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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.
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.
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.