? |
| A65793 | how good? |
| A65793 | how holy? |
| A65793 | how mercifull? |
| A65793 | how pious? |
| A65793 | how rich? |
| A65793 | or how canst thou be sufficiently cautious, not to light upon some one that is such? |
| A06475 | ( Oh ● ord) whom have I in Hea ● en but Thee? |
| A06475 | And so Reubens Regiment scorned to be led up in Armes by ● o weake an instrument? |
| A06475 | But how many hath ● wages of unrighteousnes corrupted, and spurd on to bad seruices? |
| A06475 | But what Saint is priviledged with the state ● f Perfection here? |
| A06475 | But what strength or pow ● ● can reside in these poore lit ● tle Wormes? |
| A06475 | Can those hearts which should alwaies bee united, in so small a distance be divided? |
| A06475 | HE ought to have put his Masters money to the Exchangers, but 〈 … 〉 Why not he labouring as well as his two other fellow servants? |
| A06475 | HOw cold and darke is this season? |
| A06475 | HOw comfortable, ho ● comely is this? |
| A06475 | HOw cunning the world is to deceive the world? |
| A06475 | HOw full of care was this Earth- worme? |
| A06475 | HOw glorious, comfortable, and pleasant was his light, this last houre? |
| A06475 | Honour? |
| A06475 | How kind ● ● 〈 ◊ 〉 Nurse giving it? |
| A06475 | IS it not pity such a Ros ● should have such a Canker? |
| A06475 | In this see the sinner Habituated and accustomed unto evill courses, can the Black ● ore change his colour; or the Leopard his spots? |
| A06475 | That seemes to be one aggra ● ation of Ieroboams wicked ● es, That he made Israel sin, ● hat excuse can this idle ● oule make? |
| A06475 | The last quarter how flourishing? |
| A06475 | VVHat a stirre is here on all sides? |
| A06475 | VVHat a strange alteration is here in this Tree? |
| A06475 | VVHat dangers 〈 ◊ 〉 Poore Vessell hath passed? |
| A06475 | VVHat makes 〈 ◊ 〉 growing, and flouri ● shing in so good a piece of Ground? |
| A06475 | VVHat resorting to His house, by kin ● red, friends, and Neighbours? |
| A06475 | VVHat? |
| A06475 | VVHich of us tiro are of the Ancienter House? |
| A06475 | VVHither posts this deepe- learnd Pharisee with such Eagernes and Zeale? |
| A06475 | VVHy this sooner extinguishd then another? |
| A06475 | VVas it the force of the Enemies Army that affrigh ● ed him, or did he thinke he should come too late? |
| A06475 | VVill he put the fault in Iordan because he could not Passe over his high sweld VVaves? |
| A06475 | WHat have I, or this Man, in Vs? |
| A06475 | WHere doth this Summer singing Souldier, take up his quarter in Winter time? |
| A06475 | Was it because Deborah a Woman was then the Generall in the Feild? |
| A06475 | Was it feare of any Persecution? |
| A06475 | Was 〈 ◊ 〉 religion? |
| A06475 | Watch- m ● ● and sleepe? |
| A06475 | Wealth? |
| A06475 | What a folly was 〈 ◊ 〉 to watch him, who did 〈 ◊ 〉 them? |
| A06475 | What a spacious ● iberty had it eyther for Exercise, or Recreation? |
| A06475 | What a strange delusion was this? |
| A06475 | What a vaine folly was it to dippe in water, to swimme in blood? |
| A06475 | What comfort will these afford my soule? |
| A06475 | What is the world? |
| A06475 | What made hee then in that Spirituall warfare ● if blowes would daunt him? |
| A06475 | What they will urge yet, ● ● at they were Soldiers? |
| A06475 | What ● ● iseries, afflictions, cala ● ● ityes, poverty, disgrace ● oe encounter them? |
| A06475 | What 〈 ◊ 〉 world of water hath she pl ● ● ● ed through? |
| A06475 | What''s the ● uarrell? |
| A06475 | Where had he this posture to turne temporiser? |
| A06475 | Where was he priviledged to bee idle, while the others were working? |
| A06475 | Who dare then question thy Action for uniust? |
| A06475 | With wh ● ● strange Nations hath sh ● ● traded? |
| A06475 | Worthy Calvin hath it, Si peccare norunt Parentes in paradiso, quid mirum si Nos in sterquilinio? |
| A06475 | and how carefully doth shee provide for there diet, and sustenance? |
| A06475 | and how uncomfortable? |
| A06475 | and upon the ● ● guard? |
| A06475 | and who doe 〈 ◊ 〉 desire on Earth, in compa ● ● son of Thee? |
| A06475 | and 〈 ◊ 〉 but an Ideot would re ● ● se such an offered Prize? |
| A06475 | but two ● ● thr ● n in a who ● World? |
| A06475 | did Gamaliel his T ● tor ever read such a Lecture of bloody persecution to him? |
| A06475 | did hee suppose this present world the safer or the sweeter? |
| A06475 | for wealth? |
| A06475 | how foolish? |
| A06475 | how replenished? |
| A06475 | must thou needs swim in the blood of his poore members also? |
| A06475 | not 〈 ◊ 〉: His conscience galls him ● ere, what then? |
| A06475 | or being dead is it not 〈 ◊ 〉 be revived? |
| A06475 | or ho ● ● o ●? |
| A06475 | or impotency? |
| A06475 | or what weapo ● are they able to manage? |
| A06475 | or why at all? |
| A06475 | see how greedy th ● ● were of monyes, these 〈 ◊ 〉 spoake words against the ● ● owne lives, what? |
| A06475 | so faire a face such a Blemish? |
| A06475 | was it a ● spitious feare of loosing? |
| A06475 | was it any discontent that this Tribe harboured because it lost the priviledge of the first borne? |
| A06475 | where found he this Axiome in the whole Law to persecute the Gospell? |
| A06475 | where learnt he ever to make Mose fight against Christ? |
| A06475 | why not he performing his duty though others were careles? |
| A06475 | why then did he so Hypocritically joyne to tha ● Heavenly Doctor in Divinity ● what made he in this Colledge if he did not intend to proceed? |
| A06475 | will hee plead ● ● norance? |
| A06475 | will not the blood of that One satisfie thy madnesse? |
| A06475 | yet how secure? |
| A06475 | ● he ● lesh? |
| A06475 | 〈 ◊ 〉 quietly you may see 〈 ◊ 〉 receive it? |
| A06475 | 〈 ◊ 〉 that heate, so sodainely, an ● totally vanish from the su ● ● iect? |
| A19506 | 1. is the worke of a great Faith: yet great reason there is, why wee should doe so, what visible thing should be loued comparable to him that made it? |
| A19506 | And yet alas how many are so, liuing in securitie, neuer grieued, nor troubled, with their inhabitant corruption? |
| A19506 | But here the men of the world( I know) will obiect and say; Is there any man so beastly, as to fall downe and worship the Diuell? |
| A19506 | But what euer they meane by these words of Worship, why do they bowe the knee to things of Gold, siluer, and stone? |
| A19506 | Cogitas magnam fabricam construere? |
| A19506 | Doest thou thinke to reare a great building of height? |
| A19506 | Dost thou thinke that thou canst giue vs so much, as thou striuest to take from vs? |
| A19506 | First what hath he vpon him, or about him which is his owne: hath he not borrowed from euery creature to make vp himselfe a begged glory? |
| A19506 | How is it that our Sauiour did pray for himselfe? |
| A19506 | If he had not died for our sinnes, and risen for our righteousnesse, what could his death and resurrection haue profited vs? |
| A19506 | If the Apostle S. Paul had neede of counterpoyse against pride, alas what haue wee? |
| A19506 | If the Lord also refuse thee and bid thee depart from him, where away wilt thou goe for comfort? |
| A19506 | If thou doe it not, how shall the Lord say of thee, as hee said of Abraham? |
| A19506 | If we repent not, how shall we aske? |
| A19506 | If wee aske not, how shall it be giuen vs? |
| A19506 | In this combat our Lord giues the Aduersarie vantage of the place, and why? |
| A19506 | Is not Sathan iustly called a Tempter? |
| A19506 | It may truely be said of him, which without a reason Esau said of Iacob; was he not iustly called Iacob? |
| A19506 | Magnus esse vis? |
| A19506 | Now if Sathan durst call this in doubt to Christ, whether or no hee was the Sonne of God, what maruell if he dare call the like in doubt vnto vs? |
| A19506 | O My soule, what hast thou to doe here in this earth? |
| A19506 | Shall I goe to him by another Mediator, then by his Sonne, seeing the Father hath proclaimed; This is my Sonne, in whom I am well pleased? |
| A19506 | Shall these visible things snare thee, and detaine thee from the inuisible God, from whom thou came? |
| A19506 | Since the holie Ghost hath annointed him to this same effect: may wee not now say GOD is with vs, who can be against vs? |
| A19506 | So cryed the Iaylor to Paul and Silas; What must I doe to be saued? |
| A19506 | So were the Iewes pricked in their hearts at the preaching of Peter, saying; What shall we doe? |
| A19506 | So were the Publicanes moued, at the preaching of Iohn the Baptist, to cry, What shall we doe? |
| A19506 | That all Iacobs sonnes are within the couenant, not so all Abrahams what doth it teach vs? |
| A19506 | They haue reiected( saith Ieremie) the word of the Lord, and what wisdome then can be in them? |
| A19506 | VVHy troubles thou me by laying my sinnes to my charge? |
| A19506 | Wee neede not now to say, Who shall ascend into heauen? |
| A19506 | What a dispensation is this, all the sonnes of Iacob are pertakers of the externall Adoption, not so the sonnes of Abraham? |
| A19506 | What can Sathan giue vnto a man worthy of that which he would haue from him? |
| A19506 | What cause of thankes giuing is this that so many families of Iaphet pretermitted, we are brought within the couenant? |
| A19506 | What greater glory hath hee, then that hee is the Father of lights, from whom euery good gift doth descend? |
| A19506 | What then wil be the reason of this festiuall conception? |
| A19506 | Where if ye obiect vnto mee, how is it then, that Sathan is called by the Apostle, the God of this world? |
| A19506 | Where is the fruit of thy labours, O wretched worldling, in the heauen? |
| A19506 | Where wilfully men neglect to get knowledge by the Word, what maruell Sathan easily snare them both in Religion and manners? |
| A19506 | Wherein did the greatest happinesse of our Lords progenitors consist? |
| A19506 | Why is this done? |
| A19506 | Wilt thou be great? |
| A19506 | and that the three Children are commended, for that they would not bowe the knee to fall downe and worship Nabuchadnezars Golden Image? |
| A19506 | for comfort of the earth where is it? |
| A19506 | how shall that conception be esteemed holy, which is not of the holy Ghost, but of sinne? |
| A19506 | is it not that hee may haue matter whereupon to accuse vs to our GOD, and why accuseth he vs? |
| A19506 | may we looke for an other Sauiour, or is there a new sacrifice to be made for sinne? |
| A19506 | or how shall it be honoured with a feast, which is not holy? |
| A19506 | or more able, seeing hee is almightie? |
| A19506 | shall wee seeke from another the fulfilling of our necessities then from him, is there any eyther more willing to help seeing hee is our father? |
| A19506 | shall wee take this glory, and giue it vnto another? |
| A19506 | what greater glory hath the Lord, then the glory of a Sauiour, and Redeemer? |
| A19506 | ☞ For seeing we see that God is become the sonne of man, why shall wee thinke it impossible that man may become the the sonne of God? |
| A02513 | Alas how dimmely, and a farre off doest thou now beholde him? |
| A02513 | Alas, how weake and vnbeleeuing is thy beleefe? |
| A02513 | Alas, what can I giue thee which is not thine owne before? |
| A02513 | And what perfection of blisse is there where all goodnesse is mette and vnited? |
| A02513 | Artthou a christian, or art thou none? |
| A02513 | But alas, where is my loue? |
| A02513 | Doest thou doubt whether there bee an heauen? |
| A02513 | How lamentable is it, that wee so imploy them, as if our facultie of discourse serued for nothing, but our earthly prouision? |
| A02513 | How loath are we to leaue this earth, onely for the societie of some few friends in whom we delight? |
| A02513 | How may I preuent the wrong of mine aduersarie, how may I returne it? |
| A02513 | How should I trample vpō these poore vanities of the earth? |
| A02513 | How willingly should I indure all sorrowes, all torments? |
| A02513 | Howe may I gette more? |
| A02513 | In what pastimes shall I spend this day, in what the next? |
| A02513 | Moses sawe God but a while, and shined; How shal we shine that shal behold his face for euer? |
| A02513 | Oh dying and false life, which wee enioy here, and scarce a shadowe and counterfeit of that other: What is more esteemed than glory? |
| A02513 | Oh what affection can be worthy of such an home? |
| A02513 | Say, there were no other worlde; how could wee spend our cares otherwise? |
| A02513 | Tel me, what such goodly entertainemēt hast thou met withall here on earth, that was worthy to withdraw thee frō these heauenly ioyes? |
| A02513 | The worlde filles vs, yea, cloyes vs: we finde our selues worke enough to thinke; What haue I yet? |
| A02513 | Thus I desire, O Lord, to bee right affected towards thee and thy glory; I desire to come to thee: but, alas, how weakly? |
| A02513 | Thus lastly( for who knowes not that examples of this kinde are infinite?) |
| A02513 | What aduantage shall I reape by this practise; what losse? |
| A02513 | What answeres shall I make to such allegations? |
| A02513 | What are wee the warmer if we passe hastily along by the hearth, stay not at it? |
| A02513 | What auailes it to knock at the doore of the heart, if wee depart ere we haue an answere? |
| A02513 | What courses shall I take in such suits? |
| A02513 | What doest thou here groueling vpon earth? |
| A02513 | What doest thou here then, O my soule? |
| A02513 | What entertainement shall I giue to such friends? |
| A02513 | What greater honour is there than in Souereignty? |
| A02513 | What is more deare to vs than our Countrey? |
| A02513 | What is their life, but that blessed estate aboue, wherein their glorified soule hath a full fruition of God? |
| A02513 | What must I lay out? |
| A02513 | What sauour hath this earth to thee? |
| A02513 | What shall I leaue for posterity? |
| A02513 | What shall I then doe to thee for this mercie, Othou Sauiour of men? |
| A02513 | What should I render to my Lord, for all his benefites? |
| A02513 | What then, O my soule, is the life of the Saints, whereof thou studiest? |
| A02513 | What was sayd, answered, replied, done, followed? |
| A02513 | Whence is this eternal life, but from him which onely is eternall; which onely is the fountaine of life, yea, life it selfe? |
| A02513 | Where is our Countrey but aboue? |
| A02513 | Which, ouercomming on earth, are truely canonized in heauen? |
| A02513 | Who but the same God that giues our temporall life, giues also that eternall? |
| A02513 | Who can hope for thee, and not reioyce? |
| A02513 | Who can knowe thee, and not bee swallowed vp with admiration at the mercie of him that bestowes thee? |
| A02513 | Who can regarde the worlde that beleeueth thee? |
| A02513 | Who can thinke of thee, and not bee rauished with woonder and desire? |
| A02513 | Yea, besides promise, hand, seale; hath hee not giuen thee a sure earnest of thy saluation, in some weake, but true graces? |
| A02513 | Yet more: hath hee not giuen thee besides Earnest, possession? |
| A02513 | and shall haue Tabernacles not of our own making, but prepared for vs by God? |
| A02513 | from my glorie with Christ, who shall pull mee out of my heauen? |
| A02513 | hast thou so long read these capitall letters of Gods great booke, and canst thou not yet spell one worde of them? |
| A02513 | how cold and faint are thy desires? |
| A02513 | how happy shal wee be, when our selues shal be changed into glorious? |
| A02513 | how heartlesly? |
| A02513 | how scornefully should I passe by all pleasures? |
| A02513 | how should I be in trauel of my dissolution? |
| A02513 | how should I hate all this world for thee? |
| A02513 | howe imperfectly doest thou enioy him? |
| A02513 | or what cause of dislike findest thou aboue? |
| A02513 | or whether thou haue a God, and a Sauiour there? |
| A02513 | what greater pleasure than in feasting? |
| A02513 | what heauinesse hath ouertaken thee? |
| A02513 | what pleasure in it euer gaue thee contentment? |
| A02513 | where God is enioyed in whom only all things are good, what good can bee wanting? |
| A02513 | where art thou, O my soule? |
| A02513 | where is my longing? |
| A02513 | which euen on earth were perfectly holy in their Sauiour, now are so in themselues? |
| A02513 | which yet are subiect euery day to mutuall dislikes: what pleasure shall wee then take in the enioying of the Saints? |
| A02513 | who are the Saints, but those which hauing been weakely holy vpon earth, are perfectly holy aboue? |
| A47236 | AND now, O my Soul, why shou''dst thou Disquiet thy self for the loss of that which is not worth the keeping? |
| A47236 | And can we think such Crowns and Scepters can Cure the Chagrin of the Mind, or keep off Cares and Griefs from hovering about''em? |
| A47236 | And if I make Conscience to serve and Worship GOD, can it be thought I shall Perish for not Worshiping Images? |
| A47236 | And if by outward sufferings thou approvest the sincerity of thy heart to God, oughtest thou not to rejoyce therein? |
| A47236 | And shall not my Soul be avenged on such a Nation as this? |
| A47236 | And thy Wounds( the only shelter for Sinners) turn''d into Cities of Refuge for Sins? |
| A47236 | And thy present Uneasiness under the want of them? |
| A47236 | And what better Account can the rest give us, if they will speak their Minds Impartially? |
| A47236 | And what greater certainty is there in Honours, which like the Spokes of a Wheel, are now Uppermost, and immediately after at the Bottom? |
| A47236 | And who wou''d mourn the loss of things so Subject to a Thousand Accidents, which have so little real Good in the Enjoyment? |
| A47236 | And will it not be thy happiness to have the same mind in thee as was in Christ Jesus? |
| A47236 | And wilt thou grieve because thou art depriv''d of Unnecessary Things? |
| A47236 | BUT that which more concerns us, is, To Enquire whether we are not grievously guilty hereof our selves, and so are justly made an Example to others? |
| A47236 | BUT whither has my Grief Transported me? |
| A47236 | Besides, what Satisfaction is there in those things of which we can have no Assurance of Enjoyment? |
| A47236 | Do''st thou believe that thy present Circumstances are the Result of the Divine Providence, and what God thinks best for thee? |
| A47236 | For can I see thy Sacred Body all gore, and my heart not bleed? |
| A47236 | How did they cry Hosamna one Day, and the next Crucifie him? |
| A47236 | How is it? |
| A47236 | How shall I dare to Communicate with Thee, that deserve not to come before Thee? |
| A47236 | How was Huniades fetch''d out of a Prison, and Henry the Third, of Portugal, out of a Poor Monastry, to be Crowned Kings? |
| A47236 | How wilt thou then, O my Soul, exalt and magnify the Lord, and rejoyce in God thy Saviour? |
| A47236 | I will go, says he, and return to my Place, till they acknowledge their offences, and seek my Face: But when will that be? |
| A47236 | If the Possession of it cou''d add nothing to thy Happiness, what hast thou to complain of, now''t is lost? |
| A47236 | If these Trials have done thee good, what hast thou to complain of? |
| A47236 | In these straits and stresses of Spirit, how shall my Soul be satisfied? |
| A47236 | Is it not better to enquire what just Title thou hadst to it, than to repine at the loss of it? |
| A47236 | It is good for me that I have been Afflicted: If you ask why it was good for him, or what Benefit he found by it? |
| A47236 | NOW how can we imagine those happy in this imaginary Honour and Greatness, who think themselves unhappy in it? |
| A47236 | Or being his Counsellour have taught Him? |
| A47236 | Or what didst thou gain by it when thou hadst it, except Trouble and Care? |
| A47236 | Or who is a Rock save our GOD? |
| A47236 | Shall I be tempted to give my self from Thee, to the Flesh, and to the World? |
| A47236 | The Spear be in thy Heart, and no Sword at mine? |
| A47236 | They saw Love in thy driping Eye, and shall not I in thy Bleeding Side? |
| A47236 | They, in the Hot- water thou didst bestow on his Dead Body, and shall not I see it in that reaking Blood thou sheddest for my lost and Dying Soul? |
| A47236 | Thou mad''st thy Love to Lazarus legible in thy Tears( See how he loved him, said the Jews) and shall not I read it in thy Wounds? |
| A47236 | To see thy Passion made the Nurse of Presumption, and thy Mercy the Milk of all Abominations? |
| A47236 | What Comfort can a Man take in a House, when he is but a Tenant at Will, and may be turn''d out, at the Pleasure of his Landlord, at an Hours warning? |
| A47236 | What Content has he that Pitcheth his Tent on the Sand, ready to be wash''d away with the rolling of every Sea? |
| A47236 | What Man cou''d have a fairer Character, especially considering who it was that gave it? |
| A47236 | What am I, O Lord, or what is in me, that thou shouldest do this great Honour and Favour to me? |
| A47236 | What can be expected from those Men, that are every hour bidding Defiance to the Almighty, and Daring God to damn them? |
| A47236 | What means all this murmuring and repining at thy present Condition? |
| A47236 | What means that hankering after those Honours, Riches, and Pleasures, that thou Enjoyedst heretofore? |
| A47236 | When Indignation kindles in thy poor Servants Soul at so great Indignities, how is it that Wrath flames not out in Thine? |
| A47236 | When shall I come and appear in the Presence of God? |
| A47236 | When shall I come before the Dying- Living God? |
| A47236 | Whoever thus harden''d himself against God and prosper''d? |
| A47236 | Why should the Bishops be deny''d Liberty of Conscience, when it was granted to Dissenters? |
| A47236 | Will it be a Mercy to be made conformable to thy blessed Redeemer, who first suffered, and then entered into his glory? |
| A47236 | Wilt thou not give thy Body and Blood for his Truth? |
| A47236 | Wilt thou not make good thy Seal? |
| A47236 | Wilt thou not offer thy Life as a Sacrifice to his Glory? |
| A47236 | Wilt thou not prefer thy Purchase? |
| A47236 | With what face can they pretend to love their King, that thus affront their Maker? |
| A47236 | Wou''d we know now how Hezekiah took this doleful Message? |
| A47236 | Would you know God''s design herein? |
| A47236 | ],[ London? |
| A47236 | to see thy Cross made the Devils Standard? |
| A63822 | And how the sister Moon in a constant change follow this leading dance? |
| A63822 | And shall men that are unjust in their wrath accept of no satisfaction? |
| A63822 | And truely, what can more afflict a generous mind then a penurious want? |
| A63822 | And what a world will follow after? |
| A63822 | And when Elijah himself was sought for by Iezabel, where had he been if he had been every where? |
| A63822 | And who dares consult with the eternal wisdome; or who can compare with Omnipotence? |
| A63822 | But how miserable is our greatest glory that hath no other consideration to make it valuable but our own perswasion? |
| A63822 | Can I be proud of beauty, when I meet every day others farre more beautiful? |
| A63822 | Can he expect forgivenesse from God that will not forgive his neighbour? |
| A63822 | Can we complaine of obscurity, when scarce any open place is secure enough? |
| A63822 | Death in it self is nothing: are we afraid of nothing? |
| A63822 | Even earthly Kings have their secret resolves; and shall the King of heaven lie open to any mortal eye? |
| A63822 | Familiarity( they say) breeds contempt: now what more common then Death? |
| A63822 | For what can any man expect but wages answerable to his work? |
| A63822 | God himself spent six days in creating the world; and do we think to obtaine everlasting happinesse in a moment? |
| A63822 | Health and strength to the diseased? |
| A63822 | How can I addresse my selfe to the Throne of grace with any confidence or hope of reward, when my own prayers shall prove me a notorious liar? |
| A63822 | How can I be justly angry with him when I am angry with my selfe? |
| A63822 | How can I runne into any actual transgression of dishonesty if I believe the God of chastity can not behold such a debauchment without offence? |
| A63822 | How happy was the Church under ground, when in that darknesse there was light enough to see heaven? |
| A63822 | How have the best dispositions been thus violated by an extravagant sweetnesse? |
| A63822 | How loath was David to part with his rebellious Sonne, loving him better then the safety of his Crown and Kingdome? |
| A63822 | How many good natures have betray''d themselves for want of courage to deny an unreasonable importunity? |
| A63822 | How many parents are unwilling to be rid of a charge by the losse of a child, desiring still to be happy in the riches of their poverty? |
| A63822 | How miserable is Iob afflicted by his seeming friends? |
| A63822 | How much better is it to contemne than imitate the folly of another? |
| A63822 | How nimble is the fire, how piercing is the air? |
| A63822 | How seldome do we see any preferred for his deserving qualities? |
| A63822 | How shall I encounter with an Host, if I tremble at a shadow? |
| A63822 | How sweet is Liberty and Redemption to the Captive? |
| A63822 | How the Sea rowles about with perpetual waves? |
| A63822 | How was the wisdom of Solomon befooled that could not shut his eyes from beholding this vanity? |
| A63822 | If any man think to hurt me with an angry malice, shall I be his Ape to do the like? |
| A63822 | If men could entaile their vertues with their estates, what a world of glorious Saints would this world afford? |
| A63822 | If this be our condition while we live, who would not be ambitious to die? |
| A63822 | If we have much, how much more do we want? |
| A63822 | Is my coxcomb curried with a little learning? |
| A63822 | Kings, Prophets, Martyrs? |
| A63822 | Look upon the whole volume of his life: what can we finde written there but a doctrine of good- will, and stedfast reconciliation? |
| A63822 | On the other side, if vice were hereditary, what swarms of wickednesse would still increase? |
| A63822 | Philosophers, Atheists, Magicians? |
| A63822 | Shall small offences be writ in Marble, and constant vertues in fleeting sand? |
| A63822 | The Minister is the Ambassador of Heaven, and shall he present his message in a scurvy Style? |
| A63822 | The flesh is a burden to the soul: are we afraid of ease? |
| A63822 | Then why do we look upon this monster with such a fearful reverence? |
| A63822 | There is a kind of Empire in the minde that will enjoy nothing but what it likes, and had rather want it self then her peculiar pleasure? |
| A63822 | To comprehend that which is above the reach of humanity? |
| A63822 | What a benefit is this to be deprived of that darknesse and stupidity which hindred our prospect? |
| A63822 | What a slender thread holds together the patron and his favourite; and how small a matter can undo or break this union? |
| A63822 | What greater happinesse then a quiet close retiring roome, when blood and ruine are making merry without? |
| A63822 | What made him lay down his beloved soul for thee an injurious and despightful enemy? |
| A63822 | What reasonable Hearer can sleep at a Sermon composed by a wakeful braine? |
| A63822 | What strange and different opinions do we finde in several Authours? |
| A63822 | What unequal injustice is this? |
| A63822 | When both sides demand satisfaction and neither side will grant it, what can be expected but everlasting discord? |
| A63822 | When our heavenly father makes up the consort, who can forbeare to tune his voice and keep time with him? |
| A63822 | Where is there greater enmity then betwixt Brethren? |
| A63822 | Who but a Saul after his great victory over the Ammonites? |
| A63822 | Who can be angry with his neighbour, when he hears him pray for his enemies? |
| A63822 | Who can claim a propriety in goodness or vertue, that doth thus delight himself with a spotless innocence? |
| A63822 | Who would be willing to do himself a mischief? |
| A63822 | Who would live in this vale of brittle earth where every thing consumes, and nothing is everlasting? |
| A63822 | Who would not rise from his sleep when a just cause calls him forth? |
| A63822 | Why should I deliver that in anger which can not be unsaid when I am pleased? |
| A63822 | Why should I endeavour to know that which is impossible to be known? |
| A63822 | Why should the minde disdaine to be submissive to her self, to be humble in her own thoughts? |
| A63822 | With what a brave carere the shining Sunne spreads his diurnal pace? |
| A63822 | and to close up his stomack, a disgraceful ignominious death? |
| A63822 | are we frighted with a Chimaera? |
| A63822 | do my brains begin to crow? |
| A63822 | how can I from my heart say, Forgive us as we forgive, when I am resolved never to forgive? |
| A63822 | of all sorts and degrees? |
| A63822 | or that the earth could remain so well ordered by Natures Law, if there were not some over- ruling Lord to command and direct? |
| A63822 | shall one unlucky trespass blot out the remembrance of many victories? |
| A63822 | to be estated in an unchangable condition? |
| A63822 | to enjoy an undeterminable felicity? |
| A63822 | to shift this thread- bare- coat to be superinvested with immortal glory? |
| A63822 | was this the unhappinesse of their condition; and can I be free? |
| A63822 | what a riddle to resolve? |
| A63822 | what a world is gone before us? |
| A63822 | what but some strange misbelief and infidelity can obstruct the desire of this happy dissolution? |
| A63822 | what do all his precepts and parables found of, but peace and charitable forbearance? |
| A63822 | what flesh and blood are we made of, if circumvented with the necessity of such a sinful misery? |
| A63822 | what more natural? |
| A63822 | what shall be the period of such a controversie? |
| A63822 | what was the integrity of Davids heart that would entertain such a deceitful monster? |
| A63822 | when the War- like Trumpet sounds an Alarme to our drousie spirits, who is he that can willingly embrace a senseless ease? |
| A63822 | where was the vertue of those holy Patriarchs that could not drive off such a wickednesse? |
| A63822 | why doest thou boast of thy relation to the Head, if thou wilt not maintaine an entire friendship and union in the body? |
| A63822 | why should I do that now in these mad fits which will vex me when I am well in my wits? |
| A63822 | why should we be lesse unwilling to put off this fleshly garment than we are to undress our selves every night? |
| A63822 | why should we be loath to change this vile body for eternity? |
| A63822 | will no length of time abate the strength and unruly violence of their furious spirits? |
| A63822 | with what meekness did he suffer reproach, and bonds, and stripes, and wounds; a medley of cruel torments? |
| A44003 | About the ninth hour our Saviour cryed that bitter cry, My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me? |
| A44003 | Again, how brittle and feeble a thing is Honour, Esteem, and Reputation? |
| A44003 | Am I in Wealth, Honour, Power, Greatness, Esteem in the world? |
| A44003 | Am I like to be turned out of office, to be made poor, or the like? |
| A44003 | And what reason hast thou to be proud of what is most certainly thy burden, or thy damage, or both? |
| A44003 | But could no other person be found, that might suffer for the sins of Man, but the Son of God? |
| A44003 | But if it be lawful, yet is it fit, is it convenient, is it seasonable? |
| A44003 | Get thee behind me; the cup which my Father hath given me to drink, shall I not drink it? |
| A44003 | He asked them again, whom sock ye? |
| A44003 | He fell on his face and prayed; and what was the thing he prayed? |
| A44003 | He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? |
| A44003 | How doth God now? |
| A44003 | I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitned till it be fulfilled? |
| A44003 | I have a baptism to be baptized withal, and how am I straitned till it be accomplished? |
| A44003 | I may die to morrow, why should I commit that evil that will then be gall and bitterness unto me? |
| A44003 | In reference to this life: Am I in Want, in Contempt, in Prison, in Banishment, in Sickness, in Death? |
| A44003 | Is he my Father? |
| A44003 | Is he my Father? |
| A44003 | Is he rich, prosperous, great? |
| A44003 | Is it best for me to be delivered out of them, or to be preserved in or under them? |
| A44003 | Is this lawful to be done or not? |
| A44003 | Let us take an estimate of some of them: Atheism, that cuts in sunder all the bonds of Religion, Government, and Society, whence comes it? |
| A44003 | My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me? |
| A44003 | On the other side, do I fall in the same common calamity, and sink under it without any deliverance from it, or preservation under it? |
| A44003 | Or if it should not, what great benefit would this be to a separated Soul? |
| A44003 | Or if the business[ of] our Salvation must be transacted by him alone, could it not be without suffering, and such suffering as this? |
| A44003 | Or if thou wilt not, yet must thou needs deny me, deny me thrice, deny me with oathes, and with execrations? |
| A44003 | Or, why should not I be contented to be of the lower fort of men, since the order of the World requires that such some must be? |
| A44003 | Thankful that they are no worse or greater: Thou hast losses, but yet hast thou lost all at once? |
| A44003 | The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink? |
| A44003 | The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmities, but a wounded spirit who can bear? |
| A44003 | Thou hast it may be wealth, store of Money, but how much of it is of use to thee? |
| A44003 | To you is born this day a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord: and can the death of that Saviour be a thing desireable to be known? |
| A44003 | What am I, that I must not be crossed, or reproached, or contemned, or disappointed? |
| A44003 | What are light afflictions and but for a moment in comparison to an eternal weight of glory? |
| A44003 | What then is the original of all this goodness to poor sinful man? |
| A44003 | What would become of us, if our whole lives here should be altogether prosperous and contenting, without the intermixture of crosses and afflictions? |
| A44003 | Why doth the living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sin? |
| A44003 | Why should I then be discontented with my condition, since by the grace of God I am able to make it what I please? |
| A44003 | Why then should I discontent and disquiet my self with my condition, when I make it and my self thereby worse and more uneasy? |
| A44003 | and can he judge through the thick cloud? |
| A44003 | and what damage can be sustained by a neglect or omission of that fear, if God Almighty now it not? |
| A44003 | for direction in all my difficulties? |
| A44003 | for satisfaction in all my doubts? |
| A44003 | for supply in all my wants? |
| A44003 | if it be not, how shall I do this great evil and sin against God? |
| A44003 | manifesting the depth of his sorrow, and the perfect sense he had of it; why hast thou forsaken me? |
| A44003 | so are they coheirs with him; is he accepted of God? |
| A44003 | so are they; is he an heir of glory? |
| A44003 | then whither should I go but to him for protection in all my dangers? |
| A44003 | to purchase such a worthless creature at such an invaluable price as the blood of the Son of God? |
| A44003 | was there not something else wherein we were to bear in Mind, thy Image, and write after thy Excellent Copy? |
| A44003 | was there not thy Holiness, Purity, Obedience, Patience, Trust in God, and all that Constellation of Virtues that appeared in thy Doctrine and Life? |
| A44003 | was there nothing else for us to learn of thee, but thy Meekness and Humility? |
| A44003 | what if my dearest Friends should become my bitterest Enemies, how should I bear my self under these changes? |
| A44003 | why hast thou forsaken me? |
| A44003 | why should I then do it to day? |
| A44003 | would I do it if I were to die to morrow? |
| A23773 | ''T is certain, the Hour of Death will come, and then what will all thy Wealth avail thee? |
| A23773 | 14. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? |
| A23773 | 6. what can we expect our Unrighteousness should be? |
| A23773 | AND now, who would not run with Alacrity, through Adversity, wild Woods, Desarts, and Wildernesses? |
| A23773 | AND was that the Occasion of this Invitation we gave the Most Highest? |
| A23773 | AND yet how hard a Task is it for us to endure even the pettiest Affliction, for Thy sake, O Lord? |
| A23773 | AND yet, how foolish and vain are our Desires still after the World? |
| A23773 | After this method Iob resolv''d, I have made a covenant with mine eyes, why then should I look upon a maid? |
| A23773 | Alas, Is the Magnificence of Thy Kingdom not worth approaching to? |
| A23773 | And do''st thou still swell with Ambition? |
| A23773 | And how many Centuries of Ages must thou yet remain buried in Flames, and roaring among the Infernal Crew? |
| A23773 | And how much more then will thy Account extend to obscene Speeches, and sordid Actions? |
| A23773 | And is not this Person a fit Example for the whole World to imitate? |
| A23773 | And shall Christians follow the Examples of Heathens? |
| A23773 | And shall the Lusts of this vain World, O Lord, be greater in my Soul than the Love of Thee? |
| A23773 | And what after Death, but Food for VVorms? |
| A23773 | And what can all their Detraction prejudice thee, if she defend thee? |
| A23773 | And who would not relinquish this momentary sensual Pleasure, to evade everlasting Burnings? |
| A23773 | And why do''st thou so eagerly pursue after Pleasures? |
| A23773 | And wilt thou be a Jesus of Mercy to the whole Universe, and become none to me? |
| A23773 | Are all shrunk into a Tomb, and an unwelcom Period? |
| A23773 | Are the Felicities of Eternal Bliss of so small a Value, that they are not worth approaching too? |
| A23773 | Art thou addicted to Drinking? |
| A23773 | But a wounded spirit who can bear? |
| A23773 | But why do''st thou chase so much after Riches? |
| A23773 | Can they, by their utmost Skill, neither bribe nor purchase thy Pardon? |
| A23773 | Can those Pleasures which bereft thee of Heaven, recover it again before Death puts a period to thy Life? |
| A23773 | Can thy Pomps and Vanities asswage or allay thy deep Sorrows? |
| A23773 | Can we propose to ascend Thy Throne by a feeble and dronish Devotion? |
| A23773 | Deeds of Darkness are the Seeds of Satan, but a lively Faith proceeds from Christ; and, What communion is there between Christ and Satan? |
| A23773 | Did He which made the Heavens bow them, come down, and unthrone himself to convey us thither, and do we lie wallowing in our Sins for ever? |
| A23773 | For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? |
| A23773 | For, how can that which is Temporal, satisfie the Soul which is Eternal? |
| A23773 | For, who is he which is now Young and Vigorous, that is certain he shall live to be Old? |
| A23773 | For, who is there, almost, in the World, that knows not but that he must die, but how few are they that consider it? |
| A23773 | HOW contritely doth it expostulate with Heaven; My dearest Redeemer, is that amiable Attribute of thy Mercy lost? |
| A23773 | He that despises not the VVorld, to follow Christ, how will he be qualify''d to lay down his Life for him? |
| A23773 | He who took care of thee before thou wer''t born: Will his Providence neglect thee, now thou art fashioned after his own Image? |
| A23773 | How actively do we run after the Vanities of the World, but in Thy Service pretend faintness? |
| A23773 | How easie and alluringly, O Lord, are we led by the counterfeit and transitory Pleasures of this Life, from Thee? |
| A23773 | How few is there, that have desired to learn it? |
| A23773 | How many apt Scholars is there in the World, that hath perfectly learn''d this Lesson, and imprinted it in their Memory? |
| A23773 | IF Honour be the Subject of our Ambition: What are Scepters and Crowns, but Illustrious Miseries? |
| A23773 | IF Innocency be the Robe of Heaven, who then would not diligently strive to be adorn''d with Purity? |
| A23773 | IF this happens to the Just, what shall become of wretched Sinners? |
| A23773 | If this be the Recompence of true Sanctity, who would neglect Religious Duties? |
| A23773 | Is the Fountain of it dried up from a poor and wretched Sinner? |
| A23773 | Let us now be upon the Grand Inquest; Is not Sin a Leprosie? |
| A23773 | Now some will object, If it be a Duty so Necessary, how comes it to pass, that it hath been so geeerally Neglected by most Christians? |
| A23773 | Now the Query is, Whether his Boldness, or his Love to Christ, prompted him to this Heroick Action? |
| A23773 | Oh, how infatuated are they then, which indulge themselves to that which is liable to Corruption? |
| A23773 | Or shall we imagine every step too tiresom, that conveys us to Everlasting Glory? |
| A23773 | Or will the silent Grave require no other Fee than so rich a Miser? |
| A23773 | Or, what signifies a Bed of Gold, to one in a burning Fever, unless the State or Pomp could abate the Torment? |
| A23773 | SET not thy Affections upon the World; for it shall pass away; and all the things that are therein, shall be consumed with fire? |
| A23773 | Shall the temporary Allurements of Sin eclipse the Memory of thy Glory? |
| A23773 | Shall they that are ignorant of Thee, be more passionately Just, than we that have traced out Heaven, and expect Eternity to succeed? |
| A23773 | Shall they who can, by the Eye of Faith, take a prospect of Eternity, look down upon this Lower World with Affectation? |
| A23773 | THE Majesty of Heaven is the Riches of his Servants; then why should''st thou not seek after that which will compleat thy Happiness? |
| A23773 | Tell me, ye stupid Chasers of the World, what ye aim at in all your Pretences? |
| A23773 | That Sovereignty for which thou enslavest thy self, and lost the perfect Freedom of thy Immortal Soul? |
| A23773 | That with the Pharisee, embrace Formality for your Religion, and make an external Piety your Duty? |
| A23773 | V. ALL the Applause and Breath of the VVorld is insignificant, if thy Bosom Friend, thy Conscience, accuse thee? |
| A23773 | V. CAN those transitory Enjoyments that allured away thy Immortal Part, restore it in convenient time? |
| A23773 | VVhat in thy Life, but a Lump of Flesh? |
| A23773 | VVhat is mortal Man the better, for gaining a Reputation of a greater value than others, if he is disesteem''d in the sight of God? |
| A23773 | VVhat wast thou in thy Conception, but sinful Corruption? |
| A23773 | VVhy doth mundane, ambitious Honour delight thee? |
| A23773 | WHO then would offer up that Part an Oblation to the World, which might be render''d the Instrument of so much Felicity? |
| A23773 | WHY art thou perplexed, O my Soul? |
| A23773 | Was ever Grief so great? |
| A23773 | Was not the lofty Pharisee a greater Leper than the poor Publicane, though so ambitiously he display''d his proud Plumes? |
| A23773 | Were there no Difficulties, no skilful Trials to be past through, who, of a Mortal, would not become a Saint? |
| A23773 | What Happiness receive we from those fleeting Honours, and transitory Treasures we so highly valued? |
| A23773 | What Miracles of Piety? |
| A23773 | What availeth the Praises of Men, if the Voice within accuseth us? |
| A23773 | What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? |
| A23773 | What number of Years has thou reign''d in sulphurous Fire? |
| A23773 | Where are all those fine Diversions that divested thee of thy Piety, and the Thoughts of thy Creator? |
| A23773 | Whither then shall I fly? |
| A23773 | Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burning? |
| A23773 | Who can tell how oft he offendeth? |
| A23773 | Why hast thou forsaken me? |
| A23773 | Why then art thou proud, O Earth and Ashes? |
| A23773 | Why then do we deferr our Repentance, and procrastinate it from day to day? |
| A23773 | Ye that scoff at Heaven, and make Divinity a Garment for Unrighteousness? |
| A23773 | and aim not at sublimer Things than what this sublunary World can afford? |
| A23773 | and are so backward from Confessing their Crimes, that they are become obdurate in their Impenitence? |
| A23773 | and suffer the Profuseness of his wanton Blood to revel there, where sublimer Passions and Flames should triumph? |
| A23773 | and why art thou dubious of the Mercy of God? |
| A23773 | but to undoe others, and lose your Souls? |
| A23773 | nay, even wade thorough Seas of Blood, to arrive safe at the Port of the Heavenly Cannaan? |
| A23773 | or any Sorrow like unto my Sorrow? |
| A23773 | or the Memento of thy Sins, the Destruction of thy End? |
| A23773 | or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? |
| A23773 | those pleasing deluding Vanities that swept away all sense of Heaven, and fore- sight of thy Future State? |
| A23773 | what Griefs, what Pains and Torments are these thou undergoest? |
| A23773 | what will our loose Liberties, and those fond Delights we so eagerly chas''d after, now yield us? |
| A06534 | ( exclaymes that great Apostle) tribulation? |
| A06534 | ARe we then to thinke that God truly inhabits on the earth? |
| A06534 | Alas what a faint and languishing light of faith haue we here? |
| A06534 | And holdst thou thy peace yet, ō God of Hosts? |
| A06534 | And why doe I loue thee aboue al things? |
| A06534 | Art thou so brazen faced as to presume to abide where my loue IESVS is? |
| A06534 | BVt what a Gods name dost thou here, thou Pander Cupid? |
| A06534 | But how great is the fauour of this louing Numen? |
| A06534 | But now what remaines? |
| A06534 | But to what end? |
| A06534 | But what doth the hart while, in whose musike roame is al this harmony made? |
| A06534 | But what is this? |
| A06534 | But what was the meate now brought to the table? |
| A06534 | But what- said the Spouse of her beloued and his chast loue? |
| A06534 | But why doe I cal these things to memory? |
| A06534 | But why especially to you? |
| A06534 | But why the harp( most sweet IESVS) rather then another? |
| A06534 | But, o most vnlucky stroke? |
| A06534 | Come h ● ther then you dry& thirstie soules, flock you hither: Why drinke you so long of those bloudy streames of Egypt? |
| A06534 | Could there be euer any thing either for maiestie more royal and magnificent or for luxury and delight more soft and delicious? |
| A06534 | For first Assuerus himself was the Master of the feast and who was he? |
| A06534 | For how Can I retaine that in my breast, Except some heat of grace digest? |
| A06534 | For into what horrible vices and abhominations, doth not this wicked Tyrant and cruel butcher of soules, drawe men who are subiect to him? |
| A06534 | For to whom better? |
| A06534 | For what law can he keep or true fidelity, that wants them both? |
| A06534 | For why? |
| A06534 | God raignes nor rules not? |
| A06534 | Goe to then, be thou my hart the scope and bute, stand to it, why shrinkst thou? |
| A06534 | HAst thou no Harbinger to bring Thy furniture, so great a King, But must thy self in person come To order al, and hang this roome? |
| A06534 | Hasten therefore, O fayrest of al beautyes; what? |
| A06534 | He raigned from India to Ethiopea, from the East to the West: and what more? |
| A06534 | Hearest thou this my soule, and yet exclaymest not? |
| A06534 | Henry Hawkins?]. |
| A06534 | How crooked and vntoward is my wil from thine, my God, who are euen rectitude, sanctity and goodnes it- self? |
| A06534 | How like a block and stone, if yet thou louest not IESVS? |
| A06534 | How like it is Augias stable, or a sty for Swine? |
| A06534 | How sweet are these rapts? |
| A06534 | I say while IESVS puts forth his rayes, what bestial manners? |
| A06534 | I wil enquire of created things,& aske them, where is my God? |
| A06534 | I wil seeke whom my loues soule, in the streets& lanes, saying, Haue you seen whom my soule loues? |
| A06534 | IF thou within my hart wouldst a wel; OIESV, then what Philom ● l, Could warble with so sugred throte, To make me listen to her note? |
| A06534 | If in this day of teares and mourning thou impar ● st such things what wilt thou doe on the nuptial day? |
| A06534 | If thou flyest as coylie as constantly he sues? |
| A06534 | Is the Casket of the hart repleat with celestial riches? |
| A06534 | Is the hart emptie and void of the riches of vertues and the ornaments of diuine graces? |
| A06534 | MY soule, O God, hath thirsted after thee; a vnles thou replenish it with heaūely waters, who shal recreate or refresh it? |
| A06534 | Most sweet child; what haue you and I to doe with this lumber here? |
| A06534 | Now come I then to thee, my litle IESVS, tel me, goe to, what slumber, is this, which refreshed thy weary body with so gentle a shower of vapours? |
| A06534 | Now if loue be to be recompenced with loue, what loue can parallel the diuine loue? |
| A06534 | O Fayrest soule among the faire, awake; for what Lethean sleep oppresseth thee? |
| A06534 | O MOST sweet IESV the loue of my hart which thou hast consecrated for thy self? |
| A06534 | O hart of Adamant? |
| A06534 | O iron hart? |
| A06534 | Oh infinit goodnes of God? |
| A06534 | Or are we mocked the white? |
| A06534 | Or rather doe I want a hart, to loue an infinit good? |
| A06534 | Or shal I cal him a Crocadille? |
| A06534 | Or thou designest, who knovves? |
| A06534 | Seest thou this royal Table here These things are al prepared for thee: Seekest thou daintyes? |
| A06534 | Shal I eternally feele that gauling prick of conscience, day& night, like furyes, to wound, to launce, and murder me outright? |
| A06534 | Shal we therefore dispaire? |
| A06534 | Since if Heauen, and the Heauens of Heauens be not able no conteyne thee, how much less, this house? |
| A06534 | WHo shal seuer vs from the charity of Christ? |
| A06534 | Water, water, I cal for? |
| A06534 | What a tumult haue you made here? |
| A06534 | What apparel? |
| A06534 | What doe not the wrastlers generously performe and suffer in sight of the goal and crownes proposed? |
| A06534 | What harpyes, what hydreas, or other monsters, more foule and virulent then these, harbour in this Porch of Hel? |
| A06534 | What is more poore and slender with vs thē a bare& simple thought of God? |
| A06534 | What meat? |
| A06534 | What more? |
| A06534 | What the drinke? |
| A06534 | What? |
| A06534 | When IESVS enters into the hart, and therein pours his light, Good God? |
| A06534 | When shal I come and appeare before the face of God? |
| A06534 | Why art thou so in doubt? |
| A06534 | Why carouse you so those muddy marish waters of the durty Babylon? |
| A06534 | Why prize you those false bewitching cups of the world, to with, that C ● cean hag? |
| A06534 | Wilt thou be a soft couch, wherein litle IESVS may like to repose and rest in? |
| A06534 | Would any one beleeue? |
| A06534 | a What? |
| A06534 | and if such be the fruits and apples; what shal the rest be of those more solid and better meats? |
| A06534 | and then shal I chalenge Hel it- self: for if IESVS and I hold togeather, what Hercules can stand against vs both? |
| A06534 | but dilating his breast, made him to powre forth his soule into most sweet and extatical pleasures: And wherefore? |
| A06534 | c But what were they whence so great a feeling of pleasure, and delight results? |
| A06534 | e O Phrigian luxury? |
| A06534 | from whence thy torrent flowes, Is IESVS hart? |
| A06534 | how foule it is? |
| A06534 | it''s euen thy place, thy Temple, b thy seat, thy Tribunal? |
| A06534 | or distresse? |
| A06534 | or famine? |
| A06534 | or nakednesse? |
| A06534 | or the sword? |
| A06534 | peril? |
| A06534 | persecution? |
| A06534 | prepar ● ● d for thee; The table''s co ● erd: but what sea ●, Hast thou for thy repose? |
| A06534 | sleepst thou yet? |
| A06534 | t And now finally how long haue these feasts of Assuerus lasted? |
| A06534 | the Leader of this infernal Legion, thus precipitously throwne downe, what a dreadful terrour brought he vnto sea& land? |
| A06534 | what Gorgons? |
| A06534 | what a beast thou art, if hearing of these pleasures, thou rather choosest the husks of swine? |
| A06534 | what a huge swarme there is of them? |
| A06534 | what blots of an vngrateful mind? |
| A06534 | what foule, what horrible prodigies of vices the mind discouers there which the eyes had neuer yet detected? |
| A06534 | what haynous crimes are represented in this detestable hart? |
| A06534 | what hels are centered there? |
| A06534 | what horrible beasts haue we here? |
| A06534 | what monsters? |
| A06534 | what perfidiousnes? |
| A06534 | what sordityes? |
| A06534 | what wicked fiends? |
| A06534 | what wil the table of our Lord himself conferre to the immortals? |
| A06534 | what wil the very Ocean of al good things? |
| A06534 | who knowes my hony IESVS, whether, with this harp thou playest not some- what els? |
| A06534 | why creepest thou on the earth, thou litle mush rump, and pleasest thy self so much with these trifles? |
| A01537 | & non videt, qu ● creavit unde v ● deas? |
| A01537 | * Credis& sper ● ● venire ad salutem aeternam non tuis meritis sed Christi? |
| A01537 | * Quid dignū facimus ut participes coelestibus fieri inveniamur? |
| A01537 | * Quid meriti apud Deum po ● erimꝰ obtendere, cui debemus omnia? |
| A01537 | * Si dantur hominibus b ● na pro meritis co ● ū, quae gratia Dei erit? |
| A01537 | 16. r Deo igitur quid dicimus? |
| A01537 | 2. d Post tam magnū de illius justitia Dei testimonium, quid de se ipse? |
| A01537 | 44. n Quid dicam aliud quam gratias gratiae ejus? |
| A01537 | Againe, doe we desire to have Gods goodnesse continued unto us, or enlarged towards us? |
| A01537 | Alta praesumptio quid nisi ruinosa est praecipiratio? |
| A01537 | An non mendicas, qui panem petis? |
| A01537 | And againe, t If thou doest evill, what hurt doest thou to him? |
| A01537 | And can we imagine but that their Faith& their Doctrine then at other times was correspondent thereunto? |
| A01537 | And if any should complaine hereof, God might say unto him, as it is in the Gospell, b May I not doe as I will with mine owne? |
| A01537 | And is there no difference at all among them herein? |
| A01537 | And it is well resolved and answered by Elihu in the Negative: s If thou doest well, saith he, what good doest thou to God? |
| A01537 | And what is the Ground of all this? |
| A01537 | And why so? |
| A01537 | And, a Popish Writer commenting upon that place;* What merit, saith he, can wee pretend or pleade to God, whom we owe all unto? |
| A01537 | And, n who can say, I have so clensed mine heart, saith Salomon, that I am wholly free from sinne? |
| A01537 | And, q What am I? |
| A01537 | And, r What is man that thou shouldest regard him? |
| A01537 | Be thy sinnes never so many, what is hee the worse for it? |
| A01537 | But certaine or uncertaine, how can mans merit be the ground of his salvation, if his salvation depend upon Gods mercy alone? |
| A01537 | But how? |
| A01537 | But what justice or righteousnesse will some say, then is it? |
| A01537 | But why is Gods agreement needfull then? |
| A01537 | But why should they trust thus in Gods mercy alone? |
| A01537 | Cui debet aliquid Deus? |
| A01537 | Doe all Catholikes deny indeed even to workes done of faith and grace all merit of condignitie? |
| A01537 | First ▪ e How can any man, saithe he, be justified, if he be 〈 ◊ 〉 f with God? |
| A01537 | For hath not hee merited remission that hath made such satisfaction? |
| A01537 | For have wee but little leaft? |
| A01537 | For what merits of theirs? |
| A01537 | For, s Who( saith the Psalmist) understandeth all his owne errours? |
| A01537 | Hast thou but a small matter to set up with, and to begin the world withall? |
| A01537 | Hath God taken much from us? |
| A01537 | Hee z will save them; saith hee: Why so? |
| A01537 | If according to mens works it bee rendered, how may it bee deemed mercy? |
| A01537 | Is it a sure, yea the surest and safest course that can be, to trust in Gods mercie alone? |
| A01537 | Is it not true that they teach soo? |
| A01537 | Is this the surest and safest course, why condemne they us then as Heretikes for taking and teaching it? |
| A01537 | Jtaque, Vae etiam laud ● bili vitae hominum, si remota misericordia discutias eā? |
| A01537 | Lastly, hath God dealt with any of you, as hee had done here with Iacob? |
| A01537 | Non ergò audit, qui ● ecit t ● bi unde audias? |
| A01537 | Nonne juxta Prophet ● ●, velut pannus menstruatae reputabitur? |
| A01537 | Nunquid enim non perit, quod ingrato donatur? |
| A01537 | Nunquid ut eadem cum illo faciamus? |
| A01537 | Oculum in te non intendi ● suū, qui fecit tuum? |
| A01537 | Or doth hee not know that there is difference among them herein? |
| A01537 | Or how can we applaud our selves in our good deedes, when all our righteousnesse is but as a filthie ragge in Gods sight? |
| A01537 | Or how is Mans merit necessarily required unto salvation, if by Gods mercy alone he may be saved without it? |
| A01537 | Or what is this then, but even to mocke God to his face, when they tell him they doe not that, which indeed they doe?) |
| A01537 | Post redemptionem ab omni corruptione quid restat nisi corona justitia? |
| A01537 | Quanta ergò cum reverentia, quanto timore, quanta illuc humilitate accedere debet è palude sua procedens& repens vilis ranuncula? |
| A01537 | Quare? |
| A01537 | Qui potest, quae solus Deus facit? |
| A01537 | Quia virtut ● m habeo, qua te promerear? |
| A01537 | Quid dedimꝰ Deo, quando totum quod sumus boni, ab illo habemus? |
| A01537 | Quid discimus à te? |
| A01537 | Quid ditus ad praemium? |
| A01537 | Quid ei dedisti? |
| A01537 | Quid est enim ti ● ● re nisi non ● ● mere? |
| A01537 | Quid facit oblivion ● m acceptorum? |
| A01537 | Quid igitur laudabimu ●? |
| A01537 | Quid justius meritum? |
| A01537 | Quid miramur magnum in augusto habitare? |
| A01537 | Quid nobis de bonis operibus poterimus applaudere, cum universae justitiae nostrae sint quasi pannus menstruatae apud Dominum? |
| A01537 | Quid prodest, si miracula facis,& humilis non sis? |
| A01537 | Quid tibi reddet, nisi quod tibi debet? |
| A01537 | Quid tibicū caeteris? |
| A01537 | Quid, inquā, faciat judex, cui& judicare& misereri aequè familiare utrūque? |
| A01537 | Quis enim meritum praetendat, ubi in munere sola est gratia? |
| A01537 | Quis judicium postulavit? |
| A01537 | Quis prior deditei& retribueturei? |
| A01537 | Quis supplicavit, quis legem meruit? |
| A01537 | Quisnam est is fluvius, quem non recipiat mare? |
| A01537 | Quomodo est ergò gratia, si non gratis datur: quomodo est gratia, si ex debite redditur? |
| A01537 | Redde mihi quia dedi tibi? |
| A01537 | Returne him part; said I? |
| A01537 | Sed nūquid contra veritatem? |
| A01537 | Sed quae flagitia in te, qui non corrumperis? |
| A01537 | So Iacob here: and so his Grand- father Abraham before him; o How should I that am but p dust and ashes, presume to speake to my Lord? |
| A01537 | So he that p teacheth man truth, and of man q requireth truth, shall not r hee keepe and observe truth himselfe? |
| A01537 | Vis tib ● propinquet? |
| A01537 | Vnde d ● bit ● r? |
| A01537 | Vnde tibi debet? |
| A01537 | What can be richer? |
| A01537 | What can be righter? |
| A01537 | What richer for recompence? |
| A01537 | What righter for merit? |
| A01537 | Why t crosse they out of their owne Writers such speeches as tend this way? |
| A01537 | Why, is it a Lie? |
| A01537 | Would they not haue men goe the safer way? |
| A01537 | Yea doth not Bellarmine himselfe maintaine the* ● ōtrary? |
| A01537 | Yea how is it possible hee should doe otherwise who is truth it selfe? |
| A01537 | Yea, f how much more,( I say) is Man abominable, that drinketh in iniquitie like water? |
| A01537 | a Behold, I am vile; saith Iob: what should I say? |
| A01537 | accepit aliquid? |
| A01537 | and he that made the eye shall not hee see? |
| A01537 | and o hee that teacheth man wisdome, that giveth man understanding, shall not hee understand himselfe? |
| A01537 | and that the most of them( of later times especially) goe the other way? |
