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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.
(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 R•d is upon us, and therefore i•s high time for every one to see to himself.
3. In respect of Senses:
(1.) Judgements heard of are awful, for this is a great sense of discipline. But
(2.) Judgements seen and felt are more dreadful and awakening; and the Reason is, Because these Senses are more intelligent, and less fallacious: we may question the truth of reports, but what we see and feel we have less cause to suspect▪ If any Sense can inform without fallacy, it is these; as also these are the most affecting Senses, The eye affects the heart, much more then when the hand of God lies heavy upon a person.