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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. God hath warned us in his Providences, that so he might make us believe his Word in the mouth of his Messengers: and that not only by many Signs and Prognostics usual forerunners of calamitous times, but also by the Vaunt-Couriers of his Army of Judgements, beginnings of sorrows; many have been the sad and awakening Providences of these latter years, he is a stranger in our Israel who is unacquainted therewithal. It we will not credit the Word, yet let us believe the Rod; if in the Morning we have been easily deluded into false and vain hopes, to think it would never be Night, yet one would think, when the Sun seems to be setting in our Horizon, and the dusk of the Evening is coming upon us, we should now be ready to give credit to it, unless we are fallen into a Lethargic, and dead sleep of Security.
2. God hath warned us in his Providences, that so he might make us believe his Word in the mouth of his Messengers: and that not only by many Signs and Prognosticks usual forerunners of calamitous times, but also by the Vaunt-Courriers of his Army of Judgements, beginnings of sorrows; many have been the sad and awakening Providences of these latter years, he is a stranger in our Israel who is unacquainted therewithall. It we will not credit the Word, yet let us believe the Rod; if in the Morning we have been easily deluded into false and vain hopes, to think it would never be Night, yet one would think, when the Sun seems to be setting in our Horizon, and the dusk of the Evening is coming upon us, we should now be ready to give credit to it, unless we are fallen into a Lethargic, and dead sleep of Security.
3. Now let us bethink our selves how it may be prevented: to what end should we be warned, but that we might endeavour to prevent and escape the drinking the dregs of this Cup, whereof we have been already made to sip?
3. Now let us bethink our selves how it may be prevented: to what end should we be warned, but that we might endeavou to prevent and escape the drinking the dregs of this Cup, whereof we have been already made to sip?