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…

MY next Question to you, is▪ How are you affected w•th the Consideration of this day? Barely to think of it will not serve: To think of such a day as this with a dull and senseless heart, is a sign of fearful stupidity. Did the knees of King Belshazzar knock together with trembling, when he saw the handwriting on the wall? Da•. 5.6. How then should thy heart be affected that seeth the hand-writing of God as a summons to his bar?

MY next Question to you, is▪ How are you affected w•th the Consideration of this day? Barely to think of it will not serve: To think of such a day as this with a dull and senseless heart, is a sign of fearful stupidity. Did the knees of King Belshazzar knock together with trembling, when he saw the handwriting on the wall? Da•. 5.6. How then should thy heart be affected that seeth the hand-writing of God as a summons to his barr?

When I began to preach of these things long ago, I confess the matters seemed to me so terrible, that I was afraid that people would have run out of their wits w•th fear; but a little experience ⟨p. 239⟩showed me, that many are like a dog that is bred up in a forge or furnace▪ that being used to it, can sleep though the hammers are beating, and the fire and hot Iron flaming about him▪ when another that had never seen it, would be amazed at the sight. When men have heard us 7 years together, yea 20 years, to talk of a day of Judgement, and they see it not, nor feel any hurt▪ they think it is but talk, and begin to make nothing of it. This is their thanks to God for his Patience: Because his Sentence is not executed speedily therefore their hearts are set in them to do evil,