| A01537 | and why should not we then doe as they doe? |
| A01537 | aut quae adversus te facinora, cui noceri non potest? |
| A01537 | b Quanto labore digna est requies quae non habet finem? |
| A01537 | g With whom sinne is as familiar as his ordinarie diet, his daily meat and drinke is? |
| A01537 | h Sed quid potest esse omnis justitia nostra c ● ram Deo? |
| A01537 | k Doles quod amisisti? |
| A01537 | l.* In quo dilexisti nos? |
| A01537 | n Hee that made the e ● re, saith the Psalmist, shall not he heare? |
| A01537 | n Quid ergò de peccatis erit, quando ne ipsa pro se poterit respondere justitia? |
| A01537 | opera, nisi reddere sicut opera mer ● tur? |
| A01537 | or the sonne of Man that thou shouldest once thinke on him? |
| A01537 | or what is hee the better for it? |
| A01537 | or why doth Bellarmine require that also? |
| A01537 | or why may they not trust safely enough in their owne merits also? |
| A01537 | quare? |
| A01537 | quia voluntatis arbi ● rium gero, unde gr ● tiam tuam meritum m ● ū praecedat? |
| A01537 | quibus mer ● t ●? |
| A01537 | r En quis es? |
| A01537 | saith David; or what is my parētage, that thou shouldst afford me such favors? |
| A01537 | that is, shewed any loue to us, done ought for us?) |
| A01537 | u If wee confesse our sinnes, saith S. Iohn, God is faithfull and just to forgive us our sinnes, and to cleanse us( how but by x Christs blood?) |
| A01537 | x Quanti humiliantur,& humiles non sunt? |
| A01537 | z Quid sunt merita omnia ad tantam gloriam? |
| A01537 | † Quid ergo de nobis sentiendum qui non omnia servamus, qui multorum rei sumus? |
| A68133 | AMongst all the bounteous gifts of God, what is it that he hath equally bestowed upon all? |
| A68133 | And now what doth it, but call mee to the thought of my parting? |
| A68133 | And what honour doe wee place in slaughter? |
| A68133 | But, why should not Grace and Truth bee as successefull in dilating it selfe to the gaining of many hearts? |
| A68133 | GOod LORD; how doe wee know when wee are sure? |
| A68133 | GOod LORD; how witty men are to kill one another? |
| A68133 | GOod Lord, what a shambles is Christēdome becomne of late? |
| A68133 | Gods great workes goe not by likely- hoods; how easily can he fetch glory out of obscurity, who brought all out of nothing? |
| A68133 | HOw benummed and( for the time) senselesse is this arme of mine becomne, onely with too long leaning vpon it? |
| A68133 | HOw bright doth this wood shine? |
| A68133 | HOw easily is our sight deceiued? |
| A68133 | HOw farre off is yonder great Mountaine? |
| A68133 | HOw fell these Creatures out? |
| A68133 | HOw harshly did this note sound in the eare of PETER; Yea pearced his very hart? |
| A68133 | HOw is this Tree ouerladen with mast, this yeare? |
| A68133 | HOw iustly doe wee admire the curious worke of this Creature? |
| A68133 | HOw loathsome a draught is this? |
| A68133 | HOw much am I bound to GOD that hath giuen mee eyes to see this Mans want of eyes? |
| A68133 | HOw small things may annoy the greatest? |
| A68133 | HOw sweetly doth this Musicke sound in this dead season? |
| A68133 | HOw well these Creatures know whom they may bee bold with? |
| A68133 | Haue I not felt( more then their tongue,) their teeth, vpon my heeles, when I know, I haue deserued nothing, but fawning on? |
| A68133 | Haue I not seene innocence, and merit bayed at by the quarrelsome, and enuious vulgar, without any prouocation saue of good offices? |
| A68133 | How are men killed like flyes, and blood poured out like water? |
| A68133 | How doth his hand and staffe examine his way? |
| A68133 | How easily doth our sight deceiue vs? |
| A68133 | How happy shall I be, if I may grow so much more in Grace, as the World in Malice? |
| A68133 | How oft hath this Bell reported to me the farewell of many more strong and vigorous bodies then my owne; of many more cheerfull and liuely spirits? |
| A68133 | I Know not what horror wee finde in our selues at the sight of a Serpent? |
| A68133 | I beleeue, Lord, helpe my vnbeleefe? |
| A68133 | In the day time it would not, it could not so much affect the eare? |
| A68133 | Is their any thing more apt for dispersion then small strawes, and dust? |
| A68133 | Is thy word therefore challengable? |
| A68133 | My thoughts would not bee so many, if they were all right; there are tenne thousand by- wayes for one direct? |
| A68133 | Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A68133-e250* Si Christus Iudam passus est, cur non ego patiar Birrhichionem? |
| A68133 | Nothing but thy free mercy, O my GOD; why else was I a Man not a brute Beast? |
| A68133 | O God, with what horror shall the guilty Soule stand before thy dreadfull Tribunall in the day of the great Assizes of the World? |
| A68133 | OH God, Why am not I thus? |
| A68133 | REason is an excellent facultie; and indeed, that which alone differenceth us from brute creatures; without which what is man but a two- legged beast? |
| A68133 | THese Flowers are true Clients of the Sunne; how obseruant they are of his motion, and influence? |
| A68133 | That Medicine onely abates the auguish; How neare hath Nature placed the remedy to the offence? |
| A68133 | The Mettall is good enough; it is the rifte that makes it so vnpleasingly iarring; How too like is this Bell to a scandalous and ill- liued Teacher? |
| A68133 | Those armes, wherein wee pride our selues, are such, as which, wee, or our Ancestors haue purchased with blood? |
| A68133 | Thus pained, wherein doe I find ease but in laying Hony to the part infected? |
| A68133 | To slay many at once; and so to fetch off liues; that whiles a whole Lane is made of Carcasses with one blow, no body knowes who hurt him? |
| A68133 | VVHat a Cloud of Gnats is heere? |
| A68133 | VVHat a change there is in the roome, since the light came in ▪ yea in our selues? |
| A68133 | VVHat a cleere lightsomnesse there is in yonder Circle of the Heauen aboue the rest? |
| A68133 | VVHat a noyse doe these poore soules make in proclaiming their commodities? |
| A68133 | VVHat a poore thing were Man, if hee were not beholden to other Creatures? |
| A68133 | VVHat a strange contrarietie is heere? |
| A68133 | VVHat a warm winter coat hath God provided for this quiet innocent creature? |
| A68133 | VVHat a world of wit is here pack''t vp together? |
| A68133 | VVHat haue I done to this Dog, that hee followes mee with this angry clamour? |
| A68133 | VVIth what terrour doth this Malefactor stand at that Barre? |
| A68133 | WHat a circle there is of humane actions, and euents? |
| A68133 | WHat a cold Candle is lighted vp in the body of this sorry Worme? |
| A68133 | WHat a poore little spot is a coūtry? |
| A68133 | WHat an harsh sound doth this Bell make in euery eare? |
| A68133 | WHen I looke upon these flyes; and gnats, and wormes, I have reason to thinke; What am I to my infinite Creator more then these? |
| A68133 | WHiles euery Bell keepes due time, and order, what a sweet& harmonious sound they make? |
| A68133 | What a thred doth it spin forth? |
| A68133 | What a web doth it weaue? |
| A68133 | What can wee suppose the reason of it, but that the light of many smaler starres is vnited there, and causes that constant brightnesse? |
| A68133 | What euer Turkes and Pagans may doe, O Lord how long shall, this brutish fury arme Christians against each other? |
| A68133 | What fine deuises they haue found out to murder a farre off? |
| A68133 | What fooles wee all once are? |
| A68133 | What hath this man done, that thou hast denyed wit to him? |
| A68133 | What impotent wretches are wee when wee are not sustained? |
| A68133 | What is that warre which wee study and practise, but the art of killing? |
| A68133 | What then is the quarrell? |
| A68133 | When it is in the fire, it will not so beame forth, as it doth in this cold darknesse: What an embleme is here of our future estate? |
| A68133 | Whence grew this so bloudy combate? |
| A68133 | Where is my grace, or spirits, if I haue not learned to contemne both? |
| A68133 | Whiles euen diuels are not at enmity with themselues, but accord in wickednesse, why doe we men so mortally oppose each other in good? |
| A68133 | Who ever relyed upon thy gracious providence, and sure promises, O Lord, and hath mis- carryed? |
| A68133 | Who hath discerned me? |
| A68133 | Why am I not more desirous to be vncloathed of this body, that I may be cloathed vpon with Immortality? |
| A68133 | Why are wee so over- desirous of our growth, when wee may bee thus advantaged by our rottennesse? |
| A68133 | Why doe I not thus to my God? |
| A68133 | Why perfectly limmed, not a cripple? |
| A68133 | Why right shaped, not a Monster? |
| A68133 | Why should not GOD rather grudge vs our being, then wee grudge him our worke? |
| A68133 | Why well affected, not graceles? |
| A68133 | Why well- fensed, not a foole? |
| A68133 | With what suspition and feare he walkes? |
| A68133 | Yet what a painfull wound hath it giuen mee; that scarce- visible point how it enuenomes, and rankles, and swels vp the flesh? |
| A68133 | how offensive, both to the eye and to the sent, and to the tast? |
| A68133 | or what haue I done that thou shouldst giue a competency of it to mee? |
| A68133 | why a vessell of honour, not of wrath? |
| A31893 | 19. hast thou not promised that Sin shall not have dominion over me? |
| A31893 | 24, 25. Who gave Iacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? |
| A31893 | 24, 25. Who gave Israel to the spoil, and Israel to the robbers? |
| A31893 | 3. shall I rob God of his glory by my sin? |
| A31893 | 38. you read of Pilate, Pilate saith unto him, what is truth? |
| A31893 | Abraham was the Father of the Faithful, and he was strong in faith; and what made him strong in faith? |
| A31893 | And lastly, What is the reason that we come so unworthily to the Sacrament? |
| A31893 | And shall not sin be bitter to me? |
| A31893 | And so would you meditate of Heaven? |
| A31893 | And then I would say to my soul, why art thou disquieted, Oh my soul? |
| A31893 | And then you must meditate what Christ suffered when he was upon the Cross, when he cried out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
| A31893 | And therefore in all your exercise of Divine Meditation, be sure to draw down things to particulars: As for example, wouldst thou meditate of Heaven? |
| A31893 | And what did Christ go to the garden for? |
| A31893 | And what is the reason that the mercies of God do no more good, that men are no more thankful for mercies, and no more fruitful under mercies? |
| A31893 | And what made Ioseph refuse to lye with his Mistris, when he might have been preferred by lying with her, and had secresie and security? |
| A31893 | And what made the Prodigal child come home to his father? |
| A31893 | And what made the Prodigal child return home to his father? |
| A31893 | And when he had looked upon all these glorious Excellencies, what was his Conclusion? |
| A31893 | And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thy own eye? |
| A31893 | And why take you thought for raiment? |
| A31893 | Are then all who have slight heads, Hypocrites? |
| A31893 | Art thou sick, like to lose thy husband, or thy own own life? |
| A31893 | As for example, would you meditate of Christ? |
| A31893 | As for example, would you meditate of sin, of the sinfulness of sin? |
| A31893 | But how doth Christ argue? |
| A31893 | But what course doth Solomon take? |
| A31893 | Can a Dwarf by thinking he is a Dwarf, make himself taller? |
| A31893 | Did Christ cry out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, for our sins, I mean for our sins he took upon him? |
| A31893 | Do you not understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? |
| A31893 | Fear ye not me, saith the Lord? |
| A31893 | Here Christ reproves them for want of faith; but how came they to want faith? |
| A31893 | How doth the fire and the water praise God? |
| A31893 | I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies,( why so?) |
| A31893 | I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright, no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, what have I done? |
| A31893 | I would consider the opposites to the thing I meditate on; what is opposite to sin? |
| A31893 | I, but you will say unto me: Are all men that have slight heads, hypocrites? |
| A31893 | Is it time for you, Oh ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lye waste? |
| A31893 | Is not sin Deicidium? |
| A31893 | Is not sin most opposite to the greatest good, and therefore must needs be the greatest evil? |
| A31893 | Lord, what is man that thou shouldest make the Heaven, the Sun, and the Moon, and the Stars for his sake? |
| A31893 | Nam quid est Deus, si non est meus? |
| A31893 | No man repenteth, because no man saith what have I done? |
| A31893 | No man repenteth, because no man saith what have I done? |
| A31893 | Now if any should ask me, What are those things, you would have us to meditate of, when we are come unto the Sacrament? |
| A31893 | Now is not this comely for a Christian? |
| A31893 | Now what is the reason the Saints of God bury the mercies of God in forgetfulness, and are no more thankful for mercies? |
| A31893 | Now what remains but to perswade you to the practise of these things? |
| A31893 | Pilate saith unto him, what is truth? |
| A31893 | Q. I but you will say unto me, How shall I keep my self from these plagues of flies? |
| A31893 | Shall we bring water for you out of he rock? |
| A31893 | Sin is called an injury to God; shall I injure my Saviour by my sins? |
| A31893 | Sin made Christ cry, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
| A31893 | So likewise would you meditate of the Sacrament? |
| A31893 | So likewise, wouldest thou meditate on the Promises? |
| A31893 | So would you meditate of Heaven, or of any thing that you find too hard to enlarge your selves about? |
| A31893 | Suppose thou art to receive the Sacrament, what must thou do a little before thou receivest it? |
| A31893 | The Prophet David calls upon the Ice, and the Snow, and the Rain, and all the Creatures of God, to praise God: How do they praise God? |
| A31893 | The great question for the meaning of this Text will be, what the subject of Isaac''s Meditation was? |
| A31893 | Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be taken from thee; and what then will become of all thy possessions? |
| A31893 | Thus I would reason with my self, Did sin make Christ shed drops of blood, and shall it not make me shed a few tears? |
| A31893 | Times of affliction are times of meditation; and what must we consider of in the day of adversity? |
| A31893 | What a rare deal of matter is here contained in these three particulars, to find out thy sins by the glass of the Law? |
| A31893 | What a rare thing will it be to take the Scripture, and study all the comparisons to which the life of man is compared? |
| A31893 | What am I the better for Heaven, or for Christ, if they be not mine? |
| A31893 | What is meant by this worm? |
| A31893 | What is the meaning of that? |
| A31893 | What is the reason that men repent no more of their sins? |
| A31893 | What is the reason that people prepare no more for death? |
| A31893 | What is the reason that the Saints of God are so distrustful of Gods Providences? |
| A31893 | What is the reason the Saints in heaven love God so perfectly? |
| A31893 | What is the reason the Word of God takes no more impression upon your hearts, and there is no more good done by Preaching? |
| A31893 | What is the reason they were so unthankful? |
| A31893 | What is the reason why men go on in their sins without repentance? |
| A31893 | What made David meditate all the day upon the Law of God? |
| A31893 | What made Moses refuse the pleasure, treasures and honours of Egypt? |
| A31893 | What made Peter when he had denied Christ, repent and weep bitterly for what he had done? |
| A31893 | What made the Saints of old receive joyfully the spoiling of their goods? |
| A31893 | What rare Christians should we be, if we did often, and often meditate on these things, instead of meditating on vanities and follies? |
| A31893 | What was the matter? |
| A31893 | When he came to himself he considered, and said, how many hired servants of my fathers, have bread enough, and to spare, and I perish with hunger? |
| A31893 | When he thought thereon, he wept; what made Peter repent? |
| A31893 | Which of you intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost whether he hath sufficient to finish it? |
| A31893 | Which of you( saith he) can by taking thought add one cubit to your stature? |
| A31893 | Which when Iesus perceived, he said to them, Oh ye of little faith, why reason ye among your selves, because you have brought no bread? |
| A31893 | Why do people rush upon Sacraments without preparation, rush upon Sermons, rush upon Prayer, rush upon holy Duties? |
| A31893 | Wo unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say who seeth us, and who knoweth us? |
| A31893 | You must consider what interest you have in Christ crucified? |
| A31893 | You must meditate in what relation you stand towards God, whether you stand in a Covenant- relation to God or no? |
| A31893 | You must meditate of the Life of Christ, and examine, whether thy life be answerable to his life? |
| A31893 | You must meditate of your spiritual wants and necessities; what grace dost thou want that thou maist get supplied? |
| A31893 | am I one of those that shall enjoy God after death? |
| A31893 | am I one of those whose names are written in Heaven? |
| A31893 | and do ye not remember the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up? |
| A31893 | and doth it not therefore deserve eternal damnation? |
| A31893 | and how to get the Providences of God sanctified? |
| A31893 | and shall I make a mock of that sin that cost the blood of Christ? |
| A31893 | and shall I make a sport of sin? |
| A31893 | and shall it not be a burden to me? |
| A31893 | and shall it not be odious to me? |
| A31893 | and the son of man that thou visitest him? |
| A31893 | and when we are there, we gaze up and down, and carry our selves so unseemly at that Ordinance? |
| A31893 | and why then should not sin have the greatest sorrow? |
| A31893 | apply it to thy soul, and ask thy soul, Am I fit and meet to go to that place? |
| A31893 | are there not some that meditate to do evil, and rejoice in the meditation of evil when they have done it? |
| A31893 | because they do not consider their mercies? |
| A31893 | did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? |
| A31893 | did not the Lord, he, against whom we have sinned? |
| A31893 | do you want matter to furnish you? |
| A31893 | hast thou not promised to subdue my iniquities? |
| A31893 | have I Heavenly qualifications? |
| A31893 | have I a Heavenly disposition? |
| A31893 | how is it that thou canst mourn for any outward loss, if thou losest but a child, though it may be thou hast half a score? |
| A31893 | how is it then that I am no more affected with my sin? |
| A31893 | how is it, Oh my soul, that thou shouldest be thus hard- hearted, and unaffected with thy sins? |
| A31893 | how shall I keep my self that I may shut out inward company when I go to the mount to meditate? |
| A31893 | how? |
| A31893 | is not sin a dethroning of God, a robbing of God, an injuring of God? |
| A31893 | is not sin a murdering of God in as much as in us lies; is not sin animaecidium, that which slays the soul? |
| A31893 | is not sin a walking contrary unto God? |
| A31893 | is not sin the breach of the holy law of God? |
| A31893 | is that my house? |
| A31893 | is that my inheritance? |
| A31893 | or when we are at the Sacrament? |
| A31893 | shall I make a mock of sin? |
| A31893 | shall not I be much in Heaven when I am keeping a rest upon earth, that represents my eternal rest in Heaven? |
| A31893 | shall not I mourn that I have sinned against so gracious a God, so merciful a Redeemer, so holy a Sanctifier? |
| A31893 | shall sin be so abominable in the sight of God, and shall it not be so in my sight? |
| A31893 | thou that hast promised to take away my heart of stone, and give me a heart of flesh; hast thou not promised to work all my works in me, and for me? |
| A31893 | was sin a burden to Christ? |
| A31893 | was sin so displeasing unto God, and so defiling to the soul, that no bath but a bath of Christs blood can wash away the stain of it? |
| A31893 | what comfort can I have to meditate of Christ, if I have no interest in him, if I can not apply him? |
| A31893 | what comfort can that man have of meditating of Christ, that doth not know that Christ is his? |
| A31893 | what did Isaac go out to meditate upon? |
| A31893 | what is the reason that we lose all the fruit of that Ordinance, but meerly for want of preparation before we come, and meditation when we are come? |
| A31893 | what sin doth bear most sway in thee, that thou maist get it more mortified? |
| A31893 | what then? |
| A31893 | what way should we take, that we may not distrust God? |
| A31893 | when they are ready presently to sink, and to say they are undone? |
| A31893 | where is the man that studies what God is doing with this Nation? |
| A31893 | whether Christ was crucified effectually for thee, or no? |
| A31893 | whether God be your reconciled Father in Christ, or no? |
| A31893 | whether thou hast got oyl into thy lamp, or no? |
| A31893 | whether you stand reconciled to God or no? |
| A31893 | who shall deliver me from this body of sin? |
| A31893 | who shall deliver me from this body of sin? |
| A31893 | why art thou cast down? |
| A31893 | why art thou troubled? |
| A31893 | why he meditated, How can I do this and sin against God? |
| A31893 | why should not I hate sin above all things, if it be the greatest evil? |
| A31893 | why shouldest not thou hate and abhor sin? |
| A31893 | will death be an happy hour to me? |
| A31893 | will not this heavenlize you, and spiritualize you? |
| A31893 | wilt thou do as much as in thee lies to murder thy Saviour, to crucifie Christ afresh by thy sins? |
| A31893 | wilt thou make a sport of that which defiles the whole Creation? |
| A31893 | wilt thou not abhor sin? |
| A64529 | 2. Who is he, that in all things so warily and circumspectly keeps himself, that he never falls into any deceit or perplexity? |
| A64529 | 3. Who art thou that fearest a mortal Man? |
| A64529 | 8. Who shall remember thee when thou art Dead? |
| A64529 | ALL Men naturally desire to know; but what availeth knowledg without the fear of God? |
| A64529 | Ah fool, why dost thou think to live long, when thou canst not promise to thy self one day? |
| A64529 | And how can a life be loved that hath so many embitterments, and is subject to so many calamities and miseries? |
| A64529 | And how is it that thou dost vouchsafe to come unto a sinner? |
| A64529 | And how often have I found faith where I least expected it? |
| A64529 | And if they should say, We are in peace, no evil shall fall upon us, and who shall dare to hurt us? |
| A64529 | And if thou shouldest drive him from thee, and lose him, unto whom wilt thou flie, and what friends wilt thou then seek? |
| A64529 | And now dear Father, what shall I say? |
| A64529 | And now in these my troubles what shall I say? |
| A64529 | And unless thou didst command it, who would attempt to come unto thee? |
| A64529 | And what do all creatures avail thee, if thou be forsaken by the Creator? |
| A64529 | And what have we to do with Genus and Species, the dry notions of Logicians? |
| A64529 | And what marvel if he feel not his burden, who is born up by the Almighty, and led by the soveraign guide? |
| A64529 | And what more free, than he that desireth nothing upon Earth? |
| A64529 | And when thou hast run over all, what hast thou then profited, if thou hast neglected thy self? |
| A64529 | And whom thou delightest not, what can be pleasant to him? |
| A64529 | And why do small matters go to thy heart, but for that thou art yet carnal, and regardest Men more than thou oughtest? |
| A64529 | Are not all painful labors to be endured for everlasting life? |
| A64529 | Are not all those to be called hirelings, that ever seek comforts? |
| A64529 | But he that takes delight in sin, what marvel is it if he be afraid, both of death and judgment? |
| A64529 | But if thou dost not overcome little and easie things, how wilt thou overcome harder things? |
| A64529 | But what art thou to them that Love thee? |
| A64529 | But what shall I give unto the Lord in return of his grace, for so eminent an expression of thy love? |
| A64529 | But whence is this to me, that thou vouch- safest to come unto me? |
| A64529 | But where is this devotion? |
| A64529 | But wherein? |
| A64529 | But who am I, Lord, that I may presume to approach unto thee? |
| A64529 | But why did I not provide better for my self, miserable Wretch? |
| A64529 | Christ had Adversaries and Backbiters; and wilt thou have all men thy Friends and Benefactors? |
| A64529 | Christ would suffer and be despised; and darest thou complain of any? |
| A64529 | Did not Mary presently rise from the place where she wept, when Martha said unto her, The Master is come, and calleth for thee? |
| A64529 | Do they not shew themselves to be rather lovers of themselves than of Christ, that always think of their own commodity and gain? |
| A64529 | Dost thou think that the Men of this World suffer little or nothing? |
| A64529 | For what are words but words? |
| A64529 | For what is it to thee, whether that Man be such or no, or whether this Man do, or speak this or that? |
| A64529 | For what other Nation, is there so famous, as the Christian People? |
| A64529 | For what shall thy patience be crowned, if no adversity happen unto thee? |
| A64529 | For where is any one to be found that is indeed poor in spirit, and free from all affection of creatures? |
| A64529 | For who is he that hath all things according to his mind? |
| A64529 | For who is there, that approaching humbly unto the fountain of sweetness, doth not carry away from thence at least some little sweetness? |
| A64529 | HOw may I obtain this, O Lord, that I may find thee alone, and open my whole heart unto thee, and enjoy thee as my soul desireth? |
| A64529 | He also envieth none; because he affecteth no private good; neither will he rejoyce in himself? |
| A64529 | He desired to fly freely that said, Who will give me wings like a Dove, and I will fly and be at rest? |
| A64529 | How can I bear up my self in this miserable life, unless thou strengthen me with thy mercy and grace? |
| A64529 | How can I forget thee, that hast vouchsafed to remember me, even when I wasted away, and perished? |
| A64529 | How can he be lifted up with vain words, whose heart is truly subject to God? |
| A64529 | How canst thou look to continue ever in the same state of virtue, when an Angel in Heaven hath fallen, as also the first Man in Paradise? |
| A64529 | How dare a sinner appear before thee? |
| A64529 | How is it called a life that begetteth so many deaths and plagues? |
| A64529 | How long doth my Lord delay to come? |
| A64529 | How many have been deceived and suddenly snatcht away? |
| A64529 | How many would stay behind and remain far off, if they beheld not thy noble example? |
| A64529 | How often have I been deceived, finding want of faith where I thought it sure? |
| A64529 | How profitable hath grace been kept with silence in this mortal life, which is nothing but a temptation and a warfare? |
| A64529 | How shall I bring thee unto my House, that have so often offended thy most gracious countenance? |
| A64529 | How shall I dare to come, that know not any good in my self, whereupon I may presume? |
| A64529 | How shall I pass through them without hurt? |
| A64529 | How shall I utterly break them? |
| A64529 | If I understood all things in the world, and were not in charity, what would that help me in the sight of God, who will judg me according to my deeds? |
| A64529 | If all Men were perfect, what should we have to suffer of our neighbor for God? |
| A64529 | If now a little suffering make thee so impatient, what will hell fire do hereafter? |
| A64529 | If now thou canst endure so little, how wilt thou then be able to endure perpetual torments? |
| A64529 | If things even foreseen do oftentimes hurt us, how can things unlooked for choose but wound us grievously? |
| A64529 | If thou art not prepared to day, how wilt thou be prepared to morrow? |
| A64529 | If thou beest not careful for thy self now, who will be careful for thee hereafter? |
| A64529 | If thou dost not understand, nor conceive those things that are under thee, how shalt thou be able to comprehend those that are above thee? |
| A64529 | If thou hadst not gone before us and taught us, who would have taken care to follow? |
| A64529 | If thou hast found wickedness in Angels, and hast not pardoned them, what shall become of me? |
| A64529 | If thou say, that thou art not able to suffer much, how then wilt thou endure the Fire hereafter? |
| A64529 | If thou seekest rest in this world, how wilt thou then attain to everlasting rest? |
| A64529 | If thou wilt suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the Friend of Christ? |
| A64529 | Is it not even for nothing? |
| A64529 | Is it not in me? |
| A64529 | Is it not thou, my Lord God, whose mercies are without number? |
| A64529 | Is not this a greater loss, than if thou shouldest lose the whole world? |
| A64529 | Is there any thing hard to me? |
| A64529 | Let it please thee Lord, to deliver me; for, poor wretch that I am, what can I doe, and whither shall I go without thee? |
| A64529 | Lord, how often shall I resign my self; and wherein shall I forsake my self? |
| A64529 | Lord, what cause have I to complain, if thou forsake me? |
| A64529 | Lord, what trust have I in this life? |
| A64529 | O Fountain of everlasting Love, what shall I say of thee? |
| A64529 | O Lord God, when shall I be wholly united to thee, and absorpt by thee, and be altogether forgetful of my self? |
| A64529 | O if thou hadst a relishing of these things, and didst suffer them to sink into the bottom of thy heart, how durst thou so much as once to complain? |
| A64529 | O, if Jesus crucified would come into our hearts, how quickly and fully should we be instructed in all truth? |
| A64529 | Or am I like unto him that promiseth and performeth not? |
| A64529 | Or for what do I desire to be esteemed of? |
| A64529 | Or if thou doest not that which I desire, what can I justly say against it? |
| A64529 | Or what is the greatest comfort, that all things under Heaven do yield me? |
| A64529 | Or when could it be ill with me, when thou wert present? |
| A64529 | Or who standing by a great fire, receiveth not some small heat thereby? |
| A64529 | Otherwise how canst thou be mine, and I thine, unless both within and without thou be free from all self will? |
| A64529 | Shall I speak unto my Lord sith I am Dust and Ashes? |
| A64529 | Shall the clay glory against him that frameth it? |
| A64529 | Shouldst thou see all things present before thine eyes, what were it but a vain and unprofitable sight? |
| A64529 | Stars fell from Heaven, and what do I presume that am Dust? |
| A64529 | Suppose thou hast hitherto lived always in honors and delights, what would all this avail thee if thou wert to die at this instant? |
| A64529 | Tell me now, where are all those Doctors and Masters, with whom thou wast well acquainted, whilst they lived and flourished in learning? |
| A64529 | The Angels and the Archangels honor thee, the Saints and just Men do fear thee, and saist thou, Come ye all unto me? |
| A64529 | The Lord is my light and my Salvation, whom shall I fear? |
| A64529 | The whole life of Christ was a Cross and Martyrdom; and dost thou seek rest and joy? |
| A64529 | Then thou shalt not say, Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? |
| A64529 | Thinkest thou that thou shalt always have spiritual consolations at will? |
| A64529 | Thinkest thou to escape that which no Man could ever avoid? |
| A64529 | To how many hath virtue known and over hastily commended, been hurtful? |
| A64529 | To morrow is uncertain, and how knowest thou that thou shalt live till to morrow? |
| A64529 | To whom shall I give credit, Lord? |
| A64529 | Unless thou O Lord, didst say it, who would believe it to be true? |
| A64529 | Vain Man, what canst thou complain of? |
| A64529 | WHy seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? |
| A64529 | Was it not that thou mightest live to God, and become a spiritual Man? |
| A64529 | What am I without it, but a withered piece of wood, and an unprofitable stalk only meet to be cast away? |
| A64529 | What are all temporal things, but deceiving snares? |
| A64529 | What are those Lord? |
| A64529 | What availeth it to delay long the confession of thy sins, or to defer the holy Communion? |
| A64529 | What availeth it to live long, when we are so little the better by long living? |
| A64529 | What can I do with my sins, but humbly confess and bewail them, and intreat always thy favor? |
| A64529 | What can I think better, and more profitable, than to humble my self wholly before thee, and to exalt thy infinite goodness above me? |
| A64529 | What can the world profit thee without Jesus? |
| A64529 | What canst thou answer, foul sinner, to them that reprove thee, who hast so often offended God, and so many times deserved Hell? |
| A64529 | What canst thou see any where that can long continue under the Sun? |
| A64529 | What canst thou see elsewhere, which thou canst not see here? |
| A64529 | What do I require of thee more, than that thou entirely resign thy self unto me? |
| A64529 | What else doth the care for future contingencies bring thee, but sorrow upon sorrow? |
| A64529 | What great matter is it, if thou be chearful and devout at the coming of grace? |
| A64529 | What harm can the words or injuries of any do thee? |
| A64529 | What hath Man deserved that thou shouldest favor him? |
| A64529 | What hath thy Servant, but what he hath received from thee, even without any merit of his? |
| A64529 | What hath thy servant more to say before thee, but that he do greatly humble himself in thy sight, always mindful of his own iniquity, and vileness? |
| A64529 | What have I deserved for my sins, but Hell and everlasting fire? |
| A64529 | What have I done, O Lord, that thou shouldest bestow any Heavenly comfort upon me? |
| A64529 | What is a Man the better, for that he is esteemed great by Man? |
| A64529 | What is all flesh in thy sight? |
| A64529 | What is it that that infernal fire feeds upon, but thy sins? |
| A64529 | What is it thou sayest, Son? |
| A64529 | What is not savory unto him to whom thou art pleasing? |
| A64529 | What is that? |
| A64529 | What is the reason, why some of the Saints were so perfect and contemplative? |
| A64529 | What is this or that to thee? |
| A64529 | What matter is it, how much, and what I suffer, so as I may at length attain to the port of salvation? |
| A64529 | What meaneth this so gracious a condescension, and this so loving invitation? |
| A64529 | What secular person is there that would not willingly receive spiritual joy and comfort, if he could always have it? |
| A64529 | What shall I give thee for all these thousands of benefits? |
| A64529 | What shall I say being guilty and full of all confusion? |
| A64529 | What should I do in these my so great tribulations and straits, unless thou didst comfort me with thy holy words? |
| A64529 | What then shall I do, Lord? |
| A64529 | What therefore shall I do my God, my helper, and my counceller, in necessity? |
| A64529 | What therefore shall I unworthy sinner, dust and ashes, be able to search and comprehend of so high and sacred a mystery? |
| A64529 | What thing more quiet than the single eye? |
| A64529 | What to them that serve thee with their whole heart? |
| A64529 | What will become of us in the end, who begin to wax cold so timely? |
| A64529 | What will it avail thee to dispute profoundly of the Trinity, if thou be void of humility, and art thereby displeasing to the Trinity? |
| A64529 | What would I have more, and what more happy thing can I desire? |
| A64529 | Where art thou, when thou art not with thy self? |
| A64529 | Where hath it been well with me without thee? |
| A64529 | Where is the confidence conceived of virtue? |
| A64529 | Where is there any so plentiful shedding of holy tears? |
| A64529 | Where is thy faith? |
| A64529 | Where is true peace, and true glory? |
| A64529 | Where may one be found that will serve God freely? |
| A64529 | Where then is the lurking hole of glory? |
| A64529 | Wherefore Lord? |
| A64529 | Wherein the firm peace of the heart, and true spiritual profiting consisteth? |
| A64529 | Wherein then Lord? |
| A64529 | Whereof then can I glory? |
| A64529 | Whereupon therefore can I hope, or wherein ought I to trust, but in the great mercy of God alone, and in the only hope of heavenly grace? |
| A64529 | Which of the Saints in the world was without crosses, and tribulation? |
| A64529 | Who am I that thou shouldest give thy self unto me? |
| A64529 | Who am I, that dare speak unto thee? |
| A64529 | Who can foresee all things? |
| A64529 | Who hath a greater combat, than he that laboreth to overcome himself? |
| A64529 | Who hinders and troubles thee more than the unmortified affections of thine own heart? |
| A64529 | Who is able to beware before- hand of future evils? |
| A64529 | Who is he that serveth and obeyeth me with equal care to that with which the world and the Lords thereof are served? |
| A64529 | Who is then in the best case or condition? |
| A64529 | Why also have I so easily given credit to others? |
| A64529 | Why art thou desirous to see that which is unlawful for thee to enjoy? |
| A64529 | Why art thou grieved for every little trifle spoken and done against thee? |
| A64529 | Why art thou tired with needless cares? |
| A64529 | Why art thou troubled when things succeed not as thou wouldest or desirest? |
| A64529 | Why do we so willingly speak and talk one with another, when notwithstanding we seldom return to silence without hurt of conscience? |
| A64529 | Why dost thou consume thy self with vain grief? |
| A64529 | Why dost thou here gaze about, since this is not the place of thy rest? |
| A64529 | Why therefore am I not more zealous in thy venerable presence? |
| A64529 | Why therefore dost thou trouble thy self? |
| A64529 | Why therefore fearest thou to take up the Cross which leadeth thee to a Kingdom? |
| A64529 | Why wilt thou defer thy good purpose from day to day? |
| A64529 | Why wilt thou prefer thy self before others, sith there be many more learned and skilful in the Scripture than thou? |
| A64529 | Wilt thou have that straightways, which many after many tears and great labors have hardly obtained? |
| A64529 | could all those words pluck as much as one hair from thy head? |
| A64529 | he presently heard within him an answer from God, which said, What if thou didst know it, what wouldest thou do? |
| A64529 | or what creature under heaven so beloved, as a religious soul to whom God himself cometh to feed her with his glorious flesh? |
| A64529 | to whom but to thee? |
| A13694 | 1495- 1555? |
| A13694 | 2 And now in this, what shall I say? |
| A13694 | 2 And what haue we to doe with the termes and distinctions of Logitians? |
| A13694 | 2 If thou say that thou art not able to suffer much, how then wilt thou endure the fire of Purgatory? |
| A13694 | 2 If thou seekest rest in this world, how wilt thou then attain to euerlasting rest? |
| A13694 | 2 Is there any thing hard to me? |
| A13694 | 2 O fountain of euerlasting loue, what shall I say of thee? |
| A13694 | 2 What can bee distastefull vnto him, to whom thou art pleasing? |
| A13694 | 2 What can the world profit thee without Iesus? |
| A13694 | 2 What doth it auaile vs to liue long, when we do so little amend? |
| A13694 | 2 What haue I done, O Lord, that thou shouldest impart any heauenly comfort vnto me? |
| A13694 | 2 Who is he that is able so warily to keep himselfe, that he neuer fal into any deceit or doubt? |
| A13694 | 2 Why doest thou consume thy selfe with vaine griefe? |
| A13694 | 2 Why therefore fearest thou to take vp the Crosse, which leadeth thee to a Kingdome? |
| A13694 | 3 For what other Nation is there so famous, as the Christian people? |
| A13694 | 3 Thinkest thou, that thou shalt alwayes haue spirituall consolations at will? |
| A13694 | 3 What can I do for my sins, but humbly confesse and bewaile them, and intreat alwaies for mercy without intermission? |
| A13694 | 3 What meaneth this most pious benignity, and so louing inuitation? |
| A13694 | 3 What shall I say, being guilty, and ful of confusion? |
| A13694 | 3 What will it auaile thee to dispute profoundly of the Trinitie, if thou be void of humility, and thereby displeasing to the Trinitie? |
| A13694 | 3 Wherein then, Lord? |
| A13694 | 3 Who art thou, that fearest a mortall man? |
| A13694 | 4 And how can a life bee loued that hath so many afflictions, and is subiect to so many calamities& miseries? |
| A13694 | 4 What auaileth it to delay confession, and to defer receiuing? |
| A13694 | 4 What is all flesh in thy sight? |
| A13694 | 4 What shall I giue thee for all these thousands of benefits? |
| A13694 | 4 Why doest thou linger and make delayes heere, since this is not the place of thy rest? |
| A13694 | 5 O my God, how much did they endeauour to please thee, and alas how little is that which I doe? |
| A13694 | 5 Why wilt thou defer thy good purpose? |
| A13694 | 6 How can I support my selfe in this miserable life; vnlesse thy mercy and grace comfort me? |
| A13694 | 6 Thinkest thou to escape that which no man could euer auoid? |
| A13694 | 6 To how many hath vertue, knowne and ouer hastily commended, bin hurtful? |
| A13694 | 6 Whereupon therefore can I hope, or wherin ought I to trust, but in the great mercy of God alone, and in the only hope of heauenly grace? |
| A13694 | 7 If thou haddest hitherto liued alwaies in honors and delights; what would it auaile thee, if thou shouldest presently die? |
| A13694 | 7 The whole life of Christ was a Crosse and Martyrdome: and doest thou seek rest and joy? |
| A13694 | 7 What will become of vs in the end, that doe so timely beginne to wax cold? |
| A13694 | 8 How doe so many other religious persons, vvho liue vnder the strict rule of Monasticall discipline? |
| A13694 | 8 What is there any where to be seene, that can long continue vnder the Sunne? |
| A13694 | 8 Who will remember thee; and vvho vvill pray for thee after thy death? |
| A13694 | 8. and I the most vnhappie and poorest of men, how shall I bring thee into my house, that I can scarce spend one halfe houre deuoutly? |
| A13694 | ALL men by nature desire to know: but what auaileth knowledge without the feare of God? |
| A13694 | And how often haue I found faith, where I least expected it? |
| A13694 | And if he that firmely purposeth, often faileth; what shall he doe, that seldome purposeth any thing, or with little certainty? |
| A13694 | And if they should say: Wee are in peace, no euill shall fall vpon vs, and who shall dare to hurt vs? |
| A13694 | And if thou shouldest driue him from thee, and leese him, vnto whom wilt thou fly, and what friend wilt thou then seeke? |
| A13694 | And now, beloued Father, what shall I say? |
| A13694 | And thou, how doest thou vouchsafe to come vnto a sinner? |
| A13694 | And vnlesse thou didst command it, who would dare to come vnto thee? |
| A13694 | And what do all creatures auaile thee, if thou bee forsaken by the Creator? |
| A13694 | And what maruell if he feele not his burden, who is borne vp by the Almighty, and led by the greatest guide? |
| A13694 | And what more free then he that desireth nothing vpon earth? |
| A13694 | And when thou hast runne ouer all, what hast thou profited, if thou doest neglect thy selfe? |
| A13694 | And wherein shall I forsake my selfe? |
| A13694 | And whom thou delightest not, what can be pleasant? |
| A13694 | And why doe small matters go to thy heart, but for that thou art yet carnall, and regardest men more then thou oughtest? |
| A13694 | Are not all painfull labours to be endured for euerlasting life? |
| A13694 | Are they not all to be called hirelings that euer seeke comforts? |
| A13694 | Be it so, that they haue whatsoeuer they will; but how long dost thou thinke it will last? |
| A13694 | But if thou doest not ouercome little and easie things; how wilt thou ouercome harder matters? |
| A13694 | But what art thou to thē that loue thee? |
| A13694 | But what shall I giue vnto our Lord in returne of this grace, for so singular a charitie? |
| A13694 | But whence is this to me, that thou vouchsafest to come vnto mee? |
| A13694 | But where is this deuotion? |
| A13694 | But wherein? |
| A13694 | But who am I, Lord, that I may presume to approach vnto thee? |
| A13694 | But why did I not prouide better for my self, miserable wretch? |
| A13694 | Christ had aduersaries and backbiters; and wilt thou haue all men thy friends and benefactors? |
| A13694 | Christ would suffer, and be contemned; and darest thou complaine? |
| A13694 | Could all those words pluck as much as one haire from thy head? |
| A13694 | Doe they not shew themselues to be rather louers of themselues, then of Christ, that alwaies think of their cōmoditie and gaine? |
| A13694 | Doest thou thinke that men of this world suffer little or nothing? |
| A13694 | For what are words, but words? |
| A13694 | For what is it to thee, whether that man be such or no, or whether this man do, or speak this or that? |
| A13694 | For what shall thy patience be crowned, if no aduersitie happen vnto thee? |
| A13694 | For where is any that is indeed poore in spirit, and free from all affection of creatures? |
| A13694 | For who is there, that approaching humbly vnto the Fountain of sweetnes, doth not carry away from thence at least some little sweetnes? |
| A13694 | HOw may I obtaine this, O Lord, that I may finde thee alone, and open my whole heart vnto thee, and enjoy thee as my soule desireth? |
| A13694 | He desired to fly with great liberty, that said, Who will giue me wings like a doue, and I will fly and rest? |
| A13694 | He presently heard, as it were, a voice from God, which said: What if thou diddest know it, what wouldest thou doe? |
| A13694 | How can he be lifted vp with vain words, whose heart is truly subiect to God? |
| A13694 | How dare a sinner presume to appeare before thee? |
| A13694 | How dry and hard art thou without Iesus? |
| A13694 | How foolish& vaine, if thou desire any thing out of Iesus? |
| A13694 | How is it called a life, that begetteth so many deaths,& plagues? |
| A13694 | How many haue been deceiued, and taken out of this world on a sudden, when they least expected it? |
| A13694 | How many perish in this world by reason of vaine learning, who take little care of the seruice of God? |
| A13694 | How often haue I bin deceiued, finding wāt of faith, where I thought it sure? |
| A13694 | How secure is it for the keeping of heauenly grace, to fly the sight of men? |
| A13694 | How shal I bring thee into my house, that haue often offended thy most gracious countenance? |
| A13694 | How shal I dare to come, that know not any good in mee, whereupon I may presume? |
| A13694 | How shall I breake them? |
| A13694 | How shall I passe through them without hurt? |
| A13694 | How short time doe I spend, when I prepare my selfe to receiue? |
| A13694 | If all men were perfect, vvhat should vvee haue to suffer of our neighbour for God? |
| A13694 | If it were possible for thee to see all things created, present before thine eyes, what were it all but a vaine and vnprofitable sight? |
| A13694 | If now a little suffering make thee so impatient, what will hell fire doe hereafter? |
| A13694 | If now thou canst beare so little, how wilt thou be able to endure euerlasting torments? |
| A13694 | If things euen foreseene do oftentimes hurt vs, how can things vnlooked for choose but wound vs grieuously? |
| A13694 | If thou be not prepared to day; how wilt thou be prepared to morrow? |
| A13694 | If thou canst not make thy selfe such an one as thou wouldest; how canst thou expect to haue another in all things to thy liking? |
| A13694 | If thou doest not vnderstand, nor conceiue those things that are vnder thee, how shalt thou bee able to comprehend those that are aboue thee? |
| A13694 | If thou hadst not gone before vs, and taught vs, who would haue takē care to follow? |
| A13694 | If thou hast found wickednesse in Angels, and hast not pardoned them, what shal become of me? |
| A13694 | If thou hast no care of thy selfe now when thou hast time, who will be carefull for thee hereafter? |
| A13694 | If thou wilt suffer no aduersity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? |
| A13694 | Is it much that I serue thee, whom all creatures are bound to serue? |
| A13694 | Is it not in me? |
| A13694 | Is it not of nothing? |
| A13694 | Is it not thou, my Lord God, whose mercies are without number? |
| A13694 | Is not this a greater losse, then if thou shouldest lose the whole world? |
| A13694 | LOrd, what is man, that thou art mindefull of him, or the sonne of man, that thou vouchsafest to visite him? |
| A13694 | LOrd, what trust haue I in this world? |
| A13694 | Let it please thee, Lord, to deliuer me: for poore wretch that I am, what can I do, and whither shal I go without thee? |
| A13694 | Lord, how often shall I resigne my selfe? |
| A13694 | Lord, what cause haue I to complaine, if thou forsake me? |
| A13694 | My Lord is my light and saluation, whom shall I feare? |
| A13694 | Or if thou doest not that which I desire, what can I justly say against it? |
| A13694 | Or what creature vnder heauen so beloued, as a deuout soule, to whom God himselfe commeth to feed her with his glorious flesh? |
| A13694 | Or what is the greatest comfort, that all things vnder heauen doe yeeld mee? |
| A13694 | Or when could it bee ill with mee, when thou wert present? |
| A13694 | Or who standing by a great fire, receiueth not some small heat thereby? |
| A13694 | Or why do I desire to be esteemed of? |
| A13694 | Otherwise, how canst thou be perfectly mine,& I thine, vnlesse both within& without thou be free from all selfe- will? |
| A13694 | SHall I speake vnto my Lord, sith I am dust and ashes? |
| A13694 | Shall clay glory against him that frameth it? |
| A13694 | Starres fell from heauen, and what doe I presume that am dust? |
| A13694 | Tell me now, where are all those great Doctors and Ministers, with whom thou wast well acquainted, whilest they liued and flourished in learning? |
| A13694 | Then thou shalt not say, Who shall deliuer mee from the body of this death? |
| A13694 | Thinke when thou art in grace, how miserable and needy thou art wo nt to be without it? |
| A13694 | To whom but to thee? |
| A13694 | To whom shall I giue credit, Lord? |
| A13694 | Vaine man, what canst thou complaine of? |
| A13694 | Verily the inordinate loue we beare to our selues deceiueth vs. 3 What other thing shal that fire feed on, but thy sinnes? |
| A13694 | Vnlesse thou, O Lord, didst say it, who would beleeue it to be true? |
| A13694 | WHat is it thou sayest, Son? |
| A13694 | WHy seekest thou rest, since thou art borne to labour? |
| A13694 | Was it not that thou mightest liue to God, and become a spirituall man? |
| A13694 | What am I without it, but a rotten peece of wood, and an vnprofitable stalke, only meet for the fire? |
| A13694 | What are temporall things, but deceiuing snares? |
| A13694 | What are those Lord? |
| A13694 | What can I thinke better, and more profitable, then to humble my selfe wholy before thee, and to exalt thy infinite goodnes aboue me? |
| A13694 | What doe I require of thee more, then that thou resigne thy selfe wholy vnto mee? |
| A13694 | What dost thou require of a guiltie and miserable sinner, but that hee be contrite and sorowful,& do humble himself for his offences? |
| A13694 | What else doth the care for future incertainties bring thee, but sorrow vpon sorrow? |
| A13694 | What great matter is it, if thou be cheerefull and deuout at the cōming of heauenly grace? |
| A13694 | What harme can the words or iniuries of any do thee? |
| A13694 | What hath man deserued, that thou shouldest giue him thy grace? |
| A13694 | What hath thy seruant, but what he receiued from thee, euen without any desert of his? |
| A13694 | What haue I deserued for my sinnes, but hell and euerlasting fire? |
| A13694 | What is a man the better, for that he is esteemed great by man? |
| A13694 | What is elsewhere to be seene, which thou canst not see here? |
| A13694 | What is that? |
| A13694 | What is this or that to thee? |
| A13694 | What matter is it, how much, and what I suffer, so as at length I may attaine to the hauen of blisse? |
| A13694 | What secular person is there, that would not willingly receiue spirituall joy and comfort, if hee could alwayes haue it? |
| A13694 | What shall I returne vnto thee for this grace? |
| A13694 | What should I doe in these my so great tribulations and anguishes, vnlesse thou diddest comfort mee with thy holy, sweete, and heauenly speeches? |
| A13694 | What then shall I doe? |
| A13694 | What therefore shall I do, my God, my helper, and my counseller in necessitie? |
| A13694 | What therefore shall I vnworthy sinner, earth and ashes, be able to search and comprehend of so high and sacred a mystery? |
| A13694 | What thing more quiet then a simple eye? |
| A13694 | What to them that serue thee with their whole heart? |
| A13694 | What would I haue more, and what can I desire more happy? |
| A13694 | What would become of vs if we had not so great light to follow thee? |
| A13694 | Where art thou, when thou art not with thy selfe? |
| A13694 | Where hath it beene well with mee without thee? |
| A13694 | Where is so plentifull shedding of holy teares? |
| A13694 | Where is thy faith? |
| A13694 | Where is true peace and true glory? |
| A13694 | Where may one be found that will serue God, without looking for reward? |
| A13694 | Where then is the lurking hole of glory? |
| A13694 | Wherefore, Lord? |
| A13694 | Whereof then can I glory? |
| A13694 | Which of the Saints in the vvorld was vvithout crosses and tribulations? |
| A13694 | Who am I, that dare speake vnto thee? |
| A13694 | Who am I, that thou shouldest giue thy selfe vnto mee? |
| A13694 | Who can foresee all things? |
| A13694 | Who hath a greater combate, then he that laboureth to ouercome himselfe? |
| A13694 | Who hinders and troubles thee more then the vnmortified desires of thine owne heart? |
| A13694 | Who is able to beware beforehand of future euils? |
| A13694 | Who is he that serueth and obeyeth me with equall care, to that, with which the world, and the Lords thereof are serued? |
| A13694 | Who is so wise, that he can fully know all things? |
| A13694 | Who is there that hath all things as he wil? |
| A13694 | Who thinkest thou then is in best case? |
| A13694 | Whrre is the confidence conceiued of vertue? |
| A13694 | Why also haue I so easily giuen credit to others? |
| A13694 | Why art thou grieued for euery little trifle spoken and done against thee? |
| A13694 | Why art thou troubled when things succeed not as thou wouldest, and desirest? |
| A13694 | Why doe wee so willingly speake, and talke one with another, when notwithstanding wee seldome returne to silence, vvithout hurt of conscience? |
| A13694 | Why therefore doe I not become more feruent in thy venerable presence? |
| A13694 | Why therefore dost thou trouble thy selfe? |
| A13694 | Why tyrest thou thy mind with needlesse cares? |
| A13694 | Why wilt thou preferre thy selfe before others, sith there bee many more learned and skilfull in the Law then thou? |
| A13694 | Wilt thou haue that straight waies, which many after teares, and great labours haue hardly attained? |
| A13694 | how profitable hath grace beene kept with silence in this mortall life, which is nothing but a perpetual temptation, and a warfare? |
| A13694 | or am I like vnto him that promiseth and performeth not? |
| A13694 | what canst thou answere foule sinner to them that reproue thee, who hast so often offended God, and so many times deserued hell? |
| A13699 | 10 O good Iesu, when shall I stand to behold thee? |
| A13699 | 10 To whom shall I 〈 ◊ 〉 credit Lord? |
| A13699 | 10 Whereof then can I glory? |
| A13699 | 11 And if thou shouldest drive him from thee, and loose him, unto whom wilt thou fly, and what friend wilt thou then seeke? |
| A13699 | 11 I or what other Nation is there so famous, as the Christian people? |
| A13699 | 11 Thinkest thou, that thou shalt alwaies have spirituall consolations at will? |
| A13699 | 11 What availeth it to delay confession,& to deferre receaving? |
| A13699 | 11 What else doth the care for future incertainties bring thee, but sorrow upon sorrow? |
| A13699 | 11 Wherein then Lord? |
| A13699 | 12 Are not all painfull labours to be endured for everlasting life? |
| A13699 | 12 O when shall it be fully graunted me to consider in quietnes of mind, and see how sweet thou my Lord God art? |
| A13699 | 12 O with how great wisdome hast thou warned us to take heed of men? |
| A13699 | 12 Vnlesse thou, O Lord didst say it, who would believe it to be true? |
| A13699 | 12 What shall I say, being guilty, and full of all confusion? |
| A13699 | 13 And how can a life be loved that hath so many afflictions, and is subject to so many calamities and miseries? |
| A13699 | 13 But what shall I give unto our Lord in returne of this grace, for so singular a charity? |
| A13699 | 13 Vaine man, what canst thou complain of? |
| A13699 | 13 What is that? |
| A13699 | 13 Where then is the lurking hole of glory? |
| A13699 | 14 How is it called a life that begetteth so many deaths, and plagues? |
| A13699 | 14 O how short and deceiptfull, how inordinate, and filthy are all those pleasures? |
| A13699 | 14 What shall I give thee for all these thousands of benefits? |
| A13699 | 15 O how great was the fervour of all religious persons in the beginning of their holy institution? |
| A13699 | 15 What is all flesh in thy sight? |
| A13699 | 16 For who is there, that approaching humbly unto the fountaine of sweetnesse, doth not carry away from thence at least some litle sweetnesse? |
| A13699 | 16 How great was their devotion ● to praier, how great emulation of vertue? |
| A13699 | 17 O my God, how much did they endeavour to please thee, and alas how ● itle is that which I doe? |
| A13699 | 17 Or who standing by a great fire, receaveth not some small heat thereby? |
| A13699 | 19 O how great a Lord doth she entertaine? |
| A13699 | 19 To lay ones selfe open to few, alwaies to seeke after thee, the beholder of the heart? |
| A13699 | 2 But whence is this to me, that thou vouchsafest to come unto me? |
| A13699 | 2 For what is it to thee, whether that man be such or no, or whether this man doe, or speak this or that? |
| A13699 | 2 How shall I passe through them without hurt? |
| A13699 | 2 Lord, what cause have I to complaine, if thou forsake me? |
| A13699 | 2 What are those, Lord? |
| A13699 | 2 What secular person is there, that would not willingly receive spirituall joy and comfort, if he could alwaies have it? |
| A13699 | 2 Where hath it beene well with me without thee? |
| A13699 | 2 Wherefore Lord? |
| A13699 | 2 Why art thou grieved for every litle trifle spoken and done against thee? |
| A13699 | 2 Why art thou troubled, when things succeed not as thou wouldst or desirest, for who is he that hath all things accoording to his mind? |
| A13699 | 2 You shall easily perceive how litle or nothing at all it is that we doe, alas what is our life, if you doe but compare it with theirs? |
| A13699 | 20 My Lord is my light and my salvation, whom then shall I feare? |
| A13699 | 20 There is none under heaven that can comfort me, but thou my Lord God, the heavenly Physitian of soule ●, that strikest, and healest? |
| A13699 | 21 But wherein? |
| A13699 | 21 If I be tempted and vexed with many tribulations, I will not feare these evils whilest thy grace is with me? |
| A13699 | 21 If thou art not able to overcome these things that be litle and light, how wilt thou be able to conquer those things that are more difficult? |
