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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. Men, who are many times the means of bringing sore and sad, calamities upon their fellow creatures, being used and improved by God to that end, by Wars, and desolations that follow then, upon, thus God used the Philistines, Syrians, Assyrians &c. to afflict Israel and Judah.
2. Men, who are many times the meanes of bringing sore and sad, calamities upon their fellow creatures, being used and improved by God to that end, by Warrs, and desolations that follow then, upon, thus God used the Philistins, Syrians, Assyrians &c. to afflict Israel and Judah.
3. Brute beasts and unreasonable creatures, who serve their great Lord against man, when he rebels against God, which otherwise should have been subservient to him: thus the fiery Serpents in the wilderness, the two she Bears, to tear in pieces the mocking children, thus Locusts, Caterpillars, Palmer worms &c.
3. Bruit beasts and unreasonable creatures, who serve their great Lord against man, when he rebells against God, which otherwise should have been subservient to him: thus the fiery Serpents in the wilderness, the two shee Bears, to tear in peeces the mocking children, thus Locusts, Caterpillers, Palmer wormes &c.
4. Elements, Stars, Rivers, Vapours, Rain, Drought &c the Stars fought in their course against Sisera, the brook ••ishon swept them away Judg 5.
4. Elements, Starrs, Rivers, Vapours, Rain, Drought &c the Starrs fought in their course against Sisera, the brook ••ishon swept them away Judg 5.