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Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy delivered…
Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy delivered in several sermons on solemn occasions / by Mr. Samuel Willard ...Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy delivered in several sermons on solemnm occasions / by Mr. Samuel Willard ...
printed by Samuel Green, 1673
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. What should be the Frame of all that see or hear of Gods terrible doings in the world, it should teach them Righteousness: of which latter we may at this season make some improvement; and a little to open the Words.
2. What should be the Frame of all that• see or hear of Gods terrible doings in the world, it should teach them Righteousness: of which latter we may at this season make some improvement; and a little to open the Words.
[When thy Judgments:, &c.] Judgments are Acts of Divine Justice, Vindicative, all Gods dispensations to the creature, are called either acts of Mercy or justice; Not as if there were a contradiction in these two; God is Just where he is Merciful, i. e. his being merciful doth not infringe or wrong his justice at all: and where God is Just, he is Merciful also, in this world; because his justice is here dispensed with moderation; though the time be coming when he will execute justice without mercy:
[When thy Judgments:, &c.] Judgments are Acts of Divine Iustice, Vindicative, all Gods dispensations to the creature, are called either acts of Mercy or justice; Not as if there were a contradiction in these two; God is Just where he is Mercifull, i. e. his being mercifull doth not infringe or wrong his justice at all: and where God is Just, he is Mercifull also, in this world; because his justice is here dispensed with moderation; though the time be comeing when he will execute justice without mercy:
But wherein any act of Divine Providence, one of these Attributes is more visible to the creature then the other, thence it receives its Denomination.