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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. Look into Towns, and there you shall see disorders, young […] despising the aged, and carrying themselves contemptuously […] them; vanity and […] abounding; a selfish […] upon the most, together with a neglect of one another […], […] that love which is due one to another wholly in many […]; Town-Societies rent in pieces with disorderly Contention.
3. Look into Towns, and there you shall see disorders, young 〈…〉 despising the aged, and carrying themselves contemptuously 〈…〉 them; vanity and 〈…〉 abounding; a selfish 〈…〉 upon the most, together with a neglect of one another 〈…〉, 〈…〉 that love which is due one to another wholly in many 〈…〉; Town-Societies rent in pieces with disorderly Contention.
4. Look into Congregations, and there you shall see confusions; some contending with their Ministers, and others biting and catching at one another; some not agreeing about the setting up of the Of distances of God among them, and others not contented when they have them, but pulling them down again with might and main; great emulations, jealousies, false surmises, &c. Ministers despised, their Office questioned, their Authority cast off, and trampled upon, then persons undervalued and […] their comfortable Supply and Maintenance neglected, Ordinances […] frequented with […] and […], &c.
4. Look into Congregations, and there you shall see confusions; some contending with their Ministers, and others biting and catching at one another; some not agreeing about the setting up of the Of di••ances of God among them, and others not contented when they have them, but pulling them down again with might and main; great emulations, jealousies, false surmises, &c. Ministers despised, their Office questioned, their Authority cast off, and trampled upon, then persons undervalued and their comfortable Supply and Maintenance neglected, Ordinances frequented with and , &c.