N00129:85
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. In […] of Gods affections from them, turning of his former ⟨p. 15⟩love into hatred, ver. 59. God had formerly loved Israel, they were to him a choice people, tender as the apple of ones eye, tenderly taken care for, and fostered by him, protected from evils, dandled in the lap of his providence, and singularly respected by him; as we shall find amply related to us in Deut. 32. 7, &c. But now his heart was hardened against them, and his former love turned into abhorrence and detestation.
1. In 〈…〉 of Gods affections from them, turning of his former ⟨p. 15⟩love into hatred, ver. 59. God had formerly loved Israel, they were to him a choice people, tender as the apple of ones eye, tenderly taken care for, and foltered by him, protected from evils, dandled in the lap of his providence, and singularly respected by him; as we shall find amply related to us in Deut. 32. 7, &c. But now his heart was hardned against them, and his former love turned into abhorrence and detestation.
2. The consequents following upon this, or the tokens whereby God signified and expressed his displeasure unto them, which are.
1. God departed and forsook them, even his own house not only the other Cities, of Israel, but even his own tent at Shiloh, […].