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A44186But why this strange assumption?
A44186or what end Equivolent, could make him to descend So far beneath himself; and equalize The Miracle of such an Enterprise?
A25788I do not hereby understand what concerns religion, who can excuse or extenuate his failings?
A25788and who hath more need of courage and valour, then he who protects and defends all?
A25788who ought to be more just, then he who governs the laws?
A25788who ought to be more reserved, then he to whom all is permitted?
A70839Ah wretched age( must we in it remain?)
A70839Alas who then shall live when God appears, Who can the tast of such refining bear?
A70839And floods of inward grief My Soul torment?
A70839And then how thankful should they trembling stand, Who need such leadings from this Holy Hand?
A70839Are such things fit, that clogs your wit, which now to heights aspires?
A70839Are you not well?
A70839Becomes me best, to own my self a seeker, Can this thing be?
A70839But Oh, How treat of Christ can I?
A70839But should I my bright morning wast, to make me 〈 ◊ 〉 and fine;''T will be but bitterness at last, if Christ be none of mine?
A70839But to our root the axe is put, If no good fruit be found, This is the sentence, down them cut; why cumber they the ground?
A70839But why among the S ● ● nts, thy dear delight, Wert so reserved, if not silent quite?
A70839By gracious pleasure stay it must, Till nobler work were wrought, Till deep convictions of my sin, Till Jesus form''d in me?
A70839Call in those thoughts that range about, with awfulness incline, To get this question out of doubt, Is Jesus truly mine?
A70839Can pricking Bryar, or grieving thorn, good grapes in clusters bear; Are figgs upon the Thistle born, will any seek them there?
A70839Can worms avail About eternal things?
A70839Dear John, then lay to heart, This needful timely hint, Before the day, of which you''l say, What pleasure have I in''t?
A70839Do Complements breed vanity?
A70839Do costly Garments nouirsh pride?
A70839Doth Beauty such corruption Hide?
A70839Few tender- hearted youths, as was Josiah, Judah''s King; Ho ● annah in the high''st( alas) how seldom Children Sing?
A70839Her Mother asked her if she were willing to die?
A70839His worth and Sions lyes not much obscur''d?
A70839How can I do enough for him, who all this did for me?
A70839How curiously adorn''d?
A70839How hard a lesson is this self- denial?
A70839How little reason then have I for these to go to Hell?
A70839How oft have I, been like to die?
A70839How should I Majesty adore, that I thus sav''d should be?
A70839How strangely was I made?
A70839How will our Reckoning pass, Of pastim, Pleasure, play, When every thought and Deed is brought, Unto the Judgment Day?
A70839If in the Hedges, Streets, and Field, our sports you take away; What good will food and raiment yield?
A70839In this I acquiesce, yet fain would know Why wert so mute, why too good speech so slow?
A70839Is there more over- laid by the supply, To help such weakness in infirmity?
A70839Lord?
A70839Must I be stript then of my choice attire?
A70839My strength is not of stone, nor flesh of Brass, Why am I brok''as shreds, as object Glass?
A70839Nay, to the Gospel''s outward call, my steps I may refine; Yet short of glory I shall fall, If Christ be none of mine?
A70839Oh then what purity should such direct, As lively leadings in such paths expect?
A70839Or of his Grace- begetting write?
A70839Or, do despairing thoughts, My tempted Soul o''rtake?
A70839Relations such ado to keep, to see a Child unray''d?
A70839Shall God through Grace, himself abase, So vile a Wretch to save?
A70839Shall we surveigh our time, How vainly it is spent; How youthful dayes consume in wayes, Which Age must needs repent?
A70839Shall wordy winds, on gallant minds, such deep impressions make; That for a ● ound, of things unfound, they joys in Hand forsake?
A70839Should any thought to mind be brought, that interrupts your quiet: Shall Virgins weep, disturb their sleep, desert their needful diet?
A70839Should not a young man''s way, Be ordered by the Word?
A70839Should not his mind, be still inclin''d?
A70839So scarcely sociable, so retir''d As made converse with thee not much desir''d?
A70839That ever thou, should''st humbly bow, On me to cast an eye?
A70839The things which others please; What profit do they merit?
A70839There you may read what guilt of sin, into the World you brought?
