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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. 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.
(2.) But Judgments near are more loud: when a fire is in our neighbours house, it then bids us to look about us to secure our own▪
(3.) But Judgements at home are most loud of all, in our Town, on in our Families, for then God cries among us, yea the stroke of his Rd is upon us, and therefore is high time for every one to see to himself.