| Shall I, Shall I? | No, No. |
| 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. |
| 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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