is speckled with the blood of Christ is yet at some of your windowes hearts and souls with an Olive brance an Embleme of peace from the God of peace and our Lord Jesus Christ to some of your souls O tast and see that the Lord is gracious blessed is the man that puts his trust in him and if you will trust in him now and at all times yea trust you in the Lord Jehovah for ever for in his arms there is everlasting strength to save you and your souls for evermore Isa. 26. 4. but if you make as the manner of you Gallants is a push of God he will make a mock and a laugh at you when you come to die and be damned so saith this Scripture Prov. 1 26. Most men say O that God were mine O that Christ were mine when they are dying and O that I might live a little longer I would never do as I have done truly some of you have lived too long already and it were to be considered whether it had not been better for some of you to have been damned ten or twenty years-ago then to be heighting up and down in Coaches still for if you will to Hell the sooner the better the greatest surfet begets the greatest feaver and the longest sinner the greatest Hell for I am of this opinion that God is to most men as they apprehend him to be and a mans Hell shall lie most in his bowels and come most from his own sins so that the more light the more sin and the more sins against light the more Hell still sayes Christ if I had not come unto them my self they had not known sin that is they had not known or committed so much sin or been guilty so farre as now they are Iohn 8. 19. Some ranting sinners will swear so lustily when they are well and speak so whiningly when they are sick spent and even dead in a Consumption and likely to go to the Devil and some Saints look so chearfully through the sense of Gods love when they are even loaded with afflictions that it would do a man good to see them I saw an old beggar with a dish on his back and a Lord with a bunch on his and two great Saints with the world in their mouths one was talking of this estate and the other of that mans estate and both of them had too much and care enough with what they had there is none so merry as fools nor any so foolish as wise men that can never tell when they have enough nor how to do good with what they have my Lord Needy and my Lord Greedy will never be good nor satisfied though they have the Devil and all and it is a strange thing that a poor man and a Saint can hardly satisfie himself in the love of God so as to look a little chearful and walk very thankful in all changes let a man sneak through the world with a patcht arse or flutter thorough with a golden traine it is much a like provided they be both damn'd for to be hang'd in halters or to be hang'd in golden chains is much alike if he must be hang'd and if you will be damn'd and go to the Devil go how you will it is all one and to one purpose but I know how poor Saints should go to Heaven and that is by singing and dancing and ever having the high praises of God in their mouths and a two edged sword of zeal in their hands to cut down all ungodly lusts and Kings in their souls Psal. 149. 8. yea to hew them in pieces for the spirit of God and the word will spare none as Samuel said to Agag 1 Sam. 15. 33. nor be at peace with the least traytor when Iesabell look'd out of the window she cryed what peace 2 Kings 9. 30. and when you look out of your Coaches with your ugly faces I cannot tell what to make of you you are so patch'd and peec'd with old taffaty and taffaty patches yet some of you young Ladies would look like little Angels almost if it were not for these sins and some ugly things that you are guilty of But to be guilty of nothing is a gallant thing and if any of you will be guilty of no sin when you come to die look to Christ while you live and live to God till you die and you shall have a better husband than any Lord of them all Strange Lords and strange lusts have ruled you hitherto Isa. 26. 13. but Christ is alwaies young and lovely yea to look to to lean on to hope in and to follow after he is altogether so and he dyed for you when he was thirty three years of age and yet lives and ever lives to make intercession for you for God sake court or think on him a little here is old courting ill condition Mrs. such an one and Mrs. such an one and she hath so many servants and so many servants and all it may be for the money and nothing but the money but Christ hath few enough and yet he is as rich as ever and will give more than ever any of you yet enjoyed for a dram of his grace is more worth than thousands of your estates who have nothing but a little dirt and a little Gold with a little lace and a little thing called Honour but Christ hath the dew of his youth and the youth of his age Psal. 110. 3. yea eternities is in his hands as well as the keyes of death and Hell or the power over Hell sin death men and Devils Revel. 1. 