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

Use II. Learn hence how faithful God is to us, how unfaithful soever we be to him, and to our own souls; might we have our own desires, we would hear nothing else but soothing and pleasant words; he that preacheth sin and wrath, is a Legalist, a Micaiah, he never speaks good to us; thus would we go sleeping and secure to Hell, run our selves jocundly into all misery, such enemies are we to our own souls: but how faithful is God, who seeing us falling into the seas of wrath, sends to awaken us out of our sleep, to tell us of our evil ways, and to reclaim, and bring us back. That God hath ordained and set up the Office of the Ministry under that solemn and dreadful charge, As they will answer it in the great day, If they will not bring ⟨p. 60⟩the guilt of the blood […] upon their own heads, to tell sinners of their ways, and […] seasonable and constant warning; herein is the Faithfulness of God, and his great Goodness wondrously exalted.

Use II. Learn hence how faithful God is to us, how unfaithful soever we be to him, and to our own souls; might we have our own desires, we would hear nothing else but soothing and pleasant words; he that preacheth sin and wrath, is a Legallist, a Micaiah, he never speaks good to us; thus would we go sleeping and secure to Hell, run our selves jocundly into all misery, such enemies are we to our own souls: but how faithful is God, who seeing us falling into the seas of wrath, sends to awaken us out of our sleep, to tell us of our evil wayes, and to reclaim, and bring us back. That God hath ordained and set up the Office of the Ministry under that solemn and dreadful charge, As they will answer it in the great day, If they will not bring ⟨p. 60⟩the guilt of the blood 〈…〉 upon their own heads, to tell sinners of their wayes, and 〈…〉 seasonable and constant warning; herein is the Faithfulness of God, and his great Goodness wondrously exalted.