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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. 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.
3. The night is full of terror, the darkness hath a kind of influence upon our fantasy, leaving an impression of strange apprehensions and possessing us with fears. Calamitous times are fearful and terrible times, fill us with suspicions, a man knows not whom to trust, lives in a fearful expectation of sudden miseries to seize upon him.
3. The night is full of terrour, the darkness hath a kinde of influence upon our fantasie, leaving an impression of strange apprehensions and possessing us with fears. Calamitous times are fearful and terrible times, fill us with suspitions, a man knows not whom to trust, lives in a fearful expectation of sudden miseries to seize upon him.
4. The night is a solitary time, breaks up societies, and scattereth them to their several Chambers, to feed upon their melancholic thoughts and fears. Troublesome times bring places full of inhabitants to fit solitary.