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

Secondly, You that are Unregenerate, labour to hear the voice of God in this Providence, and learn by it.

1. Let this Example teach you how cruel a Master you serve: you see here, that Satan (whatever pretences he makes, and fair promises he seeks to delude poor souls withal) is in his heart set against all mankind, and he seeks only to destroy them; and if once God less him loose, and gives him liberty, he will soon show his own nature, and give evidence of his Cruelty. This you have seen is but a little of that bitter spite he will exercise upon those who shall be wholly delivered into his hands. You have little cause to boast of your condition, its a cruel bondage, you are in the hands of one whose tender mercies are cruelty. Oh that this might make you weary of Satan's government, that it might make you begin to discover his policies, and flee from him.

1. Let this Example teach you how cruel a Master you serve: you see here, that Satan (whatever pretences he makes, and fair promises he seeks to delude poor souls withall) is in his heart set against all mankinde, and he seeks only to destroy them; and if once God less him loose, and gives him liberty, he will soon shew his own nature, and give evidence of his Cruelty. This you have seen is but a little of that bitter spight he will exercise upon those who shall be wholly delivered into his hands. You have little cause to boast of your condition, its a cruel bondage, you are in the hands of one whose tender mercies are cruelty. Oh that this might make you weary of Satans government, that it might make you begin to discover his policies, and flee from him.

2. Let it show you the great danger you go in every hour of being made a prey to Satan. Consider how ready this Adversary is to fasten his Talons upon poor creatures, if God permit him: and consider