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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.
2. It tends to hinder the right efficacy of this Judgement upon the Soul; for it raiseth, and humbles not the Soul of the creature: it is the way to provocation and exasperation, to bitterness and rage, from the consideration of the virulency of the enemy, and that we have […] deserved it at their hands, &c. whereas if we looked beyond these, to God the prime Efficient, it would teach us silence, and holy submission: I was dumb, &c. because thou didst it, Psal. 39. 9.
2. It tends to hinder the right efficacy of this Judgement upon the Soul; for it raiseth, and humbles not the Soul of the creature: it is the way to provocation and exasperation, to bitterness and rage, from the consideration of the virulency of the enemy, and that we have 〈…〉 deserved it at their hands, &c. whereas if we looked beyond these, to God the prime Efficient, it would teach us silence, and holy submission: I was dumb, &c. because thou didst it, Psal. 39. 9.
Thirdly, Those that look upon the Providence with slighty and common affections, whose hearts are not awed by it, but look upon it as matter of […] or no concernment, are as jocund, as vain, as light, as frothy as ever they were: there are too many of these Consider,
Thirdly, Those that look upon the Providence with slighty and common affections, whose hearts are not awed by it, but look upon it as matter of 〈…〉 or no concernment, are as jocund, as vain, as light, as frothy as ever they were: there are too many of these Consider,