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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 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,
For,
1. Christ's Ministers are set as Watch-men, under a solemn and strict charge, to look out and espy all approaching dangers, and give timely warning of them, Ezek. 3. 17, 18. They must give the alarm though it be at mid night, when it is like to be most surprising, and men are loth to be bereaved of their beloved sleep. •en naturally love security, and like not to be •••turbed: But what shall those Watch men do? Christ hath placed them on the Watch-tower, ••d put a Trumpet in their hands, charging them ••on pain of death to sound when occasion calls for it.
1. Christ's Ministers are set as Watch-men, under a solemn and strict charge, to look out and espy all approaching dangers, and give timely warning of them,