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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.
ISAIAH 21. 11, 12. 11 The burden of Dumah. He ca•eth to me out of Se•r, Watchmen, what of the night? watchmen, what of the night? 12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
Times of public Calamity, either felt, or justly feared, are trying Times; these do call in a solemn manner for Consideration, and especially to enquire into the Causes, and bethink of the sad Events. This is New-Englands day, wherein God hath at least taken the Rod into his hand, and is showing some part of his severity toward us; and though he mix it with much moderation, yet there is a great deal of bitterness in the Cup: 'tis time therefore humbly to enquire into the grounds, and consider of the Consequences of these Calamities. The Text before us may afford us something by way of Instruction and Direction in this enquiry.
TImes of publick Calamity, either felt, or justly feared, are trying Times; these do call in a solemn manner for Consideration, and especially to enquire into the Causes, and bethink of the sad Events. This is New-Englands day, wherein God hath at least taken the Rod into his hand, and is shewing some part of his severity toward us; and though he mix it with much moderation, yet there is a great deal of bitterness in the Cup: 'tis time therefore humbly to enquire into the grounds, and consider of the Consequences of these Calamities. The Text before us may afford us something by way of Instruction and Direction in this enquiry.