cause of their Anger is the Penalty they suffer the manner of the Information only a pretence Let them Swear on and take no notice of their Oaths and they will be very modest in their Censures of Private Informations I suppose then it will be granted that Private Informations are just if they are true That which makes an Information unjust is the falshood of it And whither Informations shou'd be Publick or Private is rather a Consideration of Expediency than Justice There are some Cases in which Private Informations ought not to be allow'd there are others in which they are highly necessary The reason why in most Cases Informations ought to be Publick is to prevent and discourage Perjury and Revenge For if all Informations were to be Private and the Informers never known nor punish'd when they deserv'd it then no Man cou'd be secure either of his Fortune or his Life But if none of these ill Consequences can attend Private Informations against Swearing if they are no Encouragement to Wilful Perjury and at the same time are highly necessary to suppress that Sin which is the Original Cause of most Perjuries taking off all Reverence for GOD and an Oath if the Case be so then I think such Private Informations are very free from Injustice Now to be Convinc'd of this I wou'd have you consider that whoever knowingly Perjures himself to Injure another must be suppos'd to do it either to procure some Temporal Advantage or to prevent some great Evil or to gratifie his Passion of Revenge It argues the most Uncharitable Savage Temper to believe that any Man will go deliberately about the Sin of Perjury without any Motive Inducement or Temptation That he will at the same time dishonour GOD wrong his Neighbour and contract the Guilt of a very Heinous Sin himself and yet gratifie no Passion by it neither excite any hope of Reward nor remove any fear of Punishment nor calm any Violent Resentment And yet this is really the case with respect to Private Informations against Swearing The Informers are to have no share in what the Swearers are forc'd to pay Nor are the Magistrates further concern'd than to Execute the Law The Money is wholly for the use of the Poor Nor can the Poor be wrong'd of what they are thus Intitl'd to unless there be a Confederacy of the Informers and Magistrates of the Ministers Church-Wardens and Over-seers of the Poor to do it And as none are tempted by Rewards to Perjure themselves neither are they mov'd by Fear They suffer no Penalty if they do not Inform none will be angry if they forbear but they will be sure of Hatred if they do 'T is true there is one sort of Fear has some influence upon them And that is the Fear of the Great GOD of Heaven They are under too great an Awe of that Infinite Beeing not to bring those to Punishment who dare Prophane his Name Then as to Revenge that can never be a motive with our Informers to be Guilty of Perjury having no Personal acquaintance with most of those against whom they do Inform and having never receiv'd the least Injury from them Some I know will be apt to say that many even True Informations proceed from Malice and Resentment from Quarrels and a Revengeful Spirit And certainly of all Men Common Swearers have most reason to believe that they will meet with the Effects of other Mens Displeasure since they must be Conscious to themselves that by their Rage and Passion they have often not only affronted GOD but provok'd their Neighbour And no Man will pity them if this be sometimes their own case nor can that be Condemn'd as Revenge which goes no farther than the Execution of a just and reasonable Law But there is no great ground among us for this Uncharitable Observation the most Diligent Informers being freest from Revenge and who wish the Guilty Persons no greater harm than Repentance and Reformation Yet suppose it shou'd be so that Malice or Revenge were at the Bottom of some Informations of such every good Man will say with St. Paul in another case so Swearing be suppress'd whither it be done out of Strife or good Will I do rejoice yea and will rejoice Phi. 1.15 'T is true when a Mans Life or Estate is at Stake it is reasonable he shou'd be Publickly Try'd and Confronted with his Accusers and it is a great Excellency in our Law that it râ—quires such Publick Tryals so that no Man shall be Condemn'd without being allow'd to make his Defence But when a Pecuniary Mulct is all the Punishment to be inflicted on a Swearer for a Sin hateful to GOD and Man he is intitled to no such Favour The Laws against Swearing are just which in other Cases wou'd seem severe That Sin has no Temptation to Extenuate its Guilt and therefore the utmost Rigour of the Law is but too gentle a Punishment for it And indeed it is very plain that our Law-Makers design was that Swearers shou'd be treated after another manner than most other Criminals because by the Statute against Swearing the Oath of one Person is sufficient to make them lyable to the Penalty of it And that it was their intention that the Informers shou'd in many cases be kept secret at least that a discretionary power shou'd be lodg'd in the Magistrate to conceal them when he saw a reasonable cause of so doing we have reason to believe from