A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen…A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen…

The very lands, and goods and houses of worldlings, will be an Evidence against them: Their Gold and Silver, which the covetous do now prefer before the everlasting Riches with Christ, will be an Evidence against them, Jam. 5.1, 2, 3, 4. Go to now, ye Rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your Riches are corrupted, and your Garments moth-eaten; Your Gold and Silver is cankered, and ⟨p. 77⟩the Rust of them shall be a Witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as it were fire; Ye have heaped Treasure together for the Last days. Behold the hire of the Labourers, which have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in Pleasure on the Earth, and been wanton; Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. Oh that worldlings would well consider this one Text; and therein observe, whether a life of earthly pleasure, and fullness, of worldly Glory, and Gallantry, be as desirable as they imagine▪ and to what Time, and Purpose they now lay up their Treasures; and how they must hear of these Things hereafter; and what effect the review of their Jovial days will have ⟨p. 78⟩upon their miserable condemned souls.

The very lands, and goods and houses of worldlings, will be an Evidence against them: Their Gold and Silver, which the covetous do now prefer before the everlasting Riches with Christ, will be an Evidence against them, Jam. 5.1, 2, 3, 4. Go to now, ye Rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your Riches are corrupted, and your Garments moath-eaten; Your Gold and Silver is cankered, and ⟨p. 77⟩the Rust of them shall be a Witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as it were fire; Ye have heaped Treasure together for the Last daies. Behold the hire of the Labourers, which have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cryeth; and the cryes of them which have reaped, are entred into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in Pleasure on the Earth, and been wanton; Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. Oh that worldlings would well considr this one Text; and therein observe, whether a life of earthly pleasure, and fulness, of worldly Glory, and Gallantry, be as desirable as they imagine and to what Time, and Purpose they now lay up their Treasures; and how they must hear of these Things hereafter; and what effect the review of their Jovial daies will have