An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

Oh my brethren this is a Scripture that doth nearly concern us here in England as much as any I know. If England falleth and perisheth now,¹ it falleth and perisheth in the day. We see apparently our evil before us; we see means to prevent it, God doth not bring night upon us in this sense, that is, he doth not bring misery so upon us as that we do not know how it comes or by what means, or how we should prevent it. No we are not so in the night, but in the day; we have seen the misery that hath come upon us by a continued design, we know almost the very bottom the very beginning of that design, how it hath gone on by degree, step by step; we see now the reason of the breaking of it out, because the stream is stopped it violently breaks out: We know who are the causers of our evil, what their counsels, intentions, what their ways are notwithstanding all their protestations, we see what we are like to be brought into if we do give but a little way and do not appear to quit our selves like men; And we see apparently what God would have us to do; we see ways to help us and power to help us if we will, we have power to help our selves, and direction to help our selves too; we all of us know or may know clearly what we should do, and ⟨p. 87⟩what in an ordinary course of providence would help us. Yet Lord how do we fall, we fall notwithstanding this, we fall even in apparent day light: so that if this Kingdom of England be brought into slavery, it will be the heaviest wrath that ever fell upon a Nation. There was never any Nation fell in a clear Sun-shine day as we are like to do if we perish now having such means for our help.

Oh my brethren this is a Scripture that doth neerly concern us here in England as much as any I know. If England falleth and perisheth now,¹ it falleth and perisheth in the day. We see apparently our evil before us; we see means to prevent it, God doth not bring night upon us in this sense, that is, he doth not bring misery so upon us as that we do not know how it comes or by what means, or how we should prevent it. No we are not so in the night, but in the day; we have seen the misery that hath come upon us by a continued design, we know almost the very bottom the very beginning of that design, how it hath gone on by degree, step by step; we see now the reason of the breaking of it out, because the stream is stopped it violently breaks out: We know who are the causers of our evil, what their counsels, intentions, what their waies are notwithstanding all their protestations, we see what we are like to be brought into if we do give but a little way and do not appear to quit our selves like men; And we see apparantly what God would have us to do; we see waies to help us and power to help us if we will, we have power to help our selves, and direction to help our selves too; we all of us know or may know cleerly what we should do, and