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…

is the ship even filled with water, and the disciples crying; Master save us, we perish, and all in jeopardy, and yet art thou unaffected? is our Lord ready to be betrayed into the hands of Sinners, and wilt thou sleep on now? art thou not yet come to thy senses? Alas, that there should be such a disease as security going now, at such a time as this! now methinks the dumb should speak, and the dead should wake. Was the tongue of King Croesus his son, dumb from his birth, loosed when he saw his Father about to be murdered? and shall the Children of Zion see the knife even at the throat or heart of their mother; and yet be silent and unmoved? but what do I dwell on particulars? the Lord calleth on all men every where to repent. Repent, O officers, that you have not been so vigilant in the offices which you have born, and in fulfilling the oaths that you have taken, in repressing of abounding sins as you should have been. This guilt will lye heavy at many doors, without repentance. Repent, O Masters, of your unnecessary hardness, and rigour to the bodies; but especially of your cruelty to the souls of your servants. Have you been as careful to train them up in the knowledge of their C•eator, as in the knowledge of your trades? have you taught them how to pray, as well as how to work? and instructed them in the mystery of their salvation, as much as in the mystery of their callings? have you looked for as good ⟨p. 250⟩an account of the principles of Religion, or or of the Sermon of them, as of the task you have set them? and the work in which you have employed them? O that you had! repent, O you husbands, of your harshness, bitterness, not dwelling with your wives as men of knowledge. Repent, you Parents, of your fond indulgence to Children, sparing their sins, neglecting their souls. Repent you wives, of your wilfulness, and frowardness, and disrespectfulness to them, towards whom the Almighty calls for your reverence and obedience. Repent, O Children of your fearful ingratitude, in slighting and disobeying your Parents, a sin under which the earth do groan. Repent you Servants, of your slothfulness, wastefulness, unfaithfulness, and eye-service, and disobedience, that all families almost are filled with the complaint of. O that there might be some way to recover the credit of Religion from the wounds, that it hath received, by the neglect of relative duties:

is the ship even filled with water, and the disciples crying; Master save us, we perish, and all in jeopardy, and yet art thou unasfected? is our Lord ready to be betrayed into the hands of Sinners, and wilt thou sleep on now? art thou not yet come to thy sences? Alass, that there should be such a disease as security going now, at such a time as this! now methinks the dumb should speak, and the dead should wake. VVas the tongue of King Craesus his son, dumb from his birth, loosed when he saw his Father about to be murdered? and shall the Children of Zion see the knife even at the throat or heart of their mother; and yet be silent and unmoved? but what do I dwell on particulars? the Lord calleth on all men every where to repent. Repent, O ossicers, that you have not been so vigilant in the ossices which you have born, and in fulfilling the oaths that you have taken, in repressing of abounding sins as you should have been. This guilt will lye heavy at many doors, without repentance. Repent, O Masters, of your unnecessary hardnesse, and rigor to the bodies; but especially of your cruelty to the souls of your servants. Have you been as careful to train them up in the knowledge of their Ceator, as in the knowledge of your trades? have you taught them how to pray, as well as how to work? and instructed them in the mystery of their salvation, as much as in the mystery of their callings? have you looked for as good