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

Title page typeset from the transcription.

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:444–459 of 524

:444p. 180¶1

1. They were the Lords faithful Watch-men, who gave this Alarm. Not men that came upon their own heads, but were set up by the will of God to descry and give notice of his mind to his People: And these are such as God is wont to make known his counsels to, Amos 3. 7. Surely the Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth his secrets to his Servants the Prophets: They were such as truly feared God, and would not dare to prophesy lies in the name of the Lord.

1. They were the Lords faithful Watch-men, who gave this Alarum. Not men that came upon their own heads, but were set up by the will of God to descry and give notice of his mind to his People: And these are such as God is wont to make known his counsels to, Amos 3. 7. Surely the Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth his secrets to his Servants the Prophets: They were such as truly feared God, and would not dare to prophesie lyes in the name of the Lord.

:445p. 180–181¶2

2. They were such as loved, and laboured for the peace and prosperity of this People: Who could truly (with the Prophet) appeal to him who knows the heart, that they desire not that woeful day: Friends, and not Enemies to our Zion, who loved and stood up for the way of these Churches, who prayed for the peace of our ⟨p. 181⟩Jerusalem; Who mourned in secret for the sins of the land, and to their ability strongly endeavoured to stop the course of them, and to prevent the eruptions of God's Wrath: Who preached the displeasure of God with pity and compassion, entreating and encouraging to Repentance.

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