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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.
Use. 1. See here how grievously they provoke God, who in the day of their prosperity mind nothing but their case and pleasure, Amos 6. 1.—it is an iniquity which God cannot bear, as follows in the sequel: it is a note of a wicked man, when he enjoys the favour of God, to do nothing but spend his days in mirth; there are the afflictions of Joseph to mind, yea also and our own change to mind: what was the ground of Jerusalems destruction but this? Lam. 1.9.
Use. 1. See here how grievously they provoke God, who in the day of their prosperity minde nothing but their case and pleasure, Amos 6. 1.—it is an iniquity which God cannot bear, as follows in the sequel: it is a note of a wicked man, when he enjoyes the favour of God, to do nothing but spend his dayes in mirth; there are the afflictions of Joseph to minde, yea also and our own change to minde: what was the ground of Jerusalems destruction but this? Lam. 1.9.
Use II. This may be for Direction to us, what use to make of the consideration and fore-thoughts of the night of Trouble, in a few things:
First, Consider what just reason we have to expect a night, a change, more sorrows still; viz.