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

2. Others understand it to be spoken in a flouring way, and so they call the Prophet Watchman by way of derision; as if they should say, Isaiah, you pretend to be a Watchman, and have foretold much of the time of trouble and desolation to come upon us, but we still enjoy the morning of prosperity, we are a free people, and not in subjection; come, what do you say to it now? Either interpretation will stand with the Analogy of Faith: though I think the latter to be ⟨p. 49⟩more suitable to the Answer given in the following verse; in which sense the doubling of the Question is an aggravation of the scoff in a sarcasmous speech.

2. Others understand it to be spoken in a flouring way, and so they call the Prophet Watchman by way of derision; as if they should say, Isaiah, you pretend to be a Watchman, and have foretold much of the time of trouble and desolation to come upon us, but we still enjoy the morning of prosperity, we are a free people, and not in subjection; come, what do you say to it now? Either interpretation will stand with the Analogie of Faith: though I think the latter to be ⟨p. 49⟩more suitable to the Answer given in the following verse; in which sense the doubling of the Question is an aggravation of the scoff in a sarcasmous speech.

From these words observe,

Doct. 1. Times of Calamity are fitly compared to the night season.