e. g. To Play at Sermon time, as wicked children who have no grace nor fear of God in their hearts, will sometimes do. If you do thus on the Sabbath day, you break the third and the fourth Commandment both at once, and then how guilty! how guilty! are you in the sight of the holy Lord God, who is in this dreadful place, but you are not aware of it. So for persons to sit Laughing in the presence of God, when his Word is spoken to them in his Name, their sin and profaneness is exceeding great before the Lord. What dost thou think will become of thy immortal ⟨p. 215⟩soul? dost thou think that God will have mercy on thee. Repent of this thy wickedness, or I do most solemnly declare unto thee in his Name, God will not have mercy on thee. He that made thee, will show thee no favour. The Lord saith, he will look unto those that are of a conceive Spirit, who tremble at his Ward, Isai. 66. 2. Thou then, that are so far from trembling at the Word of the Lord, as to Laugh when it is spoken to thee; the infinite Majesty, who hath Heaven for his Throne, and the Earth for his Foot-stool, will not look upon thee; he abhort to see or to look upon such a profane wretch as thou […]: But inasmuch as thou dost laugh at his Word now, repent speedily, or the time draweth on, when distress and anguish will take hold on thy Soul, and then God will laugh at thy calamity, and moth when thy fear cometh. And therefore hear and fear now, and do no more so wickedly. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, Luk. 6. 26. Woe to you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. So I say, woe to you that laugh at Sermons now, for you shall mourn, and never laugh more. When wilt thou say? even when thy soul shall be with Dives; crying out, world without end. I am tormented in this flame. And O think how the Devils will taunt & mock at thee, and say, why don't you laugh now? Remember you heard such a Minister of God Breach, he brought you the glad tidings of eternal Salvation ⟨p. 216⟩vation, and the sad news of everlasting destruction, but you laughed when you heard him speaking after the most solemn and earnest manner; is it a laughing matter now think you? were they not the great Truths of God, that were spoken in his Name?
e. g. To Play at Sermon time, as wicked children who have no grace nor fear of God in their hearts, will sometimes do. If you do thus on the Sabbath day, you break the third and the fourth Commandment both at once, and then how guilty! how guilty! are you in the sight of the holy Lord God, who is in this dreadful place, but you are not aware of it. So for persons to sit Laughing in the presence of God, when his Word is spoken to them in his Name, their sin and profaness is exceeding great before the Lord. What dost thou think will become of thy immortal ⟨p. 215⟩soul? dost thou think that God will have mercy on thee. Repent of this thy wickedness, or I do most solemnly declare unto thee in his Name, God will not have mercy on thee. He that made thee, will show thee no favour. The Lord saith, he will look unto those that are of a conceive Spirit, who tremble at his Ward, Isai. 66. 2. Thou then, that are so far from trembling at the Word of the Lord, as to Laugh when it is spoken to thee; the infinite Majesty, who hath Heaven for his Throne, and the Earth for his Foot-stool, will not look upon thee; he abhort to see or to look upon such a prophane wretch as thou 〈…〉: But inasmuch as thou dost laugh at his Word now, repent speedily, or the time draweth on, when distress and anguish will take hold on thy Soul, and then God will laugh at thy calamity, and moth when thy fear cometh. And therefore hear and fear now, and do no more so wickedly. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, Luk. 6. 26. Wo to you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. So I say, wo to you that laugh at Sermons now, for you shall mourn, and never laugh more. When wilt thou say? even when thy soul shall be with Dives; crying out, world without end. I am tormented in this flame. And O think how the Devils will taunt & mock at thee, and say, why don't you laugh now? Remember you heard such a Minister of God Breach, he brought you the glad tidings of eternal Salvation ⟨p. 216⟩vation, and the sad news of everlasting destruction, but you laughed when you heard him speaking after the most solemn and earnest manner; is it a laughing matter now think you? were they not the great Truths of God, that were spoken in his Name?
