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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.
The conclusion in our Text is not to be taken [Greek or Hebrew] It is not always so: Sometimes God removes the godly without any such presage: ⟨p. 149⟩Moses's, and David's death (to name no more) were not so: But it is sometimes, and often thus: It was so here in our Text. In the Explication there are two things briefly to be considered,
The conclusion in our Text is not to be taken 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 It is not alwayes so: Sometimes God removes the godly without any such presage: ⟨p. 149⟩Moses's, and David's death (to name no more) were not so: But it is sometimes, and often thus: It was so here in our Text. In the Explication there are two things briefly to be considered,
1. When it is so: 2. The grounds of it.
1. When it is so?