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

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.

3. If when he reproves our sins, we harden our selves in them, it is a sure sign that he is forsaking of us, Jer. 7. 28. Have we therefore given to God any provocation to unsettle himself, an think of a removal away from us: Oh let our repentance fetch him back and settle him.

3. If when he repoves our sins, we harden our selves in them, it is a sure signe that he is forsakeing of us, Jer. 7. 28. Have we therefore given to God any provocation to unsettle himselfe, an think of a removall away from us: Oh let our repentance fetch him back and settle him.

Lastly. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God: The Characters of Gods wrath, & impressions of his Judgements remaining upon Shiloh, teach us this Lesson: If God come once to abhor a people for their sins, and fall upon them in his Judgments; he meets them not as a man, but gives them a Divine stroke; if he be angry, his very countenance is terrible and amazing. Psal. 18. 8 &c. Hab. 3. what is he then, when he pours out his displeasure: Labour we then from the example of Shiloh, to fear and dread provoking the great God to wrath against us: what ever causes moving to this occasion, are in Gods goodness removed away from us, yet the remembrance of our sins is matter sufficient to humble us before God this day;