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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.
Use. Here we see what is our work to day: God hath begun and made an entrance, and hath been bringing of us on to a stage of Judgements, I need not mention the particulars wherein his hand hath been out against us. Here you see what God expects at our hands.
First, He must have Repentance, if you come not to this you do nothing; if you only confess, it is but half a Fast, you must forsake too.
1. God will be owned to be just, in the most retired thoughts of your hearts, he cannot bear it to be found fault withal, or be thought to do any […], he will have you to acknowledge, that in all […] hath done, he is righteous.
1. God will be owned to be just, in the most retired thoughts of your hearts, he cannot bear it to be found fault withall, or be thought to do any 〈…〉, he will have you to acknowledge, that in all 〈…〉 hath done, he is righteous.