A70839Though for Endowments, rare and high, from all I bare the Bell: What would these toys avail, if I at leng ● ● t be lodg''d in Hell?
A70839Though many Suitors this invites, my Fortunes might excell: What would become of these delights, if I should go to Hell?
A70839Though they as Angels speak to me, sweet words as spiced Wine; Of what advantage could it be, if Christ be none of mine?
A70839To know and fear the Lord?
A70839To offer Isaac, is an heavy tryal; Must I be season''d thus with salt and fire?
A70839WHat''s man at best?
A70839Was''t all and only thy temptations then Thou wert so mute among the Sons of men?
A70839We fear no danger to be loft; what need we cleanse our way?
A70839What Children Pulse and Water chuse, continually to eat; Rather then Conscience should accuse, for tasting Royal Meat?
A70839What ailes my Parents then to weep, my friends to be dismay''d?
A70839What are the Toyes, of wanton Boyes, to an immortal Spirit?
A70839What chast conceptions, yea what frames refin''d Should still accommodate the waiting mind?
A70839What glorious Grace is this to me, a firebrand pluckt from Hell?
A70839What glory''s in a beareous skin, That so much filth doth hide?
A70839What is the matter that you weep?
A70839What kind of Love is this?
A70839What love is this, that Christ so chast, should such a Wretch indure?
A70839What profit in those wayes is sound, which down to Hell incline; What real pleasure can redound, if Christ be none of mine?
A70839What properly should I desire, But, now dissolv''d to be: And in this Marriage- white Attire My Bride- groom''s face to see?
A70839What reason can it have?
A70839What strange conceits, what silly cheats, would drive thy joys away?
A70839When will ye be wise?
A70839Where''s now your God?
A70839Why may not I at least allowed be This Paper Canopie to spread on thee?
A70839Why should the fond delights Of parents puff me up?
A70839Why should the highest joyes Of Sin subject my reason?
A70839Why stand I thus distinguished, alone for mercies sake?
A70839Why then should gay att ● re, Yield so much food to pride?
A70839Would not our time and strength, Be better far imploy''d, If every thought, were this way wrought, How Christ may be injoy''d?
A70839Would you not bow, a King to please, though tortures were behind?
A70839as patterns should they lay; Which might endear us with delight, betimes to cleanse our way?
A70839doth pleasure Grace expel?
A70839hath Treasure such deceit?
A70839how am I bereft?
A70839is comliness a bait?
A70839let you and I, A few discourses have: Shall we bethink, how near the brink, We border of the Grave?
A70839on Souls so black as mine?
A70839what am I that er''e my sight should such blest objects see?
A70839what am I that thou hast been, at so great cost on me?
A70839what am I that thou should''st cast, a look of love on me?
A70839what am I that thou should''st prize, so poor a Worm as me?
A70839what could''st thou here espie?
A70839what high raised Songs become, my beauteous glorious king?
A70839what is man that thou shouldst daign on him to place delight?
A70839what is man that thou shouldst daign so vile a Wretch to save?
A70839what transcendent love is this, to such a Wretch as me?
A70839why should we change our way?
A70839● asked her, if I should go down?
A66355''T is a great deal of God goes to the making a Youth good, and serious, have I felt that?
A66355''T is a great work that goes to the healing you; is that work pass''d on thee?
A66355''t is long of the want of means that I am vile still?
A663551. and to your other Relations; may you be rebellious, unkind,& c?
A6635514.: Shall that be thy Case?
A6635516. and dare a poor Worm that shall be judged thereby, affront Heaven by ridiculing its Discoveries?
A6635517. is it not Folly to remain impenitent, and yet be in hopes of Heaven?
A6635521?
A663554. wilt thou cast off Folly with Indignation as thy great Disease?
A663555?
A663556?
A66355Am I more thankful for an interest in Christ, than any temproal good; and am I most concerned to keep this Interest unquestionable?
A66355And doth the Spirit thus concurr to apply Redemption, and enable them to obey the Gospel?
A66355And is there ever a Child here, but is a living Witness to this Corruption?
A66355And shall I lightly think of these?
A66355And what''s the ground of all Wickedness in the World, more than an Inordinate Appetite?
A66355And who has the Advantage of doing it as thou hast?
A66355Are my affections more set on Heaven than on this World?
A66355Are such things to be sported with by Man, which the very Devils tremble at?
