That to grow wanton, to abuse our ease, when God is pleased 1to deliver us from yokes, is very sinful, a very great evil. What now when we come to have a little liberty more than we had before, to be freed from that yoke and bondage that we were in, and begin to feel our necks freed of those yokes that were before upon them, What! now to begin to frisk, and spurn, and kick, and against God Himself, that hath taken the yoke from off us, Oh! this is very dreadful. What, to abuse our liberty that we have from our bondage, to all manner of licentiousness in horrid and wanton Opinions, in wicked and abominable practises; certainly this is an ill requital of this fruit of Love, in lifting up the yoke from off our jaws. This is a very great evil which we are this day guilty of; if ever there were a people guilty of this evil, of kicking and spurning against God so soon as he hath taken off the 2yoke from their jaws, than we are at this day: Could any have believed that if it had been revealed from Heaven, but Six years since, That within six years this People of England should be delivered from those sore yokes that ⟨p. 94⟩they cried to Heaven because of the burden of them, and the Lord would work in a miraculous way to deliver them; but upon their deliverance there shall be such wantonness, such horrid, blasphemous opinions, and wicked licentious ways, yea, that those that make profession of Religion shall be guilty of, presently upon the taking off of their yoke, Could it have been believed? Certainly if our forefathers that were under the yoke, that were godly, and cried to God for deliverance, if they should rise out of their graves now, and as soon as ever they were risen out, ye should make a full Narration of all that Liberty that God hath granted to his people in England, in the breaking of all that yoke of Tyranny in the Civil State, and the yoke of Tyranny in the Ecclesiastical State, they would presently think that they should see wonderful glorious effects of this in England; but if within a month or two after they should have conversed with men they should hear of such monstrous opinions, they should see the extreme licentiousness and wantonness in the hearts of men, expressed in their ways, Oh! they would be ready to spit in the very faces of their children, of those that now live in such times as these are.
That to grow wanton, to abuse our ease, when God is pleased 1to deliver us from yokes, is very sinful, a very great evil. What now when we come to have a little libertie more than we had before, to be freed from that yoke and bondage that we were in, and begin to feel our necks freed of those yokes that were before upon them, What! now to begin to frisk, and spurn, and kick, and against God Himself, that hath taken the yoke from off us, Oh! this is very dreadful. What, to abuse our libertie that we have from our bondage, to all manner of licentiousness in horrid and wanton Opinions, in wicked and abominable practises; certainly this is an ill requittal of this fruit of Love, in lifting up the yoke from off our jaws. This is a very great evil which we are this day guilty of; if ever there were a people guilty of this evil, of kicking and spurning against God so soon as he hath taken off the 2yoke from their jaws, than we are at this day: Could any have beleeved that if it had been revealed from Heaven, but Six years since, That within six years this People of England should be delivered from those sore yokes that ⟨p. 94⟩they cried to Heaven because of the burden of them, and the Lord would work in a miraculous way to deliver them; but upon their deliverance there shal be such wantonness, such horrid, blasphemous opinions, and wicked licentious waies, yea, that those that make profession of Religion shall be guilty of, presently upon the taking off of their yoke, Could it have been beleev'd? Certainly if our forefathers that were under the yoke, that were godly, and cried to God for deliverance, if they should rise out of their graves now, and assoon as ever they were risen out, ye should make a full Narration of all that Libertie that God hath granted to his people in England, in the breaking of all that yoke of Tyrannie in the Civil State, and the yoke of Tyrannie in the Ecclesiastical State, they would presently think that they should see wonderful glorious effects of this in England; but if within a month or two after they should have conversed with men they should hear of such monstrous opinions, they should see the extream licentiousness and wantonness in the hearts of men, expressed in their waies, Oh! they would be ready to spit in the very faces of their children, of those that now live in such times as these are.
- 1Obs. 2. To grow wanton after deliverance from yokes is very sinful.
- 2Englands sin.
