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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.
2. Hence, true inward Godliness will ⟨p. 142⟩make men to be Conscientious of attending on these Duties. Godliness teacheth men to worship, fear, and reverence God, and this fear if genuine will exert it self in Obedience to his precepts; they are put together, Eccle. 12.13. Fear God and keep his Commandments. If Godliness be rooted in the heart, it will sanctify the Soul to the discharge of its work, and that belongs to it, to use the outward means as an instrument to help us in our Serving God, and as the things wherein we testify our acknowledging his Authority over us; and in this it eves his precepts as the Rules by which it is to act; So that when it sees that God hath required such duties as these of us, it disputeth not the rationality of them, nor demurs about the natural efficacy there is in them for the advancing the design of them, but it acquiesceth in the will of God, and dareth not but to •ay conformity thereunto. This therefore all Christians are to be taught by the Ministry of the word. Matth. 28 20. Teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I have commanded you.
2. Hence, true inward Godliness will ⟨p. 142⟩make men to be Conscien•ious of attending on these Duties. Godliness teacheth men to worship, fear, and reverence God, and this fear if genuine will exert it self in Obedience to his precepts; they are put together, Eccle. 12.13. Fear God and keep his Commandments. If Godliness be rooted in the heart, it will sanctify the Soul to the discharge of its work, and that belongs to it, to use the outward means as an instrument to help us in our Serving God, and as the things wherein we •estify our acknowledging his Authority over us; and in this it eves his precepts as the Rules by which it is to act; So that when it sees that God hath required such duties as these of us, it disputeth not the rationality of them, nor demurs about the natural efficacy there is in them for the advancing the design of them, but it acquieseth in the will of God, and dareth not but to ay conformity thereunto. This therefore all Christians are to be taught by the Ministry of the word.