A66355Are there not greater Purposes, to which thy Nature and Abilities are suited?
A66355Are there not some amongst you that once dared not to tell a small Lye, and now you can lye all sorts?
A66355Are thy hidden thoughts and motions free?
A66355Are thy lustfull Gazings on a Woman allowed?
A66355Are you not all proner to sin, than holiness?
A66355Art thou engaged to accept of, and submit to Christ according to the Gospel?
A66355Ask your selves, Do my wayes profit or hurt People?
A66355Because the generality of young People are vain: For one that is sober, how many are wild?
A66355Before I enter on these things, let me ask you young Folk, Is not this a true Charge?
A66355But Child, thou canst tell who made thee, it was God; and should not he that made thee govern thee?
A66355But I believe some here are ready to say, Sir, must I now change?
A66355But above all, dost thou lay to Heart, that God is incensed against thee?
A66355But how comes this to be laid so universally, that all young People are thus vain?
A66355But is not this a very vain Conceit and capital Error?
A66355But may not a Young Man rejoyce?
A66355But whatever Hurt you bring to others, sure you avoid Mischief to your selves?
A66355But yet farther, how many others may lay to thee the charge of unprofitableness?
A66355By what Rule did God govern all men in Adam?
A66355By what means doth this Spirit work upon Souls?
A66355By what part of the Gospel doth the Spirit usually work?
A66355By what signs mayst thou try the state of thy Soul, whether thou art a true Christian or no?
A66355Can Parents forget God''s severe Judgment against Eli for his indulgence to his Sons?
A66355Can a clean thing come out of an unclean?
A66355Can it ever be bettered, whiles I employ my self in nothing but what is foolish?
A66355Canst thou be light and altogether vain in a World so full of Sin and Misery?
A66355Canst thou think thou lovest them, and be thus perverse?
A66355Children you have Consciences; Young Ones, you have Consciences; Can you say''t is long of God I am vile still?
A66355Come young People, is it now to begin?
A66355Consider how unlikely is it, that thy Opinion is truer than thy holy Master, or Minister?
A66355Dare I loyter still, and be surprized whiles my works are so imperfect?
A66355Dare I prophane this Sabbath, who may be dead within a Week?
A66355Did God ever since the Fall propose any way of Salvation, besides this Law of Grace?
A66355Did Mankind continue holy and happy, by a perfect Obedience to this Law of Innocency?
A66355Did our Lord Iesus fulfil all Righteousness, and make his Soul an Offering for sin?
A66355Do I carefully approve my self to God in what I am, and in what I do, despising the opinion of men in comparison therewith?
A66355Do I find Soul renewing power in the Truths and duties of Religion?
A66355Do I love God above all things, and delight in the thoughts of him?
A66355Do I walk with him, or do I forsake him?
A66355Do Repentance or Faith any way make satisfaction to justice?
A66355Do not fewer and weaker Arguments incline you to be wicked, than to be godly?
A66355Do not these antique gestures make me ridiculous?
A66355Do not thy Parents love thee?
A66355Do such Considerations affect you?
A66355Does my walk please God, or provoke him?
A66355Does not he say you are vain and vile?
A66355Dost not thou find, that this lightness is even risen to prophaneness?
A66355Dost not thou place thy Interest in things which are vain and destructive?
A66355Dost not thou think Jollity thy only Heaven, and the pleasing thy Lusts the only real Paradice?
A66355Doth not God love thee, who made thee, who put such Bowels in thy Parents towards thee?
A66355Doth not he love thee, that weeps over thee, when he finds thee unperswadable, and this becaufe he knows the woful anguish thy contempt will end in?
A66355Doth not thy filthiness make God a terrour to thee in every Duty, as well as defile the Duty by the wandrings of a vile Imagination?
A66355Doth not thy own experience convince thee?
A66355Doth thy Life answer Gods End and Purpose, in giving thee a Being?
A66355Folly is bound up in the Heart of a Child: Is this limited to Children?
A66355From whom dost thou receive all good things?
A66355Has Christ never said unto thee, O look to me, and be saved?
A66355Hast thou never found pressing motions to be good, and to resolve against evil?
A66355Have I a sincere regard to every command of Christ?
A66355Have not you Faculties, to know, and love your God?
