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…

Secondly. Am I a Mourner for the sins of the Land? My Brethren, we have great reason, I doubt, to check our selves sharply here, that when God hath made it so plainly a duty to us, and yet we are so little affected with the sins of the Land, when God doth set a mark upon them (only) for preservation, that Cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst of the Land; yet we remain insensible! Can our hearts acquit us now in this thing? O let us never leave our hearts, but be checking of them for this. If thy name were but wounded, it would break thy heart almost; and yet how is it that we can hear of Gods name to be dishonoured and yet not break for it! Can our hearts witness for us that we do never hear of the blasphemy that is in the land, and of the Superstition and Idolatry of the land, but God doth hear of it again by us, before we sleep, by Prayer? This should be for a lamentation to us, that the wounds that are given to God are no more upon our hearts. We may say of the glory ⟨p. 15⟩of God as they of David. 2 Sam. 18. 3. 'Tis worth ten thousand of us. Our estates, and names, and all that is dear to us, yea, our very souls are not so much worth as the honour of God. And how is it then that we can see God dishonoured, and we cannot mourn for it? Gods glory is his Crown that is upon his head; and shall we see his Crown trodden, down in the dirt and not be affected with it? we are far from the disposition of Gods Saints and servants heretofore. When Moses saw the Idolatry of the people, he was so zealous, that he overturned the Tables that God wrote with his own finger. And Ezra when the people had taken strange wives he sate down and […] his clothes. Ezr. 9. Brethren how may we blush to hear and read this, and to think how far our hearts are from this frame! It may be you do think it enough that you did cry out upon it when you hear• the Blasphemy, so that you are free from […] your selves, but this is your sin, if you do no• mourn over it. (1 Cor. 5. 2. 7. No doubt the godly Corinthians did detest this sin, but the Apostle tells them that is not enough, whil• they did not mourn over it:) When wicness doth reign, as if it were the time of […] Devils incarnation; as if Hell it self were ken loose upon us to Act its part […] ground, and we not mourning ovr it