Ans. That which would have preserved Corazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum, will preserve us, and that is true repentance; which you may know what it is by the description I have given before of its contrary, which is Impenitency. Let us all in good earnest turn to God and repent. Let us repent of our Pride, and immodest Dresses in Apparel, and reform; Let our Women take down their high towering Dresses, and our Men shorten their monstrous Perukes. Let us repent of our Strife and Contention, and the Persecutions that have been amongst us. Let us repent of the great neglect of Family-duties, and our spending so much time at Taverns and Coffee-houses. Let others repent of their Frauds in Commerce and Trading; and others of their Oaths and Blasphemies; and others of their Extortion and Oppression; others of their base temporizing in Religion. Let Children repent of Disobedience to Parents, and Parents of their neglect of the Instruction and Education of their Children; so Masters and Servants of the neglect of the Duties of their mutual Relation. Let us repent of our careless Hearing, and our unprofitable Hearing; of our loose Observation of the Sabbath, and unworthy Receiving the Lord's-Supper, and bring forth fruits meet for Repentance. Let London remember what befell Sodom for not repenting, and take heed of Sodom's Sins, which are said to be Pride, 1Idleness, and Fullness of Bread: and Fornication, and going after strange Flesh: and now have suffered the Vengeance of Eternal fire. That this City may not be called Sodom's Sister, as Jerusalem was for being so like her in her Sin, Ezek. 16.48. and her Fruit not like the Apples of Sodom, fair without, and within nothing but Ashes. But I have better hope concerning this City; and that, as God hath wonderfully saved it, so he will do still; and that its case is not as Sodom's, not ⟨p. 45⟩to have in it ten righteous persons when Abraham interceded for the sparing of it.
Ans. That which would have preserved Corazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum, will preserve us, and that is true repentance; which you may know what it is by the description I have given before of its contrary, which is Impenitency. Let us all in good earnest turn to God and repent. Let us repent of our Pride, and immodest Dresses in Apparel, and reform; Let our Women take down their high towring Dresses, and our Men shorten their monstrous Perukes. Let us repent of our Strife and Contention, and the Persecutions that have been amongst us. Let us repent of the great neglect of Family-duties, and our spending so much time at Taverns and Coffee-houses. Let others repent of their Frauds in Commerce and Trading; and others of their Oaths and Blasphemies; and others of their Extortion and Oppression; others of their base temporizing in Religion. Let Children repent of Disobedience to Parents, and Parents of their neglect of the Instruction and Education of their Children; so Masters and Servants of the neglect of the Duties of their mutual Relation. Let us rerent of our careless Hearing, and our unprofitable Hearing; of our loose Observation of the Sabbath, and unworthy Receiving the Lord's-Supper, and bring forth fruits meet for Repentance. Let London remember what befel Sodom for not repenting, and take heed of Sodom's Sins, which are said to be Pride, 1Idleness, and Fulness of Bread: and Fornication, and going after strange Flesh: and now have suffered the Vengeance of Eternal fire. That this City may not be called Sodom's Sister, as Jerusalem was for being so like her in her Sin, Ezek. 16.48. and her Fruit not like the Apples of Sodom, fair without, and within nothing but Ashes. But I have better hope concerning this City; and that, as God hath wonderfully saved it, so he will do still; and that its case is not as Sodom's, not ⟨p. 45⟩to have in it ten righteous persons when Abraham interceded for the sparing of it.
- 1Ezek. 16.49. 2 Pet. 2.6. Jude 7.
