Christs coming opened in a sermon before the honourable house of commons in Margaret's…

Others there shall be, who shall not only fall asleep, but they shall lose their principles: True, I thought indeed, that a man was bound for to keep the sabbath, to live strictly, and to make a conscience of every word and thought; but now I see there is more liberty; thus they shall lose their principles, their oil, their judgements: these poor souls shall never wake again; and when Christ comes, though they cry to him for mercy, they will not obtain it: No, ye have lost your principles, your oil, your judgements; ye are foolish Virgins, ye shall never enter into my joy, he will then say. Who would not then watch and pray? what I say to you, I speak unto my own soul, and to every person here present, Oh! let us all watch; for the Son of man comes, and he comes at midnight; and if it be not midnight now, yet it is late already.

Others there shall be, who shall not only fall asleepe, but they shall lose their principles: True, I thought indeed, that a man was bound for to keep the sabbath, to live strictly, and to make a conscience of every word and thought; but now I see there is more liberty; thus they shall lose their principles, their oyle, their judgements: these poore soules shall never wake againe; and when Christ comes, though they cry to him for mercy, they will not obtaine it: No, ye have lost your principles, your oyle, your judgements; ye are foolish Virgins, ye shall never enter into my joy, he will then say. Who would not then watch and pray? what I say to you, I speak unto my own soule, and to every person here present, Oh! let us all watch; for the Son of man comes, and he comes at midnight; and if it be not midnight now, yet it is late already.

And seeing all these things are so, give me leave Honourable and Beloved, to leave an exhortation with you, which is no other, then that which the Psalmist presents unto ye in the 24. Psalm. Lift up your heads O ye gates, and be lift up ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in. Gates (ye know) are the place where the Magistrate fate: The Temple door was called the Everlasting door; in opposition to the door of the Tabernacle which was to continue but a little time: The Psalmist speaks here of Christs Kingdom and Lordship on earth, verse 1. The earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. Then he will have a Church and a precious people: Who shall ascend unto the hill of the Lord? who shall stand on his holy place? verse the 3. Which he answers in the general: He that hath clean hands and a pure heart. And more particularly at the 6. verse, This is the Generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, even Jacob.