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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.
Reas. 2. Because the greater the blessing is, if not answerably improved, it brings the greater curse upon the Creature: Mat. 11. 2•. that is Capernaum• sin, abuse of Gospel privileges, and therefore a special and extraordinary doom is past upon them; the greater the mercy is, the more sadly is God provoked by the abusing of it, and therefore ⟨p. 7⟩who ever escape, it's like to fare ill with such as those. Ans. 3. 2.
Reas. 2. Because the greater the blessing is, if not answerably improved, it brings the greater curse upon the Creature: Mat. 11. 2•. that is Capernaum• sin, abuse of Gospel priviledges, and therefore a special and extraordinary doom is past upon them; the greater the mercy is, the more sadly is God provoked by the abusing of it, and therefore ⟨p. 7⟩who ever escape, it's like to fare ill wich such as those. Ans. 3. 2.
Use 1. To reprove our carnal confidence in the enjoyment of the means of grace and privileges of the Gospel: you that trust in your interests you have Sabbaths, Sacraments, liberty of nearest communion with God in his Ordinances, &c. and hereupon you are ready to think that God loves you, and will not bring a scourge upon you, but conclude your selves to be exempted from any danger of misery and desolation; let me tell you; you trust in lying words, you lean upon such a prop as will certainly fail and deceive you in the latter end. Consider, Jer. 9. 25, 26.