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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.
Reas. is, Because it
1. Comes not from a right principles; Grace, which only can do any thing acceptably to God: where there is not this, the Sacrifice is an abomination. That which hath the matter of visible service in it, is looked upon as the greatest sin, Isa. 66.2.
1. Comes not from a right principles; Grace, which onely can do any thing acceptably to God: where there is not this, the Sacrifice is an abomination. That which hath the matter of visible service in it, is looked upon as the greatest sin, Isa. 66.2.
2. Is not done in a right manner, viz. Sincerity of heart. God requires the heart in every service, for that commands all the faculties, and what way that goes, thither indeed all aim; hence the complaint is, Their heart •as not upright toward God.