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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.
Doct. When God begins to visit a sinning people for their sins, be expects a thorough and […] Repentance.
Doct. When God begins to visit a sinning people for their sins, be expects a thorough and 〈…〉 Repentance.
1. God now expects Repentance: he promiseth himself such an effect, Isa. 26 9. hence he calls for it, Jer. 26. 12, 13.
2. God expects a thorough Repentance, it is no halving of it with God, when once he hath taken the rod into his hand, Jer. 4. 1.
3. God expects a speedy Repentance, God is in haste, and so must we, ibid.