Warnings from the dead. Or Solemn admonitions unto all people

how few can say as the Blessed Ezekiel did, Ah! Lord God, Behold my Soul ha's not been polluted from my Youth! No, I remember a strange passage which Erasmus's Confessor had in a Sermon against Adultery; If, said he, the Law of Stoning Adulterers to Death were now Executed, all the Stones of this Great Rocky ⟨p. 59⟩mountain here, would not be enough to serve the Executions. Instead of that, I might say, If all the Young People, that have many ways, Polluted themselves, from their Youth up, were turned out of our Assemblies, we should have Thin Assemblies Left! And there are especially two of the most ungrateful Seasons, that Young People take to multiply those their Diabolical Pollutions. There is the Close of the Sabbath, and there is the Joy of the Harvest; these instead of being improved in Thankfulness to God, are Employed in spreading of Uncleanness through the Land. Yea, But for this very Cause it is, that God Almighty is by His Desolating Judgments apace turning of them out of our Assemblies. God from Heaven, is denouncing of that Woefulness upon us, in Jere. 6.11. I am full of the Fury of the Lord, I will pour it on the Assembly of the Young men together; and that in, Jere. 42.26. Her Young men, shall fall in her Streets. But I now tell you, Why such Things do come to pass? The Time was, that there were Unclean Young men among the people of God; Yea, even those Young men that were set a part for the Service of the Tabernacle, were, how Unclean! It was then said, The Sin of the Young men was very great before the Lord. ⟨p. 60⟩And what comes of it, but this? The Lord Slew the Young; men with sweeping Desolations. Mark what I say, The Omnipresent God, He is a Witness to all the Unclean Things done by you in Secret places, which, as the Apostle says, T were a Shame to speak of. The All-seeing Eye of God is upon you, in all the Revels, and all the Riots, and all the Bawdy Unclean Exorbitancies, wherein you, Work out all Filthiness with all Greediness. Yea, but the Jealous God immediately then says to the Angel of Death; Go Brand those Young Wretches, for Destruction; set a Mark upon them, that so the Besom of Destruction of may sweep them away, among the Generation of my wrath. So tis, that so many of you come to Die in Youth! Leave off then, O Young people, all these Evil ways. Let me call upon you, as the Angel did upon Austin; Take up the Bible & Read!