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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.
4. Look into Congregations, and there you shall see confusions; some contending with their Ministers, and others biting and catching atone another; some not agreeing about the setting up of the Ordinances of God among them, and others not contented when they have them, but pulling them down again with […] and main; great emulations, jealousies false surmises &c. Ministers despised, their Office questioned, their Authority cast off, and trampled upon, their persons undervalued and vilified, their comfortable Supply and Maintenance neglected, Ordinances not frequented with care and constancy, &c.
4. Look into Congregations, and there you shall see confusions; some contending with their Ministers, and others biting and catching atone another; some not agreeing about the setting up of the Ordinances of God among them, and others not contented when they have them, but pulling them down again with 〈…〉 and main; great emulations, jealousies false surmises &c. Ministers despised, their Office questioned, their Authority cast off, and trampled upon, their persons undervalued and vilified, their comfortable Supply and Maintenance neglected, Ordinances not frequented with care and constancy, &c.
5. Look into […] or Civil State, and there you […] see the Sinews of our […] Society wondrously loosened: the want of Power in the Supreme Representative Body to strengthen them, by reason of the necessary […] incident to a declining Popular Government; and hence arise many misbehaviours, which time forbids to mention.
5. Look into 〈…〉 or Civil State, and there you 〈…〉 see the Sinews of our 〈…〉 Society wondrously loosened: the want of Power in the Supreme Representative Body to strengthen them, by reason of the necessary 〈…〉 incident to a declining Popular Government; and hence arise many misbehaviours, which time forbids to mention.