hence because they cou'd not but foresee that the constant discovery of the Informers must needs discourage many from Informing and prove a great Obstruction to the due Execution of the Law if not render it entirely useless Besides Private Informations are much more allowable against Swearing than in any other Case that can happen For he who Informs against a Swearer proceeds upon very different motives from those who Inform against Felons or Traytors or are Witnesses in Disputes betwixt particular Men. In cases of Felony those who are injur'd Prosecute the Felon and spare neither Expence nor Trouble to find out the Truth They will invite Men to a Discovery by Proposals of Reward and can compel those who may be otherwise unwilling to declare upon Oath what they know And the same Methods are taken in all Disputes at Law In Cases of Treason Honours Preferments and Estates are promis'd and liberally bestow'd to Encourage Informations And 't is necessary it shou'd be so the publick safety being so nearly concern'd But they who Inform against Swearers have no Rewards to Tempt them nor are they compell'd by any Fears From Men they suffer nothing if they do not Inform they gain nothing if they do And are acted only by a Generous Zeal for the Honour and Serviâ—e of GOD. 'T is hard I confess if not impossible for Laws to be so contriv'd but some way or other they may be perverted and abus'd but in the Case now before us I think the Question is not whither
Fourthly To offer such Motives as may best excite and confirm our Zeal that so we may be Zealously Affected always in that good thing about which we ought to be engag'd I. I am to enquire what those particular Sins are in suppressing of which we ought to be most Zealously Affected It has already been observ'd in general that promoting our known Duty undisputed Piety and Virtue is the best thing wherein we can be Zealously Affected For these are the Essentials of Religion without which no other priviliges we can enjoy or boast of will be of any advantage to us Now this will be most happily effected by suppressing those Vices and Impieties which more directly dishonour GOD and weaken Religion and such undoubtedly are Blasphemous Oaths and Curses Prophaning the Lords Day either by our Ordinary Labours or Scandalous Diversions together with the Brutal Vices of Intemperance and Lewdness Now we ought to be more Zealously Affected against these than other Sins because they are more destructive Enemies to Piety there 's more of Leprosie and Infection in them and they are attended with more Fatal Consequences Other Sins I say which being more private and unobserv'd draw not such a Train of Mischiefs after them The first Sin then against which it is a good thing to be Zealously Affected is Prophane Cursing and Swearing That horrid Sin which Dares Omnipotence and Mocks avenging Justice which affronts GOD out of Diversion and Plays with his Thunder and Lightning That Sin which strikes at the Foundations of Religion by involving Men in frequent Perjuries and taking off all Reverence for an Oath That Sin which hurries daily many Souls to Hell and is the fearful of Language of that place of Impiety as well as Torment and where the Damn'd at once Gnaw their Tongues for Pain and Blaspheam the GOD of Heaven That Sin I say shou'd surely stir up the Indignation and Zeal of all those who have any Honour any Love for GOD or Religion to punish to destroy it so effectually to suppress it that it never may again Triumph in our Streets The misplac'd Devotion of the Athenians inflam'd St. Paul's Zeal He was fill'd with various Passions of Anger of Pity and of Grief to see the City wholly given to Idolatry He Argued he Contended with their greatest Philosophers and even hazarded his Life to Convert them And shou'd not our Spirits be moved within us to hear the Venerable Name of the True GOD Impiously Prophan'd and Ridiculously Invok'd and that not by Ignorant Heathens but Pretended Christians by those who while they usurp that Sacred Title Are not only far from GOD in their Hearts but with their very Lips Dishonour him It must needs therefore be a good thing to be Zealously Affected against this prevailing Sin to Vindicate GOD's Honour and bring those who Prophane his Name to Punishment A Second Sin against which it is a good thing to be Zealously Affected is the Violation of the Lords-Day that Day which is Dedicated to the Worship and Service of GOD. The Prophanation of the Lords-Day has so fatal an influence on Religion and tends so naturally to deface it that they who are Zealously Affected for the one must have a tender regard for the other For the concerns of this World do so steal upon Mens Minds so charm and bewitch them that did not the constant returns of the Lords-Day relax their Thoughts and call them off from Business and Diversion to Religion and Devotion not only the Power but form of Godliness wou'd be lost not only the thing it self but very Name of Religion wou'd be Banish'd the World Whereas the Religious Observation of the Lords-Day does often awaken those good thoughts which all the Week have lay'n Buried under Cares and Pleasures And many who at first go to Church out of Decency and Custom will