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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.
5. Reform according to thy ability, and where thou canst not reform, these mourn.
First, Reform according to thy latitude.
1. Reform thy […] by due discipline towards it, here then canst not be too strict […]; let the search be thorough, and the reformation universal: mortify thy lusts and corruptions, ransack and cleanse every corner of thy heart, let none of thy Idols remain, but put them all away; resolve with Ephraim, that thou wilt have no more to do with them, Hos. 14.8. and beg of God grace that thou mayest stand to thy resolutions.
1. Reform thy 〈…〉 by due discipline towards it, here then canst not be too strict 〈…〉; let the search be thorough, and the reformation universal: mortifie thy lusts and corruptions, ransack and cleanse every corner of thy heart, let none of thy Idols remain, but put them all away; resolve with Ephraim, that thou wilt have no more to do with them, Hos. 14.8. and beg of God grace that thou mayest stand to thy resolutions.