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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.
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.
Secondly, Those that look not beyond Instruments. There is a great deal of enquiry made about the Devils agency, and raising of Spirits against such as we are ready to think may be his subservient actors in this case, but how many are there that look no further. Consider,
1. This is to forget the Supremacy of Divine Providence; we do not remember that God sits and rules over Men and Devils, and that in such an uncontrollable manner, that Earth and Hell cannot move to any act upon the creature, unless he permit them.
1. This is to forget the Supremacy of Divine Providence; we do not remember that God sits and rules over Men and Devils, and that in such an uncontrolable manner, that Earth and Hell cannot move to any act upon the creature, unless he permit them.