N00557:13
Rules for the discerning of the present times. Recommended to the people of God,…
Rules for the discerning of the present times. Recommended to the people of God, in New-England. In a sermon preached on the lecture in Boston; November 27th. 1692. / By Samuel Willard. ; [Two lines from Ecclesiastes]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1693
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. An Exprobation or a Contumelious Title ⟨p. 3⟩which he puts upon them; O ye Hypocrites: An Hypocrite is one that makes a fair and dissembling show of something that he intends not: these pretended to an earnest desire of being informed about Christ and his Authority, but it was a mere pre•ence.
1. An Exprobation or a Contumelious Title ⟨p. 3⟩which he puts upon them; O ye Hypocrites: An Hypocrite is one that makes a fair and dissembling shew of something that he intends not: these pretended to an earnest desire of being informed about Christ and his Authority, but it was a meer pre•ence.
2. The ground or reason of this Exprobation, Ye can discern &c. The Sum is, that they had studied and gotten skill in a matter of so little moment, and yet were unacquainted with things of the highest concernment. Viz. The Signs of the Times.
A Sign is something that represents some other thing unto us, and gives us some notification about it. We are by it instructed about something else and we may from it receive information, make observation, and draw conclusions accordingly.