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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.
Ans. The Object on hath […] in to impair the necessity of the duty urged in the Direction, at such a time as this: for,
Ans. The Object on hath 〈…〉 in to impair the necessity of the duty urged in the Direction, at such a time as this: for,
1. Sometimes a private person […] be the occasion of a general and public Calamity: Ach […] Israel; Israel is charged with his sin, and fly before their […]: •e read of nothing else that the Lord charges upon them, but only his sin.
1. Sometimes a private person 〈…〉 be the occasion of a general and publick Calamity: Ach 〈…〉 Israel; Israel is charged with his sin, and fly before their 〈…〉: •e reade of nothing else that the Lord charges upon them, but onely his sin.
2. General is made up of particularly […] particulars, and therefore mayest well […] self upon the account of public and general visitations. […] one should so excuse themselves, where should the sin he sound? God faith In thee are found such, &c. Ezek.22. he doth not there lay every particular sin upon all, yet all these went together to make up the provocation of Gods wrath, and procure their public Calamity.
2. General is made up of particularly particulars, and therefore mayest well self upon the account of publick and general visitations. one should so excuse themselves, where should the sin he sound? God faith In thee are found such, &c.