Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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17483Do we not, again, listen too much merely for delight? 17483 _ What greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship?
17483''Perhaps he can,''said a wise man once,''but_ does_ he?''
17483Churchill, for Defendant, in cross examining the witnesses, enquired why they rose at so early an hour, on the 25th June, and went to walk?
17483Do not the papers often speak of"fashionable"churches?
17483How often does an entire service depend upon our own temper, our own mood, our own spirit?
17483How was it in"old times"?
17483If these statements are true, we have a sufficient answer to the question so often asked:"Why do not people go to church as they once did?"
17483Mr. W---- was to preach that morning?
17483What is it?
17483When should doubt make worship impossible, or unbelief make worship wrong for the honest soul?
17483When should''personal consecration''say to a man, not_ stay_, but_ depart_?
17483Why not?
55818And he asks if the rite could not be one day earlier or later, and why those"who lived before Moses""observed no Sabbaths?"
55818And how does Tertullian answer this grave charge?
55818But should not the traditions of the third century be esteemed sufficient authority for calling Sunday the Lord''s day?
55818But to say something against the Sabbath, Justin asks:--"Did God wish the priests to sin when they offer the sacrifices on the Sabbaths?
55818But upon the other asking,''which?''
55818But when this is accepted as the truth who can tell what they mean by what they say?
55818Do not many among you, with an affectation of sometimes worshiping the heavenly bodies likewise, move your lips in the direction of the sunrise?
55818Do you do less than this?
55818Do you[ heathen] do less than this?"
55818Does that mean, then, that he is still making heaven, or sun, or man, or animals, or trees, or any such thing?
55818Dost thou wish that he should prepare for me, who is setting before him his burial?
55818For what great thing is it, if a man restrains himself in what he knows not?
55818He then protests against Sabbatic observance as follows:--"Do you see that the elements are not idle, and keep no Sabbaths?
55818Shall we accept this festival which they offer to us on the authority of their apostolic tradition?
55818So he retorts thus:"What then?
55818Trypho asks Justin whether those who believe in Christ, and obey him, but who wish to"observe these[ institutions] will be saved?"
55818Trypho replied,"Why then have you said,''In my opinion, such an one will be saved,''unless there are some who affirm that such will not be saved?"
55818What sayest thou of the Lord''s day?
55818What then?
55818What work?
55818Wherefore, then, were they blameless?
41993And who that reads his Bible, will think it strange for me to say, that the blessing of the Lord is upon him who sacredly regards the Sabbath?
41993But have they nothing to do?
41993But in what does the sanctification of the Lord''s day chiefly consist?
41993But may I not safely say, that the more nearly it is observed, the more profitably the day may be spent?
41993Can a man rob God and prosper?
41993Can the world be shut out of such company, no matter how strict the injunctions of parents, and sincere the resolutions of those going from home?
41993Do not many Christian families pay social visits on the Sabbath?
41993Do we find it difficult to rise as early on that day as during the week, that with the morning we may commence our duties?
41993Have persons who labour in our families for hire, no need of one day of rest in seven?
41993Have they no Bible to read?
41993Here it is, that our consciences most closely press us with the important question, What must I do to work the works of God?
41993How many such visits are made profitable?
41993How then shall we determine when it is right, and when wrong, to visit on the Sabbath?
41993In cases of difficulty, how shall we determine what is right?
41993In what visiting circle are the nature of religion, and the experience of the heart, the subjects upon which all unite profitably to pass the time?
41993In whose family does not the conversation become worldly and of little worth?
41993Is it possible for young people of different households, to associate on the Lord''s day, and not be led into the sin of light and vain conversation?
41993Is meditation, and is prayer the duty of those only who are privileged with attending public worship?
41993Is not duty plain, that we ought to relax our labours on Saturday, that we may not lose the most precious hours of the Lord''s day?
41993Is this the way, that, above all, I would recommend to persons seriously asking, How may I most profitably spend the Sabbath day?
41993No Catechism, that may be most conveniently committed to memory by them when left alone?
