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…

Answ. God will make good his word upon many or few. Did you doubt of his will, or of his power? For his will, he hath told it you in his word. For his power, he is as able to punish many as one man. What is all the world to him, but as a drop of a Bucket, ⟨p. 118⟩as the dust of the balance; He told you before hand that the gate was strait, and the way to heaven was narrow, and few did find it, and the gate to destruction was wide, and the way was broad, and many did enter in at it, Mat. 7.13, 14. And if you would not Believe him, you must bear what your unbelief hath brought you to. What if you had twenty children, or servants, or friends: and the greater part of them should prove false to you, and seek your destruction, or prove disobedient, and turn to your enemy? would you think it a good excuse, if the rest should do the like, because of their example? will you therefore wrong God, because you see others wrong him? would you spit in the face of your own Father, if you saw others do so? God warned you, that you should not follow a multitude ⟨p. 119⟩to do evil, Exod. 23.2. And if yet you will do as most do, you must even speed as most speed. You should not so much consider, who they be, as what they do, and whether they go, and who they forsake, and what they lose, and what strength is in the Reasons that move them to do this. And then you would find, It is God they forsake, it is sin they choose, it is heaven they lose, it is hell they run into, and it is no true reason, but Satan's delusion, and sensual inclinations that lead them to it. And should men be imitated, be they many or be they few, in such a course as this?

Answ. God will make good his word upon many or few. Did you doubt of his will, or of his power? For his will, he hath told it you in his word. For his power, he is as able to punish many as one man. What is all the world to him, but as a drop of a Bucket, ⟨p. 118⟩as the dust of the ballance; He told you before hand that the gate was strait, and the way to heaven was narrow, and few did find it, and the gate to destruction was wide, and the way was broad, and many did enter in at it,