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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 Septuagint translates it, he shall cease, or desist; which gives the true intent of the phrase, though not the Grammatical construction of the Word.
There are two conclusions, proper from the Words, and pertinent to the present occasion, offer themselves to our meditation, viz.
Doct. 1. When God commissioneth his Ministers, to denounce awful threatenings against an Apostati•• ing Generation, they must deliver, and these ought to apply them.
Doct. 1. When God commissioneth his Ministers, to denounce awful threatnings against an Apostati•• ing Generation, they must deliver, and these ough• to apply them.
It is to the one a warrant for Justification, & to the other a warning for serious consideration▪ It is true, it is not every ones place and work. He had need be able to say, The Lord sent me, that will undertake to pronounce a sentence full of woes upon a whole People; yea, and throughly