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6 A 3d ort are, Ye who are plunging in the world, yet have no god but the world, that bears ay moſt ſway in your hearts: ye are but dead folk, ſirs, we maun lay you by: any that would reprove you for your worldly-mindedneſs, or for your exceſive covetouſneſs.——O (ſay ye) we muſt labour for our living, would ye have us let our handy-labour alone? But, O fool that thou art, and worldmonger that thou art, hath not Chriſt anſwered thee in that 6th of Matthew, 33d verſe, Seek firſt the kingdom of heaven and the righteouſneſs thereof, and all other things ſhall be aded to you.—O ſirs! will ye lipen to God, and give him credit, and he will help you at all your work: and ye would once covenant with him, friends, and make him your own; I'll tell you what he would do for you, he would plow your land, ſow your corn, and ſhear your corn, and ſell your corn, and bring home your money: I'll tell you what he will do (friends) as it were to rock the cradle, if it were needful for you: he will condeſcend as low as ye deſire him, but ye man once cloſe with him, and that upon his own terms, and make a ſurrender of your hearts to him.

And a 4th ſort that we man lay by as dead folk, and that is, Your graceleſs young folk, and old prophane folk, ye abuſe your time that ye ſhould ſerve God in: ye meet together houſefulls of you, dancing and leaping throw other; young men and young women of you with your graceleſs wanton mirth, and your luſts burning ſtrong within you, and ye think that ye have liberty to do this: ye will be angry if we call you adulterers or fornicators, God will account you ſo: and if ye get not repentance, ye are really ſerving the devil in your luſts, and theſe ſinful courſes. O ſirs, is this a time for ſuch a work? when God is threatening to lay poor Scotland deſolate: ye ſhould rather be mourning and crying to God for ſhelter in ſuch a dreadful ſtorm and ſad days that he hath to bring about on thoſe apoſtate backſliding covenant-breaking lands.