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

3. Now let us bethink our selves how it may be prevented: to what end should we be warned, but that we might endeavour to prevent and escape the drinking the dregs of this Cup, whereof we have been already made to sip?

3. Now let us bethink our selves how it may be prevented: to what end should we be warned, but that we might endeavou to prevent and escape the drinking the dregs of this Cup, whereof we have been already made to sip?

1. Believe that God is yet willing to be stopped, he shows how unwilling he is to […], and therefore is ready to be stayed. God loves to be hindered in these proceedings he himself looks to set if there be any to stand in the gap, and make up the breach, and he is grieved when ⟨p. 66⟩[…] none: […] encouragement; The God of Israel is a merciful God, and will be ready to extend that mercy to us, notwithstanding any advantage he hath in his hand against us: he therefore (when in the midst of Judgements) swears, that he delights not in the sinners death, and calls upon them to return to him, Ezek. 36. 11.

1. Believe that God is yet willing to be stopt, he shews how unwilling he is to 〈…〉, and therefore is ready to be stayed. God loves to be hindred in these proceedings he himself looks to set if there be any to stand in the gap, and make up the breach, and he is grieved when ⟨p. 66⟩〈…〉 none: 〈…〉 encouragement; The God of Israel is a merciful God, and will be ready to extend that mercy to us, notwithstanding any advantage he hath in his hand against us: he therefore (when in the midst of Judgements) swears, that he delights not in the sinners death, and calls upon them to return to him,