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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
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.
3. There is a common interest in public Calamities which such times bring, which is unavoidable. Every man as he is a member of the whole, and hath his outward concerns in this life involved with them, cannot but be touched and afflicted with the evils which come upon the places they live in, and will, without doubt, feel much of the smart of them: and God is not to be charged with wrong dealing in his Providence, by reason of this, because herein he treats with them as a Community,; than which manner of treatment, there is nothing▪ more agreeable to the common sentiments, of humane reason, ⟨p. 121⟩and is therefore practised, and justified among men. If War, Sickness, Famine, break in upon a people, the good as well as the bad will feel the trouble of it; the thought whereof is a good incentive to us all to do our best to prevent them; and if they come, it should engage us to be humble under them; hence how doth the Prophet resent such a time? Jer. 4.19. my bowels, my bowels, I am pained at my heart, &c.
3. There is a common interest in publick Calamities which such times bring, which is unavoidable. Every man as he is a member of the whole, and hath his outward concerns in this life involved with them, cannot but be touched and afflicted with the evils which come upon the places they live in, and will, without doubt, feel much of the smart of them: and God is not to be charged with wrong dealing in his Providence, by reason of this, because herein he treats with them as a Community,; than which manner of treatment, there is nothing▪ more agreeable to the common sentiments, of humane reason, ⟨p. 121⟩and is therefore practised, and justified among men. If War, Sickness, Famine, break in upon a people, the good as well as the bad will feel the trouble of it; the thought whereof is a good incentive to us all to do our best to prevent them; and if they come, it should engage us to be humble under them; hence how doth the Prophet resent such a time? Jer. 4.19. my bowels, my bowels, I am pained at my heart, &c.