242 VireEiionsforgetting and keeping is to deal plainly, and not to'plea'e men in evil upon pain ofChrifts difpleafure ; you may perhaps turn your great friends to be yóur great enemies. Go to fuch a Lord, or filch a Knight, or fuch a Gentle- man, and tell him freely, that-God looketh for ano- ther manner offpendinghis time then in hunting and hawking,& fporting and feaf"cing and that this preci. ous time muff be dearly reckoned for Tell him, that God looks he fhould be the molt eminent in holinefs, and in a Heavenly life,and give an example thereofto all that arebelow him, as (3od bath made him more eminent in worldlydignity and poffeflions. Tell him;' thet wheremuch is given, much is required; and that a low profefsion, and dull approbation ofthat which is good, will fervenoman, much lefsfuch a man. Tell him, that his Riches mull; be expended to feed and cloath the poor, and promote good ufes, and not meerly for himfelf and family, or elfe he will make but a fad account : and that he mull freely, engage hisreputation, eftateand life, and all for Chrift and his Gofpel, when he calls you to it; yea and förfake all for him,ifChrift put him to it,or elfe he can be no Difciple ofChrifts : and then what good will his Honours and Riches do him when his foul íhall be called for ? Try this courfe with Great men, yea with Great men that feem Religious, and that no further then faithfulnefs and compafsion to mens fouls cloth bind you, and do it with all thewifdom you can, that is not carnal ; and then tell me what it cloth coft you. Let thofe Minifters that arc near them, plainly and roundly tell both the Parliament- men, and Commanders of theArmy, of their un- queftionable tranfgrefsions, and that according to their
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