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The peril of the times displayed. Or The danger of mens taking up with…
The peril of the times displayed. Or The danger of mens taking up with a form of godliness, but denying the power of it. Being the substance of several sermons preached: / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [One line from Augustine in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1700
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5. And there are usually some peculiar sins which God bringeth his Judgments for, and hath a special aim at. True, when God draws up an Indictment against a people, he puts a great many articles into it, as in Ezek. 22. but yet there is something particular that he bears upon, as that which is leading to the other, and so carries a more aggravated provocation in it. There are the causes and the beginnings of an Apostasy, which are not only sins themselves, but are chargeable as leading the way to all the rest. When God cometh to root a people up for their sins, they are grown to the height of provocation, as 2 Chron. 36.14, 15. he used means to reclaim them, till there was no remedy; but other Judgments of his do often come upon places, when iniquity is not arrived to such a prodigious height; and sometimes God chargeth one, and sometimes another as the leading evil, thus Isa. 57.17. for the iniquity of his Covetousness I wa• wroth with him; and in 2 Sam. 21. begin. the Famine is said to be for Sauls slaying the Gibeonites.
5. And there are usually some peculiar sins which God bringeth his Judgments for, and hath a special aim at. True, when God draws up an Indictment against a people, he puts a great many articles into it, as in Ezek. 22. but yet there is something particular that he bears upon, as that which is leading to the other, and so carries a more aggravated provocation in it. There are the causes and the beginnings of an Apostasy, which are not only sins themselves, but are chargeable as leading the way to all the rest. When God cometh to root a people up for their sins, they are grown to the height of provocation, as 2 Chron. 36.14, 15. he used means to reclaim them, till there was no remedy; but other Judgments of his do often come upon places, when iniquity is not arrived to such a prodigious height; and sometimes God chargeth one, and sometimes another as the leading evil, thus