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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.
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.
2. The night is a joyless time, darkness and obscurity hide from us objects of joy and mirth: in times of Calamity objects of joy are removed, these outward symptoms and expressions of delights and pleasures are removed, Jer. 7 34.
2. The night is a joyless time, darkness and obscurity hide from us objects of joy and mirth: in times of Calamity objects of joy are removed, these outward symptomes and expressions of delights and pleasures are removed, Jer. 7 34.