at length go out of Religion and Devotion And indeed our joyning in Devout Prayers and Heavenly Praises hearing the Holy Scriptures Read and our Duty affectionately recommended all these preserve Spiritual Life keep Conscience sensible and tender And the more strictly the Lords-Day is kept the better will it answer the end of its Institution the more effectually promote Piety and secure Religion whereas if only a part of it be allow'd to the Worship of GOD and the rest taken up in Sports and Diversions it is to be fear'd that our Morning Thoughts will soon pass away and that the Evening Pastimes will deface all the good Impressions of the Day Now shall we not do excellent Service to Religion by rescuing the Lords-Day from Scandalous Abuses and hindring those Practices which must if not prevented destroy it The Honour of GOD is inseparably united to that of his Day And Religion must languish and decay when that Day is Neglected or Prophan'd Publick Worship must be disus'd and Private fall of Consequence Of this our Governours are sensible and therefore good Laws have been Enacted to hinder it which are but a dead letter unless vigorously Executed This surely then deserves and calls for our most active Zeal to put the Laws in Execution against the Prophaners of the Lords-Day since the preservation or ruin of Religion does in a great measure depend upon it Thirdly They who are Zealously Affected against Sin must labour to suppress Lewdness and Uncleaness and make those Wretched Creatures feel the just Severity of the Laws who set up Factories for Wickedness and make Prostitution their Trade Christianity is an Undefil'd Religion Ja. 1.26.3.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Wisdom from above is pure or chaste it prohibits all Lascivious Practices and lays restraints on our Thoughts And is it possible there shou'd be any Country where this Holy Religion is Publickly Profess'd and Divine Laws enforc'd by Temporal Punishments where there are Christian Ministers to perswade and Christian Mgistrates to correct Offenders In which notwithstanding Lewdness and Debauchery should be so much so long wink'd at as almost to plead Prescription and Toleration That there shou'd be Seminaries for Uncleaness and yet unpunished unregarded Thus it has been heretofore among us and these Vices are still not only too commonly committed but glory'd in to the great Dishonour of GOD and Reproach of Religion That then must be an excellent Zeal which dares check and oppose these abominable Sins which inspires us with Courage to Rescue our Christianity from Contempt by bringing the Scandals of it to just Punishment and Shame without being mov'd at their Insolence or afraid of their Revenge There are many other very common very dangerous Sins against which it is a good thing to be Zealously Aflected particularly Common Drunkenness and Excessive Gaming For these are not only great Sins in themselves but often the unhappy causes of those I have already nam'd Gaming inflames the Passions fills the Mouth with Curses and the whole Man with Rage Drunkenness divests Men of their Reason and puts every irregular desire into a Ferment
This is to extract the greatest Good out of the greatest Evil an Antidote from Poyson Again 't is Charity even to those who are Punish'd For Admonitions and Advices are commonly lost upon a hardned Swearer they inflame his Passions and make him renew his Sin But when he finds that his Oaths begin to be Expensive to him without any Compensation of Pleasure or Profit by that he will probably be awakn'd to see the folly of them and totally at last forbear them When a Man has suffer'd pretty often for Prophaning the Lords-Day he will at last leave it off and contract an Habitual Reverence for It. Now 't is Charity to break a Man of those Practices which if persever'd in will ruin him for ever let the Methods of doing it be never so disobliging 'T is Charity to Cure a Mad-Man of his Frenzy even by Chains and Scourges tho in the mean time he hates nothing so much as his Physician Lastly 'T is great Charity to the Youth of this present Age and to the succeeding Generations also To the Youth of this present Age whose Minds are yet tender and uncorrupted 't is great Charity to remove from them the Contagious Poyson of Vice and Prophaness For it is the Wickedness of the Aged that corrupts our Youth and the Example of the one has a Fatal Influence upon the other But we wou'd need little pains to make those who are Young Honour GOD's Name if we cou'd so effectually suppress Swearing that those who are Old durst not be their Patterns in that Sin And our Youth wou'd of themselves Reverence the Lords-Day were the Laws so well Executed that others durst not Prophane it But this never can be done unless we all think it our Duty to Inform against the Prophane and Vicious and unless Magistrates Encourage such Informations Then for the Succeeding Generations it is Charity to them to put a stop to Wickedness and hinder it from descending upon them for wou'd it not be better for them never to be Born than to come into a World to Corrupted that it wou'd be miraculous to escape Infection than to be Born to Sin here and Misery hereafter But if we