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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.
1. When it is so?
Answ. Death is a common change befalling all the Sons and Daughters of Adam: Hence in the ordinary course of nature the Death of the Godly falls out as well in days wherein God is pleased with his People, as in times of displeasure: God will not only have his servants to serve their Generation in this World, but also to have their reward in Heaven: God will sometime remove faithful men, when they have done their appointed work, to bring in their places others that shall be useful instruments in his service. So Moses gives place to Joshua; David to Solomon. These are no ill boding symptoms, when God is ever graciously providing a succession of such for his People, who may do worthily in their time.
Answ. Death is a common change befalling all the Sons and Daughters of Adam: Hence in the ordinary course of nature the Death of the Godly falls out as well in dayes wherein God is pleased with his People, as in times of displeasure: God will not only have his servants to serve their Generation in this World, but also to have their reward in Heaven: God will sometime remove faithful men, when they have done their appointed work, to bring in their places others that shall be useful instruments in his service. So Moses gives place to Joshua; David to Solomon. These are no ill boding symptoms, when God is ever graciously providing a succession of such for his People, who may do worthily in their time.
Hence,