The crucifying of the world

AND now I shall apply my self to those of you that are guilty▪ in whose souls the worldly Interest is predominant, and in whom the world is not Crucified by the Cross of Christ, but rather Christ again Crucified by the world. I have no mind to dishonour you or exasperate you: but if faithfulness to Christ and you will do both, there's no remedy. I do here prefer an Indictment against you in the Court of your Consciences, and before this Congregation: the Articles I shall distinctly read: And first, I require you, study not a defence: excuse not, extenuate not your crimes: but confess your sin freely, and condemn your selves impartially, and return to God, and forsake them speedily, or you shall do worse: Self-condemnation may be saving and preventive, and the Death of sin thereupon, may be the life of your souls: But if this be neglected, and you hold on a while till the great Assize, you shall have another kind of charge then this, even such an one as shall appal that face that now can merrily smile at the accusation; and such an one as shall bring down the stoutest of your spirits, and make the hardest heart to feel, and the stubbornest of you all to stoop and tremble. O how easy is it to hear your sin and danger from such a worm as I? or to hear your state discovered, and your selves condemned by a Minister of Christ in a Pulpit? but how dreadful will it be to hear all this from the Lord of Glory? and that when the case is past remedy, which now might have been remedied if you would, and if your obstinate hearts had not resisted.

AND now I shall apply my self to those of you that are guilty▪ in whose souls the worldly Interest is predominant, and in whom the world is not Crucified by the Cross of Christ, but rather Christ again Crucified by the world. I have no mind to dishonour you or exasperate you: but if faithfulness to Christ and you will do both, there's no remedy. I do here prefer an Indictment against you in the Court of your Consciences, and before this Congregation: the Articles I shall distinctly read: And first, I require you, study not a defence: excuse not, extenuate not your crimes: but confess your sin freely, and condemn your selves impartially, and return to God, and forsake them speedily, or you shall do worse: Self-condemnation may be saving and preventive, and the Death of sin thereupon, may be the life of your souls: But if this be neglected, and you hold on a while till the great Assize, you shall have another kind of charge then this, even such an one as shall appale that face that now can merrily smile at the accusation; and such an one as shall bring down the stoutest of your spirits, and make the hardest heart to feel, and the stubbornest of you all to stoop and tremble. O how easie is it to hear your sin and danger from such a worm as I? or to hear your state discovered, and your selves condemned by a Minister of Christ in a Pulpit? but how dreadful will it be to hear all this from the Lord of Glory? and that when the case is past remedy, which now might have been remedyed if you would, and if your obstinate hearts had not resisted.