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

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.

Use III. For Exhortation and Direction. Oh let it be an awakening word of Counsel to us all. We are now come together to affect our souls with this stupend Judgement of God which is among us, the Lord in mercy grant that it may teach us Righteousness; the voice of God cries aloud by it to this poor Town in a special manner, the Lord give us an hearing ear: let it be our great request, that he would bore our ear to instruction, that it may not pass by without doing us true and saving good. For Motive:

Use III. For Exh•rtation and Direction. Oh let it be an awakening word of Counsel to us all. We are now come together to affect our souls with this stupend Judgement of God which is among us, the Lord in mercy grant that it may teach us Righteousness; the voice of God cries aloud by it to this poor Town in a special manner, the Lord give us an hearing ear: let it be our great request, that he would bore our ear to instruction, that it may not pass by without doing us true and saving good. For Motive: