REpent thou Bloody City , ( who doth , and hath long Crucified the Just , and caused Him to suffer ; ) whose Pride and Hipocrisie , Deceit and Dissembling , hath reached unto Heaven ; the God of Heaven hath seen thy Abomination , and the Cup of flatteries , and deceitful Abominations that thou hast given to the Heads of this Nation , and doth give to every Change of Government , and every Power that comes up to Rule ; thou can bow in thy deceitful flatteries , according to the Priests of the Nation , for thy own Ends : But the Righteous God hath seen you all , and doth see you , and he will uncover you , and lay your Abominations open , and rend off all your false Coverings , under which you may nide your selves from Men , but the Lord sees through them , And He will Uncover you , and make your nakednesse appear , yea your professing Coverings , and out-side adorning , and seeming Religion , under which you have Committed great Abominations , and Dissembling both with God and Man ; the day is come wherein you cannot hide your selves .

Doth not even the Witnesse of God in your own Consciences , that Bears Testimony for the Truth of God ; This that tells you , You should deal singly and uprightly with all men , this that tells you , You should do unto all men as you would have them do unto you ; Doth not this bear Testimony to your very Faces , that you are deceitful and dissembling Hypocrites , Time-servers , and Men-pleasers , that have so used your Wit and Policy , and acted so in Deceit , Dissembling and Hypocrisie , that the most part of you have kept your selves out of Sufferings all these times of Suffering , which have been nigh twenty years ; And few or none in the Nation have escaped the Scourge of Suffering as you have done ; but they have suffered by one party or another , which you have escaped through your Policy and Subtilty ? — Did you not strengthen , uphold and maintaine , with all your force and strength , the long Parliament against the King and those that were with him ? And did you not Feast them and bow under them for your own ends ? And did you not Feast Oliver Cromwell , with as much Acclamation and Solemnity as your Hearts could invent ? Is not your Feasting only to please men ? but it is a great Abomination to the Lord and destructive to the Creation : Oh the excesse , and Abomination , and wicked inventions that are exercised by you at such times ! they are even heavy to bear ; surely God hath seen it , and he will reward you according to your VVorkes .

And surely , if the Lord had not amongst you a Seed , you should be as Sodom , and be made even like unto Gomorah ; For the Lord may well say unto you , The shew of your Countenance doth VVitness against you , and you declare your sin as Sodom , and hi●es it not , you strengthen the Hands of the wicked , that none can return from his wickedness : And you are unto the Lord as Sodom and Gomorah , and it may well be said unto you , as it was unto Jerusalem , It will be more tollerable for Sodom and Gomorah in the day of Judgement then for you ; For you have been the destruction of many Nations , in that you have made so much Profession of God , and of Christ , and of the Scriptures , but the fruits that you have brought forth , hath been Pride , Hypocrisie and Deceit , Fulness of Bread , Excess of Riot and Drunkenness , Chambering and VVantonness , yea all Sin and Abomination that could be committed ; Insomuch that the very Heathens in several parts of the World , are even ashamed of your practises ; Your Deceit and Dissembling is so manifested amon●●eople , that have not made such a Profession , that even the Name of a Christian is odious in many parts of the World . But this is the Fruits that your much Preaching and Profession brings forth , which is not in the Life and Power of God , and so is even a stinke to the Nations : Well may the Lord say , How shall I pardon thee for this ? Thy Children have forsaken me , When I had fed them to the full , then they committed Adultery , and assembled themselves by Troops , they were as fed Horses in the morning ; Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord ? And Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this ? Go ye up upon her Walls and destroy , but make not a full end : Take away her Battlements , for they are not the Lords . Surely the Lord hath seen , and doth see the abomination and wickedness that is committed , and set up , and countenanced among you ; and he cannot passe by it , but must avenge the Abomination of it .

Can your Hearts endure , or can your Hands be strong in the dayes that the Lord doth deal with you according to your works , who despiseth the day of the Lord , and despiseth his People , and will have none of his Wayes , nor none of his Counsell ; but will have those wayes and worships in which you may have Liberty to act according to your own hearts Lust , and according to the evill of your wayes , and abominations of your hearts ? But the day of the Lord is come , which will burn as an Oven , and the wicked , and them that do wickedly , will be before him as Stubble ; and then What will you answer him ? When the Lord pleads with you by Sword and by Fire , how can you stand in his Presence , who hath Acted against him , and are in continuall Rebellion against the God of Heaven , spending his Creatures upon your Lusts , and setting your Hearts to work Abomination against him , by all wayes that you can invent ? What can you Plead for your selves , when he comes to call you to an account for those things ? Can you say to him that you acted those things to please men , and to humour men , and to turn mens hearts towards you for your own ends , though they have been one against another , and you really true to none but for serving of your time ? Will this stand before a just and Righteous God . who can by no means clear the guilty ? I tell you , Nay .

Oh Consider in this your day the things that belong to your Peace : Ye know not how near the hand of the Lord may be to smite you , for you have been A Sinful , Provoking , and Aggravating People against God , and unto this very day abound in Pride and VVickedness : And you have been warned from the Lord by a dispised People , by which God will be clear from your blood ; though you have taken little notice , and given little regard , yet God will be thereby justified , and you condemned : So if you love your souls , Repent , and turn to the Lord , and put away the evill of your Doings ; Cease to do evil , and learn to do well , that the Lord may have mercy on you , VVho delights in mercy : At the time of Ignorance God wincked , but now he warnes all men every where to repent : And remember that you are once more Warned .