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broils, he lying miserably forlorn in the eye of men and would you not lend him hand nor a mouth to help him. Can you endure to see them pricked to the heart roaring and staring under the heavy yol and burden of their sins, crying out, What shall we do to be saved what shall we do to escape hell and damnation, and though unsupportable and unquenchable flames of the wrath of God. Canst thou stand still and say or do nothing, or father, canst tho braid the soul, assuredly the Lord will remember thee in the day of thy death and as thou hast shewn no mercy, so that thou receive no mercy is that day; such willing violent opposers of God's grace, the Lord will bring the one day on a bed of languishing and make them roar by force, under the violence of his wrath. 'O friends, be troubled at others! troubles, and mourn in secret for all the that mourn under the terrible burden of their sin.
Use 2. And here let me make a lamentation, in the nature of reproof, against the secure souls in this generation wherein we live: the Lord be merciful unto a world of men, that live within the bosom of the church. O that we lead a fountain of tears to bewail this age in this respect, as
