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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. 3. Because it is a Work which is accompanied with the glorious power of God, and made a means of the Salvation of Gods Elect: this is Pauls reason why he is not ashamed of the Gospel, Rom. 1. 16. When they see God putting forth his power, and making the stoutest sinners fall (like the walls of Jericho) at the sounding of the Preaching of the Gospel, and many souls by their Ministry brought effectually home to God, this is enough to make them disdain the standers and […] of men, and glory in their Ministry.
Reas. 3. Because it is a Work which is accompanied with the glorious power of God, and made a means of the Salvation of Gods Elect: this is Pauls reason why he is not ashamed of the Gospel, Rom. 1. 16. When they see God putting forth his power, and making the stoutest sinners fall (like the walls of Jericho) at the sounding of the Preaching of the Gospel, and many souls by their Ministry brought effectually home to God, this is enough to make them disdain the standers and 〈…〉 of men, and glory in their Ministry.
Reas. 4. […] with God: Ministers look not for, not would be satisfied with an earthly reward; their praise is of God and ⟨p. 58⟩[…] shall not lose their reward, and they dare trust him, and can cheerfully endure, and meet with all that reviling and contempt which wicked men delight to be venting against them: the Crown will more then pay for all.
Reas. 4. 〈…〉 with God: Ministers look not for, not would be satisfied with an earthly reward; their praise is of God and ⟨p. 58⟩〈…〉 shall not lose their reward, and they dare trust him, and can chearfully endure, and meet with all that reviling and contempt which wicked men delight to be venting against them: the Crown will more then pay for all.