streets A great Cry may be heard in the midst of the City at Mid Night when thou art supposing neither the Slaughter of the First nor First born the Avenger of Blood may persue Thee and pluck Thee out of the Cities of Refuge God may slay thee whilst thou art laying hold on the horns of the Altar Hath not God destroyed as mighty a people as you yea the Amorites were potent yet when their sins were full they were emptied out of their Nation Hath not God ruined as religious places as yours yes Go ye now to my place which is in Shiloh where I set my name first and see what I did to it for the Wickedness of my people Israel Jer. 7.22 Yea go to Jerusalem how was that Fortress of the Earth demolished yea that City of Oblations made a Sacrifice to the Justice of a provoked God Oh therefore be not confident neither upon your own Prowess nor Profession for 't is neither your formidable Chivaldry nor formâ—l Religion which will priviledg you or protect you but 't is your Repentance must sheild you and shelter you See then what must save you and what is your only Preservative There are a great Company among you famed for Parâ—s and magnifyed for Piety to You I write You I summon intreating You by all the Worth that Your Names are embelished with and adjuring You by all the Orthodox Truth which ye seem to have reserved out of the defection and declension of the Times that You would first go a Circuit through your own Consciences and then that you would walk the streets and go from one end of the City to the other and observe the Face and Fate of the City that you would take notice of the Maladies and Ulcers of the City and consider what prognosticating Symptons there are of an Emigration and Exanimation Oh feel the weak Pulse of the City toutch her cold Lips and behold her grisly Cheeks look upon the present Dangers and Disasters apprehend what a Flag of Defiance is hung out upon Eaâ—th and what a Sword is bathed in Heaven Can such Sins and the Citys Safety such Impenitency and the Citys Impunity long stand together Fear ye not some Plague Some general Massacre some Coal blown with the Breath of the Almighty that may sparkle and kindle and burn you to such Cinders that not a Wall or Pillar may be left to testify the remembrance of a City They whose Judgment was not to drink of the Cup have assuredly drunk it off and shalt thou altogether go unpunished Jer. 49.12 May not the Vial of red Wine be reserved for the Lips of this City Is there more Sin and shall there be less Justice Vengence deferred is not recalled a forbearing God may double his dismaying and cofounding Stroaks Oh therefore mark the bad Crasis i. the Complexion or Mixture of your natural Humours and the sad Crisis i. the time of Conflict between Nature and Diseases of the City Help at an Exigent Repent when there is nothing but Repentance left for an Antidote Repent truly lest your Repentance prove a Scandal and a Curse Repent throughly lest one unmortifyed sin frustrate the vertue of a Humiliation repent timely lest not knowing the time of your Visitation the Blessings you wish for be hid from your Eyes 1 Repent for your-selves For as the pure minds had need to be warned so the pure Consciences had need to be cleansed The best of you I fear have not past through the Puddle without some Filth sticking upon your Skins therefore search out your Spots and leave not a Stain to be an Eye-sore to Heaven Weep out all your Contaminations pray away all your Pollutions purge away all your Defilemens have an hour in a day a day in a year for strict and solemn Repentance 2. Repent to teach others Repentance When thou art converted confirm thy Brethren When ye are quickned yourselves with Repentance unto Life propagate it if possible unto Multitudes that it may be said Behold here am I and my Children Let your beleiving in God beget faith in others your standing up from your Seats excite others to rise your empty Bowels provoke others to fast your stript Backs cloath others in Sack-Cloth your moist Eyes set others on weeping your confessing Lips stir those Tongues in other Men which have bee silent these many years your making Reparation for Errors cause others to deface the Memory of foul Facts with oppsite Vertues your mighty Crys fill the City with Eccho's of Devotion your turning from your evil Ways change the Steps of others from Exorbitancy your purging your hand from Violence procure Oppression to ake in the Joyns of ther 's Mens Fingers Do your Closet-work well and be exact in your Street-work Repent and make a whole City propense to Repentance To some I might say Have ye not heard of Repentance Do ye not know how to repent Do ye not understand the Effects of Repentance Have ye not seen Fruits of Repentance Can ye not repent Will ye not repent When did ye ever repent When will ye at last repent Oh that ye were as eminent in Repentance as Nineveh Oh that ye could be rid of the Libertines and Hypocrites amongst you and that there were none but Penitents in the City Oh that ye stood upon equal Numbers that ye were but the third the twentieth the fiftieth the hundred part of the City that there but a common Hall of you that ye did but equal the number of the Officers or Watches in the City that ye were but enough to take the Frowns out of God's Forehead the Menaces out of his Cheeks to retard his Feet to bind his Hands to put Audience in his Ears Compassion in his Eyes Reconciliation in his Breast Pardon in his Lips to keep his Trumpeters from the Gates of the City or his Troopers out of the Streets of the City Oh! Religious Cittizens try the Compleatness of your Numbers and the Perfection of your Gifts Be not blind under so many Greivances deaf under so many Warnings sleepy under so many Judgments Beleive not your Politicians if they tell you your City is in no Danger Beleive not your Pulpits if they preach you up to be pure enough against God's examining Justice beleive not your own Consciences if they perswade you that you are prepared sufficiently against all Accidents Consider how many are wit-foundred with Humours which stare upon themselves as if Heaven must look upon them with an enamored Eye how hard is it to get People to confess that there is a guilty Nation or a sinful City howsoever that They are the peccant People or that God should visit a Place for their Impieties Oh! behold how many things there are to tempt you to Security to cauterize you in Sin and to stupify you to Repentance And as ever you would seem to have risled your own Hearts dissected your own Consciences to have sent the Intelligencer into the City
