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

1. Let this providence teach you to magnify Gods grace, that hath taken you out of Satan's Kingdom, and translated you into the Kingdom of his own Son. When-ever we see any left by God, and in any ways in the hand of Satan, and under his power, how should it fill us with God-glorifying thoughts, at the consideration of his wonderful love to us. Now is a time to consider who made the difference between two pieces of the same clay, to remember how opposite we were to any saving good, what pains God took with us, what persuasions he used, and how contumeliously we often handled his Spirit; to consider that if his love had not carried him against our hatred, had not he pitied us, when we did not, could not pity our selves, we had yet to this day been under the dominion of Hell.

1. Let this providence teach you to magnifie Gods grace, that hath taken you out of Satans Kingdome, and translated you into the Kingdome of his own Son. When-ever we see any left by God, and in any wayes in the hand of Satan, and under his power, how should it fill us with God-glorifying thoughts, at the consideration of his wonderfull love to us. Now is a time to consider who made the difference between two pieces of the same clay, to remember how opposite we were to any saving good, what pains God took with us, what perswasions he used, and how contumeliously we often handled his Spirit; to consider that if his love had not carried him against our hatred, had not he pitied us, when we did not, could not pity our selves, we had yet to this day been under the dominion of Hell.

2. Let it awaken you to walk worthy of your vocation; you now see your calling, you are called one of Satan's kingdom, you are delivered from the powers of darkness, labour then to walk no longer in the vanity of your minds: Are you Gods Children? Live in holiness, 1 Pet. 1. 14, &c. Oh that this Providence might awaken those that have given up themselves to God and his Service, to consider whether we have not too much gratified Satan, by being too light, too vain, too excessive in taking liberty in worldly mirth and vanity, too little spiritual in our course and conversation among men. Let it then be a word of Warning to us to be more serious and cautious to our selves and ways for the time to come.