THE SEDUCED soul reduced, and rescued from the subtlety, and Slavery of Satan, that bloody devouring Dragon, and vowed Enemy of all Mankind. Together with Provision that none may be disappointed of their end, by mistaking their way: would men but now harken unto Christ, as they would have Christ another day, harken unto them.  By R. Junius, in reference to Levit. 19 17. Isa. 58. 1. Prov. 1. 20. to the end, and 14. 12. Acts 11. 14. 1 Tim. 4. 16. James 1. 21. Jude 23. 
CYprian brings in Satan, triumphing over Christ in this manner; As for my followers, saith he, I never laid down my life to redeem them, as Christ hath done for his; I never promised them so great reward, as Christ hath done to his: and yet I have more followers than Christ, and they do far more for me, than his do for him. And indeed, To whom we yield ourselves as servants to obey, his servants we are to whom we obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness, Rom▪ 6. 16. And in case we do the devil's works, we are the devil's servants, as our Saviour affirms, John 8. 34, 44. Again, it is the abstract of Religion, to imitate him whom we worship. Neither are we worthy to be called Christians, except we imitate Christ, and square our lives according to the rules he hath given us, Luke 14. 26. 2 Pet. 2. 19 2 Cor. 5. 17. 2 Tim. 2. 19 Who then shall compare men's lives with Christ's life, or those rules set down in his Gospel, but must be forced with Lynacre to confess; That either the Gospel is none of Christ's, or very few amongst us are Christians. Observe it I pray, for it falls heavy on many thousands, that think they are Christians beyond all exceptions.  
2 But to bring this point more close, and home to men's consciences. We read, That the greatest number go the broad way to destruction, and but a few the narrow way that leadeth unto life, Matth. 7. 13, 14. That the whole world lieth in wickedness, 1 John 5. 19 That the number of those whom Satan shall deceive, is as the sand of the sea, Rev. 20. 8. That many are called, and but few chosen, Matth. 20. 16. & 22. 14. That though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea; yet only a remnant of them shall be saved, Rom. 9 27. Sad predictions! How then does it concern every man of us, to bethink ourselves, whether we be of that small number, and to mistrust the worst, as all wise, and sound-hearted Christians use to do, Matth. 26. 21, 22. And indeed, they are Texts of Scripture, that would make the most in these days to tremble; Yea, they could not (without God's great mercy) but be swallowed up of their own confusion, were they not spiritually blind and deaf, and dead. For experience shows, that amongst those that call themselves Christians, scarce one of an hundred, whose knowledge, belief, and life, is answerable either to the Gospel, their Christian profession, or the millions of mercies they have received.  
Yea, notwithstanding the Holy Ghost tells us in the word; and we hear the same daily; That every man shall be judged according to his works, be they good or evil, Rev. 20. 13. & 22. 12. That we shall give an account at the day of judgement for every idle word we speak, Matth. 12. 36. That there needs no other cause of our last and heaviest doom, than Ye have not given, ye have not visited, &c. Matth. 25. 41. to 46. That the righteteous shall scarcely be saved, 1 Pet. 4. 18. That many shall seek to enter in at the straight gate, and shall not be able, Luke 13. 24. That no unrighteous person shall inherit the kingdom of God; but shall have their part and portion in that lake, which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death, 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. Gal. 5. 21. Revel. 21. 8. That except our righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, (who were no mean men for outward and formal performances) we shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven, Math. 5. 20. And that without holiness, no man shall see the Lord, Heb. 12. 14. (which Scriptures if they be true, what manner of persons ought we to be? in all holy conversation and godliness, as the Apostle speaks, 2 Pet. 3. 11.) Yet most men live, as if the Gospel were quite contrary to the rule of the Law: As if God were neither to be feared, nor car●d for: As if they were neither beholding to him, nor afraid of him, both out of his debt and danger; Yea, as if there were no God to judge, nor Hell to punish, nor Heaven to reward, I cannot think of it without astonishment.  
