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

2. Consider how nearly we are related unto it above other in the Land: there is a voice in it to the whole Land, but in a more especial manner to poor […]; it is not a Judgement afar off, but it is near us, yea among us, God hath in his wisdom singled out this poor Town out of all others in this Wilderness, to dispense such an amazing Providence in, and therefore let us make a more near and special ⟨p. 33⟩use of it: Let us look upon our selves to be set up as a […] upon a Hill by this Providence, and let those that hear what hath been done among us, hear also of the good effects, and reformation it hath wrought among us.

2. Consider how nearly we are related unto it above other in the Land: there is a voice in it to the whole Land, but in a more especial manner to poor 〈…〉; it is not a Judgement afar off, but it is near us, yea among us, God hath in his wisdome singled out this poor Town out of all others in this Wilderness, to dispense such an amazing Providence in, and therefore let us make a more near and special ⟨p. 33⟩use of it: Let us look upon our selves to be set up as a 〈…〉 upon a Hill by this Providence, and let those that hear what hath been done among us, hear also of the good effects, and reformation it hath wrought among us.

3. Consider what advantage we have above others to be affected with it: others indeed may hear of it, relations may be carried from one place to another, and that may affect, yet not so much as when it is seen. Why, we may say as Job, I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye sees thee. Reports may be carried various, and that may wound a great part of the credit of it abroad in the world, as not knowing how or where to fasten their belief; however, when never so truly reported, it cannot carry the life of the thing with it: but we have seen, yea seen such things as one would think might melt, or break an heart of stone; we may carry about with us every day, the very portraiture of those Hellish and Diabolical Cruelties, those strange Gestures, those dreadful Voices: and therefore if we be not awed and affected by it, who should?