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

6. That visible Privileges are no security from Satan: it's not enough to be baptized with water, unless we be also baptized with the holy Ghost, and with fire; it's not enough to be a Member of the visible Church, if we be not also of Christs invisible Flock: Satan is not terrified by these outward things, he is not afraid to assault those that are Christs nominally, and to endeavour to make them his own really. […] it teach us then to beware that we trust not in lying words, have a […] of crying The Temple of the Lord; Satan desires no better advantage […] us, then to draw us to rest secure upon this bottom. Bless God for our Privileges, but rest not in them; prize, but do […] them, if you would not be made the prey of Satan.

6. That visible Priviledges are no security from Satan: it's not enough to be baptized with water, unless we be also baptized with the holy Ghost, and with fire; it's not enough to be a Member of the visible Church, if we be not also of Christs invisible Flock: Satan is not terrified by these outward things, he is not afraid to assault those that are Christs nominally, and to endeavour to make them his own really. 〈…〉 it teach us then to beware that we trust not in lying words, have a 〈…〉 of crying The Temple of the Lord; Satan desires no better advantage 〈…〉 us, then to draw us to rest secure upon this bottom. Bless God for our Priviledges, but rest not in them; prize, but do 〈…〉 them, if you would not be made the prey of Satan.

2 […], Let us all in particular learn righteousness by this monument that is before us let it awaken us all to reform our hearts and lives, to be more careful to and over our selves for the time to come; let it indeed appear that we have been proficients in this School of Gods Judgements, that God hath brought Correction and Teaching together, that so in the winding up it may be found an happy Judgement. Let us therefore apply it to our selves in our particular respects.