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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, › Application 3: USE III. Of WARNING.
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2. Corrupt carriages will of themselves bring much misery on you. If the Country grows very corrupt, that will make us miserable, though we had no punishment: if we grow a wicked People, men will be abusing one another in their Estates, by fraud, by oppression, by theft, by corrupt judgment: Isa. 5. 7. He looked for judgment but behold oppression, ⟨p. 25⟩for righteousness but behold a cry: Men will be reproaching one another, blasting one another's Names, they will reproach their Magistrates, and reproach their Ministers, and make their lives burdensome, Children will be disobedient to Parents, grow riotous, and drunkards, and bring themselves to misery: Mens Daughters and Wives too will become Harlots; which is a great misery: Amos 7. 17. Wickedness will make a People miserable.
2. Corrupt carriages will of themselves bring much misery on you. If the Country grows very corrupt, that will make us miserable, though we had no punishment: if we grow a wicked People, men will be abusing one another in their Estates, by fraud, by oppression, by theft, by corrupt judgment: Isa. 5. 7. He looked for judgment but behold oppression, ⟨p. 25⟩for righteousness but behold a cry: Men will be reproaching one another, blasting one anothers Names, they will reproach their Magistrates, and reproach their Ministers, and make their lives burdensome, Children will be disobedient to Parents, grow riotous, and drunkards, and bring themselves to misery: Mens Daughters and Wives too will become Harlots; which is a great misery: Amos 7. 17. Wickedness will make a People miserable.