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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.
Doct. God, though grievously provoked, yet seldom brings desolating Judgements, before he gives warning. Edom, though out of Gods Covenant, shall never theless hear from God before they feel his wrath, and Babylon, and Arabia, and Tyre, &c. as we find scattered in the Prophesies, how much more a people in Covenant with him.
Doct. God, though grievously provoked, yet seldome brings desolating Judgements, before he gives warning. Edom, though out of Gods Covenant, shall never theless hear from God before they feel his wrath, and Babylon, and Arabia, and Tyre, &c. as we finde scattered in the Prophesies, how much more a people in Covenant with him.
Reas. 1. Because this is the day of Gods forbearance, and therefore he will exalt it towards sinners, and make them to taste of it. It is the time wherein Justice is moderated by Mercy.
2. That sinners may have an opportunity to repent: when God speaks to them before he strikes them, he puts a price into their hands, ⟨p. 47⟩if they have but a heart to it; hence God calls them to it. Text looks on it as such a season, Rev. 2. 21.