The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…

Name: The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…
Author: Samuel Willard

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.

Samuel Willard 1640–1707printed by Samuel Green, 1684

[6], 227 p. · 56k words · Wing W2271 · ESTC R33658

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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.

[ Earlier:422–437 of 524

:422p. 170–171

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 ⟨p. 171⟩to ponder every word, that he may be sure he shall have God himself to patronize him. But if God do indeed say, Go and prophesy, and speak all these words in their hearing, it would be rebellion in them to keep silence, and will be pernicious for that People who receive them not.

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 ⟨p. 171⟩to ponder every word, that he may be sure he shall have God himself to patronize him. But if God do indeed say, Go and prophesie, and speak all these words in their hearing, it would be rebellion in them to keep silence, and will be pernicious for that People who receive them not.

:423p. 171

The way indeed wherein the Prophets of old received intimation of the will of God, viz. By Visions, Dreams, immediate Revelations, &c. As it was extraordinary, so it is now shut up: But yet there remains a more sure word of prophecy, and no less infallible evidence of God's mind in general, and our call in particular,

The way indeed wherein the Prophets of old received intimation of the will of God, viz. By Visions, Dreams, immediate Revelations, &c. As it was extraordinary, so it is now shut up: But yet there remains a more sure word of prophesie, and no less infallible evidence of God's mind in general, and our call in particular,

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