N00129:412
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. 3 Those that would be instructed by God, in the grounds of his quarrel, and means of restitution, must enquire in good earnest. God loves no this hypocritis, and it we bring it, he will answer accordingly, Ezek. 14 4. God may indeed answer those that enquire in hypocrisy, but it is an unwelcome answer he gives them, viz. a commission, and a ratifying of his Threatenings, and an […] fulfilling of them: All the news that Edom hears, is, That their Night shall come on them, the […] determined shell be brought to […] them: but God gives an answer of peace only to those that enquire in sin••ity.
Doct. 3 Those that would be instructed by God, in the grounds of his quarrel, and means of restitution, must enquire in good earnest. God loves no this hypocritis, and it we bring it, he will answer accordingly, Ezek. 14 4. God may indeed answer those that enquire in hypocrisie, but it is an unwelcome answer he gives them, viz. a commision, and a ratifying of his Threatnings, and an 〈…〉 fulfilling of them: All the news that Edom hears, is, That their Night shall come on them, the 〈…〉 determined shell be brought to 〈…〉 them: but God gives an answer of peace onely to those that enquire in sin••ity.
Reas. 1. Because this hypocrious is are great reason of the continuation of Gods anger, and there […] must be […], […] before God […] 4. they ⟨p. 69⟩had sinned, and God had afflicted; they […] God had added to their affliction, and they now would […] the iniquity of their fasting procured the […]; Is this such a Fast as I have required? hence God direct the […] to fast aright, in the sequel. Judah had been full of […], but God was […]