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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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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⟩more particularly to our selves of this Congregation from whom God hath of late years taken away many pious and precious Servants of his; and we that are left alive ought to lay it to heart: But I shall take liberty to urge it on a more public account as it bears respect to this People in general; and here give me leave to further this trial, by leaving such things as these to consideration.
USE. III. For Tryal; 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⟩more particularly to our selves of this Congregation from whom God hath of late years taken away many pious and precious Servants of his; and we that are left alive ought to lay it to heart: But I shall take libe•ty to urge it on a more publick account as it bears respect to this People in general; and here give me leave to further this tryal, by leaving such things as these to consideration.
1. They are Apostatizing or declining times, by reason of which there is (doubtless) much of provocation offered to the holy Majesty of Heaven: I need not to seek out witnesses for this, Habemus confitentes reos; yea, and God himself hath also testified to it in his many awful and amazing providences: It is a thing too manifest, that the power of Godliness is now under great decays, and many sins begin to look abroad, and dare to hold up their heads: And from hence we may safely conclude that it is a day of rebuke.
1. They are Apostatizing or declining times, by reason of which there is (doubtless) much of provocation offered to the holy Majesty of Heaven: I need not to seek out witnesses for this, Habemus confitentes reos; yea, and God himself hath also testified to it in his many awful and amazing providences: It is a thing too manifest, that the power of Godliness is now under great decayes, and many sins begin to look abroad, and dare to hold up their heads: And from hence we may safely conclude that it is a day of rebuke.