heart, though thou knewest all this. Dan. 5. A home reproof
indeed, but home is most fit for an open and continued-in
transgression.

Let those then that are the Offspring or relations of such, who by
their own sin, and the dreadfull Judgments of God, are made to
become a sign, (Deut. 16. 9, 10.) having been swept, as dung, from
off the face of the earth, beware, lest when Judgment knocks at
their door, for their sins, as it did before at the door of their
Pregenitors, it falls also with as heavy a stroak as on them that
went before them: Lest, I say, they in that day, instead of
finding mercy, find for their high, daring, and Judgment-
affronting-sins, Judgment without mercy.

To conclude, let those that would not dye Mr. Badmans death, take
heed of Mr. Badmans wayes: for his wayes bring to his end;
Wickedness will not deliver him that is given to it; though they
should cloak all with a Profession of Religion.

If it was a transgression of Old, for a man to wear a Womans
Apparel, surely it is a transgression now for a sinner to wear a
Christian Profession for a Cloak. Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing swarm
in England this day: Wolves both as to Doctrine, and as to
Practice too. Some men make a Profession, I doubt, on purpose that
they may twist themselves into a Trade; and thence into an Estate;
yea, and if need be, into an Estate Knavishly, by the ruins of
their Neighbour: let such take heed, for those that do such things
have the greater damnation.

Christian, make thy Profession shine by a Conversation according to