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

1. Sometimes a private person may be the occasion of a general and public Calamity: Acha• is the disturber of Israel; Israel is charged with his sin, and fly before their enemies: we read of nothing else that the Lord charges upon them, but only his sin.

1. Sometimes a private person may be the occasion of a general and publick Calamity: Acha• is the disturber of Israel; Israel is charged with his sin, and fly before their enemies: we reade of nothing else that the Lord charges upon them, but onely his sin.

2. General is made up of particulars, and thou art one of those particulars, and therefore mayest well examine thy self upon the account of public and general visitations. If every one should so excuse themselves, where should the sin be found? God saith, In thee are found such, &c. Ezek. 22. he doth not there lay every particular sin upon all, yet all these went together to make up the provocation of Gods wrath, and procure their public Calamity.

2. General is made up of particulars, and thou art one of those particulars, and therefore mayest well examine thy self upon the account of publick and general visitations. If every one should so excuse themselves, where should the sin be found? God saith, In thee are found such, &c. Ezek. 22. he doth not there lay every particular sin upon all, yet all these went together to make up the provocation of Gods wrath, and procure their publick Calamity.