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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.
Reas. 2. Because God in his Word calls men to consider and observe his Judgements; he declares it to be his will, that when he visits any in severity for their sins. All Israel should hear, and fear, and do no more so. When God would reclaim Judah from their vain confidence, and awaken them to repentance, he sends them to Shiloh, to see what wastes and desolations he had there made, Jer. 7. 12.
Reas. 3. Because none of Gods Providences are in vain, God doth nothing in the world to no purpose.
Reas. 4. Because God does by his awakening Judgements teach them he intends good to: David professeth, Thy judgements make me, afraid, i.e. afraid to sin, afraid to be licentious and remiss in my life and ways.
Reas. 4. Because God does by his awakening Judgements teach them he intends good to: David professeth, Thy judgements make me, afraid, i.e. afraid to sin, afraid to be licentious and remiss in my life and wayes.