to have heard the Crys of your Abominations at Gods Judgment-Seat to have seen the Armies which are raised in Heaven to assault you Oh think upon the City with dismayed Hearts look upon the City with weeping Eyes turn aside to bemoan apparent Perils and fall upon your Knees to mitigate deserved Vengeance Oh bring forth all the Water in your Heads to extinguish Wrath kindle all the Fire in your Lips to put a Heat into congealed Pity stretch forth all the Manacles in your Hands to chain such an Adversary Think that ye have read Scriptures with reckless Eyes if ye have not found out Curses against such Sins that ye have frequented Sanctuaries like fruitless Hearers if they have not taught you Repentance for such Sins that ye have searched your Consciences with partiality if the Sense of such Trespasses do not drive you into Passions that ye were terrifyed with your own Exigents if it doth not perplex you to see a City at such a Dysaster Make an Experiment of your own Contrition try how you can humble your-selves to keep the City from Confusion and Curse cut of your own Fore-skins and do your best to circumcise others rend your own Hearts and make a Wound in your Brethren's Breasts till the Blood come If there be but one Remedy leave all other Medicinal Applications and fall to Repentance or use all other Exercises but as Ingredients to be infused into that Catholicon Repent heartily repent eminently that Angels may rejoyce over your Conversion and God himself may look out at his Court-Gate and say Behold another Nineveh Oh think not of the World think upon Judgment mind not too much Preferment mind Attonement look not upon the Splendor of the City look upon the Horror of the City eye not your Guardians eye your Enemy Carry the Threatnings of God's Laws in your Ears and the Perils of the City in your Breasts let your Hearts ake and your Lips quiver The Lyon hath roared who will not fear The Lord God hath spoken who can but prophesy So long as People are setled upon their Lees think that there is some emptying of the Vessel at hand When you are laid in your Beds suppose that a punishing God may awaken you when you are at your Feasts that Vengeance may bring in the Voider when you are selling your Wares that the last Bargains are even making when you are telling your Thousands that ye are but pursing up for the new Receiver when you are looking out at your Doors that ye are ready to be plucked over your Thresholds when you are coming from your Sermons thae the time is at hand when your Temple-Doors shall be lock'd up Expect every hour when your Bells shall ring awk when a shreick Trumpet should be blown in the Streets when nothing should be heard among you but tumult distraction wailing and crying alas alas Would you shun this can you prevent it then know that ye must not only remember the City in the Morning nor mention it at Night but consider how low ye must stoop what Abjects ye must turn what Mediations ye must use what Castigations ye must endure what strange Bâ—cks and Bowels Loathings and Lamentings Debatings and Debasings Cleansing of Consciences and Cleansing of Estates Transformings and Translatings there must be before the Breach can be repaired This is your Work act like expert Artists Master-workmen Religious Citizens fly from all Pleasures contemn all Honours be Strangers for a time to your own Chairs Cook-rooms c. Converse rather with biting Hunger than sumptuous Banquets bitter Crys than musical Instuments till ye have dispatch'd that Service which will secure your Goods your Blood your City Oh! they must be prime Penitents which are to be imployed in this peerless Duty they must have Nineveh's Plaster to heal this festering Wound they must have Nineveh's Solicitor to procure Peace in this Court They must write out their Repentance in Nineveh's capital Letters to have it legible in Gods Eyes Oh ye Citizens then gather together and see how many Penitents there are amongst you or let the Penitents stand apart and mark what Qualifications they have The Penitents are the best Citizens and the best Penitents are the true Ninevites If there be a Number amongst you with Nineveh's Art they may have Nineveh's Success they may bury all Fears in the Ash heap and shift oft all Miseries in the Sackcloth they may fast away all Perils and pray away all Judgments God will not turn upon the City with Fury if they turn from their evil Ways nor stretch out his avenging Hands if they turn from the Violence of their Hands Who can tell if God will turn and repent and forsake his feirce Wrath that we perish not not These Penitents may send Word to Heaven that God may forbear smiting for they have smitten themselves with Repentance They may convey News to all their Enemies upon Earth that they may stay at home for Repentance hath reared up their Walls higher than the Clouds which n scaling Ladder can reach and mounted Ordnance for them upon their Towers and Fortresses which will shoot and Assailants to Death farther than the Spires of their Steeples can be seen yea dispatch away Messengers to all Plagues and Judgments that they are not to come nigh to the City for Repentance hath gotten a Warrant of Remove to carry them beyond the Seas Do you thus Repent and you are as safe as Nineveh God will be your Pleader against all your Adversaries were it Jonah himself multiply Reasons for your Preservation he will draw Pity towards you from the most flinâ—y Hearts however his own Brest shall flow with Combassion ye shall be pretious in Eye he will forget nothing that may be incentive for sparing not the Greatness of the City not the Multitude of the Persons nor the Plenty of the Cattle Should I not spare Nineveh that great City wherein are more than Six-score Thousand Persons c. I have shewn you the right way to Safety walk in it and you are gone beyond Danger ye are the the City to be spared Thus leaving my Motion to your Consciences I rest The serious Monitor of your Repentance and the earnest Petitioner for your Safety THO REEVE ERRATA PAge 7. line 2. after Heaven add and can do more l. 7. r. ' t is l. 16 r. insensible p. 11. l. ult r. they 'l p. 15. l. ult r. into p. 17. l. 28. r. Drunkenness for Thirst p. 36. l. 24. r. draws p. 42. l. 13. add the. p. 48. note The Plague p. 55. l. 28. r. and. The CONTENTS GOD a Pleader for his Saints Pag. I. Au. Caesar pleading for a Souldier ib. The Qualification of true Repentance in 18 Particulars 2 3. c. Threatnings should awaken greatness 3. Greatness no fence against Vengeance 4. Nineveh's King first puts on Sackcloth 5. The Power of Prayer 6. Oppression cease to prevent Judgments 7. Repentance continues the City's Charter 8.
