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

4. Let it awaken you to watch your ways and actions, to be careful to your lives and courses, how you carry it before them who are yet in their vanity, lest Satan make you his Stales to allure poor souls by. If the Devil can belie the people of God to encourage others to hearken to him, be sure he will make his market of your failings, negligent walkings, and whatsoever is done amiss by you at one time or other, to draw others more seriously after him; and will it not be a sad thing that souls should follow Satan to their eternal ruin and perdition, and you the live-birds that have drawn them into this net? For the Lords sake, for the love you bear to poor souls, if there be any pity, any compassion, any desire to Gods glory, or others Salvation, look to your ways, and see they be exemplary.

4. Let it awaken you to watch your wayes and actions, to be carefull to your lives and courses, how you carry it before them who are yet in their vanity, lest Satan make you his Stales to allure poor souls by. If the Devil can belye the people of God to encourage others to hearken to him, be sure he will make his market of your failings, negligent walkings, and whatsoever is done amiss by you at one time or other, to draw others more seariesly after him; and will it not be a sad thing that souls should follow Satan to their eternal ruine and perdition, and you the live-birds that have drawn them into this net? For the Lords sake, for the love you bear to poor souls, if there be any pity, any compassion, any desire to Gods glory, or others Salvation, look to your wayes, and see they be exemplary.

Secondly, You that are Unregenerate, labour to hear the voice of God in this Providence, and learn by it.

Secondly, You that are Ʋnregenerate, labour to hear the voice of God in this Providence, and learn by it.