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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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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.
2. When a People grow degenerate, and God (by his Messengers) denounceth his Judgements against them, and now pious and useful men are taken away, for herein God begins to put his threatenings in execution: This is the Case in our Text: He had been threatening of them with Judgements, Chap. 56.9. And now he opens a way for them to take place on them, by taking away the Righteous.
2. When a People grow degenerate, and God (by his Messengers) denounceth his Judgements against them, and now pious and useful men are taken away, for herein God begins to put his threatnings in execution: This is the Case in our Text: He had been threatning of them with Judgements, Chap. 56.9. And now he opens a way for them to take place on them, by taking away the Righteous.
Hence,
After Ministerial warnings of wrath against a People, the death of such persons is to be accounted, not only a preface, but also a main part of Gods accomplishment of it: We shall therefore find, that when God had uttered such threatenings as are menaced in Isaiah, Chap. 2. he proceeds in Chap. 3. begin. to discover the order and method of these Judgements, which was in the first place attended by the taking off of men of worth and use. The mighty Man, the Man of War, the Judge, &c.
After Ministerial warnings of wrath against a People, the death of such persons is to be accounted, not only a preface, but also a main part of Gods accomplishment of it: We shal therefore find, that when God had uttered such threatnings as are menaced in Isaiah, Chap. 2. he proceeds in Chap. 3. begin. to discover the order and method of these Judgements, which was in the first place attended by the taking off of men of worth and use. The mighty Man, the Man of War, the Judge, &c.