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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. 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.
(2.) Judgements seen and felt are more dreadful and awakening; and the Reason is, Because these Senses are more intelligent, and less f•ll•cious: 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 lyes heavy upon a person.