LONDON's REMEMBRANCER A CALL AND PATERN For TRUE and SPEEDY REPENTANCE BEING An ABRIDGMENT of those many severe SERMONS By Thomas Reeve B. in Divinity INTITULED GOD's PLEA for NINEVEH The only seasonable Work that can be done in this day Jer. 18 7. At what instant I shall speak concerning a Nation and concerning a Kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy it If that Nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil way I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them Sam. 3.12 When I begin I will also make an end LONDON Printed for Th. Dawks 1683. * This is Abridg'd The Author's DEDICATION To the Religious Citizens of LONDON who are sensible of the Sins and do suplicate for the Safety of their CITY Honored Sirs and Citizens of a famous City c. I Call you out to a new Merchandize many of you have been negotiating in most of the known Cities of the World but did any of you yet Trade at Nineveh Let this be your Empory buy up her Commodities and set up an Exchange of her Wares others may call upon you to traffick elsewhere I direct you to this City Some of Nineveh's Ashes Sack-cloth men with new lips feet and hands would be more useful now than all the precious Rarities the richest Marts can afford Nineveh is the Place the way is beaten you shall never repent of the Journey 't is a renowned place in whose Ruins you may find Treasure enough to redeem you out of the present hazards and to prevent future Miserys Indeed I lay your Sandals before you yet be not discouraged ye shall go but like Merchant-Adventurers if ye be Industrious ye may drive a very advantagious Trade and come home laiden with the Riches of the same linger not set forth speedily and make a quick return and Millions shall bless you quarrel not who shall go first but walk peaceably and God Almighty prosper you Apply your selves to the right work and fall to right down Christianity let him be the best Man which can be most Zealous in this Religious Service 'T is hard to build a City and 't will be as hard to preserve it When a City is grown crazy with Sin they must be Master-Workmen that repair its decays or keep it from a Down-fall be ne'er so well prepared your Task requires almost Angelical puriâ—y and perfection to discharge Consider what ye are to do to wring a Spear out of the Almighty's Hand to turn back an Host of Judgments upon their March appear in 〈◊〉 2. compleat Harness and quit your selves like men But by what Citizens shall this 〈◊〉 done By them that are truly Religious and are sensiâ—le of the Sins and do supplicate for the safety of the City I Must have such as have the Sins of the City smarting upon their Hearts and the safety of the City ecchoing in their Lips I take no delight in hearing Citizens commended for exterior things such are The conspicuous Persons which are perspicuous in Graces and the Eys that see them bless them for their Piety whose chief Mart is in Heaven and Trade for such Riches as excel all the Treasurâ—s of Aegypt whose Hearts are knit to the City and whose Tongues are soliciting for it which weep over the Sins of the City and would even sacrifice themselves in Expiatory Dutys to prevent Judgments from it Pardon me I judg not the City by Furs and Gold-Chains c. These have no place but only the feeling Conscience and fervent Soul the rest I might send to C. M. Coriolanus who in the greatest necessity never tendred the well-fare of the Inferiors but lookt only to provide for his own Greatness and his great Ones and held the poorer Citizens to sad sufferings lest being supplyed with what they wanted they might be enabled to call him and the rest to account for their Injurys Having taken upon me a dolorous Service to whom should I apply my self but to the true Mourners in Jerusalem yes there are sins in the City and these sins do threaten Judgments All ye which do face the one and fear the other let me intreat You to sigh and sacrifice with me that the City being penitent neither the Peril nor perishing of the City may be dreaded To obtain this Blessing I confess I have as I can sanctify'd my self with some solemn Resolutions I desire you to enter into the same Vow with me not to desert the City with your Repentance and Devotion till a discharge be brought out of Heaven and the City settled in a Condition to be spared I hear a loud speech what is not this City able to do I wish it may be able to examine amd to extricate her self I cannot but love your City for her Breast that she proved such a kind Nurse to them which had neither Milk nor Maintenance when upon the Death of their Mother they were as exposed Children I thought once to have call'd in all the Nobility and Gentry of the Nation to joyn in this Work I would have Invited the Reverend of the Clergy to have assisted in this Religious service I would have drawn in all the Civil and Common Lawyers to plead in Heaven for this City I would have summoned in all the Physicians to have administred a soveraign Potion to this City I thought to have sent down to all the Citys in this Kingdom to have repaired hither themselves or send faithful substitutes their Conversion to officiate for the City in her greatest peril for seeing this is the Metropolis why should not all the Daughters do their Duty to their Mother and wait upon her with their Prayers Tears Humiliation and Mortification yes they here vending all their Commoditys and buying their principall Wares 't is convenient should bless her with their Repentance which hath blessed them with Revenue But because the most proper Cure is that which is personal people being able to prepare their Antidote therefore ye knowing both the Malady and the Medicine what need I trouble others when ye are able if ye will to do the work your selves and to be your own Physicians And now I have left you in your own Hands setting Life and Death before you Oh that I could speak to the City in general that as ALL Nineveh so ALL your City would be unanimous to unite their Repentance to keep oft a Judgment But I see such a Complicated Disease of bad Opinions and such 〈◊〉 Cakexy of evil Life amongst you some only magnifying the Virtues of the 〈◊〉 others going on in an Insensibility of any thing that it is either Sin or Danger that dispair to find the generality apprehensive either of Disease or Cure I remember that Calcedon was called the Town of the Blind because they would not suffer an experienced Work-man to build their Houses and so such a blind City shall I leave you if I set on Work half sighted Architects who can neither
and remembred how many there were that could accuse them of Cruelty and Tyranny that is a formal Repentance where men are sensible of their damnifying injurious Courses Oppression is of a Scarlet Hue 't is put among crying Sins shall God remove Judgments when men are removing Land-marks Shall God cast away his Rod when men are chastising with Scorpions He must not expect to taste of free Mercy that eats others Fruits without Money 'T is in vain for any to Sigh for Compassion when the poor Cry for Vengeance which swallow up People as the Grave Prov. 1.12 which Groundsel their Estates with Damages Roof them with Detriments Plaster them with the Brains of Widows and Hang them with the Skins of Orphans c. He that is the Pleader for the Poor will not be the Patron of Oppressors till they have cured their Blood-shorten Eyes let them not look up to Heaven for Pardon Application 1. This doth shew that Mercy is the Priviledg of the Penitent 2. Where there is great Provocation there may come a Pacification 3. This doth shew that Pacification is to be resolved on not according to Profession but Repentance 4. This may shame our Perverseness and Obstinacy What Nineveh the Mistress of Witchcraft which was mad upon her Idols and built Altars to shameful things doth she Repent and not we who pretend to have the Light of the Knowledg of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ Was Nineveh spared and must we be Judged hath the Idolater more propensity to Repentance than the Christian 5. This doth shew the Excellency of Repentance is not that a rare Vertue that hath qualified Nineveh to be spared yes all her Pomp glorious Walls sumptuous Palaces Riches melodious Musick Conquests abroad Triumphs at home Street-Lustre Court Splendor fall short of the Magnificence of Repentance Oh the beauty of these Ashes the fineness of this Sack-Cloth the Nourishment of this Fasting the Musick of these Cries her Habit Heart and Spirit changed When the King is Chief Mourner the Nobles Citizens and Beasts fellow Mourners with him and nothing but sitting upon Dung-hills Sighing like Distracted men Groaning like Dying persons counting Plagues their Doom and Hell their just Desert True Penitents abhor themselves History tells us That Solomon King of Hungary caused himself to be five times dragg'd through the open Streets in detestation of his Sinful Life N.B. 6. This puts us upon Tryal whether we that would be a Pardoned people are a Penitent people Repentance saved their Laws and their Lives That kept the Crown upon the Kings head the Nobles in their Courtly Equipage the Merchants in their Splendor it prevents Detriment it ratifies Liberties confirms their Immunities renews their CHARTER they are still Proprietors in all their Fees Lords of all their Royalties and by Repentance thou hast saved a flourishing City c. thou didst make them cry mightily that no other Cries might be heard in this City but those of Devotion 't was Thou that taughtst them that Secret and Mystery how to prevent eminent Dangers all this it did for Nineveh oh that I could say it would do as much for London if ye are as Penitent as Nineveh ye shall be as prosperous as Nineveh 't is true ye have lived in the Lords eye but ye have sinned before the Lord exceedingly ye tread upon Gods Ground but ye have polluted the Lords Land turned Bethel into Beth aven a House of Prayer into a Den of Thieves ye are rather Jesreel than Israel Sodom than Nineveh you would be Reprieved but where are your Qualifications for a Pardon you may match Sins with Nineveh nay Sodom it self but can you match its Repentance No see how you can clear your selves upon Tryal Look over the former heads viz. 1. Nineveh heard Gods Messenger 2. Nineveh was not curious in its Counsellors a Stranger was received 3. Nineveh doth endure sharp Doctrine 4. Nineveh doth apprehend danger for they believed God they verily thought the state of their City was near Destruction at the brink of Ruine but we defy such Seditious Preachers Tumultuous Prophets Calamity is but their Jealousy Peril but their Peevishness We are a Righteous people and not to be punished a formidable people and not to be frighted they are a scandalous and audacious people which terrify us with Judgments we have Spears enough as the French King said having 200000 Soldiers at his Heels to uphold the Heavens if they should fall This is the Confidence and Fool-hardiness of this Age though the Clouds gather yet we think of no Storm though the Ship leaks we think of no Wreck though the House be on Fire yet they stir not our Ditch is the Sea none can swim over to us all our Ports are lock't But Treachery can fill us with a foreign Enemy and lay open our Ports to them c. none can force an entrance Dangers are but the Melancholy Apprehensions of Male-Contents or Dreams of Lunatick Teachers 5. Nineveh doth not delay Repentance but how do we weary God with expectation c. 6. Nineveh had stirring motions Jonah but delivers his Message and there 's Honour given to it for the King of Nineveh rose up but when will we stir or descend a Degree our proud heart cannot shrink up c. when sad Tidings was brought to Job he rose up but no news or need will make us stir We sit in the seat of the scornful or like Babylon sit as a Queen as if we should see no sorrow we are negligent in things most important 7. Nineveh doth not think of Greatness for the King is first in the action but alas our Great ones are such good Leaders they must have the Path beaten Greatness which should be exemplary thinks it self exempted those which should be in the Front come in the Reer 't is a rare thing for an Obadiah to be one of Gods Nobles or for a Daniel to open a Window towards Jerusalem The Lions Whelps are a long time before they come to their Feet they do not stir under a Month nor walk under seven The Devils Prison is fill'd with Persons of high Birth and Fortunes he hath honorable Slaves they go in Scarlet wear Gold Chains ride in Coaches Whore Swear Ram and Damn and Drink Health's at norate c. 8. They have an Humble Dress the King puts off his Robe he and the whole City puts on Sack-Cloth we are so far from Repentance at heart that we have it not on our Backs if we are Penitents We are spruce ones 9. Nineveh hath the height of abasement they sate upon the Ash heap but we upon the Bullion-heap or Bullet-heap or Building-heap we think of great things rather than Confusion we never dissemble more than when we talk of our weakness we will not think of the Ash-heap because we imagine all the Flames of Divine Vengeance cannot turn this Nation into a Bon-fire or Burn us to nothing c. 10. Nineveh had a
and sedulity bestowed upon it as a great Project or Fancy we have Brains and Arms enough for other business but for the Citys preservation we have neither Pregnancy nor Proness we think to save so great a City without laying both Shoulders to her Support or calling for the two Master-Workmen Body and Soul to do their utmost for her Preservation this great City hath not so much regard shown her as a great Beast or a great Picture Oh how tender we are of these how negligent of This we walk in the City and discern no Breaches in it gaze upon it and behold not its side cracking All Nations admire our City but we slight it and neglect it we have neither affection to her Well-fare nor compassion over her Ruin yet forty days and Nineveh shall be distroyed let it be destroyed for we wont keep it from sinking or burning who is frighted at Gods Threatnings c. when I read what great things Heathens have done to pacify the Gods I am astonished to see with how cheap Sacrifices we would procure an attonement for the City Oh the City doth look pale fetch Blood into her Cheeks by your Pity the City doth crack prop her up with your Petitions 't is sick cure her with your Conversion I have no Martial Tongue to wish you to Fight and Kill but I desire you to Plead and Pray bring forth your right Artillery the stout Hands I call for are Supplicating Hands the bright Harness I require is the compleat Armour of Righteousness not Field but Temple-Ammunition I press for no Camp but Closet-Ordnance oh that the Penitent were discharging with his Eyes and the Supplicant shooting with his Lips Oh that our hearts were edged with Repentance and our Tongues sharp pointed with Devotions the Soldiers I desire are Intercessors the Captains I long for are Advocates Oh that I could gather the Company together summon all the Trained Bands see them all stand in Battle-Array and say to God Almighty oh cast away our Sins and rinse us not in Vengeance for 't is a great City for then multitudes must feel thy Displeasure many must be soaked in ruin if thou puttest the Cup of Astonishment to our Mouths vast numbers must be drunk with this fatal Bowl Oh bring forth your strongest Shore to under-set this Building and with your whole Estate redeem this