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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. 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. 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 warne and perswade with a people; that if it be possible 〈…〉 escape
Reas. 3. For the advancement of his glory by his patience, God aims at himself, his own glory in all his doings: now by this Clemency of his he will gain honour, either to his mercy in their welfare, or his justice in their ruin; which every way God will be a gainer hereby: if they repent how will they magnify his patience and so bearance: if they be obstinate and perish, how eminently will he clear his justice in their ruin?
Reas. 3. For the advancement of his glory by his patience, God aims at himself, his own glory in all his doings: now by this Clemency of his he will gaine honour, either to his mercy in their welfare, or his justice in their ruine; which every way God will be a gainer hereby: if they repent how will they magnifie his patience and so bearance: if they be obstinate and perish, how eminently will he clear his justice in their ruine?