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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.
3. Come with an humble heart, prepared to submit to whatsoever God shall discover. Consider, many things have been told you, but they have met with, and crossed your corruptions, and so you have rejected them: a proud heart is never like to be so familiar with God as to be instructed by him, he sees such at a distance: would you have God to teach you, submit humbly to his teaching.
3. Come with an humble heart, prepared to submit to whatsoever God shall discover. Consider, many things have been told you, but they have met with, and crost your corruptions, and so you have rejected them: a proud heart is never like to be so familiar with God as to be instructed by him, he sees such at a distance: would you have God to teach you, submit humbly to his teaching.
1. If the sin •all upon you in particular, be ready to take the shame of it: if while thou art standing before God, asking him by whom. and for what he is provoked? if he answer, Thou art the man, for these and those things he is provoked and offended; why, now lay thy mo•th in the d•st, reply not against him. While the sin is laid open others, and it toucheth not us, as we conceive, or at least only our natural infirmities, &c. we are well pleased; but when our […] come to be opened, rubbed and chafed, why then we kick, and fling, and rage, and grow mad. Avoid this frame, and bear patiently to be laid open and reproved.
1. If the sin •all upon you in particular, be ready to take the shame of it: if while thou art standing before God, asking him by whom. and for what he is provoked? if he answer, Thou art the man, for these and those things he is provoked and offended; why, now lay thy mo•th in the d•st, reply not against him. While the sin is laid open others, and it toucheth not us, as we conceive, or at least onely our natural infirmities, &c. we are well pleased; but when our come to be opened, rubbed and chafed, why then we kick, and fling, and rage, and grow mad. Avoid this frame, and bear patiently to be laid open and reproved.