I Am informed, fine Mrs. Dust, Madam Spot, and my Lady Paint, are to meet at Hide-Park this afternoon; much of pride will be there: If you please to take an Hackney, I shall wait upon your Honour in a private way: But pray let us not be seen among the foolish ones, that ride round, round, wheeling of their Coaches about and about, laying of the naked breast, n [...]ck and shoulders over the boot, with Lemon and a Fan, shaking it at young Mrs. Poppet, crying, Madam, Your most humble Servant, your very humble servant sweet Ma­dam, while some are doing worse. Young Sir William Spruce, Monsieur Flash, & the Lord Gallant, will be all on horseback: [Page 4] Mr. Belt, and Mr. Feather. Mr. New Exchange & Mr. Old, will be there: Sir Thomas Cavy is poor and ashamed to come, some of the name will be there, and some Commanders of the Army, but the Ladies hate then generally: Mrs. Come-up, Mrs. Totherday, and Ioan hold my Staff, they cannot abide nei­ther, nor indeed any of the new Gently, which I hope God wil keep from their vanities, Pride, Covetousness and Hypocri­sie; Mrs. Contempt and Mrs. Envy will be there Mrs Luxury, Mrs. Wanton, Mrs. Faith and troth, Mrs. Hop about, Mrs. Never pray, and Mrs Never go, Mr. Church, and Mr. Careless, wil be all in a Coath together; Sin, Guilt, and a little, Content wil be with them, Time and Vanity swiftly driving them away, as upon the wings of the mighty wind, but Death, Hell and Eternity follow after. Rev. 6. 8. After the black Horse, and the pale Horse, death and hell follows, & a cursing of the Ministers, who are apt to dine with them, speak to them, and yet wink at them: Martins, Pauls, Covent Garden, this is a judgement of God, and the greater, because so little minded.

Madam, I had rather beg my bread from door to door, then be in the case of some of these Ladies, which are as beauti­full as Angels, but more miserable and poysonous than Toads. Let me live with one of them under a stone, and die with a dog in a ditch, [...]ather then in a golden bed in one of their conditi­ons.

And your vain Roysters are as bid: young Gallants that are sporting and courting these dancing shadows at the brinks of hell: and are ever studying how to please their lusts, and their lmps, one way or another, which they are ever waiting on; they think there is no heaven, but if there be, and a hell too, What will become of them? I had rather fear the worst, the best will help it self: But if they go to that, farewell Hide-Park, May day, and pleasures too. The Fishes never get up, that once fall down into the dead Sea, called Mare mortuum; the River Nilus carrieth them thither, but fetcheth not them back: Pleasures carry thousands, but sorrow fetcheth none, from the dead Sea, and the deadly Lake, where streames of brimstone ever run over and over their heads, hearts and souls, that fall into that. [Page 5] Tophet is prepared of old, yea for the King; that is the greatest▪ and the breath of the Lord like a Stream of brimstone kindles it, Isa. 30. 33. I know many will not mind this, and Mrs. Bu­sie is putting on her gown, but I would she would put on Christ and his righteousnesse. Rev. 6. 18. Buy of me glod, sayes he, that than may the rich, and white rayment, that thou may the cloathed, that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear. This rayment I had rather have, than a skin to cover my bones, naked soules are more common and miserable than naked bodies a thousand times, but not half so much pitied by the world; some had rather be dead than not in the fashi­on, and cloathes to put on, on such a day as this; others ra­ther buried alive, than want Christ, and the righteouness of Christ. Run to my Taylor, bring them done or undone cryes Mrs. Would be gone; fetch my green petticote and my white sattin mantle, my Lady Impatience stayes for me; yea; and some body else too, and will have you when you take your short journey, if you have not Christ to go a long with you to your long home, and you may chance quickly to be there as well as at the Park: what is your life but a vapour or a shadow sayes Iames, ch. 4. v. 24. Some Ladyes get the Pox, and die with a fear, others get a Cold and die with a Feaver, few live long that do not die soon, eternall life is the fruit of a short living unto Christ, and eternall death is the wages of an old sinner, the wages of sin is death, Rom. 6. 23. Yea, of all sinners that have not Christ, and the righteouness of Christ; for curs­ed is every one that continueth nor to doe all that is written in the Law▪ Gal. 3. 12.

