N00129:437
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.
5. Particular Repentance goes before general mercies, Zech. 11.9. if God intend good to this poor Land he will bring us to this, he will make us get alone, and every one lay his singer upon his own sore, and mourn over our sins wherewithal we have been provoking his Majesty: and when he hath once brought us to that, the time of his gracious visitation is near at hand; yea, that indeed is the first great mercy, for which let us this day seek his face.
5. Particular Repentance goes before general mercies, Zech. 11.9. if God intend good to this poor Land he will bring us to this, he will make us get alone, and every one lay his singer upon his own sore, and mourn over our sins wherewithall we have been provoking his Majesty: and when he hath once brought us to that, the time of his gracious visitation is near at hand; yea, that indeed is the first great mercy, for which let us this day seek his face.
5. Reform according to thy ability, and where thou canst not reform, these mourn.
First, Reform according to thy latitude.