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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 Direction is to Repentance and Reformation, and designs the rectifying both •• heart and life, projects and practices. Amen• the word is, make good, noting they had bee• bad, which called for amendment or reformation. Your way and doings: Calvin read• it, your ways and studies: The word signifies▪ thing done by study, plotting, design and deliberation; And obey the voice of the Lord your God▪ ⟨p. 169⟩The word is, Hear, and is the frequent Scripture expression of obedience: By the voice of God as intended the will of God delivered in his Word, intimating that he brought no new Commands to them, but only studied to reduce them to the obedience of God's Law, of which they professed themselves the subjects (if they would studiously consider, and compare themselves by it) they might easily know their present course to be Judged and Condemned.
The Direction is to Repentance and Reformation, and designs the rectifying both •• heart and life, projects and practices. Amen• the word is, make good, noteing they had bee• bad, which called for amendment or reformation. Your way and doings: Calvin read• it, your wayes and studies: The word signifies▪ thing done by study, plotting, design and deliberation; And obey the voice of the Lord your God▪ ⟨p. 169⟩The word is, Hear, and is the frequent Scripture expression of obedience: By the voice of God as intended the will of God delivered in his Word, intimating that he brought no new Commands to them, but only studied to reduce them to the obedience of God's Law, of which they professed themselves the subjects (if they would studiously consider, and compare themselves by it) they might easily know their present course to be Judged and Condemned.