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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:463p. 190–191¶2

2. These Churches as tied up in the strictest bonds of Covenant to be the Lords: Whose great receding from, and manifold notorious breaches of this Covenant of God, do strongly call for, and vehemently urge, solemn and serious renewals of it before him. Essays towards this, I confess, have been made by several Churches: But what damps and demurs are cast on the work by the many that hold back, is matter of lamentation: And truly the reason rendered by many makes it still the more lamentable, viz. Left it should increase the guilt of the Churches through neglect of performance. If indeed it be come to that, that we are resolved to mend nothing, then Covenants of Reformation will prove dangerous things: But may we not upon the some plea raze out our old Covenant, cast off our Religion, resolve to be under no engagement ⟨p. 191⟩to God at all, and say to him, We are Lords, and will come no more unto thee? All I will here urge is this; if these Churches are not prepared to renew their Covenant with God, they are not prepared for mercy: If the way of our Anastasie be more dangerous than our state of Apostasy, our danger is tremendous: If all confess that spiritual slumber, luke-warmness, earthlymindedness, slighting of Ordinances, undervaluing of the Messengers of Christ, carnal compliance with the World, and many the like evils are crept into, and prevail much over our Churches, and the Covenant-People of God are not capable of a resolute, strenuous, and voluntary engagement to the rooting of these out, our wound is next to incurable.

2. These Churches as tyed up in the strictest bonds of Covenant to be the Lords: Whose great receding from, and manifold notorious breaches of this Covenant of God, do strongly call for, and vehemently urge, solemn and serious renewals of it before him. Essayes towards this, I confess, have been made by several Churches: But what damps and demurs are cast on the work by the many that hold back, is matter of lamentation: And truly the reason rendred by many makes it still the more lamentable, viz. Left it should encrease the guilt of the Churches through neglect of performance. If indeed it be come to that, that we are resolved to mend nothing, then Covenants of Reformation will prove dangerous things: But may we not upon the some plea raze out our old Covenant, cast off our Religion, resolve to be under no engagement ⟨p. 191⟩

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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.