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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. Let it awaken you to walk worthy of your vocation; you now see your calling, you are called out of Satan's kingdom, you are delivered from the powers of darkness, labour then to walk no longer in the vanity of your minds: Are you Gods Children? Live in holiness, 1 Pet. 1. 14, &c. Oh that this Providence might awaken those that have given up themselves to God and his Service, to consider whether we have not too much gratified Satan, by being too light, too vain, too excessive in taking liberty in worldly mirth and vanity, too little spiritual in our course and conversation among men. Let it then be a word of Warning to us to be more serious and cautious to our selves and ways for the time to come.
2. Let it awaken you to walk worthy of your vocation; you now see your calling, you are called out of Satans kingdome, you are delivered from the powers of darkness, labour then to walk no longer in the vanity of your mindes: Are you Gods Children? Live in holiness, 1 Pet. 1. 14, &c. Oh that this Providence might awaken those that have given up themselves to God and his Service, to consider whether we have not too much gratified Satan, by being too light, too vain, too excessive in taking liberty in worldly mirth and vanity, too little spiritual in our course and conversation among men. Let it then be a word of Warning to us to be more serious and cautious to our selves and wayes for the time to come.
3. Let it move in you earning bowels of compassion towards those ⟨p. 41⟩that are yet in Satan's Kingdom, and under his spiritual Jurisdiction: you may here see a little, though but a little, yet so much appears here visible and demonstrative, as may give a glimpse of discovery how sad and doleful the condition of poor unregenerate sinners is, who are spiritually possest by Satan: Let it then rouse up in you bowels of pity, when you look in the faces of any such, et it make you to mourn over them, and pray for them, and counsel and advise them as God gives you opportunity, that if it may be, you may be helpful to their escape out of the paws of the devouring Lion.