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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.
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?
3. No peace like that whose foundation is laid in true repentance, for its a peace whose Basis is peace with God, and that gives peace with all things, ob 5: 19: and its an inviolable peace, a league which can never be broken: Oh! labour we then after this peace, if we clap up a peace and God be not in it, be will disannul all that is done, but enter a covenant with him and the world shall never be able to overthrow it, Earth and Hell shall not prevail against it; let us then confess our sins to him, and cast our selves before him, and go with them, Hos […]