God doth expect that London should find out their sins, and having found them, that they should make confession of them: O that the Profane and ungodly generation in London, whose sins have been enumerated in the Catalogue, would be persuaded to get alone by themselves, and consider their evil ways, and what the consequents of their sins have been in bringing down temporal Judgements, what ⟨p. 209⟩the consequence of their sins is like to be, even the bringing upon them eternal Judgements, and that they would fall down and prostrate themselves at Gods foot, and covering their cheeks with shame and blushing, because of their filthiness and foul sins under the view of so holy an eye, that they would acknowledge their transgressions unto him not only in general, but also particularly with their heinous aggravations! O that with an inward deep sense, with a bleeding, broken heart, they would fill their mouths with confessions! that they would take to themselves words and say, We have rebelled against thee O Lord, and done wickedly, and grievously offended thee; so foolish have we been, and ignorant of thee, we have been worse than beasts before thee; the Ox acknowledgeth his owner, and the Ass his master; but, though we are thy creatures and live upon thy bounty, and are daily at thy finding, yet we have not acknowledged thee, and have had less consideration, than those creatures, who have had no reason; we have been a sinful people, laden with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that have been corrupters, who have forsaken thee, and by our wickedness provoked thee to anger. We have been stubborn and disobedient; serving thine enemies, the devil and our own lusts, but have neglected, yea refused to serve and worship thee in our families and closets, living as if there had been no God in the world. We have seldom if ever taken thy Name into our mouths, unless it hath been in vain, unless in our Oaths and Curses. We have profaned thy Sabbaths, and defiled thine ordinances, and have often been more wicked on the Lords day, than any day of the week ⟨p. 210⟩besides. When we were children we disobeyed our Parents, but disobeyed thee much more, who diddest command us to honour them; when we were children in years, we were grown Men and Women in sin; when we were weak in body, we were strong in spirit to commit iniquity;
God doth expect that London should find out their sins, and having found them, that they should make confession of them: O that the Prophane and ungodly generation in London, whose sins have been enumerated in the Catalogue, would be perswaded to get alone by themselves, and consider their evil wayes, and what the consequents of their sins have been in bringing down temporal Judgements, what ⟨p. 209⟩the consequence of their sins is like to be, even the bringing upon them eternal Judgements, and that they would fall down and prostrate themselves at Gods foot, and covering their cheeks with shame and blushing, because of their filthiness and foul sins under the view of so holy an eye, that they would acknowledge their transgressions unto him not only in general, but also particularly with their heinous aggravations! O that with an inward deep sense, with a bleeding, broken heart, they would fill their mouths with confessions! that they would take to themselves words and say, We have rebelled against thee O Lord, and done wickedly, and grievously offended thee; so foolish have we been, and ignorant of thee, we have been worse than beasts before thee; the Oxe acknowledgeth his owner, and the Ass his master; but, though we are thy creatures and live upon thy bounty, and are daily at thy finding, yet we have not acknowledged thee, and have had less consideration, than those creatures, who have had no reason; we have been a sinful people, laden with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that have been corrupters, who have forsaken thee, and by our wickedness provoked thee to anger. We have been stubborn and disobedient; serving thine enemies, the devil and our own lusts, but have neglected, yea refused to serve and worship thee in our families and closets, living as if there had been no God in the world. We have seldom if ever taken thy Name into our mouths, unless it hath been in vain, unless in our Oaths and Curses. We have prophaned thy Sabboths, and defiled thine ordinances, and have often been more wicked on the Lords day, than any day of the week ⟨p. 210⟩besides. When we were children we disobeyed our Parents, but disobeyed thee much more, who didest command us to honour them; when we were children in years, we were grown Men and Women in sin; when we were weak in body, we were strong in spirit to commit iniquity;