Jewel Oh Citizens where are your City Bowels City Groans City Crys Oh the great Pride Riot Lust Oppression Malice Perfidiousness Apostacy Heresy and Blasphemy of this City doth require a Catholicon and Composition of all Penitential Ingredients to purge out the several noxious humours out of this diseased Body great Sins and great Judgments do necessitate a great Repentance Broken Hearts trickling Eyes penitent Petitioners where shall feel see or hear you are ye at ease in Zion when the Gates of Zion are ready to lament Are ye asleep with Sampson when the Philistins God 's Judgments are upon you O no sigh in the Temple that you do not Sob in the Street groan in your Closet that you do not roar in the Fields wash the City in Tears that it be not washed in Blood Remember that it is a great City and in great Danger and therefore express great Humiliation if you have any Remnant of Grace any Reverence to Gods Laws any Sense of Sin any dread of an Omnipotent God consider and correct try and cleanse weep and reform God would spare if ye would but prepare for Mercy but ye must be fervent Petitioners and Solemn Converts for 't is a great City that you wish to be spared Should I not spare Nineveh that great City 196 THAT For Eminency THAT That is the Paragon and Gem of Citys Here I might have run over all the World and give you an Account of all the Famous Citys that have been therein and of all the glorious Excellencies of each of them Yet was there ever any greater than Nineveh No former times had not its like nor latter time its equal 1. Had not former times Thebes in Egypt that opened an 100 Gates Corinth that with her strong Castle built upon the Acro-Corinth was called one of the Fetters of Greece Telesine which contained in it once 16000 Families Carthage which was 21 Miles in compass Babylon which amazed Alexander to see her stately Walls her pensil Gardens which seemed to hang in the Air her artificial Groves where Trees seem'd to grow without any Earth about them her lofty Castle and miraculous kind of Bridg built over the Euphrates Rome which was built so loftily that Augustus Caesar was forced to make a Law that no Man should build above 70 foot high which was so large that it contained in it 7 Hills 37 Gates and 400 000 Men under the Cense and so full of rare Spectacles that it was accounted an earthly Bliss to see Rome in her flower As former Ages had none so neither have latter times had Citys to stand in Competition with Nineveh I confess one may read of excellent Citys in these days viz. Odia in Siam 't is said to have above 40 000 Familys Calecut in Malavar doth stretch out three Miles by the Sea-shoar Mandao is so large and so full of Provisions that it maintain'd a siege 12 years against Miramudus the great Mogul Cambria is reported to have in it 800 000 persons Nanquin hath in it besides a large number of people 10 000 Ships which are able with the Marriners that go in them to make a goodly City Quinzay honored with 12000 Bridges and a Lake in the midst of the City of thirty Miles compass with two Islands wherein are gorgeous Houses and magnificent Palaces Grand Cair as some write hath in it 18000 streets so that Selimus the great Conqueror was three days going through it and had such a number of people that they counted it nothing to lose every seven years in a great Plague 300000 persons Hispua called new Casbin which the proud Persians call half the World the compass whereof can't be rid about in less time than a whole day Musco that Wooden City hath sixteen Churches and the Princes Palace with 17 Turrets three great Bulwarks and 25000 Soldiers for a constant Guard Cambalu the Seat of the Crim Tartar who is called the Shadow of Spirits is 28 Miles in compass and hath in it a mighty confluence of Merchants in so much that 't is said There are 10 000 Carts to have come formerly every year laden with Silks from China and besides other Inhabitants 't is said to have 15000 Astrologers in it Vienna famous for beautiful Temples stately Monasteries and a magnificent Palace for their Emperors but it hath no great quantity of Ground nor multitude of Inhabitants but as the Court doth replenish it Paris 10 Miles in compass hath lofty and curious Buildings and 600 000 Citizens besides Soldiers and Scholars of which last there are a multitude by reason of their 55 Colledges Constantinople
Hands you may ask where are those sweet places where we Traded Feasted Slept where we lived like Masters and shone like Morning Stars No the Houses are fallen and the Housholders dropt with them we have nothing but naked-Streets naked Fields for shelters not so much as a Chamber to couch down our Children or Repose our own Members when we are spent or afflicted with Sickness Wo unto us our Sins have pulled down our Houses shak'd down our City we are the most harborless people in the World like Foreigners rather than Natives yea rather like Beasts than Men Foxes have Holes and Fowls have Nests but we have neither Holes nor Nests our Sins have deprived us both of Couch and Covert we would be glad if an Hospital would receive us Dens or Caves shelter us the bleak Air or cold Ground are our only Shades and Refuges But alas this is but the Misery of Stone-work of Arches Roofs What will you say when you come Skin VVork Arms Necks and Bowels A Massacre May not your tender persons be touched Yes ye which have walk'd in State may then run the Streets in Distraction ye which have search'd out others with severity may be pluck'd out of your Corners With rigor ye which have been bowed to may then bow your Knees for Mercy with one Legg or half an Arm ye may begg the Preservation of the rest of your Members VVhat Inventions shall ye then be put to to secure your Lives what perhaps would you not give to save your selves and your Tears it may be will not secure you nor your Gold redeem you but your Veins must weep as well as your Eys and your Sides be watered as well as your Cheeks when your Sins shall shut up the Conduits of the City and only your Liver Conduit to run when they allow you no showers of Rain but showers of Blood to wash your Feet when you shall see no Men of your Corporation but the mangled Citizen nor hear no noise in your Streets but the crys the shreiks the yells and pants of gasping dying Men when among the throngs of Associates not a Man will own you your Friends hide their Head and your Servants flee from you when your Kindred are slain in one place your VVives in another your Children in a third and your selves at last it may be cut in two to increase the number of dead Carcasses when as populous as you are you shall be but numbred to the Sword as puissant as you are the Valiant shall be swept away As fine fed as you are you shall be fed with your own Flesh and made Drunk with your own Blood when your Trespasses have been so outragious that Vengeance doth deny you a being that you are thought fit for nothing but to be killed in the places where you committed the Crimes and to suffer the pains of Death within those Walls which you have cursed with your Sedoms Faces and Egyptian hard-Heartedness when your Politicians can no longer help you but must have their subtle Brains dash'd in pieces with yours nor your Lectures no longer save you but you must meet at the Congregation near the Shambles when this great City shall be but a great Chopping-board to quarter out the Limbs of Sinners or the great Altar whereon a whole City is to be Sacrificed Oh doleful day of new painting your Walls new paving your Streets new summoning a Common-Hall when all are called forth to nothing but to the derision of the insulting Adversary to have your Breasts to try the points of Spears your Sides the keeness of