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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. The judgments of God upon his people Israel, and upon Shiloh in particular: we shall find recorded in scripture, what God did to it; for that is the thing which God would have in especial be minded, look into 1 Sam. 4. 10. 11: where you shall find the judgment denounced, and more amply we shall read of the execution of it in Psal 78. 59. to 68. where we have described unto us, the effects of their sins.
•. In alienating of Gods affections from them, turning of his former ⟨p. 15⟩love into hatred. ver. 59. God had formerly loved Israel, they were to him a choice people, tender as the apple of ones eye, tenderly taken care for, and fostered by him, protected from evils, dandled in the lap of his providence, and singularly respected by him; as we shall find amply related to us in Deut. 32. 7, &c. But now his heart was hardened against them, and his former love turned into abhorrence and detestation.
•. In alienating of Gods affections from them, turning of his former ⟨p. 15⟩love into hatred. ver. 59. God had formerly loved Israel, they were to him a choice people, tender as the apple of ones eye, tenderly taken care for, and fostered by him, protected from evils, dandled in the lap of his providence, and singularly respected by him; as we shall find amply related to us in Deut. 32. 7, &c. But now his heart was hardned against them, and his former love turned into abhorrence and detestation.