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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.
Reason 1. From the great desire which God hath that sinners should […] that he may verify that truth. Ezek. 18. 11. That sinners may know where the true and proper cause of their destruction lies, that it is in themselves, and not in him; they shall not have the blame to lay upon God in the least, and therefore he proffers pardon and mercy, holds out the flag of peace before them, that if in the time of truce they will come in, they may, and welcome.
Reason 1. From the great desire which God hath that sinners should 〈…〉 that he may verifie that truth. Ezek. 18. 11. That sinners may know where the true and proper cause of their destruction lies, that it is in themselves, and not in him; they shall not have the blame to lay upon God in the least, and therefore he proffers pardon and mercy, holds out the flag of peace before them, that if in the time of truce they will come in, they may, and welcome.
Reas. 2. From the Attributes of mercy and long-suffering, which discover themselves in withholding the stroke of vengeance, and holding his hand back. Jer. 3. 12. 2 Pet. 3. 9. God will have a time for all his Attributes to appear, now is the day of mercy, and now God will let sinners have large trusts of it, he warns, yea, follows on to warn and persuade with a people; that if it be possible […] escape
Reas. 2. From the Attributes of mercy and long-suffering, which discover themselves in withholding the stroak of vengeance, and holding his hand back. Ier. 3. 12. 2 Pet. 3. 9