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

2. […] should learn Righteousness: the ⟨p. 32⟩Affections are the feet of the Soul, if these move not, there is little good to be hoped for in such an one, and therefore never look that such should get any good by it.

2. 〈…〉 should learn Righteousness: the ⟨p. 32⟩Affections are the feet of the Soul, if these move not, there is little good to be hoped for in such an one, and therefore never look that such should get any good by it.

Fourthly, Those that have lost their Affections: it may be many were at the first, at the newness and strangeness of the sight and spectacle, filled for a season with consternation; but now they are gotten to their old wont again, and recovered their frights and amazements, dried up their fears, and wiped their eyes, and they are where they were before: this shows that this Judgement had […] depth of efficacy upon your souls, it was only something external; it shows what your nature•s is. Oh, that's of a cold nature indeed, that will freeze while the fire is under it. Let all such consider, that they contemn God, and harden their own hearts, and if he do not wonderfully set in, it will be to their own destruction.

Fourthly, Those that have lost their Affections: it may be many were at the first, at the newness and strangeness of the sight and spectacle, filled for a season with consternation; but now they are gotten to their old wont again, and recovered their frights and amazements, dried up their fears, and wiped their eyes, and they are where they were before: this shews that this Judgement had 〈…〉 depth of efficacy upon your souls, it was onely something external; it shews what your nature•s is. Oh, that's of a cold nature indeed, that will freeze while the fire is under it. Let all such consider, that they contemn God, and harden their own hearts, and if he do not wonderfully set in, it will be to their own destruction.