The difficulty of and the encouragements to a reformation a sermon preached before the…

4 Get love to Gods truth; And this is the reason of all Anti-christs errors, and believing such lies as they do, because they receive not Gods Word in the love of it; They loathed this Manna, and therefore God makes a famine among them; and there is no more terrible prognostic of Gods delivering up a people to blindness and hardness, then their rejecting of the Word. Take we heed then how we reject God reforming, lest he swear in his wrath, that we shall never be reformed; What is the great crying sin of England this day? even an hatred of Gods truth, they love not the power and purity of it, but as the Gadarenes had rather have their Swine then Christs presence, so these their brutish lusts rather then Gods truth; God removeth these means of grace when people are incurable, as when the Patient is dead, all the physic boxes and cups are taken away.

4 Get love to Gods truth; And this is the reason of all Anti-christs errours, and beleeving such lies as they doe, because they receive not Gods Word in the love of it; They loathed this Manna, and therefore God makes a famine among them; and there is no more terrible prognostique of Gods delivering up a people to blindnesse and hardnesse, then their rejecting of the Word. Take we heed then how we reject God reforming, lest he sweare in his wrath, that we shall never be reformed; What is the great crying sinne of England this day? even an hatred of Gods truth, they love not the power and purity of it, but as the Gadarens had rather have their Swine then Christs presence, so these their brutish lusts rather then Gods truth; God removeth these meanes of grace when people are incurable, as when the Patient is dead, all the physick boxes and cups are taken away.

Now that the Word of God may be set up, these three things are necessary: