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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.
4. This is the way to rob God of the glory of his goodness to thee ⟨p. 31⟩in preserving thee from this sad Calamity, whereas if thou reflect inward, thou mightest see so much of provocation in thy own heart, and so many grievous obliquities and wanderings, that it would set thee into a rapture of admiration, at the unspeakable favour which appears in thy preservation, who mightest have been chosen in the room of this person, to have been hung up as a sign, and a wonder, and an astonishment, for others with sad hearts to have looked upon.
4. This is the way to rob God of the glory of his goodness to thee ⟨p. 31⟩in preserving thee from this sad Calamity, •hereas if thou reflect inward, thou mightest see so much of provocation in thy own heart, and so many grievous obliquities and wanderings, that it would set thee into a rapture of admiration, at the unspeakable favour which appears in thy preservation, who mightest have been chosen in the room of this person, to have been hung up as a sign, and a wonder, and an astonishment, for others with sad hearts to have looked upon.
5. This is not to learn Righteousness; for that is only by drawing conclusions home to our selves, and making the case our own: yea, this is a way to harden our hearts in wickedness. Let us therefore learn to make a better use of this tremendous Providence.
5. This is not to learn Righteousness; for that is onely by drawing conclusions home to our selves, and making the case our own: yea, this is a way to harden our hearts in wickedness. Let us therefore learn to make a better use of this tremendous Providence.