A66355He exerted his Power in thy Being, that thou mightest serve and honour him; dost thou answer this End, by living as thou dost?
A66355He that''s prone to slip, ought the more carefully to look to his ways: Is Gluttony thy Crime?
A66355He took not time to think what would be the issue of Sin?
A66355He was King of Israel in its most prosperous State: Are a wise Mans dictates to be heeded?
A66355Here''s a young Person will do my Work while he lives, and be damned with me when he dies?
A66355Holy Angels are not always strangers to thy Carriage, and Discourses; and mayst not thou blush at their Remarks?
A66355How camest thou to be born in this Condition?
A66355How can I live without Christ a day longer, when I may dye to Night?
A66355How can he be pure who is born of a woman?
A66355How comes it to pass that Childhood and Youth are vain?
A66355How did God appoint a way of Pardon and Reconciliation?
A66355How dost thou expect to be made willing and able to accept of Christ?
A66355How doth the Spirit cause the Sinner to accept of Christ?
A66355How far are all Sinners that live under this Gospel concerned in it?
A66355How few Young Ones here have seriously asked themselves; Am I born again or no?
A66355How hard is it to make you think, or lay the greatest things to heart?
A66355How is it with you, O Young ones?
A66355How little do most of our Youth for this World, or for Eternity?
A66355How lovely is patience, it''s the height of fortitude?
A66355How many Gods be there?
A66355How many young People serve the Devil with their strength, are a Snare and Infection to all they can influence?
A66355How oft hath Conscience bitterly warned thee?
A66355How oft, O Young Man, hath the Spirit of God reproved thee?
A66355How shall a Young Man avoid Lying?
A66355How shall a Young Person be cured of this Obstinateness?
A66355How shall a Young Person be delivered from Gluttony and Drunkenness?
A66355How shall a Young Person be healed of Idleness and waste of time?
A66355How shall a young Man be delivered from Uncleanness?
A66355How shall a young Person be healed of this Levity and inordinate Mirth?
A66355I had as good been just now born, for any good I have gotten?
A66355I have lived for nought, I have been an useless shadow, I have cumbered the ground, and God may justly cut me off as an unfruitfull one?
A66355If God should ask thee at the Church Door, wherefore comest thou hither?
A66355If any of you say, I do own God to be my Ruler and Master, consider God''s challenge, If I be a Master, where is my fear, saith the Lord God of Hosts?
A66355If it must know, pray who is fittest to teach it?
A66355If the Spirit ever enlighten thy Mind, and alter thy Will, we may ask thee, What fruit had you of those things whereof you are now ashamed?
A66355If this be the merry Young Man, what an object of contempt is he in all his mirth?
A66355If thou ask me, how?
A66355If thou receivest any real advantage, it''s by a merciful Providence, and not by thy Intention?
A66355Is all this pains to heal my poor diseas''d Soul, and shall I cast it behind my back?
A66355Is he not as positive, that no Fornicator, Reviler, Thief, or Drunkard can be saved?
A66355Is it a great sin to refuse to agree to the Covenant, to which thy Baptism engaged thee?
A66355Is it not easier to make you vile, than to make you gracious?
A66355Is it not high time thou shouldst set thy self to contend with this Enemy, and attempt to bring it into subjection?
A66355Is it not time to ask?
A66355Is it the scope of my life and aims, to please and honour God, and be meet for Glory?
A66355Is living barely to this World valuable?
A66355Is living to the Devil valuable?
A66355Is my Heart a Spring of Divine Motions, or Beastly Inclinations?
A66355Is not Conversion difficult enough already?
A66355Is not a Believer pardoned before he can put forth any other acts of Obedience?
A66355Is not he a vain body, that thinks much, talks much, and doth much, to no purpose?
A66355Is not my mind grosly vain, that I can relish such fooleries?
A66355Is not this a reproach to thee, if thou happen to do any good, it''s more by chance than by thy choice?
A66355Is not this your Case?
A66355Is now the first time that he has said unto you, When will you be made clean?
A66355Is the meer enacting and publishing the Gospel all that Christ hath done towards the application of his Merits to Elect Sinners?
A66355Is there ever a Young one here, that has not been sick at one time or other?
A66355Is there no spiritual light or love to govern thy desires, and pleasures?
A66355Is there no way then for to avoid that Sin and Misery thou wert born in?
