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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:462p. 188–190¶1

1. The body of this People considered as invested with liberties, and engaged as one man ⟨p. 189⟩for the upholding of them in ways according to God. Let me tell you that for the Division of Reuben there are great searching of heart. These jealousies and suspicions one to another, those minings and counterminings that are among you, those aspersions and defamations which you cast one upon another, and upon your best friends, those endeavours to strengthen a party, and countermand your brethren, are provoking to God, and like to prove ruinating to your selves. It is not a sin only, but a Judgement too, and that which tends to issue in misery, Hos. 10. 2. Their heart is divided, now shall they be found guilty. Gal. 5. 15. If ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. Your security is in being one for God: your safety is only in unity. There are enough abroad who watch for your halting, you need not your selves lay open one another's infirmities: And one would think it might sufficiently awaken you to think how little Gods work goes forward, or his Glory strenuously promoted, whiles men spend their little zeal in oppositions and invectives one against another, as if herein lay the life of Religion. This picks out the cement, and crumbleth away the mortar, which is the strength of the building, and when gone, with what ease may it be made to fall? To remedy this, put on charity. When God's People agree in the end, though for a while they may not ⟨p. 190⟩Judge alike of the means to it in some critical points and circumstance, it is far from a Christian spirit so to abound in our own sense, as to proclaim or declare such enemies to the cause of God, that speak not in every punctilio with us. Men of the largest charity here, are the best friends to this Cause. It is Gods will and wisdom that his People should in many things beat out their way by debates: But men that may not be thwarted in their own private sentiments, are dangerous Coals, fitted to kindle a destroying fire among us.

1. The body of this People considered as invested with liberties, and engaged as one man

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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.