The Yellow Book, OR A SERIOUS LETTER SENT BY A Private Christian TO THE Lady CONSIDERATION, The first day of May, 1659. Which she is desired to communicate in Hyde-park to the Gallants of the Times a little after sunset. ALSO, A brief Account of the Names of some vain persons that intend to be there, whose company the new Ladies are desired to forbear.  
LONDON, Printed, and are to be sold by Tho. Butler in Lincolns-Inn-fields, near the Three Tun-Tavern by the Market place, and by The Brewster at the three Bibles, at the West-end of Paul's, 1659.   

A serious Letter sent by a private Christian to the Lady Consideration, the first day of MAY, 1658.  
LADY,  
I Am informed, fine Mrs. Dust, Madam Spot, and my Lady Paint, are to meet at Hyde-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: 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 Joan hold my Staff, they cannot abide neither, nor indeed any of the new Gently, which I hope God will keep from their vanities, Pride, Covetousness and hypocrisy; 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, will be all in a Coath together; Sin, Guilt, and a little, Content will 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: martin's, Paul's, 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 beautiful as Angels, but more miserable and poisonous than Toads. Let me live with one of them under a stone, and die with a dog in a ditch, ●ather than in a golden bed in one of their conditions.  
And your vain roisters 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 itself: But if they go to that, farewell Hyde-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 streams of brimstone ever run over and over their heads, hearts and souls, that fall into that. 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. busy is putting on her gown, but I would she would put on Christ and his righteousness. Rev. 6. 18. Buy of me glod, says he, that than may the rich, and white raiment, that thou may the clothed, that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear. This raiment I had rather have, than a skin to cover my bones, naked souls 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 clothes to put on, on such a day as this; others rather buried alive, than want Christ, and the righteouness of Christ. Run to my tailor, bring them done or undone cries Mrs. Would be gone; fetch my green petticoat and my white satin mantle, my Lady Impatience stays 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 says James, ch. 4. v. 24. Some Ladies get the Pox, and die with a fear, others get a Cold and die with a fever, few live long that do not die soon, eternal life is the fruit of a short living unto Christ, and eternal 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 do 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 believe and repent; but if they do not so, and be throughly washed in Judah'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 flames, hell and devils: Lords and Ladies, have more reason to be damned than poor people a thousand times, for where much is given, much will be required, Matt. 25. 30. they sin more, and draw more to sin, 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 devil: some goes to the bridge foot to drink wine, and others to the devil's mouth in following them, they ride on poor men's backs, and devils ride on theirs, the Prince of the Air that now rules in them; Ephes. 2. 2. yea, both are carried sometime in close Sedan, but to day they are more open; do 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 do nothing but eat, drink, and put it out; some study music, Doctors kill many, but a good book never hurts; O Timothy, give thyself 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 lest where there is nothing but chit-chat, sin and my Lady compliment; but the masking is a wicked thing, where the woman comes in man's habit, like the devil to a Witch, the Imps hire is the soul: The Lady gives her Hector money, he hath his pleasure, the other hath the soul, all loose that for a moment's 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 tother 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 customs 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 devil's 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 Hyde-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.  
I saw a Beggar put into an open Coffin, with an abundance of Bay leaves, Rosemary, sweet briar, 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 cerecloth, for which many mourn, but not one of a thousand minds 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-cloth, three mourning women, and a many taffety scutchins about his Lady, but their sins were these, they were devilish 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 damns 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 believe in Christ, and in some measure live to Christ, 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 rejoicers 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. unsatisfied 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 pictures, a Song book, a Play book, a Lute, a History, two or three 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 wrinkled.  
