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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. 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.
2. Other judgements come mediately by the mediation or efficiency of Instruments, second causes are the next occasion of them, and these are either.
1. Devils, who have a great stroke in many effects of providence, they come by Divine permission, God giving them a license, so far as he sees meet for his own ends; and sometimes they come with a Commission from God on his errands, who shall for us persuade Ahab to go to Ramoth Gilead and fall? I, faith the Devils, go, saith God, and prosper, 1 Kings 22. 20. &c.
1. Devils, who have a great stroake in many effects of providence, they come by Divine permission, God giving them a license, so far as he sees meet for his own ends; and sometimes they come with a Commission from God on his errands, who shall for us perswade Ahab to go to Ramoth Gilead and fall? I, faith the Devills, go, saith God, and prosper, 1 Kings 22. 20. &c.