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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. Contain a general duty: this duty is a serious Repentance, implied in both words put together. Return. Esau went out from the Church, despised the Privileges of it, his Posterity here is called upon to come back again. Come; i. e. Come to God, to him from who• you went away in that Apostasy: which two are true Repentance▪ […] away from sin, a going to God.
1. Contain a general duty: this duty is a serious Repentance, implied in both words put together. Return. Esau went out from the Church, despised the Priviledges of it, his Posterity here is called upon to come back again. Come; i. e. Come to God, to him from who• you went away in that Apostacy: which two are true Repentance▪ 〈…〉 away from sin, a going to God.
2. They imply a thorough Repentance, both words laid together; Forsake sin, and cleave unto God, this is a whole work.
3. They imply a speedy Repentance, Return, come. God is at a word with them, if they will, let them make haste. Hence, to sum up all in one, observe this