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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.
Reas. 1. From the difference between true and feigned repentance, in the one there is a free and hearty renouncing of all sin: a sight of it, a sorrow for it, and a forsaking it; this the Lord himself hath constituted as the way to enjoy mercy. Prov. 28. 13. this hath a firm promise made to it. Isa. 1. 19, 20. when as feigned repentance is a mocking of God, as the Lord declares, and therefore denounceth that threatening against it Isa. 29. 13, 14. God will not be mocked by sinners; that Repentance which God will only own and acknowledge, comes from a deep touch and sense of the bitterness of sin. Jer. 2. 19.
Reas. 1. From the difference between true and feigned repentance, in the one there is a free and hearty renouncing of all sin: a sight of it, a sorrow for it, and a forsaking it; this the Lord himself hath constituted as the way to enjoy mercy. Prov. 28. 13. this hath a firme promise made to it. Isa. 1. 19, 20. when as feigned repentance is a mocking of God, as the Lord declares, and therefore denounceth that threatning against it Isa. 29. 13, 14. God will not be mocked by sinners; that Repentance which God will only own and acknowledge, comes from a deep touch and sence of the bitterness of sin. Ier. 2. 19.
Reas. 2. Because it is only true Repentance which sets us in the way of▪ true peace.