God's terrible voice in the city

1. The ignorant persons in London have been guilty of this sin, the light of the Gospel hath shined about them, but they have muffled up themselves ⟨p. 90⟩in darkness, and suffered Satan to keep them hood-winked, least the light of the glorious Gospel should enter, and lead them out of his snare; thousands in the City have been affectedly ignorant: though they have had means of knowledge, so near, and so easy to come by, multitudes have perished out of London, and multitudes still remain in their ignorance. O the neglect that there hath been of learning Catechisms! and how few have endeavoured to acquaint themselves with the Principles of the Christian Religion, that they might have the more full and clear understanding of the Gospel?

1. The ignorant persons in London have been guilty of this sin, the light of the Gospel hath shin'd about them, but they have mufled up themselves ⟨p. 90⟩in darkness, and suffered Sathan to keep them hood-wink'd, least the light of the glorious Gospel should enter, and lead them out of his snare; thousands in the City have been affectedly ignorant: though they have had means of knowledge, so near, and so easy to come by, multitudes have perished out of London, and multitudes still remain in their ignorance. O the neglect that there hath been of learning Catechisms! and how few have endeavour'd to acquaint themselves with the Principles of the Christian Religion, that they might have the more full and clear understanding of the Gospel?

2. The vicious and profane have been guilty of slighting the Gospel, how many such persons have there crowded, and are still crowding out of London into Hell, when the light of the Gospel shined upon them, which would have guided them in the way to Heaven: because this light hath been too troublesome in its discovery, and reproof of their dear and sweet sins; they have hated it, and endeavoured to fly as far as they could from it, or to shut their eyes as hard as they could against it.