| A13699 | 21 To how many hath vertue known and overhastily commended been hurtfull? |
| A13699 | 21 Why therefore doe I not become more fervent in thy venerable presence? |
| A13699 | 24 If thou wilt not endure adversity, how art thou Christ''s friend? |
| A13699 | 24 What am I without it, but a rotten peece of wood, and an unprofitable stalke only meet for the fire? |
| A13699 | 24 Whereupon therefore can I hope, or wherein ought I to trust, but in the great mercy of God alone, and in the onely hope of heavenly grace? |
| A13699 | 25 O if Iesus Christ and him Crucified would sink deep into our hearts, how quickly and sufficiently learned should we prove? |
| A13699 | 25 Thinkest thou to escape that which no man could ever avoid? |
| A13699 | 26 In their life time they seemed to be some body; who but they? |
| A13699 | 27 And how doest thou seeke any other way, then this Kings high way, which is the way of the holy Crosse? |
| A13699 | 27 Why art tho ● willing and desirous to see that which is unlawfull for thee to have and injoy? |
| A13699 | 28 The whole life of Christ was a Crosse and Martyrdome: and doest thou seeke rest and joy? |
| A13699 | 29 What will become of us in the end, who begiu to waxe cold so timely? |
| A13699 | 3 And why doe small matters goe to thy heart, but for that thou art yet carnall, and regardest men more then thou oughtest? |
| A13699 | 3 But what art thou to them that love thee? |
| A13699 | 3 How can I sustaine my selfe in this miserable life, unlesse thy mercy and grace support me? |
| A13699 | 3 How dare a sinner presume to appeare before thee? |
| A13699 | 3 Lord I am now afflicted, and it is not well with me, I am much troubled with this present griefe: 4 And now, deare Father, what shall I say? |
| A13699 | 3 Lord, how often shall I resigne my selfe? |
| A13699 | 3 Starres fell from heaven, and what doe I presume that am dust? |
| A13699 | 3 Thou shalt not need to answer for others, but shalt give accompt of thy selfe, why therefore dost thou trouble thy selfe? |
| A13699 | 3 What doe I require of thee more then that thou resigne thy selfe wholly unto me? |
| A13699 | 3 What great matter is it, if thou be cheerfull and devout at the comming of heavenly grace? |
| A13699 | 3 What hath thy servant, but what he hath received from thee, even without any desert of his? |
| A13699 | 3 What therefore shall I doe my God, my Helper, and my Counsellour in necessitie? |
| A13699 | 3 Who is he, that is able so warily to keep himselfe, that he never fall into any deceipt or doubt? |
| A13699 | 31 What canst thou see elsewhere, which thou canst not see here? |
| A13699 | 32 What canst thou see any where that can long continue under the sun? |
| A13699 | 32 Who shall remember thee when thou art dead? |
| A13699 | 4 But where is this devotion? |
| A13699 | 4 Though I knew all things in the world, yet had not charity, what would it helpe me before God? |
| A13699 | 4 What then shall I doe? |
| A13699 | 4 What therefore shall Iunworthy sinner, earth and ashes, be able to search and comprehend of so high and sacred a mystery? |
| A13699 | 4 Who is then in the best estate or condition? |
| A13699 | 43 But he that takes delight in sin, what marveil is it if he be afraid both of Death and Iudgment? |
| A13699 | 5 If thou art not prepared to day, how wilt thou be prepared to morrow? |
| A13699 | 5 If thou say that thou art not able to suffer much, how then wilt thou endure the fire of hell? |
| A13699 | 5 Let it please thee Lord to deliver me: for poore wretch that I am, what can I doe, and whither shall I goe without thee? |
| A13699 | 5 O how strict and severe a life led those holy Father ● in the wildernesse? |
| A13699 | 5 Otherwise, how canst thou be perfectly mine, and I thine, unlesse both within and without thou be free from all selfe- will? |
| A13699 | 5 What can the world profit thee without Iesus? |
| A13699 | 5 Where is true peace, and true glory? |
| A13699 | 5 Why doest thou consume thy self with vaine griefe? |
| A13699 | 5 Why therefore fearest thou to take up the Crosse, which leadeth thee to a Kingdome? |
| A13699 | 6 If thou doest not understand, or conceive those things that are under ● hee, how shalt thou be able to comprehend those that are above thee? |
| A13699 | 6 If thou seekest rest in this world, how wilt thou then attain to everlasting rest? |
| A13699 | 6 Then thou shalt not say, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? |
| A13699 | 6 What are we the better to live long, if we prove not the better by long living? |
| A13699 | 6 What can I doe for my sinnes ▪ but humbly confesse and bewaile them and intreate alwaies for mercy without intermission? |
| A13699 | 6 What often and fervent praiers did they offer unto God? |
| A13699 | 7 And now in this, what shall I say? |
| A13699 | 7 Doest thou think that men of this world suffer litle or nothing? |
| A13699 | 7 O fountaine of everlasting love what shall I say of thee? |
| A13699 | 7 Who can foresee all things? |
| A13699 | 7 what can be distastfull unto him, to whom thou art pleasing? |
| A13699 | 8 But why did( not provide better for my selfe, 〈 … 〉 why also have I so easily given credit ● o others? |
| A13699 | 8 Is there any thing hard to me? |
| A13699 | 8 When shall I perfectly rejoyce in thee? |
| A13699 | 8 Who art thou that fearest mortal man? |
| A13699 | 9 Doe they not shew themselves to be rather lovers of themselves, then of Christ, that alwaies think of their commodity and g ● ine? |
| A13699 | 9 What are all temporall things, but deceiving snares? |
| A13699 | 9 What harme can the words or injuries of any doe thee? |
| A13699 | 9 What have I deserved for my sinnes, but hell and everlasting fire? |
| A13699 | 9 What meaneth this most pious benignity, and so loving invitation? |
| A13699 | 9 What shall I returne unto thee for this grace? |
| A13699 | 9 When I the Almighty and highest Soveraigne, who created all things of nothing, humbly submitted my selfe unto man for thee? |
| A13699 | 9 Where is thy faith? |
| A13699 | And how often have I found faith, where I least expected it? |
| A13699 | And thou, how doest thou vouchsafe to come unto a sinner? |
| A13699 | And unlesse thou didst command it, who would dare to come unto thee? |
| A13699 | And what marvaile, if he feele not his burden who is borne up by the Almighty, and led by the greatest guide? |
| A13699 | And whom thou delightest not to him, what can be pleasant? |
| A13699 | Are they not all to be called hirelings that ever seeke comforts? |
| A13699 | Churches I speak of? |
| A13699 | Could all those words pluck as much as one haire from thy head? |
| A13699 | EVery man doth naturally desire to know; but knowledge without the feare of God, what availeth it? |
| A13699 | For could wee be perswaded that wee were in heresie, and that there is no salvation out of your Church, how quickly would we fly unto you? |
| A13699 | For where is any that is inddeed poore in spirit, and free from all affection of creatures? |
| A13699 | HOw may I obtaine this, O Lord, that I may finde thee alone, and open my whole heart unto thee, and enjoy thee as my soule desireth? |
| A13699 | He desired to fly with great liberty that said, who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and rest? |
| A13699 | How beloved a guest doth she harbour? |
| A13699 | How can he be lifted up with vaine words whose heart is truly subject to God? |
| A13699 | How dry and hard art thou without Iesus? |
| A13699 | How exact discipline was set on ● oote? |
| A13699 | How foolish and vaine, if thou desire any thing out of Iesus? |
| A13699 | How gladly would we be entertained by you? |
| A13699 | How great and sharp a combate had they for the taming of their vices? |
| A13699 | How often have I been deceaved, finding want of faith, where I thought it sure? |
| A13699 | How often were they vexed with our common enemy? |
| A13699 | How profitable hath grace been, kept with silence in this mortall life, which is nothing but a perpetuall temptation and a warfare? |
| A13699 | How rigorous abstinency did they daily undergoe? |
| A13699 | How shall I break through them without danger? |
| A13699 | How shall I dare to come, that know not any good in me, whereupon I may presume? |
| A13699 | How short ● ime doe I spend, when I prepare my selfe to receive? |
| A13699 | I Campian, must yee be saved, and none but yee? |
| A13699 | If things even foreseen doe oftentimes hurt us, how can things unlooked for choose but wound us grievously? |
| A13699 | Is it much that I serve thee whom all creatures are bound to serve? |
| A13699 | Is it not in me? |
| A13699 | Is it not of nothing? |
| A13699 | Is it possible that Religion should ever be the true mother of so much mischiefe? |
| A13699 | LOrd, what is man, that thou art mindfull of him, or the son of man, that thou vouchsafest to visit him? |
| A13699 | LOrd, what trust have I in this world? |
| A13699 | Of why doe I desire to be esteemed of? |
| A13699 | Or when could it be ill with me, when thou were present? |
| A13699 | Or will our salvation be any disparagement to yours? |
| A13699 | SHall I speake unto my Lord, sith I am dust and ashes? |
| A13699 | SOnne, be constant, and put thy trust in me: For what are words, but words? |
| A13699 | Shall clay glory against him that frameth it? |
| A13699 | VVHy seekest thou rest, since thou art borne to labour? |
| A13699 | We have a litle Sister, and shee hath no breasts, what shall we doe for our Sister, in the day when she shall be spoken of? |
| A13699 | What a glorious sight would it be to see the red Crosle once againe advanced as it was in the daies of Constantine? |
| A13699 | What am I, that dare speak unto thee? |
| A13699 | What fervent care and zeale had they to profit in the spirit? |
| A13699 | What hath man deserved that thou shouldest give him thy grace? |
| A13699 | What is this or that to thee? |
| A13699 | What long and grievous temptations did they endure? |
| A13699 | What shall we doe for our Sister? |
| A13699 | What thing more quiet then a simple eye? |
| A13699 | What to them that serve thee with their whole heart? |
| A13699 | What would I have more, and what more happy thing can I desire? |
| A13699 | When shall I be delivered from the miserable bondage of sin? |
| A13699 | When shall I be free from all impediments in true liberty, without all griefe of mind and body? |
| A13699 | When shall I contemplate the glory of thy Kingdome ▪ 11 When wilt thou be unto me all in all things? |
| A13699 | When shall I think, O Lord of thee alone? |
| A13699 | Where is the confidence conceived of vertue? |
| A13699 | Where may one be found that will serve God, without looking for reward? |
| A13699 | Wherefore doe I not prepare my selfe with greater care to receive thy sacred gifts? |
| A13699 | Who am I that thou shouldest give thy selfe unto me? |
| A13699 | Who can endure such peremptory pronunciations of Iudgment, of God''s eternal wrath and condemnation upon us, before wee come to our hearing? |
| A13699 | Why tirest thou thy mind with needlesse cares? |
| A13699 | and what doe all creatures availe thee, if thou be forsaken by the Creator? |
| A13699 | and wherein shall I forsake my selfe? |
| A13699 | and who shall pray for thee when thou canst not help thy selfe? |
| A13699 | how beautifull and noble a spouse doth she imbrace? |
| A13699 | how faithfull ● friend doth she accept? |
| A13699 | how great reverence and obedience observed they in all things under the rule of their superiors? |
| A13699 | how pleasant a companion doth she receave? |
| A13699 | how pure an dright an intention had they to Godvvard? |
| A13699 | or am I like unto him that promiseth and performeth not? |
| A13699 | or if thou dost not that which I desire, what can I justly say against it? |
| A13699 | or what is the greatest comfort, that all things under heaven doe yeeld me? |
| A13699 | or why should you not think us to have as great a care of our salvation, as you have of yours? |
| A13699 | thou knowest not what will be to morrow, and how knowest thou that thou shalt live till to morrow? |
| A13699 | to whom but to thee? |
| A13699 | what canst thou answer, foule sinner, to them that reprove thee, who hast so often offended God, and so many times deserved hell? |
| A13699 | what is not heaven able to hold us as well as you? |
| A13699 | what means and moans would we make to be members of your society? |
| A13699 | what would become of us if we had not so great light to follow thee? |
| A13699 | where all is set with snares, and compassed with enemies? |
| A13699 | where is so plentifull shedding of holy teares? |
| A13699 | which of the Saints in the world was without crosses and tribulations? |
| A13699 | who is able to beware beforehand of future evills? |
| A13699 | who will give me wings of true liberty to fly, and rest in thee? |
| A65794 | 2 But alass, what is there in me, whereof I should in any measure pride my self? |
| A65794 | 8. and God by his Prophet cryeth out, saying, O do not this abominable thing which I hate; How often doth God prosess his hatred of Sin? |
| A65794 | 8. he stopped and said, what light is this I see? |
| A65794 | Accept I must, or for ever be lost: What a low degree of goodness am I come unto? |
| A65794 | Admire the goodness of God; Lord, what is man? |
| A65794 | Alas, O my Soul, how comes it to pass that we thought of these things no sooner? |
| A65794 | Alas, O my Soul, how foolish are we? |
| A65794 | Alas, what doth God require of us for all his Mercies but this, that we should love him with all our Heart, Soul, and strength? |
| A65794 | Alass thou mayest go to hell with their praises, for so did the Scribes and Pharisees: Do all men speak well of thee? |
| A65794 | And alass, what good doth the high esteem of others do us? |
| A65794 | And if God chastise his people with such Rods, what Scorpions shall the Damned be Scourged with? |
| A65794 | And indeed what is the reason that I now read these words, and do now intend to Meditate on them? |
| A65794 | Are they thy gifts either of edification or sanctification? |
| A65794 | Are they too glorious things for God to bestow upon such wretched sinners? |
| A65794 | Before I begin to write, I know I have more cause to Write in blood, or tears, then in ink; Can a Mother forget her Child? |
| A65794 | Blessed God, must all these considerations pass as a Serpent on a stone without making any impression upon my soul? |
| A65794 | But alas, Lord, thou knowest I have scarce strength or life to lift up mine eye to thee, Lord, Can these dry bones live? |
| A65794 | But alass what am I weary of? |
| A65794 | But it will be objected, alass, I am not book learned, how shall I perform this duty of Meditation? |
| A65794 | But now let us seriously consider whether we are thus qualified: Am I poor in Spirit? |
| A65794 | Can a faint prayer be called striving, or no? |
| A65794 | Can a man be a blessed man without Learning? |
| A65794 | Can these dry eyes weep? |
| A65794 | Can this frozen Heart be enflamed? |
| A65794 | Can thy love be concealed from thy Beloved? |
| A65794 | Can you expect any duty should be easie at first? |
| A65794 | Canst thou love one that loves thee so little as I do? |
| A65794 | Canst thou not remember that thou wert by such an one when he died? |
| A65794 | Consider the greatness of God; why should he look after thee, nay, why doth he not destroy thee? |
| A65794 | Consider, alas, poor man, whether will thy soul go then, to hell or to heaven: dost thou know to which? |
| A65794 | Consider, what good will all thy wealth, all thy pleasures, all thy vanities do thee at that day? |
| A65794 | Despise the World; O ye vanities and fooleries of the world, why should I spend my time and strength in following after you? |
| A65794 | Did he not chastise him until he shed blood from the Crown of the head to the sole of the feet? |
| A65794 | Did not Christ die under his correcting hand; did not Christ cry out again and again Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me? |
| A65794 | Do men praise thee? |
| A65794 | Do we indeed admire them? |
| A65794 | Do we think that God at the day of Judgement will avouch this striving? |
| A65794 | Dost thou bottle up such tears, such puddle water in thy bottles? |
| A65794 | Dost thou hate my soul, and am I an abomination unto thee? |
| A65794 | Had I a thousand worlds, I would give all for thee, that I might be thine; O my soul, why should we stand consulting and contriving what to do? |
| A65794 | Hath God heaped upon me, many glowings coals of love& mercy, and is my heart still ● ozen? |
| A65794 | Hath not God dealt thus with Christ? |
| A65794 | How long Lord, holy and true, shall I be thus laden with corruptions? |
| A65794 | How many thousand pound; wouldst thou give? |
| A65794 | I have more understanding then all my Teachers; how got he that wisdom? |
| A65794 | If a drop of thy love be so sweet? |
| A65794 | If living bones can not move, how can dry bones live? |
| A65794 | If the wrath of a King be as th ● roaring of a Lion, what will th ● wrath of God be? |
| A65794 | If this be done to the green tree, what shall be done to the dry? |
| A65794 | If thy smiles bring so much joy, what will thy embraces do? |
| A65794 | Is it not, or certainly it ought to be, that I should try whether I am such, or whether I have such an heart and Spirit as these words signifie? |
| A65794 | Is it thus with us? |
| A65794 | Is it true indeed that God saith, Yet return, and I will save thee; doth he stand with stretched out arms? |
| A65794 | Is my Joseph yet living? |
| A65794 | Is not God a good God? |
| A65794 | Is this to fight a good fight? |
| A65794 | It is more then to know, for who is there almost in the world that knows not that he must dye, but few are there that consider it? |
| A65794 | It is not, Can a Child forget the Mother? |
| A65794 | It makes thee not to be less glorious; Lord, must my Blasphemies praise thee? |
| A65794 | Lord, how careless am I in thy service? |
| A65794 | Lord, how excellent is thy service? |
| A65794 | Lord, that thou wouldest do it for me take my Soul and my Body, what shall I do with them any longer? |
| A65794 | Lord, thou art enough for heaven, enough for thy self, and art thou not enough for me? |
| A65794 | Lord, thou art enough to answer thine own love, but what am I that I should speak of thee? |
| A65794 | Lord, where are those sweet embrances and manifestations of thy love, that thou hast bestowed on me in former times? |
| A65794 | Lord, who is it that must make me hate corruption, is it not thy Spirit? |
| A65794 | Lord, why shouldest thou with- hold thy love, the Manifestations of thy love? |
| A65794 | Mast I have no more Comforts but what poor Creatures can give me? |
| A65794 | Must God on y be a looser by his blessings? |
| A65794 | Must I be shut out for ever, and never enjoy the sweetness of thy presence? |
| A65794 | My poor heart, why dost thou not speak? |
| A65794 | Nay, Lord, what wilt thou doe? |
| A65794 | Nay, hath it not proved a means to make us more sinful? |
| A65794 | O my Soul, are these considerations true or false? |
| A65794 | O my Soul, since things are thus, let us not resist known Truths: shall we neglect these Truths because they are plain? |
| A65794 | O my Soul, why should not we alwayes be with God ▪ since he gives us leave? |
| A65794 | O my son, these things can not be believed and slighted, and understood and neglected; If thou dost not believe them, what is the reason? |
| A65794 | Oh how full of peace and joy is my Soul, when I am full of that? |
| A65794 | Or who is sensible of this Truth? |
| A65794 | Shall thy sweet Mercies be turned into the Gall of Aspes to me, not only to be bitter but deadly? |
| A65794 | Suppose thy gifts were great, O what an heavy account must there be for mis- spending such Talents? |
| A65794 | Thou art but a Worm, nay, a Viper: why doth he let thee hang upon his hand of Providence, and not shake thee off into Hell fire? |
| A65794 | Thou didst love me when I loved thee not at all: Why sittest thou so sad O my Soul? |
| A65794 | Thou hast said, I will take away the stony heart, Lord, if thou wilt work, who or what can hinder? |
| A65794 | Tremble, O my soul, when thou thinkest of these things; Why art not thou exceedingly affected with the thought of them? |
| A65794 | We will hereafter whensoever we are tempted unto sinne, say, what ▪ sinne against such love, such mercy, such experiences? |
| A65794 | What a world of difference is there betwixt a dead Carcass, and the same body when he liv''d? |
| A65794 | What am I that am the worst of men? |
| A65794 | What are the things that cause thee to pride thy self? |
| A65794 | What shall I say unto thee, O thou preserver of men? |
| A65794 | What was I mindful of when I forgot thee? |
| A65794 | What way canst thou worse mis- spend them then by priding thy self in them? |
| A65794 | Why art thou so good to me that have been, and am so bad? |
| A65794 | Why do I call thee dear? |
| A65794 | Why should the Angels love God more then I? |
| A65794 | X. Ah my dear God, thou hast been my God, and therefore thou art my God, how little can my Soul know by any thing that I now either do or feel? |
| A65794 | and are the pleasures of Sin that are but for a season, to much worth, that for them we should dwell in everlasting burnings? |
| A65794 | and dost thou pride thy self and rejoyce in that? |
| A65794 | and how many precious promises to those that are humble? |
| A65794 | and if the righteous have been thus afflicted, tossed with Tempests, and not comforted, where shall the wicked and ungodly appear? |
| A65794 | and resisting unto blood? |
| A65794 | and why should the Angels love and praise God more then I? |
| A65794 | and yet Lord, how careless am I of thy service? |
| A65794 | are we ever a whit the more holy because they think us so? |
| A65794 | dost thou not relish them? |
| A65794 | dost thou not think thou shalt go that way which thou hast gone all thy life long? |
| A65794 | doth he indeed stand with stretched out arms to imbrace us? |
| A65794 | hast thou full assurance of the favour of God? |
| A65794 | hast thou such a full assurance, or is thy life such, that thou needest not fear; Was not Moses and John as holy as thou? |
| A65794 | how excellent a thing is holiness? |
| A65794 | how many dayes, hours, minutes? |
| A65794 | how many mercies dost thou receive from God, even at that very time when thou sinnest against him? |
| A65794 | how many times in the day when I might think of thee without any hindrance of My Studies, do I choose rather to think of vanity? |
| A65794 | how many years hast thou lived? |
| A65794 | how very careless? |
| A65794 | if they are abstruce, then we doubt them; If they are plain, shall we despise them? |
| A65794 | if thou hast walk''t in the wayes of hell, how canst thou imagine that at the end of that journey thou should''st arrive at heaven? |
| A65794 | is it possible he should be so gracious to forgive such and so many sins, and of such long continuance? |
| A65794 | nay, can your own Conscience think it so now? |
| A65794 | nor is it, Can a Mother her Child, if the Child forget her? |
| A65794 | offend that God that hath pardoned us? |
| A65794 | or what have I, or can I do to require them? |
| A65794 | or, Can there be any case wherein the Mother can forget her Child? |
| A65794 | sand how can I expect the manifestations of thy love when I will not give thee my love, but let it run wast upon the creature? |
| A65794 | that hath done such things for us, and is not content with that, but hath promised to doe more? |
| A65794 | what do Kings do in such cases? |
| A65794 | what have ye done for me, or what can you do? |
| A65794 | what is sinful man, that thou shouldest so regard him? |
| A65794 | what saist thou? |
| A65794 | what shall the portion of their cup be? |
| A65794 | what will the overflowing be? |
| A65794 | when every Temptation at the first assault overcomes thee, and thou fightest not a stroake; Is this striving? |
| A65794 | when it is dead, it is sensless, ga ● ● ly, filthy: how beautiful, how active, how many rare endowments had ● ● when it liv''d? |
| A65794 | when my present sins, and my past duties, which of them are the heaviest burthen unto me, I do not know, what shall I do? |
| A65794 | when was it sealed? |
| A65794 | whereas what could be expected but that thou shouldest pursue me to destroy me? |
| A65794 | who must overcome my resisting of thy Spirit, is it not thy Spirit? |
| A65794 | why art thou silent? |
| A65794 | why do we not fear him that can cast both body and soul into hell? |
| A65794 | why should I not have the same opinion of you now, as I certainly shall have when I come to die? |
| A65794 | why what could God require less at thy hands then these? |
| A65794 | wilt thou be as a Man astonish''t, and as a Mighty Man that can not help? |
| A56943 | ''T is true, God must bee sought; What impious tongue dare be so basely bold to contradict so known a truth? |
| A56943 | A relaxation from the toile of labour: And what is labour but a painfull exercise of the fraile body? |
| A56943 | ANd can I choose O God but tremble at thy judgements, or can my stony heart not stand amazed at thy threatnings? |
| A56943 | And hast thou no moat in thine? |
| A56943 | And may I not dispence with a bare lippe deniall of my urg''d Religion for the necessary preservation of the threatned life of a man? |
| A56943 | And shall I then afflict my body, and beslave my heaven- born soule to purchase Rags to cloath my nakednesse? |
| A56943 | And was not our mixt government unapt to fall into diseases? |
| A56943 | And what have they not done to make my soul despaire? |
| A56943 | And will these Plague- denouncers never leave to thunder judgements in my trembling eare? |
| A56943 | And with blotted fingers made his blurre the greater? |
| A56943 | Are we all Angels? |
| A56943 | Are we born to thrum Caps, or pick straws? |
| A56943 | Are we still bound to keepe a legall Sabbath in the strictnesse of the Letter? |
| A56943 | Art thou not condemned to Rags, to Famine, by him whose law commanded thee to labour? |
| A56943 | Art thou worthy of Christ that preferrest thy estate, or thy brothers life before him? |
| A56943 | Augustine O thou covetous man, why dost thou treasure up such hidden mischiefe? |
| A56943 | BUt will my God bee now entreated? |
| A56943 | Be circumspect, and provident my soule: Hast thou a faire Summer? |
| A56943 | Being sick of the Iaundies, how hast thou censur''d another yellow? |
| A56943 | But why dost thou judge thy brother? |
| A56943 | CAn flesh and blood bee so unnaturall to forget the Lawes of Nature? |
| A56943 | COnscience, why start''st thou? |
| A56943 | Can blowing youth immure it selfe within the Icey walls of Vestall Chastity? |
| A56943 | Can drunkennesse dry up the Sea that walls her? |
| A56943 | Can faire- pretending Piety be so barbarous to condemn us to the flames of our affections, and make us Martyrs to our own desires? |
| A56943 | Can flames of lust dissolve the Ordnance that protect her? |
| A56943 | Can full perfection be expected here? |
| A56943 | Can lusty diet, and mollicious rest bring forth no other fruits, but faint desires, rigid thoughts, and Phlegmatick, conceits? |
| A56943 | Can the Sun rise to thy comfort, that hath so often set in thy wrath? |
| A56943 | Canst thou appeare in the searching eye of heaven, and not expect to be cast away? |
| A56943 | Canst thou command the Sunne to shine? |
| A56943 | Canst thou forbid the Mildewes, or controll the breath of the Malignant East? |
| A56943 | Canst thou hold a full estate, a good pennyworth, which is bought with the deare price of thy Gods displeasure? |
| A56943 | Come, if thou freely give thy house, canst thou in conscience be denied a hiding room for thy protection? |
| A56943 | Custome in finne multiplies it: Pleadest thou society? |
| A56943 | Did not our Prophets give lawfull warning? |
| A56943 | Did we want good Lawes? |
| A56943 | Didst thou foresee this danger? |
| A56943 | Didst thou not laugh invasion to scorne? |
| A56943 | Dost thou glory in thy friends? |
| A56943 | Dost thou glory in thy parts? |
| A56943 | Dost thou glory in thy strength? |
| A56943 | Dost thou glory in thy wealth? |
| A56943 | Endeavour rather to be, then to be ● thought holy; for what profits i ● thee to be thought to be what th ● ● art not? |
| A56943 | Fifteen shillings in the pound composition? |
| A56943 | Foresee what punishments are prepar''d to meet thee, and tell mee, what''s thy purchase? |
| A56943 | Forgive him: Hath he trespass ● d against the Congregation? |
| A56943 | HAs thy brother, O my soul, a beam in his eye? |
| A56943 | HOw truly then, O God, this heavie woe belongs to this my boasted sin? |
| A56943 | Has mortality no priviledge to supersede it from the utmost punishment of a little necessary frailty? |
| A56943 | Hath Gilead Balme enough to heale thy superannuated sores? |
| A56943 | Hath not my life beene blamelesse before men? |
| A56943 | Hath not the hardnesse of my heart made me uncapable of thy compassion? |
| A56943 | Have I born false witnesse like the wanton Elders? |
| A56943 | Have I imbrued my hands in blood like Barabbas? |
| A56943 | Have I like Jacob supplanted my elder brother? |
| A56943 | Have I not given tithes of all I have? |
| A56943 | Have I not hated Vice with a perfect hatred? |
| A56943 | Have I set up false Gods like the Egyptians? |
| A56943 | Have I violated the Sabbath like the Libertines? |
| A56943 | Have the Gentiles no priviledge by vertue of Messiahs comming, or has the Evangelicall Sabbath no immunities? |
| A56943 | How Pharisaically hast thou judg''d? |
| A56943 | How can my lips, that daily breathe revenge against my brother, presume to own thee as my father, or expect from thee thy blessing, as thy childe? |
| A56943 | How can we honour God if we revenge our selves? |
| A56943 | How full of sweetnesse was his death, who dying was reveng''d upon three thousand enemies? |
| A56943 | How has the pride of thine owne heart blinded thee toward thy selfe? |
| A56943 | How many thirst, whilst thou surfeitest? |
| A56943 | How many want that blessing thou hast turn''d into a curse? |
| A56943 | How often hast thou turn''d the spirituall body of thy Saviour into thy damnation? |
| A56943 | How wer''t thou wedded to thy owne corruptions, that couldst endure thy unsavoury filthinesse? |
| A56943 | I, but who shall right thy honour then? |
| A56943 | Iacob could purchase his sick fathers blessing with a down- right lie, and may I not dissemble for a life? |
| A56943 | If thy impatience can not act a Sabbath twelve hours, what happinesse canst thou expect in a perpetuall Sabbath? |
| A56943 | If truth sit Regent, in what faithfull breast shall secrets finde repose? |
| A56943 | Is a poore clod of earth we call Inheritance, prizable with his greatnesse? |
| A56943 | Is he that was so weary of the New- Moones, so taken with the Sun to tie his Sabbath to that only day? |
| A56943 | Is it equall that God who gave thee a body, and sixe dayes to provide for it, should demand one day of of thee, and be denied it? |
| A56943 | Is not my crying sin too loud for pardon? |
| A56943 | Is not the God of heaven and earth worth many kingdomes? |
| A56943 | Is not the liberall Cup the Sucking- bottle of the sons of Phebus, to solace and refresh their palats in the nights of sad Invention? |
| A56943 | Is not this Gods sole Prerogative? |
| A56943 | Is sixe dayes too little for thy selfe, and two hours too much for thy God? |
| A56943 | Is there no allowance to humanity? |
| A56943 | Is thy cause bad? |
| A56943 | Is thy honour wrong''d? |
| A56943 | Is thy welfare more considerable then his glory? |
| A56943 | It is a day of Rest: And what''s a Rest? |
| A56943 | May that breach be set upon the score of mercy, and commended above sacrifice for the savegard of an Asse? |
| A56943 | Must we turne Ancherites and spend our dayes in Caves, and Hermitages, and smother up our pretious hours in cloysterd folly, and recluse devotion? |
| A56943 | No grains to flesh and blood? |
| A56943 | Nothing but damnation? |
| A56943 | Nothing but judgements? |
| A56943 | Nothing but plagues? |
| A56943 | Now tell me O my soul, art thou worthy the name of a Christian, that denyest and opposest the nature of Christ? |
| A56943 | O my deceived soule, how great a darknesse was thy light? |
| A56943 | O my ingrant soule, what shall I doe to bee saved? |
| A56943 | O my soule, how dost thou prize temporalls beyond eternalls? |
| A56943 | O my soule, how uncharitable hast thou been? |
| A56943 | O my unrighteous soule, canst thou hold thy brother worthy of death for giving thee the lie, and thy selfe guiltlesse that makest a lie? |
| A56943 | O what return can the tainted breath of my polluted lips deserve, but to bee bound hand and foot, and cast into the flames of Hell? |
| A56943 | O, wouldst thou offer a pleasing sacr ● fice to heaven? |
| A56943 | Or Lord, wherein am I more uncapable of thy indignation? |
| A56943 | Or a puffe of breath we call life, valuable with his honour, in comparison of whom the very Angels are impure? |
| A56943 | Or at a Cockpit leave our doubtfull fortunes to the mercy of unmercifull contention? |
| A56943 | Or can our work bee perfect in this vale of imperfection? |
| A56943 | Or couldst thou have contrived a way to be thus miserable? |
| A56943 | Or hath my purse been hidebound to my hungry brother? |
| A56943 | Or like Absolon defiled my fathers bed? |
| A56943 | Or like Ahab intruded into Nabals vineyard? |
| A56943 | Or like David coveted Vriahs wife? |
| A56943 | Or like cursed Cham, have I discovered my Fathers nakednesse? |
| A56943 | Or shall my brothers life, or shall my owne be seis''d upon through the cruell truth of my down- right confession? |
| A56943 | Or spend our wanton dayes in sacrificing costly presents to a fleshly Idoll? |
| A56943 | Or what presumptuous lips dare disavow it? |
| A56943 | Or who but fooles( that can not taste anjnjury) can moderate their high- bred spirits; and stop their passion in her full carrier? |
| A56943 | Reprove him: Hath he sinned against God? |
| A56943 | Search thy self to the bottome, and thou shalt find enough to humble thee: Dost thou glory in the favour of a Prince? |
| A56943 | So long as thy wrath is kindled against thy brother, so long is the wrath of God burning against thee? |
| A56943 | Society in the offence, aggravates the punishment: Pleadest thou help to invention? |
| A56943 | TAke heed my soule, when thou hast lost thy self in thy journey, how wilt thou finde thy God at thy journeys end? |
| A56943 | Tell mee, what continuance can that Inheritance promise that is raised upon the ruines of thy Brother? |
| A56943 | The Law is just and good, and being ruled by that, how can my faire proceedings bee unjust? |
| A56943 | The Plague? |
| A56943 | The tenth in tithes is any one in ten, and why the seventh day not any one in seven? |
| A56943 | The young mans great possessions taught his timerous tongue to shrink from and decline his hearts profession, and who could blame him? |
| A56943 | They perish at their own charge, not mine, and what is that to mee? |
| A56943 | VVHat tell''st thou me of Conscience, or a pious life? |
| A56943 | VVHat thinkst thou now my soule? |
| A56943 | VVIll Boanarges never cease? |
| A56943 | WHat a child O my soule, hath thy false bosome harb ● rd ▪ And what reward can thy indulgence expect from such a father? |
| A56943 | Was not Wine given to exhilarate the drooping hearts, and raise the drowzie spirits of dejected souls? |
| A56943 | Was not the Title of the Crown unquestionable? |
| A56943 | We sanctifie the day, the day not us: But are we Jewes? |
| A56943 | Wer''t thou not but now for many yeares even nuzzl ● d in the bosome of habituall peace? |
| A56943 | What Common wealth can be secure? |
| A56943 | What Oyle shall bee infused into the lampe of deare society, if they deny the priviledge of a civill rejoycing Cup? |
| A56943 | What Stratagem can prosper? |
| A56943 | What blessing canst thou hope for from heaven, that pleadest for the son of the devill, and crucifyest the Son of God? |
| A56943 | What can my prayers expect but thy just wrath and heavie indignation? |
| A56943 | What damnation to Hypocrites? |
| A56943 | What have I done to make my case desperate? |
| A56943 | What if his beggerly children pine, or his proud wife perish? |
| A56943 | What if the custome of a harmlesse oath should captivate thy heedlesse tongue, can nothing under sudden judgment seiz upon the? |
| A56943 | What judgements to the lascivious? |
| A56943 | What kingdome can be safe? |
| A56943 | What labour for the youth to number musick with their sprightly paces? |
| A56943 | What labour is it for the impatient lover to measure Hellespont with his widened armes to hasten his del ● ght? |
| A56943 | What mean these strict Reformers thus to spend their hou ● e- glasses, and bawle against our harmless Cups? |
| A56943 | What poverty to the slothfull? |
| A56943 | What satisfaction wilt thou give to the Creator, to the Creature, to thy selfe; against all whom thou hast transgrest? |
| A56943 | What stripes to the ignorant? |
| A56943 | What thankfulnesse shall I returne ● or so infinite a love? |
| A56943 | What vengeance to the prophane, the censorious, the revengefull? |
| A56943 | What warre can be successefull? |
| A56943 | What''s thirty in the hundred to a man of Trade? |
| A56943 | What? |
| A56943 | What? |
| A56943 | When civill warres divide a Kingdome, will Mercuries decline a lie? |
| A56943 | When hunger drives thee to the gates of death, wilt thou be afraid to steale? |
| A56943 | When martial execution is to be done ▪ wilt thou fear to kill? |
| A56943 | Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, ye are mighty in power? |
| A56943 | Who more threatend then the presumptuous? |
| A56943 | Why should I spend my precious minutes in the sullen and dejected shades of sadnesse? |
| A56943 | Why should I tire my tender youth, and torture out my groaning dayes in toyle and travell? |
| A56943 | am I not sunk too deep into the jaws of Hell, for thy strong arme to rescue? |
| A56943 | and by repentance too: What strange impiety dare deny it? |
| A56943 | and countenanc''d Vertue with a due respect? |
| A56943 | and discompose the happy peace of my harmonious thoughts with painfull grinding in the common mill of dull mortality? |
| A56943 | and my demeanor unreprovable before the world? |
| A56943 | and sell our livelihood for a few teares, and a whining face? |
| A56943 | and yet I live: What plagues against my swearing? |
| A56943 | and yet she stands the glory of the world: Can pride demolish the Towers that defend her? |
| A56943 | and yet sound; What danger against procrastination? |
| A56943 | dar''st thou deny him for thy owne owne ends, that denied thee nothing for thy good? |
| A56943 | for the saving of the whole livelyhood and subsistence of a Christian? |
| A56943 | in all Christian duties who more forward then I? |
| A56943 | judge thy selfe: Wouldst thou avoid the sin? |
| A56943 | or did our Lawes want execution? |
| A56943 | or didst thou not lesse feare a Civill war? |
| A56943 | or have I bowed before them like the Israelites? |
| A56943 | or if a wet season meet thy Harvest, and with open sluces overwhelme thy hopes; canst thou let downe the floodgates, and stop the watry Flux? |
| A56943 | or rather not be secured by a faire officious lie? |
| A56943 | or ravell out my short liv''d dayes in solemn and heart- breaking Care? |
| A56943 | or were we moved at the sound of judgements? |
| A56943 | or why dost thou set at naught thy brother? |
| A56943 | shall I perish for the want of ● ood, and die a Martyr to that foolish conscience which forbids me to rub the eares of a little standing Corne? |
| A56943 | shall the reall breach of a holy Sabbath, dedicated to Gods highest glory, be tolerated for the welfare of an Oxe? |
| A56943 | should we be stocks and stones and( having active souls) turne altogether passives? |
| A56943 | the extract of all diseases? |
| A56943 | thy pleasure, with no crosse? |
| A56943 | thy prosperity, with no adversity? |
| A56943 | thy reputation with no scandall? |
| A56943 | to call our meetings Riots, and brand our civil mirth with stiles of loose Intemperance? |
| A56943 | was Ioseph mark''d for everlasting death, for swearing by the life of Egypts King? |
| A56943 | was Peter when he so denyed his master, straight damn''d for swearing, and forswearing? |
| A56943 | what if the luxuriant stile of thy discourse doe chance to strike upon an obvious Oath, art thou straight hurried into the bosome of a Plague? |
| A56943 | why dost thou dote on the Image of the King stamped on coine, and hatest the Image of God that shines in men? |
| A56943 | yet finde I honour: How fiercely have they preacht destruction against my cruelty? |
| A56943 | yet how often hath God been found upon the death- bed? |
| A56943 | yet none live more unscourg''d: Who deeper branded then the Lyar? |
| A56943 | yet not infected: What diseases against my drunkennesse? |
| A56943 | yet themselvs prosper: What fals to the proud? |
| A56943 | yet they stand surest: What curses to the covetous? |
| A56943 | yet who lesse punisht? |
| A56943 | yet who more Scotfree? |
| A56943 | yet who more favourd? |
| A56943 | yet who more pleasure? |
| A56943 | yet who more safe? |
| A56943 | yet who richer? |
| A56943 | 〈 ◊ 〉, but in some cases truth destroyes thy life; a lie preserves it: My soule, was God thy Creator? |
| A56828 | ''T is true, God must bee sought; What impious tongue dare be so basely bold to contradict so knowne a Truth? |
| A56828 | A relaxation from the toyle of labour: And what is labour but a painefull exercise of the fraile body? |
| A56828 | ANd can I choose O God but tremble at thy judgements? |
| A56828 | Am I not sunke too deepe into the Jawes of Hell, for thy strong arme to rescue? |
| A56828 | And by repentance too; What strange impietie dare deny it? |
| A56828 | And ha ● t thou no m ● ● te in thine? |
| A56828 | And may I not dispense with a bare lippe deniall of my urg''d Religion for the necessary preservation of the threatned life of a man? |
| A56828 | And my demeanour unreprovable before the world? |
| A56828 | And shall I then afflict my body and beslave my heaven- borne soule to purchase, Rags to cloathe my nakednesse? |
| A56828 | And was not our mixt government unapt to fall into diseases? |
| A56828 | And what have they not done to make my soule despair? |
| A56828 | And what reward can thy indulgence expect from such a father? |
| A56828 | And will these Plague- denouncers never leave to thunder judgements in my trembling eare? |
| A56828 | And with blotted fingers made his blurre the greater? |
| A56828 | And yet thou pamper''st up thy sides with stollen food, and yet thou deck''st thy wanton body with unearn''d ornaments? |
| A56828 | Are we borne to thrum Caps, or pick strawes? |
| A56828 | Are we still bound to keepe a legall Sabbath in the strictnesse of the Letter? |
| A56828 | Are wee all Angels? |
| A56828 | Art thou not condemned to Rags, to Famine, by him whose Law commanded thee to labour? |
| A56828 | Art thou worthy of Christ that preferrest thy estate, or thy brothers life before him? |
| A56828 | BUt will my God bee now entreated? |
| A56828 | Bee circumspect, and provident my soule: Hast thou a faire Summer? |
| A56828 | Being sick of the Iaundies, how hast thou censur''d another yellow? |
| A56828 | But why dost thou judge thy brother? |
| A56828 | CAn flesh and blood bee so unnaturall to forget the Lawes of Nature? |
| A56828 | COnscience, why start''st thou? |
| A56828 | Can blowing youth immure it selfe within the Icey walls of Vestall Chastitie? |
| A56828 | Can drunkennes dry up the Sea that walls her? |
| A56828 | Can faire- pretending pictie be so barbarous to condemn us to the flames of our affections, and make us Martyrs to our owne desires? |
| A56828 | Can flames of lust dissolve the Ordnance that protect her? |
| A56828 | Can full perfection bee expected here? |
| A56828 | Can lusty diet, and mollicious rest bring forth no other fruits, but faint desires, rigid thoughts, and Pblegmatick, conceits? |
| A56828 | Can the Sunne rise to thy comfort, that hath so often set in thy wrath? |
| A56828 | Canst thou appeare in the searching eye of heaven, and not expect to be cast away? |
| A56828 | Canst thou command the Sunne to shine? |
| A56828 | Canst thou forbid the Mildewes, or controll the breath of the malignant East? |
| A56828 | Canst thou hold a full estate, a good pennyworth, which is bought with the deare price of thy Gods displeasure? |
| A56828 | Come, if thou freely give thy house, canst thou in conscience bee denied a hiding- roome for thy protection? |
| A56828 | Custome in Sinne multiplies it: Pleadest thou societie? |
| A56828 | Did not our Prophets give lawfull warning? |
| A56828 | Did wee want good Lawes? |
| A56828 | Didst thou foresee this danger? |
| A56828 | Didst thou not laugh invasion to scorne? |
| A56828 | Dost thou glory in thy Friends? |
| A56828 | Dost thou glory in thy parts? |
| A56828 | Dost thou glory in thy strength? |
| A56828 | Dost thou glory in thy wealth? |
| A56828 | Endeavour rather to be, then to be thought holy; for what profits it thee to bee thought to be what thou art not? |
| A56828 | Fifteene shillings in the pound composition? |
| A56828 | Foresee what punishments are prepa''rd to meet thee, and tell mee, what''s thy purchase? |
| A56828 | Forgive him: Hath hee srespass''d against the Congregation? |
| A56828 | HAs thy brother, O my soule, a beame in his eye? |
| A56828 | HOw truely then, O God, this heavy woe belongs to this my boasted sinne? |
| A56828 | Has mortalitie no priviledge, to supersede it from the utmost punishment of a little necessary frailtie? |
| A56828 | Hath Gilead Balme enough to heale thy superannuated sores? |
| A56828 | Hath not my life been blamelesse before men? |
| A56828 | Hath not the hardnesse of my heart made mee uncapable of thy compassion? |
| A56828 | Have I borne false witnesse like the wanton Elders? |
| A56828 | Have I embrued my hands in blood like Barabbas? |
| A56828 | Have I like Iacob supplanted my elder brother? |
| A56828 | Have I not given Tithes of all I have? |
| A56828 | Have I not hated Vice with a perfect hatred? |
| A56828 | Have I set up false Gods like the Egyptians? |
| A56828 | Have I violated the Sabbath like the Libertines? |
| A56828 | Have the Gentiles no priviledge, by the vertue of Messia ● s comming, or has the Evangelicall Sabbath no immunities? |
| A56828 | How Pharisaically hast thou judg''d? |
| A56828 | How can my ● ippes, that daily breath revenge against my brother, presume to owne thee as my father, or expect from thee thy blessing, as thy child? |
| A56828 | How can wee honou ● God if wee revenge our selves? |
| A56828 | How fiercely have they preach''d destruction, against my cruelty? |
| A56828 | How full of sweetnesse was his death, who dying was reveng''d upon three thous ● nd enemies? |
| A56828 | How has the pride of thy owne heart blinded thee toward thy selfe? |
| A56828 | How many thirst whilst thou surfeitest? |
| A56828 | How many want that blessing thou hast turn''d into a curse? |
| A56828 | How often hast thou turn''d the spirituall b ● dy of thy Saviour into thy d ● mnation? |
| A56828 | How wert thou wedded to thy owne corruptions, that could''st endure thy unsavory filthinesse? |
| A56828 | I, but in some cases truth destroyes thy life; a lie preserves it: My soule, was God thy Creator? |
| A56828 | I, but who shall right thy honor then? |
| A56828 | Iaco ● could purchase his sick fathers blessing with a downe- right lye, and may I not di ● semble for a life? |
| A56828 | If thy impatience can not act a Sabbath twelve houres, what happinesse canst thou expect in a perpetuall Sabbath? |
| A56828 | If truth sit Regent, in what faithfull brest shall secrets finde repose? |
| A56828 | In all Christian duties who more forward then I? |
| A56828 | Is a poore clod of earth wee call Inheritance, prizable with his greatnesse? |
| A56828 | Is hee that was so weary of the New- Moones, so taken with the Sunne to tie his Sabbath to that onely day? |
| A56828 | Is it equall that God, who gave thee a body, and six dayes to provide for it, should demand one day of thee, and bee denied it? |
| A56828 | Is not my crying sinne too loud for Pardon? |
| A56828 | Is not the God of heaven and earth worth many kingdomes? |
| A56828 | Is not the liberall Cup the Sucking- bottle of the sonnes of Phaebus, to solace and refresh their palats in the nights of sad Invention? |
| A56828 | Is not this Gods sole Prerogative? |
| A56828 | Is six dayes too little for thy selfe, and two houres too much for thy God? |
| A56828 | Is there no allowance to humanitie? |
| A56828 | Is thy cause bad? |
| A56828 | Is thy honour wrong''d? |
| A56828 | Is thy welfare more considerable then his glory? |
| A56828 | It is a day of Rest: And what''s a Rest? |
| A56828 | May that breach bee set upon the score of m ● rcy, and commended above sacrifice for the savegard of an Asse? |
| A56828 | No Graines to flesh and blood? |
| A56828 | Nothing but damnation? |
| A56828 | Nothing but judgements? |
| A56828 | Nothing but plagues? |
| A56828 | O like Ahab intruded into Nabott ● Vineyard? |
| A56828 | O my deceived foule, how great a darknesse was thy light? |
| A56828 | O my ingrant soule, what shall I do to bee saved? |
| A56828 | O my soule, how dost thou prize temporalls beyond eternalls? |
| A56828 | O my soule, how uncharitable hast thou been? |
| A56828 | O my unrighteous soul, canst thou hold thy brother worthy of death for giving thee the lie, and thy selfe guiltlesse that makest a lie? |
| A56828 | O thou covetous man, why dost thou treasure up such hidden mischiefe? |
| A56828 | O what returne can the tainted breath of my polluted lipps deserve, but to bee bound hand and foot, and cast into the flames of Hell? |
| A56828 | O ● can my stony heart not stand amazed at thy Threatnings? |
| A56828 | O, wouldst thou offer a pleasing sacrifice to heaven? |
| A56828 | Or a puffe of breath wee call life, valuable with his honour, in comparison of whom the very Angels are impure? |
| A56828 | Or at a Cockpit leave our doubtfull fortunes to the mercy of unmercifull contention? |
| A56828 | Or can our worke be perfect in this vale of imperfection? |
| A56828 | Or could''st thou have contrived a way to bee thus miserable? |
| A56828 | Or hath my purse beene hidebound to my hungry brother? |
| A56828 | Or have I bowed before them like the Israelites? |
| A56828 | Or like Absolon defiled my fathers Bed? |
| A56828 | Or like David coveted Vriahs wife? |
| A56828 | Or like cursed Cham have I discovered my fathers nakednesse? |
| A56828 | Or shall my brothers life, or shall my owne be seis''d upon through the cruell truth of my downe- right confession? |
| A56828 | Or spend our wanton dayes in sacrificing costly presents to a fleshly Idoll? |
| A56828 | Or what mercy canst thou expect from heaven, that hast denied all mercy to thy Neighbour? |
| A56828 | Or what presumptuous lips dare disavow it? |
| A56828 | Or who but fooles( that can not taste an injury) can moderate their high- bred spirits, and stop their passion in her full carreire? |
| A56828 | Reprove him: Hath hee sinned against God? |
| A56828 | Search thy selfe to the bottome, and thou shalt find enough to humble thee: Dost thou glory in the ● avour of a Prince? |
| A56828 | So long as thy wrath is kindled against thy brother, so long is the wrath of God burning against thee? |
| A56828 | Societie in the offence, aggravates the punishment: Pleadest thou help to Invention? |
| A56828 | TAke heed my soul, when thou hast lost thy self in thy journey, how wilt thou find thy God at thy journeys end? |
| A56828 | Tell mee, what continuance can that Inheritance promise that is raised upon the ruines of thy Brother? |
| A56828 | The Law is just and good, and being ruled by that, how can my faire proceedings bee unjust? |
| A56828 | The Plague? |
| A56828 | The tenth in tithes is any one in tenne, and why the seventh day not any one in seaven? |
| A56828 | The young mans great possessions taught his timerous tongue to shrinke from an decline his hearts profession, and who could blame him? |
| A56828 | They perish at their owne charge, not mine, and what is that to mee? |
| A56828 | VVHat tell''st thou me of Conscience, or a pious life? |
| A56828 | VVHat think''st thou now my soule? |
| A56828 | VVer''t thou not but now for many yeares even nuzzl''d in the bosome of habituall peace? |
| A56828 | VVhat Plagues against my swearing? |
| A56828 | VVhat curses to the Covetous? |
| A56828 | VVhat judgements to the lascivious? |
| A56828 | VVhat vengeance to the prophane, the censorious, the revengefull? |
| A56828 | WIll Boanarges never cease? |
| A56828 | Was Ioseph mark''d for everlasting death, for swearing by the life of Egypts King? |
| A56828 | We sanctifie the day, the day not us: But are we Iewes? |
| A56828 | What Commonwealth can be secure? |
| A56828 | What Oyle shall bee infused into the Lampe of deare societie, if they deny the priviledge of a civill rejoycing Cup? |
| A56828 | What Stra ● ● ● can prosper? |
| A56828 | What blessing canst thou hope from heaven, that pleadest for the sonne of the devill, and crucifyest the Sonne of God? |
| A56828 | What can my prayers expect but thy just wrath and heavy indignation? |
| A56828 | What damnation to Hypocrites? |
| A56828 | What have I done to make my case desterate? |
| A56828 | What if his beggerly children pine, or his proud wife perish? |
| A56828 | What if the custome of a harmelesse oath should captivate thy heedlesse tongue, can nothing under sudden judgement seize upon thee? |
| A56828 | What if the luxuriant stile of thy discourse doe chance to strike upon an obvious Oath, art thou straight hurried into the bosome of a Plague? |
| A56828 | What kingdome can be safe? |
| A56828 | What labour for the youth to number mu ● ick with their sprightly paces? |
| A56828 | What labour is it for the impatient lover to measure Hellespont with his widened armes to hasten his delight? |
| A56828 | What meane these strict Reformers thus to spend their hou ● e- glasses, and bawle against our harmelesse Cups? |
| A56828 | What povertie to the slothfull? |
| A56828 | What satisfaction wilt thou give to the Creator, to the creature, to thy selfe, against all whom thou hast transgrest? |
| A56828 | What stripes to the ignorant? |
| A56828 | What thankfulnesse shall I returne for so infinite a love? |
| A56828 | What warre can be succesfull? |
| A56828 | What? |
| A56828 | When Martiall execution is to bee done, wilt thou feare to kill? |
| A56828 | When civill warres divide a kingdome, will Mercuries decline a lie? |
| A56828 | When hunger drives thee to the gates of death, wilt thou bee affraid to steale? |
| A56828 | Wherefore doe the wicked live, become old, yea are mightie in power? |
| A56828 | Who more threatned then the presumptuous? |
| A56828 | Why should I spend my pretious minutes in the sullen and dejected shades of sadnesse? |
| A56828 | Why should I tire my tender youth, and ● orture out my groaning dayes in ● oyle and travell? |
| A56828 | Woe bee to that barrennesse, that wants such showers: Pleadest thou strength to beare much Wine? |
| A56828 | and countenanc''d vertue with a due respect? |
| A56828 | and discompose the happy peace of my harmonious thoughts with painefull grinding in the common mill of dull mortalitie? |
| A56828 | and sell our livelihood for a few teares, and a whining face? |
| A56828 | and yet she stands the glory of the world: Can Pride demolish the Towers that defend her? |
| A56828 | and yet sound; What danger against procrastination? |
| A56828 | dar''st thou deny him for thy owne ends, that denied thee nothing for thy good? |
| A56828 | for the saving of the whole livelihood and subsistence of a Christian? |
| A56828 | if bloody times should force Religion to sh ● oud it selfe beneath my roofe; upon demand, shall my false truth betr ● y it? |
| A56828 | judge thy selfe: Wouldst thou avoyd the sinne? |
| A56828 | or Lord, wherein am I more uncapable of thy indignation? |
| A56828 | or did our Lawes want execution? |
| A56828 | or didst thou not lesse feare a Civill warre ● Was not the Title of the Crowne unquestionable? |
| A56828 | or if a wet season meet thy Harvest and with open sluces overwhelme thy hopes; canst thou let downe the floodgates, and stop the watry Flux? |
| A56828 | or rather not be secured by a faire officious life? |
| A56828 | or ravell out my short liv''d dayes in solemne and heart- breaking Care? |
| A56828 | or were wee moved at the sound of Judgments? |
| A56828 | or why dost thou set at naught thy brother? |
| A56828 | shall I perish for the want of food, and die a Mart ● ● to that foolish conscience which forbids mee to rub the eares of a little standing Corne? |
| A56828 | shall the reall breach of a holy Sabbath, dedicated to Gods highest glory bee tolerated for the welfare of an Oxe? |
| A56828 | should wee bee stock ● and stones, and( having active soules) turne altogether passives? |
| A56828 | thy pleasure, with no crosse? |
| A56828 | thy prosperitie, with no adversitie? |
| A56828 | thy reputation, with no scandall? |
| A56828 | to call our meetings Riots, and brand our civill mirth with stiles of loose Intemperance? |
| A56828 | was not Wine given to exhilarate the drooping hearts, and raise the drowzie spirits of dejected soules? |
| A56828 | what''s thirty in the hundred to a man of Trade? |
| A56828 | which like Hippocrates ● winnes still live and die together? |
| A56828 | why dost thou dote on the Image of the King stamped on coyne, and hate ● t the Image of God that shines in men? |
| A56828 | yet how often hath God been found upon the deathbed? |
| A56828 | yet none live more unscourg''d: VVho deeper branded then the Lyer ● ● yet who more favor''d? |
| A56828 | yet not infected: What diseases against my drunkennesse? |
| A56828 | yet themselves prosper: VVhat falls to the proud? |
| A56828 | yet who lesse punished? |
| A56828 | yet who more pleasure? |
| A56828 | yet who more safe? |
| A56828 | yet who more scotfree? |
| A56828 | yet who richer? |
| A13542 | & c. Should not new creatures draw neere and follow this Sun to prosper it it? |
| A13542 | & c.] Not, what is Adam, which were no great matter of pride: but what is Enosh? |
| A13542 | 1 Doe I see a man can not see light without light? |
| A13542 | 1 Doe I see the light, the nature of which no man can perfectly attaine? |
| A13542 | 1 Doe I see the raine fall from the clouds to water the earth, and returneth not in vaine? |
| A13542 | 1. Who is it, who calmeth the sea by his power, and by his understanding smiteth the pride of it? |
| A13542 | 10, 11. and keepeth it from flowing over the earth? |
| A13542 | 12 1. that is, things earthly and mutable: shall not the Sunne- shine darken the Moone? |
| A13542 | 17. and what a dignity and honor is this to be Gods children, Kings children? |
| A13542 | 26. Who is this to whom windes and seas obey? |
| A13542 | 28. that is, besides the Lord? |
| A13542 | 3 Doe I see the light made so pure, faire, cleare, and perfect, as nothing can pollute it? |
| A13542 | 4 Doe I see the Sun set every day, and rise every day? |
| A13542 | 4 Doth the Sun make and preserve the seasons of the yeare, Summer, Winter, Spring, Autumne? |
| A13542 | 5, What comfort have we by the sunne; and shall we not have the same in Christ? |
| A13542 | 6 Was I darkenesse? |
| A13542 | 7 How can I behold so noble a creature without some use concerning my selfe? |
| A13542 | And doe not many walke in the fruitlesse workes of darkenesse? |
| A13542 | And knowest thou not that Christ is in thee, except thou be a reprobate? |
| A13542 | And must not the Saints imitate this their Son, though they live amongst sinners, and see much foule behaviour amongst men? |
| A13542 | And seeing all this goodly frame shall be dissolved, What manner of men ought we to be in all manner of conversation? |
| A13542 | And shall not my desires bee there? |
| A13542 | And what else is the cause that many are so fruitlesse and barren in their course, and such wasters of precious time? |
