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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. If we contemn them, and receive not their Ministry, it is the ready way to be given up by God to a spirit of delusion, 2 Thess. 2. 10 Observer, and you shall se•, this hath been the door out of which so many have gone away into those giddy distempers which they are now inflicted withal, even those many Enthusiasms of the Devil; an undervaluing of the Ministry, an elevating and […] up private gifts, •amp;c. which hath led men by degrees to those great Apostasies, whereby their light (which would have shone clearly in its proper Orb) hath spent it self in a blaze, and gone out in a stinking snuff.
2. If we contemn them, and receive not their Ministry, it is the ready way to be given up by God to a spirit of delusion, 2 Thess. 2. 10 Observer, and you shall se•, this hath been the door out of which so many have gone away into those giddy distempers which they are now inflicted withall, even those many Enthusiasms of the Devil; an undervaluing of the Ministry, an elevating and 〈…〉 up private gifts, •amp;c. which hath led men by degrees to those great Apostacies, whereby their light (which would have shone clearly in its proper Orb) hath spent it self in a blaze, and gone out in a stinking snuff.
The Watchman said] i. e. from God, and by his direction, we here see the Prophet gives them a serious Answer. Hence