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

2. Hereupon they put the creature in mind of its ways and doings, what they have been; now conscience, if it be not altogether seared and benumbed, reads the creature a more close and severe Lecture then usual, now those sins that he had before lived in forgetfulness came afresh into his memory.

2. Hereupon they put the c•eature in mind of its ways and doings, what they have been; now conscience, if it be not altogether seared and benummed, reads the creature a more close and severe Lecture then usuall, now those sins that he had before lived in forgetfulness came afresh into his memory.

3. Hence they are to put the creature into fear of the same wrath and terror, as Scholars, when they see their Master take the rod in hand, to punish offenders; every one presently considers what his faults have been, and if he have been tardy, he stands quivering, and quaking, fearfully expecting when his time and turn will come to be called forth.

3. Hence they are to put the creature into fear of the same wrath and terror, as Scholars, when they see their Master take the rod in hand, to punish offendors; every one presently considers what his faults have been, and if he have been tardy, he stands quivering, and quaking, fearfully expecting when his time and turn will come to be called forth.

4. Now the soul is put upon the study and consideration how to prevent and escape severe and like plagues, now he be-thinks himself of making his peace of coming and seeking a pardon; for fear least by obstinacy he bring himself to ruin.