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 ways and members, and yet pretend to own, and at sometimes 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 spears of grass in Hyde-park so saith Christ, Mat. 25. 41. 'Tis pity, Beauty and such fine Virgins, as some there be, should ever come to be embraced 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 beautiful, not for being brave, not for being honourable, but for being fools, graceless and Christless, living in pleasure all your days, 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 man's 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 call them to an account what they did, what they saw, and what they said in Hyde-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 go 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 flies; there is more glory and variety of beauty in the weeds of one Corn field; yea, in a little dasy, 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 compliment 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 devil 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, hell & 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 down, but come away to judgement, however Lord, if not now, I must ere long, the end of all 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; farewell, farewell Ladies, Lords, farewell pleasures of the day, I shall 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 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 Zion, that chant to the music Amos 6, 1, 4, 5. that stretch themselves upon beds of ivory, and feed upon the fat of lambs, go to you rich men, weep and howl 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 rejoice, for ye shall weep and howl, vers. 25. and woe to you when all men shall speak well 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 for 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 music leaves but sadness in the mind of man, the sweetest enjoyments of the world do the like; yea, the more delights, pleasure, and enjoyments 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 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 clothe yourselves in Silk, and satin, and golden cloth of Tussue, and often ride on poor men's 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 death's pipe, who are now singing like to so many she Nightingales, your new enchanting tunes and S●rlan songs, and have thousands to bow and crying to you, though you be as the leprous houses to be pulled down, Levit. 14. 40 But remember the golden bowl was in Belshazzer's hand, his Nobles round about him, than the judgement came, Mene mean Tokel, Daniel 5. 5. this night shall thy soul be taken from thee says Christ, Luke 12. 20. and some have been taken from the Park to the bed, from thence to the judgement, before a few days have been expired.  
O ye sinning and sinful fading flowers of England, consider what is said, and dedicated to you in a serious way, one sheet shall wind 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 internal and external flames; Oh that I had harkened when time was to Christ and that the sweet and silver voice of the Turtle and the Gospel might again once more yet be heard: the groans and sighs of dying Lords and Ladies are many times very sad and dolorous, but the groans, sighs and tears of a damned creature can never be imagined. I have heard of a Gentelewoman in Northamptonshire, that was burnt for poisoning her husband, her skreeks by some could never be forgotten they were so loud, so shrill, 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 screeking of another, no man nor Angel could express it.  
O ye that now sing one unto another, and cause the woods to echo to your melodious sweet and pleasant voices, take heed, and again take heed ye be not one day lest to weep over one another's 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 merciful unto you, in the forgiving of your sins, and changing of your hearts, deceive not yourselves, 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, than shall God thrust the sickle of death into your sides, his wrath into your soul, and bundle you up for hell for ever, Joel 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 profane, 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 dunghill is nothing, to perish at a rich man's 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.  
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 withal, 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 i 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 bosom, locks and lips, companions in sin, companions in hell: yea, I think that is very near the meaning, where it is said, the satire, 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 delightful Tunes and Songs, called such a Rant, and such a Rant, but to tell of their misfortunes, and such misfortunes which can never be recovered.  
Oh says one, I have lost the heaven of heavens and the heavens of my God for a few vain delights, which were more transient than thoughts, never in any measure soul-satisfying: And I also, saith another, have lost the joys 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 duel for, but I have lost the favour of God, as Wolsie once dying said, to please my Prince. Oh unhappy man, oh, unhappy soul that loseth all for a moment's 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-piercing relations, poor unhappy sinners, make one unto the other, whilst 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 devil, the next and chief means 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 pressed and cried, Away, away to the Park, to the Tavern, to the Ball, to the Masque, to the music-house, to the Groves, to the Gardens and delights of the world, will certainly be found the greatest enemies to your souls, next to the devil 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 raiment, and thou shalt be my God, says Jacob, 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 streams and oceans of delights say you, let me have my fill and full of love, of lust, of wine and women, music, chambering and wantonness, and it sufficeth:  
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 yourselves what you will, I judge you little better than 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 says, for if cursed be all the families 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 holiness no man shall ever see the face of God, Heb. 12. 14.  
Oh mind 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 continual working of the holy Spirit, which is called the Sunctifier of them that believe, and if you believe 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 justify you, and in some measure sanctify 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 days, 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, though never so great, are nothing; but will you be saved from being shut out of the new Jerusalem, with dogs, sorcerers, whoremongers and liars, Revel. 22. 15. And from being cast out with the children of this kingdom, Luke 13 27. whose pleasures, joys and glories are in the things of this life, never minding that kingdom, where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 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 fierce 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 easy to be had; it stands at your doors, 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 an 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.  