18. and in his hand he holds a ring a golden ring or a reconciled God yea and God holds him to the worst of you all but you have no mind to marry and be the sons of God but to be the Children of the Devil still and his you are sure enough Iohn 8. 44. When God was on the earth Moses had a great mind to see his face Exod. 33. 18. would you had so to see his Son when the Lord General came from Worcester there went many thousands to see him and when Christ shall come to England I hope to see him and more done for him than yet there is but will you love him or will you not he is altogether lovely in his names in his natures in his person in his promises yea and in his Kingdom which I hope is nearer then some men imagine Mr. Tillinghurst told us strange things in his Book called the Key to misticall Numbers the man may be right in some things and I beleeve he is twenty Shops in London have these Books of his would as many of you had Christ in your hearts and in your lives but will you marry or will you not will you marry or will you burn will you burn in Hell an hundred thousand years or will you take Christ for better or worse nay t is worse to refuse Christ than to take all
too late to get grace Matt. 23. 38. Luke 13. 26. he may go like a wretch to Hell and in Hell say would to God I were out I see the Embleme of a surety a fool leaping with his head into the great end of an Horn but being got to the little end he could not get it back how many such foolish ones are there now at Hide Park that leap into the Devils lap of sinful pleasure then into the pan of sufferings sometimes in their bodies and sometimes in their consciences and lastly into the fire of Hell I saw a brave Coach go up Ludgate-hill with a golden Arse and I saw them stand still at Saint Peters Pauls Wharfe but Saint Peter and Saint Paul were never troubled with such kind of hearers as go thereabouts Three things spoyle young Ladies marrying too soon ill edication and such kind of Parsons that preach little or nothing to any purpose let a heart be broken betimes for sin and it will be saved in time from sin death hell and eternal burnings yea Christ will love that Lady with an everlasting love that will love him when she is young and he poor and poor Christ is as poor now as ever and it is as poor a business to be a servant unto Christ as ever I knew it if a man should pluck a Bible from his pocket among some they would be ready to laugh but if a man should look into a Bible and seriously consider what will become of them it would make one weep why weeps my Lord cryed Hazael to Elisha 2 Kings 8 12. to think what evill thou shalt do And to think what some shall suffer for an hundred thousand millions of years for a moments pleasure and all your lives are no more yea the longest life of you all is but a moments time in comparison of eternity O Eternity Eternity when I think on thee how is time ages worlds swallowed up like tittle fishes by the Whales here one Generation comes whilst another goes but all moulters into Eternity like flesh to dust I truly saies my Lady but all this we never think on why then you think your selves to Hell or you go for want of thinking unto Hell but can you think your selves back a man or woman never act so beneath themselves as when they cry they did not think of it or consider of it non-consideration is the cause of most mens damnation what should the Devil mind you of Hell as he does you of your lusts sins and pleasures it were the way to loose you and spoyl his own Kinkdome I am sure God minds you Christ loves you and hath washed or would have washed you in his own blood Revel. 1. 6. and yet you mind not the faithful Ministers tell you this and every line in the Scripture tells you that unless you do beleeve unless you do repent unless you be regenerate and become new creatures in some measure you shall be damned with all the Devils in Hell as sure as God lives in Heaven Iohn 3. 3. 36. and before next May day some of you may yea it may be before next Christmas and when men are serious be not you light and vain I am upon damnation and preaching damnation to the Gallants yea and to all you careless Gallants in general that are now in Hide-Park in the midst of all your Gold and Glory bravery and brave delights of the day that ye remember the night wherein no manocan work as Christ speaks Iohn 9. 3. And therefore for all this great boasting and vyeing for the honour and glory of the day I say for all this you must come to die and to Iudgement and upon pain of damnation I tell you this yea the Lord tells you that if you still goe on to neglect so great Salvation as is freely tendered to you despising his Grace his Love and his Son and the delight of his soul our onely most and ever glorious dear and blessed Redeemer God blessed for evermore Rom. 9. 