But to all these, let me add one thunderbolt more out of God's Artillery, which you shall find, Deut. 29. where he expressly tells us, that he will not be merciful (I pray mark it) unto such as flatter themselves in an evil way, but that his wrath and jealousy shall smoke against them, and every curse that is writ in his Book shall light upon them, &c. vers. 19, 20. And that if we will not regard, nor harken unto him when he calls upon us for repentance: He will not hear nor regard us, when in our distress and anguish we shall call upon him for mercy; but even laugh at our destruction, and mock when our fear cometh, Prov. 1. 24. to 33. Neither is salvation more promised to the godly, in any part of the Bible, Old Testament, or New, then eternal death and destruction is threatened to the wicked. For though to all repentant sinners he is a most merciful God; yet to all wilful and impenitent sinners, he is a consuming fire, and a jealous God, Heb. 12. 29. Deut. 4. 24. These are dreadful threats, from the mouth of an Almighty, and terrible God, who is Truth itself, and cannot lie. Nevertheless, men's obdurate and adamantine hearts, brawned and hardened with the custom of sin, will tremble and relent no more at the hearing of them, than the seats they sit on, or the stones they tread on. Their supine stupidity is no more capable of excitation than the Sea Rocks are of motion, or the billows of compassion. They are like the Catadupans, inhabitants of the Cataracts, who hear not the roarings of Nilus. As Drums and Trumpets (we know) and that loud rupture of the air with Ordnance, is but like soft music to the ears of some fleshed soldiers, hardened with often success. And the reason is, they will rather harken to their own deceitful hearts, and believe Satan, that would gull them of their souls, and plunge them into eternal torments, than they will harken to, or believe the God of Truth. And the reason of this reason is, when men reject all g●od means, and refuse to serve the true God, he in justice gives them over to the false to be taught, and governed by him; for which you have an express place, 2 Thes. 2. 10, 11, 12. And likewise an example thereof in Ahab, 1 King. 22. 20. to 23. Yea, how could I here enlarge? as would you know, why many men in this, and other ages before us, have been such superlavive monsters in wickedness, as striving after perfection of evil, counting it the greatest honour to commit the greatest sins, and being sorry, as it were, that they could not commit a sin beyond precedent, and be like their father the devil, Such as blasphemous and impudent Pharaoh, who being bloodied with his unresisted tyranny, could belch out defiance in the face of heaven, saying, who is God? Or Nicanor, who being persuaded from cruelty upon the Sabbath-day, in that God had appointed it holy; answered, if God be mighty in Heaven, I am also mighty on Earth: Though the same tongue that spoke it, was cut into little pieces and flung to the Fowls: and the same hand that smote, was cut off, and hung before the Temple. Or as Pope Hildebrand, who asked the Sacrament of Christ's body before all the Cardinals, how he should destroy Henry the Emperor; and having no answer, flung it into the fire, saying, Co●ld the idol gods of the Heathens tell them what should succeed in their erterprises, & canst not thou tell me? how others could wholly spend and employ their time, & strength, and means? how they should take such pains, and be at such cost, to commit robberies, rapes, cruel murders, treasons? blow up whole States? depopulate whole Towns, Cities, Countries? Seduce millions of souls, as Mahomet and the Pope have done? make open War against the Church of God, as Herod, Antiochus, and others have done? persecute the known truth, as Julian the Apostate did? Invent all new vices they could, and destroy the memory of all ancient virtues, as Heliogabalus did? make it their trade to swear and forswear, if any will hire them, as our Post● knights do? Not unlike those Turkish Priests, called Seitie, and Cagi, who for a double ducat will make a thousand false oaths before the Magistrate, and take it to be no sin, but a work deserving praise, by lies, swearing, and forswearing, to damnify Christians what they can. Or would you know why our Land (notwithstanding we excel all Nations under heaven, for means of light and grace) hath such monsters? as upon an hours warning will lend Jezabel an oath, to rob poor Naboth of his li●e and vine-yard? Such Vultures, irreligious Harpies, that have consciences like a Barn-door, that seldom awake but to do mischief. Some men and women, that will be Bawds to their own Wives and Daughters? (But, o that the Sun should shine upon her, that will sell for gain unto Hell that body which she brought forth, with so much pains and danger to this earth. Certainly, there was never woman more deserved to be called the devil's Dam than she.) Why, there are some that dare the day to witness their ungodliness, and do their villainies to be seen of men? That Zim●i like, dare bring Whores to their Tents openly. Yea, like Absalon, dare spread a Tent on the top of the house, and go in to their Concubines in the sight of all men. I have myself heard a cauterised Gallant boast of his lying with women of all conditions, save witches, and protest that should be his next attempt. Yea, how often shall you hear old men glory of their forepast whoredoms, boast of their homicides, cheats, and the like? Yea, if it be possible, make themselves worse than ever they were: and rather than want matter of ostentation, they will boast of the foulest vices; For their excrements, they account ornaments, and make a scarf of their halter.  