| A13542 | And what hast thou which thou hast not received? |
| A13542 | And who seeth the clogge of earth pressing downe his soule, and needeth not this pulley to fetch it up againe? |
| A13542 | And why conceive not we hence their nature? |
| A13542 | And, who is sensible of legions of noysome lusts, that take up the heart as their proper habitation, and desireth not better guests? |
| A13542 | Are his commandements grievous? |
| A13542 | Are not all worldly things of as round a figure as the moone, unstable and unconstant? |
| A13542 | Art not thou as a tree planted by the rivers of waters, in Gods garden and orchard of grace? |
| A13542 | Art thou in a meane condition, a poore creature, despised, and cast off of men? |
| A13542 | Art thou poore, and in want of necessaries, and hast scarce from hand to mouth to provide foode and rayment? |
| A13542 | Aske the beasts, and they will tell thee, sinne is an intolerable burthen; and takest thou pleasure in sinne? |
| A13542 | Balaams Asse will shun and not goe forward against a drawn sword; and shall we against the sword of the Lords hand drawne out against sinne? |
| A13542 | But Christ is in heaven, how can we bee in him, and not be there? |
| A13542 | But Christ is in us, how can we then be in Christ? |
| A13542 | But art thou led by the spirit, or mis- led by the flesh and doctrine of carnall libertie? |
| A13542 | But canst thou find it in any measure or degree? |
| A13542 | But doe we so? |
| A13542 | But hast thou not now made a good plea? |
| A13542 | But how can I seeke a being in grace, having no being in it? |
| A13542 | But how can I, having no grace, seeke after grace in the meanes? |
| A13542 | But how may I know this, namely, that I am in Christ? |
| A13542 | But though wee have a superiour doctrine and helpe in the Church, must we therefore refuse this? |
| A13542 | But why doth the Prophet here not mention the Sun, but the Moone and Starres? |
| A13542 | But why is hee called a new Creature? |
| A13542 | Canst thou abide to crucifie the flesh and lusts of it? |
| A13542 | Canst thou run on in sin without remorse, without returning, without care of repentance, or feare of Gods justice? |
| A13542 | Canst thou tell how the bottles of heaven are filled? |
| A13542 | Consider? |
| A13542 | Did not the Philosophers discourse of God, Iustice, Vertue, the chiefe good, all moralitie, all civill and oeconomicall duties? |
| A13542 | Doe I see light driving away darkenesse; distinguishing things that were involued in darknesse; producing things out of darkenesse and secrecy? |
| A13542 | Doe I see the light alway like it selfe, never communicating with darkenesse, but fighting against darkenesse, and irreconcilably resisting it? |
| A13542 | Doe I see the raine- bow in the clouds? |
| A13542 | Doe all creatures rejoyce in the Sun, but hatefull Bats and Owles? |
| A13542 | Doe we so? |
| A13542 | Doe we walke so? |
| A13542 | Doe wee so? |
| A13542 | Dost thou desire the sincere milke, the Mannah? |
| A13542 | Dost thou finde not the words of prayer which any hypocrite may, but the spirit of prayer? |
| A13542 | Dost thou grow in stature, and strength, outgrowing the weakenesse and infancy of grace, passing the severall ages of Christianity? |
| A13542 | Dost thou move in the manly actions of grace? |
| A13542 | Doth his truth uphold the great frame of the heavens, and will hee not uphold thee? |
| A13542 | Doth not this carry my mind to God himselfe, that eternall and infinite light, whose infinite nature none could ever comprehend? |
| A13542 | Doth the sun by his beames give direction for this naturall life? |
| A13542 | Doth the sun drive away the darkenesse of the night? |
| A13542 | Fifthly, canst thou beare burthens, afflictions, from God, without murmuring? |
| A13542 | Fifthly, what a power is put forth in ordering the severall wils of the severall creatures? |
| A13542 | Findest thou a spirit in thee prevailing against fleshly thoughts, carnall affections, desires, conversation? |
| A13542 | First, hast thou disclaimed thy owne righteousnesse, and given thy selfe wholly unto him? |
| A13542 | For humiliation: For who knoweth the nature of the wind, the place of the winde, the way of the winde? |
| A13542 | For if they shall sigh under our burthens, shall not we our selves? |
| A13542 | For instruction: shall so fierce a creature bee at a becke, and shall not I? |
| A13542 | For, First, how weake an account can wee give unto God( as we must) of all the good lessons we have heard, and ought to have remembred? |
| A13542 | For, what is Paul, what is Apollos, if God give not the increase? |
| A13542 | Fourthly, What a power is discovered in upholding the creatures in their kinde? |
| A13542 | Fourthly, constantly: A member is never weary of obeying the head; but how fickle and inconstant art thou in the wayes of God? |
| A13542 | God loveth us better than all them, whom hee made their Lords; and should not wee love him better than all creatures? |
| A13542 | God saveth no man, because he is his creature; for who is not? |
| A13542 | Gods grace raiseth dead men in sinnes: can any but the almighty power do this? |
| A13542 | Hast thou denied thy selfe? |
| A13542 | Hast thou this note of Christ his being in thee, that thou sinnest not, who canst deliberate, and purpose, and willingly venture on sinne? |
| A13542 | Hast thou this spirit of direction and counsell, teaching thee, and leading thee into duty? |
| A13542 | Hath not hee furnished us with reason and discourse to draw out some straines of that excellent wisedome by them, and from them? |
| A13542 | Hath not hee warmed thy heart with his Sunne of grace? |
| A13542 | Hath not the Lord in wisedome made them all? |
| A13542 | Have wee beene set to this Schoole ever since wee were of yeares of discretion, and have taken out no lessons of wisedom, out of this great Booke? |
| A13542 | How can a branch set into such a roote, but bee fruitfull? |
| A13542 | How did Christ walke, that we may walke so? |
| A13542 | How doe wee so, who spend so much time in unfruitfull courses, wherein wee doe no man good, but our selves and others much harme? |
| A13542 | How great is himselfe that thus stretcheth the heavens with his span? |
| A13542 | How is the member subject unto the head? |
| A13542 | How many Meditations may one draw hence? |
| A13542 | How may I know this? |
| A13542 | How ought we to study for purity and holinesse, to fit our selves for what God hath prepared for us? |
| A13542 | How plaine is it now, that thou art not in Christ, who wilt not affoord his Word a resting place in thy soule? |
| A13542 | How richly might wee furnish our mindes with matter of fruitfull meditations, should wee thus looke on the heavens? |
| A13542 | How shall we so doe? |
| A13542 | How the windowes of Heaven be open to raine downe fatnesse and plenty? |
| A13542 | How? |
| A13542 | I can resist it, but how can I helpe it forward? |
| A13542 | If it be resisted, how is it almighty? |
| A13542 | If naturall life be so precious and desireable, what is spirituall and eternall? |
| A13542 | In him are all the promises, Yea and Amen: but to whom? |
| A13542 | Is creation to bee ascribed to any power, which is not almighty? |
| A13542 | Is his power almighty? |
| A13542 | Is it grievous unto a member to obey the head, into which it is set? |
| A13542 | Is the sun under God, the life, quickner, and comforter of the world, otherwise dead? |
| A13542 | Is this so happie a condition to bee in Christ? |
| A13542 | Is this to be like God? |
| A13542 | It is a place from whence I expect a Saviour, and shall not my conversation be there where Christ is? |
| A13542 | It lifteth us to an unutterable glorious estate in heaven: must not this be the working of an almighty power? |
| A13542 | It rescueth us from the strong man, that keepeth hold till a stronger come: and must it not bee an almighty power that must doe this? |
| A13542 | Looke I upon a Vine? |
| A13542 | Lord what is man? |
| A13542 | Must no doctrine of conviction bee heard in the Church? |
| A13542 | Must not wee know God in his workes, because the Heathens did? |
| A13542 | Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A13542-e130 To be in Christ as a member how? |
| A13542 | Now aske thy selfe, Is Christs yoake irkesome and tedious? |
| A13542 | Now what a distance is betweene life and death; especially, life to grace, and death in sin? |
| A13542 | Now what is thy aime in thy subjection? |
| A13542 | Now, shall the senselesse creatures have eares to heare their Creator, and man be deafe? |
| A13542 | Oh what a comfortable change is here? |
| A13542 | Oh what joy bringeth it to the soule, when God sheweth himselfe lightsome to it? |
| A13542 | Oh where is the thankefull returne of fruits of grace, which I should bring unto God for his cost, and manuring of mee? |
| A13542 | Oh wretched man,& c. who shall deliver me? |
| A13542 | Or a new creature without the spirit, which lusteth and subdueth the rising of the flesh? |
| A13542 | Or shall wee still looke upon these things as on faire papers that have no letters? |
| A13542 | Secondly, a new birth? |
| A13542 | Secondly, universally, it doth all that the head enjoyneth: Art thou subject in some commandements, but not in others? |
| A13542 | See I a Palme Tree? |
| A13542 | See we not the earth hiding the wealth of it within the bowels, all the rich mettals, minerals, and costly stones? |
| A13542 | See wee men in the Sun doe decent things? |
| A13542 | Seemeth it a small thing, saith David, to be sonne in law to a King? |
| A13542 | Seest thou not the beasts wanting reason, saving themselves from danger, as they may? |
| A13542 | Seventhly, how mightily did Gods power manifest it selfe in over- comming all difficulties in that creation? |
| A13542 | Shall Philosophers, Physicians, Naturalists, and Heathens learne many good lessons from them? |
| A13542 | Shall earthly fathers beget creatures like unto themselves, and will our heavenly father beget children to another similitude, than his owne? |
| A13542 | Shall every creature, of which I am Lord, yeeld me fruit; my cattell, my trees, my ground? |
| A13542 | Shall his Word binde them, and not us reasonable creatures to whom it is given? |
| A13542 | Should not this teach Christians to walke in their sunne? |
| A13542 | So what is that wee can doe, that can be acceptable without Christ? |
| A13542 | Takest thou up the Crosse daily? |
| A13542 | Tell me( saith God) if thou knowest this; Where is the way where light dwelleth? |
| A13542 | The fourth point: why must a man be a new creature? |
| A13542 | The moone and stars are not pure in his sight, how much lesse man, a worme? |
| A13542 | The most gracelesse men in the world, yea the devils are subject unto Christ as a Lord: but art thou subject as a member unto such a head? |
| A13542 | The providence of God, who cloatheth the grasse, and decketh the earth: and will hee not much more them that feare him? |
| A13542 | The second question is, How commeth a man to bee in Christ? |
| A13542 | The third point is, How may a man become a new Creature? |
| A13542 | The varietie of them, the wondrous workes of him that is perfect in knowledge? |
| A13542 | Thinkest thou that so living a roote can admit such dead branches? |
| A13542 | Thirdly, hee referred every thing unto his Fathers glory: hee never sought his owne praise and reputation, but avoyded it: Doe we so? |
| A13542 | Thirdly, study to increase it; Oh how rich might wee be in grace, if our hearts were more large in faith? |
| A13542 | Thirdly, what a power discovered it selfe in the change of that confusion, in such rankes or orders of the creatures? |
| A13542 | Thirdly, what strangers are many of us to the Scripture, and grounds of Religion? |
| A13542 | This is a difficult marke: But how shall I know the Spirit of Christ to be in mee? |
| A13542 | Thou hast in him satisfied, and in him fulfilled al righteousnesse: for who payeth the wives debt, but the husband? |
| A13542 | To conclude all: hast thou felt the power of the Word and Spirit renewing thy soule? |
| A13542 | Was he ever in Gods worke? |
| A13542 | Wee will conclude the Treatise with the words of Iob; Behold these are a part of his waies, but how little a portion heare we of him? |
| A13542 | What Creature could resist the being and forming of it selfe? |
| A13542 | What a number of gracious meditations doe the heavens affoord a heart that doth desire to be fruitfull? |
| A13542 | What can a man doe commendably without the Sunne? |
| A13542 | What have wee which we have not received? |
| A13542 | What man dare goe to God for such workes to have them rewarded? |
| A13542 | What particular can I behold, and not gather some spirituall fruit? |
| A13542 | When I see a Christian stand as an image in the Church, without the powerfull motion of godlinesse; can I thinke him a new Creature? |
| A13542 | When or where see we any thing reformed by the power of the Word? |
| A13542 | Where doe spices send forth their odoriferous smels, but in the mortar under the pestle? |
| A13542 | Where should fortitude demonstrate it selfe, but in the field and combate? |
| A13542 | Wherefore else did the Lord create them? |
| A13542 | Wherefore hath his wisedome afforded such variety and plenty of them? |
| A13542 | Who art thou that canst resist the Spirit in man? |
| A13542 | Who art thou then that professest thy selfe a sonne of God, and in thy life resemblest the image of Sathan, sin, and unrighteousnesse? |
| A13542 | Who can discerne the darkenesse of his minde, and not open his windowes, and hereby let in some light into his darke house? |
| A13542 | Who dare say he seeketh to glorifie God in casting off his calling, and spending dayes and nights in idlenes, or worse? |
| A13542 | Who ever saw a dead man either helpe or hinder his owne quickning? |
| A13542 | Who is acquainted with the worke of grace in himselfe, and hath not woundred after how unspeakeable a manner this winde hath blowne upon him? |
| A13542 | Who would looke for these new Creatures in Tavernes, Play- houses, Ale- houses, places of riotous meeting, and hellish resort? |
| A13542 | Why art thou a Christian, and no new Creature? |
| A13542 | Why should not this light awaken my soule, and raise mee from the sleepe of sin and lusts? |
| A13542 | Why, how great? |
| A13542 | Why? |
| A13542 | [ Are not we better than they?] |
| A13542 | [ Hath the LORD determined, who shall frustrate it?] |
| A13542 | a spirit quickning to all that is good? |
| A13542 | and by the light of my conversation be comforting, directing, and shining to others in good workes? |
| A13542 | and can I know God without Gods teaching? |
| A13542 | and doth not Christ the thicke mists of sinnes, the darkenesse of ignorance, errour, wrath, damnation, and of hell it selfe? |
| A13542 | and rise by it to his Divinity, who( as light) so communicateth himselfe, that no man the lesse, because another more? |
| A13542 | and shall my love bee fruitlesse unto my Lord? |
| A13542 | and the sonne of man that thou visitest him? |
| A13542 | and watered thy soyle with fruitfull showers? |
| A13542 | and who can understand his fearefull power? |
| A13542 | ashamed of things unseemely or unlawfull, because all eyes are on them, and themselves are in the light? |
| A13542 | but not able to reade a word? |
| A13542 | canst thou digest strong meate? |
| A13542 | canst thou turne head against the wayes of God and good men desperately, as if thy conscience were turned into a rotten post? |
| A13542 | doe not many sit up whole nights to play? |
| A13542 | doe they follow the Sun, thrive and prosper in the sunne, turne after the sun, as Mari- gold, Dazy, Turnesole? |
| A13542 | doe they testifie to Christ that hee is the Sonne of God, and shall not I heare his Word, and acknowledge him my Lord and my God? |
| A13542 | doe wee continue in prayer? |
| A13542 | doe wee sanctifie every ordinance with prayer? |
| A13542 | dost thou thrive, and grow by it? |
| A13542 | even to the heires of promise: and who be they? |
| A13542 | findest thou a spirit, framing thoughts, speeches, actions to the conformitie of the Word? |
| A13542 | how can I choose but gather what light and comfort is in himselfe, who hath put so much in the creature? |
| A13542 | how doth a member neglect it selfe for the head? |
| A13542 | how they being of infinite weight and magnitude, are hung as in a ballance in the soft aire, without any other, stay than his Word? |
| A13542 | is it not all one to say, thou art no new Creature, who hast nothing but nature in thee? |
| A13542 | is it thy owne name, reputation, thy wealth, or ease, or any base respect? |
| A13542 | must a Christian bee therefore locked up from them? |
| A13542 | or as illitterated men looke upon written papers? |
| A13542 | or can the surpassing holinesse of Christ the head, receive into it such rotten and gangrenous members? |
| A13542 | or if he should, should we ever carry the name of new creatures? |
| A13542 | our sore eyes can not abide so cleare a light: And what communion can there bee betweene light and darkenesse? |
| A13542 | shall we goe on in sinne, which is so burthensome and dangerous? |
| A13542 | shall wee bee more senselesse of our misery, than they bee of it? |
| A13542 | should not I hate and tremble at sinne? |
| A13542 | should not his glorious light be the sweetest object of the eye of my soule? |
| A13542 | that professest the second Adam, but bearest the image of the first? |
| A13542 | to some worke of Repentance, or of Charity, or of Mercy, or Iustice? |
| A13542 | walkest thou diligently in the calling of a Christian, abroad and at home? |
| A13542 | what am I, or what is my fathers house, to be sonne to a King? |
| A13542 | what power is there that bindes the waters in the thicke clouds, so that the cloud breaketh not? |
| A13542 | when did our Lord walke so, that we might doe so also? |
| A13542 | when would they sit up so to prayer? |
| A13542 | who can but here admire at the majesty of the Creatour? |
| A13542 | who measureth the face of the waters with a compasse? |
| A13542 | would we have God doe so by us? |
| A13542 | wrong from men without revenge? |
| A13542 | yet dost thou know how God disposeth them? |
| A20631 | A God, and need a Phisician? |
| A20631 | A Iupiter& need an Aesulapius? |
| A20631 | Alone witho ● ● them that should assi ● ● that shold comfort m ● ● But comes not this E ● ● postulation too neere murmuring? |
| A20631 | And can the other world name so many venimous, so many consuming, so many monstro ● s crea ● ures, as we can diseases, of all these kindes? |
| A20631 | And feare famine, though we feare not enemies? |
| A20631 | And how lame a Picture, how faint a representation, is that, of the precipitatiō of mans body to dissolution? |
| A20631 | And how quickly? |
| A20631 | And is it a question of comfort to be asked now, Did your Physicke make you sicke? |
| A20631 | And shall we, O my God, make lesse vse of those dayes, who haue more of thē? |
| A20631 | And that heerein, in a a shew of humilitie, and thankefulnesse, I magnifie my selfe more then there is cause? |
| A20631 | And then, where is my assurance? |
| A20631 | And therfore the more assistants, th ● better; who comes to a day of hearing, in a caus of any importāce, with one Aduocate? |
| A20631 | And what other Touch- stone haue we of our gold, but comparison? |
| A20631 | And what ● Minute is Mans life i ● respect of the Sunnes, o ● of a tree? |
| A20631 | And when thou hast told me, that a relapse is more odious to thee, neede I aske why it is more dangerous, more pernitious to me? |
| A20631 | And why, since I haue lo ● t my delight in all obiects, can not I discontinue t ● e facultie of seeing them, by closing mine Ei ● s in sleepe? |
| A20631 | Any vaine 〈 ◊ 〉 emptie, as that that blo ● ● can not fil it? |
| A20631 | Are they gods? |
| A20631 | As my bed is my affections, when shall I beare them so as to subdue them? |
| A20631 | As my bed is my afflictions, when shall I beare them so, as not to murmure at them? |
| A20631 | But Lord, thou art Lord of Hosts,& louest Action; Why callest thou me from my calling? |
| A20631 | But a Cloud? |
| A20631 | But could I though I would? |
| A20631 | But for all this Metaphoricall Bread, victory ouer enemies, that thought to deuoure vs, may we not feare, that we may lack bread literally? |
| A20631 | But for the body, How poore a wretched thing is that? |
| A20631 | But hast thou afforded vs no means to euaporate these smokes, to withdraw these vapors? |
| A20631 | But he for whose funerall these Bells ring now, was at home, at his iournies end, yesterday; why ring they now? |
| A20631 | But is Prayer for health in season, as soone as I am sicke? |
| A20631 | But is euery raising a preferment? |
| A20631 | But what is my assurance now? |
| A20631 | But what is ● he present nec ● ssary action? |
| A20631 | But wherefore, O my God, hast thou presented to vs, the afflictiōs and calamities of this life, in the name of waters? |
| A20631 | But why doe I exercise my Meditation so long vpon this, of hauing plentifull helpe in time of need? |
| A20631 | But why then, my God, wilt thou not beginne them here? |
| A20631 | But will God pretend to make a Watch, and leaue out the springe? |
| A20631 | But, O my God, can I doe this, and feare thee; come to thee, and speak to thee, in all places, at all houres, and feare thee? |
| A20631 | But, O my God, my God, doe I, that haue this feauer, need other remembrances of my Mortalitie? |
| A20631 | But, O my God, my God, since I haue my ship, and they theirs, I haue them, and they haue thee, why are we yet no neerer land? |
| A20631 | But, O my God, my God, since heauen is glory and ioy, why doe not glorious and ioyfull things leade vs, induce vs to heauen? |
| A20631 | But, O my God, why is it so? |
| A20631 | Could I ● it my selfe, to stand, or sit in any Mans place,& not to lie in any mans graue? |
| A20631 | Dare I aske this question? |
| A20631 | Doest thou remember this, and wouldest thou haue my Heart? |
| A20631 | Doest ● ● ou not( at least) send 〈 ◊ 〉, first to the hand? |
| A20631 | Doeth ● hy Son dwel bodily in this flesh, that thou shouldst looke for an vnspottednes here? |
| A20631 | Dost tho ● command me to spea ● ● to thee, and commaun ● me to feare thee, and d ● ● these destroy one ano ● ther? |
| A20631 | Dost thou looke, that I should so looke to the fuell, or embers of sinne, that I neuer take fire? |
| A20631 | Dost thou thinke to finde it, as thou madest it in Adam? |
| A20631 | HOw ruinous a farme hath man taken, in ● aking himselfe? |
| A20631 | His soule is gone; whither? |
| A20631 | How deare, and how of ● ● n a rent doth Man ● ay for this farme? |
| A20631 | How farre did thy seruant Dauid presse vpon thy pardon, in that petition, Clense thou me from secret sinns? |
| A20631 | How fitly, and how fearefully hast thou expressed my case, in a storm ● t Sea, if I relapse? |
| A20631 | How litle of the world is the Earth? |
| A20631 | How many ho ● ● daies to call him from ● s labour? |
| A20631 | How many men are raised, and then doe not fill the place they are raised to? |
| A20631 | How much oftner doth he exhibit a Metaphoricall Christ, than a reall, a literall? |
| A20631 | How shall I doe that which thou requirest, and not falsifie that which thou hast said, that sin is gone ouer all? |
| A20631 | I am the dust,& the ashes of the Temple of the H. Ghost; and what Marble is so precious? |
| A20631 | I doe nothing, I know nothing of my selfe: how little, and how impotent a pe ● ce of the world, is any Man alone? |
| A20631 | I haue this weake and childish froward ● nes too, I can not sit vp ● and yet am loth to go t ● bed; shall I find thee 〈 ◊ 〉 bed? |
| A20631 | I know,( for thou hast said it) that there are Men, whose damnation sleepeth not; but shall not they to whom thou art Saluation, sleepe? |
| A20631 | I must thē speak to thee, at all times, but when must I feare thee? |
| A20631 | I was whipped by thy rod, before I came to consultation, to consider my state, and shall I go ● no farther? |
| A20631 | IF man had beene left alone in this world, at first, shall I thinke, that he would not haue fallen? |
| A20631 | If I accuse my selfe of Originall sin, wilt thou ask me if I know what originall sin is? |
| A20631 | If I confesse to thee the sinnes of my youth, wilt thou aske me, if I know what those sins were? |
| A20631 | If I sleepe not, shall I not bee well, in their sense? |
| A20631 | If a Magistrate, for iustice? |
| A20631 | If a cholerick man be ready to strike, must I goe about to purge his choler, or to breake the blow? |
| A20631 | If he, who, as this Bell tells mee, is gone now, were some excellent Arti ● icer, who comes to him for a clocke, or for a garment now? |
| A20631 | If that bee thy language in this voice, how infinitely am I bound to thy heauenly Maiestie, for speaking so plainly vnto mee? |
| A20631 | If there had beene no Woman, would not Man haue serued, to haue beene his owne Tempter? |
| A20631 | If these Bells that warne to a Funerall now, were appropriated to none, may not I, by the houre of the funerall, supply? |
| A20631 | Is it because some abuses may haue crept in, amongst Christians? |
| A20631 | Is it enough to refuse it, because it was in vse amongst the Gentiles? |
| A20631 | Is it not euidently so in our affections, in our passions? |
| A20631 | Is it not so in States too? |
| A20631 | Is it not so in the accidents of the diseases of our mind too? |
| A20631 | Is not mine owne hollow voice, voice enough to pronounce that to me? |
| A20631 | Is not my Meditation rather to be enclined another way, to condole, and commiserate their distresse, who haue none? |
| A20631 | Is not this to hang a man at his owne dore, to lay him sicke in his owne bed of wantonnesse? |
| A20631 | Is not this, O my God, a holy kinde of raising vp ● eed to my dead brother, if I, by the meditation of his death, produce a better life in my selfe? |
| A20631 | Is that enough, that their ringing hath been said to driue away euill spirits? |
| A20631 | Is that ioy and that glory but a comparatiue glory and a comparatiue ioy? |
| A20631 | Is the glory of heauen no perfecter in it selfe, but that it needs a foile of depression and ingloriousnesse in this world, to set it off? |
| A20631 | Is the ioy of heauen no perfecter in it selfe, but that it needs the sourenesse of this life to giue it a taste? |
| A20631 | Is ther ● a verier child then I a ● now? |
| A20631 | Is there any other measure of the greatnesse of my danger, than the greatnesse of thy displeasure? |
| A20631 | Is there any thing incurable, vpon which that Balme dropps? |
| A20631 | It is my thoughtfulnesse; was I not made to thinke? |
| A20631 | Lord, if hee sleepe, he shall doe well, say thy Sonnes Disciples to him, of Lazarus; And shall there bee no roome, for that Argument in me? |
| A20631 | MY God, my God wouldest thou cal thy selfe the Ancient of dayes, if we were not to call our selues to an account for our dayes? |
| A20631 | MY God, my God, all that thou askest of mee, is my Heart, My Sonne, giue mee thy heart; Am I thy sonne, as long as I haue but my heart? |
| A20631 | MY God, my God, how large a glasse of the next World is this? |
| A20631 | MY God, my God, what am I put to, when I am put to consider, and put off, the root, the fuell, the occasion of my sicknesse? |
| A20631 | My God, my God, why is not my soule, as fensible as my body? |
| A20631 | Nay is it not so,( at least much towards it) euen in the exercise of Vertues? |
| A20631 | Need I looke vpon a Deaths- head in a Ring, that haue one in my face? |
| A20631 | Neuer? |
| A20631 | O Lord, I haue; by thy grace, I am come to a holy detestation of my former sin; Is there any more? |
| A20631 | O how little a thing is all the greatnes of man, and through how false glasses doth he make shift to multiply it, and magnifie it to himselfe? |
| A20631 | O how manifold, and perplexed a thing, nay, how wanton and various a thing is ruine and destruction? |
| A20631 | O my God, how slipperie a way, to how irrecouerable a bottome, is murmuring? |
| A20631 | O my God, it is the Leper, that thou hast cōdemned to liue alone; Haue ● such a Leprosie in my Soule, that I must die alone; alone without thee? |
| A20631 | O who, if before hee had a beeing, he could haue sense of this miserie, would buy a being here vpon these conditions? |
| A20631 | O, if thou haddest euer re- admitted Adam into Paradise, how abstinently would hee haue walked by that tree? |
| A20631 | Oh, haue I alwaies done so? |
| A20631 | Or is the Holy Ghost, the soule of this body, as he is of thy Spouse, who is therfore all faire, and no spot in her? |
| A20631 | Shall I haue no vse, no benefit, no application of those great Examples? |
| A20631 | Shall I lacke that seale of thy loue? |
| A20631 | Shall a feare 〈 ◊ 〉 thee, take away my d ● ● uotiō to thee? |
| A20631 | Shall that slacken my hope? |
| A20631 | Shall this come to such a Le ● rosie in my body, that I must die ● ● lone? |
| A20631 | Should we doe so, saies thy Prophet; should we goe from the liuing to the dead? |
| A20631 | Since thou art so, O my God, and affliction is a Sea, too deepe for vs, what is our refuge? |
| A20631 | Th ● Lord is my helpe, and m ● saluation, whome shall feare? |
| A20631 | That euen they that are secure from danger, shall perish; How much more might I, who was in the bed of death, die? |
| A20631 | The Heart is deceitfull, aboue all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? |
| A20631 | The first kind of heart, alas, my God, I haue not; The last are not Hearts to bee giuen to thee; What shall I do? |
| A20631 | The most high vttered his voice: what was his voice? |
| A20631 | They neuer relapsed; If I doe, must not my case be as desperate? |
| A20631 | They tell me it is my Melancholy; Did I infuse, did I drinke in Melancholly into my selfe? |
| A20631 | This is Man prerogatiue; but wha ● state hath he in this di ● ● nitie? |
| A20631 | This soule, this Bell tells me is gone out; Whither? |
| A20631 | This which hee doth now, in assisting so my bodily health, I know is common to me with many? |
| A20631 | Thou hadst no Counsellor, thou needest none; thou hast no Controller, thou admittest none Why doe I aske? |
| A20631 | Thou puttest off many iudgements, till the last day, many passe this life without any; and shall not I endure the putting off thy mercy for a day? |
| A20631 | Thoug ● his own sins had mad ● them euill, he feared th ● ● not ● No? |
| A20631 | Thus, he that hath cleane hands, and a pure heart? |
| A20631 | Thy Method goes further; Leaue off from sinne, and order thy handes aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickednesse; Haue I, O Lord, done so? |
| A20631 | Thy Method is, In time of thy sicknesse, be not negligent ● VVherein wilt thou haue my diligence expressed? |
| A20631 | Thy first breath breathed a Soule into mee, and shall thy breath blow it out? |
| A20631 | Timorous men thou rebukest; Why are yee fearfull, O yee of little faith? |
| A20631 | To thi ● bed? |
| A20631 | Tyme is not so; How can they bee thought to be? |
| A20631 | VVHat will not kill a man, if a vapor will? |
| A20631 | VVilt thou giue mee an Inheritance, a Filiation, any thing for my heart? |
| A20631 | Was I not sicke before? |
| A20631 | Was that it that my Physicke promised, to make me sicke? |
| A20631 | We sa ● oftē th ● t a Man may li ● ● of a litle; but, alas, o ● how much lesse may a Man dye? |
| A20631 | We ● who haue not only the day of the Prophets, the first dayes, but the last daies, in which thou hast spoken vnto vs, by thy Son? |
| A20631 | What Hypocrates, what Galen, could shew mee that in my body? |
| A20631 | What fugitiue, what Almes- man of any forraine State, can doe so much harme, as a Detracter, a Libeller, a scornefull Iester at home? |
| A20631 | What is man, and whereto serueth he? |
| A20631 | What is my seale? |
| A20631 | What repara ● ions, and subsidies, and ● ontributions he is put to, ● esides his rent? |
| A20631 | What ● edicines, besides his di ● ●? |
| A20631 | When didst thou search mine? |
| A20631 | When shall I take vp my bed and walke? |
| A20631 | When thy Sonne cried out vpon the Crosse, My God, my God, Why hast thou forsaken me? |
| A20631 | When ● hou bidst me to put off ● he old Man, doest thou meane, not onely my old habits of actuall sin, but the oldest of all, originall sinne? |
| A20631 | Whē didst thou rebuke any petitioner, with the name of Importunate? |
| A20631 | Whither shall 〈 ◊ 〉 come to thee? |
| A20631 | Who casts not vp his Eie to the Sunne when it rises? |
| A20631 | Who saw it come in, or who saw it goe out? |
| A20631 | Who shall tell mee that? |
| A20631 | Whom? |
| A20631 | Why dost thou melt me, scatter me, powre me like water vpon the ground so instantly? |
| A20631 | Why haue nor they and I this dispatch? |
| A20631 | Why should not that bee alwaies good, by which thou hast declared thy plentifull goodnes to vs? |
| A20631 | Why should wee looke for it in a disease, which is the disorder, the discord, the irregularitie, the commotion, and rebellion of the body? |
| A20631 | Why then, O my God, my bl ● ss ● d God, in the waies of my ● pirituall strength, come ● l so slow to action? |
| A20631 | Why, O my God, is a relapse so odious to thee? |
| A20631 | Wilt thou bid me to separate the leuen, that a lumpe of Dowe hath receiued, or the salt, that the water hath contracted, from the Sea? |
| A20631 | Wilt thou make thy Processe, and thy Decree, thy Citation, and thy Iudgement but one act? |
| A20631 | Without counsell, I had not got thus farre ● withou ● action and practise, I should goe no farther towards health? |
| A20631 | You shall lie downe, and none shall make you afraid; shal I bee outlawd from that protection? |
| A20631 | and how much lesse a peece of himselfe is that Man? |
| A20631 | and how neere thy selfe hee comes, that murmures at him, who comes from thee? |
| A20631 | and what Organ is not well plaied on, if thy hand bee vpon it? |
| A20631 | and would not the Angels, that fell, haue fixed themselues vpon thee, if thou hadst once re- admitted them to thy sight? |
| A20631 | and yet how little of our life is Occasion ● opportunity to receyu ● good in; and how litle of that occasion, doe wee apprehend, and lay hold of? |
| A20631 | are they bottomlesse, are they boundles? |
| A20631 | but who can remoue it from that bell, which is passing a peece of himselfe out of this world? |
| A20631 | but who takes off his Eie from a Com ● t, when that breakes out? |
| A20631 | can any sin bee secret? |
| A20631 | hee ● ies twice a day, in ● ouble meales, and how ● ● tle time he hath to raise 〈 ◊ 〉 rent? |
| A20631 | how great an Elephant, how small a Mouse destroyes? |
| A20631 | how ● eady is the house eue ● y day to fall downe, and how is all the groun ● ouer- spread with weeds ● all the body with diseases? |
| A20631 | leaue no other answere, but that the hand of death pressed vpon him from the first minute? |
| A20631 | must we looke to bee drowned? |
| A20631 | no ● heale me? |
| A20631 | not heale m ● wholy? |
| A20631 | not if this euil ● determin in death? |
| A20631 | not lie downe vpon it, as it is my pleasure, not sinke vnder it, as it is my correction? |
| A20631 | not such in it selfe, but such in comparison of the ioilesnesse and the ingloriousnesse of this world? |
| A20631 | or for counsaile, if hee were a Lawyer? |
| A20631 | or goe for death to my Neighbours house, that haue him in my bosome? |
| A20631 | or hath thy Son himself no spots, who hath al our stains,& deformities in him? |
| A20631 | or is euery present preferment a station? |
| A20631 | or shall I bee open to the contrary? |
| A20631 | or wil God make a springe, and not wind it vp? |
| A20631 | or wilt thou take from them that euidence, and that testimony, that they are thy Israel, or thou their saluation? |
| A20631 | since the whole sicknesse is thy Physicke, shall any accident in it, bee my poison, by my murmuring? |
| A20631 | so odious? |
| A20631 | so often in the name of waters, and deepe waters, and Seas of waters? |
| A20631 | to make so many various wheels in the faculties of the Soule, and in the organs of the body, and leaue out Grace, that should moue them? |
| A20631 | what is hi ● good, and what is his euill? |
| A20631 | when shall men leaue their vncharitable disputations, which is to take place, faith or repentance, and which, when we consider faith, and works? |
| A20631 | when thou madest them? |
| A20631 | when wilt thou bid mee take vp my bed and walke? |
| A20631 | when wilt thou doe all? |
| A20631 | when wilt thou speake in thy loud voice? |
| A20631 | who bends not his eare to any bell, which vpon any occasion rings? |
| A20631 | why are there not alwayes waters in mine eyes, to testifie my spiritual sicknes? |
| A20631 | why is none of the heauinesse of my heart, dispensed into mine Eie- lids, ● hat they might fall as my heart doth? |
| A20631 | why is there not alwayes a pulse in my Soule, to beat at the approch of a tentation to sinne? |
| A20631 | wouldest thou chide vs for standing idle heere all the day, if we were sure to haue more dayes, to make vp our haru ● st? |
| A65287 | * How shall I give thee up, O Ephraim? |
| A65287 | * Theodor? |
| A65287 | 2. and the Saints co- heires? |
| A65287 | A second Part of the Saints honour is, they shall sit with Jesus Christ when he judgeth the world: Know ye not that the Saints shall judge the world*? |
| A65287 | A wounded spirit who can bear? |
| A65287 | AND now I come to that great question, What are the things contained in the Charter? |
| A65287 | Alas, our services how lame and bedrid are they? |
| A65287 | Alas, saith he, I can not tell whether I have faith or no? |
| A65287 | All the senses shall be filled with joy; and, at once; The eye shall be filled; What joy to see that Orient brightnesse in the face of Christ? |
| A65287 | And for riches( the silver goddess which men a dore,) what are they? |
| A65287 | And here let me turne my self, first to Unbelievers, such as can not find that they have this uniting, this espousing grace; what shall I say to you? |
| A65287 | And is not Christs blood of a deeper purple then thy sins? |
| A65287 | And shall we not love? |
| A65287 | And who else doth Christ come to save*? |
| A65287 | Are the waters of Abanah and Pharpar like to the waters of Iordan? |
| A65287 | Are we not Fellow- Citizens? |
| A65287 | Art thou a scion, cut off from the wilde Olive of nature, and ingrafted into a new stock, the Tree of Life? |
| A65287 | Art thou now sailing to a new Port? |
| A65287 | As Abraham said, Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless*? |
| A65287 | As Christs beauty shall amaze the eye, so his love shall ravish the heart of a glorified Saint; must it not needs be joy to be with Christ? |
| A65287 | As if Christs blood were only for new and fresh wounds? |
| A65287 | BUt what are those things that are to come? |
| A65287 | Behold, what manner of love hath the Father bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God? |
| A65287 | But alas, how defective is this grace? |
| A65287 | But how absurd is this doctrine? |
| A65287 | But how comes Faith to be so strong? |
| A65287 | But how is life a Beleevers? |
| A65287 | But how shall I know that I am adopted? |
| A65287 | But how shall we get it? |
| A65287 | But how shall we know that we are Christs? |
| A65287 | But how shall we know that? |
| A65287 | But how sweet will the Bridegrooms voice be? |
| A65287 | But is it not said, he was translated, that he might not see death? |
| A65287 | But life is yours;''t is a priviledge to a Believer, while he hath natural life, he layes hold upon* eternal life, how doth he work out his salvation? |
| A65287 | But my faith is weak, the hand of it so trembles, that I fear it will hardly lay hold upon Christ? |
| A65287 | But my sins are of a long standing? |
| A65287 | But my sins are of no ordinary die? |
| A65287 | But saith the sinner, Is there hope of mercy for me? |
| A65287 | But sometimes those that are adopted are under the black clouds of desertion: How doth this consist with love? |
| A65287 | But sure, if I had faith I should discern it? |
| A65287 | But to what purpose is all this cost? |
| A65287 | But what do I expatiate? |
| A65287 | But what though poverty hath clipped the wings? |
| A65287 | But who shall have this priviledge? |
| A65287 | But, alas, a childe of God hath oft the least share in the world, how then is the world his? |
| A65287 | But, saith a childe of God, I fear I am not elected? |
| A65287 | Can an ingenuous childe endure to heare his father reproached? |
| A65287 | Can wicked men rejoyce that have their portion in this life, and can not hee rejoyce that hath a reversion of Heaven? |
| A65287 | Canst thou not make a Deed of gift, and bestow thy love upon Christ? |
| A65287 | Christ is in you, if you are in the faith: Here lies the question, Have you faith? |
| A65287 | Davids heart smote him when he cut off the lap of King Saul''s garment; what would it have done if he had cut off his head? |
| A65287 | Death is the spiritual man''s preferment, why then should he fear it? |
| A65287 | Did Christ walk thus when hee was upon earth? |
| A65287 | Do you envy a man who is fallen into a snare? |
| A65287 | Do you live as those who have hope of things to come? |
| A65287 | Doe wee not all expect the same Heaven? |
| A65287 | Dost thou love the Person of Christ, and hate the picture? |
| A65287 | Doth God cloath the lilies, and will he not cloath his lambs? |
| A65287 | Doth a man feed his bird, and will he not feed his childe? |
| A65287 | Doth the pulse of thy soul beate after Christ? |
| A65287 | Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with Idols*? |
| A65287 | For a King to take a galley- slave and adopt him for his son, what is this but love? |
| A65287 | Go home and mourn; think with your selves, what if you should die this night? |
| A65287 | Had it not been enough for the Apostle to have said, It is an inheritance incorruptible? |
| A65287 | Hast thou a new appetite? |
| A65287 | Hast thou a new eye, to discerne the things that differ? |
| A65287 | Hast thou a new heart? |
| A65287 | Hast thou any skill in the black Book of Reprobation? |
| A65287 | Hast thou but one blessing, my father, saith* Esau? |
| A65287 | Hast thou no faith? |
| A65287 | Hath God adopted us for children, and will he not provide for us? |
| A65287 | Hath God defaced, and dismantled the old man in thee? |
| A65287 | Hath the gale of the Spirit blown upon thee, and turned thy course? |
| A65287 | Hath the seale of the Word stamped a new and heavenly print upon thee? |
| A65287 | He that hath great possessions, thinks thus; But how soone may I fall from this Pinacle of honour? |
| A65287 | He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all; how shall hee not with him freely give us all things? |
| A65287 | Here is a large Inheritance, things present, and things to come; but the question is, whether we are the true Heirs to whom it belongs? |
| A65287 | Here it will be asked, Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? |
| A65287 | Here we enjoy Christ by letters, and that is sweet; but what will it be to enjoy his presence in glory? |
| A65287 | His Kingdome was not of this world: Suppose an houre of adversity come, can these present things quiet the minde in trouble? |
| A65287 | How can these two stand together, that Enoch died, yet he did not see death? |
| A65287 | How can this be? |
| A65287 | How doth humility work? |
| A65287 | How doth love work? |
| A65287 | How doth patience work? |
| A65287 | How doth the excellent soul oft lodge in a deform''d body? |
| A65287 | How doth the world respect great heirs? |
| A65287 | How glorious will the Spouse be, when she hath Christ''s jewels upon her? |
| A65287 | How is Death ours? |
| A65287 | How is that? |
| A65287 | How is the curse of the Serpent upon most men? |
| A65287 | How little a portion is known of God? |
| A65287 | How long shall I be troubled with inmates? |
| A65287 | How long shall I offend that God whom I love? |
| A65287 | How shall I know that this priviledge is mine? |
| A65287 | How should we long for Death? |
| A65287 | How was David affected with Gods goodnesse? |
| A65287 | How were the Martyrs ravished in the Flames? |
| A65287 | How will Christ take this at our hands? |
| A65287 | I rather wonder others are no more violent: What are all the rarities of the world to this? |
| A65287 | If Christs sufferings are full of joy, what then are his embraces? |
| A65287 | If Iob asked the question, Who can understand the Thunder? |
| A65287 | If a man hath the reversion of a Lordship or Manor when such a Lease is out will he not wait for it? |
| A65287 | If all things to come are yours, then walke chearfully with God, put on your white robes: hath a Beleever a title to Heaven? |
| A65287 | If his transfiguration was so glorious, what will his inauguration be? |
| A65287 | If the dew of Hermon hill be so sweet, the first fruits of Christs love; what will the full crop be? |
| A65287 | If the joy of Faith be such, what will the joy of fruition be? |
| A65287 | If we meet with any comfort in Mount Horeb, what is in Mount Sion? |
| A65287 | If you were to take an estimate of a man''s Estate, would you value it by that which hee hath in his House, or by his Land? |
| A65287 | In sanctity: his was an holy life; Which of you convinceth me of sinne? |
| A65287 | In this life the godly are called the troublers of Israel, they are seditious, rebellious, what not? |
| A65287 | Indeed, leaven is soure, but what is there in honey that should offend? |
| A65287 | Indeed, who can praise God for these glorious priviledges to come, but he that hath the Seale of the Spirit to assure him that all is his? |
| A65287 | Is Christ divided? |
| A65287 | Is it a wonder, when an army is in fight, to see the bullets fly abroad, and the fire- balls? |
| A65287 | Is it not sad, when the Spiritual clouds shall drop their rain upon a barren heath? |
| A65287 | Is not Christ the heire of all things? |
| A65287 | Is not every Christian an Ensign- bearer to carry Christs Colours? |
| A65287 | Is not here enough? |
| A65287 | Is this your kindnesse to your friend? |
| A65287 | Is thy heart consecrated ground? |
| A65287 | It is a great Encomium and honour to the Ministery, when people thrive under it; Need we, as some others ▪ Epistles of commendation*? |
| A65287 | It is only the wheat that goes into Christs garner, what hath the chaffe to do there? |
| A65287 | It is true, an heir in his young age may be kept short, but how rich is he when he is possessed of the inheritance? |
| A65287 | Jesus Christ went more willingly to suffer, then we do often to pray: how hardly do we come off in duty? |
| A65287 | Know ye not that Christ is in you? |
| A65287 | Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? |
| A65287 | Let us not be discouraged; shall we cease from being Saints, because others will not cease from being Devils? |
| A65287 | Let us to our power advance the Honour and Interest of Jesus Christ: Alas, what is all that we can do? |
| A65287 | Light is a glorious creature; what were all the world without light but a dark prison? |
| A65287 | My feet had well nigh slipt: It is not matter of envy but pity, to see men thrive in a way of sinne; a fool is in gay cloaths, but do you envy him? |
| A65287 | Nay, are we not Brethren? |
| A65287 | Now his appearing in this text, must needs be meant of his last appearing; And what then? |
| A65287 | O how sweet is that peace which faith Breeds? |
| A65287 | O take the Harp and Violl; if you do not blesse God, who shall? |
| A65287 | O what an inheritance is he born to, who is new borne? |
| A65287 | O what joy to be with Christ? |
| A65287 | Of what use were the Starres, if the Sunne did alwayes shine? |
| A65287 | Oh improve in grace: If you have a barren piece of ground, you do all you can to improve it, and will you not improve a barren heart? |
| A65287 | Quis aerario, qui ● ple ● is loculis invide ●? |
| A65287 | Reprove him sharply for his sinne*; To what purpose do you strike a dead man? |
| A65287 | Shall men wait for their damnation and shall not we be content to wait for our salvation? |
| A65287 | Should not Hagar have been content, though the water were spent in her Bottle, when there was a Well so neare? |
| A65287 | Si rursum corruerit anima, unde reparabitur? |
| A65287 | Sinne takes us prisoners; whence are our carnal fears? |
| A65287 | So I say to beleevers; Things to come are yours: why walke ye and are sad? |
| A65287 | So I say, when I see men toying with these earthly and beggarly delights, What? |
| A65287 | So say, Lord, what wilt thou give mee, seeing I go Christlesse? |
| A65287 | The Angels can not unclasp this Book, and wilt thou meddle with it? |
| A65287 | The Devil shot three fiery darts into the virgin- castle of Eves heart, whereof the first was the most deadly, Yea, hath God said? |
| A65287 | The Eare shall be filled; What joy to the Spouse to heare Christs voice? |
| A65287 | The frownes of great men: how ambitious are men of the Princes smile? |
| A65287 | The pensive melancholy Christian doth disparage the glory of Heaven: What will others say? |
| A65287 | The smell shall be filled; What joy to smell that fragrancy and perfume that comes from Christ? |
| A65287 | Then let me aske, Art thou a new creature? |
| A65287 | This is the key to Samsons Riddle, Out of the eater came meat; this explaines that Paradox,* Can a man gather Grapes of Thorns, or Figs of Thistles? |
| A65287 | This world is but a Desart we live in: Shall we not be willing to leave it for Paradise? |
| A65287 | Thou mournest for want of faith; dispute not, but beleeve; what are these tears but the seeds of faith? |
| A65287 | Thou that say''st thou believest, hath thy faith removed the Mountain of sin, and cast it into the Sea? |
| A65287 | Thus having briefly shewn you the Nature of Faith, I now come to the reflexive Act: Have you faith or no? |
| A65287 | Till then, thou art not fit for the new heaven: Art thou new all over? |
| A65287 | To what Angels hath Christ said, Ye are my brethren? |
| A65287 | To what purpose are all our prayers and tears? |
| A65287 | Was it ever heard that a childe should be freed from duty to his Parents? |
| A65287 | Was there none to fall out with but the Priest, even he that offered up their sacrifices for them? |
| A65287 | We have the reversion of Heaven when the lease of life is run out, and shall we not wait? |
| A65287 | We pray, Thy Kingdome come: and when God is leading us into his Kingdome, shall we be afraid to go? |
| A65287 | What a rich place must that needs be, where God will lay out all his cost; where Wisdome doth contrive, and Bounty doth disburse? |
| A65287 | What a shame is this? |
| A65287 | What a whetstone is this to duty? |
| A65287 | What an unparalell''d mercy is it to be kept free in the time of infection? |
| A65287 | What are Ordinances, but a dumb shew, without the breathings of faith in them? |
| A65287 | What are all our duties without humility? |
| A65287 | What beauty is there in the Sunne when it is masqued with a cloud? |
| A65287 | What glory then is there in the Chamber of presence? |
| A65287 | What if the times are worse, if they make us better? |
| A65287 | What is Honour''but a rattle to still mens ambition? |
| A65287 | What is a grain of mustard- seed, what is a bruised reed, but the emblem of a weak faith? |
| A65287 | What is faith, if it do not fix upon Christ, but fancy? |
| A65287 | What is it makes Heaven, but the smile of God? |
| A65287 | What is it the pious soule desires in this life? |
| A65287 | What is it to profit? |
| A65287 | What is lesser then a grain of sand, yet when multiplied, what is heavier then the sands of the sea? |
| A65287 | What is the Sanctum Sanctorum? |
| A65287 | What is the matter? |
| A65287 | What joy to hear him say, My Love, my Dove, my undefiled? |
| A65287 | What joy to heare the musick of Angels, even the heavenly hoast praysing God? |
| A65287 | What joy when Christ shall take us into the Wine- celler? |
| A65287 | What joy when the match shall be at once made up, and solemnized between Christ and a believer? |
| A65287 | What manner of communications are these, while you walke and are sad? |
| A65287 | What nearer then union? |
| A65287 | What shall I say to you? |
| A65287 | What solemnity is there at an Assizes, when the Judge comes to the Bench, and the Trumpets are sounded? |
| A65287 | What use then is there of the wicked? |
| A65287 | What was the blood of Bulls and Goats to take away sin*? |
| A65287 | What were the Martyrs flames but a fiery Chariot to carry them up to Heaven? |
| A65287 | What will men adventure for a Kingdome? |
| A65287 | What, a Beleever and not elected? |
| A65287 | What, sad and Christ risen? |
| A65287 | What? |
| A65287 | When Moses rod was turned into a Serpent, he was afraid, and fled from it; oh what is it when conscience is turned into a Serpent? |
| A65287 | When a sinner is in hell, shall another Christ be found to die for him, or will the same Christ be crucified again? |
| A65287 | When shall I leave these Tents of Kedar? |
| A65287 | When thou wert sailing to Hell,( for we have both winde and tyde to carry us thither) hath the North and South- winde awaked? |
| A65287 | Which is our duty to study, Gods Secret will, or his Revealed? |
| A65287 | Who sets the Crown upon a dead man? |
| A65287 | Who should rejoyce if not a Christian? |
| A65287 | Who told thee thou wert not elected? |
| A65287 | Who will take paines for heaven that gives up himselfe for lost? |
| A65287 | Who would desire a better Jury to acquit him then God, and his own conscience? |
| A65287 | Whom have I in heaven but thee*? |
| A65287 | Why doth the wife ● ove the Letter, but because it brings news of her husband? |
| A65287 | Why is the Word precious, but because it is a meanes to convey Christ? |
| A65287 | Why, what shall we be? |
| A65287 | Will a father passe the sentence upon his own sonne? |
| A65287 | Will not a father take care for his child? |
| A65287 | Would he not have his Coat rent, and will he have his Body rent? |
| A65287 | Ye erre not knowing the power of God: that God who of nothing created all things, can not he reduce many things to one thing? |
| A65287 | You have heard what manner of priviledges you shall have; I, but what manner of persons ought you to be? |
| A65287 | You have seen the blessed condition of a man in Christ, never rest till this be yours: Alas, what are the great possessions of the earth? |
| A65287 | a life that casts a savour in the Church of God? |
| A65287 | a man under a sentence, going up the ladder, do you envy him? |
| A65287 | a wound in the Name, in the estate, in the body, is sad; but a wound in the conscience, who can bear? |
| A65287 | and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? |
| A65287 | and if Christ may lose one member from his body, why not as well all by the same reason? |
| A65287 | and is it not as great a solecisme in Religion, when men that pretend to have Christ and heaven in their eye, yet minde earthly things? |
| A65287 | and kisse us with the kisses of his lips? |
| A65287 | and what is it, think we, for men to quarrel with their spiritual Fathers? |
| A65287 | are there not more glorious and sublime things to look after? |
| A65287 | as the Moon when it shines brightest hath a dark spot in it: how many graines should we want, if Christ did not put his merits into the scales? |
| A65287 | behold, there is merit in Christ: is it my wants? |
| A65287 | can he lose a member of his body? |
| A65287 | can not God drown one sea in another, thy sinnes in the Ocean of his mercy? |
| A65287 | common? |
| A65287 | did Christ take our flesh on him, and not our sins? |
| A65287 | divine love saith, How may I do good? |
| A65287 | doth some limbe drop off every day? |
| A65287 | even those whom they once had a venerable opinion of, and acknowledged to be the means of their conversion? |
| A65287 | have they no children to play with? |
| A65287 | he chides his fellow- thief; Dost thou not fear God? |
| A65287 | how could patience have it''s perfect work, how could repentance''if we were alwayes upon the Mount of joy? |
| A65287 | how didst thou come to see it? |
| A65287 | how doth he even take heaven by storme? |
| A65287 | how little love is there among Gods people? |
| A65287 | how long is it sometimes ere we can get leave of our hearts to go to prayer? |
| A65287 | how should it adde oyl to the flame of our devotion? |
| A65287 | how soone may the plunderer come? |
| A65287 | how will they greet one another( they two being the nearest acquaintance that ever were?) |
| A65287 | is Christ preparing Heaven for you, and are you preparing Warre against him? |
| A65287 | is it my unworthinesse? |
| A65287 | is it not a matter of joy to be an heire of the promise? |
| A65287 | is it not a sweet thing to have God appeas''d? |
| A65287 | is it not to have the sweet presence of Christ? |
| A65287 | is there not more vertue in the one, then there can be venom in the other? |
| A65287 | look upon worldly men, they wait for preferment; shall they wait for earth, and can not we wait for Heaven? |
| A65287 | num potest alter Christus, aut idem iterum crucifigi*? |
| A65287 | shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? |
| A65287 | shall we need bid an Heire rejoyce in the Estate befallen him? |
| A65287 | the Coasts of Pearle, the Islands of Spices, the Rocks of Diamonds? |
| A65287 | then his body is not perfect; for how can that body be perfect which wants a limb? |
| A65287 | we may much more ask, Wo can understand the Trinity? |
| A65287 | what a Spring will that be, that shall have no Autumne? |
| A65287 | what a day that shall have no Night? |
| A65287 | what a do is there to get his evidences sealed? |
| A65287 | what a welcome will the soul give to the body? |
| A65287 | what are the motions of the Spirit, but Jesus Christ coming a wooing? |
| A65287 | what can not an ambitious spirit ask? |
| A65287 | what can not we think? |
| A65287 | what if God should send you a Letter of summons to surrender, what would become of you? |
| A65287 | what if the devil doth magnifie thy sins, canst not thou magnifie thy Physician? |
| A65287 | what joy when a Christian shall see the great gulfe shot between heaven and hell? |
| A65287 | what needs weeping after pardon? |
| A65287 | what sweeter? |
| A65287 | what weeping, what wrastling? |
| A65287 | what, and sad? |
| A65287 | when the body is gone into a thousand substances, can not he make an abstraction, and bring that body together againe? |
| A65287 | when the seed of the serpent is fighting with the seed of the woman, is it strange to see the bullets of tentation flie,& the fire- balls of slander? |
| A65287 | whence is it that a childe of God doth that which he allows not; yea, against knowledge? |
| A65287 | whence our passions? |
| A65287 | where will God have his praise? |
| A65287 | who erect in their hearts, the serious thoughts of death? |
| A65287 | who shall be a Citizen of this new Hierusalem, which is above? |
| A65287 | whom doth God justifie but the ungodly*? |
| A65287 | why no honey? |
| A10251 | ''T is a common trick: Serve God in Plenty? |
| A10251 | ''T is true: But tell me; what was He, that did it? |
| A10251 | A God, and can not rise? |
| A10251 | A heav''nly Supper and a fleshly Heart? |
| A10251 | A messe of Porrage for Inheritance? |
| A10251 | A ●, none at all? |
| A10251 | ANd da ●''st thou venture still to live in Sin, And crucifie thy dying Lord agin? |
| A10251 | ANd were it for thy profit, to obtaine All Sunshine? |
| A10251 | ARe all such Offrings, as are crusht, and bruis''d, Forbid thy Altar? |
| A10251 | ARe not the Ravens, great God, sustaind by Thee? |
| A10251 | ARt thou revil''d, and slandred? |
| A10251 | Admit we could; could we appoint the hower? |
| A10251 | Ah no; For God and Mammon can not joyne: Doe Beds of Down containe this heavenly stranger? |
| A10251 | Alas, Our Bodye''s sensible of neither: Things that are senslesse feele nor paynes nor ease; Tell me; and why not Wormes as well as Fleas? |