A66355Is there not that in thee, which serves instead of a Tempter to evil, tho there were no ill example, or Solicitation from without?
A66355Is this Reproof for my good, and shall I make light of it?
A66355Is this a Case to be rested in?
A66355Is this rejoycing becoming thee as a reasonable Creature, made for and suited to things of so far a higher nature?
A66355Is this the condition of the Elect while they abide in Vnbelief?
A66355Is thy correspondence to the Objects of Faith quite gone?
A66355Is thy pleasure worth the pains thou must endure, or the loss thou shalt sustain?
A66355It''s a while before you are fit ro learn, or do any thing; but when you are capable, how commonly are you remiss and sloathful?
A66355It''s long before thou askest thy self, What do I live for?
A66355Knowest thou not, that the companion of riotous persons shameth his Father?
A66355Let me ask thee, art not thou foolish, if thou judgest Salvation to be what it is not?
A66355Mayest thou talk Obscenely?
A66355Must not I, if Gods Word be true, rue my present Course?
A66355Must this be written on thy Grave- stone?
A66355No, no, Sirs, you will feel it to your Cost: Is thy poor Soul less precious, and less valuable?
A66355No, not one: Not one?
A66355Not love thy Christ, who bled out his Soul in love to thee?
A66355Not to fear Hell and Misery, which will force thee to weep and wail, and gnash thy teeth for ever?
A66355Now young Man, is it not Folly in thee to expect Heaven, when thou hast nothing which Christ hath instituted as a means of that Glory?
A66355Now, Sirs, whence is it?
A66355O put it to your selves; what answer canst thou return?
A66355Oh Servants, look what God makes your Duty in Scripture, will that allow you to be idle, insolent, or wastefull?
A66355Oh ask your selves often, What am I doing?
A66355On what account wert thou baptized?
A66355Ordinarily the first dictates proceed from Vanity, and shall that prescribe when Life and Death depend on thy Resolves?
A66355Ought you upon every fault question your Interest in this Covenant?
A66355Our lips are our own, who is Lord over us?
A66355Pray ask your selves, Am I vain, or am I not?
A66355Pray let''s a little consider: Thou Child or Youth, hast thou had no sence of Hells misery ever upon thy Heart?
A66355Q What else doth the Gospel contain?
A66355Q. Doth the Law of Innocency provide no way for thy deliverance out of that misery?
A66355Q. Doth the Spirit nothing in order to the making the Soul earnest and willing to this?
A66355Q. Wherein lies the life and power of Religion?
A66355Reason a little with thy own Soul: Have I not better things to think of, than these silly matters, which tend to no good for Soul or Body?
A66355Shall God say, Here''s a Youth void of Wisdom, because he would not ask it?
A66355Shall thy Tongue which is his Glory, be employed to his Dshonour?
A66355That I may fasten this Conviction, I call every Soul to answer me; what art thou nearer God to this day?
A66355The Author of this Book is Solomon; will you regard what a Great Man saith?
A66355Therefore oft tell thy remiss Soul, This day is past, that week is over, and shortly time will be at an end, and shall I idle as I do?
A66355This confirms the former: Is God at pains with Youth to make them better?
A66355Thou hast lived in vain to the Church; what increase or Glory hath it reaped by thee?
A66355To finish this, how many sturdy resolute Young People are here?
A66355Try your mayes, are they under the Government of Grace or of Lust?
A66355Upon whom does it lye in point of Duty, as it does upon you?
A66355WHat art thou?
A66355Was not a holy Heart, and a serious godly Life engaged in that Covenant, in opposition to Sin and Satan?
A66355Was there nothing else promised to Christ, with respect to the Elect?
A66355Were you left to your selves, what would you do besides eating, drinking, sleeping, and playing?
A66355Wert thou ever sensible of this, oh, Child?
A66355What Condition was Mankind created in?
A66355What Condition wert thou born in?
A66355What Graces most adorn Children?
A66355What a confusion and disorder is it among Mankind, that Inferiors are wholly fearless of their Superiors, especially sinful Worms of a dreadful God?
A66355What are the terms of the Gospel?
A66355What assurance hast thou that God will forgive and save thee if thou believe?
A66355What barrs any one from Heaven, but the dominion of sin?
A66355What be the sins which professing Christians are most subject to?
A66355What benefit mayest thou yield to thy self?
