The peril of the times displayed. Or The danger of mens taking up with…

•. You lay your selves open to be peculiar monuments of Gods Judgments in such times. Not only are you to expect the common calamities of the times, but also to have some peculiar brand set upon you in such a day: I do not say, that God always doth so by men in this world; for some mens sins go before hand to Judgment, and others f•llow after; and God doth arbitrarily on this account: ⟨p. 155⟩but that you do give him special provocation thus to deal with you, and that it will be a righteous thing with him so to do. And, though it is not for us rashly to judge of others, by the providences which pass over them; but to be very sober in our censures of men▪ when they are strangely visited; yet men have reason to call themselves to a strict account▪ when Gods hand so lieth upon them: and how often may they be able to lay their finger on this sore.

•. You lay your selves open to be peculiar monuments of Gods Judgments in such times. Not only are you to expect the common calamities of the times, but also to have some peculiar brand set upon you in such a day: I do not say, that God always doth so by men in this world; for some mens sins go before hand to Judgment, and others f•llow after; and God doth arbi••arily on this account: ⟨p. 155⟩but that you do give him special provocation thus to deal with you, and that it will be a righteous thing with him so to do. And, though it is not for us rashly to judge of others, by the providences which pass over them; but to be very sober in our censures of men▪ when they are strangely visited; yet men have reason to call themselves to a strict account▪ when Gods hand so lieth upon them: and how often may they be able to lay their finger on this sore.