Matters, then, being so, you will readily grant that they who go to be pleased, with any of those things which are hardly fit to be named; are wickedly bent, and live to the Scandal of that Religion they still make some shew to profess:  Tho’ not enough to give any hopes of their being reclaim’d, until we can find them perswaded indeed, that there is such a thing as Sin in the World, which will certainly have its Wages at last.

But for those who are satisfied of this, and wou’d be loath to savour so much as the Appearance of Evil, they must be beg’d to consider, what Vows they are under, and whereof they are made, and How much Weaker still many Others may be, and What Mankind must come to in time if this Humour prevails, and How much the next Life must be at this rate more wretched than this!

Who that reflected what it was to Renounce the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, wou’d play with the sharpest Weapons of these, and offer themselves to such apparent Danger in Sport? there’s not one of these Enemies but know how to take the utmost advantage, and will be sure to hit all the Blots that they give, they cannot without receiving some hurt, be so much as a Minate off from their Guard; and sure they do not come hither to Watch.

Who that had engaged to believe the Christian Faith, cou’d be content to see it exposed in every branch?  To have their Lord and Master affronted for pretending to Save, and his Ministers scorn’d for the work he gave them to do! to hear a Moment preferr’d to the hopes of Eternity, and the Judgment to come thrown off with a Jest!

Who that had promised Obedience to God in all his Wise and Holy Commands, would bear the seeing them not only broken with ease, as often as Mens Inclinations rose up against them, but charged as unconcernedly too with harshness and folly!  Their Souls one wou’d think shou’d be vex’d at such daring Impieties, and their Spirits stirr’d in them to see such Vices Adored; to find Lewdness vaunting it over Religion and Virtue, and usurping their place in a bold recommending itself to the affections of Men, with all those Advantages God design’d for the Adorning of Things that were really Good.

And who wou’d lightly endure all this, that from their Vows went on to reflect of what they were made?  I suppose they wou’d find as they often complain, that they are Weak and Infirm, that while this Flesh and Blood is about them, their Souls are heavy, apt to decline, and seldom continue long in one posture and stay; that the World is upon them where ever they go, and the Devil busily marking their steps in every Path.  That their Faith wavers upon many Surprises, their Hopes languish, and their Fervour decays; that in