have any Charity for those who are to succeed us we will be very Zealous in suppressing all sorts of Wickedness now and give continual Informations against those who dare be publickly Guilty of it and so we shall entail upon our Posperity with our Fortunes a more valuable Inheritance Piety and Virtue and all the Blessings of Heaven Upon the whole To Inform against Prophaness and Vice is what GOD's Law does positively enjoyn and require And it is recommended to us by some Excellent Examples recorded in Scripture It is highly reasonable and necessary all Men esteem it so in other Parallel Cases Our Duty to our Country Charity to the Poor and to the Offenders themselves to the Youth of this present Age and to the Generations which are yet for to come do all oblige us to it And surely these considerations are sufficient to Vindicate this Practice and recommend it too to Christians those especially who are Zealously Aflected in good things let those who want Zeal or Courage to undertake it or who have been corrected by it revile and censure it as they please I therefore hope that you will go on in the way wherein you have hitherto walked and persevere in a Duty so pleasing to GOD so reasonable and necessary and which Justice and Charity both require And will not be Frightn'd by the loudest Clamours the unjustest Reflections or most Malicious Accusations of your Enemies For if your Informations be disinteressed and impartial without respect of Persons or regard to temporal Advantage If they gratifie no Passion but Religious Zeal and such I believe yours have been and such I hope they will always be then sure I am good Men will Love and Praise GOD will Reward you for them I now proceed in the Second place To justifie Private Informations which are found absolutely necessary to restrain Common Swearing so that they who are Punish'd shall not know who Inform'd against them Were we to pass Judgment upon this Practice only by the violent Out-cries of many against it we cou'd not but condemn it as the greatest Injustice and Cruelty in the World The Multitude of the Jews did not cry more loudly against our Saviour Crucifie him Crucifie him And it is to be fear'd that some among us like Pilate are born down by Tumult and popular Noise to pass Sentence contrary to the Dictates of their own Minds To Condemn the Innocent and Release the Guilty But Innocence is what all pretend to and the most Prophane will seldom plead Guilty It is these Private Informers say they who have a load of Guilt to answer for their Informations being justly charg'd with Malice and Falshood and the Magistrates who countenance them with Avarice and Oppression And must we not allow it to be wondrous hard that any restraints shou'd be lay'd upon a Blaspheming Tongue That Men cannot use at pleasure the privilege of Speech which Nature has given them Cannot publickly Affront GOD and imprecate Damnation to all about them so many Sawcy Informers lurking every where Is it not harder still that they shou'd not know who these Invaders of their Unchrististian Liberty are who by being thus conceal'd from their knowledge are secur'd from their Revenge and so they cannot make them feel the Effects of their Indignation and Resentment But our Magistrates it seems are of another Mind and see no unreasonable Severity in this method of proceeding And indeed the Sin of Common Swearing must be so hateful to all good Men that to suppress it they cannot judge any thing severe if but agreeable even to Rigorous Justice But Private Informations against Swearers are very just and highly expedient and necessary they very much promote the end of the Law yet are Injurious to none nay even they who are most frequently punish'd by them have no good reason to desire that the practice shou'd be otherwise All which I shall now endeavour to prove First I am to shew that Private Informations against Common Swearers are just Now that Practice is just whereby the end of an Excellent Law is very much promoted yet none at all injur'd nor wrong'd And such is the Practice of Private Informations For is the Person against whom the Information is given Guilty of the Crime with which he is charg'd Then where is the wrong if he be Discover'd and Punish'd for it Justice requires that he shou'd not escape and whither the Information be Publick or Private provided it be true he has no hardship to complain of He has Committed a very Heinous Sin and is he wrong'd because he suffers the Penalty of the Law And indeed it is notorious that they who are loudest in their Complaints against Private Informations are the most Criminal they who are oftenest and always justly punish'd The true