Madam, some are of the opinion that no unsanctified La­dies shall go to heaven, nor no ungodly Lords go to hell, providing they beleeve and repent; but if they do not so, and be throughly washed in Iudah's Fountain, Zic. 13. 1. the fountain which God hath set open for sin and uncleanness; both Lords and Ladies too shall be eternally damned, and thrown into the midst of slames, hell and divels: Lords and Ladies, have more reason to be damned than poore people a thousand times, for where much is given, much will be re­quired, Matt. 25. 30. they sin more, and draw more to sin, [Page 6] and yet may best serve God, besides they are many of them the very factors and purveyors of hell; a great road leads to a great Town, and a great man to a great devill: some goes to the bridge foot to drinke wine, and others to the devills mouth in following them, they ride on poor mens backs, and devils ride on theirs, the Prince of the Air that now rules in them; Ephes. 2. 2. yea, both are carried somtime in close Sedan, but to day they are more open; doe not you see the Lord of Kill Chicken, and the Lady Be graceless, one eats both full of sin and good creatures; it is pity mountain Larks should feed such Swine, Kites are too good for them that doe nothing but eat, drink, and put it out; some study Musick, Doctors kill many, but a good book never hurts; O Timothy, give thy self to reading, saith Paul, but many go to hell a pick-pack, more through the dirt and cares of the world, for that brings death, yea, double death often. I had rather fast, then least where there is nothing but chit-chat, sin and my Lady Complement; but the masking is a wicked thing, where the woman comes in mans habit, like the De­vill to a Witch, the Imps hire is the soul: The Lady gives her Hector mony, he hath his pleasure, the other hath the soul, all loose that for a moments lust, which is more worth than a thousand worlds, Matt. 16. 26. If a man be worth five hundred pound a year, and spend it in racing, he shall go on foot, and young Mr. Fool that doth the like in Coaching, this and that and t'other Mr. Sucker, who hath nothing but a bold face, and a trusted suit, with a lime-twig in his lips; let hangers on be sh [...]ken off, and the old customes of the world, it is no hurt to keep Christmas, so you do not eat too much, sin, forget Christ, play, and do no good, though it be the de­vils term; and this May-day may be kept also, if it be for the air and pleasures of the fields, which are fruitful, green and lovely: but most a Hide-Park die upwards, in the face is beauty, fine clothes an green leaves are on the back, knots and bl [...]ssomes on the h [...]ad, j [...]wels in the ear, thousands in the p [...]cket, and yet they die upw [...]rds, the soul is dead, the heart is dead, a [...]d the body is little better, Eph. 2. 1. dead in sins and trespasses.

[Page 7] I saw a Beggar put into an open Coffin, with an abun­dance of Bay leaves, Rosemary, sweet Bryar, and Flowers, who was a drunken rogue, and his wife worse, yet she cried at the putting of him in, (O Christ) my dear heart; The Surgeon wraps up some in a Sear-cloth, for which many mourn, but not one of a thousand mindes where the soul is, when the body is in a green bag: the Lord of Rack-tenant had sixteen great lights, silver Candlesticks, a velvet foot-cloath, three mourning women, and a many taffity scutchins about his Lady, but their sins were these, they were devil­lish hard, miserable to their servants, and worse to their tenants, proud and discontented at the tax, but their great sin was unbelief, and yet they heard much: I had rather be guilty of many sins, than some one sin, espeically of that of unbelief, which damnes thousands, John. 3. 35. some will not believe a wise man, others, a friend, nor the wife the husband, if she be a little jealous, but one of five hundred, I think, do not believe there is a Christ, or at leastwise live to Christ, amongst your Gallants, which come to nought. 1 Cor. 2. 6. And if a man doth not really beleive in Christ, and in some mea­sure live to Chirst, he can never be saved by Christ, John. 3. 3.

But that man that is damned takes little pleasure when the devils tells him, there was such a Coach, and such a Coach, so many six Horses, and so many mourners, and but two or three rejoycers among them all, little legacies were straight forgot, to morrow is a new day, and the pleasures of this is gone already: The Lady Be weary is going, Mrs. More­delight is gone to spring Garden, Mrs. Vnsatisfied is coming back again, but the Lady Rack-tenant comes no more, nor any from the dead; If one could come out of hell, that here­tofore used Hide Park, but that cannot be, Luke 16. 26. would they hear what he would say? I believe no, If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, and they that speak by the same spirit, they will not hear him, verse 29. besides, such an one will scarce come there, nor to Mrs. Wantons Chamber neither, where there is nothing but four or five naked Pict­tures, a Song book, a Play book, a Lute, a History, two or three [Page 8] great Looking-glasses, a jackalattostick, and a Mystery in a little pot, namely, a face, to put on or off, a fair for a foul, a smooth for a wrinckled.

