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The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…
The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and proved together with several other sermons / occasionally preached and now published by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston, New-England.
printed by Samuel Green, 1684
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1. By hearkening unto him in whatsoever he hath to say unto you: How diligent should Children be to listen whither their Parents call them or no? And what attention ought they to yield unto them when they speak to, or command them in any matter? E•e God in his providences, consider what is his mind therein, hear the rod and him that hath appointed it; hearken to him in his word and make a particular application to your own souls of all those counsels a•d directions which are given in his Ordinances from one time to another.
1. By hearkening unto him in whatsoever he hath to say unto you: How diligent should Children be to listen whither their Parents call them or no? And what attention ought they to yeild unto them when they speak to, or command them in any matter? E•e God in his providences, consider what is his mind therein, hear the rod and him that hath appointed it; hearken to him in his word and make a particular application to your own souls of all those counsels a•d directions which are given in his Ordinances from one time to another.
II. Readily embrace his will, and without grumbling or repining, go about every work of God which you are called unto cheerfully: It ⟨p. 45⟩is a note of great disobedience of heart, and a thing very grievous unto their Parents, when they see that their Children go about their doing of any thing that they are commanded with an ill will. How acceptable must it needs be unto God, when his Children do their duty so, as in the manner of their doing it, they make it to appear that they take great satisfaction in it? Herein we show our selves to be like Christ our elder Brother, who rejoiced to do his Fathers will, Psal. 40. 7.