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

3. Hence let it be a loud Cry to you to Repentance: You have had many Cries in your ears from the Word, but you have not believed the report which Gods Messengers have brought. Oh that you would believe when God adds such a Confirmation to the truth of his Word! read your own state in this poor Monument, and think by what you see in her, what is like to become of you in the state you are in; hearken, and you may hear God crying to you by her, Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

3. Hence let it be a loud Cry to you to Repentance: You have had many Cries in your ears from the Word, but you have not believed the report which Gods Messengers have brought. Oh that you would believe when God addes such a Confirmation to the truth of his Word! reade your own state in this poor Monument, and think by what you see in her, what is like to become of you in the state you are in; hearken, and you may hear God crying to you by her, Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Lastly, let me return once again to all that are here in Gods presence this day to humble themselves before him: learn we hence, for this day, and hence-forward, these two Lessons.

1. Let us all examine by this Providence what sins they have been, that have given Satan so much footing in this poor place: sure the voice of God is loud to us, and bids us to bring this matter upon ••rch; for though God be Sovereign yet it is to us a time of Consideration when Gods hand is out against us, Hag. 1. 7. Let it then bring us upon a serious Trial of our selves and ways, that we may be able to trace God in his Providence, and acknowledge his righteous Judgements; let us ask whether our Contentions have not set open this door, and invited Satan in? I am sure these carry a very great resemblance of the Devils Cloven Foot. Have not our Heart Divisions grieved away the Spirit of God, and given Satan this advantage? I am sure they leave a people faulty,