Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

What are we the better for our riches and great estate on Earth, for our honour, and high esteem amongst men, for our luscious pleasures and delights, (now vanished and gone) which we bought at so dear a rate, as the loss of our precious and immortal souls, and the forfeiture of an Inheritance in the kingdom of Heaven? Then they will cry out, O bewitching World! O deluding Devil! O deceitful hearts and lusts! O what fools and mad-men have we been, that we should trample Jewels under our feet like Swine, and in stead of them, put dross and dung into our Cabinet! that we should so greedily drink the sweet poison of sin to the bane and ruin of our souls; and refuse to taste of the Cup of salvation, which all our days was held forth unto us! Then they will cry out of their voluptuousness, their covetousness, their pride and haughtiness, and the like lusts, which have kept Christ out of their hearts, and kept them out of the Kingdom of Heaven.

What are we the better for our riches and great estate on Earth, for our honour, and high esteem amongst men, for our luscious pleasures and delights, (now vanished and gone) which we bought at so dear a rate, as the loss of our precious and immortal souls, and the forfeiture of an Inheritance in the kingdome of Heaven? Then they will cry out, O bewitching World! O deluding Devil! O deceitfull hearts and lusts! O what fools and mad-men have we been, that we should trample Iewels under our feet like Swine, and in stead of them, put dross and dung into our Cabinet! that we should so greedily drink the sweet poison of sin to the bane and ruine of our souls; and refuse to taste of the Cup of salvation, which all our dayes was held forth unto us! Then they will cry out of their voluptuousness, their covetousness, their pride and haughtiness, and the like lusts, which have kept Christ out of their hearts, and kept them out of the Kingdome of Heaven.

5. In going away, some of them shall remember how nearly they missed of this happiness; that they were almost persuaded to be Christians, in deed as well as in name, and to accept of Christ upon his own terms; that they were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven; that they were come even within fight of the Heavenly Canaan, and yet died in the Wilderness; that they were come even to the Gate of the new Jerusalem, but finding it too strait for them, and the luggish of their sins together, there they stuck and could not enter in; that they climbed up a great way of the Hill to Zion, but did not reach the top, and tumbling down, their fall was the greater; they will remember the