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The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…
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.
printed by Samuel Green, 1684
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5. He will assist and strengthen them, he will lend them an helping hand to carry them through all their difficulties, temptations, straits that they are engaged or involved▪ in, in their Christian course, and the discharge of their duty in all of them, 2 Tim. 4. 17. The Lord was with me, and strengthened me: they have a great work to perform to serve God in their Generation, but his Grace standing by them, becomes their sufficiency: a Fathers love draws forth his helping hand, to assist his Son, and carry him well through all that is before him.
6. He will Correct and Chasten them for their Faults. Heb. 12. 6. He chasteneth every son whom He receiveth. They (like foolish Children) may now reckon this for their damage; but it is indeed none of the least of those benefits which the Children of God do enjoy. God lets wicked men alone to go on in their pernicious ways: They have their wills in the world, that they may be destroyed for ever: But God here afflicts his Children, that their souls may be saved ⟨p. 19⟩in the day of the Lord, 1 Cor. 11. 32. We are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the World.
6. He will Correct and Chasten them for their Faults. Heb. 12. 6. He chastneth every son whom He receiveth. They (like foolish Children) may now reckon this for their damage; but it is indeed none of the least of those benefits which the Children of God do enjoy. God lets wicked men alone to go on in their pernicious wayes: They have their wills in the world, that they may be destroyed for ever: But God here afflicts his Children, that their souls may be saved