5. who hath a thousand Crowns to give unto you and a thousand pardons more than you need or ten thousand sinners greater than you were they in the world yet I say Christ stands with these Crowns and Pardons for you if a man should stand with a Rainbow round about you yea if a God should stand with a Rainbow round about you yea if a thousand Gods although there be but one should stand with a thousand Rainbows round about you all it were not half so much as a God and Christ and a God with Christ in his arms a bleeding dying living longing loving Christ for some of your Souls and although Christ would as fain have you as any in the world and as much embrace you and reward you as any in the world yet I say that notwithstanding all this if you shall despise him and think to do below as Angels once did above namely to be above God he will fling you down to Hell and the darksome holes and dens in Hell do not deceive your selves you may seek pleasures here and find ease in Hell but never find sinners may find sinners and old companions may find each other yea some of you may do so but the Devils will find you all torments while God finds wrath and you guilt yea the Devil will find power though you cannot death yea an exquisite torture to torment sinners for evermore if an ugly Collier should but breath upon you it would make you sick but if the Devil come to sit and blow upon you this will make great change for some of you young Gentlewomen that the Sun must now scarce shine on and what a Hell will this be to go from golden Coaches and beds of Downe to fiery Litters and beds in Hell to fry and roare with ugly Devils in burning flames for evermore O for Gods sake consider this all ye that neglect God or despise God and Heaven for a moments lust And if there be not a Heaven and an Hell a reall place where Angels sing and Saints rejoyce Devils roare and sinners fly yea something that is equivolent unto this in the other world burn your Bibles for a cheating Book for they have deceived me and many thousand more but if the Scriptures be a Truth and the very words of God as certainly they be they are so searching into the consciences of every man that seriously looks into them that he must needs confess this truth Heb. 4. 12. then I say I know nothing of the Scriptures if you are not much more likely to be with them that fry and cry and houle at the grates of Hell than any sinners in the world yea you and all you that do nothing but court sin and complement your time and daies away For of all sinners in the world English sinners are the worst and the least to be excused because they enjoy the most mercies means and light of any under Heaven and of all sinners
Asses braying to the most melodious musick in comparison of that But Heaven is a place of divine glories and glorious things are spoken of thee O Citie of God all manner of precious stones are fetch'd to set up thy glory O Jerusalem Jerusalem Revell 21. 19. and in the lies a Sun for every eye a Crown for every head yea a Crown that fadeth not away Crowns are the highest pitch of glory that the aspiring soul of man can work unto but the lowest shadow of divine glory Crowns and Kingdomes are but fading things yea they are now fading while the glory of Christ is rising in our Land yea in Ireland which the Devil and the Pope thought once to have had for their share but blessed shall they be who have been most instrumental to plant the Gospel there and some body here have been very much instrumental that way and many to pull down you and the Crowns of some of your families yea the Crown of these Nations all which lie in the dirt and yet you go on to sin as much as ever and never think how many was sent to the Devil in the late warre standing up for the Crown yea how many great ones were sent in a day in some great fights to wit Naseby York Newberry or Spinham land and yet these kind of Crownes are not worth contending for they are such light foolish fading things But Saints Crowns are exceeding weighty heavy and massy yea there is an eternal weight of glory that attends every Saint 2 Cor. 4. 17. An eternal weight of glory can never be poys'd or fade away but a present earthly glory every age can discover to be light and vain yea within these few daies I have discovered much my self and many vain men as David sayes which now are not and where is Mr. such an one with his brave feather and Mr. such an one with his golden back alass alass t is a thousand piâ—tles their Heaven was so short And for your stately laying out the Carcass at the last that is much more I saw the fragments of a silly Bird which a ravenous Fowl had prayed upon and all that was left by the hedge was a legg and a wing and a few loose feathers may be the Surgeon brawns up the whole body bowels and all with a great deal of beating by his huge sledges after which nasty and noysome work the Harril dresses that and a room three or four some dark and some light one within another before you come where the Body lyes in a thick sheet with a many popish Candles Candlesticks great Standards Silk and Silver Scutchions half a dozen in the nature of weepers to see who comes to stayr and some are even ready to say their prayers but the spiritual man mourns others crying they never saw the like nor shall they ever see more what 's become of the wing and the legg the life and the soul whilst death and rottenness sleeps in the feathers and is this all you call the laying in state Solomon sales vanity of vanities all is vanity and would this text was ever sounding in your eares and written in your foreheads as well as in your lives but what All doth the wise man mean questionless this and all below the Sun and that is all indeed but what 's reserved for the Saints whom you now despise and count fools and their ends to be without honour Wisdome 5. 