A66355What can I shew for all the years I have lived?
A66355What can be plainer, than that in being such as these thou destroyest thy self?
A66355What did God make thee for?
A66355What didst thou engage against?
A66355What dost thou owe to God for his daily mercies?
A66355What doth the Covenant bind thee to?
A66355What end shall I pursue?
A66355What has been the Language of every Mercy to thee Child, to you young ones, but this?
A66355What hast thou gotten by the ten years thou hast lived, Oh Child of ten years old?
A66355What hast thou improved by the fifteen years thou hast lived, Oh Youth of fifteen years old?
A66355What horrid madness is it, not to fear a God who is a Consuming Fire?
A66355What if a Child through the love of sin, or vanity of mind, will not agree to this Covenant when he is capable?
A66355What if thou dost not accept of Christ?
A66355What if thou shouldst die in that Condition wherein thou wert born by nature?
A66355What is Faith in Christ?
A66355What is Faith in general?
A66355What is Formality?
A66355What is Repentance?
A66355What is a greater Reproach than to be a Liar?
A66355What is enjoying God, or glorifying God to thee?
A66355What is esteemed a worse Affront, than to say thou lyest?
A66355What is it to come to Christ as a Prophet?
A66355What is it to come to Christ as our Priest?
A66355What is it to come to Chrlst as King?
A66355What is meant by Vanity, as it predicates of these Young People?
A66355What is the God that made thee?
A66355What is the best joy and pleasure in this life?
A66355What is the condition of every Sinner till he do accept of Christ?
A66355What is the sin that most hinders the good of Souls, except Vnbelief?
A66355What is the way which God hath contrived to save lost Sinners?
A66355What may a Sinner expect when he accepteth of Christ?
A66355What more is necessary to restore the happiness of lost Man?
A66355What must thou do to keep from sin?
A66355What must thou do when thou wantest any good?
A66355What must thy Child be inspir''d, or it must perish for want of knowledge?
A66355What oughtest thou to do on thy part in order to get this Grace?
A66355What say you, Child, to this?
A66355What secret art thou able to keep?
A66355What shall I a Young one do, to deliliver me from this inconsiderateness?
A66355What shall I that am Young do to heal me of my Folly?
A66355What shall a Young Person do to be healed of Anger, and unruly passions?
A66355What shouldst thou be most afraid of in this world?
A66355What variety of accidents art thou subject to every moment?
A66355What was appointed to, and undertaken by Christ as Saviour or Mediator?
A66355What was promised to Christ, as the Reward of his Vndertaking?
A66355What way doth Christ take to apply his merits for the Salvation of Sinners?
A66355What would an aged Saint give, that he had been innocent of all these Crimes whiles he was young?
A66355What, love them, and be obstinate against their intreaties?
A66355When Christ had thus made atonement, was he sufficient to be a Saviour?
A66355When did this Gospel Rule of Life begin?
A66355When is one carnally selfish?
A66355When ought a Child to know, consider, and agree to this Covenant?
A66355When thou art next tempted, ask thy self, Would I yield to this if I were to dye to morrow?
A66355When thou wert sick, thou didst own that thy loose way, thy irreligious way was thy Folly: And after all these wilt thou bear it out?
A66355When thy Conscience is helped by the Spirit to see these signs in thee, what mayest thou then do?
A66355When wilt thou personally consent to this Covenant as the only way of life to Sinners?
A66355When you intend so little in an Ordinance, what purposes must govern you in the ordinary affairs of Life?
A66355Where is thy Reason, that thy Appetite should thus rule thee?
A66355Where shall I stop if I intend a full attempt of the Folly of Youth?
A66355Where''s the young body that has not practically given God a denyal?
A66355Which way should a Young Man cleanse his way, but by taking heed to the Word?
A66355Who are Hypocrites?
A66355Who are the happiest persons in the world?
A66355Who are the hopefullest Children?
A66355Who is so like to prevail with thy Child as thy self?
A66355Who made thee?
A66355Who will venture to lye, that says within himself, God hears what I am going to say, and he will judge me by my words?
A66355Why do Childhood and Youth continue vain?
A66355Why dost thou think so?
A66355Why must thou be sinful, because thy Nature was at first depraved?
A66355Why still so fatal to thy self?
