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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 knows all things, nothing can escape his sight, because his eye is every where. Pro. 15. 3. he knows all things, even the secrets of the hearts of men, for he made them, every room and corner of them; he therefore keeps a key to them, he must needs be Omniscient, for he is Omnipresent in all places, by his essential presence; intimate with all things: Acts 17. 28.
2. He observes all things, and there is reason for it, because he administers the affairs of the whole world; Psal. 33. 13, 14, 15. All action of the creatures in the world flow as to their principle from him, and therefore he cannot but take notice of them
3. He will requite, for he is just and cannot but give them their demerit Jer 5. 29 he is the judge of the whole world, and therefore must be just, he is the highest and supreme ju•g beyond whom there is no appeal, and therefore had need be just; yea, he is engaged by his Word to do justice and execute judgment upon sinners for their sins
3. He will requite, for he is just and cannot but give them their demerit Jer 5. 29 he is the judge of the whole world, and therefore must be just, he is the highest and supream ju•g beyond whom there is no appeal, and therefore had need be just; yea, he is engaged by his Word to do justice and execute judgment upon sinners for their sins