vigour and activity, which once they had in the ways of worship of God, much abated and de cayed before these judgments came upon London.

Awake, then, ye drowsy saints, awake! put on your garments which you have laid aside, to the discovery of your nakedness; shake yourselves from the dust which hath covered and sullied your faces, and loosen the bands of sleep. God hath been thundering, your Father hath been angry, and displeased with you as well as with others. Your God hath spoken in his jealousy, and he hath spoken in his fury; he hath spoken with a loud voice in righteousness and in judg

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Awake! ye children, your Father is stirring, and knocking, and calling; yea, he hath entered your chamber, and smitten you on this side and that; and yet will you not arise! He hath been crying in your ears, now he is looking and heark-` ening whether you will cry in his, and what you will say and do for the prevention of the ruin of England, which he seems to be threatening. It is high time to awake out of sleep, for now is the utter destruction of the city and nation nearer,' it may be, than you believe or imagine. Awake, then, put off your clothes of night and darkness, in which you have been sleeping, and put on your garments of light; clothe yourselves with humility, and begirt you with all your graces, ande get you to God's knee; hang about his arm, put yourselves in the breach; "It may be the Lord may think upon us, that we perish not." 1 2. The Lord doth now, after his speaking by terrible things, expect that London should stand

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in awe of him. God's judgments made this impression upon David, Psal. 119, 120, "My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments. And see how the prophet Habakkuk behaved himself, when God spake with a terrible voice, chap. iii. 2, &c. "O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: when God came down from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran, Selah; when the pestilence went before him, and burning coals went forth at his feet; when the nations were drove asunder, the everlasting mountains were scattered, and the perpetual hills did bow; when the tents of Cushan were in affliction, and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble: when God did ride upon horses, and his bow was made quite naked ; when the sun and moon did stand still in their habitations, at the light of his arrows that went forth, at the shining of his glittering spear; when God did march through the land in indignation, and walk through the sea with his horses, and did wound the head out of the house of the wicked, and did strike through habitations with his staves: at this, the prophet is afraid, his belly trembled, his lips quivered at the voice, rottenness entered into his bones," &c. And when God hath come down from heaven, the Holy One from Mount Sion, Selah. When the pestilence hath gone before him, and burning coals at his feet; when the Lord drove London asunder, scattered the inhabitants, and made the stately buildings to bow and fall, whose rearings up none can remember; when the tents of Lon don have been in affliction, and the curtains of t

city have trembled: when death had been riding upon horses, and his bow hath been made quite naked; when the heavens have been astonished at God's judgments, and the sun and moon have hid their heads in their habitations, at the shining of his glittering spear: when the Lord hath marched through the city in his indignation, hath wounded the heads of so many wicked with his arrows, and struck through so many habitations with his staves. Oh! how London should tremble and quiver, and stand in awe of this glorious Majesty, at the voice of these terrible judgments!

Read, and apply what the Lord speaketh by the prophet Isaiah, chap. xxxiii. 13, 14. "Hear ye that are afar off, what I have done, and ye that are near, acknowledge my might. The sinners of Sion are afraid, fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites; who among us shall dwell with de vouring fire? who among us shall inhabit everlasting burnings?" ver. 18. "Thine heart shall meditate terror: where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers ?"

Methinks the sinners now in London should be afraid, and fearfulness should surprise the hypocrites; when God hath sent so many of their number into the everlasting burnings of hell by the plague, and by such a devouring fire hath consumed so many habitations.

Tremble, ye sinners, at this, and be ye horribly afraid, all ye workers of iniquity! God hath come down with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. He hath taken his weapons This hand, and hath appeared in London as a

furious enemy; should not this make the sinners in the city to quake, and strike a dread upon the spirits of the rebellious? When the Lord hath spoken thus, and done thus, because of our sins, should not London, yea, all England, “hear and fear, and do no more so wickedly."

Because God was patient formerly, you presumed, Eccles. viii. 11. Because sentence against your evil works was not speedily executed; therefore your hearts were hardened and resolved in your evil ways. Because the Lord kept silence, you thought he was altogether such an one as yourselves, Psal. 1. You thought, it may be, that he took no more notice of you than you did of him, or that you had no more reason to fear him than he had to fear you. You thought, it may be, that God had forsaken the earth, or had hidden his face, and would never see your wickedness. And oh, how bold have you been, how audacious and fearless in sin! You were afraid to offend man, though a worm, and yet you have not been afraid to offend God, the King of the whole world. Men's laws have kept you from sins, but the laws of God have not put upon you the least restraint. You have lived and sinned as if there were no God; or as if he had been so gentle, and mild, and merciful, that you might do any thing to him, and he not be displeased with you; or, as if though he were displeased, yet his displeasure were not to be regarded, and that he had no power to execute vengeance upon you.

But now God's patience hath, in a great measure, been turned into fury. Now, sinners, you may perceive a little that God can be angry;

and when his anger is kindled but a little, if it doth express itself so dreadfully, what dreadful expressions will there be of it, when it breaks. forth into an open flame? If his anger be such in the day of some lighter, temporal judgments, what will it be in the day of the revelation of the treasures of it, upon all the wicked, at the appearance of Jesus Christ?

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But God's vengeance now in these judgments should work your hearts to a fear and awe of this righteous Judge, who hath done such executions in the city; it should bridle and stay you in that fearless course of sin, in which you were rushing on, as the horse rusheth into the battle. When Balaam's ass saw the angel stand in the with a drawn sword, he was afraid, and would not go forward, though spurred on, and beaten by his master. And when God stands in the way with his sword of judgment, which hath made such slaughter already, and is lifted up again to strike you, methinks you should be afraid and turn back. It is the way to hell that God stands in by his judgments; and will you break through all into those flames? Oh stand in awe, and sin not, commune with your own hearts. Consider what hath been doing in London, and who hath done these things. You have nearly escaped, it may be, with your lives; oh learn to fear the glorious and fearful name of the Lord God in these dreadful judgments.

And as God doth expect that the world and his enemies should stand in awe of him; so also much more, that the righteous and his people should. Some, it may be, when God gave them