A66355Why then whence is it that we have so many young People bad still?
A66355Will it be comfortable in this World to reflect on wasted Time?
A66355Will you believe this, and walk as them that believe it?
A66355Will you go on in sin?
A66355Will you resolve to follow these Rules?
A66355Wilt not thou shortly acknowledge with shame and grief, that thou hast lived to unvaluable Purposes?
A66355Wilt thou go on delaying?
A66355Wilt thou lay to Heart these things?
A66355Wilt thou live a Bruit and a Devil still?
A66355Wouldst not thou judge him a Fool that intending for Dover, yet chuseth the Road to York?
A66355Yea, all the Wicked will be convinced of their Mistake; why else will they wail and mourn for ever?
A66355Yea, canst thou refuse to be angry with thy self?
A66355You all come such into the World,& c. are you altered, or are you not?
A66355You are capable to serve, and glorifie the blessed God, and is the gratifying thy lusts equal to these?
A66355You are receptive of divine Joys, and are thy carnal merriments answerable to these?
A66355Young Folk, have you never seen resolved Sinners even in Sickness and Poverty, roar out, and mourn at the last, saying, How have I hated Instruction?
A66355Young People, how is it with you?
A66355Your case is dismal, you are born vain, and prone to be vain; are you still so or not?
A66355and art thou such a Brute as not to love them at all?
A66355and canst thou play the Buffoon, as if Childish toys diverted thee from all sense of these things?
A66355and do your childish or wicked employments answer them?
A66355and is it not as awful a description of your State as true?
A66355and still obstinate?
A66355and unless it includes such wicked and bruitish things as Heaven must keep and cleanse us from?
A66355and will they not all agree in this, That thou art a sinful wretched Creature?
A66355and wilt thou still be like the wild Ass which snuffeth up the wind, and in her occasion, who can turn her away?
A66355and would it not be the same as to thy Parents and others?
A66355are not most of thy actions performed, thou knowest not why?
A66355are not they Fools who desiring Health, refuse Physick, and take nothing but Poyson?
A66355are not you sordidly foolish?
A66355are the years you have spent unfit to be enquired after?
A66355are they under the Conduct of Wisdom or Folly?
A66355art thou not a Fool, that fanciest that can not be a happy State, unless it wants what all good Men account to be Happiness?
A66355art thou not foolish to think it to be another thing than God describeth it to be?
A66355art thou so sunk and buried in flesh?
A66355be afraid of Feasts; Art thou apt to be Drunk?
A66355be heartily intent to all their Advices, and say to thy self, Lord, is this for my cure, and shall I neglect it?
A66355be perswaded now to fix thy thoughts on such things as these: Shall I Lye or Swear now, who may be dead within a Month?
A66355by no means?
A66355can it be a little thing to thee?
A66355can you imagine you know what God will do with you better than he knows it?
A66355canst thou be unmoved, and still perverse?
A66355canst thou bear it?
A66355canst thou chuse but think that the reproofs of these must proceed from love?
A66355canst thou justifie this course of living?
A66355canst thou think of this believingly, and cast off restraints, or give a Carnal Mind it''s scope?
A66355do you know what you must lose by sin, and suffer for sin, better than God knows?
A66355do you still grow more vain, or more serious?
A66355dost thou hope to live for ever, and neglect Christ?
A66355dost thou know what he''ll do better than himself?
A66355doth thy behaviour contribute to this at all?
A66355hast thon yet got an Interest in Christ?
A66355hast thou been yet truly humbled for Original Sin?
A66355hast thou ever aimed at this?
A66355hast thou never been convinc''d that''t was ill to Lye or Swear?
A66355have no good desires stirr''d in thy Soul?
A66355have not the Mercies of God, have not the preservations of God towards you, been so many Teachers?
A66355how can it be, that young people should grow vainer and vainer, instead of better and better?
A66355how canst thou seem to answer these, by a trifling diversion, or a perishing advantage?
A66355how do reproach and penury wait thy persisting in this Course?
A66355how much is Sin mortified?
A66355how shall I dwell with everlasting burnings?
A66355if it be best to be in Hell, why should they always Complain there?
A66355is it not Folly to expect Life and despise a Saviour, yea, trample his Blood under thy Feet?
A66355is it not Folly to hope to be saved by Christ, and yet believe the Devil rather than him, and prefer the Dominion of others before his Government?
