Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…

2. Incorrigible obstinacy under gentler correction, Amos 4. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Scarcity, Mildews, Pestilence, and Sword had been upon them; and still these that remained, though saved as a brand out of the fire, in which their fellow sinners perished, would not return to God; and this hastened on the general ruin, ver. 12. This presages the ruin of Nations indeed.

2. Incorrigible obstinacy under gentler correction, Amos 4. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Scarcity, Mildews, Pestilence, and Sword had been upon them; and still these that remained, though saved as a brand out of the fire, in which their fellow sinners perished, would not return to God; and this hastened on the general ruine, ver. 12. This presages the ruine of Nations indeed.

3. Stupidity and senselessness of Gods hand was a sad Omen, and cause of that peoples ruin; So Isa. 26. 10, 11. Lord when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see. No nor yet when his hand is laid on, Isa. 42. 24, 25. It is not some small drop of Gods anger that passes without observation, but the fury of his anger; not some light skirmish of his judgments with them, but the strength of battle: Not in a corner upon some particular person, or family, but that which set him on fire round about; yet all this could not awaken them. He hath poured upon him the fury of his ⟨p. 167⟩anger, and the strength of battle, and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew it not, and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. Prodigious stupidity! to be in the midst of flames, yea, to be seized by them, and destroyed sooner than awakened. So you find again in