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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.
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, 2 Chron. 36.16. this ripens men apace for destruction.
4. Such a spirit is an immediate fore-runner of swift Calamity, 1 Thess. 5. 1—No surer and more infallible token of great Calamities to be hastening upon a people then this, when God tells them of trouble and calamity, they cry Peace, Peace, and lay themselves down (in despite of all Counsels and Warnings) upon the bed of Security, and take their case in sin without remorse. Let us then be deeply affected with this evil, as knowing that there is nothing whereby we have more […] provoked God, and •exed his Spirit, then by this. lye low before him in the sense of it, it may be he will pardon and forgive it.
4. Such a spirit is an immediate fore-runner of swift Calamity, 1 Thess. 5. 1—No surer and more infallible token of great Calamities to be hastning upon a people then this, when God tells them of trouble and calamity, they cry Peace, Peace, and lay themselves down (in despight of all Counsels and Warnings) upon the bed of Security, and take their case in sin without remorse. Let us then be deeply affected with this evil, as knowing that there is nothing whereby we have more 〈…〉 provoked God, and •exed his Spirit, then by this. lye low before him in the sense of it, it may be he will pardon and forgive it.