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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.
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.
2. Have you not enough to live on? If not, I wish then that you had: Have you not Estates enough to maintein 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 dryed 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 dispair.
3. When you find in your selves an impotency, to the performance of your duty, in serving of God: Your knees are feeble, and your hands hang down, and you feel your selves ready to faint in the work of God which you are called […]; now gather strength again by musing upon ⟨p. 51⟩this: I can do nothing of my self, yet I will go to him, and he shall do all for me, I will wait upon him, and he shall work all my works in me. I cannot Pray as I ought, but he shall help all my infirmities, he shall make requests in me, form Petitions for me, and fill the Sails of my Soul with his heavenly Gales; and my desires, though in themselves they are low and dull, shall (by his mighty assistance) be wasted along to Heaven with the stiff Gales of sighs and groans that cannot be uttered: I fall shot in duty, and there is sin and imperfection in every service which I set my self about; but his work in me shall give my poor (but sincere) performances acceptance with God: Yea, I am a Child, and therefore my weak, but true endeavours shall never be despised by a Father whose love can over all my frailties.