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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. 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.
Reas. 1. Of the the first; From Gods merciful Nature, who had rather sinners should repent and live, Ezek. 36. 11. he had rather spare then destroy, but it must be so as his Honour may not be wronged, which is near and precious to him, and therefore it must be by giving glory to him in a way of Repentance. Hence God when he ha begun, useth delays, and moves slowly in bringing his Judgements.