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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.
1. Her own Frame under the Judgements of God: namely an Earnest and early Desire after him: In the night, Signifies in the dark and gloomy times of affliction, when they were under the Tyranny and Captivity of the Enemy, shut up as it were in darkness.
1. Her own Frame under the Judgements of God: namely an Earnest and early Desire after him: In the night, Signifies in the darke and gloomy times of affliction, when they were under the Tyranny and Captivity of the Enemy, shut up as it were in darkness.
2. What should be the Frame of all that▪ see or hear of Gods terrible doings in the world, •it should teach them Righteousness: of which latter we may at this season make some improvement; and a little to open the Words.
[When thy Judgments;. &c.] Judgments are Acts of Divine Justice, Vindicative, all Gods dispensations to the creature, are called either acts of Mercy or justice; Not as if there were a contradiction in these two; God is Just where he is Merciful, i.e. his being merciful doth not infringe or wrong his justice at all: and where God is Just, he is Merciful also, in this world; because his justice is here dispensed with moderation; though the time be coming when he will execute justice without mercy:
[When thy Judgments;. &c.] Judgments are Acts of Divine Justice, Vindicative, all Gods dispensations to the creature, are called either acts of Mercy or justice; Not as if there were a contradiction in these two; God is Just where he is Mercifull, i.e. his being mercifull doth not infringe or wrong his justice at all: and where God is Just, he is Mercifull also, in this world; because his justice is here dispensed with moderation; though the time be comeing when he will execute justice without mercy: