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

4. Consider how sad it will be for us, if we be not awed and affected with this Judgement, if we learn nothing by it: Oh how much will God have against us, above others! the nearer he hath come to us, and the more we are concerned in it, and the louder the Cry hath been to us, will all have their particular weight to increase our condemnation, God will lay every circumstance to our charge, and as he hath singularly revealed his mind to us in it, so he will have a singular provocation by it. Oh! little do we know how much this providence slighted and misimproved will add to the weight of our sins, and increase of our woes. Let it then be a solemn lesson to teach us Righteousness. For Direction:

4. Consider how sad it will be for us, if we be not awed and affected with this Judgement, if we learn nothing by it: Oh how much will God have against us, above others! the nearer he hath come to us, and the more we are concerned in it, and the louder the Cry hath been to us, will all have their particular weight to increase our condemnation, God will lay every circumstance to our charge, and as he hath singularly revealed his minde to us in it, so he will have a singular provocation by it. Oh! little do we know how much this providence slighted and misimproved will adde to the weight of our sins, and increase of our woes. Let it then be a solemn lesson to teach us Righteousness. For Direction:

First, Let us all in general learn something by it, let it afford us some practical conclusions, which may be for our use and benefit to instruct and teach us in ways of Righteousness; namely,

First, Let us all in general learn something by it, let it afford us some practical conclusions, which may be for our use and benefit to instruct and teach us in wayes of Righteousness; namely,