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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. Learn to obey your Parents in all their lawful Commands, and that in obedience unto God: acknowledge their authority and jurisdiction over you, and though they restrain you from that which you may think to be a lawful liberty, yet be obedient in all things lawful, for though the thing be a matter indifferent, yet if you disobey and displease your Parents in it, be sure you lay your selves open to Satan.
III. Let it teach both the Regenerate, and Unregenerate.
First, You that are Regenerated, and brought home to God, you may learn something here.
1. Let this providence teach you to magnify Gods grace, that hath taken you out of Satan's Kingdom, and translated you into the Kingdom of his own Son. When-ever we see any left by God, and in any ways in the hand of Satan, and under his power, how should it […] us with God-glorifying thoughts, at the consideration of his wonderful love to us. Now is a time to consider who made the difference between two pieces of the same clay, to remember how opposite we were to any saving good, what pains God took with us, what persuasions he used, and how contumeliously we often handled his Spirit; […] consider that if his love had not carried him against our hatred, had […] he pitied us, when we did not, could not pity our selves, we had yet to this day been under the dominion of Hell.