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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:459p. 187¶6

6. Know it, there yet wants such a Repentance as God requires; and that notwithstanding all that he hath said or done. Though he hath convinced us, counselled us, warned, threatened, smitten, renewed his Judgements with breach upon breach, altered his course, tried us in one fire, and after in another, the old scent yet remains: This may be the burden of the Song, and make up the period of every plea, yet have ye not returned to me, saith the Lord.

6. Know it, there yet wants such a Repentance as God requires; and that notwithstanding all that he hath said or done. Though he hath convinced us, counselled us, warned, threatned, smitten, renewed his Judgements with breach upon breach, altered his course, tryed us in one fire, and after in another, the old scent yet remains: This may be the burden of the Song, and make up the period of every plea, yet have ye not returned to me, saith the Lord.

:460p. 187–188¶7

7. Our present condition and exigencies call for speedy Repentance. It will be our wisdom and can alone be our safety,: Men are against us, and that which is most awful, to consider, is, God seems to be against us too. Providences look to an eye of reason, as if they were conspiring to bring a further day of trouble upon us. On all the Glory, whereon there was sometimes a defence, there now appears to be a blast. We are brought low in our outward affairs, and low ⟨p. 188⟩in spiritual things, and some sudden and dolef•• change looks as if it were at the door. But if we may recover Gods gracious presence, and reengage his protection, all shall be well: Yet if not now done, a few days may sum up and cancel our felicity, and we be left to sigh out our Ichabod.

7. Our persent condition and exigencies call for speedy Repentance. It will be our wisdom and can alone be our safety,: Men are against us, and that which is most awful, to consider, is, God seems to be against us too. Providences look to an eye of reason, as if they were conspiring to bring a further day of trouble upon us. On all the Glory, whereon there was sometimes a defence, there now appears to be a blast. We are brought low in our outward affairs, and low

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All Plots against God and his People Detected and Defeated, as it was delivered in a SERMON At a FAST kept by the first gathered Church in BOSTON, Jan. 25. 1682.