Madam, your name is Consideration, and what do you think of these things? are these books for Christians, that hope to be saved by poor crucified Christ? and the bulk of them you see in day, scarce have, o [...] read any other, truly they are the glory of the Nation in one or or two respect, to wit, in beauty, b [...]avery and riches, bu [...] the shame of Christia­nity in pride, ignorance, and wantonness; one inviable Angel would put them down all in beauty and glory, Christ hath millions to attend him, Heb. 1. 6. this Christ they despise, yea loath in his wayes and members, and yet pretend to own, and at somtimes will say and swear, they hope to be saved by him; that they may be, if they take a new course, but if they miss of it, they shall certainly burn as many thousand years in hell, as there be speres of grass in Hide-Park so saith Christ, Mat. 25. 41. 'Tis pity, Beauty and such fine Virgins, as some there be, should ever come to be imbrac­ed by ugly devils, and that they should be both tormented to­gether in one and the same place, as they must, Vers. 42. here one room is for the Lady, and another for the Lord, scarce is there one for such and such a poor Christian servant, at least in their families; yea, if he be a strict one, he is hated and loathed exceedingly; but God shall make a separation, an eternal separation, for one shall eternally be saved, and the other eternally damned, Mal. 4. 1. 2, Pray Madam, read this little Chapter and the former, and then see there what will become of most of you, not for being rich, not for being beautifull, not for being brave, not for being honora­ble, but for being fools, graceless and Christless, living in pleasure all your dayes, minding nothing but that, and all that do so are dead while they live, 1 Tim. 1. 5, 0. The woman that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives: in the mean time, every dead mans eyes is not closed, nor every dead body stretched out; they that live and delight in sin have their eyes to close, and their dead bodies to stretch out, friends will do that one day, and God another day will call [Page 9] call them to an account what they did, what they saw, and what they said in Hide-Park, and why they went so often there; what, every afternoon? and never to the Closer, crying, Lord, What am I? What do I? Why came I? Whither goe I? Lord, I am but a poor little gnat, worm, or a vain shadow, Psal. 39. 6. and we all do fly about like so many butter fties; there is more glory and variety of beauty in the weeds of one Corn field; yea, in a little Dasie, than in one of us, Luk. 12. 27. But why came I, Lord, why came I into this world? was it to play, sport, court and complement my soul away? or was it to mind, love, fear, serve, own and honour thee? Dost thou give me being, beauty, riches, out­ward honour, glory & esteem among men, to be a She-witch, snare and divell to the souls of men, drawing them off from thee; or should I be as an Angel, owning and honouring thee as the Son of all joy, life and fountain of all glory, the first & last, & only being of all beings, that nihilates the creatures, & disposeth of them how, where, and when thou pleaseth, for light life and glory, or wrath, hel & darkness, & that in a mo­ment, & this moment Lord, thou mayst & dost dispose of some poor creature, in some place or other, to his unchangeable condition, yea and this moment thou mayst say, Lords and Ladies come to judgement, you must be no longer ranting, sporting, coaching up and downe, but come away to judge­ment, however Lord, if not now, I must ere long, the end of al things is at hand, 1 Pet. 47. the Sun is setting, the glory going, and all the company from the Park, and this May-day will come no more, nor we nor they from the grave which are once there; let this be my last to the love, to the life of sin, and delights of this world, and let me take my leave; fare­wel, farewel Ladies, Lords, farewel pleasures of the day, I shal never see you more, fields no more, nor hedges, Sun Moon nor Stars, Saints nor Sinners, Churches nor Stages, Houses of Prayer, or Houses of Sin; yea, nothing more that I now see shall I ever see again, in the way, in the manner, in the state and condition that I now see, I shall never see more. O Christ, where am I? Oh Christ, what do I here? help me to be up and looking, help me, to be up and doing something [Page 10] for eternity; yea, for my soul, and the glory of thy name, before I go hence and be seen no more. Oh Christ, if it must be now or never, that I must believe, that I must repent and live unto thee, let me do it, and seeing that the night comes, when no man can work, Joh. 9 4. let me go home and set about the work in good earnest, and in thy strength, Oh Christ, or else it will come to nothing: I cannot believe, I cannot repent, lead a strict life, and be crucified in any mea­sure to these present thing [...], pleasures and delights, and yet thy word pronounceth woe upon woe against me, and such as I am, Woe to them that live at case in Sion, that chaunt to the musick Amos 6, 1, 4, 5. that stretch themselvs upon beds of ivorie, and feed upon the fat of lambs, go to you rich men, weep and howle for your misery, James 5. 1, 2. and woe unto you saith Christ, Luk. 6. 24. & woe unto you that be full, for ye shall be hungry; and woe unto you that laugh and rejoyce, for ye shall weep and howl, vers. 25. and woe to you when all men shall speak wel of you, smooth & flatter you, which too many do when they should pluck you by the hair as brands out of hell.

But Madam, all these woes and judgements must and will come upon this generation of Creatures, whose skins are as full of the sins of Sodom, ignorance, pride luxury and wanton­ness, as a Taber is with wind; and sor those damning pleasures which now they so eagerly pursue, they will be gone like a flash of lightning, yea, they are gone already upon the matter, the sable clouds & curtains of the night wraps up the glories of the day; yea, it hath done so, sin and drakness doth the soul of man in greater, the sweetest musick leaves but sadnes in the mind of man, the sweetest injoyments of the world do the like; yea, the more delights, pleasure, and injoyments here, the more hell in hell to all eternity: who would sell his soul for pleasure? who would sell his soul for profit? yea, if it were to gain the whole world, what would it profit? saith Christ, Luk. 16. 26.

O ye Nobles of England, Lords and Ladies and others, do ye indeed think upon this te [...]t, or do ye think there is a God, a soul in you, a heaven or hell for that to go into and dwell for evermore? these things that are, could never be, if there were [Page 11] not a God; and if there be (as certainly there is) he will call you of all the whole Creation to a strict account, you that drink the sweet, and seed upon the choice of all the Creatures among the Fish, and Fowl; you that drink down golden bolls of Nectar at your costly banquets; you that cloath your selves in Silk, and Sattin, and golden cloath of Tussue, and often ride on poor mens backs as well as in your golden Coaches; you that say, like the Harlot, we will take our fill of love, our fill of pleasure, crying, Away, away to the Woods, and to the Groves, to the Fields, to the Parks and places where the No­bles are, and let us hear the Nightingale, I and the death,-watch too I pray.

Oh Madam, when all is done the bell must toll, and you must dance to deaths pipe, who are now singing like to so many she Nightingales, your new inchanting tunes and S [...] ­rlan songs, and have thousands to bow and cryinge to you, though you be as the leprous houses to be pulled down, Le­vit. 14. 40 But remember the golden boll was in Belshazzer's hand, his Nobles round about him, then the judgement came, Mene mene Tokel, Daniel 5. 5. this night shall thy soul be taken from thee saies Christ, Luke 12. 20. and some have been taken from the Park to the bed, from thence to the judgement, be­fore a few dayes have been expired.

O ye sinning and sinfull fading floures of England, consider what is said, and dedicated to you in a serious way, one sheet shall winde you up, let another or two convince you: had I wrote more, your leisure not your pleasure would have per­used them, but this I hope it will, yea, take it and peruse it well, and although at first I might a little seem to be light, yet my aim was and my closure shall be very serious, as from the Lord, who I think inclined me to it.

And let me tell you, that if you, or some of you shall read this, and then go to hell after for fleighting this, and former better counsels, it will little advantage to weep and say, Oh that I were out of these internall and externall flames; Oh that I had hearkened when time was to Christ and that the sweet and silver voyce of the Turtle and the Gospel might a­gain once more yet be heard: the groans and sighs of dying [Page 12] Lords and Ladies are many times very sad and dolorous, but the groans, sighs and tears of a damned creature can never be immagined. I have heard of a Gentelewoman in Northampt­on-shire, that was burnt for poysoning her husband, her skreeks by some could never be forgotten they were so loud, so shril, and to here the shrils, skreeks and cries of one damned soul is a hell in hell beyond all imagination; and were there no other hell than this, for one sinner to hear the skreeking of another, no man nor Angel could express it.

O ye that now sing one unto another, and cause the woods to eccho to your melodious sweet and pleasant voyces, take heed, and again take heed ye be not one day lest to weep over one anothers backs in the flames of hell; certainly whole Coachfuls of you will go there, one foot and one wheel is in already, and none c [...]ies out, the other will be there also, if the Lord Jesus be not infinitely mercifull unto you, in the forgiving of your sins, and changing of your hearts, deceive not your selves, with v [...]in thoughts and sanciers, what you sow you certainly shall reap, if you sow to the flesh you shall of the flesh reap corruption; yea, if this be all, thousands of you so (as I doubt it is) know when the harvest is ripe, I mean, you and your sins, then shall God thrust the sickle of death in­to your sides, his wrath into your soule, and bundle you up for hell for ever, Ioel 3. 13. Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground saith Christ, and who can dwell with everlasting burnings, saith the Prophet, Isaiah 33. 14. And who shall dwell in thine holy hill? saith David, the man that is so and so, Psalm 15. 1. But you that are so and so prophane, to sport, and court, and pin and paint your time away, not at all mind­ing that God, that hath made you little Gods in respect of others, for your birth, beauty, riches, honour and esteem a­mongst men, know that God shall make you die like men, and perish like one of the Princes of Horeb, Psal 82 [...]. To perish in prison is nothing, to perish on a dunghil is nothing, to perish at a rich mans door is nothing, Lazarus so did for want of crumbs, whilst Dives perished in his stately bed, for want of Christ, with golden hangings round about him, Luke 16. 22.

[Page 13] O you Gallants of the times, and Princes of this world, that have hangings upon hangings, yea golden hangings and Coaches too, which we grudge you not, you pay enough to slutter up and down the world withall, but know if you have not Christ, you will perish in your beds of down, and all your Doctors and pearled Cordials will nor cannot save you, and if you perish for want of Christ, you perish with a vengeance.

O Christ, let me beg my bread here with Lazazus, and not my water hereafter; the air is sweet, the Woods and Parks are so too, but Christ is more sweet than all thing or th [...]ngs, and if he be not so to you, you shall one day want this air; yea, you shall have no other air to breath in, but hell shall be your air, and hell shall be your fire, and itell shall be your bed, devils your companions, yea, they shall lie upon you, with you, by you, ever dragging and tormenting of you, from one place to another: It is storied, that Dido's ghost torment­ed Aeneas Prince of Troy, ghost, devils, damned Spirits, and all the cursed furious Fiends of hell shall drag you up & down in the flames of hell; yea, you shall drag one the other, curse and spit one at the other, who are now playing one with the others bosome, locks and lips, companions in sin, com­panions in hell: yea, I think that is very near the meaning, where it is said, the Satyr, the screech Owl, the Cormorant and Dragon shall call for their mates, Isaiah 34. 14. 15. sinners shall call for their mates, read that chapter, and one sinner for another, some will curse and call for their Whore when they are dying, others for their gold, every one minds that which heretofore he most delighted in; yet some will send for an honest man, let him come and pray, and oh that I might die the death of the rihteous, and that my last end might be like unto his, Numb. 23. 10. but sinners in hell shall call for their mates, not to [...]e [...]l them stories from a play book, nor to sing some new delightfull Tunes and Songs, called such a Rant, and such a Rant, but to tell of their misfortunes, and such misfortunes wh [...]ch can never be recovered.