Again, others there are, who like them of Gibeah, Judg. 19 and the Sodomites, Gen. 19 are not content with the common way of sinning; but are mad with a prodigious lust; Being forth the men, that we may know them, vers. 5. Let any reasonable man judge, whether they could be thus desperately wicked, if the just and true God had not for their rebellious and damnable wickedness, in rejecting him, given them up to be ruled by the false; namely, the god of this world, and all wicked men in it. Even as a just Judge having passed sentence upon some heinous Malefactor, gives him up to the jailor, or Executioner, as you may see by sundry places, 2 Tim. 2. 26. Ephes. 2. 2. John 13. 2. Acts 5. 3. 1 Chron. 21. 1. Gen. 3 1. to 6. Rev. 2. 10. Gen 3. 15. John 8. 44. & 12. 31. & 14. 30. 2 Cor. 4. 4. Ephes. 2. 2. But to enlarge yet more, how many amongst us have their consciences so feared up with the custom of sin, that they had rather be confounded, then reformed: That will grudge to be stayed in their way to Hell? (whereby they become wilful murderers of their own souls.) Yea, they will fly upon those that shall oppose their perdition, and more than spurn at Christ's Messengers, that are sent to save them, (which is to strike at him, whose message they bring:) And others so reprobate, that their utmost endeavour is, to damn others souls with their own. These are your seducing drunkards, devisors and broachers of damnable errors; Projectors of unknown villainies, exemplary leaders into wickedness; who Jeroboam, or Mahomet-like, cease not to sin, and tempt, and damn, though they cease to live: For though they die, they leave their sin behind them, and that propagates, who resemble a malicious man sick of the plague, who runs into the throng to disperse his infection; whose sin seems to outweigh all penalty.  
Others there are, that through a presumptuous confidence, think they may run upon score with Satan, and sin boldly and freely, because Christ is able to pay all; so making Christ a bolster, or Patron of sin. Yea, they will also boast, what a strong faith they have; when yet they fall short of the very Devils in believing: For they believe the threats that are written in the Word, and tremble for fear, Jam. 2. 19  
Again, others you have, so civilly righteous, that they see no need they have of a Saviour: and the less sensible they are, the more sick they are; for as nothing is more easily broken, than those things that are most hard: so notorious offenders are nothing so hard to be convinced and converted, as the civilly righteous, that seems to live unreproveably.  
