| Shall I, Shall I? | No, No. |
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Note:
Act. 4. 17.
SHall I Invent Distinctions to Conform,
When Persecutors Threaten with a Storm? |
Note:
Acts 4.29.
No: Spread their Threats before the Lord and say,
Grant Boldness to thy Servants in thy way. |
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Note:
Act. & Mon.Vol. 3.p.671.
Cran.
Shall I Recant, and wheel about, and turn,
That I may my Unworthy Right-hand burn. |
Note:
Gal. 2.17.
No: For so doing thou art Self-Condemn'd,
Justly Exploded things none may Commend. |
|
Note:
Mat. 26.75.
Shall I Deny my Lord, in Hope that I
May go with
Peter, and weep bitterly? |
Note:
Prov. 1.24.25, 26, 27.
No: Those that will not hear when he doth Call,
He will deride, when Fear shall on them fall; |
|
Note: 2
Cor. 10. 12.
Chap. 11. 3.
Shall I in my Reserved Sence Subscribe,
And seek to Choak my Conscience with a B
[...]ibe? |
Note:
Act. 5.10.1
Tim. 6.9, 10
No: Sense Reserv'd
Saphira Caus'd to dye,
The love of Money bringeth Misery |
|
Note:
Mar. 9.44.
Shall I to feed a Carkass that must dye,
Nourish a Worm unto Eternity? |
Note:
John. 6.3 5
No: Live by Faith, and on Christs Body feed,
And from this Gnawing Worm, thou shalt be freed |
|
Note:
Isa. 51.12.
Shall I the Fury of a Man to shun,
Under the Terours of
Jehovah run? |
Note:
Heb. 10.31.
No: God still liveth, shun his Dreadful hand;
But man must yield to Death at his Command. |
|
Note:
Mar. 8.35.36, 37.
Shall I to save a Skin leap into Hell,
And there with Everlasting Burnings dwell? |
Note:
Isa. 30.33.
No: Hell's a dismal dreadful, doleful place,
Spare not thy Skin to save thee in this Case. |
|
Note:
Exod. 23.2.
Shall I leave Gods Path, for the Common Way,
And venture with a Multitude to Stray? |
Note:
Mat. 7.13.14
No: Few there be that find the Gate of Life,
To enter in with them let be thy Strife. |
|
Note:
Luk. 11.33.34
Shall I for fear of Singularity.
Destroy the Apple of a single Eye? |
Note:
Mat. 5.20.47.
No: To be singular in Vertue is,
No Cause of Shame, but Cause of Joy and Bliss. |
|
Note:
Rom. 12.2.
Luk 16 3.6.
Shall I instead of the Transformity
Take my Lords Bill, and write Conformity? |
Note: 1
Cor. 4.2.1
Pet. 4.10.
No: He that made thee Steward will Regard,
Thy Faith, or Faithlesness in thy Reward. |
|
Note:
Rom. 12.2.
Shall I now into Question call his [NOT]
Presuming to Correct it with a Blot? |
Note:
Rev. 22.19.
No: For he will on thee his Plagues Inflict,
If thou presume his Sence to Contradict. |
|
Note:
Mat. 4.8 9.
Shall I bow down unto the Father of lyes
That through his Bounty I may come to rise? |
Note:
Mat. 4.10.
No: Were there Twenty Six such Fathers known,
Not one of all their Beneficies own. |
|
Note:
Mar. 7.5.6, 7, 8, 9.
Shall I be Super Superstitious
Because the Elders and he Scribes are thus? |
Note:
Job. 32.9.1
Cor. 1.26.
No: Great Men are not always wise: and men,
Of Worldly Learning do Christs Cross Contemn. |
|
Note:
Rev. 17.4.
Shall I be taken with the Golden Cup
And Sip with her with whom I dare not Sup |
Note:
Rev. 18.4.
No: If her out side thee to her Allure,
Share of her Punishments thou must Endure. |
|
Note:
Job. 13.7, 8.
Shall I comply for Pulpit Liberty,
And make Gods Truth Beholding to my Lye? |
Note:
John 16.2
No, God from Pulpits now small Honour hath,
None can come there that walk in Vertues Path. |
|
Note:
Psal. 69.33.
Shall I from God shrink, fearing of a Jayl
As if
Jeh
[...]vah did hi
[...] Pris'ners fail? |
Note:
Phil. 1.14.
