Gods husbandry

and (He) the God of heaven, that hath a strong arm, and (no question) a knife sharp enough for this business, and cutteth off, taketh quite away, utterly removeth from the root, and all the benefits of the root, even to his endless destruction, as it must needs be granted: for what but damnation can betide him that is separated from Jesus the author of life, by whose Name alone salvation is to be found? Wherefore ⟨p. 32⟩take no more pains to flatter thine own soul, and make thy self hope to speed better then thou hast heard; whosoever thou be whom the forenamed things have discovered to be but a dissembler, thou shalt surely have thy portion without, amongst the fearful, and dogs, and enchanters, and thieves, and whoremongers, in that fiery, and yet dark Lake, that is provided for the fairest Hypocrites, as well as for the blacker, and more infamous sinner: there is no escaping, there is no getting out; no one Hypocrite shall be able to shun the eye and hand of God, he will pick out every one by himself, and every one shall be cut off, and utterly destroyed; the Word shall prove an axe, affliction shall prove an axe, prosperity shall prove an axe, and all Gods ordinances, and all that thou doest, and all that thou seest and hearest, and is done to thee, shall be but in the nature of a sharp cutting knife, by little and little to take thee off from Christ, and ripen thee for vengeance. In coming to Church, thou hastenest towards hell; in preaching, thou speedest towards death; in giving alms, thou runnest forwards to hell; in living as thou callest it, justly, thou doest but step a step nearer to hell; all that thou dost, and all that betideth thee, helping to increase and further thy damnation. O miserable man, and beyond all conceit wretched, unless thou wilt hear, and fear, and prepare thy self to come out of this misery, by feeling it! Be thou cut off from the Vine, be thou spiritually excommunicated from Christ; let thy sins be ⟨p. 33⟩bound upon thee as a bundle, and be thou bound over to the great Day of the vengeance of God Almighty, what should we add to that that we have already spoken again and again? The case of the Hypocrite, not alone the gross hypocrite, that knows himself to be such, & cares not, but even of the close hypocrite, that takes himself to be far better, is most wretched, hideous, & intolerable.

and (He) the God of heauen, that hath a strong arme, and (no question) a knife sharpe enough for this businesse, and cutteth off, taketh quite away, vtterly remoueth from the root, and all the benefits of the root, euen to his endlesse destruction, as it must needs be granted: for what but damnation can betide him that is separated from Iesus the author of life, by whose Name alone saluation is to be found? Wherfore