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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. Wherein hath there been a removal of the Rod on Gods part: do not our calamities seem to increase, and the stroke to be more and more heavy? we lost many Instruments of the glory of God, and suffered many bodily Calamities, and Blastings of our labours, and we have fasted, but his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still; yea more varieties of sorrows are heaped upon us: we may therefore well examine our own hears, what is the reason of all this, unless we have not yet indeed turned to him who smote us, the Lord our God.
Doct. 2. Whatsoever […] we make, yet God knows with what hears we come to him, to ask […] and direction from him. The Idum are seem earnest and urgent, but yet the Lord tells them that they make none (i. e. no acceptable) enquiry.
Doct. 2. Whatsoever 〈…〉 we make, yet God knows with what hears we come to him, to ask 〈…〉 and direction from him. The Idum are seem earnest and urgent, but yet the Lord tells them that they make none (i. e. no acceptable) enquiry.
Reas. From his Omniscience, Psal. 94.8. Heb. 4.13. he is the heart maker, and therefore hath the power of discerning the heart, and all the motions and turnings of it; all the nooks and corners of it are open: it is so full of deceitfulness, that we cannot know it throughly, but he perfectly and exactly views, and discerns it; if he did no: know the secrets of our hearts, if any thing were […] from him, he were not God.