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

3. That there shall be a great Day of Judgement: for if some sinners are here taken, and others in this world forborne, according to the pleasure of Gods Sovereign will, this shows that there must be another day above and besides all these Judgement-days, wherein God sits upon some sinners in this world.

3. That there shall be a great Day of Judgement: for if some sinners are here taken, and others in this world forborn, according to the pleasure of Gods Soveraign will, this shews that there must be another day above and besides all these Judgement-dayes, wherein God sits upon some sinners in this world.

4. That there is no security in a state of sin, though we are not such notorious sinners as others, yet are we under sin; we lye open and liable to the Judgements of God, and may as soon as others be made monuments of it. It is no cloak to say, I am not as •ad as such and such: Art thou out from the promise of Gods special grace? thou art every day open to Judgement.

5. That there is no safety but in making our peace with God: if ••od sway the S•epter, and act his own pleasure upon sinners, we are ⟨p. 27⟩in a dangerous state▪ as long as we are not agreed with him, but have him for our adversary. And hence the conclusion is to teach men righteousness, to forsake those sins that are provoking to God, and lay hold upon him in a way of true Repentance, in time, for his mercy, lest we also be made monuments of his wrath: this is the voice of all the Judgements of God which they speak to the world.