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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.
2ly, Let us all in particular learn righteousness by this monument that is before us, let it awaken us all to reform our hearts and lives, to be more careful to and over our selves for the time to come; let it indeed appear that we have been proficients in this School of Gods Judgements, that God hath brought Correction and Teaching together, that so in the winding up it may be found an happy Judgement. Let us therefore apply it to our selves in our particular respects.
I. Let it be a Doctrinal Providence to Young and Old.
First, To you that are Elder, and more grown up in years, let it awaken you.
1. Consider how many more provocations God hath had from you, then he hath had from this poor creature; how many more Ordinances and Providences have attended upon you, then ever did upon her; think how long you have lived in Gods world, and yet have done him little or no service since you came into it: and therefore let this awaken you to see how it stands with you, how the matter goes between God and your Souls, whether you are secure under his wings, and at peace with him. When you see one so much younger then you thus visited, Oh think upon what ground you stand, fear