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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. No peace like that whose foundation is laid in true repentance, for its a peace whose Basis is peace with God, and that gives peace with all things, •ob 5: 19: and its an inviolable peace, a league which can never be broken: Oh! labour we then after this peace, if we clap up a peace and God be not in it, be will disannul all that is done, but enter a covenant with him and the world shall never be able to overthrow it, Earth and Hell shall not prevail against it; let us then confess our sins to him, and cast our selves before him, and go with them, Hos […]
3. No peace like that whose foundation is laid in true repentance, for its a peace whose Basis is peace with God, and that gives peace with all things, •ob 5: 19: and its an inviolable peace, a league which can never be broken: Oh! labour we then after this peace, if we clap up a peace and God be not in it, be will disanul all that is done, but enter a covenant with him and the world shall never be able to overthrow it, Earth and Hell shall not prevail against it; let us then confess our sins to him, and cast our selves before him, and go with them, Hos 〈…〉
Doct: 3 True repentance is always attended with a through reformation: If ye throughly amend your ways, &c ver: 5. the Lord there declares what a manner of repentance it is that he looks for; not a verbal, in a few empty Confessions, nor a formal, in a few dejected and cast down looks: like theirs in Isai: 58: beginning but here, and in the sequel he declares if they will have peace what it is he expects; the sum of which is, let all which hath been amiss be mended, turn over a new leaf, reform your hearts and ways, your souls and lives, and that I will accept of.
Doct: 3 True repentance is alwayes attended with a through reformation: If ye throughly amend your wayes, &c ver: 5. the Lord there declares what a manner of repentance it is that he looks for; not a verbal, in a few empty Confessions, nor a formal, in a few dejected and cast down looks: like theirs in Isai: 58: beginning but here, and in the sequel he declares if they will have peace what it is he expects; the sum of which is, let all which hath been amiss be mended, turn over a new leaf, reform your hearts and wayes, your souls and lives, and that I will accept of.