A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse…

I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Let the hand of the Lord be never so heavy upon a person, yet the presence of God guiding and instructing ¹of him, will keep him from utter fainting and sinking under that hand. When the People of God are ²in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers, he leads and guides them, 1. into supernatural ways, Prov. 15. 24. The way of life is above to the Wise. He hath his feet where other mens heads are, and (like an heavenly Eagle) delights himself in flying high. 2. Into good ways, Jerem. 6. 16. 3. Into strait and strict ways, Mat. 7. 14. Hence they are called right or straight paths, which lie betwixt two extremes; or if you will, which directly lead you to the view of Heaven: they are paths which lie level with the rule, and with the end, a man may see Salvation and Heaven at the end of them. 4. Into pleasant ways, Prov. 3. 17. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace; such as were those of Adam before his fall, strawed with roses, and paved with peace; some degree of comfort, pleasantness & peace follows every good action, as heat accompanies fire, as beams and influences issue from the Sun. 5. Into right paths, Prov. 4. 11. I have taught thee in the way of wisdom: I have led thee in right paths. Hosea 1. 9. The ways of the Lord are right and the righteous shall walk in them: The ways of his will, the ways of his Word, and the ways of his worship are all right ways, they carry us on in a straight line unto a right end. 6. Into old and ancient ways, Jer. 6. 16. Ask for the old paths, where is the good way and walk therein, and ye shall find rest to your souls,