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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.
The Vindication it self consists of two Parts.
1. A clearing up of the Authority by which he had spoken▪ Their Lord (Jehovah) sent me to prophesy: Divine Authority gives a supersedeas to humane Laws: They may make it Capital to speak against their ways and doings▪ but if God Authorize his Servants to it, it▪ is no Crime in them, but a duty to cry aloud and not to spare.
1. A clearing up of the Authority by which he had spoken▪ Their Lord (Jehovah) sent me to prophesie: Divine Authority gives a supersedeas to humane Laws: They may make it Capital to speak against their wayes and doings▪ but if God Authorize his Servants to it, it▪ is no Crime in them, but a duty to cry aloud and not to spare.
The Prophets Commission compriseth the full of their Accusation: He might have prophesied against other Nations without their offences; but that he doth it against this City, this is the provocation: He therefore asserts his particular charge, To prophesy against this House and this City: Grotius indeed lenifies the expression, and would have the words read, To this House, and to this City: Noting that the prophecy was for them, and not against them: And indeed conducing and awakening preaching would be so, if a People had wisdom and grace rightly to improve it: But suppose it against them, yet if God be against a People, and would have them to know it, should the Prophet obey man or God? Especially, if he exceeds not the bounds of his ⟨p. 168⟩