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

4. The night is a solitary time, breaks up societies, and scattereth them to their several Chambers, to feed upon their melancholic thoughts and fears. Troublesome times bring places full of inhabitants to fit solitary.

4. The night is a solitary time, breaks up societies, and scattereth them to their severall Chambers, to feed upon their melancholick thoughts and fears. Troublesome times bring places full of inhabitants to fit solitary.

Use. I. See here a Reason why the people of God ought to do their utmost to prevent the day of Calamity: though they shall get good by all Providences, yet no affliction is in it self joyous, but grievous, and they shall find a great deal of night of trouble at such a time. Hence wonder not to hear them so earnest to deprecate that day, and labour to with God for a prevention of it. Christ himself, in whom was no sin, begs again and again, if it be possible that the Cup might pass away from him; how much more they that have sin as well as sorrow to grapple withal.

Use. I. See here a Reason why the people of God ought to do their utmost to prevent the day of Calamity: though they shall get good by all Providences, yet no affliction is in it self joyous, but grievous, and they shall finde a great deal of night of trouble at such a time. Hence wonder not to hear them so earnest to depreca•e that day, and labour to with God for a prevention of it. Christ himself, in whom was no sin, begs again and again, if it be possible that the Cup might pass away from him; how much more they that have sin as well as sorrow to grapple withall.

Use II. See here the Analogy between Sin and Sorrow, both are in Scripture called darkness: hence the punishment is suitable to the fault, God pays men in their own Coin; if men will hurry themselves