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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. In the Circumstance of thy actions.
1. Of time, a thing beautiful in its season: unseasonable, is ugly and deformed: hast thou taken the seasons of Christian duties? hast thou spoken against thy neighbours sins plainly to his face; privately, or not rather behind his back, slanderously reviling him, &c.?
1. Of time, a thing beautiful in its season: unseasonable, is ugly and deformed: hast thou taken the seasons of Christian duties? hast thou spoken against thy neighbours sins plainly to his face; privately, or not rather behinde his back, slinderously reviling him, &c.?
2. Of place or persons: David would hold his tongue in presence of the wicked; how many times hast thou failed of due consideration, when, or before thou hast thus done, or thus said.
3. In the manner of the carriage of your selves: it may be you have for the matter attended your duty, but have you for the manner too? have not you […] out of your duty, and run into sin upon this account? have you not under pretext of zeal of Gods glory, and upholding his Name and Honour, given the reins into the neck of unruly passions, and […] Moses spoken unadvisedly; yea worse then he, raged, reiled, &c.? Examine every thing, and possibly God may discover to you more of this mischief lodged in your own heart, then ever yet you were aware of.