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The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…
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.
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.
1. Would you be honourable; and this is a thing which the world sets an high price on, eagerly seeks after and courts: But what greater honour can we conceive of, then now to be owned and declared the Children of God? Are the Children of earthly Princes accounted noble, and all respect shown to them? How honourable then are the Children of the great King, whose Dominion is an everlasting Dominion, and to whom all the Kings and Potentates in the world are Vassals? How excellent must the• be that can claim the nearest relation to the Sovereign of the whole world? that are able to call the everlasting Jehovah Father? this is an honour indeed, and he that hath it, may, with Moses trample on the highest glories of the world, and look upon them all with an eye of contempt. This honour have all his Saints.
1. Would you be honourable; and this is a thing which the world sets an high price on, eagerly seeks after and courts: But what greater honour can we conceive of, then now to be owned and declared the Children of God? Are the Children of earthly Princes accounted noble, and all respect shown to them? How honourable then are the Children of the great King, whose Dominion is an everlasting Dominion, and to whom all the Kings and Potentates in the world are Vassals? How excellent must the• be that can claim the nearest relation to the Sovereign of the whole world? that are able to call the everlasting Jehovah Father? this is an honour indeed, and he that hath it, may, with Moses trample on the highest gloryes of the world, and look upon them all with an eye of contempt. This honour have all his Saints.
2. Would you have Riches? and these the grasping desires of the sons of men are greatly carried after; this is the only way to come by them, Rom. 8. 17. If Sons, then Heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. And can a man be such an heir, and be poor? The things which this world calleth riches, are poor things, if compared with those which believers are made to possess: And if they count such men rich, who enjoy a small part of this earth (which is it self but a spot) and a few of the perishing things of this lower world, is not he then rich indeed, who