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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Isa. 57.1. The Righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
These Words are one part of the Prophet's mournful lamentation at the Godly Man's Funeral; and may possibly look back to the death of good Hezekiah, that pious Prince, which fell out not long before, whose removal was introductive to the sad and miserable condition unto which the Jewish Nation was soon after reduced. The Text, with the Context, so far as is contained in the two first Verses of the Chapter, doth represent to us,
THese Words are one part of the Prophet's mournful lamentation at the Godly Man's Funeral; and may possibly look back to the death of good Hezekiah, that pious Prince, which fell out not long before, whose removal was introductive to the sad and miserable condition unto which the Jewish Nation was soon after reduced. The Text, with the Context, so far as is contained in the two first Verses of the Chapter, doth represent to us,
1. The common lot wherein the best of Men do share with others: Righteous and Merciful Dye yea Perish; i. e. (as some interpret it) they may be taken away, not only by a natural, but also by a violent death, thus it befell that worthy Prince Josiah.
1. The common lot wherein the best of Men do share with others: Righteous and Merciful Dye yea Perish; i. e. (as some interpret it) they may be taken away, not only by a natural, but also by a violent death, thus it befel that worthy Prince Josiah.