Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

8. Come forth all ye intemperate and licentious Persons; who have indulged your flesh, and laid no restraint upon your sensual appetite; who have made provision for your flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof; but made no provision for my glory, and took no c•re to fulfil my commands; did you never hear of ⟨p. 98⟩such a duty as self-denial, which I required of all my Disciples and followers? Were you never told that if you followed the inclinations, and obeyed the commands of carnal self, it would be to your ruin and destruction? that bitterness and sorrow would be the issue of fleshpleasing? that lust if it conceived would bring forth sin, and sin when perfected, would bring forth death? did you never read that if ye lived after the flesh, ye should die, and that you must, through the spirit, mortify the deeds of the body, otherwise life and happiness could not be obtained? and yet would you lay the reins on the neck of your lusts? if you had no faith, had you no reason neither, to keep you from intemperance? if you did not live like Christians, would you not live like Men? would you needs be brutes, and live as if you were all body, and had no souls of such high capacity? were you so blind as not to see afar off before this day of Judgment, when I should call you to an account? or to see a little before you, to the day of your death, which would put a conclusion to all your sensual pleasures? Could you bribe and muzzle conscience, and lay it asleep whilst you took your pleasures? Could you tread reason under foot, and resolve you would not be controlled by any light, or law, or government from your eager prosecution of your carnal delights?

8. Come forth all yee intemperate and licentious Persons; who have indulged your slesh, and laid no restraint upon your sensual appetite; who have made provision for your flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof; but made no provision for my glorie, and took no c•re to fulfill my commands; did you never hear of ⟨p. 98⟩such a dutie as self-denial, which I required of all my Disciples and followers? Were you never told that if you followed the inclinations, and obeyed the commands of carnal self, it would be to your ruine and destruction? that bitterness and sorrow would be the issue of fleshpleasing? that lust if it conceived would bring forth sin, and sin when perfected, would bring forth death? did you never read that if yee lived after the flesh, yee should die, and that you must, through the spirit, mortifie the deeds of the bodie, otherwise life and happiness could not be obtained? and yet would you lay the reines on the neck of your lusts? if you had no faith, had you no reason neither, to keep you from intemperance? if you did not live like Christians, would you not live like Men? would you needs be bruits, and live as if you were all body, and had no soules of such high capacity? were you so blinde as not to see afar off before this day of Iudgment, when I should call you to an account? or to see a little before you, to the day of your death, which would put a conclusion to all your sensual pleasures? Could you bribe and muzzle conscience, and lay it asleep whilst you took your pleasures? Could you tread reason under foot, and resolve you would not be controuled by any light, or law, or government from your eager prosecution of your carnal delights?