Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

I thought you would have shined and gone with us, when you shined so much in profession; and is your Lamp now gone cut, when the Bridegroom is come? •las! who can supply you now with Oil? I have little enough for my self, and none to spare for you; and do you ask me for Oil? alas! if I had enough I could not part with it, and put any into your vessels •t Now, now it is too late, I came with Oil often to sell from my Lord and Master, and you might have had it for nothing; you might have bought it without money, and without price; but then you slighted and refused all pr•ffers of grace, which were made; you valued your lusts, which you must have parted withal […] it, at a higher rate; you refused the Oil altogether, or at le•st took no more than would light your Lamps; you would not receive any into the vessels of your hearts: and do you think I can supply you with Oil now? S•me of you had convictions once in the time of the Plague, when death raged amongst you, and ••me good work was beginning then in you; and is […] off, and come to nothing, and dwindled ⟨p. 57⟩into an empty profession? Alas? what shall I do for you now? You know I ventured my life for you, to preach to you, when the arrows were flying so thick about you; I ventured my liberty for you, my health for you, and was often spent for you, and amongst you, that I might be instrumental to call and save you: but when the thunder of Judgments was a little over, and out of hearing, you quickly dropped asleep, and the voice of preaching could not enter your ears and awaken you: Alas! why do you look upon me now with such rueful countenances, and stand with such trembling joints, and speak so earnestly unto me, as if something might yet be done for you, and are loath to let me go from your company? Alas! what can I do for you now? should I stay and preach unto you again, and call, and invite you to Jesus Christ, and open the treasures of the Gospel, and now you will open your ears, and hearts to receive? Alas! now the mystery of God is finished, the treasures of the Gospel are shut up, and sealed, and the day of grace is quite spend and gone, and cannot be recalled; could not you have opened before, when you know I knocked often, and hard, in my Masters name for entertainment? I called, but ye refused; I stretched out my hand, and lifted up my voice like a Trumpet;