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And are you still desirous to engage in this dreadful war? Will you still bid defiance to the Almighty, and make nothing of such things as you have heard of? Is the loss of your blood, the loss of your Soul, your utter undoing for ever, no great matter with you? Well then, go on bold sinner, Arm thy self Cap-a-pee, gird thy sword upon thy thigh, get thy shield and buckler ready, prepare to meet thy God: Go up, O thou valiant Warrior, and let's see thy valour, behold thy enemy hath taken the field; go up, and look thy God in the face if thou darest; come show thy self a mark for God, and turn not thy back like a coward, venture upon the mouth of the Cannon, rush upon the thick bosses of Gods buckler, if you long to perish everlastingly. You have heard what the war will cost you, and as you like it now, do. And what do you laugh at all this? well then, go on, but be it upon your peril, your blood be upon your own Soul: As for me I could not have said much more then I have, to dissuade you from this desperate enterprise; I foresee what a case you will be in, when you are in the heat of the battle, and I desire to weep in secret for thee, ⟨p. 248⟩as one that will most certainly be undone, if thou dost not speedily alter thy mind, wherefore my loins are filled with pain, pangs have taken hold upon me as the pangs of a woman that travelleth, I am bowed down at the thoughts of thy misery, I am dismayed at the seeing of thy destruction. The sinner ventures for all this! He is marched into the field! Set a watch-man; let him declare what he seeth. Who meets that furious wretch? A Lyon, a lion roareth, he is torn in pieces, and none can save him, he is gone, he is gone! he is gone for ever! and who may the mad man thank for all this? Who could help it? He would venture though he was told as much. Well then, see whats like to befall the enemies of God: You hear what is like to be the condition of all them that will not be acquainted with God, First, or Last, you likewise may behold what a case you your self shall be in ere it be long, except you do speedily repent of your folly, and meet your adversary in the way, and humble your self before the mighty Jehovah; speak quickly? What will you do? Turn, or Burn; Repent, or Dye. Yet you do but hear, you do not feel;

And are you still desirous to engage in this dreadful war? Will you still bid defiance to the Almighty, and make nothing of such things as you have heard of? Is the loss of your blood, the loss of your Soul, your utter undoing for ever, no great matter with you? Well then, go on bold sinner, Arm thy self Cap-a-pee, gird thy sword upon thy thigh, get thy shield and buckler ready, prepare to meet thy God: Go up, O thou valiant Warrior, and let's see thy valour, behold thy enemy hath taken the field; go up, and look thy God in the face if thou darest; come shew thy self a mark for God, and turn not thy back like a coward, venture upon the mouth of the Cannon, rush upon the thick bosses of Gods buckler, if you long to perish everlastingly. You have heard what the war will cost you, and as you like it now, do. And what do you laugh at all this? well then, go on, but be it upon your peril, your blood be upon your own Soul: As for me I could not have said much more then I have, to disswade you from this desperate enterprise; I foresee what a case you will be in, when you are in the heat of the battell, and I desire to weep in secret for thee,