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

Use▪ II. For Reproof. And here let me come home in this Use an• the next, to the case and providence which hath occasioned this days solemnity, the awful Judgement of God that is among us: and the Reproof is, That the Judgements of God that have befallen us, and in particular this great Judgement, is no more nor better made ⟨p. 30⟩use of by us then it is. Let this consideration have its weight in humbling us this day before God.

Ʋse▪ II. For Reproof. And here let me come home in this Use an• the next, to the case and providence which hath oc•asioned this dayes solemnity, the awful Judgement of God that is among us: and the Reproof is, That the Judgements of God that have befallen us, and in particular this great Judgement, is no more nor better made ⟨p. 30⟩use of by us then it is. Let this consideration have its weight in humbling us this day before God.

1. We may all chide with our own hearts, that we are no more affected with it, that there is so much ice and coldness in us, that our affections are scarce warmed with such a providence; we may lay our hands upon our mouths, and be angry with our selves, that we find such a chilness upon our affections. But

1. We may all chide with our own hearts, that we are no more affected with it, that there is so much ice and coldness in us, that our affections are scarce warmed with such a providence; we may lay our hands upon our mouthes, and be angry with our selves, that we finde such a chilness upon our affections. But