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3. What grounds there are to fear lest corruption in Doctrine and Manners should come upon us a a flood. God avert the Omen: but methinks there are sad symptoms of it. They are the last and perilous times, in which we are told that such things shall be, 1 Tim. 3. begin. The woeful ignorance of fundamental Truths that many labour of, and the too general neglect of instructing Children in Gospel principles; the giddy spirit that many are infected withal, that love to run after novelties; that awful contempt of the Gospel Ministry, attended with the little regard in many, whether they enjoy it or no, looking upon it as a burden; the little apparent success of the Gospel, and how fearful a threatening is out against such? 2 Thes. 2.9, 10. Add to this the unsuccessfulness of Gods other Judgments, which hath a moral tendency hereto; for if God strives in Judgment, and men will not be persuaded, he is wont to ⟨p. 350⟩give them up, Hos. 4 17. All there things spea• sadly to considerate Souls.

3. What grounds there are to fear lest corruption in Doctrine and Manners should come upon us a a flood. God avert the Omen: but methinks there are sad symptoms of it. They are the last and perillous times, in which we are told that such things shall be, 1 Tim. 3. begin. The woful ignorance of fundamental Truths that many labour of, and the too general neglect of instructing Children in Gospel principles; the giddy spirit that many are infected withal, that love to run after novelties; that awful contempt of the Gospel Ministry, attended with the little regard in many, whether they enjoy it or no, looking upon it as a burden; the little apparent success of the Gospel, and how fearful a threatning is out against such? 2 Thes. 2.9, 10. Add to this the unsuccessfulness of Gods other Judgments, which hath a moral tendency hereto; for if God strives in Judgment, and men will not be perswaded, he is wont to