A66355is it not a true Charge, which I lay to thee?
A66355is living to the Flesh valuable?
A66355is not the Eye of thy God and Judge more than all the World?
A66355is sin grown a less evil?
A66355is there need to make it next to impossible?
A66355is there nothing after Death, that they should live in preparation for?
A66355is this a Temper to be allowed?
A66355is this a state to be quiet in?
A66355is this a thing allowable?
A66355must I now stop my Vanity?
A66355must not he love thee, young Man, who pleads with God ready to cut thee down, Lord, let him alone this year longer?
A66355nay, how knowest thou but that they be Satans whispers which thou executest, when Fancy is thy Guide?
A66355or do you think that Children are now so harmless, that they need not to be corrected?
A66355or have you a mind to continue what you are?
A66355or is thy Sin not worth being concerned about?
A66355ought not the Creature to observe the Laws which his Creator gives him?
A66355ought they not to make me serious, and importunate with your Souls?
A66355shall I delay to know, and love, and fear my God, who must do it soon or never?
A66355shall Satan serve himself of thy parts, and of thy strength, and of thy opportunities?
A66355shall not Christ heal thee of that Nature, which the Devil introduced?
A66355shall the Devil say of thee, Here''s a Child, I hope, will do me a great deal of Drudgery?
A66355shall thy Soul that was made for God, be a Cage of unclean Birds?
A66355should you be fond of that which sin introduced, and will obstruct your healing whiles it prevails?
A66355that God has cry''d to you, Turn unto me, why will you die?
A66355that think of many years, before Death and you can meet; how many younger than you are already rotten in their graves?
A66355the case of young ones is curable, but why is it not altered before now?
A66355the oldest of us are sure to stumble without the Word; what then can young ones do?
A66355then fear a Lye: Wouldst thou be a Child of God?
A66355then thou must not lye: Art thou afraid of burning in Hell for ever?
A66355what Grace hast thou attained to this very time?
A66355what Treasure hast thou laid up in Heaven?
A66355what business art thou fit to do?
A66355what but Grace can win thy Consent to Christ, now when the Devil and the World are strongly bidding for it?
A66355what can be said worse of thee, than that thou art thus?
A66355what dry''d tinder Youth is: Occasions though small, over- rule Young Persons: What then?
A66355what evil is there in my Sins?
A66355what is like to be the issue?
A66355what not love thy God who is so good to thee?
A66355what say you Young People?
A66355what use art thou fit for to others?
A66355what use hast thou made of thy twenty years?
A66355what will become of you, if you proceed this way?
A66355what will damn thee, if such Vices will not?
A66355what will my sins bring me to?
A66355what will you be able to answer?
A66355what''s all the World to me, if I perish for ever?
A66355what, not love thy Father and Mother, to whom thou art so indebted?
A66355what, will you lie to God now?
A66355when I must stand at Gods Tribunal to be judged, what shall I answer?
A66355when shall it once be?
A66355where is there a Family but groaneth under some disaster?
A66355whither am I going?
A66355who can be damned if thou be saved?
A66355why a Slave to base Lusts?
A66355will Theft, Drunkenness, Swearing, Prophaneness, think you, lead to Heaven, after all these discoveries of God''s resolves?
A66355will a provoked God lye for thy sake?
A66355will he always bear this?
A66355will you be perjur''d now?
A66355will you believe all the wise People that know you?
A66355will you go on in sin?
A66355will you strive to manage your thoughts, and shew your selves willing to be considerate?
A66355wilt thou be a Fool for want of praying?
A66355wilt thou go away and resolve to be as Vain as ever, after all that has been said?
A66355wilt thou say unto Wisdom, Thou art my Sister?
A66355would you be delivered?
A66355wouldst thou be so requited, when thou hast Children?
A66355wouldst thou be willing to be an Ideot?
A66355wouldst thou get to Heaven?
A66355yea may not I as justly ask the Young Man of twenty, What hast thou done?
A66355yea, is not Life it self as bad as Death, whiles it serves to no higher an end?
A66355you are deceived: do n''t you think God was angry with the Children whom he slew by the Bears, for deriding the Prophet?
A66355you see why the Charge is so common: Will you then apply what I shall say to your selves?
A66355— Is there any that can talk at this rate?