God's terrible voice in the city

When so many denied the Divine Authority of the Scriptures, the very foundation of our Christian faith, and reckoned themselves by their principles amongst Turks, Pagans, and other Infidels, however they called themselves Christians, ⟨p. 75⟩and hereby put such an affront upon the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of the most high God, is it strange that the Lord should speak so terribly to show his indignation? when there was such blowing at, and endeavours to put out that light, which would show Men the way to Heaven; such hatred and opposition against the power of godliness; when the name of a Saint was matter of derision and scorn; when there was such wallowing in filthy fornication, and adultery, in swinish drunkenness and intemperance; when such oppression, bribery, such malice, cruelty, such unheard of wickedness and hideous impiety grown to such a height in the Land; may not we reasonably think that such persons as were thus guilty, being in the Ship, were a great cause of the storm of Gods anger, which hath made such a shipwreck.

When so many denied the Divine Authority of the Scriptures, the very foundation of our Christian faith, and reckoned themselves by their principles amongst Turks, Pagans, and other Infidels, however they called themselves Christians, ⟨p. 75⟩and hereby put such an affront upon the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of the most high God, is it strange that the Lord should speak so terribly to shew his indignation? when there was such blowing at, and endeavours to put out that light, which would shew Men the way to Heaven; such hatred and opposition against the power of godliness; when the name of a Saint was matter of derision and scorn; when there was such wallowing in filthy fornication, and adultry, in swinish drunkenness and intemperance; when such oppression, bribery, such malice, cruelty, such unheard of wickedness and hideous impiety grown to such a heighth in the Land; may not we reasonably think that such persons as were thus guilty, being in the Ship, were a great cause of the storme of Gods anger, which hath made such a shipwrack.