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…

4. And why did you not hearken to God that enticed you the other way? You forget what helps he afforded you to discover the wiles of Satan, and to ⟨image 84⟩vanquish the Temptation? He told you it was an enemy that tempted you: and would you hearken to an enemy? He told you it was a dream, a shadow, a painted pleasure, a gilded carcass, a lying promise, and deceitful vanity by which you were tempted; And yet would you regard it before your God? He told you that it was your God, your Saviour, your hopes, your everlasting happiness that the Tempter would beguile you of▪ And yet would you be beguiled? He told you, and plainly, and often told you, that the Tempter would lead you to eternal fire, and undo you everlastingly before you were aware; and that a fatal hook was covered with that bait: And yet would you swallow it?

4. And why did you not hearken to God that ent•ced you the other way? You forget what helps he afforded you to discover the wiles of Satan, and to ⟨image 84⟩vanquish the Temptation? He told you it was an enemy that tempted you: and would you hearken to an enemy? He told you it was a dream, a shadow, a painted pleasure, a guilded carkass, a lying promise, and deceitful vanity by which you were tempted; And yet would you regard it before your God? He told you that it was your God, your Saviour, your hopes, your everlasting happiness that the Tempter would begu•le you of▪ And yet would you be beguiled? He told you, and plainly, and often told you, that the Tempter would lead you to eternal fire, and undo you everlastingly before you were aware; and that a fatal hook was covered with that bait: And yet would you swallow it?