Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness…Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse…

God was inwardly vexed with his people, and then he begins to make an end, a Deluge of sin, and a Deluge of destruction, a flood of wickedness overflowed the old world, therefore the waters drowned the old world: Look as it is with a Garden, if all the good fruit and herbs be spoiled, only here and there a root of an herb, but all the rest is like a wilderness, then it is time to dig up the ground; so when wickedness in a Land is grown like a wilderness, drunkenness and swearing, like a wilderness, here and there is a Saint of God and a poor soul, that walks in sincerity, but for the common, the general sort deny the power of godliness; when it is come to ⟨p. 144⟩this pass, this is the time for desolation and ruin; go to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see if there be any that doth righteousness; it was a strange desolation of righteousness, (as if the Lord had said, go from town to town, and see if there be any Magistrate abiding, or any Churchwardens abiding, and mark, he goeth to the poor, and they know not the judgements of the Lord, then he goeth to the rich, and they know it, but they break all bonds. Now mark what the Lord answereth, Therefore a Lyon out of the forrest shall slay them, and a Wolfe of the evening shall devour them, because rich and poor and all were backsliders, the Lord beset them with plagues, with Lyons and Bears, and Wolves, that is, ravenous enemies shall rend and tear them in pieces and ⟨p. 145⟩none shall deliver: As it is in a man, if all the blood & spirits be infected, if the substantial parts, the head, the heart, & the liver be consuming and rotting, there must follow a total ruin of the whole man, because there is an universal kind of corruption. Look as it is in the building of an house, when the main pillars begin to rot, & the supporters of the house moulder away, there is no supporting of it, but it must be made new, or else it will fall down; as it is in the body natural, so also in the body politic, as in the house, so in the estate, when there is a kind of rottenness in the body and estates, when the head is sick, and the heart heavy; When the children gather sticks, and the father kindles a fire, and the mother bakes cakes to the Queen of heaven:

God was inwardly vexed with his people, and then hee begins to make an end, a Deluge of sinne, and a Deludge of destruction, a sloud of wickednesse overflowed the old world, therefore the waters drowned the old world: Looke as it is with a Garden, if all the good fruite and herbes be spoiled, onely here and there a roote of an herbe, but all the rest is like a wildernesse, then it is time to digge up the ground; so when wickednesse in a Land is growne like a wildernesse, drunkennes and swearing, like a wildernesse, here and there is a Saint of God and a poore soule, that walkes in sincerity, but for the common, the generall sort deny the power of godlinesse; when it is come to