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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. The end of their Being thus gathered, […] the evil to come: in the Hebrew it is, From […]: i. e. From that evil which is […] (as it were) stares them in the […] words of our Text are like a folded […] looks pleasantly on the one side, […] the other: If we consider […] the Righteous themselves […] speak their great felicity in the […] of their dying, in that they are taken from the evil to come that it may not overtake them; if we note the Aspect they have to the ungodly generation which these once lived among, they speak their great unhappiness in the loss of the Righteous; they are taken from the evil that it may come upon the World. Hence,
2. The end of their Being thus gathered, 〈…〉 the evil to come: in the Hebrew it is, From 〈…〉: i. e. From that evil which is 〈…〉 (as it were) stares them in the 〈…〉 words of our Text are like a folded 〈…〉 looks pleasantly on the one side, 〈…〉 the other: If we consider 〈…〉 the Righteous themselves 〈…〉 speak their great felicity in the 〈…〉 of their dying, in that they are taken from the evil to come that it may not overtake them; if we note the Aspect they have to the ungodly generation which these once lived among, they speak their great unhappiness in the loss of the Righteous; they are taken from the evil that it may come upon the World. Hence,
Doct. The death of the Righteous is sometime•• a presaging fore-runner of approaching evil.