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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
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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 sho•t 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.
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 worke all my works in me. I cannot Pray as I ought, but he shall help all my infirmities, he shal 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, shal (by his mighty assistance) be wasted along to Heaven with the stiff Gales of sighs and groans that cannot be uttered: I fall sho•t in duty, and there is sin and imperfection in every service which I set my self about; but his work in me shal give my poor (but sincere) performances acceptance with God: Yea, I am a Child, and therefore my weak, but true endeavours shal never be despised by a Father whose love can over all my frailties.