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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.
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.
2. What little care is there to return and meet God by repentance, and what is this […] then to slight and mock God.?
2. What little care is there to return and meet God by repentance, and what is this 〈…〉 then to slight and mock God.?
Obj. But many days of Humiliation have been kept?
Obj. But many dayes of Humiliation have been kept?