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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.
Ans. 1. Some have mocked them in plain terms, we have not been clear of this brazen-faced impudence, some to flout at the Warnings of God, yea to hate those that have been most serious in reproving our sins, especially that have pointed them out.
2. Others have not believed, and those not a few neither, but the •ost: we may almost use the Prophets demand, Isa. 53. 1.
3. Have not these Warnings been practically slighted and disregarded?
1. How few hearts have been affected? and not to be affected, is a degree of mocking: how few melting hearts? how few that hea• and fear? how few tremblers at the Word of God? or that with old Eli, sit by the way, trembling for the Ark of God? We can sit under the Convictions of the Word, and no whit convinced; little remorse when these burdens are laid upon us, and we go away and wipe our mouths, and say, What have I done? We (like deaf men) startle not when the Trumpet sounds, because we will not hear it.