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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 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.
Use III. This Consideration may warn us to have a care how we provoke Gods Judgements against us, to bring wrath upon us; we may be •old and fearless while the day time lasts, and our Sun of prosperity shines upon us, but if we pull down Judgements upon our heads, we shall find the night to be
Use III. This Consideration may warn us to have a care how we provoke Gods Judgements against us, to bring wrath upon us; we may be •old and fearless while the day time lasts, and our Sun of prosperity shines upon us, but if we pull down Judgements upon our heads, we shall finde the night to be
1. Joyless, we shall see the difference between joy and sorrow experimentally when God shall have removed our comforts away from us, our peace, our outward supplies, all our precious things, we shall then feel what it is to be benighted.