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

Use. This may convince us of a great […] the Goodness and rich Mercy of God expressed to us-ward in the every thing, in that he hath not brought our Calamity and Desolation on us all at once, but hath come by degrees, he hath not dealt with us as with Sodom, whose desolation came in a day, sudden as a Whirlwind; whose morning was fair and clear, who saw the Sun shine upon them, the same day wherein they were over whelmed with a storm of Fire and Brimstone. Our Sun hath been obscured, our day brought to the twilight, before sudden and thick darkness: these are tokens of Gods long suffering and great favour towards us; hereby God gives us further warning, and more space to […]. Oh let us then make this use of it; God shows by this that he is willing to be stopped in his way, to accept the sacrifices of an humble spirit.

Use. This may convince us of a great 〈…〉 the Goodness and rich Mercy of God expressed to us-ward in the every thing, in that he hath not brought our Calamity and Desolation on us all at once, but hath come by degrees, he hath not dealt with us as with Sodom, whose desolation came in a day, sudden as a Whirlwind; whose morning was fair and clear, who saw the Sun shine upon them, the same day wherein they were over whelmed with a storm of Fire and Brimstone. Our Sun hath been obscured, our day brought to the twilight, before sudden and thick darkness: these are tokens of Gods long suffering and great favour towards us; hereby God gives us further warning, and more space to 〈…〉. Oh let us then make this use of it; God shews by this that he is willing to be stopt in his way, to accept the sacrifices of an humble spirit.

Doct 3. God would have us in the Morning to think of Night. Whiles times of peace and plenty continue, God would that we bethink our selves of a change, Eccles. 11.8. God would have these Edomites to consider that Night would come after their Morning was over.