Oh sayes one, I have lost the heaven of heavens and the heavens of my God for a few vain delights, which were more transient then thoughts, never in any measure soul-satisfying: [Page 14] And I also, saith another, have lost the joyes of these heavens and the favour of my God, for the savour of my Mistress such an one, this or that Lady, whose vain love and pleasure I more delighted in, than in the love and pleasure of God, whose pleasures are pleasures for evermore, but mine are gone in a moment, yet I never got the savour I so unhappily sought, yet it may be, sought a duell for, but I have lost the favour of God, as Wolsey once dying said, to please my Prince. Oh un­happy man, oh, unhappy soul that looseth all for a moments lust; well may it be said, ill tide the time, and cursed be the day that ever thou wast born.

And Oh that you now, would timely fancy those unhappy soul-peircing relations, poor unhappy sinners, make one unto the other, whilest others curse, tear and spit one at the other, whose damnations were furthered by each other; for as cer­tainly as one man may be instrumentally to farther the salva­tion one of another, so sinners may be under, the devill, the next and chief meanes of damning one the other, and these ex­cessive pleasures, wherein you now so abundantly abound, to the spending and consuming away almost all your pretions time, will cause the damnation of many; and then they that made first to them, most prest and cryed, Away, away to the Park, to the Tavern, to the Ball, to the Masque, to the musick-house, to the Groves, to the Gardens and delights of the world, will certainly be found the greatest enemies to your soules, next to the devill and your own hearts lusts; yea, lust and long for day, and when it comes, you long for night and the courtings of the chamber, and then you long again for day, the sports and pleasures of the day, so that night and day ye are unsatisfied, and think you have never enough of soul-deceiving pleasures, yet a little of the world will content a gracions heart; give me food and rayment, and thou shalt be my God, sayes Iacob, though a young and lovely man; give me pleasures, give me sports, give me the glories of the world, and let me swim and tumble night and day in these streames and oceans of delights say you, let me have my fill and full of love, of lust, of wine and women, musick, chambering and wantonness, and it sufficeth:

[Page 15] O Christians, are these your wishings; I would you were but almost christians, or rather altogether so as Paul once said to King Agrippa, Act. 26. 28. yea, I would to God you were so, but truly for the present, call your selves what you will, I judge you little better then heathen that know not God, nay worse a thousand times in many things, your condem­nation will be greater, Mat 11. 21. And woe unto you, as Christ sayes, for if cursed be al the familes of the earth, which call not upon him. Jer. 10. 25. what will then become of you, who never call nor think upon him, unless it be to blaspheme and dishonour him? Truly, if Christ be the Son of God, as certainly he is, he can never own you, who are so unlike to him for the present: Be ye holy, for I am holy (saith the Lord, and) without holinesse no man shall ever see the face of God, Heb. 12. 14.

Oh minde that and this Text, I and my farther are one, saith Christ, and must not all his members be in some measure like him, this likeness is not wrought in an hour, but by the continuall working of the holy Spirit, which is called the Sunctifier of them that beleive, and if you beleive in Christ, or hope to be saved by Christ, do you think it shall be with­out any work of sanctification, or change in your hearts; truly, if you think so, you think amiss, and are the most deceived of any in world; 'tis true, works shall save none, nor in any measure contribute to the saving of any, the Lord Jesus Christ is and will be all [...] that particular; yea, he is all in all in point of Justification, Sanctification and Glorification; and if he do not thoroughly justifie you, and in some measure sanctifie you, he will [...] you, and yet if he save you, it shall not he for work [...] works, for not unto him that worketh is the promise, [...] him that believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, Psal. 32▪ 2. Rom 4 5. two golden texts, for mark the expression, I am sure you are ungodly, an I am sure you may be easily saved; yea, you [...] great ones that never minded salvation all your dayes, may be saved, if you will look unto him who is God alone, Isaiah 35. 21. but will you, will you look to him 'tis but looking and be saved from the wrath to come, 1 Thess. 1. 10. for all other salvations, [Page 16] though never so great, are nothing; but will you be saved from being shut out of the new Ierusalem, with dogs, sor­cerers, whoremongers and liars, Revel. 22. 15. And from being cast out with the children of this kingdome, Luke 13 27. whose pleasures, joyes and glories are in the things of this life, never minding that kingdome, where Abraham, Isaac and Iacob are: I say, will you be saved from being so cast out into utter darkness, where shall be wailing, weeping and gnashing of teeth for evermore, Verse 29

Oh would you escape all this, and stand in the evil day, when they shall sting their gold and their silver to the moles and to the bats, Isaiah. 2. 20. the day wherein sinners shall move out of their holes like Worms, Mich. 7. 17. and lick the dust like Serpents, the day wherein many shall run with Kings and Captains, and mighty men, to the rocks, and to the hills and mountains, crying, Fall onus, and hide us from the presence of the Lamb, Revelation 6. 15, 16. for the day of his sierce wrath is come.

