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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.
4. Whithersoever they go, bear a holy jealousy over them, lest they should offend God, and provoke him to leave them to the Devil: you cannot be always with them, nor constantly have them under your eye, but where-ever they be, be sure let your hear• go along with them, have a righteous fear concerning them you see Satan is ready to take all occasions to insinuate himself into them, and therefore for ought you know they may have the Devil in their company; let that direct your souls to heaven for them, that God would look to them, and preserve them: Job offers Sacrifice for his Children, when met in lawful recreation, lest they sinned, and cursed God in their hearts, Job 1. 5.
4. Whithersoever they go, bear a holy jealousie over them, lest they should offend God, and provoke him to leave them to the Devil: you cannot be alwayes with them, nor constantly have them under your eye, but where-ever they be, be sure let your hear• go along with them, have a righteous fear concerning them you see Satan is ready to take all occasions to insinuate himself into them, and therefore for ought you know they may have the Devil in their company; let that direct your souls to heaven for them, that God would look to them, and preserve them: Job offers Sacrifice for his Children, when met in lawful recreation, lest they sinned, and cursed God in their hearts, Job 1. 5.
5. Be more watchful over them hereafter, then you have been heretofore; have a care of […] them have their […], to go and come where and when they please, and especially in the night, be sure take an account of their business, and hold your Parental Authority over them, keep them within their bounds, you had better bear their ha•d thoughts of you now, then see them made vassals of Satan, and left up to Gods Judgements. If your Children resist or contemn your Authority, the Will of God is that you should not ear with them, no spare them; it is a great deal better they should live in