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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.
Use 2. What encouragement is there here to us after all our grievous sins? to return to the Lord by Repentance, God is yet ready to receive us, and restore his mercies unto us, and therefore let us be quickened up by this consideration. motive.
Use 2. What encouragement is there here to us after all our grievous sins? to return to the Lord by Repentance, God is yet ready to receive us, and r•store his mercies unto us, and therefore let us be quickned up by this consideration. motive.
1. Consider the wonderful self denial that there is in God, he needs us •ot, but could do well enough without us, being self-sufficient in himself, yea, hath Angels which attend upon him, and that he should accept of dust and ashes, much more unprofitable sinful creatures, and •ceive them into mercy; oh what a condescendency is this!
1. Consider the wonderful self denyal that there is in God, he needs us •ot, but could do well enough without us, being self-sufficient in himself, yea, hath Angels which attend upon him, and that he should ac•ept of dust and ashes, much more unprofitable sinful creatures, and •ceive them into mercy; oh what a condescendency is this!
2. Consider, the wrong we do him will fall upon our selves in the •nd, •• may fight against him, but they are arrows shot up against heaven, ich will fall down upon our own heads.