Spiritual whoredom discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled…Spirituall vvhordome discovered in a sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons assembled…

But let me tell you this, when ever the Lord shall enter into controversy with England for her whoredoms, the furnace will be heated seven times hotter then it was for Israel: the judgment will be much more intolerable on us then it was on them: By how much our light and our love hath been more transcendent then Israels, by so much will our condemnation be greater. Oh for an England, a people that have been clothed with scarlet, and adorned with jewels to be stripped naked as in the day wherein she was born! For a people that have known the joyful sound and have walked in the light of Gods countenance all the day along, that have sate (as it were) in the bosom and embraces of the Lord Jesus, for God now to be a stranger in their land, and as a way-faring man that turns in but for a night: For a people that have sat at the top of heaven in Gospel-vision, to be cast down to hell into a kind of utter darkness! For a people that have been in the bed of divine loves; feasted at Gods table, sate as a Queen in the Palaces of Ivory, to come to be divorced, kicked out of doors, and a Cains mark (as it were) set upon them to wander up and down, to be a shame and a Curse and a Proverb among the Nations, as it is with Israel at this day: The tongue of man is not able to express, the heart of man is not able to conceive the misery and anguish of such a condition.¹ Gentiles and Pagans are not capable of such a judgment as this is.

But let me tel you this, when ever the Lord shal enter into controversie with England for her whoredoms, the furnace will be heated seven times hotter then it was for Israel: the judgment wil be much more intolerable on us then it was on them: By how much our light and our love hath been more transcendent then Israels, by so much wil our condemnation be greater. Oh for an England, a people that have been clothed with scarlet, and adorned with jewels to be strip'd naked as in the day wherein she was born! For a people that have known the joyful sound and have walked in the light of Gods countenance all the day along, that have sate (as it were) in the bosome and embraces of the Lord Iesus, for God now to be a stranger in their land, and as a way-faring man that turns in but for a night: For a people that have sat at the top of heaven in Gospel-vision, to be cast down to hell into a kind of utter darkness! For a people that have been in the bed of divine loves; feasted at Gods table, sate as a Queen in the Pallaces of Ivory, to come to be divorc'd, kickt out of doors, and a Cains mark (as it were) set upon them to wander up and down, to be a shame and a Curse and a Proverb among the Nations, as it is with Israel at this day: The tongue of man is not able to express, the heart of man is not able to conceive the misery and anguish of such a condition.