Whose fault is this? Is it ours? Or your own? Why have not thousands more been reformed? Yea, for every one who is now turned to God, why are there not ten thousand? Because you and your associates laboured so heartily in the cause of hell; because you and they spared no pains, either to prevent or to destroy the work of God! By using all the power and wisdom you had, you hindered thousands from hearing the gospel, which they might have found to be the power of God unto salvation. Their blood is upon _your_ heads. By inventing, or countenancing, or retailing lies, some refined, some gross and palpable, you hindered others from profiting by what they did hear. _You_ are answerable to God for these souls also. Many who began to taste the good word, and run the way of God’s commandments, you, by various methods, prevailed on to hear it no more. So they soon drew back to perdition. But know, that for every one of these also, God will require an account of _you_ in the day of judgment. 34. * And yet, in spite of all the malice, and wisdom, and strength, not only of men, but of _principalities and powers_, of _the rulers of the darkness of this world_, of the _wicked spirits in high places_; there are thousands found, who are turned from _dumb idols, to serve the living and true God_. What a harvest then might we have seen before now, if all who say, they are _on the Lord’s side_, had come, as in all reason they ought, _to the help of the Lord against the mighty_? Yea, had they only _not opposed_ the work of God, had they only _refrained from_ his messengers; might not the trumpet of God have been heard long since in every corner of our land? And thousands of sinners in every county been brought to _fear God and honour the king_? Judge of what immense service we might have been, even in this single point, both to our king and country. All who hear and regard the word we preach, _honour the king_ for God’s sake. They _render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s_, as well as _unto God the things that are God’s_.――――They have no conception of _piety_ without _loyalty_; knowing _the powers that be, are ordained of God_. I pray God to strengthen all that are of this mind, how many soever they be. But might there not have been at this day, an hundred thousand in _England_, thus minded more than are now? Yea verily; even by _our_ ministry had not they who should have strengthened us, weakened our hands.