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The child's portion
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. ; [Five lines from Psalms]
printed by Samuel Green, 1684
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4. When your Sins appear before you with a terrible aspect, and Satan would make you afraid to come before God by reason of them: When he represents him to your thoughts as a consuming fire as appearing in his wrath and displeasure, and would persuade you to believe there is no favour for you, that such sins, and so circumstanced as yours are, will find no remission: Now reflect; but am I not still a Child? and if so, then I am sure, that though he correct me (and I deserve it, nor will I refuse to submit my self patiently unto it) yet he cannot ⟨p. 52⟩take away his loving kindness from me: I will therefore appear before him, and take the blame and shame of my sins upon my self, and if he be angry, I will bear it because I have sinned: I will yield my self to his pleasure, and receive his strokes, and I know they shall be wounds which shall not kill, but heal my Soul: I will confess (and not cover) my sins, and solely down before him, and let him say what he will unto me, I will still say, good is the word of the Lord, and if he be wroth with me for a little season, I will wait till it be overpast, because I know assuredly that his love to me shall endure for ever.
4. When your Sins appear before you with a terrible aspect, and Satan would make you affraid to come before God by reason of them: When he represents him to your thoughts as a consuming fire as appearing in his wrath and displeasure, and would perswade you to believe there is no favour for you, that such sins, and so circumstanced as yours are, will find no remission: Now reflect; but am I not still a Child? and if so, then I am sure, that though he correct me (and I deserve it, nor will I refuse to submit my self patiently unto it) yet he cannot ⟨p. 52⟩take away his loving kindness from me: I will therefore appear before him, and take the blame and shame of my sins upon my self, and if he be angry, I will bear it because I have sinned: I will yeild my self to his pleasure, and receive his stroaks, and I know they shal be wounds which shal not kill, but heal my Soul: I will confess (and not cover) my sins, and so ly down before him, and let him say what he will unto me, I will still say, good is the word of the Lord, and if he be wroth with me for a little season, I will wait till it be overpast, because I know assuredly that his love to me shal endure for ever.