14 Treatie of the Affections, long to fir all that ye know. Ye can hear this every time ye , simcnider Church, and yet no reformation no Phew of humil á on, no Phew of grace nor repentance nor any thing. I apuilRrh 7,4 tt 2.tf -to vidl,s Spnvncre+; what weeping Siwonides can weep Enlced fufficiently for thefe things? Paul knowing fome abufes a- mong the Corinthians, that many of them were like to be damned for ever, out of much affliction and anguifh of heart, fayes he, I Wr ote unto you with many tears, 2Cor.3.4. pene quotfydabas, tot lacrymas, as Ilaywofpeaks, that is, he .Haymo. flied as many tears as he wrote fyllables, he could hardly write for wetting the paper with tears which he wrote on. O that we who are Gods Minifters could be fo offered I the Lord lay it not to our charge that we are not : but O that Jcr. 9.1. our heads were water, and our eyes were a fonntain of tears, that we might weep day and night for thefe things. Ye think your fouls are fafe, alas I the know they are de- fperate. We know that your drunkenneffe will damn you, and your (wearing and lying and company- keeping will undoe you. We know your pride and your hardneffe of heart are fymptomes and infallible marks of fuch as are yet no better then reprobates. Ye hope your crying God mer- cies will help you, we know they cannot. Ye hope that Gods mercies will relieve, we know they will not, unleffe ye be new creatures. Ye truft God will not be fo ftri 1 as we fay, we know he will. Ye imagine ye are not led by the devil, though ye fin thus and thus, we know ye be, and the devil the God of this world rules in your mindes and your confciences. Neither are ye able, unlefs ye be Atheifts and devils incarnate, to deny God to be God, and his Scri- pture to be Scripture, ye are not able to deny it. O that we would filth, and fob, and groan in our pulpits. O that we could even wet our cufhions with tears, and yearn over your fouls as we preach; I befeech you confider, will you never beleeve nor be affefted till ye feel it ? Lord, When thy hand is lifted up they Will not fee, but they (ball fee and be afha- rued, and the fire 'ball devour them, Ifa. 26.1 I, I proteft unto
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