No: Some who did before a Prison fear,
Received Courage, after they came there |
|
Note:
Act. 5.29.
Shall I? when God says Preach, and men say nay;
Take Time to study whether to Obey? |
Note: 2
Tim. 4
[...] 2
Thes. 3.2
No; Preach God's Word, both in, and out of season:
Pray him to shield thee from men void of reason. |
|
Note:
Deut. 4.26.27 & 28.63.
Shall I make baulks of good Land in this Nation.
And tempt God to [HIS] Act of Transportation? |
Note:
Psal. 125.3.
No; better men should banish thee, than God;
Who will in time take from thy back their rod. |
|
Note: 2
Tim 3.11.12
Shall I the perils of my Duty Count.
And forget Gods Appearing in the Mount? |
Note: 2
Cor. 4.16.
vers. 17, 18.
No; view thine aid, thy company, the prize,
And thou thereby all danger will despise. |
|
Note:
Exod. 20.5.
Shall I least: Wife and Children be undone,
Go from Gods Blessing into the warm Sun: |
Note:
Mat. 10.37.
Luke 14.26.
No; If their love, thy Christian Love devour;
Christ will not own thee, when he comes in Power. |
|
Note:
Dan. 6.7, 10.
Shall I Adore, and shall I not profess,
Shall Danger make my Duty to seem lesss? |
Note:
Luke 9.26.
No; if for shame, thou wilt not speak his praise,
For shame he will not thee to Glory raise. |
|
Note:
Phil. 3.8.
Shall I expect Salvation by Christs Cross
And shall I not for him count all things loss? |
Note:
Gal. 6.14.
No: all things must be loss, if thou wouldst have,
The vertue of his Cross thy Soul to save. |
|
Note:
Jer. 17.9.
Shall I trust a deceitful Heart? When I Both see,
and cannot see its Treachery? |
Note:
Prov. 4.23
No; Trust it not, Correct it, keep it strait,
Least thou forsake thy God, through its deceit. |
|
Note: 1
Cor. 10.11.12.
Shall I not fear, when I see others fall;
Least my fall be the next and worst of All? |
Note:
Prov. 22.3.
No; Wise Man, but by others loss Fore-Warn'd,
Will strive, that he may keep himself Unharm'd. |
|
Note: 1
Cor. 10.13.
Shall I not stand, Although to stand unable?
Because
JEHOVAH and his Word is stable. |
Note:
Isa. 40.31.
Psal. 125.1.
No; Needful Aid, will God deny to those,
Who Trust and Confidence in him Repose. |
|
Note:
Neh. 6.11.
John 10.13.
Shall I, even I, depart from Christ his Church,
And Hireling like, now leave them in the lurch? |
Note:
Job. 10.11.
No: From that Faithful Shepherd, Pattern take,
Who to preserve his Sheep, dy'd for their Sake. |
|
Note:
Joh. 10.12.
Acts 20.28.
Shall I dessert when Wolves break in upon them,
Or, shall I not contend that none may wrong them? |
Note: 1
Thes. 2.19.1
Pet. 5.4.
No; Feed the flock, from danger shelter them,
And they will prove thy Royal Diadem. |
|
Note:
Mat. 18.6. & 25.45 46
Shall I forget if little ones I offend,
Christ takes it ill, and I must smart 'th end? |
Note:
Mark. 9.42.
No; Better thou ty'd to a great Mill-stone,
Into the Sea or Ocean thou wert thrown. |
|
Note:
Dan 3.14:15
Shall I
*or S.C.
A.B. at last come to
Recant,
Because the Judge and Bishops do me haunt? |
Note:
Jer. 15.19.
Rev. 2.10.
No; Beast nnd Dragon, do they what they will,
Be always Faithful, Constant, stedfast still. |
|
Note: 1
Tim. 4.1.1
Jah. 2.18.
Shall I conform now in this latter Age,
When
Anti-Christ is passing of his stage? |
Note:
Rev. 14.9, 10. and 18.4.
No; since the play's near done, scorn to appear,
Amongst the Train, O'th Beast, or in his Geer |
|
Note:
Jam. 4.7.
Then am I full resolved by God's Grace,
That to the Devil I will not give place. |
Note:
Isa. 65.13.
Job. 15. 11.
God give thee Strength, thine Enemies destroy,
And make thee Fellow-feeler of his Joy. |
And let Gods Servants all, who on Earth dwell,
To these things say,
Amen. And so Farewel
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