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Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy
Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy: delivered in several sermons on solemn occasions: / by Mr. Samuel Willard Pastor of the Church of Christ at Groton. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
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.
Lastly. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God: The Characters of Gods wrath, & impressions of his Judgements remaining upon Shiloh, teach us this Lesson: If God come once to abhor a people for their sins, and fall upon them in his Judgments; he meets them not as a man, but gives them a Divine stroke; if he […] angry, his very countenance is terrible and amazing. Psal. 18. 8 […] 3. what is he then, when he pours out his displeasure: […] then from the example of Shiloh, to fear and dread provoking the great God to wrath against us: what ever causes moving to this occasion, are in Gods goodness removed away from us, yet the remembrance of our sins is matter sufficient to humble us before God this day; ⟨p. 19⟩Better it is for us to bow our selves before him, left he break us in pieces: and therefore let it be our great endeavour to meet God in the way by Repentance, before he come home to us in wrath, and fall upon us in his fore displeasure; let that be the great practical lesson that we learn at Shiloh. For motive:
Lastly. It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the Living God: The Charracters of Gods wrath, & impressions of his Judgements remaining upon Shiloh, teach us this Lesson: If God come once to abhorr a people for their sins, and fall upon them in his Judgments; he meets them not as a man, but gives them a Divine siroak; if he 〈…〉 angry, his very countenance is terrible and amazing. Psal. 18. 8 〈…〉 3. what is he then, when he poures out his displeasure: 〈…〉 then from the example of Shiloh, to fear and dread provoaking the great God to wrath against us: what ever causes moving to this occasion, are in Gods goodness removed away from us, yet the remembrance of our sins is matter sufficient to humble us before God this day; ⟨p. 19⟩Better it is for us to bow our selves before him, left he break us in pieces: and therefore let it be our great endeavour to meet God in the way by Repentance, before he come home to us in wrath, and fall upon us in his fore displeasure; let that be the great practical lesson that we learn at Shiloh. For motive: