Useful Instructions for a Professing People in Times of Great Security and Degeneracy: Delivered in Several Sermons on Solemn Occasions: / by Mr. Samuel Willard Pastor of the Church of Christ at Groton

Three urgent sermons delivered in colonial New England during a season of spiritual decline and public calamity. Drawing on Jeremiah, Isaiah, and the haunting example of Shiloh, Willard confronts a professing people with their hypocrisy, false confidence in outward religion, and refusal to learn from God's judgments. He calls for genuine repentance — not mere confession but thorough reformation — warning that privileges misused become grounds for greater condemnation. A searching and historically vivid pastoral word to a community at a crossroads.