Oh you that do so, hear and harken unto the voice of God; yea, hear his voice 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 freegrace, which brings and tenders salvation to all men, but to you especially; nor entreat 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 immortality dwelling in himself, and dwelleth in that light which is unaccessible, the only 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 kingdom be not of this world, yet his Kingdom shall break in pieces all the kingdoms 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, angels 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 souls, 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, 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 yourselves under those wings that will now embrace you, and let the everlasting arms of mercy fold you up in the bosom of divine love, joys 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 devil's 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 fruitful field tilled and blessed of the Lord, instead of the briar sha●l come up the myrtle 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 fruitful 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, only the blood of Christ, the blood of Christ is wanting in your veins, the spirit or the appearances of Christ in your lives, and 〈◊〉 owls dwell where mountains larks should sing; this blood and this spirit, and the merit 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, joys and tenders of Christ, who once stood up and loudly cried, 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 thundering and lightning, 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 Jesus, 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 refuse this Christ, and this Jesus, who will save you with an eternal salvation, if indeed you do believe 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 amongst 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 yourselves, 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 yourselves, we will buy, sell, and get gain, say they, and yet their life was but a vapour, James 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 yourselves treasures in Heaven: It is the counsel of Christ now tendered to you, will you sell your glory? will you sell your beauty? will 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 will last you ever, all things else are sading, the sweetest rose and the fairest beauty fades in time, the richest robe and the lasting garment do the like, time and the moth will consume them all, but time, death grave, nor eternity shall ever fade this righteousness, however if they should not, death will strip you to your skins, naked came I cut of my mother's womb, naked must I return, toe and toe must be tied together, the silken stocking and the silver shoe, the holland shalt and all most off, and naked must you return. O Madam, as you came you must go, only your mother's 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 through & thorough, & the grave consume his bones and flesh to dust, but it cannot touch this righteousness, no, no, Christ keeps that for him as in a Cabinet of gold, until 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 arrayed too like a Princess in the morning of her esponsal, and all by virtue 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 Zion, & oh that you might return like the rivers in the South, from all your lying vanities to the living God, and from all your follies to the wisdom of God, which is better than fine gold or silver, yea, than Rubies, Prov. 8. 10 11. Riches and honour, yea, durable riches and honour are with me, saith the Lord, my fruit is better than gold, yea then fine gold, and my revenue then silver, verse 19 therefore harken O ye Children of men unto me, for blessed are they that keep my ways, but cursed are those that go a-whoring after other Gods, sorrow shall be multiplied, yea, they shall lie down in sorrow Isa. 50 11. this sorrow is the daughter of sin, but the mother & the daughter shall sit down, and lay down upon the heads, hearts and souls of all that will not harken unto me, saith Wisdom, wherefore O ye foolish ones, turn ye turn ye at my reproof, Prov. 1. 22. hear ye and your souls shall live, and if you will hear, hear, ye young and lovely Lords and Ladies and Gallants of the times, and for Christ's sake remember ye your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil day cometh wherein the Lord shall say, I have no pleasure in you before the Sun and blossom of your virginity, and flower of your age be darkened, yea before Christ and the things of Christ be hid from your eyes, before the moon, the Stars, and the Clouds return after the rain, Eccles. 12. all the lesser means 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 partridge in the tearing talents 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 flies, when the strong men shall bow themselves, the legs, arms and sinews 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 do 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 intellects of the soul, that take in and shut out vissible appearance be locked up, than the sound of the grinding shall be low, no noise or motions hardly heard, when you shall rise up at the voice 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 music are brought low, all your former vain, and sinful vanities, and delights are hushed still, blown 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 transgressor, the grasshopper shall be a burden to the wicked, and all his desires shall sail, 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 loosened, the golden bow and pitcher broken, at the fountain, the veins and strings of life all broken, through the invisible shouting of the immortal soul into another world, whereby the pitcher of man's 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 froth and vanity, besides Christ and the knowledge of Christ; this knowledge ● recommend to you, and every one of you in Hyde-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 turn you from your sins; though Israel be not gathered, yet my labour is and shall be with my God, Isaiah 49. 5. but my heart's desire and prayer is and shall be, that Israel may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus, Rom. 10. 1. and that you may, the eyes of all 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 what you have done this day, and all your days 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 judgement. 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, whilst Kings and Queens attend on thee, and count it honour enough to own and honour thee in the most contemptible 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 John 3. 2. but art as it were upon the wain, while the World, and Nobles of the world are in their full sun & splendour; 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 sinner's 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 says Paul, 1 Cor. 10. 22. but I say, love him Lords, love him Ladies, he and he only 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.  
W. B.  
For Christ's sake do not tear nor fling this about, but tell the Lords and Ladies of it; and ask for the green Book, or, the Lady's trial.