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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.
Ans. True; and to what purpose?
1. Where is the Reformation that hath followed? in Isa. 58. the Lord owns that only as a true Fast, which is a day of Reformation […] ⟨p. 53⟩but what hath been amended? if we […] miss before, we are so still, notwithstanding all that is made to appear to the view of the world: and this is a manifest mockery.
1. Where is the Refo•mation that hath followed? in Isa. 58. the Lord owns that onely as a true Fast, which is a day of Reformation 〈…〉 ⟨p. 53⟩but what hath been amended? if we 〈…〉 miss before, we are so still, notwithstanding all that is made to appear to the view of the world: and this is a manifest mockery.
2. Have we not kept days to encourage our selves to sin more boldly upon a new score, with the Where in Prov. 7. 14, 15? thought to have cleared all old scores with God by an overly Confession, that, so we might more securely run into new arrearages: and is not this a great mockery, to think to pay God with such counterfeit Coin? What have we to do then; but to confess and bewail this sin before God, and labour to amend it? For Motive: Consider,