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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. Sin hath cut the creature off from the right and true foundation of […], what peace, &c. 2. King. 9. 22. God will not, cannot, […] blessings and peace to impenitent and hypocritical sinners; he •ould wound the great Attribute of his holiness, if he should so do.
2. Sin hath cut the creature off from the right and true foundation of 〈…〉, what peace, &c. 2. King. 9. 22. God will not, cannot, 〈…〉 blessings and peace to impenitent and hypocritical sinners; he •ould wound the great Attribute of his holiness, if he should so do.
3. It is only by true Repentance that we heartily renounce sin and […] ⟨p. 4⟩under the condition of peace, Jer. 3. 12, 13. God sets forth tenders of peace before vile sinners, but there are Articles of composition, terms of agreement, which the Creature must needs consent to, if he desire good, or otherwise the treaty must break off, and be put to an end.
3. It is only by true Repentance that we heartily renounce sin and 〈…〉 ⟨p. 4⟩under the condition of peace, Ier. 3. 12, 13. God sets forth tenders of peace before vile sinners, but there are Articles of composition, terms of agreement, which the Creature must needs consent to, if he desire good, or otherwise the treaty must break off, and be put to an end.