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

1. A Concession; The morning cometh: It is true indeed, you do for the present enjoy a season or prosperity, though evil have been denounced against you; and it cometh still i. e. you have still a short season behind of day.

1. A Concession; The morning cometh: It is true indeed, you do for the present enjoy a season or prosperity, though evil have been denounced against you; and it cometh still i. e. you have still a short season behinde of day.

2. A Warning and also the night: i. e. as you have your morning, so assure your selves you […] have your night; think not, nor deceive your selves into such a foolish hope, as to promise, your selves you shall rever […] adversity, because you now live at case and prosper.

2. A Warning and also the night: i. e. as you have your morning, so assure your selves you 〈…〉 have your night; think not, nor deceive your selves into such a foolish hope, as to promise, your selves you shall rever 〈…〉 adversity, because you now live at case and prosper.

3. The words carry in them the face of an Argument: he compares their condition to a Natural day, in which there are two constituting parts, viz. Day and Night, light and darkness, which naturally follow one upon another: the day of the people of God usually (as the Natural day) begins with darkness, and ends in […]; the wickeds day begins with morning, but shall end with night. Hence if they look for right to follow the clearest day, why do they dream as if sorrow could not come in the room of their present pleasure and delight? Hence