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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The only sure way to prevent threatened CALAMITY: As it was deliver…: The only sure way to prevent threatened CALAMITY: As it was delivered in a SERMON, Preac…The only sure way to prevent threatned CALAMITY: As it was delivere…: The only sure way to prevent threatned CALAMITY: As it was delivered in a SERMON, Preac…

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:427–442 of 524

:427p. 172–173¶3

3. The Word of God is a sure rule by which to discover the true and proper state of any People, so far forth as to afford sufficient light and direction for their warning, if we compare them thereby. It is true, the sovereignty of his secret will is not there stinted, nor can we from thence certainly determine what God will undoubtedly do with these or those: Neither did God always discover this to his Prophets of old, nor yet did they so understand him. Jonah upon this very suspicion waved his errand, Chap. •. •. Was not this my saying in my Country? Therefore I fled unto Tarshish, for I knew thou art […] gracious God &c. But yet the Word of God evidently declares, when it is that a People comes with the compass, of the threatening, when they […] cast in common Law. Gods revealed will is o• and perpetual: If men break Covenant […] God, and falsify their engagements to him; […] they bring themselves under the threatenings the word, there is a sentence out against them, and those that are God's Watch-men may espy it. If then they declare against such ways, and ⟨p. 173⟩proclaim that there is Wrath gone forth, and Calamities before u• even at the door, and daily to be expected, they herein say not a word more than what they have God's warrant and Command for.

3. The Word of God is a sure rule by which to discover the true and proper state of any People, so far forth as to afford sufficient light and direction for their warning, if we compare them thereby. It is true, the soveraignty of his secret will is not there stinted, nor can we from thence certainly determine what God will undoubtedly do with these or those: Neither did God alwayes discover this to his Prophets of old, nor yet did they so understand him. Jonah upon this very suspicion waved his errand, Chap. •. •. Was not this my saying in my Country? Therefore I fled unto Ta•shish, for I knew thou art 〈…〉 gracious God &c. But yet the Word of God evidently declares, when it is that a People comes with• the compass, of the threatning, when they cast in common Law. Gods revealed will is o and perpetual: If men break Covenant God, and falsify their engagements to him; they bring themselves under the threatnings the word, there is a sentence out against them, and those that are God's Watch-men may espy it. If then they declare against such wayes, and

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