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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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.

[ Earlier:445–460 of 522

:445p. 181–182¶4

4. There hath been great harmony and concurrence in these Testimonies. It hath not been the voice only of one or two, but such things have been told us from year to year,. And though God may put a lying spirit into four hundred ⟨p. 182⟩false Prophets, yet he is not wont so to deceive his own servants. If they all are misled, what shall we do? or where shall we seek for the Word of the Lord? or would not that it self be […] evidence of Gods great displeasure […] his People if it be indeed arrived at this, that […] is no Prophet, nor any one that can tell […]?

4. There hath been great harmony and concurrence in these Testimonies. It hath not been the voice only of one or two, but such things have been told us from year to year,. And though God may put a lying spirit into four hundred ⟨p. 182⟩false Prophets, yet he is not wont so to deceive his own servants. If they all are misled, what shall we do? or where shall we seek for the Word of the Lord? or would not that it self be 〈…〉 evidence of Gods great displeasure 〈…〉 his People if it be indeed arrived at this, that 〈…〉 is no Prophet, nor any one that can tell 〈…〉?

:446p. 182

•. God himself hath sealed the truth of their warnings with many awful Providences: The language whereof▪ had there been no interpreter, hath sp•ke• his anger with clearest demonstration. T•e Rod hath spoken as well as the Word; and every Rod hath come after such solemn Words of warning as have been […] generally entertained in the quality of tales and falsehoods. And if God hath in part accomplished the predictions of his servant, may we not rationally and Religiously Judge, that the remainder shall have their time of accomplishment too, except we shall attend to the due means of prevention?

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