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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. 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.
Lastly. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God: The Characters of Gods wrath, & impressions of his Judgements remaining upon Shiloh, teach us this Lesson: If God come once to abhor a people for their sins, and fall upon them in his Judgments; he meets them not as a man, but gives them a Divine stroke; if he […] angry, his very countenance is terrible and amazing.