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…

Didst thou attend diligently on the word in public, and think of what thou heardest when thou camest home? Didst thou go to ⟨p. 106⟩the Minister, or to others that could teach thee, and entreat them to tell thee the way to salvation? Or didst thou not rather carelessly neglect these matters; and hear a Sermon as a common tale, even when the minister was speaking of Heaven or Hell? It was not then thine unavoidable Ignorance, but thy negligence.

Didst thou attend diligently on the word in publike, and think of what thou heardest when thou camest home? Didst thou go to ⟨p. 106⟩the Minister, or to others that could teach thee, and intreat them to tell thee the way to salvation? Or didst thou not rather carelesly neglect these matters; and hear a Sermon as a common tale, even when the minister was speaking of Heaven or Hell? It was not then thine unavoidable Ignorance, but thy negligence.

Yea further, answer as in the presence of God: Didst thou Obey so far as thou d•dst know? Or didst thou not rather sin against that knowledge which thou hadst. Thou •newest that the soul was better then the body, and everlasting life more to be regarded, then this transitory life? But didst thou regard it accordingly? Thou sure knewest that God was better then the world, and Heaven then earth; at least, thou wast told of it? But didst thou accordingly value him, ⟨p. 107⟩and love him more? Thou knewest sure that there was no salvation without Faith, and Repentance, and newness of life, and yet they were neglected. In a word, many a thousand sins which were committed, and duties that were omitted, against thy own Knowledge and Conscience, will mar this Excuse.