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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.
1. Believe that God is yet willing to be stopped, he shows how unwilling he is to […], and therefore is ready to be stayed. God loves to be hindered in these proceedings he himself looks to set if there be any to stand in the gap, and make up the breach, and he is grieved when ⟨p. 66⟩[…] none: […] encouragement; The God of Israel is a merciful God, and will be ready to extend that mercy to us, notwithstanding any advantage he hath in his hand against us: he therefore (when in the midst of Judgements) swears, that he delights not in the sinners death, and calls upon them to return to him, Ezek. 36. 11.
1. Believe that God is yet willing to be stopt, he shews how unwilling he is to 〈…〉, and therefore is ready to be stayed. God loves to be hindred in these proceedings he himself looks to set if there be any to stand in the gap, and make up the breach, and he is grieved when ⟨p. 66⟩〈…〉 none: 〈…〉 encouragement; The God of Israel is a merciful God, and will be ready to extend that mercy to us, notwithstanding any advantage he hath in his hand against us: he therefore (when in the midst of Judgements) swears, that he delights not in the sinners death, and calls upon them to return to him, Ezek. 36. 11.
3. Improve the means of prevention that are appointed by God: as there is a possibility of stopping the process of Gods wrath, so there is but one only way whereby it can be done, and that is by returning by a thorough Repentance, by a confessing and forsaking those sins that pull down wrath; we must confess, that he may be acknowledged Just; we must forsake, because the Cause must be taken away before the Effect cease.