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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.
3. Solitary and lonesome, when you shall be made desolate, and like Jo•, who was made a stranger to the wife of his bosom; and hence you shall have that which will fill head and heart full of perplexity: how careful then should we be that we provoke not God against us, to bring darkness of adversity upon us.
3. Solitary and lonesome, when you shall be made desolate, and like Jo•, who was made a stranger to the wife of his bosome; and hence you shall have that which will fill head and heart full of perplexity: how careful then should we be that we provoke not God against us, to bring darkness of adversity upon us.
Doct. 2. 'Tis the guise and disposition of the wicked, to despise and scoff at the Threatenings of Gods Judgement against them, especially if God delay execution.
Doct. 2. 'Tis the guise and disposition of the wicked, to despise and scoff at the Thre•tnings of Gods Judgement against them, especially if God delay execution.
Thus the Edomites here, they had been threatened, but they yet were in peace, and though the Enemy was coming, they yet are secure. See also for this, Eccles. 8. 11. Ezek. 12. 22. Poor sinning man, though he might read the sentence of death in himself, yet is not willing to believe any evil till he feels it. If God delay, his Messengers presently are Liars.