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

1. Let us consider the awfulness, of the Judgement it self: this is none of those ordinary dispensations of Gods Providence which are frequent and usual in the world, to be sure not among […]; it is no common sickness and calamity, and yet if it had been no more it had been our duty to have wisely considered it, and given attention to the voice of it; but it is extraordinary and stupendous: it is not usual for God to give Satan such liberty and power, so to rock and torture, so to hurry and perplex poor creatures, and therefore something […] special to be learned by us, when God has leaves the common track, and comes in so unwonted a way of Judgement.

1. Let us consider the awfulness, of the Judgement it self: this is none of those ordinary dispensations of Gods Providence which are frequent and usual in the world, to be sure not among 〈…〉; it is no common sickness and calamity, and yet if it had been no more it had been our duty to have wisely considered it, and given attention to the voice of it; but it is extraordinary and stupendious: it is not usuall for God to give Satan such liberty and power, so to rock and torture, so to hurry and perplex poor creatures, and therefore something 〈…〉 special to be learned by us, when God has leaves the common track, and comes in so unwonted a way of Judgement.

2. Consider how nearly we are related unto it above other in the Land: there is a voice in it to the whole Land, but in a more […] manner to poor Groton; it is not a Judgement afar off, but it is […] us, yea among us, God hath in his wisdom singled out this […] Town our of all others in this Wilderness, to dispense such an amazing Providence in, and therefore let us make a more near and special ⟨p. 33⟩use of it: Let us look upon our selves to be set up as a Beacon upon […] Hill by this Providence, and let those that hear what hath been done among us, hear also of the good effects, and reformation it hath wrought among us.