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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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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.
Answ. There may be two especial reasons assigned for this.
1. God doth it with a gracious and favourable respect to themselves: Since they could not by all their pious endeavours reclaim a degenerate People, but misery must come, God takes them away that their eyes might not see it: This God promiseth, as a special favour to Josiah, 2. Chr. 34▪ 28. Thou shall be gathered to thy Grave in Peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place. Truly, when ever a Godly man dyes, he rests from his Labour, but when he is taken away from the face of evil, it is a particular blessing to him: How could his tender and pitiful heart have born to look upon all those Calamities which his Country, his Friends, his Children, and Relations must suffer? To see all going to Rack before his eyes, would be a lamentable sight: God therefore in great love & respect takes them home, where they are removed out of the noise or tumult of all these things, dwelling in the fullness of present Joy and Glory.
1. God doth it with a gracious and favourable respect to themselves: Since they could not by all their pious endeavours reclaim a degenerate People, but misery must come, God takes them away that their eyes might not see it: This God promiseth, as a special favour to Josiah, 2. Chr. 34▪ 28. Thou shall be gathered to thy Grave in Peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place. Truly, when ever a Godly man dyes, he rests from his Labour, but when he is taken away from the face of evil, it is a particular blessing to him: How could his tender and pitiful heart have born to look upon all those Calamities which his Country, his Friends, his Children, and Relations must suffer? To see all going to Rack before his eyes, would be a lamentable sight: God therefore in great love & respect takes them home, where they are removed out of the noise or tumult of all these things, dwelling in the fulness of present Joy and Glory.