A second admonition to the parliament

All honest men shall find lack of equity / if their safety be not provided for in this respect / yea / and their appeal thought upon / heard / and yielded unto. If it were the case of any number / for worldly respects / this high Court were to provide for it / but being the case of the whole church of England / and Ireland / and in deed God his cause / all good consciences shall condemn that Court / that provideth not for it / but rejecteth it. The scripture is plain / it *ⁿ shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement / then for such a Court. God give it grace to provide for it / or ever it be dissolved / and pardon the negligence ⟨image 7⟩already committed / for otherwise surely / there is none other thing to be looked for / then some speedy vengeance to light upon the whole land / provide as well as the politic Machevils of England think they can / though God do his worst: but shut God out of your assemblies and courts / as hitherto in this your last Parliament you have don nothing therein as you ought / no though you have been solicited / but have suffered them that were your solicitors / to be molested / you shall find / both that you ought to have sought the *^o kingdom of God first / and also you shall find / if you consider not your own ways in your hearts / how you think it a time to build ceiled houses / to devise laws for the preservation and prosperity of your common wealth / and neglect God his church / leave that waste / provide not for that / you shall find (as the *^p Prophet saith) ye shall sow much / and bring in little / ye shall eat / and not have enough. As for the Convocation house / whereof many have conceived a marvellous opinion / and which should of duty look to these matters / common experience doth prove / that they do for the most part apply them selves to the time / and seek rather to please and follow worldly policy / then sincerely to promote Gods cause / and to publish his truth. And hereof their last convocations can be good witnesses. But you say the Bishops are good men / & great clerks / they know what they have to do / and possible some of them do / except the God of this world have bl•nded their eyes / and so did some of the popish bishops: