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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.
Doct. 2. A people in the very height of outward prosperity, may be very near to ruin and destruction. The Prophet speaks here quick, as of sudden Changes, The morning comes, also the night; intimating, as if there should be no long distance between their morning and night, as if it should be a short morning, a day soon changed into night. You remember how it was with the Old World, and with Sodom, who were taken in the height of their pleasures, in the top of their prosperity, and suddenly brought to a final end, and fearful desolation; and out Saviour Christ speaks of such times in the days of the Gospel, Luke 17.26, &c.
Doct. 2. A people in the very height of outward prosperity, may be very near to ruine and destruction. The Prophet speaks here quick, as of sudden Changes, The morning comes, also the night; intimating, as if there should be no long distance between their morning and night, as if it should be a short morning, a day soon changed into night. You remember how it was with the Old World, and with Sodom, who were taken in the height of their pleasures, in the top of their prosperity, and suddenly brought to a final end, and fearful desolation; and out Saviour Christ speaks of such times in the dayes of the Gospel, Luke 17.26, &c.
Reas. 1. Because such days ripen men faster for destruction, Rom. 9.22. the more men have, and abuse, the deeper they run into Gods debt-book, the larger accounts they have: the better the Pasture is, the sooner the Ox is fat; now you know the Ox is not taken from his Pasture, till such time as the day of slaughter comes, hence God takes men in their height, and makes them come down wonderfully.
Reas. 1. Because such dayes ripen men faster for destruction, Rom. 9.22. the more men have, and abuse, the deeper they run into Gods debt-book, the larger accounts they have: the better the Pasture is, the sooner the Ox is fat; now you know the Ox is not taken from his Pasture, till such time as the day of slaughter comes, hence God takes men in their height, and makes them come down wonderfully.