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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.
1. All our blessings are in his hand, he holds us as his dispose, if any people in the World, then to be sure we are at Gods provision, who have no store but what his yearly blessing brings in unto us.
2. Sin will provoke him to leave us, for he is a God of […] to behold iniquity, i. e. with love, liking or approbation; his holiness engageth him to manifest signal discoveries of the contrariety which he hath against sin.
2. Sin will provoke him to leave us, for he is a God of 〈…〉 to behold iniquity, i. e. with love, liking or approbation; his holiness engageth him to manifest signal discoveries of the contrariety which he hath against sin.
3. If when he reproves our sins, we harden our selves in them, it is a sure sign that he is forsaking of us, Jer. 7. 28. Have we therefore given to God any provocation to unsettle himself, an think of a removal away from us: Oh let our repentance fetch him back and settle him.
3. If when he repoves our sins, we harden our selves in them, it is a sure signe that he is forsakeing of us, Jer. 7. 28. Have we therefore given to God any provocation to unsettle himselfe, an think of a removall away from us: Oh let our repentance fetch him back and settle him.