The child's portion

Name: The child's portion
Author: Samuel Willard

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]

Samuel Willard 1640–1707printed by Samuel Green, 1684

[6], 144, [2], 145-227, [3] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo) · 56k words · Evans 380 · Wing W2271

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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.

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 imbraced▪ and faithfully put in execution all the threatnings of wrath and ruine shall cease, as having attained their appointed end.

:414p. 169

Hence,

:415p. 169–170

He brings in God as clothed with humane affection, ready to sympathize with the miseries of a penitent People, and reverse the sentence passed against them. The Lord shall repent, &c. The word firstly signifies to be grieved and sorry for one, and then to repent of any thing we have said or done against them, and finally to change ones mind, or alter ones purpose. But is God capable of perturbation? Can the infinitely blessed Being suffer any disturbance or grief? Or can the immutable and everlasting will of God be changed? No, but an unchangeable ⟨p. 170⟩Decree, may ordain changeable Providences, and an immutable God may vary his works according to the changes of the subject, and all this agreeably to invariable counsel: And there may be such effects wrought, which, to the conception of men, proceed from a different principle. God had pronounced a sentence of desolation against Judah and Jerusalem, but if they repent the sentence shall not take effect, but cease.

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