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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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The Direction is to Repentance and Reformation, and designs the rectifying both of heart and life, projects and practices. Amend, the word is, make good, noting they had been bad, which called for amendment or reformation. Your way and doings: Calvin reads it, your ways and studies: The word signifies a thing done by study, plotting, design and deliberation: And obey the voice of the Lord your God. ⟨p. 169⟩The word is, Hear, and is the frequent Scripture expression of obedience: By the voice of God as intended the will of God delivered in his Word, intimating that he brought no new Commands to them, but only studied to reduce them to the obedience of God's Law, of which they professed themselves the subjects (if they would studiously consider, and compare themselves by it) they might easily know their present course to be Judged and Condemned.
The Direction is to Repentance and Reforformation, and designs the rectifying both of heart and life, projects and practices. Amend, the word is, make good, noteing they had been bad, which called for amendment or reformation. Your way and doings: Calvin reads it, your wayes and studies: The word signifies a thing done by study, plotting, design and deliberation: And obey the voice of the Lord your God. ⟨p. 169⟩The word is, Hear, and is the frequent Scripture expression of obedience: By the voice of God as intended the will of God delivered in his Word, intimating that he brought no new Commands to them, but only studied to reduce them to the obedience of God's Law, of which they professed themselves the subjects (if they would studiously consider, and compare themselves by it) they might easily know their present course to be Judged and Condemned.
The encouragement is full, and clears the Prophet from the imputation of any studied mischief, in as much as he gives them to understand, that if his Counsel be embraced▪ and faithfully put in execution all the threatenings of wrath and ruin shall cease, as having attained their appointed end.