N00129:476
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 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.
2. Hence you must see your sins, your many provocations, your Covenant-breakings, and your particular enormities, you cannot else justify God aright, for that is only done by a sight of sin in its being, its heinousness and guilt.
2. Hence you must see your sins, your many provocations, your Covenant-breakings, and your particular enormities, you cannot else justifie God aright, for that is onely done by a sight of sin in its being, its hainousness and guilt.
3. God punishment for sin, hence therefore you must forsake them, you must part with those sins which have parted between God and you: Gods holiness will keep him at a distance from you, so long as you keep your sins, and do not willingly part with them: he cannot love you, till you hate your sins.