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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. The Judgements themselves. All Judgements serve to teach, they have a voice in them, but some cry louder then others. There is a voice in common calamities and disappointments, but a louder voice in extraordinary Judgements; Natural causes bring awful. Judgements, but more awful when they are Preternatural; every sickness and disease, every cross and loss speaks, but when God goes out of the ordinary path, here is a more awakening Call. In a word, the […] stupendous and admirable the Providence is, the louder is the voice of God, and more clear to be heard, for then the Lion roars, […] 3 8.
1. The Judgements themselves. All Judgements serve to teach, they have a voice in them, but some cry louder then others. There is a voice in common calamities and disappointments, but a louder voice in extraordinary Judgements; Natural causes bring awful. Judgements, but more awful when they are Preternatural; every sickness and disease, every cross and loss speaks, but when God goes out of the ordinary path, here is a more awakening Call. In a word, the 〈…〉 stupendio•s and admirable the Providence is, the louder is the voice of God, and more clear to be heard, for then the Lion roars, 〈…〉 3 8.
2. Of the Places wherein they are:
(1.) Judgements remote have a voice to us, let them be never so fa• off […] we have any cognizance of them, for the Text limits it to no narrower bounds then the World.
(1.) Judgements remote have a voice to us, let them be never so fa off we have any cognizance of them, for the Text limits it to no narrower bounds then the World.