Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

were not you the renders and •••rers of my Church? was it not by reason of you that the ways of truth were evil spoken of by evil Men? were not those without prejudiced against my very ways, because of your delusions, which made so forward a profession? suppose I permitted some of mine to mistake in circumstantials, was this a just excuse for your errors in fundamentals, when the word was open for you to inform your selves in the truth? did not you wrest the Scriptures to your own destruction? suppose you denied ⟨p. 114⟩your selves some things, were they those things that I commanded: suppose you suffered some things in your way, do you hope for a reward for sufferings, which I never called you unto, and which did but so much the more harden your party, and promote your delusion? did you know what a snare you were hampered in, so soon as you put your foot into the way of error, and turned aside from that old strait, narrow way of my Word and Ordinances, which have brought so many to Heaven? were not you in a greater unlikelihood of being called effectually, than Drunkards and Adulterers, and the most vicious, who lay more naked to the blow of the Word, and were more ready to receive instruction? you were more forward to reprove my Ministers, than to receive my Ministers, and conviction from them; you could call them Antichristian, and false Prophets, though they adhered to and maintained nothing, but the truths of my word; and when I gave them so many seals of their Ministry in the conversion of many Souls; you could call them self-seekers and hirelings, though they gave such evidences of self-denial, and many of them forsook all that they had, rather than they would make a breach upon their consciences; you could, some of you, entrench upon their office, though you had no call, nor commission from me; you had the Scripture to discover to you the right way, but you shut your eyes against the light, and ch•se ways of darkness, and is it not sit that you should go to the place of darkness. Take them Devils, bind them hand and foot.

were not you the renders and •••rers of my Church? was it not by reason of you that the wayes of truth were evil spoken of by evil Men? were not those without prejudiced against my very wayes, because of your delusions, which made so forward a profession? suppose I permitted some of mine to mistake in circumstantials, was this a just excuse for your errours in fundamentals, when the word was open for you to inform your selves in the truth? did not you wrest the Scriptures to your own destruction? suppose you denied