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How oft have ye assisted to Baptism? how oft have ye been partakers of the Lords table prepared, ⟨p. 16⟩used & ministered in all simplicity, not as man had devised, nether as the kings proceedings did a• low, but as Christ Jesus did institute, and as it is evident, tha• Saint Paul did practise. The•• two sacraments▪ seals of Christ Evangel, ye commonly used, baptism for your children, and the table of the Lord to your own• comfort, and for the open confession of your religion. And so oft I say dear brethren did y• witness before men, & swear b• fore God, that ye would dye […] Christ Jesus, to the end that y• might live by him: that ye would refuse the doctrine of men, and the participation of all Idolatry▪ and would constantly stand, and stick fast to that religion, which then ye professed, and approved But ô alas what miserable ru• ne hath this sudden and sho•• storm made of that building• ⟨p. 17⟩[…] was beg on amongst you? The winds have blown and the floods are come, and the walls are fallen in one heap (God grant that the foundation abide) the fire is come, but in you alas is nether found gold, silver, nor precious stone, but all is burnt, and all is consumed, so that if I shall judge the fruit of my pore labours amongst you by mine own judgment reason or apprehension, I should judge my self, and my labours accursed of God, for that that I see no better success. O consider dear brethren, what grief it is, that in such a multitude none shall be found faithful,¹ none constant, none bold in the cause of the Lord Jesus, whom so boldly before they had professed.