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Felony is the Indictment, a rebellion against our Sovereigns Crown and Dignity. Ambitious thieves in the Court, Simoniacal thieves in the Church, hollow-hearted thieves in the City, oppressing and men-eating thieves in the Country: all must be summoned, their debts summed, their doom sentenced. The impartial conscience from the book of their lives, shall give in clear evidence. There is no retaining of Counsel: no bribing for a partial censure: no trick of demure: no putting off and suspending the sentence: no evading the doom. The cursed generation of thefts are now easily borne, and borne out. Subtlety can give them the help of a conveyance, and money purchase a connivance. But then alas! what shall become of them, and of many souls for them? what shall become all the Traitors, gory Murderers, impudent Atheists, secret Church-robbers, speckled Adulterers, rusty Sluggards, nasty drunkards, and all the defiled wretches ⟨p. 86⟩that have sucked damnation from the breasts of black Iniquity. An impenetrable Judge, an impleadable Indictment, an intolerable anguish shall seize upon them.¹ Mountains of Sand were lighter, and millions of years shorter then their torments.

Felony is the Inditement, a rebellion against our Soueraignes Crowne and Dignitie. Ambitious theefes in the Court, Simoniacall theeues in the Church, hollow-hearted theeues in the Citie, oppressing and men-eating theeues in the Country: all must be summoned, their debts summed, their doome sentenced. The impartiall conscience from the booke of their liues, shall giue in cleere euidence. There is no retaining of Counsell: no bribing for a partiall censure: no tricke of demure: no putting off and suspending the sentence: no euading the doome. The cursed generation of thefts are now easily borne, and borne out. Subtiltie can giue them the helpe of a conueyance, and money purchase a conniuence. But then alasse! what shall become of them, and of many soules for them? what shall become all the Traitours, gory Murtherers, impudent Atheists, secret Church-robbers, speckled Adulterers, rusty Sluggards, nasty drunkards, and all the defiled wretches ⟨p. 86⟩that haue sucked damnation from the breasts of blacke Iniquitie. An impenetrable Iudge, an impleadable Inditement, an intolerable anguish shal ceaze vpon them.