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Iudgment day.
Take heed, how you put it f••rre* 1.1 away, and so be Secure in sinning: for thus saith our Sa∣viour, But if that evill Servant shall say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his comming; and shall begin to smite his fellow Servants, and to eate and to drinke with the Drunken. The Lord of that Servant shall come in a day, when he looketh not for him; and in an houre, that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder &c. Mat. 24. 48, 49, 50, 51. 'Tis the only way, to make you neglect, to get oyle in your lamps; the Danger whereof, you may see in the Parable of the Foolish Virgins c. 25. 3, 12. It will be in vaine, to plead, non putaram, I was not AWARE; Foolishnesse will be no excuse. you slighted your Master, and the Bridegroome, while he was your Advocate; and now there will be no more pleading, no more place for an Advocate. I remember a saying of Cicero (speaking of Minos, and Rhadamanthus, whom the Poets make to be universall Judges in the life to come) apud quos nec te L. Crassus defendet, nec M. An∣tonius, &c. before whom, thou shalt not have either Crassus or Antony (two famous Ora∣tours of Rome) to plead for thee, l. Tusc: Q: