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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.
3. Because Examples have an awakening voice in them, when judgment comes into the world, it carries awe with it, it sensibly moves the soul to have consideration; such as these are natural influences upon the heart of such as have any remainder of an acting conscience in them. viz.
1. Why may not the same judgments befall us, what grounds have we to promise our selves security, and immunity from the same plagues & miseries which are upon others.
2. Hereupon they put the creature in mind of its ways and doings, what they have been; now conscience, if it be not altogether seared and benumbed, reads the creature a more close and severe Lecture then usual, now those sins that he had before lived in forgetfulness came afresh into his memory.
2. Hereupon they put the c•eature in mind of its ways and doings, what they have been; now conscience, if it be not altogether seared and benummed, reads the creature a more close and severe Lecture then usuall, now those sins that he had before lived in forgetfulness came afresh into his memory.