The Practice of Piety

There thy lascivious Eyes shall be afflicted with sights of ghastly Spirits: thy curious Ears shall be affrighted with hideous noise of howling devils, and the gnashing teeth of damned Reprobates: thy dainty Nose shall be cloyed with noisome stench of Sulphur: thy delicate Taste shall be pained with intolerable ⟨p. 126⟩hunger: thy drunken Throat shall be parched with unquenchable thirst: thy Mind shall be tormented, to think how for the love of abortive pleasures, which perished ere they budded, thou so foolishly lost Heavens joys, and incurred hellish pains, which last beyond eternity: thy Conscience, shall ever sting thee like an Adder, when thou thinkest how often Christ by his Preachers, offered the remission of sins, and the Kingdom of Heaven, freely unto thee, if thou wouldest but believe and repent: and how easily thou mightest have obtained mercy in those days; how near thou wast many times to have repented, and yet diddest suffer ⟨p. 127⟩the devil and the world to keep thee still in impenitency: and how the day of mercy is now past, and will never dawn again.

There thy lasciuious Eyes shall be afflicted vvith sights of ghastly Spirits: thy curious Eares shall be affrighted with hydeous noyse of howling diuels, and the gnashing teeth of damned Reprobates: thy dainty Nose shall be cloyed with noysome stench of Sulphur: thy delicate Taste shall be pained with intollerable ⟨p. 126⟩hunger: thy drunken Throate shall be parched vvith vnquenchable thirst: thy Minde shall be tormented, to thinke how for the loue of abortiue pleasures, which perished ere they budded, thou so foolishly lost Heauens ioyes, and incurred hellish paines, which last beyond eternitie: thy Conscience, shall euer sting thee like an Adder, vvhen thou thinkest how often Christ by his Preachers, offered the remission of sinnes, and the Kingdome of Heauen, freely vnto thee, if thou wouldest but beleeue and repent: and how easily thou mightest haue obtained mercy in those dayes; how neere thou vvast many times to haue repented, and yet diddest suffer ⟨p. 127⟩the deuil and the world to keepe thee stil in impenitency: and how the day of mercy is now past, and wil neuer dawne againe.