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

4. That no person that sees on hears of Gods Judgements is unconcerned: if he be an inhabitant of this world, there is a voice to him. Learn we therefore to have a care of disinteresting our selves, or saying, What relation hath this or that to me?

5. That the more of Gods Judgements have been among a people▪ the more God will have against them, if they repent not; God will have despised Judgements to lay to their charge: it will be an heavy aggravation of such a peoples sin, that they have not only had and enjoyed Gods Ordinances among them, but those backed with his Truth-confirming Providences, speaking once and again, speaking to many Senses at once, and yet they have got nothing by them; this is an argument of an exceeding hard heart. Gods Judgements in this world, if we repent not, will not mitigate but increase our judgements and woes in another.

5. That the more of Gods Judgements have been among a people▪ the more God will have against them, if they repent not; God will have despised Judgements to lay to their charge: it will be an heavy aggravation of such a peoples sin, that they have not onely had and enjoyed Gods Ordinances among them, but those backed with his Truth-confirming Providences, speaking once and again, speaking to many Senses at once, and yet they have got nothing by them; this is an argument of an exceeding hard heart. Gods Judgements in this world, if we repent not, will not mitigate but increase our judgements and woes in another.

Use II. For Reproof. And here let me come home in this Use and the next, to the case and providence which hath occasioned this days solemnity, the awful Judgement of God that is among us: and the Reproof is, That […] Judgements o God that have befallen us, and […] more nor […] made