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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. The words carry in them the face of an Argument: he compares their condition to a Natural day, in which there are two constituting parts, viz. Day and Night, light and darkness, which naturally follow one upon another: the day of the people of God usually (as the Natural day) begins with darkness, and ends in […]; the wickeds day begins with morning, but shall end with night. Hence if they look for right to follow the clearest day, why do they dream as if sorrow could not come in the room of their present pleasure and delight? Hence
3. The words carry in them the face of an Argument: he compares their condition to a Natural day, in which there are two constituting parts, viz. Day and Night, light and darkness, which naturally follow one upon another: the day of the people of God usually (as the Natural day) begins with darkness, and ends in 〈…〉; the wickeds day begins with morning, but shall end with night. Hence if they look for right to follow the clearest day, why do they dream as if sorrow could not come in the room of their present pleasure and delight? Hence
Doct. 1. […] an hundred and forty ⟨p. 61⟩years, •are with the […]
Doct. 1. 〈…〉 an hundred and fourty ⟨p. 61⟩years, •are with the 〈…〉