Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…

Fourthly, Consider when another such opportunity is offered to you how will you be able to look God in the face? Methinks that man should not dare to come to the Sacrament, and again put his seal to the Covenant, that hath knowingly and willingly broken his last engagement.

Fifthly, Doth not your own looseness, and the enemies profaneness, and the present dispensations that you are under, call upon you for more than ordinary strictness in your lives and conversations? The Lord have mercy upon us, what prejudice have we brought to the Gospel by our carnal, careless conversations! What pitch of profaneness are the enemies of God risen to! They are not afraid to bid him defiance at his face! In what a doleful case are many of our brethren abroad in the world, and how sad is it like to be with us? The glory of God is gone from the public to your houses, and are you not afraid? I am sure there is reason enough to think, that it will take its flight from thence too. And doth not all this call upon us aloud in the language of the prophet, Lam. 3. 40. Let us search and try our ways and turn unto the ⟨p. 42⟩Lord. If we look behind us, and see what we have been: If about us, and see how devilish men are: And above us, to see the black clouds that hang over our heads; we cannot but see that it is time to take another course, to live more like Christians, And what course so likely to effect this, as daily self-examination? serious consideration is the best way to sound and thorough reformation.

Fifthly, Doth not your own looseness, and the enemies profaneness, and the present dispensations that you are under, call upon you for more than ordinary strictness in your lives and conversations? The Lord have mercy upon us, what prejudice have we brought to the Gospel by our carnal, careless conversations! VVhat pitch of profaneness are the enemies of God risen to! They are not afraid to bid him defiance at his face! In what a doleful case are many of our brethren abroad in the world, and how sad is it like to be with us? The glory of God is gone from the publick to your houses, and are you not afraid? I am sure there is reason enough to think, that it will take its flight from thence too. And doth not all this call upon us aloud in the language of the prophet,