Where was your natural affection to your own bodies and ⟨p. 69⟩bowels? where was your dutiful obedience to the Law of God and Nature, and the Laws of well ordered Common wealths? where were your wits and your consciences? and where be they that you live more sinfully and scandalously than the ignorant. Go home I beseech you with shame and sorrow in your hearts and countenances, be not hardened against this reproof, after so many former reproofs; but fall down before God, condemning your selves to the pit of Hell for such your unthriftiness, and confessing your own extreme slavery to sin, and unfitness to mend that or any other fault, beseech the living God to reform you by his Spirit, and to pardon you by the blood of his Son, and even believe his promise that he will grant your prayers, and heal your Souls, and forgive your sins for his Sons sake; and so in Faith to his promises, and Obedience to his Commandments, set about the reformation of this and other faults; and cease not praying, repenting, striving, and you shall prevail: unthriftiness will prove a disease of exceeding difficult care, but not uncurable: and you whom God hath pleased to make good and provident, and thrifty husbands, bless him for it indeed; and withal pray him to order you so in labouring for your families, that it may show it self to be a good Flour, growing up as a Fruit of Gods Spirit; not as a Weed springing up from a corrupt, though restrained Nature, by going into excess, making you so eager in providing for your houses, as that you become niggardly unjust, or otherwise excessive. For the worldly minded man, though he live in better reputation on Earth, hath no better reputation in Heaven than the waste-good: nor shall have less torment in Hell, seeing the worldly minded are enemies to God, as well as the sensual minded. So Jacob provided for his family.
Where was your naturall affection to your owne bodies and ⟨p. 69⟩bowels? where was your dutifull obedience to the Law of God and Nature, and the Lawes of well ordered Common wealths? where were your wits and your consciences? and where be they that you live more sinfully and scandalously than the ignorant. Goe home I beseech you with shame and sorrow in your hearts and countenances, be not hardened against this reproofe, after so many former reproofes; but fall downe before God, condemning your selves to the pit of Hell for such your unthriftinesse, and confessing your owne extreme slavery to sinne, and unfitnesse to mend that or any other fault, beseech the living God to reforme you by his Spirit, and to pardon you by the bloud of his Sonne, and even beleeve his promise that he will grant your prayers, and heale your Soules, and forgive your sinnes for his Sonnes sake; and so in Faith to his promises, and Obedience to his Commandements, set about the reformation of this and other faults; and cease not praying, repenting, striving, and you shall prevaile: unthriftinesse will prove a disease of exceeding difficult care, but not uncurable: and you whom God hath pleased to make good and provident, and thrifty husbands, blesse him for it indeed; and withall pray him to order you so in labouring for your families, that it may shew it selfe to be a good Floure, growing up as a Fruit of Gods Spirit; not as a Weed springing up from a corrupt, though restrained Nature, by going into excesse, making you so eager in providing for your houses, as that you become niggardly unjust, or otherwise excessive. For the worldly minded man, though hee live in better reputation on Earth, hath no better reputation in Heaven than the waste-good: nor shall have lesse torment in Hell, seeing the worldly minded are enemies to God, as well as the sensuall minded. So Iacob provided for his family.
