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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.
Use. I. See here a Reason why the people of God ought to do their utmost to prevent the day of Calamity: though they shall get good by all Providences, yet no affliction is in it self joyous, but grievous, and they shall find a great deal of night of trouble at such a time. Hence wonder not to hear them so earnest to deprecate that day, and labour to with God for a prevention of it. Christ himself, in whom was no sin, begs again and again, if it be possible that the Cup might pass away from him; how much more they that have sin as well as sorrow to grapple withal.
Use. I. See here a Reason why the people of God ought to do their utmost to prevent the day of Calamity: though they shall get good by all Providences, yet no affliction is in it self joyous, but grievous, and they shall finde a great deal of night of trouble at such a time. Hence wonder not to hear them so earnest to depreca•e that day, and labour to with God for a prevention of it. Christ himself, in whom was no sin, begs again and again, if it be possible that the Cup might pass away from him; how much more they that have sin as well as sorrow to grapple withall.
Use II. See here the Analogy between Sin and Sorrow, both are in Scripture called darkness: hence the punishment is suitable to the fault, God pays men in their own Coin; if men will hurry themselves ⟨p. 50⟩into the shades of sin, God justly brings them into a land of darkness, and of the shadow of death.
Use II. See here the Analogie between Sin and Sorrow, both are in Scripture called darkness: hence the punishment is suitable to the fault, God payes men in their own Coin; if men will hurry themselves ⟨p. 50⟩into the shades of sin, God justly brings them into a land of darkness, and of the shadow of death.