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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.
If ye will enquire, enquire ye:] The Prophet having answered their Question about the Events of Providence, and confirmed his forewarnings, by taking off the objection from present prosperity, and ascertained them of the hastening of their Calamity; being desirous to prevent their utter desolation, adds a […] of serious advice to them from God, wherein he tacitly reproves the hypocrisy of their former inquisitiveness, and calls up to sincerity in their enquiring. Hence
If ye will enquire, enquire ye:] The Prophet having answered their Question about the Events of Providence, and confirmed his forewarnings, by taking off the objection from present prosperity, and ascertained them of the hastening of their Calamity; being desirous to prevent their utter desolation, addes a 〈…〉 of serious advice to them from God, wherein he tacitly reproves the hypocrisie of their former inquisitiveness, and calls up to sincerity in their enquiring. Hence
Doct. 1. Hypocritical service is in Gods […] no service. Edo•• makes a seeming enquiry, out they did it not in earnest, hence the Prophet speaks of it as […]. The […] much, and ⟨p. 67⟩were angry that God did not answer them, […] their affliction still remained on them; God tells them he looked upon it as no Fast, Isai. 58.3.
Doct. 1. Hypocritical service is in Gods 〈…〉 no service. Edo•• makes a seeming enquiry, out they did it not in earnest, hence the Prophet speaks of it as 〈…〉. The 〈…〉 much, and ⟨p. 67⟩