A sermon preached at the funeral of reverend Mr. Will. Whitaker, late minister of…

And now I have this day declared it to you, but ye have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me to you. And when they were a little heated by the Prophets unwelcome message, they plainly tell him, Jer. 44.16. As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee. When once it comes to this, 'tis time for God to tell them, Jer. 44.28. You shall know whose words shall stand, mine or yours. They shuffle all they can before they come to tell God to his face, they will not obey him, but God tells them all along what ⟨p. 14⟩they must trust to, God will neither be flattered nor hectored to any gratifying them in sin.

And now I have this day declared it to you, but ye have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me to you. And when they were a little heated by the Prophets unwelcome message, they plainly tell him, Jer. 44.16. As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee. When once it comes to this, 'tis time for God to tell them, Jer. 44.28. You shall know whose words shall stand, mine or yours. They shuffle all they can before they come to tell God to his face, they will not obey him, but God tells them all along what ⟨p. 14⟩they must trust to, God will neither be flatter'd nor hector'd to any gratifying them in sin.

Proposition 4. Former threatenings and the execution of them should excite us to repentance, though the Prophets that denounced the one, and the people that felt the other are dead and gone long since. The Apostle Peter tells the Israelites of Sodoms case,