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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.
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
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 Prophesie: for
1. The Rule is standing, Crying sins are answered with certain Judgement. God is the same he was, his Holiness and Justice remain inviolable, and unchangeable, and therefore sinners have no hopes to escape, if they remain in their sins.
2. Like sins bring like Judgements; Sodoms sins are followed with Sodoms plagues; and therefore if our sins answer former times, we may expect our sufferings to be like theirs.