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Rh they will keep houſe, but preſently they fall to beggary and poverty: I trow it falls out to be ſo with many of you that is the profeſſors in this generation: ye take up your religion, and ye wot not how, and ye cannot give an account how ye came by it I'll tell you, ſirs, ye will bide by Chriſt's back no longer than a ſtorm blow, then ye will quat his back, and deny his cauſe: ye had need to take heed to this, it will ruin your ſouls in the end of the day. But I will tell you more, ſirs, the right way in covenanting with God is, when Chriſt and the believer firſt meets, our Lord gives him his laws and his ſtatutes, and he charges him not to quat a hoof, no, and ye ſhould be torn in a thouſand pieces, and the right covenanter ſays, Amen. O but, you people of God (like fools) would have your ſtock in your own hand, but and ye had it, ye would ſoon debuſh it, as your old father Adam did; Adam got once his ſtock in his own hand, but he ſoon played it at the capy-hole one morning with the devil at two or three throws of the game; he loſt you all that is his poſterity. But now our bleſſed Second ADAM hath our ſtock in guiding, and he tutors it better, he will give you but as ye have need of it, people of God, in groats, ſixpences, and ſhillings. But and he fetch any of you to the gallows for him, he will give you dollars in your hands, ye ſhall not need to fear, he will bear your charges to the full.

Now ye in this country-ſide, e'er it be long, ye will all be charged to go and hear theſe curſed curates, and when ye are charged to go there, look the vth of the Galatians, 19 and 20 verſes; I ſay look to that ſcripture well, and think with yourſelves that day (poor lads and laſſes in this country-ſide) that ſuch a fool as I have told you it, that going to hear theſe profane hirelings, would take you to hell as ſoon as idolatry, adultery, witchcraft, or any of theſe ſins which is named in that place I have cited to you But now perſecuted people of God, Fear not at the croſs, for D 2