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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The Septuagint translates it, he shall cease, or desist; which gives the true intent of the phrase, though not the Grammatical construction of the Word.
There are two conclusions, proper from the Words, and pertinent to the present occasion, offer themselves to our meditation, viz.
Doct. 1. When God commissioneth his Ministers, to denounce awful threatenings against an Apostatizing Generation, they must deliver, and these ought to apply them.
Doct. 1. When God commissioneth his Ministers, to denounce awful threatnings against an Apostatizing Generation, they must deliver, and these ought to apply them.
It is to the one a warrant for Justification, & to the other a warning for serious consideration. It is true, it is not every ones place and work. He had need be able to say, The Lord sent me, that will undertake to pronounce a sentence full of woes upon a whole People; yea, and throughly ⟨p. 171⟩to ponder every word, that he may be sure he shall have God himself to patronize him. But if God do indeed say, Go and prophesy, and speak all these words in their hearing, it would be rebellion in them to keep silence, and will be pernicious for that People who receive them not.