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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. 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. 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 publick Calamity.
3. Thou it may be art a private person, and therefore canst do but little upon a public account but by thy prayers; labour therefore to do the more with thine own heart. God hath not set every man in such a place, wherein he is called to busy himself in matters of public concernment, these belong to persons in public employment, whom we can only, assist by our prayers, or a detection and discovery of such particular enormities as we are privy to, that they may receive their due reward, and sin may be taken out of Israel: but we have the more scope and opportunity to be searching our own hearts, and if we neglect that work, we do little or nothing.
3. Thou it may be art a private person, and therefore canst do but little upon a publick account but by thy prayers; labour therefore to do the more with thine own heart. God hath not set every man in such a place, wherein he is called to busie himself in matters of publick concernment, these belong to persons in publick employment, whom we can onely, assist by our prayers, or a detection and discovery of such particular enormities as we are privy to, that they may receive their due reward, and sin may be taken out of Israel: but we have the more scope and opportunity to be searching our own hearts, and if we neglect that work, we do little or nothing.