for them is with Humility to own that even good Men are Frail and not above the Passions and Weaknesses incident to our Nature But now they who are truly Zealous against Prophaness and Vice must needs be sensible how Fatal our particular Controversies are to Christianity in general to Piety Virtue And therefore they cannot but pray for Unity with all the Fervour of their Souls and will spare no Pains to procure so inestimable a Blessing All prudent Attempts for Peace they will Encourage and Promote and submit to many Inconveniences rather than want it And if all Parties among us were thus Zealously Affected if every one laid to Heart our Crying Sins and consider'd our Divisions as and such sure I am they have been and are one Principle Cause of them How soon might we hope to see a happy Change How fast wou'd all our Disputes and Controversies Fall and Dye Then we shou'd soon behold what David pronounces so Good and Pleasant Brethren Dwelling and Worshiping GOD together in Unity and Peace And our Church below wou'd in all respects be a lively Emblem of the Church Triumphant in Heaven But farther Thirdly Our being Zealously Affected against Prophaness and Vice will if we continue and persevere in our Zeal lay a firm Foundation for a lasting Union among us because it will turn our Zeal into its true Channel and fix it upon its right Object and that is the Suppressing of known Sins and the Promoting of Piety and Virtue and Reformation of Manners It is very certain and much to be lamented that many both Members of the Establish'd Church and Dissenters also are more Zealous for their particular Opinions wherein they differ than the great things of Religion wherein they agree This is manifest from the Practice of both Thus we find that those who seem warm for the Establish'd Constitutions shall be esteem'd and valu'd by others of the same Principles tho Guilty of many Irregularities in their Lives And the Case is the very same among the Dissenters Those who are hearty for their Interests and firm to their Party shall be Caress'd and Celebrated for their Zeal tho in many things their Practices are Immoral Now of this I can assign no other Reason but that the Zeal of both Parties has been unhappily Diverted from things of the greatest to those of little importance in comparison of the other And not only so but mightily inflam'd by the Artifices of our Common Enemies It has been the constant Endeavour of those who study'd our Ruin strongly to engage us in Contentions about the Out-side of Religion and our minds were kept in such a constant ferment and hurry by these Differences that we cou'd not observe at least did not sufficiently consider it how Atheism and Infidelity Irreligion and Vice were entering in at our Breaches We were like the Unfortunate Inhabitants of Jerusalem during the last Dreadful Siege who were more Violent against one another than the Romans the avow'd Enemies of them all But now were our Zeal once Vigorously Employ'd in beating down Vice and Prophaness were our Warmth and Industry in that great Affair answerable to the moment of it then our Passions against our Brethren wou'd cool of themselves and our Resentments gradually abate and at last be quite extinguish'd Our Wounds wou'd no more Fester but Close and Heal. And we wou'd Love and Value Men not according to their Engagements to a Party but their Zeal and Concern for Virtue and Holiness and all our Endeavours we wou'd Unite against the Enemies of Religion in general the Vicious and Prophane And that our Zeal against Vice were it strong and Active as it ought to be wou'd be attended with these happy Consequences is what we will easily be convinc'd of if we consider that our Faculties are so imperfect that they cannot with any degree of Intenseness be exercis'd at once upon different Objects and that as any one of our Passions whither Love Hatred or Anger encreases towards one Object it must abate with respect to all others If our Passion is divided upon several Objects it must act weakly upon them all if confin'd to one it is Strong and Violent As Rivers whatever they gain upon the Land of one side lose proportionably of the other and if their Waters run in one Channel they are impetuous and with a mighty Torrent force their way but when separated into many Streams they glide insensibly along Now 't is easie to apply all this to the Case before us So long as we were warmly engag'd in Disputes about Modes and Ceremonies Postures and Garments us'd in Religious Worship it was not in our Power to be so Zealous against Prophaness and Vice as we ought to have been our Zeal was so exhausted by the one that we had too little to spare for the other But now that our Zeal begins to be better employ'd to turn into another and better Channel our heat about other things will by degrees wear off and a Holy Zeal against Impiety and Publick Wickedness succeed in its room And when ever by the Blessing of GOD this is happily Effected will we not be apt to look back with Wonder upon our former Disputes and Quarrels and be surpriz'd that we shou'd be Angry with one another when so many Publick Sins needed all our Zeal and Indignation and Endeavours to Suppress them Nay I am inclinable to hope that we shall resemble the Happy Lovers in Heaven that all our Peevish Mistakes shall be chang'd into Inviolable Love and Friendship into the highest degrees of Endearment and Affection And this we have no reason to despair of if we consider in the Fourth and Last place that our being Zealously Affected against Prophaness and Vice will Intitle us to the Blessing of GOD without which no Concord no Unity can be attain'd Many have wondred considering the favourable Opportunities we have often had which Invited the Establish'd Church and