Swords your Heads the weight of Pole-Axes and Bodys to be made Foot-stools and your Dead Careasses steppings for truculent Foes to trample upon when there will be no pity upon the Aged nor compassion for the Young but heaps upon heaps tumbling of Garments in Blood and Swords made fat with slaughter Oh see what a crimson City crimson Sins will make Or if you escape the dint of the Sword and your Lives be given you for a prey shall not your Goods be a prey Yes some may be reserved out of the greatest MASSACRE when Men are weary of Killing a Retreat may be sounded and Men called off from the Slaughter yet can ye challenge your old Houses or bring your Keys to your old Chests No your Titles gone your Interest lost you have Sinn'd your Selves off your Propriety the Enemy is now House-keeper and Land-holder all 's forfeited to the Sword farewel Inheritances Purchases Leases Jewels as ye have gotten these perhaps unjustly so they shall be taken away unjustly violently gotten and violently they shall be taken away Vengeance from Heaven will have satisfaction for all your fraudulent Bargains cruel Pawns extorting Mortgages blooding of Widdows skinning of Orphans or as you have used your Goods for Pride and Bravery so you shall see all your Gallantry and new Fashions pluck't from you others shall spruce up themselves in your Dresses and your selves glad of the worst filthy Garment ye left behind or perhaps of a cast Garment of your Enemys and though God took you out of the Mire you never pluck't out others which stuck in the same Extremitys you have forgotten your own beginnings a great Company of these the City hath that the Poor and the suffering Gospel can thank them for little succour and Sympathy They which would grasp all shall loose all they shall be driven to live upon Alms and to go among the tattered crew They shall wish they had but one spare Bag which all the crys of the Distressed could not make them open or that they had but a few of those Mites which all the Teaâ—s of Necessity could not make them to scatter abroad no they would trust nothing in Gods hand and God will shut up all Hands and Hearts against them They had no Compassion and no Eye shall pity them if they be not slain in the heap yet they do but Live to see their own Misery Their Sins have made them Bankrupts and ruined them Oh that the loss of Money were the greatest mischief but there is a Treasure of greater value in Danger CONSCIENCE is ready to be rifled there is not an absolute Conquest made till the inward Man be in Fetters Thou must be a Slave in Principles oh t is a hard thing to be a Jew inwardly Pâ—pâ—ry sâ—â—â—â—p Thou must then bear the Fruit of the degenerate Plant or strange Vine pour out the Drink-Offerings of other Sacrificers follow the Sorcery of the Mistress of Witchcraft or learn Magick with them that are brought up in the Doctrine of Devils you must limp with this halting Age fit thy Mouth to shout That great is Diana of the Ephesiaâ—s thou must taunt thy Father spit in the Face of thy own Mother hiss away all thy true Brethren like the Jews thou must soon learn the Language of Canaan and Ashdod if they come under another Lord the Citizen is a double Slave
under his Eye Should I not spare Nineveh that great City 7. This doth shew That no Earthly Eminency is certain for God once spared Nineveh that great City but now that great City is wasted Pappas saith That Repetance at Jonah's Preaching saved Nineveh an hundred years but afterwards being puffed up with happy success it felt an avenging God Cartwright lately travelling those parts saith he saw some pieces and broken VValls of it The most Judicious VVriters hold that after Arbaces had taken it from Sardanapalus it continued under the Medes in some flourishing condition till the time of Gyaxares son of Phraartes who began to destroy it and Astyages his Son levelled it with the ground Oh then what stability is there in any earthly greatness That great City hath had both her Obiit and her Funeral Oh that our Hearts could trample upon the Earth as our Feet do that our Consciences could renounce the World as well as our Profession doth how many great Familys have we seen decay how many great Citys have we found laid in the Dust Baldness is come upon Gazah Jer 47.5 Yea Nineveh that was the Crown Imperial of the whole World hath now lost her Diadem that great City hath not one of her Thousand five hundred Towers or one of her splendid Palaces to be seen Oh then why are ye enamoured upon your beautiful Empress Do you dwell in the inchanted City Or are you out of the dint of Vengeance Do you not fear Judgments what should make you so confident Nineveh's Circuit was more large her Walls more strong her Streets more populous her Treasures more abundant her Dominions more ample than yours then why may not you drop as well as Nineveh is fallen Are your Sins less No you have four Sins within your Walls and yet I will except Fraud Pride Partiality and Bribery that shall justify Nineveh from being the more Guilty Sinner Four Sins what are they I know you are good at asking questions and apter to sciscitate than to eliminate therefore because I have often heard you told of these things and yet could never see you blush but rather rage not softned with ministerial Zeal but rather hardned therefore I shall not speak where the Lord hath commanded to keep silence Amos. 5.13 nor throw abroad his Pearls but where he hath directed me to cast them nor impart his Holy things but where he hath injoyned me to give them Mat. 7.6 If you command the Prophets saying Prophecy noâ— Amos 2.12 and the time be come about that no Man must strive nor reprove one another for the People are as they with strive with their Priest Hos 4.4 then why should we reiterate that which we have had Preached upon the House top and made plain upon Tables and for fear I should be charg'd to bring in a railing Accusation I shall say only as Michael did the Lord rebuke thee But these Sins are such That if you had Walls of Brass and Guards of Anakims they will make every beam of the House and stone in the Building cry out Confusion to you and nothing but Conversion will save you and I doubt whether I shall see Nineveh's Repentance among you Oh that The Jonah were born that would cry effectually in the Streets Oh That the Auditors were yet so prepared that they could listen to a Message from Heaven with Nineveh's Ears Oh be ye smitten to the Earth wallow in the Ash-heap weep till ye cannot shed a Tear more reform till there 's not a Sin left for Conscience to turn new spy unto and so may Repentance be your Preservative a kind of Guardian Angel to the City and with Nineveh be spared and if spared I wish ye not to be secure for if you Fast and fall to your old Riot or put on Sack-cloth and change this for new Fashions c. the renewing your former Sins will but renew former dangers therefore your Repentance must not only be fervent but firm not only unfeigned but unchangeable Remember Nineveh she humbled her self and was Pardoned she repented and was spared but she repented but for a time and was spared but for a time she turned to be Nineveh the Wicked and she happened to be Nineveh the Miserable Third general Wherein are more than sixscore Thousand Persons which cannot discern between their right hand and their left and also much Cattle We are come to the Description wherein are more c. observe herein these two particulars 1. The principal Commoditys wherein are sixscore thousand persons which cannot discern between their right hand and their left 2. The less principal Commoditys and also much Cattle 1. For the Principal Commoditys in which these parts are considerable 1. The Receptacle wherein 2. The