Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

You have seen the Main, the Ring-Leaders, which are these fearful, faithless, dastardly, unbelieving men.

Now see what the filthy rabble is that followeth after, and they are Abominable, Murderers, &c. Abominable, that is, unnatural, such as pollute themselves with things not fit to be named, but to be abhorred whether it be by themselves or with others. They are the abominable here meant, such as Sodom and Gomorrah, who were set forth to such as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire, Jude v. 7. [Greek or Hebrew], such are abominable, being given up to unnatural lust. Let them carry it never so secretly, yet are they here ranked amongst the rest, and shall have their portion in the burning Lake.

Now see what the filthy rabble is that followeth after, and they are Abominable, Murtherers, &c. Abominable, that is, unnatural, such as pollute themselves with things not fit to be named, but to be abhorred whether it be by themselves or with others. They are the abominable here meant, such as Sodom and Gomorrah, who were set forth to such as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire, Jude v. 7. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, such are abominable, being given up to unnatural lust. Let them carry it never so secretly, yet are they here ranked amongst the rest, and shall have their portion in the burning Lake.

After these come Sorcerers, Idolaters, Liars: Though these may be spoken fairly of by men, yet cannot that shelter them from the wrath of God, they shall likewise have their part in that lake, when they come to a reckoning. If there be, I say, a generation of people that worship these, say what you will of them, when they come to receive their wages, they shall receive their portion in that burning lake with hypocrites: Those that make so fair a show before men, and yet nourish hypocrisy in their hearts, these men, though in regard of the outward man, they so behave themselves that none can say to them, black is their eye, though they cannot be charged with those notorious things before mentioned; yet if there be nothing but hypocrisy in their hearts, let it be spun with never so fair a web, never so fine a thread, yet they shall have their portion in the lake, they shall have their part, their portion, &c. Then it seems these of this black guard have a peculiar interest unto this place. And as it is said of Judas,