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Let me crave leave to be plain. You may easily be ensnared by casting your eye upon this subject; for, if you read no more, you have read too much: if you read on, expecting embroidery, ⟨image 3⟩you lose your labour; if with neglect, your souls Either embrace such truths heartily, or abjure them speedily; be not deceived, God will not be mocked; the more gracious his condescension for acceptance, the more grievous his indignation for refusal; and your refusal of God can neither be more nor less, then a [Choice rejection] I beseech you therefore, resolve upon something, and let not our resolutions come to nothing. As you are Christians, make Religion your business, that you may enjoy God; and as you are Magistrates, walk as becomes (if I may so speak, Earthly deities, as) those that are called Gods.

Let me crave leave to be plain. You may easily be ensnared by casting your eye upon this subject; for, if you read no more, you have read too much: if you read on, expecting embroydery, ⟨image 3⟩you lose your labour; if with neglect, your soules Either embrace such truths heartily, or abjure them speedily; be not deceived, God will not be mocked; the more gracious his condescension for acceptance, the more grievous his indignation for refusall; and your refusall of God can neither be more nor lesse, then a [Choise rejection] I beseeh you therefore, resolve upon something, and let not our resolutions come to nothing. As you are Christians, make Religion your businesse, that you may enjoy God; and as you are Magistrates, walk as becomes (if I may so speak, Earthly deities, as) those that are called Gods.

I do not charge you in the least, but humbly prompt your consciences to demand of you an Account: what have you done like Gods, and for God since you came into places of Authority? When you stood upon lower ground, did you not think magistrates might do more then they did? do you now do, what you then thought? If you say you have performed the commandment of the Lord; a by-stander will perhaps reply, What mean then the Blasphemous swearing, the roaring drunkenness, the [common] whoredoms, the rambling Sabbath-breaking? &c. may these Sons of Belial plead liberty of conscience? If you cannot reach those that