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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.
Ans. God gives a greater portion of his Spirit to his Ministers, then to others, and by that Spirit he extraordinarily
1. Stirs them up to a consideration of his mind and counsels: he directs their thoughts that way.
1. Stirs them up to a consideration of his minde and counsels: he directs their thoughts that way.
2. Discovers to them the sins of the times and places they live in, makes them to observe the frames and manners of the people he sends them to.
3. Enables them to compare his ancient dealings with sinners, in the several respects and circumstances, and hence to draw conclusions, and hence verifies that promise, Amos 3. 7. Now these Conclusions are a sure word of Prophecy: for