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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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And hence,
Nothing will prejudice them against God and his service; nothing will turn them out of their way of duty and obedience to God, because they are not labouring for uncertainties, or looking for things that may not be; they live not upon deceivable hopes, they know whom ⟨p. 89⟩they have trusted, and that he is able: to keep that which they have committed unto him to the day of the Lord; and therefore are they not weary nor faint, as those that know that in due time they shall reap if they faint not: and though their enemies may take away their comforts of Life, deprive them of their Estates, of their good name among men, of their liberty, yea of their lives too, yet, because they know they cannot rob them of their glory, therefore are they resolved in their way, and will be faithful unto death.
Nothing will prejudice them against God and his service; nothing will turn them out of their way of duty and obedience to God, because they are not labouring for uncerteintyes, or looking for things that may not be; they live not upon deceivable hopes, they know whom ⟨p. 89⟩they have trusted, and that he is able: to keep that which they have committed unto him to the day of the Lord; and therefore are they not weary nor faint, as those that know that in due time they shal reap if they faint not: and though their enemyes may take away their comforts of Life, deprive them of their Estates, of their good name among men, of their liberty, yea of their lives too, yet, because they know they cannot rob them of their glory, therefore are they resolved in their way, and will be faithful unto death.
USE. III. For Exhortation to the Children of God, in two Lessons.