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The danger of speedy degeneracy, held forth in a sermon preached at the lecture…
The danger of speedy degeneracy, held forth in a sermon preached at the lecture in Boston the 5th. of July, 1705. / By Solomon Stoddard Pastor of the church at Northampton.
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benj. Eliot, 1705
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THE Danger Of SPEEDY Degeneracy,
JUDGES II. 11. v. And the Children of Israel did Evil in the Sight of the LORD, and Served Baalim.
THAT Generation of the Braelites that Entered into the Land of Canaan, carried themselves commendably; and though they had Infirmities, yet they walked before God in much Integrity: But Joshua lived but Seventeen Years after their Entrance into Canaan, ⟨p. 4⟩and within a while the rest of that Generation were carried to their Graves: After them arose a Generation of another Spirit; the consequence whereof we have in this Verse.
Here are, 1. the Criminals. 2. The Crime.