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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.
IN the beginning of this Chapter, the Lord sends by his Prophet, to call Judah and Jerusalem to true Repentance, encouraging them […] it by a promise of establishment of their peace and mercies, in case they would so do, ver. 1, 2, 3, & 5, 6, 7, &c. That this coun•ell of his may take effect upon them, he endeavours to reclaim them from their vain confidence in their external worship, and enjoyment of the Temple and Ordinances, ver. 4. After which he enlargeth himself by a Declaration, of their hypocritical dealings, and false trust in the Temple, as if it were a sure safeguard to them from punishment, notwithstanding all their wicked abominations, ver. 8, 9, 10. which vanity, he declares to be a changing of a place of holy worship, into a den of robbers, ver. 11. and then gives them to understand that he takes notice of it: And in the Text further calls them off from their vain confidence by sending them to Shiloh, to take notice of his dealing with them for their sins.
IN the beginning of this Chapter, the Lord sends by his Prophet, to call Judah and Jerusalem to true Repentance, encourageing them 〈…〉 it by a promise of establishment of their peace and mercies, in case they would so do, ver. 1, 2, 3, & 5, 6, 7, &c. That this coun•ell of his may take effect upon them, he endeavours to reclaim them from their vain confidence in their external worship, and enjoyment of the Temple and Ordinances, ver. 4. After which he enlargeth himselfe by a Declaration, of their hypocriticall dealings, and false trust in the Temple, as if it were a sure safeguard to them from punishment, notwithstanding all their wicked abominations, ver. 8, 9, 10. which vanity, he declares to be a changing of a place of holy worship, into a den of robbers, ver. 11. and then gives them to understand that he takes notice of it: And in the Text further calls them off from their vain confidence by sending them to Shiloh, to take notice of his dealing with them for thir sins.
From the context, diverse Truths are Observable.