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

1. Learn by it that Satan is busy in places of Gospel light, to seduce and draw away Souls from attending the means of grace. The Light of the Gospel doth not clear and free places from Satan or his bold Temptations, these infernal Spirits of darkness will come thither, and there endeavour to raise mists and fogs to seduce souls; and therefore let us learn not to live securely under the enjoyment of the Gospel of grace, but to spend our time of sojourning here in holy fear.

1. Learn by it that Satan is busie in places of Gospel light, to seduce and draw away Souls from attending the means of grace. The Light of the Gospel doth not clear and free places from Satan or his bold Temptations, these infernal Spirits of darkness will come thither, and there endeavour to raise mists and fogs to seduce souls; and therefore let us learn not to live securely under the enjoyment of the Gospel of grace, but to spend our time of sojourning here in holy fear.

2. That there is no place free, no not the House of God from Satan's Temptations: when thou art in Gods House, and thy bodily presence to attend the Ordinances, the dispensing of the Gospel, Satan will come thither, as he often did to this poor creature, he will do all he can to steal away thy mind and meditation, he will begin a par• with thee that shall last as long as the Sermon, and thou shalt go away without receiving one word of instruction. Oh how can •e please thy fancy, and delude thy soul! and therefore let it awaken thee to be careful to keep thy foot when thou comest to the house of God, if thou wouldest not offer the sacrifice of fools, Eccles. 5. 1. The feet of the soul are the Affections, learn to be more watchful over them, to keep them from wandering, lest Satan meet and make a prey of them, and so steal away the feed of the Word from thee.

2. That there is no place free, no not the House of God from Satans Temptations: when thou art in Gods House, and thy bodily presence to attend the Ordinances, the dispensing of the Gospel, Satan will come thither, as he often did to this poor creature, he will do all he can to steal away thy minde and meditation, he will begin a par with thee that shall last as long as the Sermon, and thou shalt go away without receiving one word of instruction. Oh how can e please thy fancy, and delude thy soul! and therefore let it awaken thee to be careful to keep thy foot when thou comest to the house of God, if thou wouldest not offer the sacrifice of fools,