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Show ( 268 ) to be your Guide ; for a Meafure of it . is .gi~en to everr one O,Jf . you tO pro,tr:t 'th"l · and tt u muh 'JJ}t •• ' ' ~ you, z.n your Hae rts a""" d in your Mouths., rhe 1W . Ori'd of Fai(h which is able w Save _your Sou s' tO, all w it, rake heed that. by 1t you. may be quickned and revived a~am om of Your fallen Efiare, wherein you he, hy reafon of Y?Llr Tranfgrdfions, which have made a SeparatiOn between you and your Maker ; and venJy I fay You Exrepr ye be Regenerate and Born augnaroin yo'u cannot enter .m ro rh e K'1 11 gdom 0 f God.' So, dear People, Young and Old, I fpeak ro you all as one, Confider how you have {pem your Time, and let a rrue Search pafs through you all, (hat you may fee whom you have been Serving all your Time ; for Servants you are to 7vhom you do Obey. So, dear People, be nor Deceived for God will nor be Mocked, fuch as you s~w, fuch you muft Reap fro.m the Hand of rhe Lord, and receive accordmg r.o your Deeds, whe(her rhey be Good or Evtl,. who will give a Reward ro every Man accordmg .as his Works fhall be; for he is a . God chat ":111 nor wi Jk a[ Wickednefs, nor kr the Tranfgreffor go unpunilhed ; ro whom every Knee .fhall Bow, aud every Tongue Confefs, who Created L-l~aven and Earrh, whom we Serve and :Vorfh1p, who is our Lord and King, and Capram of our Salvation · our Leader and Guider, and our Preferver Ni~lu anJ Day ; ~ur Mif?ht~ and Strong · One rhe Mio·hry God ot Jfrael IS hts Name, the Wor~d ·rful Coun{ellor and Prince of o~r Pe~ce, who~ Prefence is wirh us, to the Confoundmg of our Enemies that rife up in Oppofirion ~gainft us; for he goes before us, who is. our L1fc:, to rredd down our Enemies under h1s Feet, who is T rrible ro rhe Wicked, and all [ha[ for- . get / . ( 269 ) get hjm mufi be mrned into Hell, where the Worm dies nor, and e Fire never goes our; the Swearer and the Lyar mufi go thirher, rhar is their Ponion ; rhe Drunkard and the Whoremonger mufi go rhirher ; fhe Proud and the Co· verous cannot efqtpe the Damnarion of HtlJ ; and all rhey rhar live Dives-like, mufi partake of Dives's Tormenr, which is coming upon them, from which they cannot efcape nor fly ; and all fuch mull go imo the Lake, wirh the Beall: and the Falfe Prophet, which have long born Rule by their means in England, and in the Nations abroad, for ther have devoured my Flock, and the Sheep of my Pfl(!ure, faith the Lord AlmiJ!,hty, who will be avenged on them ; for rhe Wounrlul they have not He decl, nor Comfot ted tbofe who were Sick, neither httve they brouJ!, ht back again that which 'JVas drrue"' away, bur wich Force and Cruelty have they ruled; but th@ Lord God is now come in his Mighty P( wer, to take their Power from them, and d, liver his People out of their Hands, which have long been made a Pr y upon by them, and Reward them double for [heir Doings. So, you, my dear Neighbours, do nor uphold them any longer in their Sin, in farisfying their greedy Ddires, lell: you partake wich them of their Plagues, ~nd of the Wrath of God that is coming upon them, from which they cannot efcape; for they have grieved rhe · Spirit of the L~d from Day ro Day, ro fee what Havock they have made in the Nation of England, by Spoyling1 and caufing Spoil to be made of Peoples Goods and Eftares. Oh! their Sin is Great, and Grievous ro b born, and the Cry of their Oppreffion and their Iniquity is emen~d into the Ears of the Lord, that he is even Grieved and fore Vexed ar them; for rhey R J have |