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

Use 2. This may certify the sinner, that God will take a time to reckon with him, the all-seeing eye sees thee, and cannot choose but take notice of thee, and he will call thee to an account, though he may seem to wink at present and not to take notice of thy ways and doings, but to let thee alone; yet I promise thee time will be when thou shalt know it to thy cost, that he is not such an one as thou art, nor did ever give his consent to and approbation of thy ways and doings: and therefore is there any here that lies and lives in sin; deceive not thy own soul, but let it awaken thee to look about thee, and make thy peace with God, for otherwise what he hath spoken he will perform, he will not come short of his threatenings any whit more then his pr•mises, let then that counsel be acceptable. Am. 4. ult. meet God with Repentance, before he meet us with his heavy plagues But I come from the Context to the words of the Text: God having counselled and warned them; the further to awaken and effect their hearts, and preserve them, sets a lively example before them: in every way suiting and answering the present state of Jerusalem, he therefore sets it forth. 1. By the title it once bare, the place &c. 2. By the evils which were brought upon it: where, 1. The author, God himself: what I did. 2. The procuring cause, the wickedness of my people Israel: Hence.

Use 2. This may certifie the sinner, that God will take a time to reckon with him, the alseeing eye sees thee, and cannot chuse but take notice of thee, and he will call thee to an account, though he may seem to wink at present and not to take notice of thy wayes and doings, but to let thee alone; yet I promise thee time will be when thou shalt know it to thy cost, that he is not such an one as thou art, nor did ever give his consent to and approbation of thy wayes and doings: and therefore is there any here that lyes and lives in sin; deceive not thy own soul, but let it awaken thee to look about thee, and make thy peace with God, for otherwise what he hath spoken he will performe, he will not come short of his threatnings any whit more then his pr•mises, let then that counsel be acceptable. Am. 4. ult. meet God with Repentance, before he meet us with his heavy plagues But I come from the Context to the words of the Text: God having counselled and warned them; the further to awaken and effect their hearts, and preserve them, sets a lively example before them: in every way suiting and answering the present state of Ierusalem, he therefore sets it forth. 1. By the title it once bare, the place &c. 2. By the evils which were brought upon it: where, 1. The author, God himself: what I did. 2. The procuring cause, the wickedness of my people Israel: Hence.