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. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]

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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. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]

by Willard, Samuel

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.
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  1. 01 Sermon 8,621 words
  2. 02 Sermon 9,272 words
  3. 03 Sermon 15,571 words
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Title Page

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.

Ezek. 3:17. Son of Man, I have made you a Watchman to the House of Israel: therefore hear the Word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
Amos 3:8. The Lord God has spoken, who can but Prophesy?
Jer. 2:31. O Generation, See you the Word of the Lord: have I been a wilderness to Israel? a Land of darkness? therefore say my People, we are Lords, we will come no more to you.

Haggai. 1:5, 7.

Thus says the Lord, Consider your ways.

CAMBRIDGE: Printed by Samuel Green. 1673.

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