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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.
Of Dumah] i.e. Of the Land of Idumea, the place of the posterity of Esau, called Edom: these were, though of the posterity of Abraham and Isaac, yet a Nation rejected by God, and become an Heathen Nation; and yet God tells them aforehand what he intends against them, and condescends to give them a Warning to Repentance. Hence
Doct. God, though grievously provoked, yet seldom brings desolating Judgements, before he gives warning. Edom, though out of Gods Covenant shall nevertheless hear from God before they feel his wrath, and Babylon, and Arabia, and Tyre, &c. as we find scattered in the Prophesies, how much more a people in Covenant with him.
Doct. God, though grievously provoked, yet seldome brings desolating Judgements, before he gives warning. Edom, though out of Gods Covenant shall nevertheless hear from God before they feel his wrath, and Babylon, and Arabia, and Tyre, &c. as we finde scattered in the Prophesies, how much more a people in Covenant with him.
Reas. 1. Because this is the day of Gods for bearance, and therefore he will exalt it towards sinners, and make them to taste of it. It is the time wherein Justice is moderated by Mercy.