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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. That God is a just God, that he is set against sin, and will not always […] with sinners: days of patience make sinners forget, yea Atheistically think God is not holy and just; but he is known in his Judgements, these are beginning discoveries before the great and general Assizes.
1. That God is a just God, that he is set against sin, and will not alwayes 〈…〉 with sinners: dayes of patience make sinners forget, yea Atheistically think God is not holy and just; but he is known in his Judgements, these are beginning discoveries before the great and general Assizes.
2. That God will sooner or later be revenged upon sinners: every monument of Divine Revenge lectures out what others may look for and expect at the hands of God. Gods Judgements declare that sin shall not always go unpunished, that though there be a day of forbearance, yet there shall also be a day wherein they shall receive their wages.
2. That God will sooner or later be revenged upon sinners: every monument of Divine Revenge lectures out what others may look for and expect at the hands of God. Gods Judgements declare that sin shall not alwayes go unpunished, that though there be a day of forbearance, yet there shall also be a day wherein they shall receive their wages.
3. That there shall be a great Day of Judgement: for if some sinners are here taken, and others in this world forborne, according to the pleasure of Gods Sovereign will, this shows that there must be another day above and besides all these Judgement-days, wherein God sits upon some sinners in this world.