I say, if you would escape all these things, which the Lord Jesus grant you may, consider a little how vain those plea­sures are that you pursue, how great that salvation is, that you neglect, Heb. 2, 3. How free, how full, how easie to be had; it stands at your dores, it waits upon you, it cries after you, Hear, hear, and your souls shall live, Isa. 55. 99. I will make an everlasting Covenant with you saith the Lord, even the sure merices of David, your sins and your iniqui [...]es I will remember no more; and though they have been as red as scarlet, I will make them as white as wool: your pride, your glory, and your boasting is a thing of nought; yea, your stout words against me, wherein you say, It is in vain to serve me, Mal. 3. 13. And what profit will it be so to do, calling proud ones and they that contemn me happy, when as the day cometh that shall burn as an even, and all they that do wickedly, and all the un­godly of the earth shall be burnt up, saith the Lord of Hosts, and it shall leave them neither root nor branch, for the wicked shall be as stubble, and the day that comes shall burn them up, Malac. 4. 1. and all the wicked shall go down to hell for ever, Psal. 9. 17. and all that forget God.

[Page 17] Oh you that do so, hear and hearken unto the voyce of God; yea, hear his voyce to day, to morrow is another day and you know not whose it may be; to day if you will, har­den not your hearts, as in the day of provocation, this day is salvation tendered to you, if you will accept it, do not say, to morrow, do not say, we will have none of this salvation which Christ and all the Prophets of Christ yet tender unto you, and abuse not that rich and free-grace, which brings and tenders salvation to all men, but to you especially; nor in­treat him to be gone out of your course and companies, as once those unkind and churlish Gadarens did, Mark 5. 16. pre­ferring their swine before Christ the Lord of life and glory, who only hath immortallity dwelling in himself, and dwelleth in that light which is unaccessible, the onely Prince and Potentate, who shall be revealed in due time, 2 Tim 6. 14, 15. In the mean time, charge them that be rich to be rich in good works, and prefer not every lust, rattle, toy and baby, before the Lord of life and glory, who hath the keys of death and hell in his hand, Revel. 1. 18. an absolute power over you Saints, Angels, Men and Devils, to dispose of you and them all as he pleaseth, either for light, life, and glory, or wrath hell, and darkness, Phil. 2. 10. Why should this Lord of Lords and Ladies too, Revel. 16. 19. be set at nought, who hath a name written on his thigh, the King of Kings, & Lord of Lords; & though his Kingdome be not of this world, yet his Kingdom shall break in pieces all the Kingdomes of this world, Dan. 2. 44. 7 9. And they that will not kiss this enlightening Son, shall be broken with an iron rod, Psalm. 2 9.