Lastly, to pass by those many millions of souls, who are so invincibly ignorant, that remaining so, it is impossible they should be saved; for they do not know wherein they have broken this or that commandment in particular; what wicked hearts they have by nature, nor what need they have of a Saviour. Nor to say any thing of that, which cost the lives of so many thousand Israelites, I mean murmuring, and unthankfulness, which is the sin of almost who not; and such a sin as few, even of the better sort of Christians have the wit to consider. To pass by these (I say) how many through prejudice, so blind their own eyes, that they will decoct everything the godly do or say into poison: Yea, they will not only pick straws, to put out their own eyes withal; but they even protest against their own conversion, as esteeming, and accounting all Religion, and Devotion mere foolishness. Yea, they will scoff at the means to be saved, and make themselves merry with their own damnation: So that good counsel to them, is but offering aquavitae to the dead. A man would admire and wonder how men's souls should be so drowned in their senses; how any one that is endowed with a reasonable soul, should be of so reprobate a mind, as most men are; did not the frequency of sin take away the sense of sin. As o how the soul, that takes a delight in lewdness, is gained upon by custom▪ do not all cauterised sinners, drunkards, blasphemers, defrauders, and the like? Yea, and civil men too, account it a crime to be holy? or to have a tender conscience? or to be so careful to serve their Redeemer? as themselves are industrious to serve the devil, and satisfy their own hearts lusts. Yea, and custom hath so bleared them, that they cannot distinguish nor discern the true visage of things. Yea, the most of men amongst us so delude themselves with mistakes, and false surmises, against Religion, and the religious, that piety and goodness is so despised; looseness and profaneness so set by, and defended, by some ignorantly, by others maliciously: and this also by reason of long custom runs so deep and strong, that we can never look to have it mended, until Christ comes in the clouds. What this may bring upon us, only the Lord knows, and knows to prevent: But sure I am, it hath already been so long neglected, and so little opposed and laid to heart; that it hath almost overgrown both corn and good herbs. Insomuch that the wickedness of the greater part, hath brought such a scandal upon the better part: That our Religion is even abhorred of the Heathen. And how can it other, then cut the hearts of those that have felt the love of Christ? to hear him so wounded at home with oaths and blasphemies, abroad with reproaches; who is the life of their lives, and the soul of their souls. Speak we must, endeavour what we can. Cry aloud, saith God, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins, Isa. 58. 1.  
But alas, little comes of it; For let all the Ministers unanimously say what can be said, blind sensualists will confute all that can be alleged; with God is merciful. And Christ died for all. Only believe and thou shalt be saved; no matter how they live: a reprobate, yet common error: as thinking with Eunomius, that faith without works will serve: Insomuch that every drunken beast, and blasphemer, thinks to speed as well, and go to Heaven, as soon as the best.  
One minds nothing but his cups, another nothing but his coin, a third only his courtesan; yet all these promise to meet in Heaven. The Jews thought we may put away our wives, we may swear, we may hate our enemies, we may kill the Prophets, subject the Word of God to our traditions, and follow our own ways. Why? Abraham is our father, John 8. 39 But by their leave, Christ calls them bastards, and finds out another father for them, ver. 44. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of you● father ye will do. Profane Libertines, such as account not themselves well, but when they are doing ill. Yea, the most covetous oppressors, who may say as Pope Leo did, I can have no place in Heaven, because I have so often sold it upon Earth. Every man of them hopes to have bene●i● by the Gospel, when they will not be tied to the least little of the Law. But if Christ be not our King to govern us, he will neither be our Prophet to 'fore warn, nor our Priest to exp●ate. Except we forsake our sins, God will never forgive them. Yea, he hath sworn by an oath, that whomsoever he redeemeth out of the hands of their spiritual enemies, shall serve him in holiness and righteousness all the days of their lives. Neither can it consist with his Justice, to pardon such as continue in an evil course of life. Nevertheless, there is scarce a wicked man upon Earth, but he thinks to go to Heaven.  
But what's the reason? consider that, and you will cease to wonder. For what the Apostle speaks, 2 Cor. 3. is appliable unto all natural men. Their minds were blinded; For until this day remaineth the same veil upon their hearts, untaken aw●y in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil, when they shall turn to the Lord, shall be taken away in Christ, vers. 14, 15, 16. Here you see they have a veil or curtain drawn over their hearts, which keeps them from the knowledge of God's Word: But that's not all; They have so hardened their hearts with a customary sinning, even from their infancy, that a man were as good speak to a stone, as admonish them, Jer. 6. 10. & 5. 3. Zach. 7. 12. Jude 12. Ez●k. 11. 19  
Thirdly, the Gospel is hid unto them, because the god of this world hath blinded their minds, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ should shine unto them, as the same Apostle speaks, ●Cor. 4. 3, 4. Finally, they have Phraoh's curse upon them, a hard heart, and a seared conscience: so that they are no way capable of yielding to, or hearing God speak by his Ambassadors, say they what they will. Whence it is, that St. Cyprian useth these words: It is as much lost labour (saith he) to preach unto men the things of God, before they are humbled with the sight of their wants, as to offer light to a blind man, to speak to a deaf man, or to labour to make a brute beast wise. See Revel. 3. 17. In the mean time thoughts of Eternity never trouble them; They are at peace with Satan, the world, and their own consciences; have made agreement with Hell, and with Death; they satisfy their lusts to the full: So like men sleeping in a Boat, they are carried down the stream of this world, until they arrive at their Gravesend [Death] without once waking to bethink themselves, whether they are going [to Heaven or Hell.] They slumber, and suppose themselves good Christians; their faith is but a dream, their hope but a dream, and so of their obedience and whole Religion, all is but a dream. They have repentance in conceit, they serve God well in conceit; and they shall, if they look not to it, go to Heaven only in conceit, or in a dream, and never awake, until they feel themselves in the burning lake. For he that makes a bridge of his own shadow, how can he choose but fall into the water.  
In which case, what heart would it not make to bleed, that hath any Christian blood in his veins, to see what multitudes there are that go blindfold to destruction, and no man offer to stop or check them; before they arrive there, from whence there is no redemption. I remember St. Bernard useth these words; Had we stood by, saith he, when Adam was between the persuasion of his wife, and the precept of his God, when the one said, Adam eat, and the other said, Adam eat not; for if thou dost, Thou shalt die the death, and all thy posterity. Had it been an ill office to have cried out, and said, o Adam, take heed what thou dost! Or would he have had cause to complain of being prevented? I trow not, Yea, I think it had been a seasonable piece of high friendship, and none can deny it.  
I remember also what a Merchant once did; he comes to his friend upon the Exchange, and falls to boxing him, with these words; I have often enough told you of your whoring, but you will never leave it. Know you not, that it will p●ove your ruin in the end? 〈…〉 h●ld to be a little cracked in brain, & perhaps you will think 〈…〉 often times, from the rarest and quickest agitations of 〈…〉 the most distempered and outrageous frenzies, there want●●g 〈…〉 a pegs turn to pass from the one to the other: So in mad men's 〈…〉 see how fitly folly suiteth, and meets with the strongest operation 〈…〉. Yea, who knows not, how unperceivable the neighbourhood is between folly, and the liveliest elevations of some men's wits. And indeed, when I consider, how our carnal friends will curse us (when they come in hell) that we did not our utmost endeavour to stop them. I could afford to lay hands upon a Drunkard, a Blasphemer, or a murderer to stay 〈◊〉, from the evil he is going to commit. Yea, to kneel down upon my knees, and beg of him, that he would not so desperately damn his own soul. And indeed could, a man save his friend's soul by so doing (as possibly he might, Jude 23. Jam. 5. 26. 1 Tim. 4. 16.) he needed not much to care, though the world reputed him a mad man, or spent their verdicts on him. O my brethren think of it, before it be too late! and seriously consider what one soul is worth, and what you would take to be in that condition with them, as you were once. (For I speak to enlightened souls) Yea, how should not the very thought of it, make all that are got out of Satan's clutches, to plot, study, and contrive all they can, to draw others of their brethren after them?  
