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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. Hence they are to put the creature into fear of the same wrath and terror, as Scholars, when they see their Master take the rod in hand, to punish offenders; every one presently considers what his faults have been, and if he have been tardy, he stands quivering, and quaking, fearfully expecting when his time and turn will come to be called forth.
3. Hence they are to put the creature into fear of the same wrath and terror, as Scholars, when they see their Master take the rod in hand, to punish offendors; every one presently considers what his faults have been, and if he have been tardy, he stands quivering, and quaking, fearfully expecting when his time and turn will come to be called sorth.
4. Now the soul is put upon the study and consideration how to prevent and escape severe and like plagues, now he be-thinks himself of making his peace of coming and seeking a pardon; for fear least by obstinacy he bring himself to ••ine.
5. Now the creature is alarmed to Repentance, he had calls before, but those he regarded not, but now he sees there is no longer delaying and playing with the threatenings of God, and now, if ever, is the soul in a likely way to be reclaimed.
5. Now the creature is alarm'd to Repentance, he had calls before, but those he regarded not, but now he sees there is no longer delaying and playing with the threatnings of God, and now, if ever, is the soul in a likely way to be reclaimed.