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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. Have you not a Father in heaven, and will he not take care of you, or can he not supply you? What is it should give you reason to doubt of it? Doth he not take care for things of less value? Be often propounding that question to your selves, Job. 38. ult. Who provideth for the Raven his food? Doth not God clothe the Lilies? Do not all eyes wait for him, and ⟨p. 50⟩he gives them their meat in due season? Are not the meanest creatures in his family well provided for? And can a Child be neglected? Are not the Lilies gorgeously decked by him, and do not we see the Fowls of the air get a living? God doth all this for them, it is his love and care, and doth he not love you better? Such thoughts as these should quicken our Faith from day to day.
1. Have you not a Father in heaven, and will he not take care of you, or can he not supply you? What is it should give you reason to doubt of it? Doth he not take care for things of less value? Be often propounding that question to your selves, Job. 38. ult. Who provideth for the Raven his food? Doth not God cloath the Lillies? Do not all eyes wait for him, and ⟨p. 50⟩he gives them their meat in due season? Are not the meanest creatures in his family well provided for? And can a Child be neglected? Are not the Lillies gorgiously decked by him, and do not we see the Fowles of the air get a living? God doth all this for them, it is his love and care, and doth he not love you better? Such thoughts as these should quicken our Faith from day to day.
2. Have you not enough to live on? If not, I wish then that you had: Have you not Estates enough to maintain you? Is there not enough in heaven and earth to supply the wants of one poor creature? what if this earth should fail, and all these lower springs should be dried up (and indeed they may so do, for these are waters that sometimes fail) yet still there is enough to be had in heaven: Is not an Almighty God sufficient to be your portion? Well then, draw up this conclusion with yourselves, if this World will afford me nothing, if I can get no relief here below, yet I will go to heaven for it, and as long as my God and Father is there, I will not despair.