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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.
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.
Use. 1. For Trial: there is much talk now a days amongst us, ⟨p. 55⟩about the Judgements of God, and those awful Providences that are rolling over our heads: there is a great Enquiry made, but let us not think or conclude our selves ever the better, because we are among the number of those who are possibly the most forward upon this account, but examine our selves whether we do it in sincerity or in hypocrisy.
Use. 1. For Tryall: there is much talk now a dayes amongst us, ⟨p. 55⟩about the Judgements of God, and those awfull Providences that are rolling over our heads: there is a great Enquiry made, but let us not think or conclude our selves ever the better, because we are among the number of those who are possibly the most forward upon this account, but examine our selves whether we do it in sincerity or in hypocrisie.