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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.
USE. I. Learn we hence, how dangerous a thing it is to live and lie in any sin unrepented of. ⟨p. 41⟩Doth God put such an account upon it? doth he reckon all such to walk contrary to him? surely then it must stir up his anger, and provoke him to wrath against them: it will kindle the fire of his fury, and make it to burn up into a fearful flame, and how terrible must this needs be? The Apostle thought it so, Heb. 10. 31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Surely then it is a daring adventure of those that will expose themselves upon this hazard, and, as it were, force him to take them in hand, and be revenged on them, and needs must it issue in the unspeakable misery of all those that will be so bold. Observe what a challenge God maketh upon this account, Isa. 27. 4. Who would set the briars and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together; we may easily guess how it is like to determine in the winding up: we have an account of the unhappy success that is like to come of such an unequal duel, Job 15. 24, 25, 26. Shall a Potsherd of the earth strive with his Maker, and hope to come off with any thing less than ruin?
USE. I. Learn we hence, how dangerous a thing it is to live and ly in any sin unrepented of. ⟨p. 41⟩Doth God put such an account upon it? doth he reckon all such to walk contrary to him? surely then it must stir up his anger, and provoke him to wrath against them: it will kinddle the fire of his fury, and make it to burn up into a fearfull flame, and how terrible must this needs be? The Apostle thought it so, Heb. 10. 31. It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Surely then it is a daring adventure of those that will expose themselves upon this hazard, and, as it were, force him to take them in hand, and be revenged on them, and needs must it issue in the unspeakable misery of all those that will be so bold. Observe what a challenge God maketh upon this account,