4. O read read this text though it be Apocripha We fools counted his life madness and yet his lot is among the Saints we wearied our selves in wickedness but what hath pride profitted us and what hath vaunting and riches profitted us all is passed away like a shadow pâ—st or ship that passeth over the waves ver. 10. But their portion is above the Sun and yours below theirs where no moaths theeves or rust can come Maâ— 6 9 but at all these things they can and do come yea they will come at all your glories and there is a secret worm at the rooâ— of every glory yea your sweetest pleasures have a thousand snares envy pride malice and covetousness are alwaies eating alwaies stealing and staining earthly glories this way Nation eats up Nation and Time them again but time death grave nor eternity it self can ever fade steal or eat away the least bit of a Saints glory no no death and time puts them in and locks them safely up for that glory which eternity is alwaies opening and unfolding but for all your earthly glories they are soon opened one man and one age opens anotheâ—s glory pride and envy â—olds up that again to shew it selt but death folds up all yea all the sorrow shame and sufferings of the Saints and glories of the world yea it will fold up all your Maying and your gaying and your present glories so that that which is the outlet is the inlet both to one and the other darkness hell sin shame and sorrow is the inlet of death to such as you yea this breaks in like mighty seas upon the stroaks of death and so doth rest peace joy and glory to the Saints but what is the glory of Heaven and the Sains in Heaven may some say alass it is a question out of question or a question for eternity but this may and hath been said already God is the glory of and the Heaven of Heavens both to Saints and Angells but how much of 〈◊〉 Heaven every single Saint shall have for his share is a question never to be answered this we know a Crown shall be on every head and a Sun on every face and the least Saint shall shine as the Sun in the Kingdome of his Father Mat. 13. 43. and Christ as a Sun to all yea Christ humane shall do so and if so what shall Christ divine and the Father in the Spirit do that is the question out of question and beyond all answer the eye that made the eye the ear that made the ear the Sun that made the Sun the Heaven that made that Heaven which is called Heaven cannot be spoken to Men may look into the beamâ—s but not into the Sun it is so glorious the rayes of glory on the backs of the glorified may be looked into and spoken of but not to one thousand part as once Queen Sheba said to Solomon eye hath not seen nor ear heard that which thou O God hast prepared for them that waite for thee Isa. 64. 4. Nay it never entred into the heart of any man to conceive saith St. Paul what God hath prepared for them that fear him 1 Cor. 2. 9. O how great is that Goodness saith David But something is revealed by the Spirit yea so much that many wiser than any of you have despised with disdain and detestation all yours and this worlds glory for it and others have desired to die that they might be at it when as all as you desire to live for is onely to sin
wills that he would never come but poor men look hard and poor Saints pray hard Come Lord Iesus Revel. 22. 21. Make hast O my beloved saith the Spouse Canticles 8. 14. And saith David If I had the wings of a Dove I would fly away and meet thee O thou whom my soul loveth Psalms 55. 6. But yet I am constrained to dwell in mesheck among wicked men and devils that flutter up and down in Coaches some and in poore attire others but these golden Sparks whose eyes start out with lust and fatness in their slippery parts from whence they go down to Hell in a moment Psal. 9. 19. These are they that fill the World and defile the World by their examples they rule the Rost while the Saints turn the Spit and Christ will turn them and the tide too And then sneak Mr. Roundhead and poor Mr. Goodman with Conscience and Honest the true Man with thousands of Beleevers more will have a brave day in the after part of the Worlds day after some is good manners and after your Crispin pins Hoods Scarfes Vales fine Linnen Jewels Chains and Bracelets are all pull'd off as Isaiah speaketh Chap. 3. 