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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. They are Acts of Sovereign Justice: which appears, because God doth not visit all alike in the world, whose sins are alike, but picks and chooseth as he sees meet, some to be monuments of his severity, whiles others are left. Gods Sovereignty herein appears, because he follows no other Rule but his […] pleasure, in making choice whom to dispense Judgements, and whom to leave; so that sometimes he leaves, and lets alone, such as have been […] sinners in many aggravating respects, whiles he takes other […] have not been so notorious: and therefore our Saviour Christ, to them enquiring about the man born blind, removes the cause from them to Gods Sovereignty, Joh. 9. 2, 3.
2. They are Acts of Sover•ign Justice: which appears, because God doth not visit all alike in the world, whose sins are alike, but picks and chuseth as he sees meet, some to be monuments of his severity, whiles others are left. Gods Soveraignty herein appears, because he follows no other Rule but his 〈…〉 pleasure, in making choice whom to dispense Judgements, and whom to leave; so that sometimes he leaves, and lets alone, such as have been 〈…〉 sinners in many aggravating respects, whiles he takes other 〈…〉 have not been so notorious: and therefore our Saviour Christ, to them enquiring about the man born blinde, removes the cause from them to Gods Soveraignty, Joh. 9. 2, 3.
Secondly, they naturally teach these lessons: