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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.
Jer. 7. 12. But go ye now unto my Place which is in Shiloh, &c.
IN the beginning of this Chapter, the Lord sends by his Prophet, to call Judah and Jerusalem to true Repentance; encouraging them to it by a promise of establishment of their peace and mercies, in case they would so do. v•r. 1, 2, 3, & 5 6, 7. &c. That this counsel of his may take effect upon them, he endeavours to reclaim them from their vain confidence in their external worship, and enjoyment of the Temple and Ordinances, ver. 4. After which he enlargeth himself by a Declaration, of their hypoc••• […] dealings, and false trust in the Temple, as if it were a sure safe g••rd t• them from punishment, notwithstanding all their wicked abom••• […] once, ver. 8, 9, 10. which vanity, he declares to b• a changing of a […] of holy worship, into a den of •obhers, ver. 11. and then gives them to understand that he takes notice of it: And in the Text further […] the• ▪ off from their vain confidence by sending them to Shiloh, to take notice of his dealing with them for their sins.
IN the beginning of this Chapter, the Lord sends by his Prophet, to call Judah and Jerusalem to true Repentance; encourageing them to it by a promise of establishment of their peace and mercies, in case they would so do. v•r. 1, 2, 3, & 5 6, 7. &c. That this counsell of his may take effect upon them, he endeavours to reclaim them from their vain confidence in their external worship, and enjoyment of the Temple and Ordinances, ver. 4. After which he enlargeth himselfe by a Declaration, of their hypoc••• dealings, and false trust in the Temple, as if it were a sure safe grd t them from punishment, notwithstanding all their wicked abom ons, ver. 8, 9, 10. which vanity, he declares to b a changing of a of holy worship, into a den of obhers, ver. 11. and then gives them to understand that he takes notice of it: And in the Text further the off from their vain confidence by sending them to Shiloh, to take notice of his dealing with them for thir sins.