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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. General Apostasy makes way for general calamity, learn this in Shiloh; the Priests violated Gods Ordinances, and the people they provoked him with their Idols, and then see the effects. 1 Sam. 4. 10, 11. Israel is smitten, 30000 stain, the Ark lost, the Priests stain, read this also in lerusalem. 2 Chron. 36. 15, 16, &c. hence therefore what greater request can we leave with God this day, than this, that he would prevent our general decay in grace, and to that end, that he would restore the fallen, prevent the backsliding, and settle hi• own, that mercy may be settled among us; pray for rulers in Church and Commonwealth, that they may do right, and give good examples, and for all the body of people, that sin do not grow and increase among them; if once we see a spirit of prevailing corruption spreading it self among us, we may read leading symptoms of destruction […], & therefore may be roused up to ply the throne of grace, that such sad causes may be ⟨p. 17⟩removed, and so our eyes may not see the natural direful effect that flow from them.
3. General Apostacy makes way for general calamity, learn this in Shiloh; the Priests violated Gods Ordinances, and the people they provoked him with their Idols, and then see the effects. 1 Sam. 4. 10, 11. Israel is smitten, 30000 stain, the Ark lost, the Priests stain, read this also in lerusalem. 2 Chron. 36. 15, 16, &c. hence therefore what greater request can we leave with God this day, than this, that he would prevent our general decay in grace, and to that end, that he would restore the fallen, prevent the back•liding, and settle hi• own, that mercy may be settled among us; pray for rulers in Church and Commonwealth, that they may do right, and give good examples, and for all the body of people, that sin do not grow and encrease among them; if once we see a spirit of prevailing corruption spreading it self among us, we may read leading symptomes of destruction , & therefore may be roused up to ply the throne of grace, that such sad causes may be