AN HUMBLE TESTIMONY UNTO THE GOODNESS AND SEVERITY OF GOD IN HIS DEALING WITH SINFUL CHURCHES AND NATIONS; VIII Conclusion. What if all these means do fail?—what if all expectations from them be in vain? What is incumbent on them in particular who are really sensible of these things,—namely, of the abounding of provoking sins, and the near approach of deserved judgments?" That which I design herein is, to give some directions as unto what frame of heart ought to be found in us, and the practice of what duties we ought to be found in at such a season as this is. It is no common, no easy thing, to wait for the LORD in the way of his judgments (Isa. 26:8–9).