41993No Scripture lessons to prepare for Sabbath School?
41993Shall I gain spiritual strength by doing so?
41993The difficulty with us all, of answering such questions without confusion, ought to lead us to ask, Is there not something wrong in such visits?
41993We are not to ask, What is fashionable?
41993What must I do, in the observance of the Sabbath,_ to promote the glory of God_?
41993What rule can we lay down?
41993What shall we say of those whose lot it may be to remain at home part of the day?
41993What was the heritage of Jacob?
41993Will my example be happy in its influence upon my children and others?
41993Would we do good both to ourselves and others?
8659And do n''t we sometimes have pretty soft preaching?
8659Out of whose womb came the ice? 8659 --were they not as other men? 8659 29. her wise dames, answered Yea she turned answer to herself 30. and what have they not sped? 8659 A Salem man was, in 1687, fined ten shillings for a misdemeanor, butin case he shall cutt off his long har of his head into a sevill( civil?)
8659A third and favorite metre was this:--"Mais sa montagne est un sainct lieu: Qui viendra done au mont de Dieu?
8659And for three successive years he delivered once a year a sermon on the text,"Is Thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?"
8659And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
8659And who can doubt it?
8659Because it is not permitted to a woman to speake in the Church, how then shall they sing?
8659Canst thou set the dominion thereof on the earth?
8659Do you think his duties were light in July and August, when school was out, to watch the boys of ten families?
8659Do you wonder that the bachelors resented this towering"maids pue?"
8659Had not the Puritans left the Church of England to escape"stinted prayers"?
8659Have they not speed?
8659He gave out as his text,"Why do the wicked live?"
8659He thinks a final tion should be spelt chon-- and why not?
8659He was at last worsted by the grimaces of the victorious smith( where was the Duxbury tithingman?
8659His chariot wheels why tarry they?
8659His chariot- wheels why tarry they?
8659It can be said of them, as of the Jew, had they not"eyes, hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?"
8659Knowest thou the ordinance of heaven?
8659Lord when wilt thou amend this geare why dost thou stay& pause?
8659Mr. Wigglesworth preached on the text, Who can stand before His Cold?
8659Of divers- colour''d needle- work Wrought curious on each side Of various colours meet for necks Of those who spoils divide?
8659One thrifty parson, while watching a farmer unload his yearly contribution, remarked,"Is n''t that pretty soft wood?"
8659Out of a window Sisera His mother look''d and said The lattess through in coming why So long''s chariot staid?
8659Out of a window Sisera his mother looked and said The lattess through in coming why so long his chariot staid?
8659Qui est- ce qui là tiendra place?
8659Stand still, will ye?"
8659Taking up this very volume he turned to me and remarked that''This looks a rare edition, Mr. Stevens, do n''t you think so?
8659The prey by poll; a maid or twain what parted have not they?
8659The prey to each a maid or twain Divided have not they?
8659Though I suspect"painful"in the Puritan vocabulary meant"painstaking,"did it not?
8659To Sisera have they not shar''d A divers- colour''d prey?
8659Two young men of like intent met Mr. Haynes, of Vermont, and said with mock sad faces,"Have you heard the news?
8659Were the dill and"sweetest fennel"chosen Sabbath favorites for their old- time virtues and powers?
8659What right had the people to sing God''s word,"I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise shall be continually in my mouth"?
8659Why dost thou tyrant boast thyself thy wicked deeds to praise Dost thou not know there is a God whose mercies last alwaies?
8659Why doth thy mind yet still deuise such wisked wiles to warp?
8659_ Sefighiattly_ is"sufficiently;"but who can translate"Fesy"?
8659and when the startled and blinking men jumped up, calling out"Where?"
8659can it mean"facy"or faced smoothly?
8659how could she sing with ease or reverence such confused verses?
8659must I be shut up in a closet and sit on a shelf?"
8659that they would not be scornfully looked down upon every Sabbath by women- folk, especially by a girl named"meachem"?
8659what will become of you?"
8659you know I mean you; why do n''t you hang down your head?"