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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. 5. Because God doth charge the neglect of this duty upon Judah as a great, grievous, and provoking sin: when he had executed his judgements upon her sister Aholah (Israel, the •en Tribes) that Aholibah (Judah) held on her own old courses of sin, and was no what affected there withal, nor did by it learn to amend, Ezek. 23.
Reas. 5. Because God doth charge the neglect of this duty upon Judah as a great, grievous, and provoking sin: when he had executed his judgements upon her sister Aholah (Israel, the •en Tribes) that Aholibah (Judah) held on her own old courses of sin, and was no what affected there withall, nor did by it learn to amend, Ezek. 23.
Use 1. Or Information of our judgements in divers things:
1. That Afflictions and Calamities are not by casualty, they are Gods Judgements, ordered and •ore-determined by him; not a Sparrow falls to the ground without him: and therefore let it teach us not to slight them, o• look upon them in a negligent manner, as things that come promiscuously, and imprudently to pass, but by the wise disposal of God. See God in all that falls out in the world, and adore him.