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

2. A Warning; and also the night: i. e. as you have your morning, so assure your selves you shall have your night; think not, nor deceive your selves into such a foolish hope, as to promise your selves you shall never see adversity, because you now live at ease and prosper.

3. The words carry in them the face of an Argument: he compares their condition to a Natural day, in which there are two constituting parts, viz. Day and Night, light and darkness, which naturally follow one upon another: the day of the people of God usually (as the Natural day) begins with darkness, and ends in light; the wickeds day begins with morning, but shall end with night. Hence if they look for night to follow the clearest day▪ why do they dream as if sorrow could not come in the room of their present pleasure and delight? Hence

Doct. 1. God may afford a sinning people; a people designed for wrath, a long morning of prosperity. Edoms Morning cometh, endureth a great while: God thus spared the Amorites an hundred and forty ⟨p. 61⟩years, bare with the old World an hundred and twenty.

Doct. 1. God may afford a sinning people; a people designed for wrath, a long morning of prosperity. Edoms Morning cometh, endureth a great while: God thus spared the Am•rites an hundred and fourty ⟨p. 61⟩years, bare with the old World an hundred and twenty.