| A10251 | Alas, what hath this Princely Dreamer done, That he must quit the Glory of his Throne, His Royall Scepter, his Imperiall Crowne? |
| A10251 | And Daniel yet remaine Alive? |
| A10251 | And apt to raise A rare advantage to the Makers praise? |
| A10251 | And but one, of ten Returne the Clenser thanks? |
| A10251 | And is the better part Of what thou hear''●, before it warme thy heart, Snatcht from thy false Remembrance? |
| A10251 | And must all broken things be set apart? |
| A10251 | And not To be recall''d? |
| A10251 | And not thy Nuptiall Bed alone defil''d, But to be charged with the base- borne Childe? |
| A10251 | And was thy faithfull service payd With oft- repeated strokes? |
| A10251 | And wilt thou cloth the Lilyes, and not me? |
| A10251 | And yet not Pharoh yeeld T''enlarge poore Israel? |
| A10251 | And yet not mov''d? |
| A10251 | Are not these, all these Sufficient, to encounter and o''rthrow, Poore sinfull Man; but must that Bandog too, Assault us, Lord? |
| A10251 | Art thou not able? |
| A10251 | Because it was thy Pleasure, t was no pity; Why should thou pity us, Just God, when we Could never finde a time to pity thee? |
| A10251 | But Ten i''th''Hundred?'' |
| A10251 | But knowst thou what this dainty Peece encloses? |
| A10251 | But what sayes Sathan now? |
| A10251 | But when thy more divine Vrania sung, What glorious Angell had so sweet a tongue? |
| A10251 | By whom Was their blood shed? |
| A10251 | CAnst th ● ● recover thy consumed Flesh, From the well- feasted Wormes? |
| A10251 | Can thy just Iealousies, Great God, be grounded On Mans disloyalty, not Man confounded? |
| A10251 | Can thy weake thoughts reward Two so unequall, with a like Respect? |
| A10251 | Can we as dead, in sin, As Laz''rus, or the Damsell, live agin? |
| A10251 | Can we be bold To looke for new, and yet not breake the old? |
| A10251 | Canst thou awaken thy earth- closed eyes? |
| A10251 | Canst thou beleeve, The suffrings of thy dying Lord can give Thy drooping shoulders rest? |
| A10251 | Canst thou conceive Thy Helper strong enough? |
| A10251 | Canst thou desier help? |
| A10251 | Canst thou intreat Aid from a stronger Arm? |
| A10251 | Canst thou redeeme thy Ashes from the dead? |
| A10251 | Could neither Mercies oyle, nor Iudgements thunder Dissolve, nor breake thy ● linty heart in sunder? |
| A10251 | Could your conscience serve Not to be fooles, and yet to let them sterve? |
| A10251 | DId ever Iudge more equally proceed To punish Sin? |
| A10251 | DOe this and live? |
| A10251 | DOes thy corrected Frailty still complaine Of thy disloyall Mem''ry? |
| A10251 | Dare her conscience frame, To act a Sin, but to prevent a Shame? |
| A10251 | Dare we trust God for Nights? |
| A10251 | David free, To take his choice? |
| A10251 | Did not our Iesus doe the like to his? |
| A10251 | Did not that sweltring Dives make complaint For water? |
| A10251 | Doe worldly pleasures no contentment give? |
| A10251 | Does Iob ● erve God for nought? |
| A10251 | Dost thou see how Art Does polish nature to adorne each part Of that rare Worke, whose glorious Fabrick may Commend her beauty to an after day? |
| A10251 | Evermore alike, Both when heav''n strikes& whē he leaves to strike? |
| A10251 | FAmine? |
| A10251 | FIerce Lyons roaring for their prey? |
| A10251 | FIndst thou no comfort on this fickle Earth? |
| A10251 | FIve thousand in a weeke, in one poore City? |
| A10251 | God: But tell me, who Gave being to the Loaves of Bread? |
| A10251 | HAile blessed Mary: MA, What celestial tongue Cals sinfull Mary blessed? |
| A10251 | HAst thou forsaken all thy Sinnes, but One? |
| A10251 | HAst thou observed how the curious hand Of the Refiner seekes to understand The inadult''rate purenesse of his Gold? |
| A10251 | HAve sland''rous tongues bin busie to defame The pretious Oyntment of my better name? |
| A10251 | HOw could thy Soule, fond Woman, be assur''d Thy long disease could be so eas''ly cur''d? |
| A10251 | HOw dares thy Bandog, Lord, presume t''approach Into thy sacred pre ● ence? |
| A10251 | HOw well our Saviour and the landed Youth Agreed a little while? |
| A10251 | Had that the pow''r to call The massy ● ron up? |
| A10251 | Has not thy malice had her owne desire? |
| A10251 | Hast thou not cause to be a Iealous God? |
| A10251 | Have our Syrian streames Lesse pow''r then Isr''els? |
| A10251 | Have we not Enemies to counterbuffe, Enow? |
| A10251 | How Lord? |
| A10251 | How apt is sense, to question, why? |
| A10251 | How basely doe our crooked Soules engage Themselves to heav''n? |
| A10251 | How might all this come? |
| A10251 | I Know not by what vertue Rome deposes A Christian Prince: Did Aaron command Moses? |
| A10251 | I doe; Who bids thee Come, will bid thee Welcome too: Rhemus, when call''d in person, you appeare By Proxy, tell me where''s your manners, there? |
| A10251 | I feare th''art guilty: Is that heart of thine So faint( if guiltles) that it can not stoope Beneath so poore a Burthen, and not droope? |
| A10251 | IF Flouds of Teares should drown my world of Sin, Alas, my floating Arke retaines within, A cursed Cham to store the World agin: What then? |
| A10251 | IF a poore timorous Hare but crosse the way, Morus will keepe his chamber all the day; What Evill ● ortends ● ortends it, Morus? |
| A10251 | IT is a common use to entertaine The knowledge of a great man, by his Trayne: How great''s the dead- man then? |
| A10251 | IVdge not too fast: This Tree that does appeare So barren, may be fruitfull the next yeare: Hast thou not patience to expect the hower? |
| A10251 | In Sleepe, we know not whether our clos''d eyes Shall ever wake; from Death w''are sure to rise: I, but''t is long first: O, is that our feares? |
| A10251 | Is Dagon growne So weake ith''hamms: Nor stand, nor rise, alone? |
| A10251 | Is Sampson singular in this? |
| A10251 | Is he gone that rode? |
| A10251 | Is not Sophronia left at Sixe and Seaven? |
| A10251 | Is not the Flesh, the World enough To foyle us? |
| A10251 | Is not the Warrant ample, If back''t with Scripture? |
| A10251 | Is she unhappy, or thou cruell rather? |
| A10251 | Is the Brick So soone forgotten? |
| A10251 | Is the most Of what th''inspired Prophets tell thee, lost In thy unhospitable eares? |
| A10251 | Is there a firme di ● ors ● Betwixt all mercy, and the hearts of Men? |
| A10251 | Is there no City for a Soule to flye, And save it selfe: Must we resolve to dye? |
| A10251 | Is there no pitty? |
| A10251 | Is there no remorse In humane brests? |
| A10251 | Is there none dead By your defaults? |
| A10251 | Is thy Shrine so hot, Thou canst not keepe it? |
| A10251 | Is thy Taske too great? |
| A10251 | Is''t not a dainty Pe ● ce? |
| A10251 | It is a point of Mercy, yet, to give A choise of death to such, as must not live: But was the choise so hard? |
| A10251 | Knowst thou not which to slight,& which t''affect? |
| A10251 | LAz''rus come forth? |
| A10251 | LEt not thy blacknesse moove thee to despaire, Black Women are belov''d of men that''s faire: What if thy hayre, her flaxen brightnes lack? |
| A10251 | LOrd, if our dayes be few, why doe we spend And lavish them unto so evill an end? |
| A10251 | Let thy heart cheare thee: What delicious Cheare? |
| A10251 | Looke to the Law? |
| A10251 | Lord, if our dayes be evill, why doe we wrong Our selves, and Thee, to wish our Day so long? |
| A10251 | MAmmon''s growne rich: Does Mammon boast of that? |
| A10251 | MY Little Pinnace, strike thy Sayles, Let slippe thy Anchor? |
| A10251 | May they not be us''d? |
| A10251 | Must be expeld his Honour, and come downe Below the meanest Slave, and, for a Season, Be banisht from the use, the Act of Reason? |
| A10251 | My Lord, how can Such wonders come to passe; such things be done By a poore Virgin, never knowne by Man? |
| A10251 | NEw Garments being brought, who is''t that would Not scorne to live a Pris''ner to the Old? |
| A10251 | NO sooner out, but grumble? |
| A10251 | NOt pray to Saints? |
| A10251 | Nay what shal Esau do? |
| A10251 | No Joy at all? |
| A10251 | No Obiect for thy Mirth? |
| A10251 | No diffrence, but a little Breath:''T is all but Rest;''t is all but a Releasing Our tyred lims; VVhy then not alike pleasing? |
| A10251 | No no; Hee''s rather cradled in some Manger: Dwells he in wisedome? |
| A10251 | No no; Mans wisedome''s foolishnes with God: Or hath some new Plantation, yet unknown, Made him their King, adorn''d him with their Crowne? |
| A10251 | No place that shall Secure our Soules from Death? |
| A10251 | No vicissitude of Raine? |
| A10251 | Nor this, nor that''s ador''d: Does not th''eternall Law command, that thou Shalt ev''n as well forbeare to make, as bow? |
| A10251 | Not stroke thy stomacke downe, when as thy God Is friends with thee, and throwne aside the Rod? |
| A10251 | Not to so good an end? |
| A10251 | Nothing but Sorrow? |
| A10251 | Nothing else, but toyle? |
| A10251 | O When our Clergie, at the dreadfull Day, Shal make their Audit; when the Iudge shal say Give your accompts: What, have my Lambs bin fed? |
| A10251 | O canst thou not dispence with that, wherein ▪ Thy strict Religion''s a presumptuous Sin? |
| A10251 | O where, O where Shall I direct my steps, to finde him there? |
| A10251 | O( not to be exprest?) |
| A10251 | O, are there not enow, enow beside? |
| A10251 | O, by the Law, we dye: Is there no Refuge, Lord? |
| A10251 | On the Story of Man? |
| A10251 | Or can the ruines of the old find place In th''Arke of Glory, not repayr''d by Grace? |
| A10251 | Or canst thou judge that Fier, clos''d about With rak''d up Embers,''cause not scene, is out? |
| A10251 | Or has Dagon got The falling sicknes, that his Godship''s found On such a posture, prostrate on the Gro ● nd? |
| A10251 | Or hath censorious basenesse gone about With her rude blast to puffe my Taper out? |
| A10251 | Or he, in Summer, that complaines of Frost? |
| A10251 | Or put on fresh? |
| A10251 | Or quit thy Carkas from her sheet of Lead? |
| A10251 | Or was''t because our blessed Saviour wore it? |
| A10251 | Or why? |
| A10251 | PAst time is gone, the Future is to be; Crastinio, say, which most belongs to thee? |
| A10251 | PLag ● es after Plagues? |
| A10251 | PRomise is d ● tt: And Det implyes a payment: How can the righteous, then dout food,& raymēt? |
| A10251 | Parted for ever? |
| A10251 | Quite buried? |
| A10251 | Quite forgot? |
| A10251 | SEest thou that Mon''ment? |
| A10251 | SHe must be lov''d; Then courted; and what more? |
| A10251 | STands it with State, that Princely David, who Did weare the Crown, should play the Harper too? |
| A10251 | Sampson was s ● bject to their scorne and shame: And was not Jesus even the very same? |
| A10251 | Say, doe they all stand sound? |
| A10251 | Shall I make search in swelling Baggs of Coyne? |
| A10251 | Shall wormes, or dust, or men be well advis''d, To goe in person( where we have despis''d) Before a God, a glorious God? |
| A10251 | Sinner repent? |
| A10251 | So much und ● rfoot? |
| A10251 | T Is true; we are but dust; but wormes; nay men, That are more base then either; And what then? |
| A10251 | T is true, Great God ▪ then who Can hope for life? |
| A10251 | T''advance his passion? |
| A10251 | TEn Lepers clensed? |
| A10251 | THat drop- requesting Dives did desire His Brothers might have warning of that Fire, Whose flames he felt: Could he, a Fiend, wish well To Man? |
| A10251 | THe blessing gon, what do''s there now remaine? |
| A10251 | TWo Eares to let in Knowledge; Nature gave; To entertaine true Faith, one heart we have; Why so? |
| A10251 | That gives thee kisses? |
| A10251 | The Cure perpl ● xes more then the Disease; Prophets prescribe no better meanes then these? |
| A10251 | The faithfull Abra''m now erects an Altar: Orders the wood: what tongue can chuse but falter, To tell the rest? |
| A10251 | The hedge is broke, That fenc''d my Servant Iob: What further Cloke For his uprightnesse hath he? |
| A10251 | Thinkst thou that Formio''s shaking hands with Sin? |
| A10251 | Thinkst thou, that thy laborious Plough requires Not Winter frosts, as well as Summer fires? |
| A10251 | Thy Lawes are j ● st, And most irrevocable: Shall we trust Or flye to our owne Merits, and ● e freed By our good Workes? |
| A10251 | To adorne our Walls? |
| A10251 | To counterfeit thy po''wr, And to usurpe thy Kingdome, ev''n as He Were, Lord, at least, a Substitute to Thee? |
| A10251 | To deck our windowes? |
| A10251 | To garnish Halls? |
| A10251 | To turne Gods glorious Image to a Beast, Or turne the Image of a Beast to God? |
| A10251 | To what end Mad''st thou such needlesse hast? |
| A10251 | True Lord; His Raith is tough: But Snailes as well Can thrive without, as live within their Shell: To save a life who would not lose some skin? |
| A10251 | VIctorious Ieptha, could thy Zeale allow No other way, then by a rash- made Vow, T''expresse thy Thanks? |
| A10251 | VVHat? |
| A10251 | VVHy should we not, as well, desier Death, As Sleep? |
| A10251 | VVOuld''st thou be prosp''rous, tho the bēded brow Of Fortune threaten thee? |
| A10251 | Vnlock thy Marble Monument, and rise? |
| A10251 | WAs it not time to send his sonne to Rages, For mony, whē his wife spun hard for wages? |
| A10251 | WHat hast thou done? |
| A10251 | WHat newes with Dagon? |
| A10251 | WHich is the greater Sin, and which the lesse? |
| A10251 | WHo ever sung so high, so rapt an 〈 ◊ 〉 As David prompted by heroick Clio? |
| A10251 | WHy did our blessed Saviour please to breake His sacred thoughts in Parables; and speake In darke Enigma''s? |
| A10251 | WHy not the Picture of our dying Lord, As of a Friend? |
| A10251 | WOldst thou Mundano, prove too great, too strong For peevish Fortunes angry brow to wrong? |
| A10251 | WOldst thou, Charissa, wish thy fortunes better, Then, by thy act, to make thy God thy Detter? |
| A10251 | Was her Ballance even? |
| A10251 | Was thy heart so steel''d, Rebellious Tyrant, that it dare withstand The oft repeated Iudgements of Heav''ns hand? |
| A10251 | Was thy knee Bent oft enough? |
| A10251 | Was''t not by holy Rome? |
| A10251 | Was''t not high time for him to post away, That for an Angell paid a Groat a day? |
| A10251 | Were not his Pangs sufficient? |
| A10251 | What Wages can we merit, as our owne? |
| A10251 | What ayle thy Gods, that they are turn''d so rough, So full of rage? |
| A10251 | What hath poore Esau left, but empty teares, And Plaints, that can not reach the old mans eares? |
| A10251 | What hinders Life? |
| A10251 | What is''t we ayle not, That Wet and Cold can bring? |
| A10251 | What must there now be done? |
| A10251 | What now''s th''exployt? |
| A10251 | What shall poore Mortals do? |
| A10251 | What then are they, nay Fooles, in what degree, Whose Actions shall maintain''t? |
| A10251 | What''s that to thee? |
| A10251 | What, doe thy dayes shew nothing, worth a smile? |
| A10251 | What, is there Charity in Hell? |
| A10251 | What? |
| A10251 | When''s our Zeale in prime? |
| A10251 | When''s the time, To doe thee service? |
| A10251 | Where shall I trace; or where shall I go winde him? |
| A10251 | Which finds the sharper? |
| A10251 | Who art thou? |
| A10251 | Who made the Fishes? |
| A10251 | Why cam''st thou forth, sweet Virgin? |
| A10251 | Why could not hungry E ● au strive t''enhaunce His price a little? |
| A10251 | Why dost not rate him? |
| A10251 | Why should reformed Churches then forbid it? |
| A10251 | YOung man Rejoyce: What jolly mirth is here? |
| A10251 | and not for Yeares? |
| A10251 | and pick the worst of three? |
| A10251 | and then Daniel throwne in? |
| A10251 | and yet not move thy Rod? |
| A10251 | and yet whine? |
| A10251 | as if he had, at least, A Common wealth reposed in his brest: A Common- wealth? |
| A10251 | but we subscribe to Fate: Perchance, thy Fortune''s to be bought and sold; Was not young Ioseph serv''d the like of old? |
| A10251 | couldst thou think the touch of cloth was good To dry the Fountaine of thy flowing Blood? |
| A10251 | do''st retaine Nothing that''s Good? |
| A10251 | ever whining? |
| A10251 | for who hath power to Doe? |
| A10251 | must he bleed Yet more? |
| A10251 | ne''r to meet agen? |
| A10251 | no Princely Sport, To entertaine her? |
| A10251 | or incroach Vpon thy choyce possessions, to devoure Thy sporting Lambs? |
| A10251 | so right, in kind, and nature? |
| A10251 | strengthen''d with example? |
| A10251 | the Pest''lence? |
| A10251 | the Pestlence? |
| A10251 | the Sword? |
| A10251 | the Sword? |
| A10251 | this abroad, and that at home; But must that Sathan, must that Bandog come T''afflict the weake, and take the stronger side? |
| A10251 | was not Abraham a Saint? |
| A10251 | was there none to ● e ▪ Betwixt thy Fathers mortall Brow ▪ and Thee? |
| A10251 | was thy Sentence iust, To censure Zeale, and not to punish Lust? |
| A10251 | what Offring shall Perfume Baals nostrils? |
| A10251 | what boots it whether? |
| A10251 | what might the reason be? |
| A10251 | what pretence For his continued Love and Innocence? |
| A10251 | what secret mischiefe can Vn- same thy peace? |
| A10251 | what, had they meat enough To fill their golden Stomacks? |
| A10251 | when Death had closd her eies, What power had the Damsell to arise? |
| A10251 | which is least, When all are great? |
| A10251 | which the milder Rod? |
| A10251 | which worst, when bad''s the best? |
| A10251 | why could not Laz''rus plead, I can not come, great God, for I am dead: Dam''sell arise? |
| A10251 | why does he obtaine Such favour to have liberty of his Chaine? |
| A10251 | why he punisht, and not she? |
| A23279 | ( For, as St. Paul sayes, Wee see heere darkely, in part, as through a Glasse:) what shall their joy be, when their desires shall be fulfilled? |
| A23279 | ( Why? |
| A23279 | ( more particular) to the tumultuous Iewes at the doore? |
| A23279 | ( sayes Saint Bernard) facta est Mater Dei,& dicet se Ancillam? |
| A23279 | Alas, alas, What is my- Fathers- House? |
| A23279 | An Baptis ● … Iobannis Sacramentum fuerit, nec- ne? |
| A23279 | And all for Love; and nothing for reward; O why should heavenly God, to Man haue such regard? |
| A23279 | And as Christ,( extendens manum) caught Peter, when he was ready to sinke in the Sea; and said: Modice fidei, quare dubitasti? |
| A23279 | And ninthly, as Hee came to Ierusalem with a Quoties volui? |
| A23279 | And whence, could it come, else? |
| A23279 | And why art thou disturbd in Me? |
| A23279 | And why? |
| A23279 | And would Thomas serve a Master, that is dead? |
| A23279 | And( Secondly,) How it can bee good for us? |
| A23279 | And( being made) what can continue it better, then Love? |
| A23279 | And( first) for their Number: and how many they were? |
| A23279 | And, as through the Stars it passes, Makes them blaze with light, like Glasses? |
| A23279 | And, for our Friends; what a great Compasse, doe they seeme to make about us? |
| A23279 | And, if he be humane, that takes a Man into his House, how humane is Hee, that takes Man into himselfe? |
| A23279 | And, if not These, what shall we learne of him? |
| A23279 | And, in the 14. of Luke: Quid turbati estis? |
| A23279 | And, thou Bethlehem,& c. Out of thee shall he come,& c. But, why would hee bee borne there? |
| A23279 | And, what are they? |
| A23279 | And, what comes of all this Worke? |
| A23279 | And, what would they doe with him, there? |
| A23279 | And, when we see Night come in frowning- Skies, What Man will not goe home, if he be wise? |
| A23279 | And, where was this; but, at the Receit of Custome? |
| A23279 | And, whither is that? |
| A23279 | And, who were they? |
| A23279 | Are Flesh and Blood The Hinderers, that Clog- us from this Good? |
| A23279 | Are not such Things most worthy to be heard? |
| A23279 | BVt shall wee end heere, and leave Humility in the dust? |
| A23279 | BVt whom, did they finde? |
| A23279 | Baptize? |
| A23279 | Beleevest thou himself? |
| A23279 | Beleevest thou the Apostles? |
| A23279 | But how? |
| A23279 | But if no very Starre; what then? |
| A23279 | But it may be asked( concerning this Message) First, what needed an Annunciation? |
| A23279 | But say, I am willing: I doe desire to goe; and I doe follow: what, if( through faintnesse in the long way), I fall often? |
| A23279 | But why( O foolish- flesh) shak''st thou at this? |
| A23279 | But why, a Star? |
| A23279 | But will Herod reward the Dance of an Antique with the Head of a Prophet? |
| A23279 | But( sayes hee) was not David, filius Agricolae, the Sonne of a Husbandman? |
| A23279 | But, Angelus ad Pastores? |
| A23279 | But, admit a Starre, and a Scepter be Risen in Israel; and, that a King be borne to the Iewes; what is that, to the Gentiles? |
| A23279 | But, are they now satisfied? |
| A23279 | But, can the Deitie; can the Divinitie be in the Flesh? |
| A23279 | But, doe I talke of Light, and bring you into darkenesse? |
| A23279 | But, doe men naturally desire to perish? |
| A23279 | But, how did This, prepare the way for Christ? |
| A23279 | But, how did his Birth prepare a Way for Christ? |
| A23279 | But, how shall I know, that I( in particular), shall be taught and shewed this way? |
| A23279 | But, how shall we helpe it? |
| A23279 | But, if a finger be granted, may not a Hand? |
| A23279 | But, if that be so; how can this be true? |
| A23279 | But, if this bee so; what cause is there( illis) for Them? |
| A23279 | But, in Him, what shall we Imitate? |
| A23279 | But, is Christ, divided? |
| A23279 | But, is Thomas( then) out of the number? |
| A23279 | But, is he Willing to shew? |
| A23279 | But, is the Bread that came downe from Heaven, become food for the Beastes of the field, that they lay him in the Manger? |
| A23279 | But, it may be asked; had they not the Spirit, before? |
| A23279 | But, it may be demanded: did this Confession proceed from Thomas his Faith? |
| A23279 | But, quis tradidit? |
| A23279 | But, the mervaile will be, why such Messengers( as Angels) would tell, and( first of all) tell so high a Mystery to such simple fellowes? |
| A23279 | But, this was, in the old time; under the Law: what are we( their Sonnes) in the Gospel, any other? |
| A23279 | But, to say truth, what Man would desire to see God, and live? |
| A23279 | But, to the Chamber of the Bride, who may approach, but the Friend to the Bride- groome? |
| A23279 | But, to what end? |
| A23279 | But, to whom, is this Peace, and Gladnesse? |
| A23279 | But, was Thomas- his- case alone? |
| A23279 | But, was it as good, as great? |
| A23279 | But, were these Wise- men( some may say) to come thus farre, with danger of their Lives, to give away their Goods? |
| A23279 | But, what Peace, was this? |
| A23279 | But, what is Wisedome, unlesse it appeare? |
| A23279 | But, what is this life? |
| A23279 | But, what of him? |
| A23279 | But, which of them all,( with their Ipsi viderunt) could informe him of the truth of this dayes Story? |
| A23279 | But, whither did it lead them? |
| A23279 | But, why did Iohn( then) deny to be a Prophet, when he was asked the question? |
| A23279 | But, why did they make such haste? |
| A23279 | But, why should he, that was never wedded( as we say) call himselfe a Bride- groome? |
| A23279 | But, will the Things I want, and others have Accompany their- Owners to the Grave? |
| A23279 | But, will they stay with Me? |
| A23279 | But, would we know more particularly, what this Peace is? |
| A23279 | But; shall we speake of Iohns Death, upon his Birth day? |
| A23279 | But[ Tu, es Deus meus]: Where, saw he that? |
| A23279 | By their strong Faith, they were justified;) for, shall Abraham, and not these Men?) |
| A23279 | Can God descend to this? |
| A23279 | Can I behold the hands of Almightie God, there building the Temple of his owne Immaculate Body, in the wombe of a Virgin? |
| A23279 | Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? |
| A23279 | Could They so? |
| A23279 | Cujus Bvt did they understand it? |
| A23279 | Cur ergo Christum, propter Parentum Ignobilitatem, contemnunt? |
| A23279 | DAVID( heere) makes a Request; and gives a reason, why he is sure to obtaine it: Preserve me ô Lord: Why? |
| A23279 | Dixit autem Maria ad Angelum; quo modo fiet istud? |
| A23279 | Doth not his Bodie suffer( yet); when any of his Members stand shivering for cold, and not a ragge to wrappe them in? |
| A23279 | Doth not his Soule suffer; when any Ignorant Soule perishes for want of Instruction? |
| A23279 | Esay''s Lambe; that they might offer, to the Ruler of all the World, for a Present? |
| A23279 | First,( to remoove a Blocke:) If it was seene in the East; how can it bee said to Rise out of Iacob, which was West to them, as they dwelt? |
| A23279 | First: Who did it? |
| A23279 | First: Why he was borne of a Woman, not, of a Man? |
| A23279 | For Michael, signifies Quis ut Deus? |
| A23279 | For who would not to see such a sight, set on going? |
| A23279 | For why should he else, in these very termes, desire it? |
| A23279 | For, Esay sayes: Generationem ejus quis enarrabit? |
| A23279 | For, he is a Stranger[ Thou wilt shew mee]: and, what am I? |
| A23279 | For, hee said( in the 12. of Luke) How am I straitned( or payned) till it be done? |
| A23279 | For, how could he describe that, which hee could not conceive? |
| A23279 | For, how could they see with their eyes, how his body came to be immortall? |
| A23279 | For, if you aske why Christ call''d him no Reede,( no effeminate Person?) |
| A23279 | For, if you aske, how wee should make way? |
| A23279 | For, looke upon them with a worldlie eye,( as they stand on the Earth) how- fairely doe Riches seeme to spread? |
| A23279 | For, they come to Ierusalem, and with hazard of their Persons, say; Vbi est; qui natus est Rex Iudaeorum? |
| A23279 | For, to whom can Christ come more acceptably, then to them that wait for him with desire? |
| A23279 | For, to whom could the Angels tell the new Eaning of a Lambe, so properly as to Shepheards? |
| A23279 | For, what is easier then thanks? |
| A23279 | For, what other thing, is the Kingdome of heaven, but( as h Saint Paul saies) Righteousnesse, and Peace, and Ioy in the holy Ghost? |
| A23279 | For, what will ye liken God unto? |
| A23279 | For, when God asked him, in Iob:( from whence hee came?) |
| A23279 | For, when should a Scepter rise, but when It is falne? |
| A23279 | For, whence comes it, that( though wee stumble) we fall not in the darke? |
| A23279 | For, will you see what followed? |
| A23279 | For; if he,( that forsakes any particular for Christ) shall receive so many- fold: what shall he, that left all? |
| A23279 | Fourthly, if Espoused; why, to one of the House of David? |
| A23279 | From Whence? |
| A23279 | From thence hee''le finde( when thither he is gone) A private walke to heaven, for One- alone; Why doe we( then) not goe? |
| A23279 | Glory shone in his face, and so- dazled him, that he cryes; Who is this, that I heare such things of? |
| A23279 | God? |
| A23279 | Gratia plena] If Shee were full of Grace, before the Conception, who can tell how shee abounded afterwards? |
| A23279 | HArke: heare you not a cheerefull Noyse, That makes Heavens- Vault, ring shrill with joyes? |
| A23279 | HEre we must rest: and where- else should we rest? |
| A23279 | Had they here( then) no more priviledge, then the world? |
| A23279 | Hath Christ healed you, and taken away your Sinnes? |
| A23279 | Have not we straied, then? |
| A23279 | He hath exalted; whom? |
| A23279 | His being an Apostle, indued with power to quell uncleane Spirits? |
| A23279 | How came he by it then? |
| A23279 | How can we( then) live- long, that live by killing? |
| A23279 | How could the Newes of his Departure cause such Sorrow? |
| A23279 | How oft do they, with golden Pinions, cleave The flitting skies,( like flying Pursevant) Against foule fiends, to aide us Militant? |
| A23279 | How often, doe wee see him( in like Povertie) when the distressed Members of his Bodie want Reliefe? |
| A23279 | If David be of flesh and blood, where is( now) his Confidence? |
| A23279 | If I should aske, where I should begin? |
| A23279 | If Kings and Queenes( then) can no more procure; Nought, but my Grave, will tarry with me( sure): Why should I therefore strive, to get such- Things? |
| A23279 | If he will confesse Dominus, or Deus; We will agree with him: but Meus? |
| A23279 | If so; Why, doth he Cry Repent? |
| A23279 | If then, to thinke on Death, be good; Oh why Should any thinke, It is not good to die? |
| A23279 | If this be true: Why make we no- more hast? |
| A23279 | If you slept; how doe you know, his Disciples stole him? |
| A23279 | In Enemies, there can bee no merit of love: what is then the reason, for Gods dilexit? |
| A23279 | Iohn Baptist- head in a Platter? |
| A23279 | Is Christ borne; and, no Dona ferentes? |
| A23279 | Is God become a Child? |
| A23279 | Is his Faith so covetous? |
| A23279 | Is not a Mans owne- House( to sleepe- in) best? |
| A23279 | Is the holy Ghost, divided; that He fits on every of them, severally? |
| A23279 | It is( fiftly) questioned, How this Starre declared the Birth of Christ unto them? |
| A23279 | It may be asked, why the Ascension was seene of Men; and not, the Resurrection? |
| A23279 | Lastly, why by corporall vision? |
| A23279 | Lastly: It is inquired What became of this Starre, when it had brought them to Christ? |
| A23279 | Let us not say, Who shall goe downe into the deepe? |
| A23279 | Mr Soule; why art thou thus deject? |
| A23279 | NOW, whither shall wee follow him? |
| A23279 | NOw, what Vse? |
| A23279 | Nisi videro:] What? |
| A23279 | Nor, who shall goe up into heaven? |
| A23279 | Now this Reason,( why Christ sent them, Two in a Societie) may serve also, for why he made them Twelve? |
| A23279 | Now whether any other Gentile( besides Balaam) fore- knew the Rising of this Starre or no? |
| A23279 | Now, Why shee was espoused to a man of Davids house? |
| A23279 | Now, what is Semita vitae, that wee seeke for? |
| A23279 | Now, why an Angel; rather then a Prophet? |
| A23279 | Now,( lastly); If my Web be( thus) cut- off; whom can I blame, but my selfe? |
| A23279 | O happy Bethleem, if thou knewest whom thou shuttest out, what Metropolis, would not envy thy Suburbes? |
| A23279 | Omnibus? |
| A23279 | Or how can thy departure be good for us? |
| A23279 | Or, that whole- Ruines, Stones and Timber( things of waight and destruction) fall within a haires- breadth of us, and never touch us? |
| A23279 | Or, to whom could the Birth of a Shepheard, come more fitly then to Shepheards? |
| A23279 | Or,( if we fall) that we rise without a Limb- broken? |
| A23279 | Ought not Christ to suffer( saies he himselfe) and enter into his glory? |
| A23279 | Our Conversation is( what? |
| A23279 | Pax, in terra? |
| A23279 | Quae est haec sublimis Humilitas? |
| A23279 | Quare? |
| A23279 | Quem vidistis Pastores? |
| A23279 | Quem? |
| A23279 | Qui ab initio, They that saw from the beginning: and who was that? |
| A23279 | Qui regit Sidera, sugit ubera: What can be said to this? |
| A23279 | Qui? |
| A23279 | Quid: What It was? |
| A23279 | Quiderit Tribunal judicantis, quando sic terrebant Cunae Infantis? |
| A23279 | Quo Duce? |
| A23279 | Quomodo oportet? |
| A23279 | Quomodo?] |
| A23279 | SHall there be Nothing left me, but a Grave? |
| A23279 | Secondly, But if, of a Woman: why, of a Virgin? |
| A23279 | Secondly, They had charge, if any contradicted( with, quare solvitis,& c?) |
| A23279 | Secondly, if, of a Woman; why, of a Virgin? |
| A23279 | Sed quomodo expedit nobis?) |
| A23279 | Sed quomodo oportet? |
| A23279 | Semen Mulieris conteret caput Serpentis: that is as much, as Fiat Lux; Let the Light be made:) made what? |
| A23279 | Shall I( at last) no- other- Dwelling have? |
| A23279 | Shall wenot thinke, that Thomas did now receive the Holy Ghost, with this Touching; as well, as the Rest had( before) by Christs Breathing? |
| A23279 | Shee is made the Mother of God, and cals her selfe an Hand- maid? |
| A23279 | Shrink''st thou from That, which thy best- Physicke is? |
| A23279 | Since all I want here, God gives; and I have; What can I more- expect now; but my Grave? |
| A23279 | Since what the World containes, no Suretie brings? |
| A23279 | So confest: Who have I on earth; but Thee? |
| A23279 | So, the Angel, when Mary seemed to question( with quo modo fiet?) |
| A23279 | St. Iohns Lambe; that takes away the Sinnes of the World? |
| A23279 | Such was the Sonne, shee should conceive: Now, hee declares the Meanes, upon her Question of Quo modo fiet? |
| A23279 | That, as Men on Earth,( when they consider the glory of the Firmament and the Stars above them) are forced to Cry- out Quis ut Deus? |
| A23279 | The Author and Giver of Life, had set forth no Decree, for the Period of Mans- life, at the beginning; who then, brought it to three score and ten? |
| A23279 | The kingdome of heaven? |
| A23279 | The second Question among them is, At what time the Starre appeared? |
| A23279 | The third Question is, where they saw the Starre first? |
| A23279 | Then said Mary unto the Angel how shall this be, seeing I know not a man? |
| A23279 | Then, it had never bin:( For, which of these could say, He had one Sin?) |
| A23279 | Therefore, it was well asked; Si vis, quare tristis es? |
| A23279 | They are not to follow us, in our darke courses: they are Angels of Light; and, what fellowship hath Light, with darknesse? |
| A23279 | They came to see, What? |
| A23279 | They might say to Thomas,( as Paul said to Agripp ▪) Beleevest thou the Prophets? |
| A23279 | Thirdly, But why was this Virgin betrothed? |
| A23279 | Thirdly, if of a Virgin; why was Shee Espoused? |
| A23279 | This I beare, for Thine- Amisse, Was there ever Paine, like this? |
| A23279 | This, is Festum Nativitatis, shall we marre the Mirth, and( for one- dish) bring in a Memento Mori, to the Table? |
| A23279 | Thou hast made him little lower then God; for thou hast sent thy Angels, that attend on thee, to waite on him? |
| A23279 | To prepare a place? |
| A23279 | Tolle de Cruce? |
| A23279 | VVHo were they that sought? |
| A23279 | VVHy did they seeke? |
| A23279 | WHat''s this, that from Heaven''s high top Fals downe, like a shining drop? |
| A23279 | Was it for this the Angels sang so lowd, in the night? |
| A23279 | Was this the Feast of Herods- birth? |
| A23279 | We may well aske( with Peter,) Lord whither goest thou? |
| A23279 | Wee have often heard that these words,[ Quare? |
| A23279 | Well, will that confirme thee? |
| A23279 | Were they Kings? |
| A23279 | What Text( then) can be fitter, for Saint Iohns day; then that, which Christ himselfe tooke, when hee spake of the same Argument? |
| A23279 | What can bee more honest, then the Childing of a Virgin? |
| A23279 | What dost thou say of thy selfe? |
| A23279 | What fellowship, hath God and Mammon? |
| A23279 | What greater Ioy, then the Blind, to receive sight? |
| A23279 | What is a King, but his Word? |
| A23279 | What more pleasant, then God, and Man in one person? |
| A23279 | What more profitable, then the Redemption of Man? |
| A23279 | What needed then( say wee) the Ascension? |
| A23279 | What should Lust aske, but the death of Chastitie? |
| A23279 | What should make him desire to view againe those cruell wounds, which the Iewes made? |
| A23279 | What sublime Humility is this? |
| A23279 | What was that, which Christ saw, as he passed? |
| A23279 | What went you out to see? |
| A23279 | What will this Hercules doe, in his full strength; that thus strangled two such Serpents in his Cradle? |
| A23279 | What would they, now? |
| A23279 | What, greater signe that thou art one, then thy Communicating thy Goods, to the Saints? |
| A23279 | What? |
| A23279 | When God will suffer paine to make him die; what paine must that bee? |
| A23279 | When was this, that they found him? |
| A23279 | Whence comes it, that Bullets,( or Arrowes) often grate- on- us; and yet, hurt us not? |
| A23279 | Where shall we seeke him, then? |
| A23279 | Wherefore, at their Arrivall, they not onely acknowledge him, a King; Vbi est Rex? |
| A23279 | Whither was this Twin straied from his Brethren? |
| A23279 | Who( then) shall give mee the wings of a Dove, that I may flie, and finde rest for my Soule? |
| A23279 | Who, would not faint in admiration, to see God in a Manger? |
| A23279 | Why doe they( then) despise Christ, for the meanenesse of his Parents? |
| A23279 | Why should not the Seeing of Christ, or hearing of him speake, serve his turne? |
| A23279 | Why should she then feare? |
| A23279 | Why then, wilt thou leave us? |
| A23279 | Why? |
| A23279 | Will Beautie goe? |
| A23279 | Will Honour, or proud- Riches tarry there? |
| A23279 | Will Strength, in Death appeare? |
| A23279 | Will he beare with us, and continue to the end? |
| A23279 | Will he, though he can? |
| A23279 | Will that suffice? |
| A23279 | Will you fee it, by the effects? |
| A23279 | Will you know the reason? |
| A23279 | Would he come downe so low? |
| A23279 | Yes, but where shall wee lay them? |
| A23279 | Yet hee, admitted their Acclamations; and why? |
| A23279 | Zachary doubted of the Angel Gabriels words, even in the ordinary course of Nature; and required a signe, with unde hoc sciam? |
| A23279 | a Fellow, in a hayrie- coate, and a Lether- Belt, that he should be worth a Hic est? |
| A23279 | a Prophet? |
| A23279 | a man, in soft clothing? |
| A23279 | and Darkenesse? |
| A23279 | and How?) |
| A23279 | and all the rest, that saw him? |
| A23279 | and can not Wee? |
| A23279 | and had not his Co ● … ades( there) heard him? |
| A23279 | and more,& c? |
| A23279 | and pierce againe those saving hands; and dig againe that blessed Side? |
| A23279 | and shall know, as they are knowne; that is, perfectly? |
| A23279 | and they, came running so fast, before day, this cold morning? |
| A23279 | and what Couch of Gold and Ivory, would not change, to bethy Manger? |
| A23279 | and what am I? |
| A23279 | and worke Miracles? |
| A23279 | and yet, the Roote to a Royall Progeny of Kings? |
| A23279 | and yet, when it came to passe, indeed, and they saw it with their eyes, how could it produce such Ioy? |
| A23279 | and, all the posteritie of the faithfull to this daies generation? |
| A23279 | and, what day can he more fitly honour with his Presence, then that Day, that is dedicated to him, and his Honour? |
| A23279 | are their eies yet glutted, with gazing on his racked sinewes? |
| A23279 | because Simeon said, Hee should bee a light to the Gentiles? |
| A23279 | because, it is said, they began to speake? |
| A23279 | but,( no marvell;) for, Quidpeteret ● … ria ● … ria, nisi Castitatis interitum? |
| A23279 | danger? |
| A23279 | doe they, their silver Bowers leave To come to succour us, that Succour want? |
| A23279 | doe you know what death? |
| A23279 | for, Iohn I have beheaded? |
| A23279 | had he a Revelation? |
| A23279 | had he not Sworne? |
| A23279 | hath hee hung long enough? |
| A23279 | have they done? |
| A23279 | his Person? |
| A23279 | how may that be? |
| A23279 | how shall I dare to looke into the Chamber, where the whole divine Majestie of the Supernall King reposes? |
| A23279 | how- bravely doe our Garments glitter? |
| A23279 | how- largely do our Lands and Houses show? |
| A23279 | if yee waked; why did yee suffer them? |
| A23279 | nay; what shall the whole Church doe? |
| A23279 | nor, at all, till now? |
| A23279 | or Illis? |
| A23279 | or Secondly, If any; why, by an Angel; not a Prophet? |
| A23279 | or Thirdly, if by an Angel, why not in a Dreame onely, but by a corporall vision? |
| A23279 | or a Carlesse- one, for want, of admonition? |
| A23279 | or catch him by the Feete,( as the Women did)? |
| A23279 | or( Nobis) for us( that are( now) in their case) to Fast, or keepe a Lent: since our Sinnes, are buried with him? |
| A23279 | or( for want of care) step out of the way, shall I not( then) bee left behind? |
| A23279 | or, Faith without works? |
| A23279 | or, how it came to be a glorified body? |
| A23279 | or, why hee made them Seventy? |
| A23279 | quàm malè conveniunt? |
| A23279 | rid thy selfe at home, and cast- off those: What Wise- man ever went to Bed in''s Cloth''s? |
| A23279 | si non vis, quare Iejunas? |
| A23279 | so Borne? |
| A23279 | so laid? |
| A23279 | so wrapt? |
| A23279 | take him by the hand? |
| A23279 | they saw more, then all the Kings of the Earth( then) saw ▪ Were they Astronomers? |
| A23279 | thinkest thou, that he will come from heaven, to satisfie thee? |
| A23279 | to Preach? |
| A23279 | to all, in generall? |
| A23279 | to forgive Sinnes? |
| A23279 | to heale Sicknesses? |
| A23279 | to lift it out of Prison, and heare it once- more exhort adultery to Repentance? |
| A23279 | to use his head,( as we say) in a Businesse? |
| A23279 | u I Paul, a Prisoner for you Gentiles,& c. But, what had the Gentiles to doe with the Iewes, so long as they were uncircumcised? |
| A23279 | unlesse Christ had inspired him with knowledge, that hee still kept all those wounds, partly for this very purpose? |
| A23279 | was it not Man- himselfe? |
| A23279 | were not the Rest, as Incredulous, as he? |
| A23279 | what Pallace, will not envy thy Stable? |
| A23279 | what a prospect, is a well- furnish''d- Table? |
| A23279 | what good will come of Quaerere? |
| A23279 | what is it good for? |
| A23279 | what is man, that thou art mindfull of him: Or, the Sonne of man, that thou visitest him? |
| A23279 | what shall the rest of the Apostles doe; that were his elder Brothers in Beliefe? |
| A23279 | what shall wee then doe for him? |
| A23279 | when they shall see him glorified? |
| A23279 | when thou hast satisfied both Sences,( thy sight, and feeling)? |
| A23279 | where is thy sting? |
| A23279 | where is thy victory? |
| A23279 | whither will this Way( this Path) leade us? |
| A23279 | who can declare the Mysterie of this? |
| A23279 | who shall deliver Mee? |
| A23279 | why hast thou for saken me? |
| A23279 | will hee have him( all) to himselfe? |
| A23279 | will they not now( for pity sake) adde one Tolle, more? |
| A23279 | will they take him downe, while He is yet alive? |
| A23279 | would he be an Apostle; and not Beleeve that his Master lives? |
| A23279 | yes, The word was out; and it was( with him) but a Word, and a Blow? |
| A01645 | A crust of bread is not due unto my deserts: How much lesse then are all these externall goods which thou dost heap upon me? |
| A01645 | Adam for his pride was cast out of paradise: And dost thou think to come to the celestiall paradise by the way of pride? |
| A01645 | Again, what hath conjoyned together God the Creatour and the faithfull soul created, things infinitely distant? |
| A01645 | Again, what shall it profit me, though all men should love me, if the fury of thine anger shall pursue me? |
| A01645 | Against whom will he not use his subtile tricks, when he was so bold as to set upon the Lord of majestie himself with his craft and subtiltie? |
| A01645 | All other books were invented to mend this book: What doth much science profit, if there be a foul conscience? |
| A01645 | All the wayes of God are mercie and truth: Iust is the Lord, and just are his judgements: Why art thou troubled O my soul? |
| A01645 | All those are terrestriall, but our soul hath a celestiall originall: How should she then satiate and fulfill her desire in them? |
| A01645 | All worldly things are flitting and transitorie; but the soul is immortall: How should she then finde true rest in them? |
| A01645 | An infinite goodnesse was offended, and none could intercede but a mediatour of infinite power: And what is infinite, but God? |
| A01645 | And again what can delight us, when that which we love is quite ended, and grief that shall never have end, doth approch still nearer unto us? |
| A01645 | And dost thou still desire to be proud? |
| A01645 | And what rest can there be to the soul that is dead? |
| A01645 | And what was more glorious and precious in the sight of God? |
| A01645 | Are we not before him like clay in the hands of the potter? |
| A01645 | At the last judgement what will the false praises of others profit thee, or the backbitings of others without a cause, hurt thee? |
| A01645 | Bad works are the seed of Satan: But faith is the seed of Christ: And what communion is there between Christ and Satan? |
| A01645 | Bad works are the works of darknes: But faith is light: And what communion is there between light and darknesse? |
| A01645 | Because by the Spirit he is made partaker of the mysticall bodie of Christ, whose members all the godly are: And who ever hated his own members? |
| A01645 | But he that is destitute of the light of divine knowledge in this life, how can he be made partaker of eternall light in the life to come? |
| A01645 | But if the death of Christ hath brought unto us righteousnesse and life, what shall his life do? |
| A01645 | But if the righteous shall scarce be saved, where shall the sinner appear? |
| A01645 | But what are the fruits of the Spirit? |
| A01645 | But what could be equivalent to the infinite God? |
| A01645 | But what follows? |
| A01645 | But what is the will of our heavenly Father? |
| A01645 | But what remains unto them that neglect this feast? |
| A01645 | But what shall I do to expresse my thankfulnesse? |
| A01645 | But who can reckon up the treacherous assaults and invasions of the devil? |
| A01645 | But why dost thou so much covet after riches? |
| A01645 | But why dost thou so much seek after pleasures? |
| A01645 | But why should I separate unfruitfull and damnable? |
| A01645 | By faith our hearts are purified: But how can there be any inward purity in the heart, when the words are impure, and the outward works appear impure? |
| A01645 | By what did our first father fall from the grace of God, and state of salvation, into eternall damnation? |
| A01645 | Can Christ in his life forget those, for whom he was willing to undergo death? |
| A01645 | Can a poore and weak creature disturb the quiet of my soul, which I possesse in thee my Creatour sure and immoveable? |
| A01645 | Can he forget the precious bloud of his Sonne, when as he telleth the tears and the steps of the godly? |
| A01645 | Can he in the time of his glory forget those, for whom he suffered so great torments? |
| A01645 | Can heaven be more nearly united unto God, then the flesh and humane nature which he hath assumed? |
| A01645 | Can the waves of the world that most unquiet sea, cast down the rock of my heart, which is fixt in thee the chief and immutable good? |
| A01645 | Consider the corner wherein thou keepest: What is the proportion thereof to a whole province, to all Europe, and to all the habitable world? |
| A01645 | Contrarywise, why is God most happy and blessed? |
| A01645 | Do our friends die? |
| A01645 | Do they die in the faith? |
| A01645 | Doest thou refuse to give thy temporall and fading riches to the poore, for whom Christ refused not to give his life? |
| A01645 | Dost thou desire to be clothed? |
| A01645 | Dost thou desire to come to Christ? |
| A01645 | Dost thou desire to enjoy at length the tree of life? |
| A01645 | Dost thou desire to enter into the heavenly Jerusalem? |
| A01645 | Dost thou expect the building of God, the house not made with hands, eternall in the heavens? |
| A01645 | Dost thou look for the fellowship of the heavenly angels? |
| A01645 | Dost thou seek for a citie to come? |
| A01645 | Dost thou think that death doth not approch, because thou thinkest not of it? |
| A01645 | Doth Adam die, Christ in thee live? |
| A01645 | Doth not he wrong himself which loveth any thing unworthy of his love? |
| A01645 | For how can sinne have place there, where the perfect righteousnesse of Christ liveth and flourisheth? |
| A01645 | For how dost thou love Christ, if thou lovest not his holy life? |
| A01645 | For if the angels do so greatly rejoyce for our sake: How much more ought we to rejoyce, seeing unto us he is born and given? |
| A01645 | For our sinnes he hath smitten his Sonne: How then can he smite us his servants for them? |
| A01645 | For what can be our merits? |
| A01645 | For what is Jesus, but a Saviour? |
| A01645 | From whence then shall I seek for the salvation of my soul? |
| A01645 | God can not altogether neglect us, seeing that he maketh us partakers of his own flesh: For who ever hated his own flesh? |
| A01645 | God clotheth the lilies of the field: And doest thou doubt whether he will provide clothes for thee or no? |
| A01645 | God feedeth the fowls of the aire: And dost thou, which art created after his image, doubt whether he will sustain thee or no? |
| A01645 | God gave a soul unto thee: And wilt thou not commit thy bodie to his care? |
| A01645 | God gave his own Sonne that most excellent gift, being not intreated: What will he do then if he be intreated? |
| A01645 | God which is Almighty hath a care of thee: Wherefore then dost thou doubt whether he can sustain thee or no? |
| A01645 | God who is most bountifull hath a care of thee: Wherefore then doest thou doubt how he will sustain thee? |
| A01645 | God who is most bountifull hath a care of thee: Wherefore then dost thou doubt whether he will sustain thee or no? |
| A01645 | God who is most wise hath a care of thee: Wherefore then dost thou doubt how he will sustain thee? |
| A01645 | He attempted to assault the very captain of the heavenly host: And will he spare me a common souldier? |
| A01645 | He deceived Adam in his nature instructed: Whom can not he deceive in his nature corrupted? |
| A01645 | He deceived Adam in paradise, and Judas in our Saviours school: And how then shall I be safe from his treacheries? |
| A01645 | He deceived Iudas in the school of our Saviour: And whom will he not deceive in the world the school of errour? |
| A01645 | He had no greater thing to give unto us: For what is greater then himself? |
| A01645 | He loved us when we were his enemies: And can he forget us when we are reconciled unto him by the death of his Sonne? |
| A01645 | He that doth not despise the world for Christ, how would he lay down his life for him? |
| A01645 | He that hath given his Sonne to us, how shall he not give all other thing ● with him? |
| A01645 | He that liveth in vices, hath given himself to the service of the devil: And he that will be with the devil, how can he be with Christ? |
| A01645 | He that spared not his own Sonne, will he spare his own workmanship? |
| A01645 | He that spared not the most holy one, will he spare the wicked servant? |
| A01645 | Here is the gate of heaven indeed, here is the angels ladder: For can heaven be greater then he that is in heaven? |
| A01645 | How came it to passe that in thy fall thou wast not ground to pieces? |
| A01645 | How can Satan be able to overcome us, seeing that we are fed with heavenly food, that we faint not in battel? |
| A01645 | How can he be partaker of faith? |
| A01645 | How can he ever come to the kingdome of heaven, who is filled daily with the husks of the swine? |
| A01645 | How can he ever come unto God by lifting up his heart unto him, who studies to seek rest for his soul in riches? |
| A01645 | How can he forget those, unto whom he hath given the pledge of his own bodie? |
| A01645 | How can he punish our sinnes in us, which he hath already punished in his Sonne? |
| A01645 | How can it be that he will not accept of that price which he hath payd himself? |
| A01645 | How can that choose but be sufficient, which is from God himself? |
| A01645 | How can that which is corporall satisfie the soul which is spirituall? |
| A01645 | How can the Lord forget those whom he hath redeemed with his bodie and bloud, and whom he hath nourished with his bodie and bloud? |
| A01645 | How can the Lord then despise us whom he feedeth with his own flesh and bloud? |
| A01645 | How can the light of the saving knowledge of God be there, where the darknesse of most grievous sinnes still hath place? |
| A01645 | How canst thou at thy table fall to thy meat, unlesse thou dost first worship him, who in his bounty bestows it upon thee? |
| A01645 | How canst thou condemn me for my sins, when thou diedst for them? |
| A01645 | How long, Lord just and true, how long shall their enemies prevail, and say, There, there, so would we have it? |
| A01645 | How shall God punish us for our own sinnes, who is so wrathfully displeased with his own sonne for other mens sinnes? |
| A01645 | How shall he condemn him that is guilty of sinne, seeing that he himself was made sinne for us? |
| A01645 | How shall he justifie those that are his? |
| A01645 | How shall our iniquities which thou settest before thee, and our errours which thou placest in the light of thy countenance? |
| A01645 | How shall our most filthy deeds appear? |
| A01645 | How the ● shall earth, sinfull earth, dust and ashes appear before thee? |
| A01645 | How then can I dare to patch that most precious garment of Christs righteousnesse with this abominable ragge? |
| A01645 | How then can that chief and infinite mercy repell us from him, being now made partakers of his nature? |
| A01645 | How then shall Christ judge according to severitie, the sinnes of the penitent, which he hath taken upon himself? |
| A01645 | How then should she finde rest in pleasures? |
| A01645 | How will he commit his soul unto God, who doth not commit unto him the care of his body? |
| A01645 | How will he lay down his life for his brother, who doth not bestow his riches upon him? |
| A01645 | How wilt thou commend thy soul unto God, if thou dost not commend the care of thy body unto him? |
| A01645 | How would he lay down his life for his brother, who denieth his temporall substance to his brother that asketh? |
| A01645 | I attend unto the light of thy precepts: and what do I finde in the course of my yeares that are past, but darknesse and blindnesse? |
| A01645 | I do not therefore say with the Jews, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? |
| A01645 | I examine my life that is past: and what else do I behold, but a filthy stinking cloke of sinne? |
| A01645 | I have by my sinnes deserved eternall punishments: And why should not I suffer a little in this world a fatherly correction? |
| A01645 | IN the transitorie things of this world the soul often seeks for rest, but findes it not: Why? |
| A01645 | If I had no disease, what need I implore the help of the physician? |
| A01645 | If by sinne thou deprivest thy self of their tuition: How canst thou be safe from the devils treacheries? |
| A01645 | If his sonne is so grievously punished, shall we his servants think to escape alwayes unpunished? |
| A01645 | If our Saviour dying paid the price unto his Father, what shall he do now being alive and interceding for us? |
| A01645 | If our righteousnesse be such, what then shall our unrighteousnesse be? |
| A01645 | If the holy man so complain, what shall the ungodly do? |
| A01645 | If the sight of a seeming ghost doth almost exanimate a man in this life, what shall the horrible sight of the devils which shall last for ever? |
| A01645 | If this comes to pa ● se in the green tree, what shall become of the dry wood? |
| A01645 | If this comes to passe in the just and holy, what shall become of sinners? |
| A01645 | If thou beest destitute of the angels protection: How canst thou be safe from the invasio ● of many dangers? |
| A01645 | If thou wilt call me to appear according to the severitie of thy justice, how shall I come before thee? |
| A01645 | If thou wilt enter into judgement, who shall stand? |
| A01645 | If we come unprovided; How shall we be able to endure the strict examination in judgement? |
| A01645 | In earth I finde no refuge: for what favour can I expect of the creatures, when I have offended the Lord of the creatures? |
| A01645 | In what place can the souls of thy friends rest safer then in the kingdome of paradise? |
| A01645 | In whose hands art thou kept safer then in the hands of Christ? |
| A01645 | Into whose heart hath this glorie of the blessed ever entred? |
| A01645 | Is it not contrary to that majestie unto which God hath exalted the Saints? |
| A01645 | Is it not enough for thee to be known of thy self, and, which is most of all, to be known of God? |
| A01645 | Is it not the Lord? |
| A01645 | Is not this infinite mercie farre exceeding all the finite understanding and thought of man? |
| A01645 | Let us therefore consider in the first place our own infirmitie: For what is man? |
| A01645 | Lord Jesus, when will it be that I shall come unto thee? |
| A01645 | No walls can hinder this witnesse from seeing all thy actions: What excuse can save thee, when thy conscience within doth accuse thee? |
| A01645 | O Jesus Christ the most sweet bridegroom of my soul, when wilt thou leade thy spouse into thy royall palace? |
| A01645 | O most innocent Jesu, what hast thou to do with the sentence of death? |
| A01645 | O most mercifull Jesus, to whom wilt thou be Jesus, if not to miserable sinners that seek thy grace and salvation? |
| A01645 | O thou lover of man, whose delight is with the sonnes of men, who can worthily set forth the praise of thy love to man? |
| A01645 | O thou most beautifull amongst the sonnes of men, what hast thou to do with spittings upon thee? |
| A01645 | O thou most righteous, what hast thou to do with whips and bonds? |
| A01645 | Poore thou camest into the world, and poore must thou go out: And why should the middle differ from the beginning and the end? |
| A01645 | Pray with fervencie: For how canst thou desire that God should heare thee, when thou hearest not thy self? |
| A01645 | Remember thy Creatour: Who created thee without thee? |
| A01645 | Riches do either forsake thee, or thou dost forsake them: If therefore thou puttest thy trust in riches, what will be thy hope at the houre of death? |
| A01645 | Shall nature be more powerfull then God, who hath promised that our bodies shall rise again? |
| A01645 | Shall we for their departure kill our selves with immoderate grief, when as they do enjoy the fellowship of the angels, and true solid joy? |
| A01645 | Shall we for their sakes weep and wail, when as they sing a new song of the Lambe, having harps and golden phials? |
| A01645 | Shall we grieve that they are departed from the earth, when they themselves rejoyce that they are departed? |
| A01645 | Shall we macerate our selves with tears and sighs for their sakes, when as God hath wiped all tears from their eyes? |
| A01645 | Shall we make God a liar, and labour by the weight of our sinnes to bear down his mercy? |
| A01645 | Sinnes are dead works: If thou walkest in dead works, how dost thou live in Christ, and Christ in thee? |
| A01645 | Sinnes belong to the old flesh: If thou walkest in the old flesh, how doth the new man live in thee? |
| A01645 | Sinnes belong unto the old Adam: If the old Adam doth still reigne in thee, how art thou spiritually risen with Christ? |
| A01645 | That life shall be mortiferous, and that death shall be immortall: If it be life, why doth it kill? |
| A01645 | The covetous man is a most foolish man: Wherefore? |
| A01645 | The covetous man is a most unjust man: Wherefore? |
| A01645 | The covetous man is a most unthankfull man: Wherefore? |
| A01645 | The creatures themselves crie, Why do ye cleave unto us? |
| A01645 | The devils treacheries who knows? |
| A01645 | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdome: How then can heavenly wisdome be there, where the fear of God hath no place? |
| A01645 | The fountain of mans felicitie and misery is in his minde: What doth it profit a man in a burning fever to lie upon a bed of gold? |
| A01645 | The heavens of heavens are not clean in thy sight: What am I then that drink iniquitie like water? |
| A01645 | The just man shall scarce be saved: Whither then shall the sinner thus taken unawares betake himself? |
| A01645 | The passion of Christ had not profited us, unlesse by the gospel it had been preached unto us; For what use is there of a treasure that is hid? |
| A01645 | These so many and so great and treacherous assaults and fallacies I can not foresee: How much lesse then shall I be able of my self to escape them? |
| A01645 | They are vigilant: And dost thou sleep? |
| A01645 | They make themselves ready to hurt: And dost not thou make thy self ready to resist? |
| A01645 | This life is the way to our eternall countrey: What then do much riches profit? |
