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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.
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. Jer. 7. 19. we may think •hat we will, but the issue of such provocations, will be the imp••i••t sinners confusion; briers and thorns must not think to thrive against • devouring fire.
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. Ier. 7. 19. we may think •hat we will, but the issue of such provocations, will be the imp••i••t sinners confusion; briers and thorns must not think to thrive against • devouring fire.
• Consider, The benefits of Repentance will redound to our own good. ⟨p. 3⟩Jer. 7▪ 5, 6, 7. we shall taste the sweet of it; to escape from misery, to enjoy the benediction of God, and sweet fruits of peace, will be our advantage: let it then break our hearts to consider, that after all our sins, God hath yet widened arms to receive us into: if a man find his enemies, would he not destroy them.