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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. That either God or the Devil will have your young time: you are here at your choice, God by his Word and Spirit is tendering you to receive you into his service, and declaring how acceptable and pleasing it will be to him, but if you will not give your time to him, you will to a worse Master, the Devil stands waiting, yea endeavouring for you, and if Gods yoke please you not, he will easily persuade you to take his, and though that may seem delightful for the present, yet know it, it will be bitterness in the latter end.
2. That either God or the Devil will have your young time: you are here at your choice, God by his Word and Spirit is tendring you to receive you into his service, and declaring how acceptable and pleasing it will be to him, but if you will not give your time to him, you will to a worse Master, the Devil stands waiting, yea endeavouring for you, and if Gods yoke please you not, he will easily perswade you to take his, and though that may seem delightful for the present, yet know it, it will be bitterness in the latter end.
3. That if Young ones will not have Christ to reign over them; he may give them over into the hands and power of Satan: if Christs sweet government do not please you, you shall be left under the tyranny and cruelty of the Devil. Oh then learn hence not to despise and contemn the Calls of the Gospel, left God come out in Judgement against you, and put you into the everlasting possession of that cruel Enemy of your […].
3. That if Young ones will not have Christ to reign over them; he may give them over into the hands and power of Satan: if Christs sweet government do not please you, you shall be left under the tyranny and cruelty of the Devil. Oh then learn hence not to despise and contemn the Calls of the Gospel, left God come out in Judgement against you, and put you into the everlasting possession of that cruel Enemy of your 〈…〉.