The heads of some sermons preached at Finnick, the 17 of August. 1662 By…

Then for Use, If it please the Lord to let you see your deliverance dawning like day upon the mountains, then think that your difficulties are not all over. I will not say what way God may take to deliver us, but I am very apprehensive that whenever the deliverance shall come, there shall be multitudes of difficulties interwoven, that it shall be hard to discern it, whether it be a deliverance or not, it will look so like the contrary. And this I have thought ⟨p. 16⟩many times, What if there should a Party appear for the work of God in the fields, and be broken all to pieces, and yet that same Parties breaking contribute for the deliverance of the Church? So I say, when the deliverance first begins to dawn, do not think that your difficulties are over, ye may meet with some thing in the delivery that may be worse than all the trouble ye have seen, that ye will wish rather to be as ye were before than to abide it.

Then for Use, If it please the Lord to let you see your deliverance dawning like day upon the mountains, then think that your difficultys are not all over. I will not say what way God may take to deliver us, but I am very apprehensive that whenever the deliverance shall come, there shall be multituds of difficultys interwoven, that it shall be hard to discern it, whether it be a deliverance or not, it will look so like the contrary. And this I have thought ⟨p. 16⟩many times, What if there should a Party appear for the work of God in the fields, and be broken all to pieces, and yet that same Partys breaking contribute for the deliverance of the Church? So I say, when the deliverance first begins to dawn, do not think that your difficultys are over, ye may meet with some thing in the delivery that may be worse than all the trouble ye have seen, that ye will wish rather to be as ye were before than to abide it.

Use 2. I would not have the People of God to think that their deliverance waits upon their frame of spirit for it: I say, there may be something in the deliverance that will give you a frame of spirit; if the Lord give you a frame of spirit before the deliverance come, it is well; but I am very apprehensive there shall be something that will humble his People in Britain and Ireland more than ever ye have yet met with these years by-gone. God may do that in a night that will put them more to their prayers than all they have met with before.