Impenitent sinners warned of their misery and summoned to judgment. Delivered in two sermons:…

1. Think what an egregious fool you have been; if ever God show you mercy, he will imprint this thought on your heart very deep. Remember then, you were born and brought up in a Land of Uprightness, in the Valley of Vision, where Christ and Salvation by him hath been published. You were admitted in your Childhood to partake in the privileges of the Gospel Covenant; & have been by Baptism Sealed to the Service of God, and devoted to be for him and no other. You have doubtless had many private warnings and counsels given you by your Parents, and Kindred, and Godly Neighbours. You have sat under the clear Dispensations of the Word of God, in which you have been many a time over, told of your sinful courses, and the certain destruction that they would lead you to, if you held on in them, and been solemnly advised to break off your sins by repentance; and all arguments have been used with you to persuade you of the necessity and happiness of your so doing. You have seen and heard of the falls of others, and of the misery which they brought themselves into thereby. You have been your self left by God to fall into scandalous sins, and warned thereby to beware and not to go on, lest some worse thing should befall you; and yet how have you despised instruction, & scorned reproofs, and more desperately resolved in your own ways and courses, until the holy God was provoked to leave you up to your self, and withhold his restraining grace from you, and so suffer ⟨p. 24⟩you, by your unaccountable madness, to lay your self open to the Sword of Justice, and you must now dye, as one that would not be instructed; and you may well reflect on that expostulation, and think, that you hear God so saying to you, Jer. 2.17. hast thou not procured this to thy self, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way? Cry out then bitterly of this your own foolishness.

1. Think what an egregious fool you have been; if ever God shew you mercy, he will imprint this thought on your heart very deep. Remember then, you were born and brought up in a Land of Uprightness, in the Valley of Vision, where Christ and Salvation by him hath been published. You were admitted in your Childhood to partake in the priviledges of the Gospel Covenant; & have been by Baptism Sealed to the Service of God, and devoted to be for him and no other. You have doubtless had many private warnings and counsels given you by your Parents, and Kindred, and Godly Neighbours. You have sat under the clear Dispensations of the Word of God, in which you have been many a time over, told of your sinful courses, and the certain destruction that they would lead you to, if you held on in them, and been solemnly advised to break off your sins by repentance; and all arguments have been used with you to perswade you of the necessity and happiness of your so doing. You have seen and heard of the falls of others, and of the misery which they brought themselves into thereby. You have been your self left by God to fall into scandalous sins, and warned thereby to beware and not to go on, lest some worse thing should befal you; and yet how have you despised instruction, & scorned reproofs, and more desperately resolved in your own ways and courses, until the holy God was provoked to leave you up to your self, and withhold his restraining grace from you, and so suffer