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

Reas. 1. Because such days ripen men faster for destruction, Rom. 9.22. the more men have, and abuse, the deeper they run into Gods debt-book, the larger accounts they have: the better the Pasture is, the sooner the Ox is fat; now you know the Ox is not taken from his Pasture, till such time as the day of slaughter comes, hence God takes men in their height, and makes them come down wonderfully.

Reas. 1. Because such dayes ripen men faster for destruction, Rom. 9.22. the more men have, and abuse, the deeper they run into Gods debt-book, the larger accounts they have: the better the Pasture is, the sooner the Ox is fat; now you know the Ox is not taken from his Pasture, till such time as the day of slaughter comes, hence God takes men in their height, and makes them come down wonderfully.

Reas. 2. From the nature of Patience, which as it can bear and endure a great deal, and a long while, so when it once comes to be worn out, and provoked, breaks forth into a most sudden and direful flame: Loesa patientia fit furor; Jer. 4.4. That anger which is not suddenly and speedily stirred up, when kindled is most furious and unappeaseable.

Reas. 3. From the nature of sin, which the more goodness of God it enjoys, the more it heightens it self into boldness and violence: Sodoms fullness (which called to glorify God) was an occasion of the crying sins that were among them; hence they pull down wrath, and there is no remedy.

Reas. 3. From the nature of sin, which the more goodness of God it enjoyes, the more it heightens it self into boldness and violence: Sodoms fulness (which called to glorifie God) was an occasion of the crying sins that were among them; hence they pull down wrath, and there is no remedy.