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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
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.
4. They are of the Discipline which God, by Covenant, engageth to Exercise towards his People. It is therefore one Article mentioned in the Covenant on this Hypothesis, Psal. 89. 30. &c. If his Children forsake my Law, &c. then will I visit their transgressions with the Rod, and their iniquity with stripes. And the Apostle expresseth it as so, Heb. 12. 6. He scourgeth every son whom be receiveth. i. e. He receiveth him on such terms. It is therefore called a Rod, which is used for Discipline, and not for Ruin: they are called Corrections, which, though they have anger in them, and suppose a fault which procures them, is yet tempered with love which manageth the anger for good. ⟨p. 14⟩And always Correction is Administered for Reformation of the party that undergoes it.
4. They are of the Discipline which God, by Covenant, engageth to Exercise towards his People. It is therefore one Article mentioned in the Covenant on this Hypothésis, Psal. 89. 30. &c. If his Children forsake my Law, &c. then will I visit their transgressions with the Rod, and their iniquity with stripes. And the Apostle expresseth it as so, Heb. 12. 6. He scourgeth every son whom be receiveth. i. e. He receiveth him on such terms. It is therefore called a Rod, which is used for Discipline, and not for Ruine: they are called Corrections, which, though they have anger in them, and suppose a fault which procures them, is yet tempered with love which manageth the anger for good. ⟨p. 14⟩And alwayes Correction is Administred for Reformation of the party that undergoes it.