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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5. God hath thoughts of good for you, if you will Repent. He hath not forgotten the love of your Fathers, who followed him into a Wilderness, a Land that was not sown: He hath a respect for the faithful in the land: Though the Axe be up, and ready to fall, yet he sees a few clusters, ⟨p. 187⟩and will say spare it, for there is a blessing in it. And I cannot but be persuaded that God hath good things yet in reserve for New-England; but he expects your reformation, and that you acknowledge and turn from your sins. And yet I am afraid there is more to do, and some severe trials to befall us in order to this: For God will do for his People in waves suitable to his own ends, and such which shall recommend him to be a God glorious in Holiness.

5. God hath thoughts of good for you, if you will Repent. He hath not forgotten the love of your Fathers, who followed him into a Wilderness, a Land that was not sown: He hath a respect for the faithful in the land: Though the Ax be up, and ready to fall, yet he sees a few clusters, ⟨p. 187⟩and will say spare it, for there is a blessing in it. And I cannot but be perswaded that God hath good things yet in reserve for New-England; but he expects your reformation, and that you acknowledge and turn from your sins. And yet I am afraid there is more to do, and some severe tryals to befal us in order to this: For God will do for his People in waves suitable to his own ends, and such which shall recommend him to be a God glorious in Holiness.

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6. Know it, there yet wants such a Repentance as God requires; and that notwithstanding all that he hath said or done. Though he hath convinced us, counselled us, warned, threatened, smitten, renewed his Judgements with breach upon breach, altered his course, tried us in one fire, and after in another, the old scent yet remains: This may be the burden of the Song, and make up the period of every plea, yet have ye not returned to me, saith the Lord.

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All Plots against God and his People Detected and Defeated, as it was delivered in a SERMON At a FAST kept by the first gathered Church in BOSTON, Jan. 25. 1682.