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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.
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:
But wherein any act of Divine Providence, one of these Attributes is more visible to the creature then the other, thence it receives its Denomination.