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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. You will therefore perish for all this. All the formality which you can possibly use in your profession, will not save you from destruction, if you rest in that; you may take all manner of pains in it, be very curious and exact in the performance of the duties of Worship ⟨p. 152⟩toward God, and of righteousness toward• men▪ […] may […], read, con•fer, be diligent in your Calling, honest in your Commerce, charitable in your distributions, & yet loose all your works, and be your selves numbered with the workers of iniquity, and doomed to depart with them, Luk. 13.26, 27. when God comes to reward all men according as their works have been, he will not recompense you according to your formality, but according to your hypocrisy, and that will be a fearful thing: God threatens them that come to enquire of him, and set up their idols in their heart, that he will answer them according to their Idols, Ezek. 14 4.
2. You will therefore perish for all this. All the formality which you can possibly use in your profession, will not save you from destruction, if you rest in that; you may take all manner of pains in it, be very curious and exact in the performance of the duties of Worship ⟨p. 152⟩toward God, and of righteousness toward• men▪ 〈…〉 may 〈…〉, read, con•fer, be diligent in your Calling, honest in your Commerce, charitable in your distributions, & yet loose all your works, and be your selves numbred with the workers of iniquity, and doomed to depart with them, Luk. 13.26, 27. when God comes to reward all men according as their works have been, he will not recompence you according to your formality, but according to your hypocrisy, and that will be a fearful thing: God threatens them that come to enquire of him, and set up their idols in their heart, that he will answer them according to their Idols,