Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

If you would not look back in declining times, shut your eyes and your ears against all the allurements and threatenings of the World: For the Devil he tempts much now in these days to false Worship, as he tempted our Saviour Christ, when he said: All this will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me: That was false Worship: So now the Devil saith, All this living and preferment will I give thee, if thou wilt worship me so: This Cupboard with Plate will I give thee; this Chamber hung with Tapestry will I give thee, if thou wilt worship so; This great living and preferment will I give thee, if thou wilt worship so: If thou wilt not worship, all this will I take from thee: Would you therefore be kept, that you may never look back? Shut your eyes, and shut your ears, go blindfold into Gods Commandments, as Abraham your Father did.

If you would not look back in declining times, shut your eyes and your ears against all the allurements and threatnings of the World: For the Devil he tempts much now in these daies to false Worship, as he tempted our Saviour Christ, when he said: All this will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me: That was false Worship: So now the Devil saith, All this living and preferment will I give thee, if thou wilt worship me so: This Cupboard with Plate will I give thee; this Chamber hung with Tapestry will I give thee, if thou wilt worship so; This great living and preferment will I give thee, if thou wilt worship so: If thou wilt not worship, all this will I take from thee: Would you therefore be kept, that you may never look back? Shut your eyes, and shut your ears, go blindfold into Gods Commandements, as Abraham your Father did.

2. If you would not look back in declining ⟨p. 251⟩times: Take heed of leaving any Nest-egg in the day of Reformation; if there be an Egg left in the Nest, sure enough the Hen will return to the Nest to lay yet. So in the time of Reformation, If a Nest-Egg be left, as God knows what Nest-eggs were left among us: But I say, If in a time of public Reformation Nest-eggs be left, there will be a return of the Hen to the Nest-egg there. Will you know what that good man said, Mr. Dearing before Queen Elizabeth: The house is swept, and the Dirt is behind the Door, there comes a Hen and scrapes it all out again: But I put it into this, If a Nest-egg be left, be it a public Reformation, or a private Reformation; yet if a Nest-egg be left, there will be a returning back again.