Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy delivered…

6: A People forsaken of God are in the road way to all misery: we read, God forsakes his Tent which was in Shiloh, and what follows, but ruin and waste, and an universal deluge of destruction: all woes follow when he is gone, Hos. 9. 12. and reason there is for it, for his favour is the life of a people, his protection is their only defence; well may it therefore be said of a people, deserted by God, their rock hath sold them into the hands of misery: fear we therefore to provoke God to leave us. Consider,

6: A People forsaken of God are in the road way to all misery: we read, God forsakes his Tent which was in Shiloh, and what follows, but ruine and waste, and an universal deluge of destruction: all woes follow when he is gone, Hos. 9. 12. and reason there is for it, for his favour is the life of a people, his protection is their only defence; well may it therefore be said of a people, deserted by God, their rock hath sold them into the hands of misery: fear we therefore to provoak God to leave us. Consider,

1. All our blessings are in his hand, he holds us at his dispose, if any people in the World, then to be sure we are at Gods provision, who have no store but what his yearly blessing brings in unto us.

2. Sin will provoke him to leave us, for he is a God of purer eyes then to behold iniquity, i. e. with love, liking or approbation; his holiness engageth him to manifest signal discoveries of the contrariety which he hath against sin.