N00129:152
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.
4. That there is no security in a state of sin, though we are not such notorious sinners as others, yet are we under sin; we lye open and liable to the Judgements of God, and may as soon as others be made monuments of it. It is no cloak to say, I am not as bad as such and such. Art thou out from the promise of Gods special grace? thou art every day open to Judgement
5. That there […] our peace with God: if God […] the Sceptre, and […] upon sinners, we are ⟨p. 27⟩in a dangerous state as long as we are not agreed with him, but have him for our adversary. And hence the conclusion is to teach men righteousness, to forsake those sins that are provoking to God, and lay hold upon him in a way of true Repentance, in time, for his mercy, le•t we also be made monuments of his wrath▪ this is the voice of all the Judgements of God which they speak to the […].
5. That there 〈…〉 our peace with God: if God 〈…〉 the Scepter, and 〈…〉 upon sinners, we are ⟨p. 27⟩in a dangerous state as long as we are not agreed with him, but have him for our adversary. And hence the conclusion is to teach men righteousness, to forsake those sins that are provoking to God, and lay hold upon him in a way of true Repentance, in time, for his mercy, le•t we also be made monuments of his wrath▪ this is the voice of all the Judgements of God which they speak to the 〈…〉.