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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.
Reas. 2. Because there are other ends of such Enquiry, besides such as accompany sincerity; viz.
1. A bare desire of external knowledge and discourse: there is seated in man a great natural desire of the knowledge of the Nature of things, and that especially of future Contingencies; hence men take a great deal of pains, and busy themselves much in seeking to know such things, when it is to no other end but to know.
1. A bare desire of external knowledge and discourse: there is seated in man a great natural desire of the knowledge of the Nature of things, and that especially of future Contingencies; hence men take a great deal of pains, and busie themselves much in seeking to know such things, when it is to no other end but to know.
2. An intent to •avill at Gods dispensations, Isa. 58.2. Some enquire to no other end, but that they may pick a quarrel with Divine Providence, and charge the ways of God with injustice, as if they were wiser then God, as if he did not Rule the World by an equal Law.
2. An intent to •avill at Gods dispensations, Isa. 58.2. Some enquire to no other end, but that they may pick a quarrel with Divine Providence, and charge the wayes of God with injustice, as if they were wiser then God, as if he did not Rule the World by an equall Law.