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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.
Secondly, You that are Young ones, behold here one of your Tribe and Form, as I may say, one of your own years picked out of you by the wise Providence of God, to be made an object of Gods severity, and mans pity. Out of doubt […] especial Cry to you Young ones, to Remember your Creator […] of your youth: you have been often counselled and admonished in the House of God, yea earnestly and compassionately entreated to devote your young time to God, to give up the prime of your years to him; but you have slighted and disregarded such Counsels and Calls, and have taken up […] that you would have your childish and youthful vanities, let God by his […] say what he would to you: Well, now God hath […] in his Providence, and thunders out his mind to you in […] sad Object, and what do you now say to it? will you hear ⟨p. 37⟩Gods voice, or will you for […]? are you still resolved in your […] courses, or will you learn Righteousness? if you would but […] your ears, you might here observe God speaking something to you.
Secondly, You that are Young ones, behold here one of your Tribe and Form, as I may say, one of your own years pickt out of you by the wise Providence of God, to be made an object of Gods severity, and mans pity. Out of doubt 〈…〉 especial Cry to you Young ones, to Remember your Creator 〈…〉 of your youth: you have been often counselled and admonished in the House of God, yea earnestly and compassionately intreated to devote your young time to God, to give up the prime of your years to him; but you have slighted and disregarded such Counsels and Calls, and have taken up 〈…〉 that you would have your childish and youthful vanities, let God by his 〈…〉 say what he would to you: Well, now God hath 〈…〉 in his Providence, and thunders out his minde to you in 〈…〉 sad Object, and what do you now say to it? will you hear ⟨p. 37⟩Gods voice, or will you for 〈…〉? are you still resolved in your 〈…〉 courses, or will you learn Righteousness? if you would but your ears, you might here observe God speaking something to you.