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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.
He brings in God as clothed with humane affection, ready to sympathize with the miseries of a penitent People, and reverse the sentence passed against them. The Lord shall repent, &c. The word firstly signifies to be grieved and sorry for one, and then to repent of any thing we have said or done against them, and finally to change ones mind, or alter ones purpose. But is God capable of perturbation? Can the infinitely blessed Being suffer any disturbance or grief? Or can the immutable and everlasting will of God be changed? No, but an unchangeable ⟨p. 170⟩Decree, may ordain changeable Providences, and an immutable God may vary his wor•• according to the changes of the subject, and al• this agreeably to invariable counsel: And there may be such effects wrought, which, to the conception of men, proceed from a different principle. God had pronounced a sentence of desolation against Judah and Jerusalem, but i• they repent the sentence shall not take effect but cease.
He brings in God as clothed with •umane affection, ready to sympathize with the miseries of a penitent People, and reverse the sentence passed against them. The Lord shall repent, &c. The word firstly signifies to be grieved and sor•y for one, and then to repent of any thing we have said or done against them, and finally to change ones mind, or alter ones purpose. But is God capable of perturbation? Can the infinitely blessed Being suffer any disturbance or grief? Or can the immutable and everlasting will of God be changed? No, but an unchangeable ⟨p. 170⟩Decree, may ordain changeable Providences, and an immutable God may vary his wor•• according to the changes of the subject, and al• this agreeably to invariable counsel: And there may be such effects wrought, which, to the conception of men, proceed from a different principle. God had pronounced a sentence of desolation against Judah and Jerusalem, but i• they repent the sentence shall not take effect but cease.