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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. 2. To direct us to a right way of settling our selves on such a firm way of peace as shall stand; let us forsake our sins and return unto God from whom we have turned away; though we have departed away from God into sin, yet let us not stand it out against him: Motive.
Consider, Our league with Hell and Death will not do, Isai. 28. 18 we may go down to Egypt and ride upon Horses, but these shall not save us, Isa. 3• beginning, though we should add to own the strength of all the Creation, and engage the whole world in our quarrel, yet we […] not think to be too hard for the Almighty, none ever tried a fall with him but they were thrown.
Consider, Our league with Hell and Death will not do, Isai. 28. 18 we may go down to Egypt and ride upon Horses, but these shall not save us, Isa. 3• beginning, though we should adde to own the strength of all the Creation, and engage the whole world in our quarrel, yet we 〈…〉 not think to be too hard for the Almighty, none ever tryed a fall with him but they were thrown.
2. So long as we persist in a way of sin God hath a quarrel against us, Isai: 57: ult: wherever God finds wickedness there he stands off from the sinner; we may make flourishes of great matters in forms of Religion, &c: but if sin be still covenanted with, and we maintain our rebellion, the return will be, who required these things at your hands?