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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.
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⟩Jer. 7. 5, 6, 7. we shall tast 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 wid'ned 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.
Doct. 2. True Repentance is the best and only way for the settlement of true peace: this the Lord propounds to them as the way and means to settlement, that they may dwell in that place for ever: and to that end he call• them up, not to a feigned, but a true repentance; if they had a desire to prosper. Jer 4. 1. if you will return, return to me. i. e. be sure to repent aright, do not turn from one sin to another, do not wander from that mountain to this hill, change one Idol for another; but go back again to your God: hence the Lord shows that to be the reason of the continuance of their sorrows.