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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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They take it for certain that it would be much better for the place which they live in, if they were well laid up in their Graves: They wish them in Heaven, as the vulgar note of wicked men is: What do these men do, but in effect wish and imprecate upon themselves a mischief? Should God grant them their desires upon this account, it would but carry the godly to the place of their longing, and bring them home to the house of their eternal rest: But in the mean time when they are gone, who shall plead and pray and mourn for a sinful People? Will God hear wicked sinners? Who shall stand in the Gap to […] out Judgement and Wrath? Shall wicked and ungodly men? Assure we our selves that so much of Godliness as goes away from a place, so much of God goes away too, and it may not be long ere the time comes, when those that so earnestly longed for their removal, and were inwardly satisfied and glad that they were taken away; shall as much wish that they had them again, when it will be too late.
They take it for certain that it would be much better for the place which they live in, if they were well laid up in their Graves: They wish them in Heaven, as the vulgar note of wicked men is: What do these men do, but in effect wish and imprecate upon themselves a mischief? Should God grant them their desires upon this account, it would but carry the godly to the place of their longing, and bring them home to the house of their eternal rest: But in the mean time when they are gone, who shall plead and pray and mourn for a sinful People? Will God hear wicked sinners? Who shall stand in the Gap to 〈…〉 out Judgement and Wrath? Shall wicked and ungodly men? Assure we our selves that so much of Godliness as goes away from a place, so much of God goes away too, and it may not be long ere the time comes, when those that so earnestly longed for their removal, and were inwardly satisfied and glad that they were taken away; shall as much wish that they had them again, when it will be too late.
USE. III. For Trial; is it so sometimes, then it may put us upon the enquiry, whether there be not good ground for us to fear that it may be so with us at this day. I might urge it ⟨p. 157⟩