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

Reas. 3. From the nature of sin, which the more goodness of God it enjoys, the more it heightens it self into boldness and violence: Sodoms fullness (which called to glorify God) was an occasion of the crying sins that were among them; hence they pull down wrath, and there is no remedy.

Reas. 3. From the nature of sin, which the more goodness of God it enjoyes, the more it heightens it self into boldness and violence: Sodoms fulness (which called to glorifie God) was an occasion of the crying sins that were among them; hence they pull down wrath, and there is no remedy.

Use. This may convince us of a great deal of the Goodness and rich Mercy of God expressed to us-ward in this very thing, in that he hath not brought our Calamity and Desolation on us all at once, but hath come by degrees, he hath not dealt with us as with Sodom, whose desolation came in a day, sudden as a Whirlwind; whose morning was fair and clear, who saw the Sun shine upon them, the same day wherein they were overwhelmed with a storm of Fire and Brimstone. Our Sun hath been obscured, our day brought to the twilight, before sudden and thick darkness: these are tokens of Gods long suffering and great favour towards us; hereby God gives us further warning, and more space to repent. Oh let us then make this use of it; God shows by this that he is willing to be stopped in his way, to accept the sacrifices of an humble spirit.

Ʋse. This may convince us of a great deal of the Goodness and rich Mercy of God expressed to us-ward in this very thing, in that he hath not brought our Calamity and Desolation on us all at once, but hath come by degrees, he hath not dealt with us as with Sodom, whose desolation came in a day, sudden as a Whirlwind; whose morning was fair and clear, who saw the Sun shine upon them, the same day wherein they were overwhelmed with a storm of Fire and Brimstone. Our Sun hath been obscured, our day brought to the twilight, before sudden and thick darkness: these are tokens of Gods long suffering and great favour towards us; hereby God gives us further warning, and more space to repent. Oh let us then make this use of it; God shews by this that he is willing to be stopt in his way, to accept the scifices of an humble spirit.