iniquities the Devil gained great advantage, would bring great sorrow and trouble on our heads, and in fine we have waded through an ocean of tribulation and mean abuse, practised upon us by the illbred and the ignorant, such as , , , , and various others who are so very ignorant that they cannot appear respectable in any decent and civilized society, and whose eyes are full of adultery and cannot cease from sin. Such characters as , , , & who are too mean to mention and we had like to have forgotten. and whose hearts are full of corruption, whose cloak of hypocracy was not sufficient to shield them or to bear them up in the hour of trouble, who after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ became again entangled and overcome, their latter end is worse than the beginning. But it has happened <​unto them​> according to the words of the Saviour, “The dog has returned to his vomit, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.[”] Again if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin but rather a certain fearful looking of judgement and fiery indignation to come which shall devour these adversaries. For he who despied Moses’ Law, died without mercy under two or three witnesses, of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall we he be thought worthy who hath sold his brother and denied the by which he was sanctified calling it an unholy thing, and doing despite the unto the spirit of grace.