We read, that Andrew was no sooner converted, and 〈…〉 Christ's Disciple, but instantly he drew others after him to the same faith, John 1. 41. and the like of Philip, vers. 45. And of the woman of Samaria, John 4. 28. to 41. And of Peter, Luke 22. 32. Acts 2. 41. and 3 Chap. & 4. 4. And so of all the Apostles. Yea, Moses so thirsted after the salvation of Israel; that rather than he would be saved without them, he desired the Lord to blot him out of the book of life, Exod. 32. 32. And Paul to this purpose saith, I could wish myself to be separated from Christ, for my brethren, that are my kinsmen according to the flesh: meaning the Jews, Rom. 9 3. And indeed, all heavenly hearts are charitable. Neither are we of the Communion of Saints, if we desire not the blessedness of others; it being an inseparable adjunct, or relative to grace; for none but a Cain will say, Am I my brother's keeper? Yea, where the heart is thankful, and inflamed with the love of God, and our neighbour; this will be the principal aim: As by ●y si●s, and bad example, I have drawn others from God; so now I will 〈…〉 I can, draw others with myself to God. Saul converted, will build up as fast, as ever he plucked down; and preach as zealously as ever ●e persecuted, and we are no what thankful for our own salvation▪ if we do not look with charity and pity upon the gross misopinions, and misprisions of others, and at least do something for the saving of those poor, ignorant, & impotent wretches, that are neither able nor willing to help themselves. Neither needs there (as one would think) any spurring or prompting of the thankful or charitable to this duty.  
And what though we cannot do what we would? yet we must labour to do what we can to win others; not to deserve by it, but to express our thanks. Besides, it were very dishonourable to Christ not to do so: did you ever know, that wicked men, Thieves, Drunkards, Adulterers, Persecutors, false prophets, or the like, would be damned alone? no, they misled all they can, as desiring to have companions. Yea, the Tharisees would take great pains, compass sea and land, to make others twofold more the children of hell than themselves, as our Saviour expressly witnesseth, Matth. 23. 15. which may cast a brush upon our cheeks, who are nothing so industrious to win souls to God. Therefore what a worldling would do, to get himself an hundred pounds, that a Christian should do to win a soul to Christ: Or he is unthankful to his Redeemer, that hath done, and suffered so much for him. But I have known a very small matter, (with God's blessing upon the means) as the lending of a Book to an acquaintance, or tolling him to hear an efficacious Sermon, prove the saving of his soul. And that hath been a greater cause of rejoicing to both parties; than others have, when their corn and their wine increaseth, Psalm 4. 7. Weak means shall serve the turn, where God inten●s success. Even a word seasonably spoken (God blessing it) like a Rudder, sometimes steers a man quite into another Course. Antiocl●us by hearing from a poor man, all the faults which he and his Favourites had committed, carried himself most virtuously ever after. Antoninus amended his future life and manners, by only hearing what the people spoke of him. The very crowing of a Cock occasioned Peter's repentance. Augustine, that famous Doctor, was converted, by only reading that Text, Rom. 13. 13. Let us walk honestly, as in the daytime, &c. Learned Junius, with reading the first Chapter of Saint John's Gospel, was won to the faith of Christ. And Melancthon much a●ter the same manner. I have read of two famous Strumpets, that were suddenly converted, by this only Argument, That God seeth all things, even in the dark, when the doors are shut, and the curtains drawn.  
