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Reformation the great duty of an afflicted people. Setting forth the sin and danger…
Reformation the great duty of an afflicted people. Setting forth the sin and danger there is in neglecting of it, under the continued and repeated judgments of God. : Being the substance of what was preached on a solemn day of humiliation kept by the Third Gathered Church in Boston, on August. 23d. 1694. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of the said church. ; [Four lines from Zechariah]
printed by Bartholomew Green, 1694
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Reformation the Great Duty of an Afflicted People.
Leviticus 26. 23. If ye will not be Reformed by me by these things, but will walk Contrary unto me: Verse 24. Then will I also walk Contrary unto you, and will Punish you yet Seven times for your Sins.
IN this Chapter, from Ver. 3. after that God had, by Moses given to the People of Israel the several Statutes and Judgments, where unto he required their Cordial Obedience; he declares to them the terms of the Covenant between him and them, as he afterwards did in like manner, upon the rehearsal of the Law, a little before Moses's death, Deut. 28. which is the same for substance with this, though in words diversly expressed. In it there are three parts contained. 1. A declaration of those blessings which God did engage unto their obedience, to Ver. 14. 2. A menace of such Judgments ⟨p. 6⟩as they should be visited withal in case of their disobedience and obstinacy: to Ver. 40. 3. A Promise made to them of mercy, and restoration, upon their repentance after all, to Vers. 46. He is more brief in the account given of the first and last of these, but commorates more largely upon the second.
IN this Chapter, from Ver. 3. after that God had, by Moses given to the People of Israel the several Statutes and Judgments, where unto he required their Cordial Obedience; he declares to them the terms of the Covenant between him and them, as he afterwards did in like manner, upon the rehearsal of the Law, a little before Moses's death,