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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.
2. Draw some useful instructions from the consideration of Shiloh, and press them in a few words of counsel.
1. Then, go to Shiloh: and here consider, 1. What Shiloh was, 2. What were their sins. 3. Gods judgments on it.
1. What Shiloh was, we have it in the words of the Text in two things.
1. It was Gods place: i. e. a peculiar place which he had chosen to himself, his chief place.
2. It was the place where God set his name at the first: i. e. It was the first Tent, or Tabernacle where God see up his Ordinances, and called his name upon it, after he had given to his people Israel possession of the land of Canaan: as we shall find in