| A01645 | This life passeth away in a shadow, my dayes are measured out, and my substance is even as nothing in thy sight: What then is my hope? |
| A01645 | Thou art my brother: And what canst thou deny unto me, seeing thou art most nearly joyned unto me in the same flesh and affection of brotherly love? |
| A01645 | Thou camest, O Jesus, to save that which was lost: How then canst thou condemn him that desires to be saved? |
| A01645 | Thou didst drink of the brook of passions in the way: Why then should I deny to drink a small draught out of the cup of the crosse? |
| A01645 | Thou diedst for the sinnes of the whole world: How then hast thou not died for mine also? |
| A01645 | Thou hast created me: How then can the workmanship of thy hands be dissolved? |
| A01645 | Thou hast redeemed me from all mine enemies: How then can death have rule over me? |
| A01645 | Thou heardst an enemie before he prayed unto thee, and how canst thou despise thy friend which comes unto thee with prayers and tears? |
| A01645 | Thou must give an account for filthy speeches: How much more then for impure actions? |
| A01645 | Thou must give an account for unprofitable words: And how much more then for filthy speeches? |
| A01645 | Thou ● idst fulfill the will of thy Father in all things: How then wilt thou not fulfill it in saving me miserable sinner? |
| A01645 | To love sinne, is to love the devil; because all sinne is from the devil: How then can he that is a lover of the devil, be a lover of Christ? |
| A01645 | To what shall our soul cleave unto at death, when we must leave all worldly things? |
| A01645 | WHy art thou troubled, O my soul, and why d ● st thou still doubt of the mercie of God? |
| A01645 | Was it not the Lord? |
| A01645 | Were it not absurd for me to take no pitie upon man that is like unto my self, and to ask of thee, Lord, remission of my sinnes? |
| A01645 | What Christian will he spare, when he sought to winnow Christs apostles themselves like wheat? |
| A01645 | What after death? |
| A01645 | What am I worm that thou shouldest be so prodigally bountifull for saving me? |
| A01645 | What am I worm, that thou shouldest be so solicitous for redeeming me? |
| A01645 | What are the afflictions of the godly? |
| A01645 | What are these earthly things? |
| A01645 | What are we stubble to that consuming fire? |
| A01645 | What can be more miserable then so to die that thou mayest alwayes live, and so to live that thou mayest alwayes die? |
| A01645 | What can the elect desire beside the fruition of the sight of God? |
| A01645 | What can the world with her hatred do against me, if thy grace like a buckler protect me? |
| A01645 | What can then more plainly prove his mercie, then that he loved us, when as yet we were not? |
| A01645 | What can there be wanting there? |
| A01645 | What canst thou say more of the praise and glory given by men, then of Apelles his commended picture? |
| A01645 | What could make him to do all these things? |
| A01645 | What couldest thou, O Lord, have done more for us, or what could we have done more against thee? |
| A01645 | What doth it profit a man t ● ● mented with the firebrands of an ● ● conscience, to enjoy all outward felicitie? |
| A01645 | What doth it profit thee to live in all abundance and plenty, and to be tormented with the whip of conscience? |
| A01645 | What doth it profit thee, if all men commend the ● ● and thy conscience accuse thee? |
| A01645 | What else remains there, but that with serious prayers and sighs I commend it unto thy custodie, and daily pray unto thee for increase of the same? |
| A01645 | What else shall the fire devoure but thy sinnes? |
| A01645 | What escape can there be there, where it is the witnesse that accuseth, and where nothing can be hid from him that judgeth? |
| A01645 | What eternitie is, we do not perfectly know; and it is no wonder: For what created minde can comprehend that which can not be measured by any time? |
| A01645 | What evil can be wanting to them who are punished for the greatest evil,& that is sinne? |
| A01645 | What fierie darts of the devil can be so deadly, that they can not be quenched in this fountain of divine grace? |
| A01645 | What fruit canst thou expect of thy labours, unlesse thou dost first worship him, without whose blessing all labour is unprofitable? |
| A01645 | What had it profited us to have been born, unlesse by Christ thou hadst delivered us when we were captivated through sinne? |
| A01645 | What had it profited us to have been redeemed, unlesse thou hadst by thy word declared unto us the great benefit of our redemption? |
| A01645 | What hath conjoyned the most just God and wretched sinners? |
| A01645 | What hath conjoyned them being infinitely distant one from the other? |
| A01645 | What hath the momentanie pleasure of the flesh, and store of false riches profited? |
| A01645 | What have these things profited the lovers of the world after death, to wit, Vain glory, short pleasure, slender power? |
| A01645 | What is a bubble? |
| A01645 | What is a man the better for being reputed great by man? |
| A01645 | What is man? |
| A01645 | What is man? |
| A01645 | What is mans righteousnes, but the cloth of a menstruous woman? |
| A01645 | What is more glorious then God, and more frail then man? |
| A01645 | What is more powerfull then God, and weaker then man? |
| A01645 | What is so nearly conjoyned unto him as flesh and bloud? |
| A01645 | What is there in heaven or in earth of more price and excellency, then that body which is united to thy Sonne personally? |
| A01645 | What is this life? |
| A01645 | What is thy life? |
| A01645 | What joy can there be in this life, when that which delighteth passeth away, and that never passeth away which tormenteth? |
| A01645 | What profiteth it thee to rejoyce for a moment,& to lament for ever? |
| A01645 | What shall it hurt me though all men should persecute me with hatred, if thou my God dost embrace me with love? |
| A01645 | What shall it hurt thee, if all men detract from thee, and thy conscience defend thee? |
| A01645 | What shall the reprobate suffer, if such be the sufferings of his best beloved? |
| A01645 | What should it profit a man, to be free from his sicknesse, and presently to fall into a worse relapse? |
| A01645 | What should it profit, to be absolved from sinnes past, unlesse grace be conferred to lead a godly life? |
| A01645 | What sinne is so great, that the quickning flesh of Christ can not heal? |
| A01645 | What sinne so mortall, that is not taken away by the death of the Sonne of God? |
| A01645 | What so great stain of the conscience, that this bloud can not purge? |
| A01645 | What then can be added to this felicitie? |
| A01645 | What thing is there necessary for my salvation which he shall not obtain, seeing that he hath bestowed himself to merit salvation for me? |
| A01645 | What thing present can delight us, when other things do passe away, but that which hangeth over our heads, doth never passe away? |
| A01645 | What to be desired, or expected, where God shall be all in all? |
| A01645 | What true joy then can a man have in this life, when there is in it no certain felicitie? |
| A01645 | What use were there of a treasure that is hid, and a light that is put under a bushel? |
| A01645 | What was reputed by the Jews more base and vile then the passion of Christ? |
| A01645 | What wast thou before thou wast brought forth? |
| A01645 | What were then my deserts? |
| A01645 | What will the Father denie unto his Sonne who became ob ● dient unto him unto death, even the death of the crosse? |
| A01645 | What will the Father denie unto his Sonne, seeing that long ago he hath accepted the price of our redemption paid by him? |
| A01645 | What wonder is it if the holy Ghost be sent from the court of heaven to sanctifie us, seeing that the Sonne was sent to redeem us? |
| A01645 | What? |
| A01645 | What? |
| A01645 | Whatsoever we love, we love either for power, or wisdome, or beauty: And what is more powerfull then God? |
| A01645 | When shall I appeare before thy face? |
| A01645 | When shall I enter into thee, that I may see my God that dwelleth in thee? |
| A01645 | When shall the time come that I may in that temple worship my God, that is, God in God? |
| A01645 | When thou hearest that the infernall lion lies in wait for thee; doest thou sleep soundly on both eares? |
| A01645 | Where are they now, that not many dayes ago were here with us? |
| A01645 | Where then is there securitie in this life? |
| A01645 | Where then shall our soul finde peace and rest? |
| A01645 | Wherefore then art thou proud, O earth and ashes? |
| A01645 | Wherefore then dost thou so cleave unto the simple creatures? |
| A01645 | Wherefore? |
| A01645 | Wherefore? |
| A01645 | Wherefore? |
| A01645 | Wherefore? |
| A01645 | Whither then shall I flie? |
| A01645 | Whither then shall I fly, or to whom shall I go, but unto thee, O Lord? |
| A01645 | Who also can conceive the greatnesse of this mysterie? |
| A01645 | Who am I, most beautifull Bridegroom, that for me the most filthy vassal of sinne, and whore of the devil, thou hast not refused to die? |
| A01645 | Who am I, most bountifull Creatour, that for me most vile creature, thou hast not been afraid of the passion of the crosse? |
| A01645 | Who am I, most mighty Lord, that for me disobedient servant, thou thy self wouldst become a servant so many yeares? |
| A01645 | Who can choose but admire this? |
| A01645 | Who can choose but be astonished at it? |
| A01645 | Who can conceive the greatnes of this mystery? |
| A01645 | Who can enumerate those divers species of herbs which thou dost every yeare cause the earth to bring forth, to cure us? |
| A01645 | Who can in words comprehend those sundry kindes of living creatures, which were made for mans use, and do yet all serve him? |
| A01645 | Who can in words expresse, or in thought conceive the greatnesse of this mystery? |
| A01645 | Who can reckon up the sinnes of his youth? |
| A01645 | Who can reckon up those divers kindes of nutriments, which thou hast created, and dost as yet produce out of the earth unto this day to nourish us? |
| A01645 | Who can sufficiently in words expresse those bowels of thy mercy? |
| A01645 | Who can tell how oft he offendeth? |
| A01645 | Who can therefore reckon up the riches of thy bounty? |
| A01645 | Who can worthily set forth with praises this honour of the blessed? |
| A01645 | Who ever hated his own flesh? |
| A01645 | Who ever hated his own flesh? |
| A01645 | Who formed thy body in secret in the lower parts of the earth? |
| A01645 | Who is he that is called the Angel of great counsel? |
| A01645 | Who knows how oft he offendeth? |
| A01645 | Who knows how oft he offendeth? |
| A01645 | Who knows how oft he offendeth? |
| A01645 | Who knows the sorrow of the heart, that is in a great strait by reason of offences? |
| A01645 | Who put his hand under thee? |
| A01645 | Who took care of thee when thou wast not? |
| A01645 | Whom dost thou fear as the punisher of thy sinnes but the Lord, who himself made satisfaction for thy sinnes? |
| A01645 | Why art thou troubled O my soul? |
| A01645 | Why do I so much lift up my self, when as the yoke of sinne doth so keep me down? |
| A01645 | Why do they imitate the furie of wolves, when as they know that the bloud of Christ the immaculate Lambe was poured 〈 ◊ 〉 for us? |
| A01645 | Why dost thou stick then to preferre povertie before worldly riches, when as Christ preferred it before heavenly riches? |
| A01645 | Why doth worldly honour delight thee? |
| A01645 | Why is not our love of God perfect in this life? |
| A01645 | Why is the divel most unhappy? |
| A01645 | Why saith the Apostle, that we know but in a glasse? |
| A01645 | Why should I be afraid of them that kill the body, but can not kill the soul? |
| A01645 | Why should I be loth to be made conformable unto thy sorrowfull image in this life? |
| A01645 | Why then dost thou defile thy self with so many and such grievous sinnes? |
| A01645 | Why then dost thou desire here an abiding place? |
| A01645 | Why then dost thou fear death? |
| A01645 | Why then dost thou not desire, that this earthly house of thy dwelling may be dissolved? |
| A01645 | Why then dost thou not provide for thy self, that thou beest not found naked? |
| A01645 | Why then dost thou so cleave unto the old? |
| A01645 | Why then dost thou so much desire things temporall? |
| A01645 | Why therefore do I being a man harbour anger against man, and presume to ask pardon of thee, who art Lord of heaven and earth? |
| A01645 | Why therefore do we deferre our repentance? |
| A01645 | Why therefore is the ship of my heart, in which Christ is carried by faith, so often tossed up and down with storms and waves of doubtings? |
| A01645 | Why? |
| A01645 | Why? |
| A01645 | Why? |
| A01645 | Why? |
| A01645 | Will he condemn those, for whom he died? |
| A01645 | Will he condemn those, for whom he hath intreated? |
| A01645 | Will he condemn those, whom he calleth his friends? |
| A01645 | With what face canst thou behold the sunne, unlesse thou dost first worship him, who sends that most pleasant light for thee to look upon? |
| A01645 | With what hope darest thou commit thy self unto the darknesse of the night, unlesse thou dost first arm thy self by prayer? |
| A01645 | Without Christ there is no rest to the soul: But what was the life of Christ? |
| A01645 | Wouldest thou be made partaker of the Creatour? |
| A01645 | Wouldest thou every day converse with God? |
| A01645 | Wouldest thou have God mindfull of thee, when thou art not mindfull of thy self? |
| A01645 | Wouldest thou have a place in the new heaven, and the new earth? |
| A01645 | Wouldest thou offer an acceptable sacrifice unto God? |
| A01645 | Wouldest thou perform an acceptable office unto Christ? |
| A01645 | Wouldest thou taste how sweet the Lord is? |
| A01645 | Yea, who can in minde conceive the worthines thereof? |
| A01645 | and if it be death, why doth it alwayes endure? |
| A01645 | and what harm can happen to those that are saved? |
| A01645 | and why do we procrastinate it from day to day? |
| A01645 | from whom shall I seek counsel? |
| A01645 | how shall I be able to escape them? |
| A01645 | how shall I be able to stand? |
| A01645 | or dost thou think that it draweth nearer, because thou thinkest upon it? |
| A01645 | shall we be sorrowfull that our friends are delivered out of their bonds and set at libertie? |
| A01645 | shall we for their sakes put on black mourning clothes, when as they have put on white robes? |
| A01645 | what else can we desire, or expect beyond salvation? |
| A01645 | what good thing can be present to them, who are removed from the chiefest good, and that is God? |
| A01645 | what is more beautifull then God? |
| A01645 | what is more wise then God? |
| A01645 | when shall it be that I shall enter into thy temple? |
| A01645 | when will that sunne rise upon me, which enlightneth that holy city? |
| A01645 | when will the time come that thou wilt lead me to the solemnitie of thy marriage? |
| A01645 | why do I so desire to be extolled in the world, seeing that there is nothing in the world to be desired? |
| A01645 | why do ye place the end of your desire in us? |
| A01645 | will not he have care of thee, now he hath made thee after his own image? |
| A01645 | yea, who can in minde conceive the greatnesse,& the riches of thy goodnesse? |
| A39665 | ( For what fruit can be expected, where there are none to till the ground?) |
| A39665 | ( i. e.) Are they in honour? |
| A39665 | * and yet do I think it much to be tossed up and down by the furious winds and storms of persecution? |
| A39665 | 11. or hast thou found the work of God so unpleasant to thee? |
| A39665 | 17. but miserable is their condition; notwithstanding their impunity; for what is the interpretation but this? |
| A39665 | 17. or the trade of godliness so unprofitable? |
| A39665 | 34. or doth my diligence for God, answer to that which Christ hath done and suffered, to purchase my happiness? |
| A39665 | 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? |
| A39665 | 7. and shall not I pant after God? |
| A39665 | ANd is this so? |
| A39665 | Ah my soul how didst thou work, strive, and cast about, how to recover thy self again? |
| A39665 | Ah, what a cut would that be to all my comforts? |
| A39665 | Ah, what have I done? |
| A39665 | All creatures their delights, and Saints not theirs? |
| A39665 | All the world is alive in their wayes, every creature injoyes his proper pleasure; and is there no delight to be found in the paths of holiness? |
| A39665 | Am I a Sea, or a Whale? |
| A39665 | Am I joyned to the Lord as mystical part, or branch of him; how dear art thou then, O my soul, to the God and father of my Lord Iesus Christ? |
| A39665 | Am I then a cloud? |
| A39665 | And are the corruptions of my heart to grace, what fowls, weeds, and mildews are to the corn? |
| A39665 | And beside all this, how many difficult things are there to be born and suffered for Christ? |
| A39665 | And can not a Christian find any work to do for God, till be come to heaven? |
| A39665 | And canst thou 7 bear it? |
| A39665 | And canst thou think that from corruptions root, Thy soul shall pluck the sweet and pleasant fruit Of spiritual peace? |
| A39665 | And hath not God more care of that precious seed of his own spirit in thee, than any Husbandman hath of his corn? |
| A39665 | And how inconsiderable a matter is a little time, which contracts and winds up apace? |
| A39665 | And how little better is my case, who have indeed professed Religion, but never made it my business? |
| A39665 | And how little better is my condition? |
| A39665 | And if so, Lord, what a hell will my hell be? |
| A39665 | And in this little heaven- inlightned spot, How vast an interest hath Satan got? |
| A39665 | And is it so indeed? |
| A39665 | And is not this also my preparation time for glory? |
| A39665 | And is this indeed the friendship of the world? |
| A39665 | And oh, what a sad consideration will this be one day to such a person, to think, I helped such a soul to heaven, while I my self must lodg in hell? |
| A39665 | And what argument is like his pity and patience, to lead a soul to repentance? |
| A39665 | And what may I think of my condition? |
| A39665 | And when all this is done, what a multitude of work do his several relations exact from him? |
| A39665 | And where may we expect to find God, but in the Assemblies of his Saints? |
| A39665 | And why wilt thou thy self, and those That are so dear, to want expose? |
| A39665 | Angels and men shall discern it, and say, Lo, this is the man that made not God his hope; how shall I abide the day of his coming? |
| A39665 | Are they not laid waste, and trodden down by infidels? |
| A39665 | Are weeds destroyed, and all that danger past? |
| A39665 | Are you come from the Pulpit to the Plow? |
| A39665 | Art thou able with truth to deny this charge? |
| A39665 | As soon as ever the trembling Iaylor cryed out, What shall I do to be saved? |
| A39665 | As soon as you are up in a morning, you are with your beasts before you have been with your God; how little do such differ from beasts? |
| A39665 | Awake love and zeal, feest thou not the toyl and pains men take for the world? |
| A39665 | BUt how much greater cause have the people of God to address themselves unto his work, with all cheerfulness of spirit? |
| A39665 | Be man or devil the apothecary, God''s the Physician; who can then miscarry In such a hand? |
| A39665 | Besides how easie will my conviction be at the Bar of Christ? |
| A39665 | But art not thou mean while, the veriest fool; That pamper''st beasts, and starv''st thy precious soul? |
| A39665 | But do they 1 equal cares fears express About their everlasting happiness? |
| A39665 | But how doth my sloathful soul sink down into the flesh, and settle it self in the love of this animal life? |
| A39665 | But rests he here? |
| A39665 | But say my soul, why are the thoughts of parting with it so burdensom to thee? |
| A39665 | But thou my soul, whose Summers day is almost past and gone; What soul- provision dost thou 5 lay in 6 stock, to spend upon? |
| A39665 | But will God leave his poor creatures helpless in such a case as this? |
| A39665 | CAn a little Corn cause men to digest so many difficult labours, and make them wait with invincible patience till the reaping time come? |
| A39665 | Can I pierce into the heart as God? |
| A39665 | Can any life compare with this for pleasure? |
| A39665 | Can they be chill, that walk in the Sun- shine? |
| A39665 | Corn Land must neither be too fat, nor poor? |
| A39665 | DOth my prosperity fat me up for hell, and prepare me for the day of slaughter? |
| A39665 | Deluded soul, thy seed is no better than what the moral Heathens sowed; and do I expect better fruit than what they reaped? |
| A39665 | Deluded wretch, will naught but fight And sence convince thee? |
| A39665 | Did they torment you ere your day? |
| A39665 | Did you not know I had a soul that must"Live, 6 when this body was resolv''d to dust?" |
| A39665 | Do I say, a greater honour than is put upon the Kings of the Earth? |
| A39665 | Do gracious souls 2 melt, mourn and weep for sin? |
| A39665 | Do not those spots appear upon me, which ● re not the spots of his children? |
| A39665 | Do these clash and push? |
| A39665 | Do they pant after the dust of the earth? |
| A39665 | Do you behold when you sit by the fire, the froth that boyles out of those flaming logs? |
| A39665 | Doth God whirl about the heavens in endless revolutions, to beget time for this? |
| A39665 | Doth he not know thy life would be altogether useless to him, if he should not restore thee? |
| A39665 | Doth it not tell me, that the Lord is not willing I should perish, but rather come to repentance? |
| A39665 | Doth it ● hus use them whom once it honoured? |
| A39665 | Doth not his excellency which is in him, go away? |
| A39665 | Doth not pride, passion, covetousness, and indeed the whole body of ● in live and thrive in me as much as ever? |
| A39665 | Doth not the scripture describe the Saints by their earnest looking for the mercy of our Lord Iesus unto eternal life? |
| A39665 | Doth the Spirit of God convince the consciences of his people, of the evil of sin? |
| A39665 | Doth the Spirit of the Lord produce that glorious and supernatural work of faith, in convinced and humbled souls? |
| A39665 | Doth the spungy earth so greedily suck up the showers, and open as many mouths as there are clefts in it, to receive what the clouds despense? |
| A39665 | Doth the work of faith in some believers bear upon its top branches, the full ripe fruits of a blessed assurance? |
| A39665 | Doth true conviction and compunction work reformation of life, in the people of God? |
| A39665 | Est ubi plus tapeant hyems? |
| A39665 | Feeding beasts grow wanton in their full pastures; there you shall see them tumble and frisk? |
| A39665 | First, Is my obedience uniform? |
| A39665 | Foolish birds, was it not enough that birds of prey watched to devour them, but they must peck and scratch one another? |
| A39665 | Foolish soul, hath God given thee a body for a living tool or instrument, and art thou afraid to use it? |
| A39665 | For one poor shilling, O, what resks some run? |
| A39665 | For, Is he not thy father, and a father ● ull of compassions and bowels? |
| A39665 | Fye( quoth he) will not death be hired? |
| A39665 | Give me neither Poverty nor Riches, but feed me with food convenient for me, least I be full and deny thee? |
| A39665 | HOw great a sin is ingratitude to God, for such a common, but choice mercy of Creation, and provision for me in this world? |
| A39665 | HOw hard have I laboured for the meat that perisheth? |
| A39665 | HOw have I rejoyced in a thing of nought, and pleased my self with a vanity? |
| A39665 | HOw is it reader? |
| A39665 | HOw is this Tree batter''d with stones, and loaded with sticks that have been thrown at it? |
| A39665 | HOw many a weary step through mire and dirt hath this poor Dog followed my horse to day? |
| A39665 | HOw much care is necessary to preserve the life of some Flowers? |
| A39665 | HOw often have I passed by such barren trees, with a more barren heart? |
| A39665 | HOw unlike am I to God, in the afflicting of his people? |
| A39665 | Had I imployed that time in communion with God, would it not have turn''d to a better account? |
| A39665 | Happy art thou, O Israel, who is like unto thee? |
| A39665 | Hast thou here a continuing City? |
| A39665 | Hast thou not many times said, and thought of it, as thou dost now, and and yet it lives? |
| A39665 | Hath he not said, I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish? |
| A39665 | Hath not God made of one bloud, all the Nations of men, to dwell on the face of the earth? |
| A39665 | Hath thou not seen lively flames proceed from glimmering and dying sparks, when carefully collected and blown up? |
| A39665 | Have 5 instruments, their sweet melodious airs? |
| A39665 | Have not my discourses in communion with the Saints been Trade words, speaking what I have learnt, but not felt? |
| A39665 | Have not self ends, and worldly respects lain at the bottom of my best duties? |
| A39665 | Have they their 4 comforts, joyes, and raptures sweet? |
| A39665 | Have you observ''d in Autumn, 2 thistle- down By howling Enrus scatter''d up and down About the fields? |
| A39665 | He had rather, if God see it fit, to avoid both these extreams; but what would he have then? |
| A39665 | Heark, how his bowels yearn? |
| A39665 | How are they 5 baffled by a subtil devil? |
| A39665 | How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? |
| A39665 | How can we THEN Christ''s pay expect, And yet the CHRISTIANS work reject? |
| A39665 | How dear hath this inheritance of truth cost some Christians? |
| A39665 | How did I sigh and weep before him, and like Ephraim, smite upon my thigh, saying, What have I done? |
| A39665 | How did his company shorten those hours, and beguile the tediousness of the night? |
| A39665 | How did the Christians of Antioch also weep and lament, when Paul was taking his farewell of them? |
| A39665 | How did they fil the Aire with heavenly melody, when sent to bring the joyful tydings of a Saviour to the world? |
| A39665 | How did you spend your thoughts, time, care and cost"About my body? |
| A39665 | How do the Scriptures abound with Parables, and lively similitudes taken from Husbandry? |
| A39665 | How doth it hug, and wrap up it self in the garment of this mortality, not desiring to be removed hence, to the more perfect and blessed state? |
| A39665 | How drowsie, dull, and careless have they been under the most excellent and quickning means? |
| A39665 | How few are able to improve their civil imployments to such excellent ends? |
| A39665 | How few escape thi ● Fat, of all those multitudes that grew in the Orchard? |
| A39665 | How have I also been deceived in this matter? |
| A39665 | How is the judgment of Corah spiritually executed upon me? |
| A39665 | How is the soul now disquieted and tortured with cares and troubles, to provide for a perishing body? |
| A39665 | How lightly have I esteemed the great things of the Gospel? |
| A39665 | How little ease or rest have they? |
| A39665 | How long did Ierusalem remain, after that voice was heard in the Temple, migremu ● hinc? |
| A39665 | How long did Sodom''s judgment stay? |
| A39665 | How long remain''d that stately Hall, When Sampson made the pillars fall? |
| A39665 | How many brave Ships have perished in the storms, notwithstanding their fine names, the Prosperous, the Success, the Happy return? |
| A39665 | How many cases ave you to submit, To Lawyers judgments? |
| A39665 | How many pebbles to one pearl? |
| A39665 | How many refre ● hments and comforts hath God provided for us, of which they are uncapable? |
| A39665 | How many weak languishing graces hath he to recover, improve, and strengthen? |
| A39665 | How many young persons are called, to one obdurate, inveterate sinner? |
| A39665 | How much more should we be ravished with Sion''s glory? |
| A39665 | How often have I seen them fainting under their loads? |
| A39665 | How ready are they to serve such as feed and cherish them? |
| A39665 | How ready did I find him to receive my poor soul into his protection? |
| A39665 | How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? |
| A39665 | How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange land? |
| A39665 | How should the hearts of Saints within them spring, When they behold 3 the messengers that bring These gladsom tydings? |
| A39665 | How soon are all Gods former benefits forgotten? |
| A39665 | How unlike am I to what once I was? |
| A39665 | I can not chuse but live, because I dye And when I am not dead how glad am I? |
| A39665 | I confess I have too much chaff about me, but yet I am not altogether chaff? |
| A39665 | I have indeed often felt an aking head, whilst I have read and studied to increase my knowledge; but when did I feel an aking heart for Sin? |
| A39665 | I have often trembled for fear, lest my root had been blasted by such a curse; but if so, whence is this trembling? |
| A39665 | I have surely heard Ephraim bem ● aning himself, it not Ephraim my dear son? |
| A39665 | I may pass hasty and headlong censures upon others, but where is my commission for so doing? |
| A39665 | I might have said, it''s a greater honour than is put upon the Angels of heaven? |
| A39665 | I remember my fault this day? |
| A39665 | INgenious Sir, what do I see? |
| A39665 | IS it so indeed betwixt Christ and my soul, as it is betwixt the ingraffed cyence and the stock? |
| A39665 | If God had any work to be done, how readily did I offer my service? |
| A39665 | If God restrain the showers, you howl and cry; Shall saints not mourn, when spiritual clouds are dry? |
| A39665 | If God shut up a man, who can open? |
| A39665 | If an Husbandman upon the ordinary principles of reason can wait for the Harvest, shall not I wait for the Coming of the Lord? |
| A39665 | If every duty were to be rewarded presently with gold, would I not have been more assiduous in them, than I have been? |
| A39665 | If others knew but what I know of my self, would they not judge as severely of me, as I do of others? |
| A39665 | If then he should not reap and mow, and 3 gather in his store; How should he live, when for the snow he ca n''t move out of door? |
| A39665 | If there were NOUGHT besides that pay, Christ gives TO cheer us in our way; Should we not DO the best we can? |
| A39665 | If you ask what present advantage Christians have by their diligence? |
| A39665 | Industrious spirit, to what a rich account With thy blest Lord, will all these labours mount? |
| A39665 | Is any thing too hard for the Lord? |
| A39665 | Is corn so dear to Husbandmen? |
| A39665 | Is godliness only a dry root, that bears no pleasant fruits? |
| A39665 | Is it any pain for a bird to flye? |
| A39665 | Is it not better go to heaven alone, than to hell with company? |
| A39665 | Is it not easier think''st thou, to recover a languishing man to health, than a dead man to life? |
| A39665 | Is it not, because my unbelief is so great? |
| A39665 | Is it so dangerous to neglect a present proper season of grace? |
| A39665 | Is my heart so much in heaven now, as it was wo nt to be? |
| A39665 | Is not a true jewel, though spurn''din the dirt, more precious than a false one, though set in gold? |
| A39665 | Is not this enough to damp all my carnal mirth? |
| A39665 | Is the Gospel indeed departed? |
| A39665 | Is the Gospel rain, and its Ministers clouds? |
| A39665 | Is the Lord''s Wheat thus threshed in the floor of affliction? |
| A39665 | Is the eye tired with beautiful objects? |
| A39665 | Is the famine of the word such a fearful judgment? |
| A39665 | Is there such a fanning time coming; why do not I then sift my heart every day, by serious self- examination? |
| A39665 | Is this a time for one to stand idle, who stands at the door of eternity? |
| A39665 | Is this body thy old and dear friend? |
| A39665 | Is this the end of thy wonderful creation? |
| A39665 | Is this the fruit of sin? |
| A39665 | Is thy obedience to the commands of Christ, and motions to duty, as free and cheerful as they were wo nt to be? |
| A39665 | It is not reasonable and just,( O my soul) that thou shouldest eat the fruit of thine own planting, and reap what thou hast sown? |
| A39665 | Iust so it is in a famine of the Word; poor Christians every- where sighing and crying, O where are our godly Ministers? |
| A39665 | Lastly, Canst thou( my soul) rejoyce and bless God for the grace imparted to others? |
| A39665 | Let him say with holy dying Musculus, Why tremblest thou( O my soul) to go forth of this Tabernacle to the Land of rest? |
| A39665 | Lord what shall I do? |
| A39665 | Lord, I have gone forth bearing more precious ● eed that they; when shall I return rejoyceing, bringing my sheaves with me? |
| A39665 | Lord, Lord, have we not prophecyed in thy name? |
| A39665 | Lord, how have I been elated by my gifts and valued my self above what was meet? |
| A39665 | Lord, what a dismal case am I in? |
| A39665 | Lord, what am 7 I, that thou shouldst set thine eyes and still seek after such a wretch as I? |
| A39665 | Lord, what hast thou prepared for them that love thee? |
| A39665 | Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest; but how doth my heart faulter when I must encounter with the difficulties of the way? |
| A39665 | May at another time lye mourning as at the gates of death, crying, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? |
| A39665 | May not the very heathens make me blush? |
| A39665 | May we not this day read our sin in our punishment? |
| A39665 | Must God make all my earthly comforts die, before I shall be willing to die? |
| A39665 | My head hath often aked with study, but when did my heart ake for sin? |
| A39665 | My spirit shall no longer strive with them; and then what sweetness is there in Odinances? |
| A39665 | No musick so sweet as that Say, O my consicience, have I not delighted more in the Theater, than the closet? |
| A39665 | Now what lust hath fallen before these excellent parts of mine? |
| A39665 | Now, what is beauty, but a symetry and proportion of parts? |
| A39665 | O What a 1 dull, despondent heart is mine? |
| A39665 | O Why so free of sweat and time? |
| A39665 | O dear- bought inheritance, how much doth this bespeak its worth? |
| A39665 | O how right How just is God? |
| A39665 | O how righteous will that sentence of God be? |
| A39665 | O let my soul detest Unsoundness? |
| A39665 | O my soul, what want''st thou here, to provoke thy delight? |
| A39665 | O prize such mercies, if you ask me why? |
| A39665 | O rus, quando te ad spiciam? |
| A39665 | O sad relaspe? |
| A39665 | O what nice and wanton appetites, what curious and itching ears, had thy people in the dayes of plenty? |
| A39665 | O what would we give for one of those Sermons, one of those Sabbaths we formerly enjoyed? |
| A39665 | O when a poor damned creature shall with horror reflect upon himself in hell, how near was I once under such a Sermon, to conversion? |
| A39665 | O who can say now all the danger''s past? |
| A39665 | O, how much of my time and strength have these things devoured? |
| A39665 | O, then, how little cause have I to make my boast of Ordinances, and glory in my external priviledges, who never bear spiritual fruit under them? |
| A39665 | O, what full estates? |
| A39665 | O, what is the reason( my God) my delight in thee should be so little? |
| A39665 | O, when shall I come and appear before God? |
| A39665 | Of all the clusters which so lately grew Upon these trees, how few can they now shew? |
| A39665 | Oh, how many evidences dost thou produce against me? |
| A39665 | Oh, what a world of work hath a Christian about them? |
| A39665 | Or can the Sun be dark, when glow- worms glitter? |
| A39665 | Or end the line of honour? |
| A39665 | Or fruitful Grapes from off the worthless twigs Of pricking thorns? |
| A39665 | Or have I gotten into a pleasant condition in the world which makes me say as Peter on the Mount, It''s good to be here? |
| A39665 | Or knowest thou not, that millions now in hell perished for want of serious diligence in Religion? |
| A39665 | Or pour in Balm, when wounds do bleed? |
| A39665 | Or richer, than to enjoy but little of it, and live above it? |
| A39665 | Or want I the assurance of a better state? |
| A39665 | Our sweet Sabbaths, Sermons, Sacraments, my Fathers, my Fathers, the Chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof? |
| A39665 | Quis talia fando, temperet a lachrymis? |
| A39665 | Saving Conviction extends it self to all sins, not only to sin in general, with this cold conf ● ssion, I am a ● ● nner? |
| A39665 | Secondly, Doth that which I call grace in me, oppose and mortifie, or doth it not rather quietly consist with, and protect my lusts and corruptions? |
| A39665 | Shall God''s Husbandry, which is so planted, watered, fenced, filled with favours and mercies, be like the barren heath in the desert? |
| A39665 | Shall I boast, that with Capernaum, I am lifted up to heaven, since I may with her at last be cast down to hell? |
| A39665 | Shall a man of such parts be damned? |
| A39665 | Shall he be so patient, and endure so much for a little Corn? |
| A39665 | Shall horses run upon the Rock? |
| A39665 | Shall others WORK, and not regard Their strength; TO get a small reward? |
| A39665 | Shall their leaf fall, their branches wither, their joy, their life, their heart depart? |
| A39665 | Shall things unseen now tempt thee? |
| A39665 | Should every age but serve its turn, and take No thought for future times? |
| A39665 | THough the labours of Husbandmen are very great and toylsom, yet with what cheerfulness do they go through them? |
| A39665 | TO what purpose then do I glory in my natural accomplishments? |
| A39665 | The Christian finds not his heart in the morning, as he left it at night; and even when he is about his work, how many set- backs doth he meet with? |
| A39665 | The Husbandman indeed is content to stay till the appointed weeks of the Harvest; but would he be content to wait alwayes? |
| A39665 | The Husbandman longs for his Harvest, because it is the reward of all his toyl and labour; but what is his harvest to mine? |
| A39665 | The Lord asked him, who was his Harbinger? |
| A39665 | The School- men put the question, how the Angels and glorified Saints become impeccant? |
| A39665 | The expence of your sweat fills your purses, you get estates by your diligence and labour; but what are your gains to the gains of Christians? |
| A39665 | The new faln Lambs 3 will in a Sun- shine day, About their feeeding dams jump up and play Are 4 Cisterns sweet? |
| A39665 | The plowman sings and whistles though he sweat, Shall Christians droop, because their work is great? |
| A39665 | Then i ● comes to the foot of God voluntarily; but in an exalted condition, how wildly doth my heart run from God and duty? |
| A39665 | Then where''s that lovely tempting face? |
| A39665 | These sins seemed pleasant in the commission, but O, how bitter will they be in their account? |
| A39665 | Thirdly, Doth that which I call my grace, humble, empty and abase my soul? |
| A39665 | This is an unknown trade, Oh, who can count, To what the gains of godliness amount? |
| A39665 | This question( saith he) may undergo a threefold construction; First, thus: Who can bring a morally clean person, out of a person originally unclean? |
| A39665 | Though some profane persons may say with Pilate, What is truth? |
| A39665 | Though they and we were made of the same mould and clay, yet how much better hath God dealt with us, even as to the outward man? |
| A39665 | To God he may say, I am cast out of thy sight; I know thou canst do much, but wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? |
| A39665 | To conclude, what a serious Reflection should this occasion in every dispenser of the Gospel? |
| A39665 | To his condition, for what is a Saint but a Stranger and Pilgrim upon earth, a man in a strange Countrey travelling homeward? |
| A39665 | To the Promises he may say, you are sweet things indeed, but what have I to do with you? |
| A39665 | To think of everlasting burnings? |
| A39665 | To what purpose will it be to shut thine eyes against the light of conviction, unless thou couldst also find out a way to prevent thy condemnation? |
| A39665 | To whom shall we our selves address, When conscience labours in distress O, who shall help us at our need? |
| A39665 | Under poor garments more true worth may be, Than under silks that whistle, who but he? |
| A39665 | VVHat excellent Christians should we be, were we but as provident and thoughtful for our souls? |
| A39665 | VVOuld any man think to find such rare delicious fruit upon such an unworthy Tree to appearance as this is? |
| A39665 | WHat a lofty flourishing Tree is here? |
| A39665 | WHat then will be my lot, when that great shaking time shall come, who have followed the multitude, and gone with the tyde of the world? |
| A39665 | WHen this Horse was kept in poor short leas, where he had much scope, but little grass how gentle and tractable was he then? |
| A39665 | Was any part of the common lump of clay thus fashioned? |
| A39665 | Was it the Fathers good pleasure to bestow the kingdom upon a little flock, and to make me one of that number? |
| A39665 | We eat what they did set, and shall truth fail In our dayes? |
| A39665 | What a fragrant, green and beautiful blade do we ● ee spring up from a corrupted seed? |
| A39665 | What a small point of time is our waiting time, compared with eternity? |
| A39665 | What an easie conquest doth the devil now make of them? |
| A39665 | What are all my busin ● ● ● es and imployments in the world, but so many diversions from the business of life? |
| A39665 | What are all these charming pleasures, but so many rattles to quiet my soul, whilst its damnation steals insensibly upon it? |
| A39665 | What blessed opportunities had Iudus? |
| A39665 | What can God with- hold from one so ingrafted? |
| A39665 | What clashings have these heady opinions caused in the Churches? |
| A39665 | What comfort are you like to have from them when they are old, if you bring them not up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord when they are young? |
| A39665 | What comfort is it that I have a larger capacity than a beast hath? |
| A39665 | What curious phantasies, imble wits, solid judgments, tenacious memories, rare elocution,& c. are to be found among meer natural men? |
| A39665 | What doth this admirable patience, this long- suffering drawn out to a wonder, speak concerning me? |
| A39665 | What excellent qualities have some meer natural men and women? |
| A39665 | What hath this creature done, that he should be Thus beaten, wounded, and tyr''d out by me? |
| A39665 | What hope of branches, when the 5 tree''s o''return''d? |
| A39665 | What horrid sins have been harboured amongst us, for which the Lord contends, by such an unparalleld judgment? |
| A39665 | What if God will own some of them for his Sons, to whom I refuse to give the respect of brethren? |
| A39665 | What if I do but hug a phantasm instead of Christ? |
| A39665 | What if I should be found a self- deceiver at last? |
| A39665 | What is become of those once famous and flourishing Churches of Asia? |
| A39665 | What is the Christians work, but with joy to draw water out of the wells of salvation? |
| A39665 | What is the joy of harvest, to the joy of heaven? |
| A39665 | What is the matter that my heart hangs back? |
| A39665 | What is the word separated from the Spirit, but a dead Letter? |
| A39665 | What joy was there in Samaria, when the Gospel came to that place? |
| A39665 | What more transient than a vain word? |
| A39665 | What pains do Husbandmen take? |
| A39665 | What profound and excellent parts had the Heathen Sages and Philosophers? |
| A39665 | What rare and excellent parts had the Scribes and Pharisees? |
| A39665 | What shall I answer when the Lord shall say, Thou couldst foresee a Winter, and seasonably provide for it? |
| A39665 | What shall I do when God riseth up? |
| A39665 | What shall it eat? |
| A39665 | What strong confidences, and high- built perswasions of an interest in God, have sometimes been found, even in unsanctified ones? |
| A39665 | What then shall I think of my condition, who prosper and am let alone in the way of sin? |
| A39665 | What will become of these? |
| A39665 | What wilt thou reply to this question? |
| A39665 | What? |
| A39665 | When I awaked in the night, how was the darkness enlightned by the heavenly glimpses of the countenance of my God upon me? |
| A39665 | When can the Christian sit down and say, now all my work is ended, I have nothing to do, without doors, or within? |
| A39665 | When formerly I had fallen by the hanbd of a temptation, how was I wo nt to lye in tears at the Lord''s feet, bemoaning my self? |
| A39665 | When shall I hear his soul- transporting voice? |
| A39665 | When shall I see that most lovely face? |
| A39665 | Where may you expect to find the Husbandman, but in his own fields? |
| A39665 | Wherein consists the honour of Angels, but in this; that they are ministring spirits, serviceable creatures? |
| A39665 | Whether it be likely, if the time of youth( which is the moulding age) be neglected, they will be wrought upon to any good afterwards? |
| A39665 | Whether this be a sufficient discharge of that great duty which God hath laid upon Christian Parents, in reference to their families? |
| A39665 | Whether, if you neglect to instruct them in the way of the Lord, Satan, and their own natural corruptions, will not instruct them in the way to hell? |
| A39665 | Which of all the Prophets have not been tossed and hurried worse than I? |
| A39665 | Which of all the Saints hast thou known to be the better for much of the world? |
| A39665 | Whilst we TURN slugs, and loyter thus? |
| A39665 | Who can be poorer than to have the world, and love it? |
| A39665 | Who can count the priviledges wherewith Christ hath invested his Churches? |
| A39665 | Who ere gave The like 7 encouragement that Christ hath given, To do his will on earth, as''t is in heaven? |
| A39665 | Who ever gather''d from the 1 thistle Figs? |
| A39665 | Who is more advantaged for an heavenly life than I? |
| A39665 | Who shall ease our afflicted consciences? |
| A39665 | Who shall lead us in the way of life? |
| A39665 | Who would have thought a joy so coy? |
| A39665 | Why are our HANDS, and feet so slow, When we UNTO our business go? |
| A39665 | Why art thou troubled, O my soul, for the want of these things which reprobates may have? |
| A39665 | Why dost thou not groan within thy self, that this mortality might be swallowed up of life? |
| A39665 | Why doth the living man complain? |
| A39665 | Why may you not have two harvests every year? |
| A39665 | Why should I shun thee, blessed Saviour, why should I avoid thee thus? |
| A39665 | Why so loath to take death by its cold hand? |
| A39665 | Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him? |
| A39665 | Will an empty( though splendid) profession save me? |
| A39665 | Will he alwayes call upon God? |
| A39665 | Will he delight himself in the Almighty? |
| A39665 | Will it be any mitigation to my misery, that I shall have thousands of miserable companions with me in hell? |
| A39665 | Will my Iudge be charm''d with a rhetorical tongue? |
| A39665 | Will the very Mahometans, how urgent soever their business be, lay it all aside, five times in the day to pray? |
| A39665 | Will you have an abreviate of his sufferings and losses? |
| A39665 | Wilt such a spring as this maintain a stream of affections; when carnal motives fail? |
| A39665 | With fewer 2 strokes, and lighter you will beat The Oats and Barley? |
| A39665 | With what a rapture was Balaam transported, when he said, Let me dye the death of the righteous, and my last end be like his? |
| A39665 | With what seed is my heart sown, and of what kind are those things wherein I excel others? |
| A39665 | Would not that be sweet? |
| A39665 | Would not this scared Bird be flusht out of the Bush that secured her, though I had chased away her enemy? |
| A39665 | Wouldst thou but work as hard for me, As for the world, which cozens thee? |
| A39665 | Wouldst thou not account him a fool that would victual his Ship, as much to cross the Channel to France, as if she were bound for the East- Indies? |
| A39665 | Wretched soul, what shall I do? |
| A39665 | Ye are God''s Husbandry, q. d. Whar are ye, but a field, or plot of ground, to be manured and cultivated for God? |
| A39665 | Yea, dost thou not think he sees thine inability to bear such a condition long? |
| A39665 | Yea, the poor little ones are brought in, v. 12. crying to their Mothers, where is the Corn and wine? |
| A39665 | Yea, which is worse; how seldom do you cry To God for counsel? |
| A39665 | Yet why dost thou 4 desponding lye? |
| A39665 | You see the Shadows, would you see the Things She couches under them? |
| A39665 | am I the same man in all times, places and companies? |
| A39665 | and art not rather admiring and blessing God for those things which none but the darlings and favourites of heaven can have? |
| A39665 | and can I wonder at it, when I refuse the painful way of duty, in which the precious fruits of Godliness, are only to be found? |
| A39665 | and happy were it, if they were no more accountable to God than their beasts are? |
| A39665 | and how often is that antient observation verified, even in his own people? |
| A39665 | and is my doctrine as rain to water the Lords inheritance? |
| A39665 | and is the fountain bitter? |
| A39665 | and not I for the Kingdom of Heaven? |
| A39665 | and rejoyce, if any design for Christ be carried on in world by other hands? |
| A39665 | and shall I dream of a fixed setled state? |
| A39665 | and shall not that which strikes at the very glory of Christ, tenderly touch and affect thee? |
| A39665 | and shall such a worm as I swell? |
| A39665 | and shall those precious soul- inriching showers fleet away unprofitably from me? |
| A39665 | and studying every advantage to my self? |
| A39665 | and what are Paul, Apollo, and Cephas, but so many work- men and labourers, imployed by God, the great Husbandman, to plant and water you all? |
| A39665 | and what shall it drink? |
| A39665 | and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? |
| A39665 | and wherewithal shall it be cloathed? |
| A39665 | and why dost thou set at nought thy brother? |
| A39665 | and wilt thou( my soul) ever be enticed or scared from Christ thy refuge? |
| A39665 | and with assurance of receiving it again with such a glorious improvement? |
| A39665 | and yet, what a vast difference is there between mans bar and Gods? |
| A39665 | are they indeed speciall seeds of grace, or common gifts and naturall excellencies? |
| A39665 | art thou afraid to look into thy condition? |
| A39665 | between a tryal for my life, and for my soul? |
| A39665 | but I have no mind with him to return home; wretched soul, what will the end of this be? |
| A39665 | but yet, think not for all that, the bitterness of death is past; say not within thy self, Will God cast such a one as a I into hell? |
| A39665 | can I infallibly discover the hidden motives, ends, and principles of actions? |
| A39665 | can the world indeed do that for me, that Christ can do? |
| A39665 | clouded with ignorance, Is Christ, and heaven no 5 fair inheritance Compar''d with yours? |
| A39665 | could Aristippus say, he would rather neglect his means than his mind? |
| A39665 | could Aristotle deliver this as a true rule to prosperity, to make Religion our first and chief care? |
| A39665 | do I not see the clouds above me in continual motions and agitations? |
| A39665 | dost thou not remember, when like the beloved Disciple thou layest in Iesus bosome? |
| A39665 | doth guilt lye upon my conscience? |
| A39665 | doth such fruit grow in that soyl which thou hast crused? |
| A39665 | for to which of them said Christ at any time, thou art bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh? |
| A39665 | hath he not said, That having begun the good work in thee; he will perfect it to the day of Christ? |
| A39665 | hath it ever proved true to them that trusted it and doted on it? |
| A39665 | hath not the spirit of formality acted me in them? |
| A39665 | hath thy body been such a pleasant habitation to thee, that thou shouldst be so loath to part with it, though but for a time? |
| A39665 | have I tired thee? |
| A39665 | have you no earnests, pledges, and first fruits of it? |
| A39665 | he is cast forth as a branch and withered; which is the very state of these barren, cursed souls, And what follows? |
| A39665 | heavenly truths are the subjects of my daily study, and shall earthly things be the objects of my daily delights and loves? |
| A39665 | his Farm than his soul? |
| A39665 | hollowing noise, With mingled voices both of men and boyes? |
| A39665 | how beautiful and verdant is this? |
| A39665 | how black, and mouldy is that? |
| A39665 | how can this, or that, consist with grace? |
| A39665 | how didst thou sweeten communion with him? |
| A39665 | how do they prevent the dawning of the day? |
| A39665 | how dry and barren the other? |
| A39665 | how fast doth hell fill in such times? |
| A39665 | how glad are those blessed creatures to be imployed for God? |
| A39665 | how hard is it for the eye of man to discern betwixt chaff and wheat? |
| A39665 | how hath the God of this World blinded mine eyes? |
| A39665 | how have I flinched and shrunk from truth when it hath been in danger? |
| A39665 | how little doth the doubting Christian make of his large and rich inh ● ritance? |
| A39665 | how little hath it cost us? |
| A39665 | how little respect or reverence can the hoary head obtain amongst wise men, except it be ● ound in the way of righteousness? |
| A39665 | how many false hearts are now approved, whom God will condemn? |
| A39665 | how many oaths and curses, lyes and vain words, have I sown with my tongue, how have I wronged, oppressed, and over- reached in my dealings? |
| A39665 | how many upright hearts are now censured, whom God will clear? |
| A39665 | how much have I slighted and undervalued thee? |
| A39665 | how plainly clad, in a home- spun countrey russet are these? |
| A39665 | how quickly am I discouraged, if I presently find not what I expect in duty? |
| A39665 | how should I love and praise thee? |
| A39665 | how warmly hath the Finch matted his? |
| A39665 | how will this soul and body blush, yea tremble when they meet, who have been copartners in so much guilt? |
| A39665 | if so, then, What an account have I to make for all those Gospel- blessings that I have injoyed? |
| A39665 | if some of the Saints had enjoyed the blessing of such an healthy active body as mine, what excellent services would they have performed to God in it? |
| A39665 | in the praise of men, than the approbation of God? |
| A39665 | is he not a pleasant child? |
| A39665 | is my strength the strength of stones? |
| A39665 | is not an ounce of pure gold more valuable than many pounds of guilded brass? |
| A39665 | is this life of hope as contentful to thee, as the life of vision will be? |
| A39665 | is this the place Where I must lye? |
| A39665 | its sweet influences restrained? |
| A39665 | long have I sate- under the word, but when did I feel a relenting pang? |
| A39665 | much more is 9 heaven to me, Why should not I have patience then? |
| A39665 | must I be bound in chains With these companions? |
| A39665 | nay, what''s worse Give future ages cause to hate, and curse Our memories? |
| A39665 | no work more important to me, and yet how much have I neglected It? |
| A39665 | or a fish to swim? |
| A39665 | or are my bones of brass? |
| A39665 | or art thou at home, upon thy journey, that thou art so solicitous about the world? |
| A39665 | or by whom shall they be gathered? |
| A39665 | or dost thou forget that thy Masters eye is alwayes upon thee, whilst thou art lazing and loytering? |
| A39665 | or doth he not rather expect that the weightiest work should engross thy greatest strength, and choicest hours? |
| A39665 | or is 6 eternity A shorter term than yours? |
| A39665 | or rather, am I not exact and curious in open and publick; remiss and careless, in private and secret duties? |
| A39665 | or rather, dost thou not envy those that excel thee, and carest for no work in which thou art not seen? |
| A39665 | or rather, doth it not puff it up with self- conceitedness? |
| A39665 | or sad, that abide in the fountain of all delights? |
| A39665 | or the ear with melodious sounds? |
| A39665 | or to the preparations he hath made in heaven for me? |
| A39665 | or would the damned live at this rate, as I do, if their day of grace might be recalled? |
| A39665 | our title is dubious, Christ is a precions Christ, the promises are comfortable things, but what if they be none of ours? |
| A39665 | prevented the dawning of the day, and laboured as in the very fire, and yet is the Christians work harder than mine? |
| A39665 | quantum mutatus ab illo? |
| A39665 | shall it Be said in time to come 5 Christ did commit A precious treasure, purchas''d by this blood; To us, for ours; and for our Childrens good? |
| A39665 | shall we cut off th''entail? |
| A39665 | should not every drop of sweat which I see trickle from their brows, fetch( as it were) a drop of blood from my heart? |
| A39665 | since thou hast given me such a deliverance as this, should I again break thy commandments? |
| A39665 | that God hath endowed me with reason, which is denied to me? |
| A39665 | that one who walks in the views of that glory above, and maintains a conversation in heaven, can be much taken with these vanities? |
| A39665 | thou canst keep out the sense of sin now, but art thou able to keep off the terrors of the Lord hereafter? |
| A39665 | thou hast got an Antidote against repentance ▪ but hast thou any against ● ell? |
| A39665 | thy truth is invaluably precious; what a vile thing is my blood, compared with the least of all thy truths? |
| A39665 | to fare better than he did, or escape the rage off bloudy men? |
| A39665 | to wrestle with principalities and powers, and spiritual wickednesses in high places? |
| A39665 | ubi gracior aura? |
| A39665 | was that only not worth the caring for? |
| A39665 | what a God have I provoked? |
| A39665 | what a Paradox is the life of a Christian? |
| A39665 | what a choice and rare spirit is he of? |
| A39665 | what a good spirit have I grieved? |
| A39665 | what a mistery? |
| A39665 | what a sad Dilemma art thou brought to? |
| A39665 | what a winning affability? |
| A39665 | what advantages have you, for a spiritual life? |
| A39665 | what an affluence of earthly delights hath God cast in upon some wicked men? |
| A39665 | what an uncomfortable parting will mine be? |
| A39665 | what are the shoutings of men in the fields, to the acclamations of glorified spirits in the kingdome of God? |
| A39665 | what conviction and shame may this leave upon thee? |
| A39665 | what fervent love? |
| A39665 | what honour and glory then hath Christ conferred upon me, a poor unworthy creature? |
| A39665 | what if that supposition fail? |
| A39665 | what if the language of his providences to my soul should be this? |
| A39665 | what if this be the whole of my portion from the Lord? |
| A39665 | what is a little corn to the enjoyment of God? |
| A39665 | what motions did I withstand? |
| A39665 | what perils do Seamen run, for a little gain? |
| A39665 | what pity is it, that those who shall agree so perfectly in heaven, should bite and devour each other upon earth? |
| A39665 | what service art thou fit to perform to him, in such a condition? |
| A39665 | what shall become of us? |
| A39665 | what though the dews of Helicon descend not upon my head, if in the mean time the sweet influences of Sion fall upon my heart? |
| A39665 | what wilt thou do for God? |
| A39665 | what wilt thou do? |
| A39665 | whence these fears and sorrows about it? |
| A39665 | where am I then? |
| A39665 | wherein is the mercy of having a body, if not in spending and wearing it out in the service of God? |