17. O Ladies read this Prophesie and see if it may not reach some of you ye point at that very condition which ye shall then be in when God shall come to undress you by death and sickness which certainly he will erre long do yea he will strip you to your skins and leave noâ—hing but sin guilt shame misery and baldness on you whilest he cloaths his servants as it were with Suns and Starres this will be a brave change and saith Iohn this change we all look for 1 Iohn 3. 2. and it is good to look forwards and backwards too sometimes Do not tell me what I was but what I am saies some but it is good to consider what we were what we are and what we shall be I was conceived in sin saith David Psal. 51. And I a little spawn or lust in the loynes of Mr. Such an one saith another still I am a shaddow and an empty one and so are most of you Gallants at the Park you know not what you would have or should have you know not what to do yea you know not how to spend one day as you should but are troubled and fain to send one to another what shall we do where shall we go pray present my service to Mrs. such an one and Mrs. such an one and tell her that I am even sick untill I go abroad but my Lady takes Physick and the Devils go a Cat baiting when they get one of them if a poor man be damned the Devil is very glad but if a Dives be the Devils they cry one to another make hast make hast great Orlando is coming great Orlando is coming and truly when your great ungodly Lords and Ladies come near to their confines the Devils run and tumble yea they scramble for a wanton young and silken bit But I remember about twenty years agoe I saw a Puppit play called the Chaios or Creation of the world but the ugly Devils made such hayling and hissing about the Lord Dives with their stub feet and their short tales that I was affrighted at the heart however there was two or three peales and the ringers they were very merry and if a man were to be hanged some would be so but to see them that are likely to be damned go singing up and down the stairs with their silk and silver Clappers pit pat yea in the streets and Coaches sometimes and never think nothing is a very sad thing but few of these can play at have at all and yet teey'le leap from all in a moment can you sing leap soul farewell world have at all O Christ I come I come I come to thee for I know that my Redeemer lives and I shall see him with these eyes Iob 19. 25. But this posting for the Doctors argues fear and this continual heighting up and down guilt yea fear guilt sin and you alwaies lye together and whil'st the Lord lies in the Ladies bed the Devil lies in both their souls many times but t is a thousand pitties any sweet young and lovely good conditioned Lady should be ever bedded with the Devill yet many times some sell as sweet conditioned Children to him for a little Money and Honour as any are in the World I know the Lord Such an one hath a Daughter that he will give ten twenty thirty forty thousand pounds with truly one is to much with such a man though he be of great blood good blood is better than great and a good man is better than a heathen that knowes not God nor the Devil a good man with a bad woman is in a bad case but a good woman with a bad man is in the Devils Pound but how came you there my Father cries the poor Lady and my old Aunt would have it so yea and it may be you your self were too forward some mad Scabbs run away with a mad Rogue and that is like to like somesing and see never a merry day others cry and know not what to say when they are to be married but they that are put into such a Pound or into the Devils Pallace are very miserable slaves to other mens lusts though they have much money at command yet some have scarce enough to pay a poor debt when once married and others spends so much that the poor husband fells all while she playes all and scarce payes in six moneths or seven years sometimes when poor honest men pay according to their words and Tradesmen in three six or nine moneths time But Unbeleevers pay for all when they come to dye and that is soon enough to pay for the sweetest pleasures in the World if our lives be but a vapour as they are Iam. 1. 11. But their misery is they are ever paying and yet can never pay all though they lye in fiery burning flames for millions millions and millions of years as that young man an Apothecary once said O consider this all yee that forget God and what if some of you should come to pay so dear for your Maying and your gaying up and down would it not be very sad a man may better pay some debts in a week than he can for some sins in an hundred thousand years but of all sins of a kind great mens sins are the greatest a great Tree gives a great swap when he falls and a great man makes a great spudder at his Funeral but Lord whither doth that man fall that falls from room to room from the Coach to the Chamber from the Chamber to the Bed from the Bed to the Floore from the Foore to the Coffin from the Coffin to Worms and from the Wormes to the Devils at the last day in the mean time the soul is there while the body is lugging down the staires when a