Season are 3. The Treasure Persons 4. The Quantity sixscore Thousand 5. The Surplus more 6. Qualification which cannot discern c. 1. For the Receptacle wherein Elsewhere had been no Credit to Nineveh but that Nineveh had these choice things this is the Honor wherein Obs That Happiness must carry with it an Appropriation the Appropriation is the Approbation of it what matter though Thousands be recorded for fortunate Persons if thou bee'st not in the Catalogue neither Well-fare nor Honour Law nor Gospel peace of Conscience nor Joys of Heaven are useful to us if we have not a proper Title to them Therefore be not mistaken you see 't was Nineveh's Happiness to have this Felicity with a restriction or in the proper ubi wherein Application 1. This reproves such who know Blessings only by hear-say is not this a wandring kind of Comfort to see fullness abroad and want at home Psammenitus told Cambyses Domestical Miseries are greater than can be exprest by Tears Oh Let us not be given too much to visit the state of others but let us observe our own Condition whether the right Blessing be in the right place 2. This shews that some enjoy distinct felicity for though this were not to be seen elsewhere yet in Nineveh it was to be found wherein It was L. Minutius only that got the Golden Bullock and Zelislaus that had by Bodislaus the third the Golden Hand given him for his Valour Particular preheminencies happen as God doth command the Blessing Oh then be privy to your own Priviledges use not things conferred as if they were inbred 3. This shews Greatness doth not consist in bare Title but in effectual Demonstration for Nineveh is not only that great City but that great Receptacle wherein Wo to them that are only voiced up to be Great but setting aside their own Tumour and the peoples Rumour there is no greatness to be seen in them shall these go for great Professors No great Impostors great Expressions must justify great Titles Are. 2. The Season Are wherein are not there were but are Obs Hence that present bliss is the honored Bliss what Beauty 's in a consumed thing That is true Happiness which is come to no Diminution
there was one much Cattle And also much Cattle Thus you have seen many things concerning a City Infants and Cattle possibly such as you never heard of before sure I am there 's neither of these but have something memorable in them If the stone called Cappotes whereupon Orestes sate when he was recovered of his Madness was laid up and preserved to Posterity then how much ought this place to have an everlasting Record where so many things have been free from impending Ruine Nineveh was famous what should I do in conclusion but look about for the City I cannot find the same City but shall I not the like Nineveh is fallen but can it not rise out of the Ashes Oh that I should lose the City for want of due search or that this City of yours should LOSE it self for want of a proper Duty Can ye not change the name of your City yes Strasburgh was once called Silberthal but being made the Exchequer of the Roman Tribute 't was called Argentina so cannot ye for that remarkable Accident in the Text REPENTANCE part with your own Name to be called Nineveh Is it Impossible to make you such a City what doth hinder give me but your Affections set but your hearts to the Work and the City is raised in an Instant change but your Consciences and ye shall presently change your Name Oh Argentina oh Nineveh When shall I see thee why should I not forthwith see thee If ye love a Sermon if ye love your selves if ye love Safety ye ought to do THIS for 't is not this great City of yours not the multitude of your Persons nor the plenty of your Cattle which will make you HAPPY unless Nineveh doth inclose all these I mean unless Repentance doth give you Title and Testimony Safegard and Security Have Nineveh's Target and fear no Darts have Nineveh's Propitiatory and fear no avenging God Will you alter your Name change your Lives Prepare such a Mercy-Seat to appear upon within your walls Oh that ye can think of Nineveh and not be asham'd of your selves Nineveh was Heathenish you are Christian Nineveh had but one Prophet ye have had many Nineveh had the Cry but of one day or a few days ye have had the Crys of many years yet when will ye match Nineveh in Attention Submission Ashes Sackcloth Fasting Prayer and Reformation Lucius Sylla an old Dictator blushed to see C. Pompey a young man to tryumph before him so may not you count it a highâ—d sparagement to you to see Nineveh but newly entred into Religion a very Tyro to ride in the Tryumphant Chariot before you which are grown grey-headed under profession ye would be spare but when will ye seek God with Nineveh's penitent Heart Oh let sudden JUDGMENT as much afflict you and affright you remorse as much humble you and change you as they did Nineveh as Plato was called Socrates jun. because he so much resembled his Master so ye for resembling this City may be called Nineveh the younger If your Peril be as great let your prevention be equal else in coming short in Pacification ye fall short in the Preservation for can God and ye tread the same ground if ye walk by his side as Enemys No if ye rend away from God by Disobedience he will pluck you off though you were as a signet upon his right hand VVhere is Capernaum lifted up to Heaven in Priviledges Where are the 7 Golden Candlesticks VVe have had personating men long enough when shall we have true penitents Alexander Severus did cut-asunder the Sinews of a mans hand which did present him with a false Brief of a case and do we not fear punishing for offering to God a counterfeit Repentance will ye dissemble to the last and jeopard the ruine of a whole CITY How far can you imagine that ye are off from the collusions of Justice every Corner of your City doth seem to tremble under the voice of a threatning GOD Oh your Sins do cry and Vengeance is awaked with the Voice of them the Heavens are offended with you and the Earth doth seem to rise up in tumults amongst you There are MANY which do WISH your Destruction and are sorry they cannot make you the Miserable of the Earth they consult sad things concerning you yea conspire against you night and day their Hearts do boil their Brains do work their Mouths do foam and they would willingly be stretching out their hands to shake you and shiver you Ye have Enemys within your City ye have Enemys in your own Consciences your sins do threaten MORE Calamities to you than all your inveterate and implacable Adversaries which you have upon Earth how can you oppose such irresistible forces No no though you had Guards of Gyants and every common Souldier were an Ashibench the head of whose Spear weighed 300 shekels of Brass yet your Sins will beat you down before your Enemies Oh stand up in your own Defence open the right Arsenal Have the Armour of righteousness on the right and on the left use Nineveh Weapons to fight This Battle Vanquish all your sins by crying lowder for Mercy than they do for your Ruin escape Vengeance by flying from your Provocations before Indignation hath attach'd you your City is Threatned take heed you do not sleep out the hour of your Security Presumption may subvert let Contrition deliver you the time may be short the VVork is great the Danger is Apparent the Misery will be unspeakable pluck down your haughtiness surcease from Obstinacy your City walls do shake let your Hearts shake your Buildings are loose upon their Foundation groundsel them better by Mortification ALL your Goods are ready to be SACRIFISED to Vengeance bring forth your Sin-offering before the sparks have taken fire If there be any listning to a Warning credence of Threatning obedience to Counsel foresight of Danger sting of Guilt or obligation to Duty PITY the City and PETITION for the City shed Lakes of Tears of the City wear Sackcloth lest you go NAKED Fast lest you STARVE sit upon the Ash-heap lest ye be brought to an Ash-heap creep upon your Knees lest ye do creep into Corners shut up your selves in your Closets lest ye be shut up in Dungeons fly to Heaven lest ye fly OUT of the Land Confess your Sins lest Justice do read the Bill to your Faces Condemn your selves lest ye be sentenced without Reprieve Look upon your Errors with Passions be humbled with Conflicts repent with Agonies appease with Fire reconcile with Ropes weep with Torrents pray with shrieks cleanse with Nitre attend at the Court of Audience lay it out at Gods Judgment-Seat wash in Jordan till the Leprosy be departed wrastle with the Angel till ye have got the Blessing Leave not one greivance in Heaven to prosecute you not one Injury upon Earth to accurse you be perfectly renewed that you may be perfectly secuted Thus if I can now leave you with bleeding