Bilneys Confession, converted Latimer: yea, Ad●i●nus was not only converted, but became a Martyr too, by only hearing a Martyr at the Stake allege that Text, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, &c. 1 Cor. 2 9 Yea, even those Jews that crucified the Son of God, were converted by hearing those few words of Peter, Acts 2. And it pleased God, when I, myself, was in as hopeless a condition, as any; That a poor man's persuading me to leave reading of Poetry, and fall upon the Bible, was a means of changing my heart, before I had read out Genesis, being but twenty years of age. Whom I more bless God for, then for my Parents, from whom I received life. And this (because I know no better way, to express my thankfulness to him, who hath freed me from frying in Hell-flames, for ever and ever; then by endeavouring to win others from Satan's Standard to Christ's) makes me do the like to others. And that is by giving and lending well-chosen Books, fit and proper for the party's condition, whether he be merely civil, or vicious; a Scoffer, Swearer, excessive Drinker, Miser, Oppressor, Prodigal, or the like. And have sometimes found the same so successful, that it hath put me upon a more general, and public piece of service, that may extend itself to thousands, if men have but half that affection to spiritual, and eternal riches, namely, wisdom, grace, and glory; as they have to temporary, and transitory. I know well, that a great many will spend more time and money in an Alehouse in one day, then in God's service, or upon their souls, in many months. Yea, (as if the best part: were least to be cared for.) How many thousands will bestow more upon their very Hair, or upon a needless, Indian wanton weed, in one month, then upon God, and their souls in a whole year. A sign how they love him, who laid down his life to redeem them! And how wise, and thankful they are, though these also dream they are good Christians, true Protestants; and perhaps are so accounted by the most. As he that hath but one eye, may be King amongst the blind, and the commonness of offenders, may even benumb the sense of offending. And I take this their little regard of God, their own souls, and honesty withal, not only to be the cause of men's prospering no better, but likewise of their sadness, complaining, melancholy, and discontent, (as one of these two (poverty, or melancholy,) is commonly the lot of every impenitent person.) For how should they have merry hearts, that have not good consciences.  
But all are not alike, ●linde, sensual, ingrateful: For though some by loss of conscience, are become Atheists; and by loss of reason, Beasts; and though they that have no reason, will hear none, (whereof you have a lively instance or precedent, at the conclusion of this discourse, purposely set there to be sunned and scorned) yet others there are, will be more ingenuous, I mean, they have not been too long sick to be recovered; to whom a word or two by way of advice.  
Such therefore as had not rather live in the darkness of Egypt, then in the light of Goshen: Such as would not (with those foolish virgins, Matth. 25.) lose their inheritance, to save charge of the conveyance. And (with that Rich fool, Luke 12.) be disappointed of their end, by mistaking their way, let them at least, lay out the third part of a shilling upon these three new Books.  


An Experimental Index of the Heart.  
A short and sure way to Grace and Salvation.  
The trial of true wisdom.    
As treating upon the most needful subjects, and being purposely projected and contrived for their eternal welfare, that are altogether mindless of their own: And possible it is, that many thereby may receive more good, then at present they have the wit to wish for, or desire: it being sage, seasonable, and wholesome Instruction, to prevent Destruction.  
And that no man may imagine it a matter of benefit: the Projector (contrary to other Projectors) will not only lose thereby; but in case any shall repent their bargain, the Venders of them (Henry Cripps in Popes-head Alley, and James Crump in Little Bartholmews Well-yard) shall return them their money when they please.   

A Charge drawn up against Drunkards, in a clearer print, that themselves also may read it.  
THe Drunkard is a strange chimaera, more prodigious than any Monster; Being in Visage a Man, but a Brotheus: in Heart, a Swine: in Head, a Shafalus: in tongue, an asp: in Belly, a Lump: in Appetite, a Leech: in Sloth, an Ignavus: a Jerff, for excessive devouring; a Goat, for Lust; a Siren, for Flattery; a Hyaena, for subtlety; a Panther, for Curelty. In envying, a basilisk: in Antipathy to all good, a Lexus: in hindering others from good, a Remora; in Life, a Salamander; in Conscience, a Ostrich; in Spirit, a devil; 1 In surpassing others in sin. 2 in tempting others to sin. 3 In drawing others to Perdition. Even the most despicable piece of all humanity, and not worthy to be reckoned among the Creatures which God made.   

These being small pieces, are sold only by James Crump, in Little Bartholmews, well-yard; And by Henry Cripps, in Popes-head Alley.  
FINIS.