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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.) The people of God know what a sad thing it is to have to do with an angry God Psal. 76. 7.
3. Of the third; From the pride of heart which is in the wicked, Jer. 43. 2. they are too good to be reproved, will not hear by reason of the height of heir spirits, think so well of themselves, that they cannot believe that God is displeased at them.
4. Of the fourth; From the compassions of God towards poor sinners, he herein discovers his merciful Nature, Hos. 11. 8
5. Of the fifth; From the averseness of the nature of man from sorrows and miseries: they are against our nature, and therefore must needs be burdensome; yea they are Punishments, and are therefore grievous.