Prototypes, or, The primary precedent presidents out of the book of Genesis showing, the…Prototypes, or, The primarie precedent presidents out of the booke of Genesis shewing, the…

I will press the point upon you in respect of every mans own particular, hath not God afflicted thee? made thee groan and complain with losses and crosses, and more then one or two calamities, and yet after deliverance granted, you have returned to your vomit, and again are become wallowers in the mire, even giving over your selves to the self same crime, for which your own souls did smite you in your miseries, and told you plainly that for those very things the Lord sent those testimonies of his displeasure against you, so great is that aggravation of thy fault, and will cause the Lord to make his rods more smarting, and if future amendment upon future and worse crosses do not come betwixt, to cut thee of and destroy thee at once, as here you see in Sodom. Indeed the most horrible abomination that they did publicly live in, required so extraordinary and public a punishment, but the particular fault of one particular man in a matter vile enough though not so loathsome, shall surely procure another and a sorer chastisement, or else even utter destruction at length. Let this admonition enter into your souls, and move you to repent now of that hardness of your hearts, which causeth you not to repent upon a former adversity, or else be sure, that you shall treasure up wrath to your selves against the day of wrath, you that do presently lie under any hand of God, set to the matter of finding out and reforming your offences, and be much more earnest with God to make the cross profitable to you in that behalf, then to remove it from your shoulders. And you that have come lately out of a cross, and now are gotten again into a large place, beware of forgetting the hand of God, let the present exhortation stir you up to do better then the Sodomites. Say in your consciences, was it not a great folly in them, and a just forerunner of their final ruin? that captivity took away nothing from their sins: why will you commit the same sin which you cannot but condemn in them? They had no public admonishioner amongst them, that did continually persuade them to profit by that calamity, and putting them in remembrance of the lamentable condition in which they were fallen, wished them earnestly to study reformation of life. God hath made you his people, hath settled his ordinances amongst you, and ceaseth not daily to remember your of your duty:

I will presse the point upon you in respect of every mans owne particular, hath not God afflicted thee? made thee groane and complaine with losses and crosses, and more then one or two calamities, and yet after deliverance granted, you have returned to your vomit, and againe are become wallowers in the mire, even giving over your selves to the selfe same crime, for which your owne soules did smite you in your miseries, and told you plainely that for those very things the Lord sent those testimonies of his displeasure against you, so great is that aggravation of thy fault, and will cause the Lord to make his rods more smarting, and if future amendment upon future and worse crosses doe not come betwixt, to cut thee of and destroy thee at once, as here you see in Sodome. Indeed the most horrible abomination that they did publikely live in, required so extraordinary and publike a punishment, but the particular fault of one particular man in a matter vile enough though not so loathsome, shall surely procure another and a sorer chastisement, or else even utter destruction at length. Let this admonition enter into your soules, and move you to repent now of that hardnesse of your hearts, which causeth you not to repent upon a former adversity, or else be sure, that you shall treasure up wrath to your selves against the day of wrath, you that doe presently lie under any hand of God, set to the matter of finding out and reforming your offences, and be much more earnest with God to make the crosse profitable to you in that behalfe, then to remove it from your shoulders. And you that have come lately out of a crosse, and now are gotten againe into a large place, beware of forgetting the hand of God, let the present exhortation stirre you up to doe better then the Sodomites. Say in your consciences, was it not a great folly in them, and a just forerunner of their finall ruine? that captivity tooke away nothing from their sinnes: why will you commit the same sinne which you cannot but condemne in them? They had no publike admonishioner amongst them, that did continually perswade them to profit by that calamity, and putting them in remembrance of the lamentable condition in which they were falne, wished them earnestly to study reformation of life. God hath made you his people, hath setled his ordinances amongst you, and ceaseth not daily to remember your of your duty: