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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. Spiritual. When they seize upon mens Souls and Spirits; as Distractions. Desperations, &c. I mention these distinctions, partly that we may be the better directed to a careful observance, that we may discover God coming in his several awful dispensations upon us, and purely because we may improve some of them in the Application.
Sixthly, All Judgements whatsoever, and in what way soever they come, are Doctrinal, they bring instruction and teaching along with them, to those that either see or heart of them; they are speaking Providences.
Here consider, 1. That they are Doctrinal, 2. How far they are so.
1. That all Judgements are Doctrinal, will appear, if we consider,