| A39665 | whether they be such as can now endure the test of the Word, and abide a fair tryal at the bar of my own conscience? |
| A39665 | whether those things whereon I depend as my best evidences for the life to come, be the real, or only the common works of the Spirit? |
| A39665 | whither wilt thou go? |
| A39665 | whjat love and goodness have I abused? |
| A39665 | who ever that was wise, Abus''d himself with such 4 absurdities? |
| A39665 | who shall instruct these poor Babes? |
| A39665 | why art thou so unwilling to examine how matters stand betwixt God and thee? |
| A39665 | will he see their graces fainting, their hopes gasping, the new creature panting, the things that are in them ready to dye, and will he not regard it? |
| A39665 | will not my providence and care for the things of this life, leave me speechless and self- condemned in that day? |
| A39665 | will one plow there with Oxen? |
| A39665 | will riches do nothing? |
| A39665 | wilt thou do nothing for eternal treasures? |
| A39665 | wrought off their legs, and turned out with galled backs into the fields, or high- wayes, to shift for a little grass? |
| A39665 | yea, thou hadst so much care of thy very beasts, to provide for their necessities, and why tookest thou no care for thy soul? |
| A39665 | yea, what''s worse? |
| A45630 | ( For the heart of Man is deceitfull above all things, who can know it?) |
| A45630 | 32. to the end of the 43. vers? |
| A45630 | 8.33, 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? |
| A45630 | A few doubtings, to eclipse, and for a time, obscure the bright beams of true believing? |
| A45630 | A two- leaved Door, prepared by treacherous nature to receive in deadly Enemies? |
| A45630 | After this escape of danger in his Child- hood, and reprieved of his life for a time, did not the increase of his years multiply his sorrows? |
| A45630 | Again, dost thou live in Christ, and Christ in thee? |
| A45630 | Again, doth not thy Kingdome within us, consist in righteousness, in peace, and in joy of the Holy Ghost? |
| A45630 | All these Tongues be d ● mb, As to thy praise? |
| A45630 | Also, 〈 ◊ 〉 you not my Members? |
| A45630 | Am I not an infinite offendor, indited by Sathan, witnessed against, by conscience, yea, found guilty, and convicted by self- confession? |
| A45630 | Amongst which, how aptly is faith made our Shield, and prefer''d before the rest, in the Apostles Discipline? |
| A45630 | And after it was sold, Was it not in thine own Power? |
| A45630 | And am I a transgressor of the Law? |
| A45630 | And art the end of the Law for righteousness, to every one that believeth? |
| A45630 | And before whose Judgment Seat all must stand? |
| A45630 | And being neer our Coronation, seek still to hide our selves under the rubbish of our Earthly Tabernacles? |
| A45630 | And can the weak blaze of Deaths consumption, out- vie the shining of Gods face, and not be swallowed up of glory? |
| A45630 | And can there be a greater excellency; since the justice of a Law, is the sinnues thereof, they binding but so far forth as they are righteous? |
| A45630 | And can we conceive holy zeal, which is the height, and crown of all these graces, can be absent, or unnecessary? |
| A45630 | And declared that she is fair, and that there is no spot in her? |
| A45630 | And did not I make one? |
| A45630 | And do we not finde our Saviour naked upon the accursed Tree? |
| A45630 | And is holy, and a religious discourse and communication, the Character, and Dial ● ● t of Saints upon Earth? |
| A45630 | And is not the accusing conscience of a wicked Man, as a thousand Witnesses? |
| A45630 | And is not this true of our good Shepward, Who giveth his life for his Sheep? |
| A45630 | And is not this verified of our King, the Shepward of Israel? |
| A45630 | And is that which is spoken of thy Church, applyable to every living Member thereof? |
| A45630 | And lastly, in Corinth there more than probably appeares to be many Congregations, else whence or where were these discentions and divisions? |
| A45630 | And my touch the bed- fellow and companion of all uncleanness? |
| A45630 | And seekest thou great things for thy self? |
| A45630 | And set your Eyes upon that which is not? |
| A45630 | And shall I not cry out with holy David, Lord open thou my Lips, and my Mouth shall shew forth thy praise? |
| A45630 | And shall my Muse be silent? |
| A45630 | And shall not his Saints, his Image, be like him? |
| A45630 | And shall not the Judge of all the World do right? |
| A45630 | And shall not the glorified Saints, overflow, and express upon all occasions, to Gods glory, the like zealous, and inflam''d affections? |
| A45630 | And that then all the ends of the World shall remember, and turn unto thee O Lord, and all the Kindreds of the Nations shall worship before thee? |
| A45630 | And that these other sences which thou hast rightly disposed, and ordered, may continually obey thy will, and exalt thy praise? |
| A45630 | And the Bread which you break, is it not the Communion of my Body? |
| A45630 | And the Kingdomes of this World shall become the Kingdomes of Thee, our Lord, and of thy Christ, and He shall raign for ever? |
| A45630 | And the Road, Through Carriers loss of Horse, so thinly''s troad? |
| A45630 | And the Scorners delight in their scorning? |
| A45630 | And to be of the Kings Council the chiefest honours? |
| A45630 | And who is Apollo? |
| A45630 | And will he now, to the dishonour of his omnipotency, deliver up his glory, his prize, to his expiring and almost vanquisht adversary? |
| A45630 | And, Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? |
| A45630 | And, what hast thou, that thou hast not received? |
| A45630 | Any blessing like that of David? |
| A45630 | Are Books but the Soul in Print, the Beams of Mans wisdome, what is this but the life of the Soul, the Book of Wisdome, and the Book of Books? |
| A45630 | Are a Posterity, The living Monuments of Parents, a rich Ore? |
| A45630 | Are my Eares set wide open to feast lewdness? |
| A45630 | Are not his gifts and callings without repentance? |
| A45630 | Are not his promises, yea, and Amen? |
| A45630 | Are the Talents of Ophir, the fruit of my Body, of my ground, or of my Flocks, a fit Sacrifice for thee? |
| A45630 | Are there any so foolish, as to begin in the Spirit, and to think to be made perfect in the Flesh? |
| A45630 | Are they the two Centinels, and Guards, by which every true Christian, discovers, and repells, all sinfull thoughts, looks, words and actions? |
| A45630 | Are thine Eares closed up to my Word? |
| A45630 | Are thy thoughts only evil? |
| A45630 | Are we hated by the World? |
| A45630 | Art made unto us righteousness? |
| A45630 | Art thou Adam''s Son? |
| A45630 | Art thou a Man of action, and great employment, for the Church, or the Common wealth? |
| A45630 | Art thou commanded to pray for, to long for, to wait for, thy destroyer? |
| A45630 | Art thou even as to thy body, the Habitation and Temple of the Holy Ghost? |
| A45630 | Art thou never idle O my Soul? |
| A45630 | Art thou not jealous for to see, Thy love lye nak''t forc Company? |
| A45630 | Art thou spiritually blinde, and canst make no good use of outward objects? |
| A45630 | As God commands you? |
| A45630 | As being that Man whom God hath, ordained, to judge the World in righteousness, even the Quick and the Dead? |
| A45630 | At thy Gates, did I say? |
| A45630 | Behold, even the Stars are not pure in thy Sight, how much less Man, that is a Worm? |
| A45630 | Behold, here God made Man; Lord, how low is the Foundation of thy Mercy laid? |
| A45630 | Blasphemously leaving out of their Decalogue, in some of their Books, this Commandement? |
| A45630 | Blessed Lord, what a word is this? |
| A45630 | Blessed Saviour, was not this the fury, the Wolf that scattered the Sheep from thee the true Shepward of our Souls? |
| A45630 | But O diseased Creature that I am, what shall I do? |
| A45630 | But alass poor Soul, how are thy Wings limed, thy Feet lamed, thy Chariot- wheels clog''d, with Earth, and Sins? |
| A45630 | But alass, when we descend to the conditions on our part, what have we, or what can we do? |
| A45630 | But because thou canst not, wilt thou limit my power also? |
| A45630 | But doth the faithfull Champion here want courage, strength, or Weapons? |
| A45630 | But is this all''s held forth, by this comparison? |
| A45630 | But is this beauty of the first Adam, in his innocency, the heighth of a Christians hope? |
| A45630 | But know you not, saith the Apostle, that the Saints shall judge the World, yea Angels? |
| A45630 | But to answer all thy objections; weart thou emptiness it self, am not I he that made Heaven and Earth of nothing? |
| A45630 | But to make this more cleer, Is it the duty of a King to govern, and direct his People by good Laws? |
| A45630 | But what have I now to do with the state of Innocency, that am now discoursing of Rebellion? |
| A45630 | But what more general, and frequent than Death; what more frightfull, and astonishing? |
| A45630 | But what nee ● is there of my weak descriptions, in delineating the lamentable 〈 ◊ 〉 of Man''s fall? |
| A45630 | But what need these questions? |
| A45630 | But why a double, death to death? |
| A45630 | But, who can lose what he never had? |
| A45630 | Can Deaths wounds be felt in the neer apprehension, nay, fruition of Immortality? |
| A45630 | Can I be love it self,( for God is love,) and not be both willing and able to impart some rayes thereof to thee my Creature? |
| A45630 | Can I not now know my Soul in her humiliation, in the weakness of a Creature? |
| A45630 | Can Man be justified in thy sight, or how can he be clean, that is born of a Woman? |
| A45630 | Can Man be justified with God, or how can he be clean that is born of a Woman? |
| A45630 | Can all thy policy, or force, dim the splendour, or annihilate that title of being called, and truly adopted the Son of God? |
| A45630 | Can all thy power, O Enemy of Man, frustrate my Election, whereby from Eternity, I am enroll''d a Peer of Heaven? |
| A45630 | Can any, better or more lively express thy cruel usage there, than thine own spirit doth in the mouth of the Evangelical Prophet Isa? |
| A45630 | Can my powerfull Enemy be made my friend, and Father? |
| A45630 | Can not I that at first gave thee a will, now at the last give thee a good will? |
| A45630 | Can the Fig- Tree bear Olive- berries, or a Vine, Figs? |
| A45630 | Can the Figg- Tree( O my Soul) bear Olive- Berries; either a Vine Figgs? |
| A45630 | Can the Fires Sprung from weak Natures notions, and desires, Produce such Sympathies? |
| A45630 | Can the Lord be less righteous, than Man? |
| A45630 | Can the beholding of riches satisfie the needy? |
| A45630 | Can the knowledge and sight of Meat feed the hungry? |
| A45630 | Canst thou be the Heir, yea the Possessor of a Kingdome, and also the Slave, and Prisoner of Sathan? |
| A45630 | Canst thou disrobe me of my honourable red and white Garments of Justification, and Sanctification, in my Saviour? |
| A45630 | Comes the judgment did I say? |
| A45630 | Conduit- Pipes to convey ● ny favours unto the Children of Men? |
| A45630 | Consider then, was this glorious change in our Saviour so superlatively delightfull to Peter to behold? |
| A45630 | Dear Lord, am I Elisha- like, beset, With Troops of troubles? |
| A45630 | Deprive me of my Crown, and nullify these glorious and infallible promises? |
| A45630 | Desirest thou riches, and plenty of all the fruits of the Earth, and a numerous posterity, and a blessed use, and enjoying of them? |
| A45630 | Did any Conqueror feel, or regard his wounds, when about to ascend his tryumphal Chariot? |
| A45630 | Did he Sacrifice before to God? |
| A45630 | Did not the Israelites thus worship God in the Golden Calf at Horeb, In Mica''s Teraphim and Images, and in Jeroboam''s Calves in Dan and Bethel? |
| A45630 | Did not thy Wisdome O God fill the Desarts with wilde Beasts, the Earth with creeping things? |
| A45630 | Did the Lord of Heaven and Earth, the Heir of all things, not only marry himself to thy nature, but also unto thee? |
| A45630 | Did''st thou take me from the P ● ts, Cleanse me from my Leopard''s spots? |
| A45630 | Do I expect thee O my Soul, to be a companion of this Heavenly Quire? |
| A45630 | Do I fill all things with my Essence, and can not I fill thee with my grace? |
| A45630 | Do Men gather Grapes of Thornes, or Figges of Thistles? |
| A45630 | Dost thou wish for( to the further glory of God) a long life, and an honourable place, and esteem amongst Men? |
| A45630 | Doth Death and Hell cry out, we are thy wages? |
| A45630 | Doth Hell keep Jubill, and desires, Thee to shine there with lightsome Fires? |
| A45630 | Doth Man want holiness, merit and obedience, and will his Lord confer purity, and offer up his own Life for him? |
| A45630 | Doth Sathan accuse thee? |
| A45630 | Doth Sin challenge a right on thee? |
| A45630 | Doth a ● ountain send forth at the same place sweet Water, and bitter? |
| A45630 | Doth my Nostrils( Spider- like) suck Poyson from the sweets of thy Creatures? |
| A45630 | Doth nature moderate the Horse, and the Oxen, as to their eating, and drinking? |
| A45630 | Doth not the Holy Spirit express the exceeding love of the eternal Father to us his Children by the tenderness of Earthly Parents? |
| A45630 | Doth not the cancelling of the Bond, succeed the absolving of the debt? |
| A45630 | Doth not the truth- speaking Word of God, which is neither cruel, nor partial, tell me that I am a sinner? |
| A45630 | Doth that root of all saving Graces, Faith, work by love, in the application of what the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost hath done for us? |
| A45630 | Doth the momentary splendour of terrene things entice us to affect and prefer them? |
| A45630 | Exhautasting the sweet of my Creatures for the serving of sinfull pride, and voluptuousness? |
| A45630 | For God is love, and who so dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him? |
| A45630 | For Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil; Wilt thou then not be afraid of the Power? |
| A45630 | For the Head to deny animation to the Members? |
| A45630 | For the other, I will not only say what Laws, but what Learning exprest in characters can be voucht so ancient as the Penteteuch of Moses? |
| A45630 | For thou art that only begotten Son of the Father, before all beginnings, who then can declare thy generation, for thy Birth is hid in Eternity? |
| A45630 | For what end therefore, O Ananias, tends the subtil compact with thy Wife? |
| A45630 | For what is more desired than life? |
| A45630 | For who hath the Key of the bottomless Pit of Heaven, and Hell, but he to whom all power is given both in Heaven and Earth? |
| A45630 | For, Who hath redness of Eyes? |
| A45630 | For, had he been with the Prophets, and joyn''d with them in Prophesie? |
| A45630 | For, what more universal, more common, more necessary, and therefore more natural, than the marriage of Soul and Body? |
| A45630 | For, who maketh thee to differ from another? |
| A45630 | Forgiving sin? |
| A45630 | From what I have here offered, although in great weakness,( for who is sufficient for these things?) |
| A45630 | From what, an incarnate Devil? |
| A45630 | Further, dost thou desire wisdome, beauty, strength? |
| A45630 | Further, hath thy Touch been a snare unto thee? |
| A45630 | Further, have thy Nostrils been inlets, and entertainers of vanity? |
| A45630 | Hast thou O Lord stiled thy Church, thy Dove, thy undefiled one? |
| A45630 | Hast thou been a Prodigal? |
| A45630 | Hast thou been a vagrant, and wanderer in the High- ways of sin, and by- paths of iniquity, an Alien to the Common- wealth of England? |
| A45630 | Hast thou heard O my Soul of that material, and obscure darkness which the Egyptians felt? |
| A45630 | Hast thou me given sixteen Tongues, and sixteen pair Of Hands and Feet, to praise, serve thee; for thine they are? |
| A45630 | Hast thou not seen a fierce flame in thy Chimny suddenly to damp and recoyle, when the Sun shines full upon it? |
| A45630 | Hast thou through infinite mercy received assurance hereof, that thou art thy Beloveds, and that thy Beloved is thine? |
| A45630 | Hath Adam fallen, and was accursed, and shall his Off- spring stand, and be justified? |
| A45630 | Hath Saul chosen David to be his Son in Law? |
| A45630 | Hath he begun, and is he not able to perfect? |
| A45630 | Hath he loved thee, and will he not love thee to the end? |
| A45630 | Hath he made thee, yea, new- made thee? |
| A45630 | Hath he paid thy ransome with his precious heart- blood? |
| A45630 | Hath not the Martyrs Sword mortally wounded this Serpent? |
| A45630 | Hath thy Tongue been silent in my praises, and a ready Advocate, and Pleader for Sin? |
| A45630 | Have they been evidenst to thee out of the Scripture of truth? |
| A45630 | Have they not pleasures also? |
| A45630 | Have thine Eyes been full of Sin, vanity and Idolatry? |
| A45630 | Have thy Hands and Feet been slow in my ways, but swift to commit iniquity? |
| A45630 | Have we mourning here? |
| A45630 | Have we not then cause to rejoyce for so great a deliverance? |
| A45630 | Have we on Earth Kings to create us honourable? |
| A45630 | Have you not read, that he that made Man in the beginning, made them Male and Female? |
| A45630 | Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect in the Flesh? |
| A45630 | His infinite and free mercy, by the charity and friendship of the Samaritan stranger? |
| A45630 | How art thou now degenerated? |
| A45630 | How can I then describe and conceive of her in her exaltation, in the glory of her Creator? |
| A45630 | How can then the pure streams of Repentance, flow from thence? |
| A45630 | How comes it to pass, that thou hast forsaken the living Fountain, and hewen out unto thy self Cesterns, that will hold no Water? |
| A45630 | How do Parrots, and other Birds speak and sing, as they are taught, and when they are commanded so to do by their Teachers? |
| A45630 | How much more shall they be guilty, that are willingly ignorant? |
| A45630 | How shall her Rods be converted into Scorpions? |
| A45630 | How the Soul sees, hears, smells, tasts, touches by those sences? |
| A45630 | How truly is this called the glad tidings of the Gospel? |
| A45630 | How, or where shall I begin? |
| A45630 | I am pure from my sin? |
| A45630 | I desire to be resolved of this Question, Why the new Reformers discharge the keeping of Easter? |
| A45630 | I speak to the shame of( many;) is it so that there is not a wise Man amongst you? |
| A45630 | If his external parts were thus prest, and opprest with pain, how painfull were the pressures of his Soul, the internal cause of this outward Agony? |
| A45630 | If in his humiliation they doubted his sudden judgment, How did his exaltation assure them of their certain execution? |
| A45630 | If the Light that is in you, be darkness, how great is that darkness? |
| A45630 | If the Lord condemns, who can justify? |
| A45630 | If then such accidental affections, are testified to be in glorious Angels, why not much rather in glorified Saints? |
| A45630 | If there should be impossibilities imposed on thee in my Covenant, how could I then be just? |
| A45630 | If these things( which God made for the use of Man) were exceeding good? |
| A45630 | If they were all one Member, where we ● ● the Body? |
| A45630 | If ye have been once born again of Water and the Spirit, Can a Man be so again born the second time? |
| A45630 | If you endure chastning, I deal with you as with Sons; For, what Son is he whom the Father chastneth not? |
| A45630 | In how deep an abyss of sorrow is he plunged? |
| A45630 | In the Primitive, and in succeeding times, many holy Professors? |
| A45630 | Is Christ divided? |
| A45630 | Is Earth to be compared with Heaven; or the Creature with the Creator, that thou hast forsaken the one, to embrace, and marry the other? |
| A45630 | Is any so to be esteemed of rebellious Israel, as interceding Moses? |
| A45630 | Is any so welcome to the poor indebted Widdow, as mercifull Elisha? |
| A45630 | Is here a Physician? |
| A45630 | Is here a most approved Balme? |
| A45630 | Is here a mundifying River? |
| A45630 | Is it a thing possible, that thy everlasting Father, instead of the Bread of Life, will give thee to the torments of Hellish Scorpions? |
| A45630 | Is it an old Commandement, as being from the beginning; a new Commandement, as being renewed, and straitly enforced in the Gospel? |
| A45630 | Is it not Chaff, and therefore to be blown to and fro with the tempest of thy wrath? |
| A45630 | Is it not I that gives beautifull Garments to Sion, and that cloath her Priests with Salvation? |
| A45630 | Is it not stubble? |
| A45630 | Is it not thy command, that I should love thee, love my God with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my minde? |
| A45630 | Is it so, O my Soul? |
| A45630 | Is it that which gives life to the actions of the Soul? |
| A45630 | Is it the duty of a King to protect his subjects, to reward them, as well as to restrain, and overcome their Enemies? |
| A45630 | Is it the mark of our perfection, and of the truth? |
| A45630 | Is it the summe and compendium of thy whole Law? |
| A45630 | Is it the tryal of our Adoption? |
| A45630 | Is it thus? |
| A45630 | Is it unnatural for the Root, to suffer the Branches to wither for want of sap? |
| A45630 | Is it your highest honour to be stiled Christians? |
| A45630 | Is my Faith small, and subject to doubting? |
| A45630 | Is my Prayer full of weakness, ignorance, and imperfection? |
| A45630 | Is my love weak, and unstable as Water? |
| A45630 | Is my obedience imperfect? |
| A45630 | Is my taste the Cook to drunkenness and gluttony? |
| A45630 | Is my zeal defective? |
| A45630 | Is not he faithfull who hath promised, that he will never leave thee, nor forsake thee? |
| A45630 | Is not the same Lord Jesus Christ, that sole, and universal Tribune, to whom the Father hath committed all Judgment? |
| A45630 | Is not this that terrible day of the Lord spoken of? |
| A45630 | Is not thy memory a magazine of evil, unhospitable to goodness? |
| A45630 | Is not wickedness the Centre of thy will, towards which it moves with a natural swiftness, all holy motions being contrary to its course? |
| A45630 | Is our Land become a Romanist, and Prelatick, that she Cloaths her self with, and so much delights in Surplices, and white Vestures? |
| A45630 | Is the Fountain bit ● er, and can the streams be sweet? |
| A45630 | Is the Marriage Day, and Supper appointed, and declared? |
| A45630 | Is the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdome? |
| A45630 | Is the mind of Man never vacant? |
| A45630 | Is the revelation of secrets the greatest expression of friendship? |
| A45630 | Is then( Lord) my heart such a Rock, and the imaginations thereof wholly and continually evil? |
| A45630 | Is there any Nobility like unto thine, will any boast of, or derive his Pedigree with thee, who art the ancient of days? |
| A45630 | Is there any People, or Nation alike happy with us Christians, whose God and King is the Lord? |
| A45630 | Is there any comparison betwixt Heaven and Earth; a Crown of glory, and a Crown of Thorns? |
| A45630 | Is there no Balme in Gilead? |
| A45630 | Is there no Physician there? |
| A45630 | Is this an approved truth? |
| A45630 | Is this divine love to thee, and thy Saints, the summe, and the fulfilling of thy Law? |
| A45630 | Is this thy further request, O my Soul? |
| A45630 | Is this true? |
| A45630 | Is thy Heart a Stone, which can not relent? |
| A45630 | Is thy calling in the City, or i ● the Field? |
| A45630 | Is thy love, Lord set upon, Such an Aethiopian? |
| A45630 | Is thy sick- Bed, through the fury of this adversary, as full of torture, as the hot glowing Gridiron of holy Lawrence? |
| A45630 | It is God that justifieth, who is he that condemneth? |
| A45630 | Know yee not that the friendship with this World is enmity with God? |
| A45630 | Lastly, Art thou ashamed of the nakedness of thy Body, as being the Mirrour, yea, the effect of thy Souls wants? |
| A45630 | Lastly, doth the severe justice of the Law threaten to swallow thee up? |
| A45630 | Lord Jesus, shall my faith lose sight here, forsaking thee with thy Disciples? |
| A45630 | Lord, I would fain express thy acts of mercy, the witness of thy love, and object of my Faith, but who is sufficient for these things? |
| A45630 | Lord, are my Children living Images, and legible transcripts, of my self; yea, self- multiplyed? |
| A45630 | Lord, did thy Abraham esteem one Isaac more Than all his Earthly wealth? |
| A45630 | Lord, if the thoughts of Hell, be a Hell, what will the infliction be? |
| A45630 | Lord, is it th ● ● experimentally, With my poor Soul ▪ are all these dangers nie, Incumbent ● ● me? |
| A45630 | Lord, were the Children of Israel so severely punished, for repining against Aaron, though but a ● igure of Thee? |
| A45630 | Lord, what is Man that thou art mindfull of him, or the Son of Man that thou visitest him? |
| A45630 | Lord, why did those many Legions of Heavenly Souldiers suffer thy Enemies to carry thee, their General, away Captive? |
| A45630 | Must Man die? |
| A45630 | Nay, what can the righteous do? |
| A45630 | No recovery from spiritual or bodily Diseases, nor deliverances from spiritual and corporal enemies, and dangers? |
| A45630 | Nor art thou not only glorious in thy Father, but in thy self also? |
| A45630 | Now therefore there is utterly a fault amongst you; Know ye not that Revilers shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? |
| A45630 | Now, did not God make this so excellent a work, for his Glory? |
| A45630 | Now, if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as though thou hadst not received it? |
| A45630 | Now, who amongst us shall be able to dwell with everlasting burning? |
| A45630 | O Christ, Did fear dead thy revenge due to those Sinners against their own Souls? |
| A45630 | O Father of lyes, canst thou turn light into darkness, and truth into falshood? |
| A45630 | O Grave where is thy Victory? |
| A45630 | O Grave where is thy victory? |
| A45630 | O Lord my God; is divine zeal, a holy flame, a Pyramid- like Fire, a Spring towards Heaven, as to its own place? |
| A45630 | O Lord, hast thou inricht me with the best Earthly Treasures? |
| A45630 | O Lord, if the Cistern be broken, where shall the thirsty be refreshed? |
| A45630 | O Lord, is this affection of love, being rightly placed, the Prince of all other our affections? |
| A45630 | O Lord, is this sense thus propense to ill? |
| A45630 | O blessed Saviour, Let my Soul be a follow respondent with Peter, and say, Lord, to whom shall I go? |
| A45630 | O but sayest thou I am spiritually dead, how then can I hear? |
| A45630 | O gracious, and mercifull Redeemer, shall this corruptible put on incorruptibility, and this mortal put on immortality? |
| A45630 | O if the bare Relation, move to pitty, and to mourning? |
| A45630 | O mercifull Creator, are my Eyes become skilfull perspectives, and representative Mirrours to bring sin neer unto my Soul? |
| A45630 | O most gracious, and liberal God, and Father; are a numerous Issue, and many hopeful Children a great blessing? |
| A45630 | O my Saviour, is there any Man living so sound, that he hath no need of thee? |
| A45630 | O my Soul, Is this most Heavenly grace of zeal, so illustrious, and exemplary, in the Saints that have lived upon Earth? |
| A45630 | O my Soul, are these things true? |
| A45630 | O my Soul, is cursing, swearing, vain, wanton, and evil- speaking, the Rant ▪ and Garb of the wicked; y ● ● ▪ the Language of Hell? |
| A45630 | O my Soul, shall the sense of Hearing in the next life, be as comprehensive and perfect, in its kinde, as the sense of Sight? |
| A45630 | O my Soul, shall thy body be incorruptible and immortal? |
| A45630 | O my Soul, these things ought not so to be; Doth a Fountain send forth at the same place, sweet, and bitter? |
| A45630 | O my gratious Physitian, what ● ee have I, or is great enough for this spiritual cure, or rather miracle? |
| A45630 | O stay me with Flagons, comfort me with Apples, for I am sick of love? |
| A45630 | O unhappy Gehazi, the more unlucky, because once most happy; who amongst the Sons of lapsed Israel, though free born, were blessed like to thee? |
| A45630 | O what is Man that thou art mindfull of him, or the Son of Man that thou visitest him? |
| A45630 | O who can by a true faith look upon his humbled Saviour, and not be humbled in Spirit? |
| A45630 | O wretched Adam that I am, who shall deliver me from this Body of sin, and death? |
| A45630 | O wretched Man, hath God pronounced that thou shalt die? |
| A45630 | O wretched Men that we are, who shall deliver us from this Body of Death? |
| A45630 | O ● ● retched Adam, Why didst thou entertain such a cursed credulity? |
| A45630 | Of a Mordecai, and his entirely affected Hester? |
| A45630 | Of an Eliah, and his beloved Elisha? |
| A45630 | Of an Hanna, and her long desired Samuel? |
| A45630 | Or any vesture so needfull, and acceptable to those naked Beggars in the Gospel, as the Wedding Garment? |
| A45630 | Or art thou Spanioliz''d, and would, Through these new Inlets, spie out Gold? |
| A45630 | Or be able to say, that Rivers of Waters have run down my Eyes, because Men keep not thy Laws? |
| A45630 | Or dost thou doubt his Power, to whom belongs the issues from Death? |
| A45630 | Or was my heart more hot than others, and therefore sooner needed the refreshing fanning of my Lungs? |
| A45630 | Or was the Womb weary of such a sinful burden? |
| A45630 | Or what likeness will ye compare with him? |
| A45630 | Or when should these Principalities be subdued, if not at this general and most glorious Conquest? |
| A45630 | Or, is my free grace and love, less benevolent unto it, than unto the rest? |
| A45630 | PRaise the Lord; Fire and Hail, Snow and Vapour, stormy Wind, fulfilling his word: what means this second deluge of Snow? |
| A45630 | Psal? |
| A45630 | Shall God''s Instrument, thy Tongue, Be tun''d to folly, not unto his Song? |
| A45630 | Shall I in my Flesh see God, whom I shall see for my self, shall these mine Eyes behold thee my Redeemer, and not another? |
| A45630 | Shall I then at once superficially glance over them? |
| A45630 | Shall I therefore commend sin? |
| A45630 | Shall I, I say, behold all this, by faith, through the gracious illumination of thy blessed Spirit, in thy Word of Truth? |
| A45630 | Shall it be bright like the Firmament, and Stars? |
| A45630 | Shall it be thy radiant Garment, and super- excelling Ornament? |
| A45630 | Shall my Body be shining, and glorious like the Sun? |
| A45630 | Shall the glorified Bodies be like an empty Trunck, void of a stomack, liver, guts, bowels, bladder, and the rest? |
| A45630 | Shall this grace have( even in Heaven) continual objects and occasions to exercise it self to Gods glory, and thy own? |
| A45630 | Shalt not thou who planted the Ear, hear? |
| A45630 | Should not the Shepwards feed the Flock? |
| A45630 | Since God doth justifie thee, who is he that condemns thee? |
| A45630 | Since we must all pray, forgive us our debts; That I am a condemned Person? |
| A45630 | So much conducing to the flourishing of a Common- wealth? |
| A45630 | So the same Psalmist, Through thy Precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way? |
| A45630 | TEll me, my Soul, when did the Skies, So become Morning to all Eyes? |
| A45630 | THe beginning of all Created Substances was nothing, who but thou O Lord, Infinite in Power, of no Materials could frame so vast a Chaos? |
| A45630 | Tell me then O my Soul, can such a Lord, whose love to thee, made him serve thee, become a cruel Inquisitor to condemn thee? |
| A45630 | Tell me, is Phaeton in place, Or Daphne? |
| A45630 | That I am a bond- slave to death, and to him that hath the Power of Death, the Devil; all my life time being subject to bondage? |
| A45630 | That I am a debtor? |
| A45630 | That I am an enemy to God, and Christ, and lastly by nature a Child of Wrath? |
| A45630 | That by which faith works? |
| A45630 | That councel Men to buy of me white Rayments, that they may be cloathed, and that the shame of their nakedness do not appear? |
| A45630 | That he will be thy guide, even unto Death? |
| A45630 | That then Righteousness shall be the Girdle of thy Loynes, and faithfulness the Girdle of thy Reines? |
| A45630 | That thou wilt give us Judges as at the first, and Counsellers as at the beginning, and that thou wilt make our Exactors righteousness? |
| A45630 | The Prodromus to which Sessions, he saw, Revelations the 19. from Verse the 11. unto the end of that Chapter? |
| A45630 | The ardent and unparallel''d affection of our Saviour Jesus Christ, to us his Church, by a Matrimonial and espousal love? |
| A45630 | The compleating, continuing, and the greatest grace, as most like unto thee? |
| A45630 | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but Fools despise wisdome and understanding; How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? |
| A45630 | The more excellent way? |
| A45630 | The spirit of God observes it, and shall not we, in whom it is wrought, with unspeakable joy, and thankfulness remember? |
| A45630 | The strength and ripeness of Sin, hastens the harvest of Judgment, wherefore then this bare notion of Religion? |
| A45630 | Their hearts are deceitfull above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know them? |
| A45630 | Therefore according to the Scripture- phrase, immortal, and everlasting, like as are the bright and superior Orbs? |
| A45630 | These are those scoffers in these last days, walking after their own lust; and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? |
| A45630 | They are so, and have not the Saints strong and comfortable evidences for them, if the Lord see them good? |
| A45630 | This only would I know of such; Received you the spirit, and your Convertion, by, and under the first Baptisme, or your second? |
| A45630 | Thou art my Head, O Christ, can I then be A living Member, and not part of thee? |
| A45630 | Thou hast delivered my Soul from ● ell, my Body from Death, thy Mercies are above all thy Works, ● onderful are they, Who can express them? |
| A45630 | Thou that formed the Eye, see? |
| A45630 | Thou that teachest man Knowledge, know? |
| A45630 | Thus have we glanced over the Compendium of the Souls Happiness; a brief indeed, For who can express it at large? |
| A45630 | Thy Chariot of Tryumph? |
| A45630 | Thy Master unyoakt himself from his Oxen, for Gods service; and wilt thou forsake thy God, and Master, for the yoak of covetousness? |
| A45630 | To conclude, Is my inherent righteousness imperfect? |
| A45630 | To conclude, Longest thou for the joys of Habakkuk, David, and the rest of my Saints? |
| A45630 | To conclude, they that so fast followed him, now as fast depart from him; Witness our Saviours question to his Chosen ones, Will ye also go away? |
| A45630 | To whom will ye liken God? |
| A45630 | Turning our Hearts of Stone, into Hearts of Flesh, and melting them into teares of Gospel- Repentance? |
| A45630 | Two Bodies were combin''d In Adam once; Loe here two Souls I find, Knit in a purer union; How doth the smile of one, Attend the others joy? |
| A45630 | Verily he is a God that judgeth in the Earth? |
| A45630 | Was Heliodorus so suddenly and fearfully tormented for resisting the High Priest? |
| A45630 | Was I weary of my Eight Moneths Prison, and ambitious of a freer Place, and Air? |
| A45630 | Was Mordecai so publickly honoured by Ahasuerus? |
| A45630 | Was he rich in beauty? |
| A45630 | Was it with blessed Paul, to live, Christ; and to dye, is gain; and shall thy cowardise and recoyling insinuate, and imply a loss? |
| A45630 | Was not my Servant Paul a cruel Persecuter before a zealous Martyr? |
| A45630 | Was there any Speech so pleasing to the Paralitique, as Man thy Sins are forgiven thee? |
| A45630 | Was thy free judgment thus soon captivated? |
| A45630 | Well, is this the last and strongest of our worldly adversaries? |
| A45630 | Were ever teares, so timely shed As these, which strangely raise the Dead? |
| A45630 | What Creature can be capable of more Honour, more Glory? |
| A45630 | What Ear entertained and devoured so many heavenly Sermons? |
| A45630 | What a communication? |
| A45630 | What amity more ancient, or more diffusive, than this, betwixt these two friends? |
| A45630 | What else made that royal Prophet so piously nimble? |
| A45630 | What hast thou not suffered for us? |
| A45630 | What high blasphemers then are they, that deny the Holy Ghost to be God? |
| A45630 | What is Man, that he should be clean; and he that is born of a Woman, that he should be righteous? |
| A45630 | What more abhorred than deprivation? |
| A45630 | What reason then is there that we should exclude the exercise of the other? |
| A45630 | What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me? |
| A45630 | What shall I say? |
| A45630 | What shall it be to us in the fruition? |
| A45630 | What soares doth not this Jordan heal? |
| A45630 | What spots doth not this wash off? |
| A45630 | What then Lord will become of me, who have loved darkness rather than light, and have been a lover of pleasures more than a lover of thee, my God? |
| A45630 | What then causeth this excentrical motion? |
| A45630 | What thing so without measure glorious, and unexpressible, as the simple, and infinite essence of the Godhead? |
| A45630 | What though he be the Prince that ruleth in the Ayr? |
| A45630 | What though the Circumcision mock us with our crucified God? |
| A45630 | What was the whole World before this act of mercy, but a Golgatha, a Mansion of dead Men? |
| A45630 | What, and if ye shall see the Son of Man ascended up, where he was before? |
| A45630 | What, though a poisonous Wasp thou art, as Eved Of putrid matter; Death by Christ, is dead? |
| A45630 | What? |
| A45630 | What? |
| A45630 | When hath my Soul been more in danger of the sting and venome of sin? |
| A45630 | Where was the naked Earth visible, when the Waters covered the Face thereof, untill thy will gave them both name, and bounds? |
| A45630 | Where were the other ten Apostles, when thou wast condemned and crucified? |
| A45630 | Where were the seventy Disciples, to whose faith, and preaching, thou gavest testimony with so many Miracles? |
| A45630 | Wherefore I ask the Presbiterians, Why do ye extol and lift up a general Assembly above the rest of the Flock of Christ? |
| A45630 | Wherefore do ye spend Money, for that which is not Bread? |
| A45630 | Wherefore then this overplus? |
| A45630 | Whether the course of the blood be circular, or direct? |
| A45630 | Whether there be three distinct Souls in Man, or only the rational? |
| A45630 | Whether we see Intra mittendo, or extra mittendo of the species? |
| A45630 | Whilst it remained, Was it not thy own? |
| A45630 | Who can behold the Lord God thus, and live? |
| A45630 | Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? |
| A45630 | Who can express thee, which art far beyond expression? |
| A45630 | Who can forgive sins but God only? |
| A45630 | Who can say, I have made my Heart clean? |
| A45630 | Who could controle, But thou O Lord, this dreadful fate of causes set, Within few Minutes, to produce a sad effect? |
| A45630 | Who hath babling? |
| A45630 | Who hath contentions? |
| A45630 | Who hath redness of Eyes? |
| A45630 | Who hath sorrow? |
| A45630 | Who hath woe, who hath sorrow, who hath contentions, who hath babling, who hath wounds without cause, who hath redness of the Eyes? |
| A45630 | Who hath woe? |
| A45630 | Who hath wounds without cause? |
| A45630 | Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his Servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? |
| A45630 | Who is like the Lord our King on all the Earth? |
| A45630 | Who is there then amongst the Rulers of the Earth,) that in a proper sence dares give this title to their Ordinances? |
| A45630 | Who is this King of Glory? |
| A45630 | Who is this King of Glory? |
| A45630 | Who made Behemoth, which moveth his Tayl like a Cedar? |
| A45630 | Who now can lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? |
| A45630 | Who then is Paul? |
| A45630 | Who, but an experienced Christian, can express the sweet of these? |
| A45630 | Whose Daughters so fair as Jobs? |
| A45630 | Why God doth not in the same instant call, justifie, sanctifie, and glorifie his Elect? |
| A45630 | Why also doth this Man of sin both speak and act Blasphemies? |
| A45630 | Why do I hear, where e''re I come The Warlike Wings strike up their Drum? |
| A45630 | Why flye I then so speedily to hear that sentence of condemnation, Goe yee cursed into everlasting Fire? |
| A45630 | Why go we not then on to possess him? |
| A45630 | Why should it be spoken to our shame, that there is not a wise Man amongst us? |
| A45630 | Why then do I hear thee utter nothing but mourning, and as it were keep time with sighs? |
| A45630 | Why? |
| A45630 | Will he even at the point, and in the height of his tryumph, be overcome, in thee, one of his Members? |
| A45630 | Will it be thus O my Soul, and will thy Tongue be then a principal Actor, in this thy most honourable station, and vocation? |
| A45630 | Will it not be a wonder, yea, and seem an untruth, that this Saint is become a Devil? |
| A45630 | Will the righteous Judge give to them Torments of Fire, and Brimstone, to whom he hath promised a Crown of Glory? |
| A45630 | Will thy friend, thy brother be an Achitophel, a Cain to thee? |
| A45630 | Will you then take 〈 ◊ 〉 Members, and make them the Members of 〈 ◊ 〉 Harlot? |
| A45630 | Witness that loud Ejaculation, O my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
| A45630 | Wo to the Sheppards of Israel, that do feed themselves; Should not the Sheppards feed the Flock? |
| A45630 | Wouldest thou have thy forfeited Charter, renewed, and all the Creatures, yea, the most honourable, serviceable unto thee? |
| A45630 | Wouldst thou have this more illustrated and proved? |
| A45630 | Wouldst thou know then O my Soul what Faith is? |
| A45630 | Wouldst thou now, O my Soul, see him, and know him? |
| A45630 | Wouldst thou then know what is Drawn, and whom thou hast Imployed? |
| A45630 | Yea more, the completion of thy excellency, and Coelestial happiness? |
| A45630 | Yea, Dairy- men, and Graziers, throw up Ground, Because their Sheep and Cattle die unsound? |
| A45630 | Yea, after thy glorious ascension in the Apostles age, do we finde a Demas? |
| A45630 | Yea, did an whole Host of Angels descend from Heaven, and with a holy zeal Celebrate our Lords Nativity, and Man- kindes Redemption, in an holy Hymne? |
| A45630 | Yea, did not the Heathens formerly, and do not the Pagans now, profess, that they worship not their Idols, as believing them to be Gods? |
| A45630 | Yea, do we so far suffer for well doing, that we are delivered over to Death, as Malefactors? |
| A45630 | Yea, have they begun already? |
| A45630 | Yea, in your own Nation, in this our Age of wonders? |
| A45630 | Yea, is it an Apostolical Precept, and Duty, to be angry, and sin not? |
| A45630 | Yea, the Language of Heaven? |
| A45630 | Yea, what have I to return unto thee, since all I am is thine, and all my most spiritual Sacrifices are lame, weak, and sickly? |
| A45630 | Yea, what lameness, and imperfection doth not this Bethesda cure? |
| A45630 | Yea, with infinite sufferings, preserved thee all thy life past, from many- fold dangers and Enemies, by his gracious providence? |
| A45630 | a part of the glorious Image of God in a Saint? |
| A45630 | and Fools hate knowledge? |
| A45630 | and administred fuell to thy corruption? |
| A45630 | and at whose voice all, that are in the Graves shall come forth? |
| A45630 | and can we imagine Faith( the eye of the immortal Soul) can be destitute of a subject worthy its view and contemplation? |
| A45630 | and finde I not it true spiritually also? |
| A45630 | and hath God enacted it? |
| A45630 | and in the interim, hast thou an Espousal contract, subscribed to, by thy faith, and by his Spirit? |
| A45630 | and is thy life hid with God in Christ? |
| A45630 | and praises, and thanksgiving, the exercise of the Spirits of just Men made perfect, and of the glorious Angels? |
| A45630 | and so chearfull and publick a dancer before thy Ark? |
| A45630 | and spiritually and inseparably united to God in Christ? |
| A45630 | and the body than rayment? |
| A45630 | and to whom all power is given, both in Heaven and in Earth? |
| A45630 | and will he with- hold no good thing from him that fears him? |
| A45630 | and wilt thou live Vnthankful? |
| A45630 | and yet behold, not valued, neglected of Man; all Earthly object ● quickly satiate the sight, but who can sufficiently behold thee O Lord? |
| A45630 | are our Fields Vntill''d? |
| A45630 | continually petition me to be indued with the same Holy Spirit, which my Father will give to them that aske him; and to support thee in thy Prayers? |
| A45630 | did the faith fail of these ocular witnesses, these Champions of thy truth? |
| A45630 | doth the World, Like to his Servants, crie, He''s lost? |
| A45630 | exile, from thy Heavenly home, thy Crown of Glory? |
| A45630 | for didst thou fear, Our Springs hive would out- brave thy Sphear? |
| A45630 | for this thy miraculous cleansing of my sinfull Leprosie? |
| A45630 | from Death? |
| A45630 | had he the dew of his youth from the Womb of the Morning? |
| A45630 | hath Fire been so raging, unmerciful, and desolating to many thousands of Houses and Palaces, in London and England? |
| A45630 | hath it now, and heretofore, impoverisht, and undone many thousands of Persons, and good Christians? |
| A45630 | hath thy Twelve Moneths Race, Fir''d thy Axtell? |
| A45630 | have not I often seen one small Cloud to hide the Sun from our Eyes? |
| A45630 | have you at your Installment in Baptisme, vowed, and promis''d, to resist the Devil, the World, and the Flesh? |
| A45630 | her sighs, my groane? |
| A45630 | how doth thine Ire, From a smooth Brow, dart forth thy Fire? |
| A45630 | how free''s thy Grace? |
| A45630 | how great Thy Love? |
| A45630 | how great is the sorrow and anxiety of my minde, that oppresses those Souls, which lie under the burden of such a tyranny? |
| A45630 | how sinful, uncompleat Am I? |
| A45630 | intreating with the Levites Father- in- Law, for one Day, nay one Moneth, or one Year longer? |
| A45630 | is there a necessity of fear? |
| A45630 | it is God that justifies, who is he that condemneth? |
| A45630 | know you 〈 ◊ 〉 that he that is joyned to an Harlot is 〈 ◊ 〉 body? |
| A45630 | must all the Creatures tremble before thee? |
| A45630 | my Song be raised to a loftier pitch; whose numerous Enemies thou hast drentcht, not in a red Sea of Water, but of thy infinitely precious Blood? |
| A45630 | my barrenness watered? |
| A45630 | nay, what anger, torment, punishment, or affliction, could an infinitely inraged Deity inflict, which God made, Man did not endure? |
| A45630 | no blessings, temporal, spiritual, and eternal; no gracious, and extraordinary providences to you, or yours? |
| A45630 | or able to express what he can not sufficiently conceive of? |
| A45630 | or hath the Sun( as in Hezekiah''s time) reverted ten degrees, whereby our Northern temperate Zone, is become a frozen Polar clime? |
| A45630 | or rather, did my loving Mother''s affectionate longing to see, and enjoy me, occasion this Abortion? |
| A45630 | or that the Angels delight not to be present with them, with, and in whom, the God, and Head of Angels, dwells, and inhabits? |
| A45630 | or the Physicians Medicament cure without application? |
| A45630 | or the Son of ● ● an, that thou visitest him? |
| A45630 | or what will become of me? |
| A45630 | or will they shortly, certainly assault us; and notwithstanding our former Trophies, contend with us for our Palme? |
| A45630 | shall the Idolaters give, Vnto dead Marbles, praise? |
| A45630 | shall we be as the Angels, and not with the Angels? |
| A45630 | shall we have a fellowship with the infinite and incomprehensible Trinity? |
| A45630 | so desirable, and profitable in civil societies? |
| A45630 | that one dram of sorrow embitters a great measure of joy? |
| A45630 | that the Soul should, in respect of the want of them, be less perfect in glory, than it was in its state of misery? |
| A45630 | the Morning- star, and in a word, ● he Fountain of honour? |
| A45630 | the dew of the Morning? |
| A45630 | together with those two transcendent and affectionate wishes of St. Paul, and Moses? |
| A45630 | verse of that 20. of the Revelations? |
| A45630 | was I by the care of the Nurse wrapt in the Skin of a Lamb,( as in a second Womb) to preserve, and renue my heat, and life? |
| A45630 | was it weakness in her, or too early strength in me, that relaxt or brake in Pieces the silver Bonds of the Womb? |
| A45630 | what Element more vile, and base than Earth, the principal ingredient of our bodily substance? |
| A45630 | what are the greatest of earthly Princes, but thy Vice- roys? |
| A45630 | what caused the Songs of Moses, Myriam, and Deborah? |
| A45630 | what occasioned the parting of this good from the Creature, but the departing of Man from thee his Creator? |
| A45630 | what shall I render unto thee, for this thy great cure wrought upon my Soul? |
| A45630 | when Lord my beginning was from thee? |
| A45630 | whether it be confined to a Throne, or Tota in toto,& tota in qualibet parte? |
| A45630 | whether odours nourish, or only refresh? |
| A45630 | who but a God, Can gifts confer, so rich as these? |
| A45630 | who is like to thee? |
| A45630 | who then can deliver us from this Body of Death? |
| A45630 | why doth our Grain, Now sow it self, before brought home again, For want of Teames to Inn it? |
| A45630 | why roars his Cannon thus? |
| A45630 | will no other security but himself, be accepted for the payment of sin? |
| A45630 | with what a deluge of misery is wretched Man over- whelmed? |
| A45630 | yea, all actings by, and since Pope Martin the V. are illegal, and therefore Null? |
| A45630 | yea, and he esteemed it an honour worth the hazarding of his life? |
| A45630 | yea, and thousands of the Jews, my Murderers, before my Converts? |
| A45630 | yea, be deprived of those actings or senses by its re- union, to the body, which it made use of in glory, before its re- entry into the body? |
| A45630 | yea, can not there be a true conjunction in Marriage, without the cement of affection? |
| A45630 | yea, hath thy vertues splendour, a shadow of envious and malitious adversaries? |
| A45630 | yea, how wretchedly hast thou lost thy happiness, by changing thy object? |
| A45630 | yea, in this our age, a devout Cranmer, and others? |
| A45630 | yea, shall they be the measures, and compleating of our Glory? |
| A45630 | yea, what occasioned those joyfull expressions of thy blessed Mother, of Simeon, Zachary, and Anna? |
| A45630 | yea, what shall a Man give in Exchange for his Soul? |
| A45630 | 〈 ◊ 〉 the Root evil, and can the Fruit be good? |
| A44524 | ( And why should he tell me so, if it were not so? |
| A44524 | A Friend is often loved better than neer Relations; What may not I promise my self from this Love and Friendship of God? |
| A44524 | All my sorrows and bitterness will shortly be poured out into an ocean of sweetness, and how little of it shall I perceive then? |
| A44524 | Am I afraid God is not enrag''d enough against me, or that his Anger is not red enough? |
| A44524 | Am I by the Apostles verdict, an Idolater, and do I make light of so great a guilt? |
| A44524 | Am I certain that Iniquity will be my confusion, and am I resolv''d to dye? |
| A44524 | Am I one of these stubborn, unconverted, careless men or no? |
| A44524 | Am not I Religious for filthy lucre''s sake? |
| A44524 | Am not I afraid of vengeance, or can I think God will suffer a wretch, that lives upon his mercy, and makes no better return, go unpunished? |
| A44524 | Am not I more curious to know other mens conditions than mine own? |
| A44524 | Am not I more severe in pressing the lesser concerns of Religion, than I am in urging the greater? |
| A44524 | Am not I more zealous in publick, than I am in private? |
| A44524 | And Sirs, will you be rob''d thus quietly of your bliss and glory? |
| A44524 | And are not these excellent Arguments against Consideration? |
| A44524 | And because the Tree is pleasant to the eye, wilt thou prepare for being expell''d out of Paradise for ever? |
| A44524 | And can I resist that Love? |
| A44524 | And can there be any thing more absurd, than to call an Ox, or Lion, or Elephant, a nobler Creature than Man? |
| A44524 | And do you lose Heaven for this? |
| A44524 | And dost not thou act the same madness, when thou preferrest lying in the Arms of an Enemy, before resting in the bosome of a gracious Redeemer? |
| A44524 | And doth Salvation deserve no more, but a few slight and skin deep reflexions, when thou liest a dying? |
| A44524 | And doth it drive me to give God my dearest and tenderest love? |
| A44524 | And doth it engage me to count all things Dross and Dung, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ? |
| A44524 | And how could it consist with his Wisdom and Integrity to deceive me with Bugbears, and Chimera''s?) |
| A44524 | And if they fear no revenging Arm, why should he make his Life miserable, by thinking of punishment? |
| A44524 | And if they think not the omission prejudicial to their spiritual interest, why should he terrifie himself with counterfeit thunder? |
| A44524 | And is not thy Distraction as great, to esteem a sinful pleasure more, than the favour of God? |
| A44524 | And is that which was intended for his footstool, become his Throne, whereon he braves all the messages of grace and pardon? |
| A44524 | And is this the Coat of the Sons of God? |
| A44524 | And must I have no seat in yonder Mansion? |
| A44524 | And now Sinner, which of these Pictures wouldst thou chuse? |
| A44524 | And now let any man in his wits judge, whether Coversion, in that sense we speak of it, both in publick and private, be not indispensably necessary? |
| A44524 | And run the hazard ▪ of an endless Tempest, for a few months Recreation? |
| A44524 | And set by the Dross and Dung of this World more, than by the excellency of the knowledge of Christ? |
| A44524 | And shall I after all this, repine, because I am not a Favourite of Kings and Princes, when I have God for my constant guide, and associate? |
| A44524 | And talk of being saved, when thy actions savor only of preparation for eternal misery? |
| A44524 | And to be enamor''d with deformity it self, when thou art courted by him, who is altogether lovely? |
| A44524 | And what I must drink? |
| A44524 | And what shall I gain by it in the end? |
| A44524 | And when there is nothing can rouze me from my security, but affliction, ought not I to kiss the rod? |
| A44524 | And where is that alteration, that renovation of the Mind, Will, and Affections? |
| A44524 | And wherewithall I shall be cloathed? |
| A44524 | And whether Consideration how to be converted, fall not under the same necessity? |
| A44524 | And why should not my resolution prompt me to the same generous enterprizes? |
| A44524 | And why should they be dearer to me than my God, my Soul, and a good Conscience? |
| A44524 | And will you storm the gates of Hell, because others are so desperate, as to do it? |
| A44524 | Are not these evident signs, that the World draws and attracts my Heart most powerfully? |
| A44524 | Are not these very lofty and pregnant Reasons, to confute the necessity of so great a Duty? |
| A44524 | Are questions I have a far greater desire to be resolved in, than to know, what I must do to please God, and to be happy for ever? |
| A44524 | Are the concerns of my Soul so trivial, that they do not deserve one day in the week? |
| A44524 | Are you afraid men will laugh at you for being serious? |
| A44524 | Art not thou weary of iniquity? |
| A44524 | Art thou still in love with that which will undo thee? |
| A44524 | Because such a man ruines himself and his Family, have you a mind to do so too? |
| A44524 | Because such a one doth not mind his Trade, but lies in Ale- houses and Taverns, must you necessarily make him your pattern? |
| A44524 | Because such a one imbezles his Estate, must you therefore spend yours in riotous living? |
| A44524 | Because such a one lets his Garden run to Weeds, must you therefore fill yours with Bryars and Thorns? |
| A44524 | Behold, O my Soul, the vast number of the Stars, and Lamps of Heaven, how wise, how powerful is that God that made them? |
| A44524 | Behold, they rise and goe down at his command, and do not fail one minute of their appointed time; how should this teach thee obedience? |
| A44524 | Being advanc''d so high, why should I be enamour''d with a little Dust? |
| A44524 | Believe? |
| A44524 | But how can I love thee, except I keep thy Commandments? |
| A44524 | But if they did, is there not some difference between knowing these sacred Truths, and having them set home upon the Conscience? |
| A44524 | But may it not be requisite to enquire, whether these Doubters have ever taken the right way to be satisfied? |
| A44524 | But then how shall these, or any other Cheats be discover''d and avoided, but by Consideration? |
| A44524 | But then what would our reason signifie? |
| A44524 | But what power hath my Faith upon my Affections? |
| A44524 | But what shall we say? |
| A44524 | But what will not Prejudice do? |
| A44524 | Can I conceive it possible, that God will go from his Word, to please a stubborn Sinner? |
| A44524 | Can I do less than love him, to whom I owe all I have? |
| A44524 | Can I ever be serious, and not believe it? |
| A44524 | Can I harden my heart against these Charms? |
| A44524 | Can I hear the Son of God call so often, Woe, Woe, to ye Hypocrites, and hug the sin in my bosom? |
| A44524 | Can I imagine God will blow out that everlasting Fire, to gratifie my vicious temper? |
| A44524 | Can I look upon all these passages and occurrencies, and not conclude another world? |
| A44524 | Can I refuse this kindness? |
| A44524 | Can I remember the fate of Judas, and not think of a serious repentance? |
| A44524 | Can I think he would say, A Little more sleep, and a little more slumber, and delay his obedience? |
| A44524 | Can mans kindnesses be so prevalent, and shall not the goodness of God fire my Soul into a practical love to his Name? |
| A44524 | Can not, did I say? |
| A44524 | Can that Gold and Silver I enjoy and do so much prize and adore, be any motive to the great Judge of Life and Death to absolve me? |
| A44524 | Can that be little which nailed Christ to his Cross? |
| A44524 | Can the Rock hold out against these bowels of compassion? |
| A44524 | Can the pleasures of Sin be antidotes against Sin? |
| A44524 | Can there be a lovelier Being, than he, from whom whatever is beautiful in Men or Angels flowes? |
| A44524 | Can there be any thing in Nature more silly, or ridiculous? |
| A44524 | Can there be any thing more reasonable than Christs precepts? |
| A44524 | Can there be greater ingratitude in the World, than I am guilty of by this sin? |
| A44524 | Can there be greater madness, than to prefer Stone before Bread, and a Serpent before a Fish? |
| A44524 | Can two walk together except they be agreed? |
| A44524 | Can we read how tribulation and anguish shall certainly fall upon every Soul that doth evil, and not speak to you to prevent it? |
| A44524 | Can we see you stand upon the brink of destruction, and be so cruel, as not to acquaint you with the bottomless gulph that''s underneath? |
| A44524 | Canst thou have such low thoughts of everlasting Glory, as to let Consideration of it, come behind all the satisfactions of thy flesh? |
| A44524 | Consider, what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and loose his own Soul? |
| A44524 | Consider, what your pride, and sensuality will at last conclude in? |
| A44524 | Consider, whether you are not obliged to practice all those Vertues, and Duties, that the meaner sort perform? |