Hearts sobbing Breasts suppliant Tongues abased Bodies frayed Souls purified Consciences and rinsed Conversations ye are Nineveh and your City may yet prosper For you see how God pleaded out his Case for Nineveh and freed his Clyent the City was humbled and preserv'd REPENTANCE prevented her overthrow not a man was smitten though there were multitudes of Persons not a Beast was destroy'd though there were much Cattle Go and do thou likewise Do likewise and enjoy likewise Oh that I could be such a Jonah to you that I could cry out Such a City That I could make you thus to believe GOD and serve GOD your Humiliation should free you from all Horrors your Dejection from all Dangers your Devotion and Reformation from all Exigents Your VValls should not be battered your Bulwarks not demolished your Palaces not laid waste your Temples not shut up your shops not risted your Persons not MASSACRED nor your Cattle slaughtred But your Liberties Lives Goods Royalties your Ordinances your Oracles holy Altars holy Priests holy Vessels holy Shew bread holy Incense and Holy of Holies even all your Spiritual Prerogatives and Church privileges should be ratified to you upon Earth you should continue a safe People and florishing City yea after you have served God in his Church ye should serve him in his Temple he should translate you from this City to the City of the New Jerusalem that after you have injoyed all the Preferments of the material or mystical City ye might have the joyes and pleasures of the glorious City even the Prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus VVhich that ye may have the Lord grant for his Mercys sake Amen FINIS The POSTSCRIPT By the Author of this ABRIDGMENT 'T Was the earnest Desire of my Soul after the Prosperity of this famous and renouned City of LONDON which ingag'd me to abridg and publish these prophetick Sermons In the doing whereof I am perswaded that none will it having been my Care all-along the Work that none should blame me for injuring the worthy Author For if any should take the Pains to trace me through the whole they will finde that I have omitted nothing essentially necessary whereby the Work may be maimed and the Design considered viz. Brevity that the substance of the Work may be had for a small Price Nor is there in any one leaf of the Original things of less Moment inserted here and those of more weighty Concern omitted This were a Fault I could not forgive my self nor could the Chiding of wise and sober persons more discompose me than my own Breast would be disturb'd of it self c. These Sermons were preached in this City about the Year 1655 or 1656 Their whole design was then to beget in the Hearers a hatred of SIN and to press them to a speedy REPENTANCE by representing the Wrath and Vengeance Plagues and Judgments which God pours down upon Mortals for their Offences Therefore their Publication now cannot but be supposed seasonably time'd For alas alas within these few years there hath sprung up out of the Bottomless Pit I had almost said a Generation of what shall I call them Devils in the shape of Men and Women who designing to Debauch this Age have by amazing Examples succeeded too well in their Undertakings for by their Lying Swearing Cursing Whoring Cheating Drinking Perjury Hypocrisy Blasphemy c. they out-brazen Heaven it self and bid Defiance to the God thereof thereby ripening themselves for Destruction except Repentance prevents Well then If Judgments were as our Author saith upon their March Rank and File so many years past what man of Understanding is there that do's not see them drawn up and presenting wanting only the Word from the God of Hâ—sts Read Pages 48 49. Now then Suppose He begins with another Plague among Us come Oh ye Paterns I had almost call'd ye Patrons too of Wickedness you with the rest of them both male and female that have been poisoned by your Examples fall all to this work of Repentance I say where will YOU secure Your selves from the VVrath that is coming VVill those By-places of Secresy where You and your Misses to speak modishly have Caress'd together secure you No no. You may Remember what shift you made to shun the last Do ye think ye will not be met with now VVhat because God in his Infinite VVisdom was pleased not to make a Visible plain Distinction of his Love and Hatred to persons but the honest man dy'd of it as well as the dishonest those that were faithful to the Marriage Bed are seiz'd by it equal wth those that have been false to that sacred Tye He that fears an Oath hath had God's Tokens when he that flouds out Oaths hath been free c. There 's no Reason for all this but that 't is the pleasure of the Almighty for Should GOD in the Plague-time or by any other distinguishing Judgment pick out sweep or hurry away the most profligate Debauchees He 's and She 's 't were enough to Scare SINS of all sorts out of the World This were in effect to answer Dives's presumptuous Petition Luke 16.27 For who would play Zimri's and Cosbi's parts if they expected before the end of the Act to feel a Phineaâ—'s spear and so I might bring in Examples of all Sins c. But God deals not thus with poor Mortals No no If the Threatnings of his VVord won't deter us from Sin If his Promises wo'nt invite and allure us to a holy Life his infinite Wisdom directs to no other Means but according as our Obedience is to his Word so will it go with us to all Eternity And yet some times God doth hang up sad Examples of his Justice too Oh! when Judgments stand ready sho'd not Mortals stand prepar'd for an Eternty the Godly are by a holy Life willing always ready to submit to the good Pleasure of the Almighty and to such Judgment is no Judgment and if it periods their natural Lives it does at the same Moment initiate an eternal one of Happiness But for the others I mean those that None can with the largest degree of Charity imaginable admit to belong to God as such till true Repentance hath capacitated them How should these together with the civiler sort of Sinners the Hypocrites Lyers unjust the Rebellious Disobedient the sly Adulterers c. fall upon their Knees and with Tears in their Eyes implore divine Mercy in time before it be too late For should Judgment seize these be it of what kind it will Wo's upon wo's will be their Portion what Tongue can express what Heart can conceive as the Joyes of the first so the Pain Anguish and Torments of the other which will be endless easeless and remediless If those bodily Miseries mentioned page 34 will be so exquisite as they may be managed by an Enemy how dreadful and astonishing will it be when these frightful and scaring ones shall be but as fiery