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

Secondly, By his Providences: gathering of Clouds, and some ⟨p. 48⟩drops of rain presage a Sto••, Signs speak, the Rod hath a voice in i•, and may be heard, though it be but shaken over us.

2. Let the Patience of God break our hearts, and •ead us to repentance, Rom. 2. 4. Remember, God might have stricken when he warned us; he might have made our plagues seven times heavier, when he did lay some gentler stroke upon us; he might have made haste, begun, and made an end with us in one day, after he had so long in patience waited upon us.

3. Give credit to Gods Threatenings, do not think he is in jest, look at such times wherein Ordinances and Providences concur in denouncing wrath against us, to be real tokens of Divine Displeasure, and to have a loud voice in them; and therefore let it teach us to meet God, and that without delay.

3. Give credit to Gods Threatnings, do not think he is in jest, look at such times wherein Ordinances and Providences concur in denouncing wrath against us, to be reall tokens of Divine Displeasure, and to have a loud voice in them; and therefore let it teach us to meet God, and that without delay.