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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. In Revenging himself upon his enemies, by cutting them off, or sorely visiting them.
2. In Punishments and […] upon his people, when for their amendment he brings disappointments and afflictions upon them; for in both these God doth 1. Show himself set against […]: 2. Do right.
2. In Punishments and 〈…〉 upon his people, when for their amendment he brings disappointments and afflictions upon them; for in both these God doth 1. Shew himself set against 〈…〉: 2. Do right.
Thirdly, Judgements are either
1. More ordinary dispensations of Divine Providence, such as are more common; as the usual afflictions which God brings upon any in way of penalty, viz. Sicknesses, Crosses, Losses, Poverty, […] Rain, Famine, Pestilence &c these are Gods usual Scourge, […]