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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.
1. This argues that God is not feared by such hearts, those that fear not God in his Judgements, especially in such Judgements, may well be thought not to fear him at all. Assure thy self if this Providence, so solemn, have left no impression upon thee, thou hast a heart as hard as a rock.
2. It is impossible that such should learn Righteousness: the ⟨p. 32⟩Affections are the feet of the Soul, if these move not, there is little good to be hoped for in such an one, and therefore never look that such should get any good by it.
Fourthly, Those that have lost their Affections: it may be many were at the first, at the newness and strangeness of the sight and spectacle, filled for a season with consternation; but now they are gotten to their old wont again, and recovered their frights and am•zements, dried up their tears, and wiped their eyes, and they are where they were before: this shows that this Judgement had no depth of efficacy upon your souls, it was only something external; it shows what your nature is. Oh, that's of a cold nature indeed, that will freeze while the fire is under it. Let all such consider, that they contemn God, and harden their own hearts, and if he do not wonderfully set in it will be to their own destruction.
Fourthly, Those that have lost their Affections: it may be many were at the first, at the newness and strangeness of the sight and spectacle, filled for a season with cons•ernation; but now they are gotten to their old wont again, and recovered their frights and am•zements, dried up their tears, and wiped their eyes, and they are where they were before: this shews that this Judgement had no depth of efficacy upon your souls, it was onely something external; it shews what your nature is. Oh, that's of a cold nature indeed, that will freeze while the fire is under it. Let all such consider, that they contemn God, and harden their own hearts, and if he do not wonderfully set in it will be to their own destruction.