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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. 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.
6. Look into the Body Ecclesiastical, and there you shall see Churches; some ready to exalt themselves above the Civil Magistrate, and disowning his Civil Power in matters appertaining to Godliness; others ready to renounce Consociation and Communion one with another, and many the like: and yet we still enquire; What's the reason? Why is God displeased? Why, is all this nothing? yes sure: why, who knows not that these are our distempers?
Obj. But there is some particular thing which must be known, and this is either in Magistrate, or Ministers, or both: when shall you finds in Scripture that God ever brought public Judgements on his people, but the sins of Princes, Priests and Prophets were the causes of it, and are so declared to have been? and therefore we must enquire yet further.
Obj. But there is some particular thing which must be known, and this is either in Magistrate, or Ministers, or both: when shall you finds in Scripture that God ever brought publick Judgements on his people, but the sins of Princes, Priests and Prophets were the causes of it, and are so declared to have been? and therefore we must enquire yet further.