A sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church…A sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church…

Fourthly, some taste of the good Word of God, and of the powers, [Greek or Hebrew], the manifold powers of the life to come, Heb. 6. 5. yet come never nearer to Christ, but fall off, as if they were afraid to be converted, they go not a fifth step farther on to give themselves up wholly to Jesus Christ.

Fourthly, some tast of the good Word of God, and of the powers, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the manifold powers of the life to come, Heb. 6. 5. yet come never nearer to Christ, but fall off, as if they were afraid to bee converted, they goe not a fift step farther on to give themselves up wholly to Jesus Christ.

It is not the Seamen's way only;¹ but 1. Malignants, and Prelates and Papists see God in this work,² they wonder, and yet they resist, Isaiah 26. 11. Lord thy hand is exalted, they see not, they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at the people: in this work that the Lord is working in the three kingdoms, there be sundry notes of divinity and footsteps of God, and Malignants do but wonder; as 1. when Prelates and Malignants were on the top of their wheels, God, from despised and contemned beginnings, raised the work to a great height; 2. our adversaries were agents, and would not rest, but did cooperate to their own destruction: They would move the King to change Religion in Scotland against all Laws. 2. They would stir him up to raise Armies by Sea and Land against Scotland. 3. They moved the King to break the articles of peace, and the word of a Prince to his Subjects, after an accommodation, and set him on bloody wars again. 4. After his Army was defeated and a Parliament granted in England they moved him first to come and yield to all that is just and right in a Parliament of Scotland, but against their mind, with no purpose to keep their faith, and then to raise Tragical and bloody wars in England, and in all these they were coagents and workers with a judicial and secret providence, to their own destruction. 3. They have been searching to find out, that our intentions were not to establish Religion in power and purity, and to be freed of the bondage of arbitrary and tyrannical domination over Church and State, but to change monarchy, and set up another government; this they could never yet find. 4. They see God against them, profanity and wickedness on their side, and with them Papists, Idolaters, Irish murderers, the cruellest