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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. God will make you to know who sent these Messengers, that it was not of their own heads, nor on their own errands, that his Ministers came to you, but that it was from him, Ezek. 2 5. and that you have not scoffed and neglected them, but God himself: you shall see this.
2. Gods patience hath a bounded time, Hab, 2.3. God may delay long, he will not do so always; know it, he is just as well as merciful: God will take a season, find out a fit opportunity to be known in his Judgements upon those who despise his patience, and reject his counsels and fore-warnings, he will not strive always with man, who is flesh, Gen. 6. 3.
2. Gods patience hath a bounded time, Hab, 2.3. God may delay long, he will not do so alwayes; know it, he is just as well as mercifull: God will take a season, finde out a fit opportunity to be known in his Judgements upon those who despise his patience, and reject his counsels and fore-warnings, he will not strive alwayes with man, who is flesh, Gen. 6. 3.
3. Such a spirit will provoke God to make haste, Ezek. 12. 23. if God send, yea rise up early and send, and so far condescend to a rebellious people, as to send Messenger after Messenger, and Message upon Message, and these mocked and despised, that news quickly comes there is no remedy,