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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.
3. The happy state of the People of God in and at their death: They are taken away from the evil to come, they rest in their beds, &c. Though the wo•ld is ready to think they perish, yet as to themselves it is certain that they are safe and well.
4 The ill Omen that there is in the death of such men, to the World: it is a po••ent, and dismal presage to them that are left behind, that evil is coming. Which last Particular, and Clause in the first Verse, consists of two parts, viz.
1. A description of the great incogitancy of men under such awful Providences, none considering; the word signifies inwardly and in the mind to ponder, and distinctly to Judge of a thing: It signifies also, to know, and hence some read it, no man knows, others, no man ponders, or weighs in his mind and thoughts, which is the same with considering.
1. A description of the great incogitancy of men under such awful Provi•ences, none considering; the word signifies inwardly and in the mind to ponder, and distinctly to Judge of a thing: It signifies also, to know, and hence some read it, no man knows, others, no man ponders, or weighs in his mind and thoughts, which is the same with considering.