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grace and sweet seasons of mercy are gone. Look to the time to come, and there shalt thou behold devils, troops and swarms of Sorrows and woes, and raging waves, and billows of wrath coming roaring on thee. Fly from it, О fools, before you feel it, be- wail yourselves, be sorry, grieve & mourn, humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, be pricked to the heart; go tell God you cannot bear your sins, they are too heavy for you, much more the punishments com plain to him who is able to ease you. O vex not the righteous soul of the godly from day to day, neither grieve the holy spirit of God but be converted that ye may live Cry mightily to the Lord, peradventure he may hear and forget and forgive all your provocations, weep that you have not lamented more; and grieve that you have not grieved more for sin.

Use 3, Is of exhortation, to exhort and beseech poor unconverted sinners that are under the command of the prince of the power of the air, who are strangers to God and aliens to the covenant of promise, who have lived all this while without God in the world to come in hither, and take the right way to bring your hearts to a right pitch of Sorrow. Let me tell you it will never repent you at the last day, that you have