| A44524 | Consideration? |
| A44524 | Darken the Room that I may not see the Sun? |
| A44524 | Did ever any Father love his Son so, as never to part company? |
| A44524 | Did ever any man hate his own flesh? |
| A44524 | Did it raise them to the power of Senacherib, to the magnificence of Nebuchadnezar, to the pleasures of Solomon? |
| A44524 | Did offending a Gracious God, ever cost me the tenth part of the Tears, I shed for being deprived of a little shining Clay? |
| A44524 | Did sin ever grieve me a quarter so much as a temporal loss? |
| A44524 | Did the sot but blow those sparks of Reason he hath left, into such considerations as these, how horrid, how nauseous would the sin appear? |
| A44524 | Did they ever do, what every rational man ought to do, that is willing to be ascertained of the truth of a common report? |
| A44524 | Do I know that I shall be miserable, if I continue in that course I have held on in hitherto, and am I in love with eternal ruine? |
| A44524 | Do I lead a life which is the readiest way to eternal Vengeance, and shall I not step back and prevent it? |
| A44524 | Do I make nothing of God''s threatenings? |
| A44524 | Do I run the hazard of everlasting flames, and do I lie playing in the Suburbs of destruction? |
| A44524 | Do men gather Grapes of Thorns, or Figs of Thistles? |
| A44524 | Do not I applaud my self for my own sanctity, while I despise others, whom I fancy not so Holy as I am? |
| A44524 | Do not I by pretending to please God, neglect my Duty to my neighbor? |
| A44524 | Do not I draw nigh to God with my Lips, when in my heart and conversation I deny him? |
| A44524 | Do not I make Devotion a scaffold to erect my own credit and profit by? |
| A44524 | Do not I make a gain of Godliness, and use Religion as a cloak, to cover my secret sins? |
| A44524 | Do not I pretend God''s Glory sometimes, when I aim at nothing but mine own? |
| A44524 | Do not I require those Duties of other men, which my self am loath to practise? |
| A44524 | Do not deceive thy self, doth not this knowledge thou pretendest to, make thee secure and careless? |
| A44524 | Do not they trudge from Lawyer to Lawyer to advise about the Evidences, that relate to it? |
| A44524 | Doe not I come too late, O my Lord, to the throne of Grace? |
| A44524 | Doe not I commend that in a rich or great man, which I can reprehend in my inferiors, or meaner persons? |
| A44524 | Does not every man desire to be happy? |
| A44524 | Does not my blood rise at the very thoughts of it? |
| A44524 | Does the case stand thus, and must my sinful life expire into the Worm that dies not? |
| A44524 | Doest not thou see how in sickness the Soul sympathizes with the Body? |
| A44524 | Dost not thou remember, O my Soul, how the world Was lost by eating of the forbidden Tree? |
| A44524 | Dost not thou see the Enemy behind him? |
| A44524 | Dost thou believe, that what ever is in man, and can challenge obedience, is more eminently in God, and dost thou scruple to comply with his Will? |
| A44524 | Dost thou feel this O my Soul? |
| A44524 | Dost thou rightly understand, O my Soul, what this great, and tremendous Ordinance means? |
| A44524 | Dost thou see a crucified Jesus stretching forth his Arms to embrace thee, and dost thou feel no warmth, no heat, no zeal, no affection? |
| A44524 | Dost thou see the Angel of the Lord preparing to rain down Fire and Brimstone on thee, and wilt thou not save thy self in Zoar? |
| A44524 | Dost thou see the Revenger of blood upon thy heels, and wilt not thou run into the City of Refuge? |
| A44524 | Dost thou see the great burning Lake before thee, and dost not thou quake and tremble? |
| A44524 | Dost thou stand upon the brink of destruction, and art thou not afraid? |
| A44524 | Doth it discover to me my spiritual poverty, and make me prefer others before my self? |
| A44524 | Doth it make me cautious and afraid of offending that God whom I believe of purer eyes than to behold iniquity? |
| A44524 | Doth it make me cut off my right hand, pull out my right eye when they do offend me? |
| A44524 | Doth it make me despise the World, and overcome it, and use it only as my Servant, while God alone is my Master? |
| A44524 | Doth it make me embrace Christ both as my Redeemer and Governor, both as my Saviour and my King? |
| A44524 | Doth it make me live like a person that believes the Omnipresence, and Omniscience of God? |
| A44524 | Doth it make me pray with fervency and importunity? |
| A44524 | Doth it make me prize Christ above all? |
| A44524 | Doth it make me prize the promises of the Gospel above all riches, and doth it make me willing to suffer for Christ? |
| A44524 | Doth it make me rejoyce in that Saviour I have not seen with joy unspeakable and full of glory? |
| A44524 | Doth it make me take notice of Gods gracious Dealings and Providences, and admire Gods wisdom and greatness, and power and goodness in all? |
| A44524 | Doth it not make thee sit down contented without the life of Religion? |
| A44524 | Doth it not persuade thee to believe that thou art a Christian, though thou dost not imitate Christ in his holy life and conversation? |
| A44524 | Doth it produce that mind in me, which was in Christ Jesus? |
| A44524 | Doth it purifie my heart, and drive away those lusts that have taken up their residence there? |
| A44524 | Doth it transport my Soul into ravishments upon the sight of yonder glorious things, God hath laid up and prepared for those that love him? |
| A44524 | Doth it work by charity too, by good works? |
| A44524 | Doth it work by love? |
| A44524 | Doth not Dives, his calling for a drop of water to cool his burning Tongue, affright me? |
| A44524 | Doth not thy God know better, what is expedient for thee, than thy self? |
| A44524 | Dull blockish heart, what dost thou mean? |
| A44524 | Either I believe an eternity of Torments, that shall attend a careless sinful life, or I do not: If not, why dare not I profess my denial? |
| A44524 | Feast with so Glorious a God, and come without a Wedding- Garment? |
| A44524 | From the Earth, 0 my Soul, launch out into the Waters, how useful are the Lessons, suggested to issue by this Element? |
| A44524 | God hath made me many glorious promises, how can I forbear rejoycing under the thoughts of them? |
| A44524 | God love a little slime and earth? |
| A44524 | God that might sport himself with my everlasting groans; what need he have cared, whether I were saved or no? |
| A44524 | God would save thee by that burthen which lies upon thee, and dost thou prefer a little froth before an Eternal weight of blessedness? |
| A44524 | God''s Presence can make it a Heaven, Walls can not keep out the Smiles and Glory of the Highest; What is poverty? |
| A44524 | Had God snatcht me away in that dismal service, how dreadful would my wages have been? |
| A44524 | Had any man but shewn me the ten thousandth part of that love, which God hath manifested to me, how should I love him? |
| A44524 | Had not you better be laugh''d at here, than be scorn''d by God, and his Holy Angels to all Eternity? |
| A44524 | Had you been but a quarter of an hour in Hell, would not you call all those men sots, and fools, that now excuse their wilful neglect of this work? |
| A44524 | Hast not thou heard thy Saviour call, Come to me all ye that are weary and heavy loaden, and I will give ye rest? |
| A44524 | Hast thou receiv''d the good at the hand of the Lord, and shalt not thou receive the evil also? |
| A44524 | Hath Gods Favour no Temptation? |
| A44524 | Hath Heaven no Beauty? |
| A44524 | Hath not he power to do with his own what he pleaseth? |
| A44524 | Have I liv''d in the World all this while, and am not I nearer Heaven than I was some years ago? |
| A44524 | Have I no self- end in any Religious Duty? |
| A44524 | Have not I enemies enough, but I must make my self my greatest Foe? |
| A44524 | Have not I reason to believe he would go beyond Zachaeus, leave himself but just enough to live on, and study how to do good with the rest? |
| A44524 | Have not I reason to believe, that the Lawes of Christ would seem very facil and practicable to him? |
| A44524 | He that makes a rich Carpet, doth not intend it for Dish- clouts: And shall I think God more imprudent than man? |
| A44524 | Holiness itself, and find out a way, to promote iniquity? |
| A44524 | How absurd, how impertinent, how contradictory is this Belief? |
| A44524 | How amiable are thy Tabernacles, Lord God of Hosts? |
| A44524 | How art thou cut down to the ground? |
| A44524 | How beautiful must he be, to whom all these inferior Beauties owe their Being? |
| A44524 | How bright that knowledge thou hast revealed to me? |
| A44524 | How can I be said to love thee, while I hate to conform my self to thy Will and Pleasure? |
| A44524 | How can I be thy Friend, except I doe whatsoever thou commandest me? |
| A44524 | How can I dispense with a sin for profits sake? |
| A44524 | How can my Soul be weary of Delighting in thee? |
| A44524 | How canst thou hope thy Religious exercises will be accepted in Heaven, while thou know''st not what this Holy delight doth mean? |
| A44524 | How close doth my heart stick to the profits and advantages it affords? |
| A44524 | How dead under the joyful message of pardon? |
| A44524 | How deliberate, how circumspect am I in my addresses to my King, and is not God a greater Prince than he? |
| A44524 | How despicable a Creature is a Mite? |
| A44524 | How do I deceive my self with the fair names of good Husbandry and Frugality? |
| A44524 | How do I dote upon these sublunary vanities? |
| A44524 | How do I pervert the end of Gods bounty when I make that to ruine and destroy my nature, which was intended to preserve it? |
| A44524 | How do I prepare for Diseases by this Vice? |
| A44524 | How do I prostitute, and expose my self to the contempt and scorn of Men that know me? |
| A44524 | How dost thou know thou shalt live till tomorrow? |
| A44524 | How doth it grieve me, when I spend any thing upon Religion? |
| A44524 | How dull am I under the most lively descriptions of the joys of Heaven? |
| A44524 | How dull under the stupendous offers of Grace and Mercy? |
| A44524 | How dull when tempted by all the ravishing arguments of Gods love, to love him above all? |
| A44524 | How far greater pains do I take to be rich, than to be happy for ever? |
| A44524 | How far greater satisfaction doth my thriving in the world give me, than my thriving in Grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ? |
| A44524 | How frequent the motions of thy spirit thou hast shed into my Soul? |
| A44524 | How great hath been thy care of my temporal concerns, but how far greater thy care of the weighty concerns of my Soul? |
| A44524 | How great the light thou hast imparted to me? |
| A44524 | How happy art thou, if thou art sensible of these operations? |
| A44524 | How happy do I count my self, when Religion doth cost me nothing? |
| A44524 | How hast thou adjur''d me by the bowels of Jesus, by the wounds and agonies of the Son of God, to dye unto sin, and to live unto righteousness? |
| A44524 | How hast thou allur''d me by the various tokens of thy Love, to love thee better than the World? |
| A44524 | How hast thou bid me trust to broken Reeds, and lean on props which were rotten and decay''d? |
| A44524 | How hast thou disparaged Piety to me, as a sneaking qualification, and represented Sin as the Royal way to Credit and Reputation? |
| A44524 | How hast thou prompted me to palliate my Offences, and to lay them at other mens doors? |
| A44524 | How hearty is my joy, under the blessings of Gods left hand? |
| A44524 | How inconsiderable an Insect is a Flie? |
| A44524 | How inexcusable will this make thee? |
| A44524 | How is my Soul bound up with my Corn, and Wine; and Oyl? |
| A44524 | How is my Soul fix''d upon this World? |
| A44524 | How is that glorious Image thou didst once shed into his breast, blotted and defiled? |
| A44524 | How is thy pomp brought down to the grave? |
| A44524 | How is thy similitude in Man defaced? |
| A44524 | How justly may he deny me his Grace and assistance, who do not seek it more earnestly? |
| A44524 | How justly may he refuse to be found by me, who seek him, as if his favour deserved no pains, or trouble? |
| A44524 | How justly may he say, Depart from me, I know thee not, who am so indifferent, whether I enjoy the light of his countenance or no? |
| A44524 | How like a Beast do I live? |
| A44524 | How little am I affected with the blessings of his right? |
| A44524 | How little of my desires and breathings, hath God and a bleeding Saviour? |
| A44524 | How little reason should I have to complain of the tediousness of thy Yoak? |
| A44524 | How loath am I to be any at charges for Heaven? |
| A44524 | How loath am I to confess my self guilty of this vice? |
| A44524 | How loath am I to honour God with my substance? |
| A44524 | How loath am I to part with any of this worlds Goods, for Gods service? |
| A44524 | How many thousands are cut off, as they are going up the hill, in the noon of their days, before half their race be run? |
| A44524 | How may I exult, how may I triumph in this love? |
| A44524 | How may I stand amazed at this prodigious long suffering of my God? |
| A44524 | How miraculously hast thou turn''d the hearts of Men many times into mercy and compassion for my good? |
| A44524 | How numerous the checks of my own conscience which thou hast sent me? |
| A44524 | How often dost thou bring light out of darkness, and turnest my affliction into the greatest joy? |
| A44524 | How often doth he manifest his displeasure against this sin in his Word, and can I think I am not concern''d in the commination? |
| A44524 | How often doth the afflicted Beleever walk in darkness? |
| A44524 | How often hast thou heard my Prayer, and granted me the request of my Lips? |
| A44524 | How often hast thou taught me to cover my sins with plausible names, that I might not be forc''d to leave them? |
| A44524 | How often hath he disappointed me in my hopes and desires, and shall I fawn upon the Enemy? |
| A44524 | How often have I fear''d such an accident would be my ruine, and God hath turn''d it into the greatest good? |
| A44524 | How shall I be crown''d if I strive not? |
| A44524 | How shall I strive, if I have no temptation? |
| A44524 | How shall our reason judge of them, but by Consideration? |
| A44524 | How shortly will all these delusions be discover''d? |
| A44524 | How should I praise his munificence? |
| A44524 | How should I rejoyce to have such a friend as Jonathan was? |
| A44524 | How should I revere his memory? |
| A44524 | How should I speak of his favours? |
| A44524 | How should I stand amazed at the strangeness of the favour? |
| A44524 | How should I study to please him? |
| A44524 | How should my Soul rejoyce at the dawning of it? |
| A44524 | How should the possibility of such misery fright and terrifie me into watchfulness and seriousness? |
| A44524 | How should these Cheats be discover''d but by our reason? |
| A44524 | How sinner? |
| A44524 | How soon might I vanquish this sin? |
| A44524 | How strange hath been thy condescension, and doth not all this deserve my love? |
| A44524 | How strangely hast thou wheel''d things about for my deliverance? |
| A44524 | How strong have been the convictions thou hast vouchsafed me? |
| A44524 | How unwillingly, how grudgingly, do I part with any thing considerable, for Charitable uses? |
| A44524 | How unworthy have I lived of this incomprehensible Love? |
| A44524 | How unworthy of that Reason which the wise Creator hath bestowed upon me? |
| A44524 | How unworthy of those Mercies I daily enjoy? |
| A44524 | How vain will my love appear in the last day, if it hath been a stranger to obedience here? |
| A44524 | How wisely dost thou order my affairs? |
| A44524 | How wisely hast thou many times denied me temporal mercies, because thou hadst a mind to enrich me with spiritual Blessings in Heavenly places? |
| A44524 | How wonderufl are thy Providences to me and mine? |
| A44524 | How would many of the sober Heathens, have scorned a temptation to such a sin? |
| A44524 | How? |
| A44524 | I find how this sin deprives me of a Holy communion with God, and shall I loose my greatest comfort and support, and satisfaction for it? |
| A44524 | I have been abused and cheated by Sin these many years, and shall I be cheated still? |
| A44524 | I pretend to knowledge of the Cross of Christ, but doth this knowledge make me humble and vile in mine own eyes? |
| A44524 | I that will not be cheated in my Trade or Dealings with men, shall I suffer my self to be imposed upon by a lying Devil? |
| A44524 | I''ll be wise before it be too late, I will not hazard my Soul as most men do, O how I blame my self for serving Sin and the World thus long? |
| A44524 | I, see a Law in my Members, warring against the Law of my Mind, and bringing me into captivity to the Law of Sin? |
| A44524 | If God doth do nothing in vain, what can we imagine that this power of Consideration is given for? |
| A44524 | If God had commanded severer things, is not Heaven recompence enough? |
| A44524 | If God laid down his life for his enemies, what will not he do for his friends? |
| A44524 | If I am none of this number, What means the bleating of Sheep, and the lowing of Oxen in mine ears? |
| A44524 | If I do not thrive in outward Riches, by loving thee; hast not thou who art rich in mercy, a pearl of price to bestow upon me when this life is ended? |
| A44524 | If I fear not Hell- fire, why do not I fear impoverishing of my self and Family? |
| A44524 | If I loose in this World by loving thee, hast not thou Treasures enough to recompence my losses? |
| A44524 | If a fool laughs at you, do you regard it? |
| A44524 | If any man love the World, the love of the Father is not in him; and can I be contented without the love of God? |
| A44524 | If he hath satisfied God for the injuries he received by any sins, why should they make a new satisfaction by holiness of their Lives? |
| A44524 | If men despise me for loving thee, hast not thou Honour and Glory enough to crown me withal? |
| A44524 | If the streams be so lovely, what must the water in the Fountain be? |
| A44524 | If these be not signes of Grace, what character of mercy wouldst thou have? |
| A44524 | If they hope to do well after all this, why may not he? |
| A44524 | If thou feelest no holy force in thy Soul, to shake off every weight and every sin which doth so easily beset thee? |
| A44524 | If thou must be miserable, hadst thou not better be so here, than hereafter? |
| A44524 | Is God so dull an object that it can not stirr, or rouze thee from thy Lethargy? |
| A44524 | Is he all wise, and doth not he know what medicines are fittest for thee? |
| A44524 | Is his servant become his Sovereign? |
| A44524 | Is it for this, that the riches of grace and mercy, are vile and mean, and despicable in your eyes? |
| A44524 | Is it for this, you hazard the favour of God? |
| A44524 | Is it for this, you leap into destruction? |
| A44524 | Is it for this, you scorn the gold of the Sanctuary? |
| A44524 | Is it not all one, as if a woman should entreat her Husband, to let her enjoy the pleasure of an unlawful Bed? |
| A44524 | Is it not every mans interest to study how to prevent it? |
| A44524 | Is it possible a messenger of that worth and beauty, and excellency, can want a lodging? |
| A44524 | Is it possible it should fare no better than the GREAT JESUS, be destitute of a place where to lay its head? |
| A44524 | Is it so as God hath told me? |
| A44524 | Is it such a pleasure to be laught at by all men that maintain Sobriety? |
| A44524 | Is it such a pleasure to have God my Foe? |
| A44524 | Is it such a pleasure to make a Pond of my Body? |
| A44524 | Is it such a satisfaction to have him, that can destroy both Soul and Body into Hell, for my Adversary? |
| A44524 | Is not Eternity more to me, than a moment of time? |
| A44524 | Is not here enough to warm my affections towards thee? |
| A44524 | Is the King immortal, invisible, blessed for evermore, to be put off with the chips and shavings of Devotion? |
| A44524 | Is the portion of Hypocrites no discouragement? |
| A44524 | Is the world become his Master? |
| A44524 | Is there any impediment that you may not remove, if you will? |
| A44524 | Is there no Charm in his Love? |
| A44524 | Is there no Physitian there? |
| A44524 | Is there yet compassion left for such a poor sinner? |
| A44524 | Is this adorning the Gospel of my Saviour, as my Profession requires? |
| A44524 | Is this remembring thy dearest friend, to think of him solemnly but once or twice a year? |
| A44524 | Is this slovenly Devotion a sit Present for him, who searches the Hearts and the Reins? |
| A44524 | Is this the Livery of a Christian indeed? |
| A44524 | Is this the Man that receiv''d a Soul to mind Heaven most? |
| A44524 | Is this the Wedding garment I may triumph in? |
| A44524 | Is this thy wisdom, to lie in a Dungeon, when a Palace is prepared for thy reception? |
| A44524 | Is this thy wisdom, to neglect thy weightiest Concerns, and spend thy time in admiring Bubbles? |
| A44524 | Is this thy wisdom, to relie on broken Reeds, rather than on the Rock of Ages? |
| A44524 | Keep out a Messenger that brings glad tydings? |
| A44524 | Lock the gates against a good Angel? |
| A44524 | Look upon Jesus, the Author, and Captain of thy Salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings; art thou better than the Son of God? |
| A44524 | Love God, and encourage sin? |
| A44524 | May not he affright stubborn sinners, with what punishment he hath a mind to? |
| A44524 | Must I see others run away with these Treasures, while my self can expect nothing but Gods curse and anger? |
| A44524 | Must my body engross all my endeavours, and must my Soul be starved? |
| A44524 | My love of the world is Adultery, and shall I desire that, wherewith I have committed Adultery? |
| A44524 | Nay, when God doth love me so entirely, why should not I for love of him conform my understanding to his judgement? |
| A44524 | No House in that Jerusalem which is above? |
| A44524 | No habitation in that City, which hath foundations, whose Maker and Builder is God? |
| A44524 | Notwithstanding my long contempt of these loving kindnesses of the Lord, I am alive yet, and on this side Hell? |
| A44524 | O how their thoughts at that time will all be changed, and all their Triumphs be turn''d into Funerals? |
| A44524 | O my God, can I think of so great, so holy, so infinite, so merciful, so munificent a Being, and forbear to be enamour''d with thee? |
| A44524 | O my Lord, hast thou united me so close unto thee, and shall I defile my self, by setting my love on trifles? |
| A44524 | O my Soul, canst thou name that charming name of God, and feel no joy, no gladness in thy affections? |
| A44524 | O my Soul, who can express all the pleasing objects, which are in this Glorious God thou dost adore? |
| A44524 | O sinner, is thy heart of stone, that it doth not dissolve at this Gracious Message? |
| A44524 | Oh my Lord, how often hast thou darted Rays of Light into my Soul, and the impure fire of my Lusts hath prevailed against them? |
| A44524 | Or would you have us leap into everlasting burnings with you, for not reclaiming you from venturing into that fire? |
| A44524 | Quit that which must support my Family? |
| A44524 | Satan follows thee, but dost not thou resist him? |
| A44524 | Shall I be angry with a Chirurgeon, who to prevent the spreading of my Cancer, cuts off a Member, to preserve my life? |
| A44524 | Shall I count that loss, which is my gain, and call my want of Riches, a misfortune, when it is the greatest remedy to fit my Soul for Heaven? |
| A44524 | Shall I flatter thee with my Lips, and hate thee in my Heart? |
| A44524 | Shall I give him advantages against my self, first let him deceive me, and then laugh at me? |
| A44524 | Shall I harbor a Snake there, which will sting me into endless gnawings of Conscience? |
| A44524 | Shall I imagine that God hath less foresight with him, than dust and ashes? |
| A44524 | Shall I join with that roaring Lyon, and teach him how to devour me? |
| A44524 | Shall I love my Friend, and shall not I love thee my Joy, my Treasure, my Hiding- place? |
| A44524 | Shall I love thee in words only, who hast loved me in Deeds? |
| A44524 | Shall I sing in Chains, rejoyce in Fetters, glory in my Shackles, be proud of the Devils Service, boast of my Slavery? |
| A44524 | Shall I think my self a Child of God, when that which I do, is fitter for a Child of the Devil, than for a Favourite of Heaven? |
| A44524 | Shall I think my self sufficiently holy, when I am so little acquainted with the first rudiments of Holiness? |
| A44524 | Shall I( Judas like,) kiss thee, and betray thee? |
| A44524 | Shall he say, Suffer thou this affliction, and wilt thou answer with that ill- natur''d Son in the Gospel, I will not? |
| A44524 | Shall so great a Soul be married to so mean a slave? |
| A44524 | Shall the present Food flatter thee into eternal hunger? |
| A44524 | Should I pretend to love my Prince, and affront his Law, how soon would my love be accused of a lye? |
| A44524 | Sirs, what is it that doth discourage you from a sincere consideratiori of your Spiritual condition? |
| A44524 | Sirs, what is it, that we are exhorting you unto? |
| A44524 | Sirs, you stand upon the brink of a bottomless pit; who, but a man, whose brains are crack''d, would not look about himself? |
| A44524 | Slight this stupendious blessing? |
| A44524 | So great a Spirit join''d to so pitiful a vassal? |
| A44524 | So in Fasting, Consideration must acquaint us, whether it be the outward performance we do regard more, than the inward frame of the Soul? |
| A44524 | Spurn at this favor? |
| A44524 | Sup with him, who dwelleth in the Heavens, and not purify thy self even as he is pure? |
| A44524 | That man, who examines not his spiritual estate or condition, whether he is that sinner, that shall be everlastingly miserable? |
| A44524 | The Angels love thee, and they have no other way to demonstrate their Love, but by running at thy commands? |
| A44524 | Their Prophets, what mighty, what powerful Men were they? |
| A44524 | There is no sin that''s more in my power to avoid than this, the most barbarous Heathen can shun it, and shall I pretend impossibility? |
| A44524 | They all run to the upright in heart, and must I go without these Cordials? |
| A44524 | Thou delightest in a delicate shape, why not in him that''s fairer than the Children of Men? |
| A44524 | Thus it is with me, why should I deny it? |
| A44524 | To see this, what sober man would not bless himself? |
| A44524 | True Conversion consists in resisting and conquering such Delusions, but how shall they be resisted, if they be not known? |
| A44524 | Variety is strangely delightful to thee here on Earth, and why then hath God so little of thy delight? |
| A44524 | Was ever any man in love with torment? |
| A44524 | What Devil doth possess me, that I should prefer Dancing and Revelling for a few hours, before endless joy? |
| A44524 | What Friends, what Benefactors hast thou rais''d me? |
| A44524 | What Man, what Devil can hurt me, while I love thee, without whose command no creature dares stir or move? |
| A44524 | What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols? |
| A44524 | What are slanders and reproaches? |
| A44524 | What are you afraid of? |
| A44524 | What brute but a Swine would disorder it self, as I do my Body? |
| A44524 | What calamity or misery is there in which this love can not hold my Head, and keep it from aking? |
| A44524 | What can I plead in excuse of so soul a crime? |
| A44524 | What canst thou plead for thy averseness from God, after such a prospect of his favours? |
| A44524 | What concord hath Christ with Belial? |
| A44524 | What crime is there that I am not fit for, when my Reason is overwhelmed with Drink? |
| A44524 | What difficulty is there in leaving so gross a vice, which threatens so much mischief and misery? |
| A44524 | What flouds of Consolation doth God sometimes pour out upon his Soul? |
| A44524 | What follies and extravagancies doth it involve me in? |
| A44524 | What great, what noble, what generous actions would thy love put me upon? |
| A44524 | What hinders thee? |
| A44524 | What hinders you? |
| A44524 | What hurt hath God ever done me, that I should thus wilfully affront him? |
| A44524 | What if God should strike me dead in a drunken fit? |
| A44524 | What is all the light our Eyes behold, but a rush Candle to him that is the Father of Lights? |
| A44524 | What is hypocrisie, if this be not? |
| A44524 | What is it puts me many times upon doing good, applause from Men, or the love of God? |
| A44524 | What is it stops thy progress? |
| A44524 | What is there in them that should discourage me? |
| A44524 | What judgements mightst not thou have inflicted on me for my wilful sins? |
| A44524 | What makes me thus stupid, that I should forgo the Milk and Honey of Canaan, for the pitiful Garlicks and Onions of Egypt? |
| A44524 | What man of reason would envy such advantages? |
| A44524 | What means my earthly mindedness? |
| A44524 | What means my living in wilful Contempt of so many commands of the Son of God? |
| A44524 | What means my unwillingness to take God for my greatest portion? |
| A44524 | What mysteries are these things to a poor Worldling? |
| A44524 | What pains should I take to manifest my gratitude? |
| A44524 | What promise in the Gospel can I lay hold of, during this condition? |
| A44524 | What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? |
| A44524 | What should discourage me from loving thee, when I have all the promises of the Bible to prompt me to it? |
| A44524 | What thinkest thou Sinner? |
| A44524 | What''s become of my understanding? |
| A44524 | What''s the reason that I can not shake off the fears of it, if I would never so fain? |
| A44524 | What? |
| A44524 | When I have been in the greatest straits, how hast thou shewn me a way to escape? |
| A44524 | When is it that I intend to be clean, shall I delay it one moment longer, that know not but I may be in Hell before the Clock doth strike again? |
| A44524 | When this Air yields to all gross Bodies, and lets them pass without opposition, how doth it read to thee Lectures of Patience and Humility? |
| A44524 | Where words could not prevail, Tears were the means to supple and affect them; and, it seems, there is not stronger Rhetorick in the World than these? |
| A44524 | Wherefore is he red in his apparel, and his garments like him that treads in the Wine- fat? |
| A44524 | Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury? |
| A44524 | Who can express the Honour God bestows on those that give their hearts to him? |
| A44524 | Whom do I cheat all this while, is it not my own Soul? |
| A44524 | Why do I play the Hypocrite, and make the World think I do believe it? |
| A44524 | Why doe ye dispute the case? |
| A44524 | Why doe ye stand musing? |
| A44524 | Why doe you deliberate whether ye shall or no? |
| A44524 | Why doe you loiter? |
| A44524 | Why does something within me check me, when I would be so profane as to deny it? |
| A44524 | Why should Father and Mother, Wife and Children, Brethren and Sisters, Lands and Houses make thee lose a Crown? |
| A44524 | Why should I be afraid to ask such a question, when there is no less than Eternity in the case? |
| A44524 | Why should I call light darkness, and darkness light; put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter? |
| A44524 | Why should I flatter and deceive my self? |
| A44524 | Why should I love God less than dogs do their Masters? |
| A44524 | Why should I sooth my self into kind thoughts of my condition, that is so apparently dangerous? |
| A44524 | Why should I think it incongruous to Gods justice, to punish sins committed here, with an Eternity of pain and anguish? |
| A44524 | Why should I weep, when God takes away from me the cause of weeping? |
| A44524 | Why should he fright me with painted fire? |
| A44524 | Why should not my understanding serve me to consider the one as well as the other? |
| A44524 | Why should they consider, how to be rid of Sin, and lay the pleasures of Holiness before their eyes? |
| A44524 | Why so barbarous to my immortal part? |
| A44524 | Why so cruel to my own Soul? |
| A44524 | Why so inhumane to my spiritual interest? |
| A44524 | Why so mad to run into the fire? |
| A44524 | Why such an enemy to my own good? |
| A44524 | Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recover''d? |
| A44524 | Will God give a reward, to Men, that stand yawning, and stretching themselves in his Vineyard, unresolv''d, whether they shall work or no? |
| A44524 | Will a Tradesman leave his Calling, because such a man makes Songs and Ballads upon''t? |
| A44524 | Will a few pleasant Cups counterballance thy everlasting Thirst? |
| A44524 | Will any man give over the study of Divinity, or Law, or Physick, because the ignorant Peasant sneers at him? |
| A44524 | Will he bail you out, when Gods thunder shall break out upon all disobedient sinners? |
| A44524 | Will he be your Advocate, when you shall have your Consciences pleading against you? |
| A44524 | Will he undertake for you, when God will be abused and mocked no longer, and the day of his wrath doth come? |
| A44524 | Will it not be far more comfortable to have none of this load to burthen, and oppress my Soul? |
| A44524 | Will not the remembrance of my eager pursuit after these Butterflies and Gaudes, fill me with anguish and sorrow? |
| A44524 | Will nothing less serve the turn, than leaving all, and following Christ? |
| A44524 | Will that man who laughs at you for despising the world, save you harmless at the day of Judgement? |
| A44524 | Will these Paper Walls be proof against everlasting burnings? |
| A44524 | Will these companions save me when I come to dye? |
| A44524 | Will you howl with Devils, because others delight in that Musick? |
| A44524 | Will you run the hazard of losing the light of Gods countenance for ever, because others know not, how to prize it? |
| A44524 | Will you scorn the offers of salvation, because others will not be drawn by cords of Love? |
| A44524 | Will you suffer yourselves to be stript of all you have, without the least opposition? |
| A44524 | Will your Religiousness give me bread? |
| A44524 | Wilt thou receive such a Prodigal into thy favour? |
| A44524 | Wilt thou take him into thy bosome, that hath been a Rebel, a Traytor against thee these many years? |
| A44524 | Wilt thou venture an everlasting storm, for a present calm? |
| A44524 | Would an audible voice from Heaven doe it? |
| A44524 | Would any man imagine that you believe a reward to come, that sees you so greedy after a present recompence? |
| A44524 | Would any man think, you had rational, immortal Souls within you, that sees you live thus? |
| A44524 | Would not you confess, that all those pretended cloggs are meer cobwebs, which may be broke through with the greatest ease? |
| A44524 | Would not you see the vanity of their pretences? |
| A44524 | Would the Fool, I say, but think seriously on these familiar Arguments, how could he say in his heart, There is no God? |
| A44524 | Would you be frighted from this duty by any temporal losses, as now you are? |
| A44524 | Would you have me precipitate my self into ruine? |
| A44524 | Would you have me starve and perish? |
| A44524 | Would you have us to be as tyrannical to you, as you are to your own Souls? |
| A44524 | after such horrid wilfulness? |
| A44524 | and can not he pray that this fire may goe out? |
| A44524 | and canst thou see a God court thee, and grow coy? |
| A44524 | and doe not these Stars put thee in mind, how e''re long thou shalt shine as the Stars in the firmament for ever? |
| A44524 | and dost thou let thy Servant goe without chiding, that doth neglect the business thou hast recommended to his care? |
| A44524 | and drops of Gods anger more tolerable, than flouds of his displeasure? |
| A44524 | and he seems to be able to comprehend with all Saints, what is the depth and breadth of the love of God? |
| A44524 | and he that doth but frown now, how easily might he thunder? |
| A44524 | and how soon hath this vain world taken me off again, and dull''d, and dash''d those considerations? |
| A44524 | and if there were no Hell, no Judgement to come, how should the inconveniences, which attend this sin, discourage me? |
| A44524 | and must my sport of sin be crusht into never dying anguish? |
| A44524 | and my wilful contempt and neglect of Gods Will, be turned into Chains of Darkness for ever? |
| A44524 | and shall Satan goe away with thy Soul? |
| A44524 | and shall love to a sensual careless life, hinder thee from laying hold of the greatest Treasure? |
| A44524 | and what Patent hast thou from Heaven, that it shall not be thus with thee? |
| A44524 | and what communion hath light with darkness? |
| A44524 | and whether you will dare to brave it at the great Tribunal, as now you doe on Earth, where you have no body to controul you? |
| A44524 | and whither he walks in that strait way, and strives to enter in at that narrow gate, the Holy Ghost doth speak of? |
| A44524 | and who is the looser all this while? |
| A44524 | and why should you regard such mens scorn any more, than the laughter of fools? |
| A44524 | and wilt thou beworse than a Devil, and spurn at that Love, which Angels stand astonish''d at? |
| A44524 | and yet how free, how full are thy promises to the truly penitent? |
| A44524 | and yet none of all these stir thy Soul to reflect seriously, what thou must doe to be saved? |
| A44524 | are all the avenues to mercy shut? |
| A44524 | are not Rods gentler than Scorpions? |
| A44524 | are not these signs that Gods Spirit warms thy affections, and makes intercession for thee with groanings, which can not be uttered? |
| A44524 | are the gates of Mercy open yet for so vile a wretch? |
| A44524 | are you deaf to my groans? |
| A44524 | are you grown strangers to compassion? |
| A44524 | art thou afraid of being too much enamoured with this Jesus? |
| A44524 | art thou afraid of renewing thy Repentance, thy Faith, thy Hope, thy Charity too often? |
| A44524 | art thou afraid of thinking too much of this Love, and consequently of being too Religious? |
| A44524 | art thou afraid that the sight of his broken Body will break thy Heart too much? |
| A44524 | art thou afraid that the sight of his effused Bloud, will make thee pour out too many Tears and Prayers, and Praises of his Love? |
| A44524 | but how wilt thou escape, if thou neglect so great a Salvation? |
| A44524 | but will these delusions stand the fire? |
| A44524 | can all the Beauty thou seest in that painted Harlot, countervail the misery it dies into? |
| A44524 | can not he as well be glorified in thy Torments, as he can in thy Salvation? |
| A44524 | can not he make his Justice, triumph over such a stubborn wretch as thou art? |
| A44524 | can that be little which offends an infinite Majesty? |
| A44524 | can there be a greater witness, than the Son of God? |
| A44524 | can there be any thing surer than the word of God? |
| A44524 | canst thou behold so great a love, and not loose thy reason in the admiration of its greatness? |
| A44524 | canst thou behold that Glory, which God hath prepared for thee, and think much of these fiery Trials? |
| A44524 | canst thou remember thy sins that brought him to the Cross, too often? |
| A44524 | canst thou represent his Love too often to thy mind and affections? |
| A44524 | canst thou see him carress thee, and turn away thy face? |
| A44524 | consider thy ways upon thy death- bed? |
| A44524 | did I but love thee as I do a dear friend, how easy would all thy Precepts seem? |
| A44524 | did ever any Mother love her Child, as never to suffer it to goe from her Arms? |
| A44524 | did the Drunkard, When he comes to himself again, Smite upon his Thigh, and say what have I done? |
| A44524 | do not the homely feet of the former fright thee? |
| A44524 | doe Men and Angels leave me? |
| A44524 | doe all forsake me? |
| A44524 | dost not thou correct thy Child when he is stubborn? |
| A44524 | dost thou believe such a Heaven, where no good shall be absent, and canst thou be hunting after the husks, and empty shells of sensual pleasure? |
| A44524 | dost thou know what Consideration means? |
| A44524 | dost thou think he can not live without thee? |
| A44524 | dost thou think thy being in his Heaven, doth add any thing, to his felicity? |
| A44524 | doth God offer to kiss thee with the kisses of his Lips, and dost thou scorn his embraces? |
| A44524 | especially, when fretting and strugling to shake it off before Gods time, doth but make my neck more sore, and the yoak far more uneasy? |
| A44524 | first let him seduce me into the Net, and then punish me for being taken? |
| A44524 | for shame, let not God goe away empty; think what a condescension it is in God, to be willing to accept of so inconsiderable a Present, as thy Heart? |
| A44524 | for, What is thy life, even a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away? |
| A44524 | hadst not thou rather be rid of that burthen than keep it? |
| A44524 | hadst thou rather enjoy thy good things here, than lye with Lazarus in Abrahams bosom? |
| A44524 | hadst thou rather goe along with him, that will murther thee, than accompany him that will encircle thy Head with a Crown of Glory? |
| A44524 | hast not thou reason to thank him for chastising thee, but now, who might have done it much sooner? |
| A44524 | hast thou forgot the peremptory command of Christ, Do this in remembrance of me? |
| A44524 | hath he no Prayer left to stop my calamity, and to give a truce to my torments? |
| A44524 | hath not thy God said, that he''l love those that do love him? |
| A44524 | hath thy God a hand in this affliction, or hath he not? |
| A44524 | he that before had a thousand excuses, why he could not do what Christ enjoyns him; how doth he now lay all those idle apologies by? |
| A44524 | he that before scorn''d to hear the glad tidings of the Gospel; how doth he now submit to Christs easy yoak? |
| A44524 | he that before thought such a duty unfit, and improper for a person of his quality, how cheerfully doth he now bow, and yield to it? |
| A44524 | he will not be able to answer for himself, how then should he plead your cause? |
| A44524 | how Mens weakness scarce gives them leave to repeat the Lords Prayer intire, without interruption? |
| A44524 | how chearfully shouldst thou run at the command of thy God? |
| A44524 | how full of miracles is every circumstance here? |
| A44524 | how great a mercy is it, that it is not worse with thee? |
| A44524 | how joyfully might I rise next morning, and comfort my self with the happy remembrance of the blessings, my Soul hath receiv''d the day before? |
| A44524 | how little do the Inhabitants of that New Jerusalem mind the pomp and grandeur of this world? |
| A44524 | how little do they esteem the friendship of the Almighty? |
| A44524 | how little do those flashes of contemplating God in the week days, which are so often interrupted by worldly businesses, warm the Soul? |
| A44524 | how little wouldst thou regard, what man can do unto thee? |
| A44524 | how long hath God spared thee, who might long ago have poured out the vials of his wrath upon thee? |
| A44524 | how odious is this Vice I indulge my self in? |
| A44524 | how often hast thou sent sparks of Grace into my Soul, while I have done what I could, to smother that Holy fire? |
| A44524 | how often hast thou stung my heart, prick''d it, and goaded it into serious reflexions? |
| A44524 | how often hast thou suggested to my Soul, the danger it hath been in, and yet I have not trembled? |
| A44524 | how often have I deserv''d thine anger? |
| A44524 | how often on the other side, is a vail drawn over all these bright Conceptions, and he groveling in the dust? |
| A44524 | how pleasant is this contemplation? |
| A44524 | how quietly might I lye down at night, after so sweet a converse with God all day? |
| A44524 | how should I adore his Name? |
| A44524 | how should this put thee upon promoting peace, and concord, and agreement among thy neighbors? |
| A44524 | how soft would my rest be, having worked in God''s Vineyard so many hours? |
| A44524 | how soon would time wear out the memory of it, and leave thee as careless as it found thee? |
| A44524 | how the Mind languishes with the Flesh? |
| A44524 | how the mind is employed with thinking of the pain and anguish, and uneasiness of the Body? |
| A44524 | how weak, how feeble the thoughts are upon a Death- bed? |
| A44524 | how wonderful is thy love? |
| A44524 | if God had a mind to kill thee, would he have shewn thee all these things? |
| A44524 | if God were gone from thee, would not his Spirit be gone too? |
| A44524 | if I believe there is a God, what can I fancy that God to be? |
| A44524 | if I would in good earnest resolve to be allur''d by my old companions no more? |
| A44524 | if he hath not, where is his Providence? |
| A44524 | if he hath, why dost thou grumble? |
| A44524 | if the outward Court be so magnificent, what must the Presence- Chamber of the King of Kings be? |
| A44524 | if those miracles will not perswade, thee, how should a new miracle do it? |
| A44524 | if thou art able, and wilt not take thy faithfulness into serious consideration, can there be any thing more just in the world, than thy damnation? |
| A44524 | if thou art not heartily resolv''d to part with it, why dost thou complain? |
| A44524 | if thou dost, what need there any more miracles? |
| A44524 | if thou hast not the Spirit of God, what mean thy longings after God? |
| A44524 | if thou hast such a mind to be the Devils slave, what need God take pains to rescue thee from that bondage? |
| A44524 | if thou lov''st him not why art thou restless till thou enjoyest him? |
| A44524 | if thou lovest him not; why dost thou desire him? |
| A44524 | is an ever- gnawing Conscience, matter of sport and laughter? |
| A44524 | is it such a pleasure to deprive my self of Reason? |
| A44524 | is it to dig down Mountains? |
| A44524 | is it to exhaust the Sea? |
| A44524 | is it to pull down the Sun from his Orb? |
| A44524 | is it to reverse the course of Nature? |
| A44524 | is it to unhinge the Earth, or to stop the flux and reflux of the Ocean? |
| A44524 | is it to work miracles? |
| A44524 | is not the way to life a race, where men must run on till they reach the mark? |
| A44524 | is there no body to speak comfort to me? |
| A44524 | is there no door for Consolation open? |
| A44524 | love thee, and love my sins, which are thy greatest enemies? |
| A44524 | ls this renouncing the Devil and all his works, as I vow''d to do in Baptisme? |
| A44524 | may not he be God, and Great, and Glorious, and admired by Angels, while thou friest in Hell? |
| A44524 | must my Frolicks dye into endless howlings? |
| A44524 | my Heart and my Flesh cryeth out for the living God, when shall I come to appear before thee? |
| A44524 | my Soul longeth, yea even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord? |
| A44524 | nay, how shall we be sure that the sight of a new miracle would work upon thee? |
| A44524 | or can I spend too much time in commemorating so glorious a Favour? |
| A44524 | or can I think God is so fond of answering my requests, that he matters not, with what frame of Heart I approach his Throne? |
| A44524 | or destroy that Tophet, out of tenderness to my Lusts and Corruptions? |
| A44524 | or is Salvation so easy a thing, that to spend much time in the contrivance of it, is altogether needless? |
| A44524 | or my Jollities procure a pardon in that day, when God shall judge men according to the Gospel? |
| A44524 | or prove a Lyar, that I may go with greater ease to Heaven? |
| A44524 | or what shall a man give in exchange for his Soul? |
| A44524 | or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? |
| A44524 | reconciled thee to an offended God? |
| A44524 | see how the ambitious love the applause of men, and wilt not thou love him who is brighter than the Sun? |
| A44524 | shall God magnify his Mercy upon thee, and wilt thou fall in love with his enemy? |
| A44524 | shall I throw brimstone into the flame, to make that consuming fire more terrible? |
| A44524 | shall he possess that Treasure, which Angels are ambitious of? |
| A44524 | should Death arrest me before I have made my Calling and Election sure, how fearful, how wretched would my condition be? |
| A44524 | should not I give him the cream and marrow of my endeavours, that hath greater power over me, than my Master, my Father, or my Prince? |
| A44524 | should thy Saviour remember thee no oftner than thou dost his death and passion, how fearful would thy condition be? |
| A44524 | shouldst not thou remember him as often as thou hast an opportunity? |
| A44524 | shouldst not thou stand amazed at his Favour? |
| A44524 | shouldst not thou wonder, that this immense, and infinite Majesty will vouchsafe a gracious look to so vile a worm as thou art? |
| A44524 | so great a God, and so mean a Sacrifice, so infinite a Majesty, and so pittiful a Present? |
| A44524 | such Labyrinths, such Inconveniences do I cast my self into by my sinful life, and are these encouragements to continue in it? |
| A44524 | survey the World, where is there so ravishing an object? |
| A44524 | the Ship is ready to be cast away, the Masts are split, it''s leaking on every side; who would not lay hold of a Plank to save himself from drowning? |
| A44524 | the University, where we shall know, even as we are known? |
| A44524 | the hopes of a Kingdom makes a Captive Prince merry, though he is in prison, and shall not the hopes of yonder joys, keep thy heart from sinking? |
| A44524 | the least push, or thrust sends you thither; who would not take some pains to get into a Harbor? |
| A44524 | thou art his creature, and may not he do with his own what he pleases? |
| A44524 | thou art in pain, but what is this to Hell- fire? |
| A44524 | thou art in torments, but what is this to the Agonies, the unhappy Spirits in the burning Lake endure? |
| A44524 | thou art not alone in misery, thou hast whole Armies of Holy Men to bear thee company; canst thou look upon yonder Heaven, and repine? |
| A44524 | thou canst not totally master such a corruption, but dost not thou fight against it? |
| A44524 | thou hast affronted him, and must not he use his Rod? |
| A44524 | thou hast forsaken him, and must not he shew his displeasure against thy ingratitude? |
| A44524 | thou hast infirmities to wrestle withal, but hath not thy God promis''d thee, that he''ll bruise Satan under thy feet shortly? |
| A44524 | thou hast sinn''d against him, and must not he correct thee? |
| A44524 | thou hast very highly obliged him, indeed, that he need be at all this trouble to make thee in love with his ways? |
| A44524 | thou meetest with temptations, but dost not thou grapple with them? |
| A44524 | thou pretendest want of preparation, but whose fault is it that thou art not prepar''d? |
| A44524 | thou seest how this Earth produces Gold and Silver, and if this Earth be so Glorious, what will Heaven be? |
| A44524 | thy Conscience terrifies thee, but hast not thou the Cross of Christ to fly to? |
| A44524 | was Heaven purchas''d in a moment, or Sin conquer''d in an hour? |
| A44524 | wert thou in Gods stead, wouldst not thou require the same account of thy servant, on whom thou hadst bestow''d such a Talent? |
| A44524 | what Fiend, what Enemy, what Devil, what Charm quenches the fire of thy resolutions? |
| A44524 | what a stir do men keep, to purchase the friendship of Great Men? |
| A44524 | what arguments can you desire that you have not? |
| A44524 | what benefit doth he receive, by offering thee his bosom? |
| A44524 | what can I look for but Eternal Darkness? |
| A44524 | what can hinder thee from preparation, but love to sin? |
| A44524 | what do I hear? |
| A44524 | what do I see? |
| A44524 | what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? |
| A44524 | what greater assurance, canst thou have of Gods love to thee, and of Christs kind thoughts towards thee, than thy weariness of sin? |
| A44524 | what hope can I have, that Christ''s Bloud will save me, when I swear it away, and thrust it from me with both Arms? |
| A44524 | what insolence is it to think thy self more knowing, than he that knows all things? |
| A44524 | what is a Prison? |
| A44524 | what is impudence is it in me, to desire that of God, which I ought to hate; at the most, love but with fear and trembling? |
| A44524 | what is it sinner, that would make thee take thy ways into serious consideration? |
| A44524 | what is my careless devotion, but mocking of God, and my drowzy Prayer, what is it but playing with him, at whose Presence the Mountains tremble? |
| A44524 | what is the Sun, but a dark Lanthorn, in comparison of God? |
| A44524 | what is this friendship to Gods love? |
| A44524 | what is thy Soul to him? |
| A44524 | what makes Christ so sweet, and sin so bitter to thee? |
| A44524 | what makes thee afraid of offending God? |
| A44524 | what makes thee angry with thy self for displeasing God? |
| A44524 | what makes thee asham''d of looking up to Heaven? |
| A44524 | what makes thee breathe and pant after Christ, as the wounded Hart pants after the Water- brooks? |
| A44524 | what makes thee cry out, O wretched creature that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? |
| A44524 | what makes thee wish, that what thou hast done against God, were undone? |
| A44524 | what manner of love is this? |
| A44524 | what mean these longings of Almighty God after my happiness? |
| A44524 | what means this industry of that incomprehensible Being, to be at all this charge, and pains, to make me blessed? |
| A44524 | what means thy love to a Spiritual life? |
| A44524 | what should I love this Earth for, when I have a God to love? |
| A44524 | what''s the impulsive cause of it? |
| A44524 | when God allows me six dayes in the week, to follow the business of my lawful Calling, can not I allow one day entire for his service? |
| A44524 | when God hath made me a King, why should I debase my self, or stoop to the mean employment of a Peasant? |
| A44524 | when I was his enemy, God seemed to love me more than he did himself, and now that I am his friend, shall I think he will love me less, than an enemy? |
| A44524 | when all these painted Gaudes must break into a dismal Dungeon; wilt thou laugh awhile, that thou mayst mourn and lament for ever? |
| A44524 | when shall I be freed from this Earth and Dross, and do thy Will, O my God, without Lett, or Interruption? |
| A44524 | when shall I shake off this clogg of the flesh, and praise thee day and night in thy Temple? |
| A44524 | whence are all my Mercies but from thee? |
| A44524 | whence is it that thou delightest not in the company of sinners, but thy delight is chiefly in them that fear the Lord? |
| A44524 | whence is it, that all the preferment and riches of this World can not tempt thee to sin wilfully? |
| A44524 | where dost thou see a more lovely Being? |
| A44524 | where is my reason? |
| A44524 | where is my self- denial, if I can not deny my self in my worldly discourses, or thoughts one day? |
| A44524 | where is that Elijah, that pray''d, that there might be no rain, and there came no rain, for three years, and six months? |
| A44524 | where is that Joshua that prayed for the Suns standing still, and it stood still in the midst of Heaven? |
| A44524 | where is the spring of it? |
| A44524 | where is your wonted clemency? |
| A44524 | wherein doth he do thee an injury, if he doth ask what thou hast done with this power? |
| A44524 | wherein doth his advantage lye? |
| A44524 | whether he finds those qualifications in himself, which the Son of God requires of all that shall be Heirs of glory? |
| A44524 | whether the threatnings of the Gospel concern him? |
| A44524 | whither he feels those things in his Soul, which men that have a title to the great Inheritance are sensible of? |
| A44524 | who can look upon those curious Lights without admiring their Creator? |
| A44524 | who sees not, that these are but inventions, to give some colour of reason to thy unwillingness, to shake off the sins which do so easily beset thee? |
| A44524 | who sees not, that these are only arguments suggested by the Devil, to keep thy Soul from her true food and nourishment? |
| A44524 | who shall abide in thy Tabernacle? |
| A44524 | who shall deliver me from the body of this death? |
| A44524 | who shall dwell in thy Holy Hill? |
| A44524 | why art thou altogether for a clean Heart, and for renewing of a right Spirit within thee? |
| A44524 | why art thou willing to follow him through misery, and the greatest troubles, to be forever with him? |
| A44524 | why dost thou pray so earnestly for the fruit of the Spirit? |
| A44524 | why dost thou watch against thy corruptions? |
| A44524 | why dost thou weep? |
| A44524 | why hath he given us faculties to discourse pro and con of things, and to argue, and debate the case with our selves? |
| A44524 | why should I dote on Nature, when I am in the state of Grace? |
| A44524 | why should he make us capable of being wrought upon by arguments and moral persuasions? |
| A44524 | why should not my mind agree with the verdict of the Most High? |
| A44524 | why shouldst not thou run at his call? |
| A44524 | why shouldst not thou trust God with thy Soul? |
| A44524 | why shouldst thou believe he hath forsaken thee, when he doth give thee daily testimonies of his Love? |
| A44524 | why shouldst thou expect better dealing at Gods hands, than they? |
| A44524 | why shouldst thou think he doth thee wrong, by sending this cross upon thee, who hast deserved no less than damnation? |
| A44524 | why what should hinder you from believing it? |
| A44524 | why, how couldst thou be sure it came from Heaven? |
| A44524 | will God be crown''d with Thorns, that I may wear an incorruptible Crown of Glory? |
| A44524 | will God be yet intreated for such a poor forlorn creature? |
| A44524 | will God mind a Supplication, in which I do not mind his Greatness, Majesty, and Holiness? |
| A44524 | will God suffer that I may not? |
| A44524 | will no anguish melt him? |
| A44524 | will no repentance touch the Heart of God? |
| A44524 | will no sorrow move him? |
| A44524 | will none relieve me? |
| A44524 | will the Eternal dye, that I may not fall a prey to the second Death? |
| A44524 | will this Plea hold, when thou shalt appear before the great Tribunal? |
| A44524 | wilt not thou give him thy heart? |
| A44524 | wilt thou be reconcil''d to so great a rebel? |
| A44524 | wilt thou eat of the same Bread he doth, and not drink of his Cup too? |
| A44524 | wilt thou make this Love a refuge for wilful sins, and hope for the light of Christs countenance? |
| A44524 | wilt thou pass by unkindesses of so deep a Dye? |
| A44524 | wilt thou prefer the motions of a lying Devil, before the Oracles of the Great God of Heaven? |
| A44524 | wilt thou prove a Rebel to thy Prince, a prodigal Son to thy Father, an unfaithful Servant to the best of Masters? |
| A44524 | wilt thou slight this Love, and hope to go unpunish''d? |
| A44524 | would a mans rising from the dead do it? |
| A44524 | would a miracle do it? |
| A44524 | would no other remedy serve turn to recover me, but the death of the Son of God? |
| A44524 | wouldst not? |
| A44524 | wouldst thou be about him only, when he rides in triumph into Jerusalem, and forsake him in the Desart? |
| A44524 | wouldst thou be with him on Mount Tabor only, and not accompany him to Golgotha? |
| A44524 | wouldst thou follow him only while the loaves doe last, and abandon him when he wants bread for the multitude? |
| A44524 | wouldst thou followthy Saviour in Sun- shine only, and not go with him into the Garden of Gethsemane? |
| A44524 | wouldst thou inherit his Crown of Glory, without wearing his Crown of Thorns here? |
| A44524 | wouldst thou own him only when men cry Hosanna, and run away from him, when they cry out Crucify him? |
| A44524 | you may have seen others hang, or drown, or burn themselves, but is this a Temptation to you to follow them? |