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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.
1. Let it be a Doctrinal Providence to Young and Old.
First, To you that are Elder, and more grown up in years, let it awaken you.
1. Consider how many more provocations God hath had from you, then he •ath had from this poor creature; how many more Ordinances and Providences have attended upon you, then ever did upon her: think how long you have lived in Gods world, and yet have done him little or no service since you came into it: and therefore let this awaken you to see how it stands with you, how the matter goes between God and your Souls, whether you are secure under his wings, and at peace with him. When you see one so much younger then you thus visited, Oh think upon what ground you stand, fear ⟨p. 36⟩the like or worse, if you are yet in an uncertain state. Let it in a […] manner awaken old ones to make their calling and election sure, considering how much danger you are in.
1. Consider how many more provocations God hath had from you, then he •ath had from this poor creature; how many more Ordinances and Providences have attended upon you, then ever did upon her: think how long you have lived in Gods world, and yet have done him little or no service since you came into it: and therefore let this awaken you to see how it stands with you, how the matter goes between God and your Souls, whether you are secure under his wings, and at peace with him. When you see one so much younger then you thus visited, Oh think upon what ground you stand, fear ⟨p. 36⟩