Dissenters to an Union considering especially how much our Interest and Common Safety call'd for it that it has not yet been Effected I will not pretend to judge where the fault lay or whence it came to pass that all endeavours hitherto us'd to Unite us have miscarry'd Only it may be in general observ'd that our want of true Zeal for GOD and Religion our great Ingratitude for the many Mercies of Heaven and that Corruption of Manners which almost universally prevail'd every where all these I say depriv'd us of the concurring Influence of Divine Providence without which all Humane means are contriv'd and apply'd in vain we wanted that because we did not deserve it Unity and Concord were too great Blessings for a People who had made such ill returns to GOD for all his other Favours But let us at last become truly Zealous for Virtue and Religion and decline no Pains to Curb those Vices which have so long Triumph'd over both let it be our constant Study so to Execute the
at the Last Day those who are Zealous for his Honour here He that Converteth a Sinner saith St. James from the errour of his way shall save a Soul from Death Ja. 5.20 and shall hide a multitude of Sins Now if he who gives a Cup of Cold Water to a Disciple shall not lose his Reward what shall his Happiness and Glory be who rescues Souls from endless Destruction secures them from Misery and Unquenchable Fire and so effectually covers Sins that Infinite Justice shall never find them out And they who turn many to Righteousness Dan. 12.3 as the Prophet tells us whether it be by Advice or Correctition or Example shall Shine as the Stars for ever and ever with a peculiar distinguishing and Eternal Brightness And shou'd not the hopes of this Infinite Reward inspire us with Holy Zeal Undaunted Resolution and Invincible Patience Make us despise both the Smiles and Frowns of Fortune and of Men the Uncharitable Censures of some and Prophane Scoffs of others Make us constant in our Endeavours against Vice as those Stars are in their Motions which we hope hereafter in Glory to Outshine And what a Joyful Surprize will it be to those Happy Souls who here have ever burn'd with Zeal and Love to find in the other World their Glories equal to their Wishes and infinitely beyond their too narrow hopes When Mansions of Peace shall be their Habitations Angels their Friends and perfect Spirits their Companions When Praise shall be their Employment and GOD himself their exceeding Great Reward And if Souls in the other World retain any knowledge of those who here have been their most Intimate Friends as I hope and believe they shall then what Transports of Love and Divine Friendship what Endearments and Gratulations shall be among those happy Spirits who have in this World been Fellow-Labourers in Advancing Reformation and Fellow-Sufferers for their Zeal against Vice How will it add to their Raptures tho almost Infinite before to relate over to one another the Difficulties they here Surmounted with all the Troubles and Calamities they suffer'd How sometimes they were Encourag'd and Supported and the good Improvement they made of it How again they were oppos'd in their good Purposes and Designs yet were not diverted from them by any Opposition How they were often expos'd to Publick Disgrace and Scorn their best Actions being foully mis-represented yet GOD supported them under these Tryals inspir'd them with a Generous Contempt of all Unjust Reflections rais'd them up unexpected Friends and bless'd their poor Labours with surprizing Successes How they were exhorted by the Ministers of Religion chearfully to go on in their Masters Service and to depend on his Word for a Glorious Reward they believ'd and they obey'd they recruited their Lamps with fresh Oyl and their Zeal continu'd Flaming Bright and Strong to the last so that nothing cou'd obscure or weaken or even resist it But that now at last they find all the Promises of GOD Graciously fulfill'd and therefore have cause to Praise him for all their Sufferings since their light Afflictions which were but for a Moment have wrought for them a far more Exceeding and Eternal Weight of Glory Methinks like Moses from Pisgah we may now take a Prospect of the Land of Bliss and see those who here us'd to meet together for Religion and Devotion for Suppressing Vice and Promoting Reformation welcoming one another into the Heavenly Regions with Joy in their Looks and Glory about their Heads and nothing to be heard but Anthems and Hallelujahs Thus my Brethren I trust in GOD it will be with you another day but seeing we are as yet in the Wilderness Let us have our Faces always directed towards the Promis'd Land Our Journey can't be long let us not be Frighten'd at the Dangers or Difficulties of the way but go on Couragiously in it and Endless Peace and Joy shall soon succeed our Toil and Labour ERRATA Page 4 line 30. read are of greater necessity p. 12. l. 27. r. Warm in their Advices p. 16. last l. r. the more they will p. 22. l. 27. r. Zealous Magistrates p. 25. l. 24. r. indispensable p. 39. l. 25. r. of their Blood rather than their Money p. 43. l. 24. r. escap'd p. 59. l. 33. leave out yet p. 60. l. 7. r. comprehend There are several Errata's in the Pointings