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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. He will requite, for he is just and cannot but give them their demerit, Jer 5. 29. he is the judge of the whole world; and therefore must be just, he is the highest and supreme judg, beyond whom there is no appeal, and therefore had need be just; yea, he is engaged by his Word to do justice and execute judgment upon sinners for their sins.
3. He will requite, for he is just and cannot but give them their demerit, Jer 5. 29. he is the judge of the whole world; and therefore must be just, he is the highest and supream judg, beyond whom there is no appeal, and therefore had need be just; yea, he is engaged by his Word to do justice and execute judgment upon sinners for their sins.
Use 1. To show us how vain a thing it is to go about to deceive God with vain services, whiles our heart is estranged from him; if we had to deal with man like our selves, we might easily cast a blind before their ⟨p. 10⟩eyes, and make them believe strange matters, but God who can in no ways cheat or deceive, though we cover our service with a cloak of deceit, yet God can tell us whether it be alive or dead; and if we go about so to serve him, he will make us to know sooner or later, that he took good notice of them in the day when he comes to set our sins in order before us, and tell us this we did at such a time, and that abomination at another time: See Psal. 50. 18. &c.
Use 1. To shew us how vain a thing it is to go about to deceive God with vain services, whiles our heart is estranged from him; if we had to deal with man like our selves, we might easily cast a blind before their ⟨p. 10⟩eyes, and make them believe strange matters, but God who can in no ways cheat or deceive, though we cover our service with a cloak of deceit, yet God can tell us whether it be alive or dead; and if we go about so to serve him, he will make us to know sooner or later, that he took good notice of them in the day when he comes to set our sins in order before us, and tell us this we did at such a time, and that abomination at another time: See