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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.
1. Contain a general duty: this duty is a serious Repentance, implied in both words put together. Return. Esau went out from the Church, despised the Privileges of it, his Posterity, here is called upon to come back again. Come; i. e. Come to God, to him from whom you went away in that Apostasy: which two are true Repentance; A turning away from sin, a going to God.
1. Contain a general duty: this duty is a serious Repentance, implied in both words put together. Return. Esau went out from the Church, desoised the Priviledges of it, his Posterity, here is called upon to come back again. Come; i. e. Come to God, to him from whom you went away in that Apostacy: which two are true Repentance; A turning away from sin, a going to God.
2. They […] both wor•s […]; Forsake sin, and […] God, this is a whole work.
2. They 〈…〉 both wor•s 〈…〉; Forsake sin, and 〈…〉 God, this is a whole work.
[…] Repentance, Return, come. God is at a word with them, if they […] then make haste. Hence, to sum up all in one, observe this
〈…〉 Repentance, Return, come. God is at a word with them, if they 〈…〉 then make haste. Hence, to sum up all in one, observe this