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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.
Use II. For Reproof. And here let me come home in this Use and the next, to the case and providence which hath occasioned this days solemnity, the awful Judgement of God that is among us: and the Reproof is, That […] Judgements o• God that have befallen us, and […] more nor […] made ⟨p. 30⟩use of by us then it is. Let this consideration have its weight in humbling us this day before God.
Use II. For Reproof. And here let me come home in this Use and the next, to the case and providence which hath occasioned this dayes solemnity, the awful Judgement of God that is among us: and the Reproof is, That 〈…〉 Judgements o• God that have befallen us, and 〈…〉 more nor 〈…〉 made ⟨p. 30⟩use of by us then it is. Let this consideration have its weight in humbling us this day before God.
1. We may all […] with our own hearts, that we are no more affected with it, that there is so much ice and coldness in us, that our affections are scarce warmed with such a providence; we may lay our hands upon our mouths, and be angry with our selves, that we find such a chilness upon our affections. But
1. We may all 〈…〉 with our own hearts, that we are no more affected with it, that there is so much ice and coldness in us, that our affections are scarce warmed with such a providence; we may lay our hands upon our mouthes, and be angry with our selves, that we finde such a chilness upon our affections. But