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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. Consider, the wrong we do him will fall upon our selves in the end, we may fight against him, but they are arrows shot up against heaven, which will fall down upon our own heads Jer. 7. 19. we may think what we will, but the issue of such provocations, will be the impe•• tent sinners confusion; briers and thorns must not think to thrive again the devouring fire.
2. Consider, the wrong we do him will fall upon our selves in the end, we may fight against him, but they are arrows shot up against heaven, which will fall down upon our own heads Ier. 7. 19. we may think what we will, but the issue of such provocations, will be the impe•• tent sinners confusion; briers and thorns must not think to thrive again the devouring fire.
3. Consider, The benefits of Repentance will redound to our own good ⟨p. 3⟩Jer. 7. 5, 6, 7. we shall taste the sweet of it; to escape from misery, to enjoy the benediction of God, and sweet fruits of peace, will be our advantage: let it then break our hearts to consider, that after all our sins, God hath yet widened arms to receive us into: if a man find his enemies, would he not destroy them. 1. Sam. 24. 19. yet hath God had •• nifold opportunities and sufficient provocations, and hath not […] use of them.
3. Consider, The benefits of Repentance will redound to our own good ⟨p. 3⟩