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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.
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.
2. That sinners may have an opportunity to repent: when God speaks to them before he strikes them, he puts a price into their hands, ⟨p. 47⟩[…] on it as such a season, Rev. 2. 21.
2. That sinners may have an opportunity to repent: when God speaks to them before he strikes them, he puts a price into their hands, ⟨p. 47⟩〈…〉 on it as such a season, Rev. 2. 21.
3. To take off all excuse in the day of Vengeance, that all mouths may be stopped, sinners shall have nothing to say for themselves, as having been warned; they shall have no plea, shall not be able to say, We never heard of it: no cloak shall be left them.
3. To take off all excuse in the day of Vengeance, that all mouthes may be stopt, sinners shall have nothing to say for themselves, as having been warned; they shall have no plea, shall not be able to say, We never heard of it: no cloak shall be left them.