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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.
There are some circumstances whereby this is to be judged as judicial and calamitous, viz.
1. When good men are taken away and leave their places empty: I mean there are not others to supply them that are such as they were; but goodness in a great degree decays and dies with them; and wicked and ungodly men succeed ⟨p. 150⟩and fill their room: On this account was Josiah's Death portentous; 2 King. 22. 16. with 22. Thus also Jeroboam's Son must die, because there was some good thing found in him, that so all evil and mischief might come upon the rest of his ungodly family.
1. When good men are taken away and leave their places empty: I mean there are not others to supply them that are such as they were; but goodness in a great degree decayes and dies with them; and wicked and ungodly men succeed ⟨p. 150⟩and fill their room: On this account was Joslah's Death po•tentous; 2 King. 22. 16. with 22. Thus also Jeroboam's Son must die, because there was some good thing found in him, that so all evil and mischief might come upon the rest of his ungodly family.
2. When a People grow degenerate, and God (by his Messengers) denounceth his Judgements against them, and now pious and useful men are taken away, for herein God begins to put his […] in execution: This is the Case in our […]: He had been threatening of them with […], Chap. 56. 9. And now he opens a […] them to take place on them, by taking […] Righteous.