to be removed like a Cottage, yea, it is, because transgression is
so heavy upon it, like to fall and rise no more. Isa. 24. 20.

O! that I could mourn for England, and for the sins that are
committed therein, even while I see that without repentance, the
men of Gods wrath are about to deal with us, each having his
slaughtering weapon in his hand: (Ezek. 9. 1, 2.) Well, I have
written, and by Gods assistance shall pray, that this flood may
abate in England: and could I but see the tops of the Mountains
above it, I should think that these waters were abating.

2. It is the duty of those that can, to cry out against this
deadly plague, yea, to lift up their voice as with a Trumpet
against it; that men may he awakened about it, flye from it, as
from that which is the greatest of evils. Sin pull'd Angels out of
Heaven, pulls men down to Hell, and overthroweth Kingdoms. Who,
that sees an house on fire, will not give the Allarum to them that
dwell therein? who that sees the Land invaded, will not set the
Beacons on a fame? Who, that sees the Devils, as roaring Lyons,
continually devouring souls, will not make an Out-cry? But above
all, when we see sin, sinful sin, a swallowing up a Nation, sinking
of a Nation, and bringing its Inhabitants to temporal, spiritual,
and eternal ruine, shall we not cry out, and cry, They are drunk,
but not with Wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink; they
are intoxicated with the deadly poyson of sin, which will, if its
malignity be not by wholsom means allayed, bring Soul and Body, and
Estate and Countrey, and all, to ruin and destruction?

3. In and by this my Out-cry, I shall deliver my self from the
ruins of them that perish: for a man can do no more in this