A Few Words TO THE RULERS of this NATIO [...]

O England! Is it a Time to solace thy self in Musick and [...] cing? Is not the Time exceeding Precious? and wilt [...] spend thy Pretious Time in Pleasure and Vanity? O [...] many wicked Societies that are gathered together in thee, O Na [...] some to Carding and Dicing, others to Drinking and Feasting, [...] upon the Stages, many to the May-Games, Horse-Matches, F [...] Matches, Ringing o [...] Bells, Musick going up and down thy Stre [...] When alas, O Nation, for ought thou knowest, the Vials of [...] Wrath may even be ready to be poured out without Mixture; [...] Wo! Wo from the Lord God to all Magistrates and Rulers, tha [...] [...] fer such Ungodliness as this to abound.

Oh England! Thou hast far exceeded Sodom in thy Prophane [...] How hath Wickedness spread it self over the Land? How [...] Oaths and Drunkenness abound in the Nation? How [...] gross Darkness cover the Hearts of the People, as though they [...] made a League with Death, and an Agreement with Hell? [...] your League with Death must be disannulled, and your Agreem [...] with Hell it must not stand: For the Lord God he is arisen; an [...] hath raised a Seed, that can never bow to Man; and he hath [...] up a Poor People in whom he will place his Power, which Po [...] must confound the Wisdom of the Wise.

Oh thou Land of my Nativity! for whom my Soul breathes [...] travels, Lay aside thy great Excess and Wantonness in Appa [...] and put on Sack-Cloth, and Cry mightyly unto the Lord, if [...] adventure he may Repent him of the Evil, and spare thee.

And Friends, you who are put in Power to be Governours of [...] Nation, O exercise your Power for God, and put a speedy S [...] to this Prophaneness, lest that your Power be given[?] [...]

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