The other word of Use i• for what is past; I am sure, if we could speak of it, and hear it rightly, there is here that which might make us all to tremble, and evidence convincingly to us our hazard, and the necessity of Repentance and flying to Christ: Tell me, Hearers, believe ye this Truth, that there is such hazard from this guilt? tell me (if ye remember what we spoke in the opening of it) is there any of you that lieth not under the stroke of it? If •o, what will ye do? fly ye must to Christ, or lye still; and can there be any secure lying still for but one hour, under Gods Curse drawn out? O ye Atheists, that never trembled at the Name of the Lord, and that can take a mouthful of it in your common discourse, and ye who make it your by-word, and mock, or jest; ye, whom no Oaths can bind; and all ye Hypocrites, who turn the pretended honouring of the Name of the Lord, and the sanctifying of him in his Ordinances into a real profaning of it; let me give you these two charges under certification of a third, 1. I charge you to Repent of this sin, and to fly to Christ for obtaining pardon: haste, haste, haste, the Curse is at the door, when the Sentence is past already; O sleep not, till this be removed. 2. I charge you to abstain from it in your several Relations, all ye Parents, Masters, Magistrates, Church Officers, School-masters and Teachers, I charge you to endeavour to prevent this sin in your selves and others: It is sad that the Children of many are brought up in it, the most part live in it, our Streets are more full of it then the Streets of Heathens; Advert to this charge, every soul: Or 3. I charge you to appear before this great and dreadful God, who will not account any such guiltless, and to Answer to Him for it.
The other word of Use i• for what is past; I am sure, if we could speak of it, and hear it rightly, there is here that which might make us all to tremble, and evidence convincingly to us our hazard, and the necessity of Repentance and flying to Christ: Tell me, Hearers, believe ye this Truth, that there is such hazard from this guilt? tell me (if ye remember what we spoke in the opening of it) is there any of you that lyeth not under the stroak of it? If •o, what will ye do? flye ye must to Christ, or lye still; and can there be any secure lying still for but one hour, under Gods Curse drawn out? O ye Atheists, that never trembled at the Name of the Lord, and that can take a mouthful of it in your common discourse, and ye who make it your by-word, and mock, or jest; ye, whom no Oaths can bind; and all ye Hypocrites, who turn the pretended honouring of the Name of the Lord, and the sanctifying of him in his Ordinances into a real prophaning of it; let me give you these two charges under certification of a third, 1. I charge you to Repent of this sin, and to flye to Christ for obtaining pardon: haste, haste, haste, the Curse is at the door, when the Sentence is past already; O sleep not, till this be removed. 2. I charge you to abstain from it in your several Relations, all ye Parents, Masters, Magistrates, Church Officers, School-masters and Teachers, I charge you to endeavour to prevent this sin in your selves and others: It is sad that the Children of many are brought up in it, the most part live in it, our Streets are more full of it then the Streets of Heathens; Advert to this charge, every soul: Or 3. I charge you to appear before this great and dreadful God, who will not accompt any such guiltless, and to Answer to Him for it.
