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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.
Doct. 1. Times of Calamity are fitly compared to the night season.
There is much of Analogy in these.
There is much of Analogie in these.
1. In the night nothing can be distinguished from the darkness, all things lye equally mantled under that black […] hence the Grave is called A land of darkness, because all meet equally, and […] there: in times of Calamity the affliction is universal, good and bad are not to be distinguished by the outward face of Divine Providence, Eccles 9. 1.
1. In the night nothing can be distinguished from the darkness, all things lye equally mantled under that black 〈…〉 hence the Grave is called A land of darkness, because all meet equally, and 〈…〉 there: in times of Calamity the affliction is universal, good and bad are not to be distinguished by the outward face of Divine Providence, Eccles 9. 1.