Be wise O ye Lords and Ladies of England, and kiss with a kiss of obedience, subjection and affection, this Son and Son of Sons, Angells are the Son of this Son, which now we do behold, and Christ who is fairer than the Children of men, is the Son of Saints and Angels too, shall he be yours, O ye Stars of England, & glory of our Nation in a common sense, shall he be your Sun, and shall he rise this night with healing in his wings on some of your soules, who are as black as the nether Hell, notwithstanding all your outward lustre. Oh let him arise there now, the Sun and glory of the world is setting, if he shall let him, his wings are the wings of true affection, [Page 18] his wings are the wings of safe protection, who shall harm if God be (and he will be) with you, he will and shall keep you in life, death and eternity, in the hour of temptation, yea, in that hour when all those whose souls are built upon the sands of common Christanity, much more of vain delight, shall come tumbling down with a vengeance, when the winds, and the rain, and the storms of conscience come with Hell, death and a thousand despairs at their heels. But that they may never come, shroud your selves under those wings that wil now imbrace you, and let the everlasting armes of mercy fold you up in the bosome of divine love, joyes and sweetness, and that it may so do, stand open, yea stand open, O ye everlast­ing doors, and let the King of glory enter in, Psalm. 24 7. who is the King of glory, ver. 10. the Lord of Host is he, and the Lord over hosts of Angels, Men and Devils is he, and there­fore lift up your heads and gates, O ye everlasting doors of the soul, and let the King of glory into your hearts, where no­thing but sin and Sattan for the present is, yea let this King of glory enter in, & though ye be as the Devils den, a desert land, a barren Wilderness, where is nothing but the howling of cursed lust and nature, ye shall be as the Eden and Garden of God; yea ye shall certainly be as a fruitfull field till'd and blessed of the Lord, instead of the briar sha [...]l come up the mir­tle tree, read the 35. of Isaiah, and that sweet promise in the 65. of Isaiah 13. Mind these promises, O ye [...] Lords and Ladies, for God is able to make you as a fruitfull tree, and the Eunuch shall say, I am no more a batren tree, Isa. 50. 4, 5, 6. not shall it be said, ye are still as Reprobates; we trust you are not so, though for the most part ye are dead to all good works, yet we trust as Paul saith, we shall not find you Reprobates, 2 Cor. 13. 5, 6. for the future, we know there is in you a noble spark, a free and gallant spirit, an humble and ingenious disposition, affable and courteous to all, some of you are so, and the sweetest natures in the World, truly no­ble in all things, onely the blood of Christ, the blood of Christ is wanting in your veines, the spirit or the appearances of Christ in your lifes, and [...] Owles dwel where mountains larks should sing; this blood and this spirit, and the merit [Page 19] of the former, is as freely tendered unto you as to any in the world. Oh ye that have a freedom and equality of right unto the winds that blow, and showers that fall, and lights that shine, know ye have the like to all the tenders of grace in the Gospel of grace, and though your present greatness do and may exceedingly cumber you, yet it can never absolutely hinder you from Christ, the loves, joyes and tenders of Christ, who once stood up and loudly cryed, and still doth, oh every one that thirsteth come to the waters of life, high, low, rich & poor yeaif any man thirst let him come unto me & drink saith Christ, Isa. 55. 1. Io. 7. 37. Rev. 22. why should ye refuse these sweet waters of Shiloh that run softly, and that voice which speaks from heaven, and shakes both heaven and earth, and all these sublunary glories here below. O see, and again see, see, refuse not him that speaks from heaven, that which ages, and few of the Princes of this world which come to nought, have done or known for many hunpred of years, 1 Cor. 1. 18. but to you it is spoken, not in a way of thundring and lightening, like God to Moses in Mount Sinai, when he gave the Law, but like the Angels to the Shepherds, when they sung glory to God in the highest, peace and good will to men on earth, Luke 2. 14. for to you is born a Saviour, and his name shall be called Iesus, for he shall save his people from their sins, yea, and ye as well as they if ye will accept of him, and now is the acceptable time, and to you is born a Jesus, and with this song I shall conclude; but do not you for ano­ther resuse this Christ, and this Jesus, who will save you with an eternall salvation, if indeed you do beleeve in him. O ye that are singing like the fool in the Gospel, you have this, you have that, you have goods enough, soul, soul take thine case, thou hast beauty, riches, honour and esteem amonst men, 'tis no matter now for Christ, know before your song is half done your soul shall be taken from you, Luke 12. 1 [...]. and whose shall all this be? it is said the Swan never sings but once and then dies, ye have sung once and again to your selves, take heed, and again take heed death catch not you, or some of you up, as a Kite catcheth a Chick, before you have half that content and pleasure which you now promise unto your selves, we will buy, sell, and get gain, say they, and yet [Page 20] their life was but a vapour, Iames 4. 13. I will take my case, saith the fool, and I will take thy soul saith the devil, and this night it shall be saith God, but will you sell what you have, and get you bags that wax not old, Luke 12. 33. and lay up for your selves treasures in Heaven: It is the counsel of Christ now tendered to you, will you sell your glory? will you sell your beauty? wil you sell your pleasure? and all these things that wax old, and get you bags that will last you ever, that is, the righteousness of Christ, which blessed and for ever blessed are all they, and only they, that hunger and thirst after it, Mat. 5. 6.

