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

1. How few hearts have been affected? and not to be affected, is a degree of mocking: how few melting hearts? how few that hea• and fear? how few tremblers at the Word of God? or that with old Eli, sit by the way, trembling for the Ark of God? We can sit under the Convictions of the Word, and no whit convinced; little remorse when these burdens are laid upon us, and we go away and wipe our mouths, and say, What have I done? We (like deaf men) startle not when the Trumpet sounds, because we will not hear it.

1. How few hearts have been affected? and not to be affected, is a degree of mocking: how few melting hearts? how few that hea• and fear? how few tremblers at the Word of God? or that with old Eli, sit by the way, trembling for the Ark of God? We can sit under the Convictions of the Word, and no whit convinced; little remorse when these burdens are laid upon us, and we go away and wipe our mouthes, and say, What have I done? We (like deaf men) startle not when the Trumpet sounds, because we will not hear it.

2. What little care is there to return and meet God by repentance, and what is this better then to slight and mock God?

Obj. But many days of Humiliation have been kept?

Obj. But many dayes of Humiliation have been kept?