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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. Expressing what ought to be, as if it would be; such a thing should be, and if men were in a right frame, it would be: the meaning is, that there is matter enough in Gods judgements to awaken the world to righteousness. Hence,
Doct. The Judgements of God in the World carry along with them an universal awakening call to Righteousness. When God comes forth riding in his fiery Chariot, and dispenseth terrible things among the children of men, it sends forth a loud cry to the world to reform and amend their ways. By way of Explication, Consider a few things.
First. All judgements are of God, it's said thy judgements, they come from him: here observe,
1. Some judgements are more immediate, they come by an unseen hand and in an unknown way, we see the effects, but are not able to track them in their causes; of such as these, even an Egyptian Magician must say, lo the finger of God.