O Madam, it is nothing but Christ, yea nothing else but Christ and the righteousness of Christ that wil last you ever, al things else are sading, the sweetest rose and the fairest beauty fades in time, the richest robe and the lasting garment doe the like, time and the moth wil consume them all, but time, death grave, nor eternitie shall ever fade this righteousness, how­ever if they should not, death will strip you to your skins, naked came I cut of my mothers womb, naked must I returne, toe and toe must be tyed together, the silken stocken and the silver shooe, the holland shalt and all most off, and naked must you return. O Madam, as you came you must goe, onely your mothers blood shall be washed off, Princes, Kings, and Queens, must do so too, yea to death must all lay down their Crowns, and Parliament men pull off their robes, death will strip them to there skin, but it cannot strip a Saint of this righ­teousness, no, no, worms may eat and eat his skin thorough & thorough, & the grave consume his bones and fl [...]sh to dust, but it cannot touch this righteousnesse, no, no, Christ keeps that for him as in a Cabinet of gold, untill the day of resur­rection, and then his dead body, though consumed to dust, and that again to nothing, yet shall that nothing be raised and arayed too like a Princess in the morning of her esponsal, and all by vertue of that power, which sa [...]es to the North and to the South, give up, and bring back my sons and daugh­ters from fat, Isa. 43. 6. And oh that this almighty power might bring back you, or some of you, the captive daughters of Sion, & oh that you might returne like the rivers in the South, [Page 21] from all your lying vanities to the living God, and from all your follies to the wisdom of God, which is better then fine gold or silver, yea, then Rubies, Prov. 8. 10 11. Riches and honour, yea, durable riches and honour are with me, saith the Lord, my fruit is better then gold, yea then fine gold, and my revenue then silver, verse 19. therefore hearken O ye Chil­dren of men unto me, for blessed are they that keep my waies, but cursed are those that go a whoring after other Gods, sor­row shall be multiplyed, yea, thay shall lie downe in sorrow Isa. 50 11. this sorrow is the daughter of sin, but the mother & the daughter shall sit downe, and lay downe upon the heads, hearts and soules of all that will not hearken unto me, saith Wisdom, Wherfore O ye foolish ones, turn ye turn ye at my re­proof, Prov. 1. 22. hear ye and your souls shall live, and if you wil hear, hear, ye young and lovely Lords and Ladies and Gal­lants of the times, and for Christs sake remember ye your Cre­ator in the dayes of your youth, before the evill day commeth wherein the Lord shall say, I have no pleasure in you before the Sun and blossome of your virginitie, and flower of your age be darkened, yea before Christ and the things of Christ be hid from your eyes, before the Moone, the Stars, and the Clouds returne after the rain, Eccles. 12. all the lesser meanes and helps of your salvation be blown away like a cloud or a rain that is carried away by the clouds, ye before the day, when the keepers of the house, the spirit and noble courage of your souls shall tremble at the approach of death when he comes climbing in at your windows, and up to your beds, whe [...]e you lie panting like the poor Partridg in the tear­ing tallents of the Falcon, and what is a bed of state in such a condition, though surrounded with a thousand Lords and Ladies, who are but vain comforters, or as flesh flyes, when the strong men shall bow themselves, the leggs, arms and sinewes of strength all shrinked up, yea the whole man tur­ned to the wall like Hezekiah, and weep like a child, the grinders cease, as not able to doe there office, and they that look out of the windows be darkened, the light and sight of thine eyes, dim and creamy, the throat rattle, and the breath earthly, when the doors shall be shut in the streets, all the [Page 22] intellects of the soule, that take in and shut out vissible appearance be locked up, then the sound of the grinding shall be low, no noyse or motions hardly heard, when you shall rise up at the voise of the bird, the secret chirpings of conscience, the private bird, that tells all old, and almost forgotten things, and ungodly acts, when the daughters of musick are brought low, all your former vain, and sinful vanities, and delights are husht still, blowne over and gone through the fear of that which is coming on, namely, death, hell, and he that hath the power over death, yea, the keys of death and hell too in his hand, Revel. 2. 18. but the Almond tree shall flourish then, that is, the righteous man, yea, mark, for the end of that man is peace, Psal. 37. 37. but woe to the transgressour, the Grashopper shall be a burden to the wicked, and all his desires shall saile, because he goeth to his long home, whether he will or no, yet he goes, and the Mourners about the streets, the silver cords be loosned, the golden bow and pitcher broken, at the foun­tain, the veines and strings of life all broken, through the invisible shouting of the immortall soul into another world, whereby the pitcher of mans body becomes broken as at the fountain head, in the return of the spirit to that God that gaive it, the dust returns to the dust for a while, and the spi­rit to God for a final sentence. O vanity of vanities, how is all but froath and vanity, besides Christ and the knowledge of Christ; this knowledg [...] recommend to you, and every one of you in Hide-Park after your unwearied pursuit of ly­ing vanities, and if you refuse it, your blood and the blood of your souls will be upon your own heads Acts. 20. 26. I am more free from that then thousands of your Chaplains and others too, that deal not so faithfully with you as they ought, God Almighty bless and turne you from your sins; though Israel be not gathered, yet my labour is and shall be with my God, Isaiah 49. 5. but my hearts desire and prayer is and shall be, that Israel may be saved in the day of the Lord Iesus, Rom. 10. 1. and that you may, the eyes of al mercy look upon you to convince you one by one: and oh that you dare, or that he would take you alone a little this night, to mind and meditate [Page 23] what you have done this day, and all your dayes for him, or rather against him, but you dare not walk alone or be in the dark one hour, nor will the Devil let you think on Christ, heaven, hell death, or Iudgment. And now, O Christ how few lives to thee, O Christ how few mind thee, O Christ how many diss [...]mble with thee, and when shall the Nobles lick the dust of thy feet, whilest Kings and Queens attend on thee, and count it honour enough to own and honour thee in the most contemtible way and manner? when shall they bring their gold and silver and offer unto thee? who art all in all in life, death, and eternity, Coll. 3. 11. But poverty parts good com­pany, thou at present appears not in thy glory, 1 Iohn 3. 2. but art as it were upon the wain, while the World, and Nobles of the world are in their full sun & splendor; but appear O Christ, and le [...] the world see thee that art invisible, and yet thou rulest the stars, and bounds the tumbling seas, while thou stands knocking at the sinners heart, Rev. 3. 20. courting as it were, this or that, or t' other gnat-worm, nothing, for a little admittance: O Christ fling them down to hell, yea fling them down quick, that storm and contemn thee, because they are fine, and tricked up in the offiles of thy creature, and if these golden Sparks and Ladies will not own thee, make them like a wheel, and let them perish as the stubble, Psal 84. 13. yet, if any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha, so sayes Paul, 1 Cor. 10. 22. but I say, love him Lords, love him Ladies, he and he onely is altogether lovely, in his name, in his nature, in his person, in his promise, to look to, to hope in, to follow after, and to lean up­on he is altogether lovely, the last, present, & the future hope of sinners: But do what you will, I have chosen him, and he hath washed me in his own blood, Rev. 1. 5. Glory Honour, and Salvation be ascribed to him world without end.

For Christs sake do not tear nor fling this about, but tell the Lords and Ladies of it; and ask for the green Book, or, the Ladies Tryall.