6. Moreover, this is most considerable in our treaty, that if we Agree, it must be upon Universal terms that all will agree upon; or else it can be no Universal Agreement. If a few should Agree with you, this would not make a Unity in the world. We must have terms that are fit for all to Agree upon. And in good sadness, would you have all the world be such as you? Tell me, you that are covetous and proud, would you have all the world become proud and covetous to Agree with you? Nay if they should, when they are likest you, they would not Agree with you: •or the Proud will envy the Proud, and their Pride will set them together by the ears. And the covetous would be greedily snatching ⟨p. 128⟩the prey out of one another's jaws and their mammon would be the matter of their strife. Tell me also you that are drunkards or unclean, would you have all the world become drunkards and unclean for Unity with you? You that are careless about your souls, and prayerless in your families, and forget the matters of eve• lasting life, would you have all the world set as light by God, and Christ, and Heaven as you? Could the worst of you all have the face to make such a motion as this? What! would you have all Holiness and heavenly-mindedness banished out of the world, because you have banished it from your selves? Would you have all men shut their Bibles as much as you, and instruct their children and servants no more then you, and love God and serve him no more then you? Is it possible that such an ⟨p. 129⟩heart as this can be in the breast of the worst on earth? What! would you have all the world be drunkards, or fornicators, or haters of godliness, or at least unsanctified, because you are so! How quickly then would earth turn Hell, and the flames of the wrath of God consume it? How certainly then would God forsake the world, as a man would be gone from roads and serpents? Can there be such cruelty in any but the Devils, as to wish all the world to be damned with you for company, or to Agree with you on such terms, that you may go hand in hand together to damnation! Or if you had such Devilish hearts within you, as to desire such an Agreement as this, can you think that all the godly would yield to it? No; let me tell you, not one of them in all the world will yield to it.
6. Moreover, this is most considerable in our treaty, that if we Agree, it must be upon Vniversal terms that all will agree upon; or else it can be no Vniversal Agreement. If a few should Agree with you, this would not make a Unity in the world. We must have terms that are fit for all to Agree upon. And in good sadness, would you have all the world be such as you? Tell me, you that are covetous and proud, would you have all the world become proud and covetous to Agree with you? Nay if they should, when they are likest you, they would not Agree with you: •or the Proud will envy the Proud, and their Pride will set them together by the ears. And the covetous would be greedily snatching ⟨p. 128⟩the prey out of one anothers jaws and their mammon would be the matter of their strife. Tell me also you that are drunkards or unclean, would you have all the world become drunkards and unclean for Unity with you? You that are careless about your souls, and p•ayerles• in your families, and forget the matters of eve• lasting life, would you have all the world set as light by God, and Christ, and Heaven as you? Could the worst of you all have the face to make such a motion as this? What! would you have all Holiness and heavenly-mindedness banished out of the world, because you have banished it from your selves? Would you have all men shut their Bibles as much as you, and instruct their children and servants no more then you, and love God and serve him no more then you? Is it possible that such an ⟨p. 129⟩heart as this can be in the breast of the worst on earth? What! would you have all the world be drunkards, or fornicators, or haters of godliness, or at least unsanctified, because you are so! How quickly then would earth turn Hell, and the flames of the wrath of God consume it? How certainly then would God forsake the world, as a man would be gone from roads and serpents? Can there be such cruelty in any but the Devils, as to wish all the world to be damned with you for company, or to Agree with you on such terms, that you may go hand in hand together to damnation! Or if you had such Devilish hearts within you, as to desire such an Agreement as this, can you think that all the godly would yield to it? No; let me tell you, not one of them in all the world will yield to it.
