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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.
1. Believe that God is yet willing to be stop•, he shows how un[…] be is to afflict, and therefore is ready to be stayed. God loves to be hindered in these proceedings, he himself looks to see if there be any to stand in the gap, and make up the brea•h, and he is grieved when ⟨p. 66⟩•e •an find none: this is encouragement; The God of Israel is a mercif•• God, and will be ready to ex•end that mercy to us, notwithstanding any advantage he hath in his hand against us: he therefore (when in the midst of Judgements) swears, that he delights not in the sinners death, and calls upon them to return to him, Ezek. 36 11.
1. Believe that God is yet willing to be stop•, he shews how un〈…〉 be is to afflict, and therefore is ready to be stayed. God loves to be hindred in these proceedings, he himself looks to see if there be any to stand in the gap, and make up the brea•h, and he is gri•ved when ⟨p. 66⟩•e •an finde none: this is encouragement; The God of Israel is a mercif•• God, and will be ready to ex•end that mercy to us, notwithstanding any advantage he hath in his hand against us: he therefore (when in the midst of Judgements) swears, that he delights not in the sinners death, and calls upon them to return to him, Ez•k. 36 11.