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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. Others have no believed, […] hose not a few neither, but the most; we may almost use the […] demand, Isa. 53. 1.
2. Others have no believed, 〈…〉 hose not a few neither, but the most; we may almost use the 〈…〉 demand, Isa. 53. 1.
3. Have not these Warnings been practically slighted and disregarded?
1. How few hearts have been affected? and not to be affected, is a degree of mocking: how few m••ing hearts? how few that hear and fear? how few tremblers at the Word of God? or that with old Eli sit by the way, trembling for the Ark of God? We can sit under the Convictions of the Word, and no whit convinced; little remorse when these burdens are laid upon us, and we go away and wipe our months, and say, What have I done? We (like deaf men) startle not when the Tran per founds, because we will not hear it.
1. How few hearts have been affected? and not to be affected, is a degree of mocking: how few m••ing hearts? how few that hear and fear? how few tremblers at the Word of God? or that with old Eli sit by the way, trembling for the Ark of God? We can sit under the Convictions of the Word, and no whit convinced; little remorse when these burdens are laid upon us, and we go away and wipe our monthes, and say, What have I done? We (like deaf men) startle not when the Tran per founds, because we will not hear it.