Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

Yes, much every way: Something in a way of Instruction, something in a way of Caution.

First, By way of instruction: I shall lay before you ten or eleven instructions that we may gain hereby.

First, If this story of Lot's Wife be true, and do live in our Memory, then why should not we stand and admire, and say, Lord, how unsearchable are ⟨p. 244⟩thy Judgments, and thy way's past finding out. Here are four, and but four that came out of Sodom, and yet one of the fo•r were destroyed: God may deliver our Family in the time of common Calamity, and yet some of our house may suffer. God in the midst of Judgment doth remember mercy: In the midst of Mercy he Remembers Judgment. In the midst of Judgment upon Sodom, he remembered mercy for Lot, and for his Family: In the midst of mercy upon Lot, and upon his Family, he remembered Judgment upon Lot's Wife. The same thing may be done by one in a way of Faith, and he may live, and done by another in a way of unbelief, and he may die. Abraham looked upon Sodom when Sodom was a burning, Abraham got up early in the morning, at the 27 ver. to the place where he stood before the Lord, and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the Land of the Plain, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the Country went up, as the smoke of a Furnace: Abraham beheld, and looked upon it in a way of believing and lived: Lot's Wife looks back in a way of unbelief, and she dies. The same thing may be done by one in a way of Faith, and live, and by another in a way of unbelief and die. But literally here, two shall be in one bed, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left; two shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left: Two in a bed, Lot and his Wife, one taken, and the other left: Two in a field, they were going both out of Sodom, one taken, and the other left; Lord how unsearchable are thy Judgments, and thy ways past finding out.