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

1. A natural fear, which may be stirred up at the first hearing of Threatenings, and discovery of tokens presaging Calamity; the sight of dismal Clouds, and the noise of some terrible Thunder-cracks, do at the first carry a kind of consternation along with them: and this makes men, till by degrees they outgrow their affrightment, to be very sedulous to know what these things mean.

1. A natural fear, which may be stirred up at the first hearing of Threatnings, and discovery of tokens presaging Calamity; the sight of dismall Clouds, and the noise of some terrible Thunder-cracks, do at the first carry a kinde of consternation along with them: and this makes men, till by degrees they outgrow their affrightment, to be very sedulous to know what these things mean.

2. A naturally busy talkative spirit, that loves to be busy, talking and discoursing, many affect to be in discourse, and hence they enquire that they may have something to spend time in discourse.

2. A naturally busie talkative spirit, that loves to be busie, talking and discoursing, many affect to be in discourse, and hence they enquire that they may have something to spend time in discourse.

3. A desire to be thought wise, discerning and prudent, hence men will enquire for light: we love to have the esteem for prudence and discretion, to be accounted men of discerning spirits, that observe and know the times, and hence take some pains in searching.