Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

Such a thing was presented unto him, and it was a Roll full of curses, and all these curses shall come on those that obey not all the Commandments, all shall come upon them and overtake them. Cursed shalt thou be in the City, and cursed shalt thou be in the field, cursed in thy basket and in thy store, cursed when thou comest in, and when thou goest forth, Deut. 28.16. Till a man come to receive the Promises, till he come to be a son of blessing, till he be in Christ, he is beset so with curses, that if he lie down to sleep there is a curse on his pillow; if he put his Money in his coffer, he lays up a curse with it, which as rust eats it out and cankers it; if he beget a child, he is accursed, there's a curse against his person, and his goods, and all that belongs unto him, there's still a curse over his head.

Such a thing was presented unto him, and it was a Roll full of curses, and all these curses shall come on those that obey not all the Commandments, all shall come upon them and overtake them. Cursed shalt thou be in the City, and cursed shalt thou be in the field, cursed in thy basket and in thy store, cursed when thou comest in, and when thou goest forth, Deut. 28.16. Till a man come to receive the Promises, till he come to be a son of blessing, till he be in Christ, he is beset so with curses, that if he lie down to sleep there is a curse on his pillow; if he put his Money in his cofer, he lays up a curse with it, which as rust eats it out and cankers it; if he beget a child, he is accursed, there's a curse against his person, and his goods, and all that belongs unto him, there's still a curse over his head.

The creditor in this World by the Laws of the Realm may choose, whether he will have his debtors person seized on, or his goods, and chattels: But not so here, this writ is executed against his person, and goods, and all that belongs unto him. So that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. If this be the condition of a wicked man, that his very blessings be curses, what a woeful case is it! There's nothing till he be reconciled to Christ, but hath a curse at the end of it.