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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.
USE. III. For Exhortation to believers: As this great Truth affords you encouragement and comfort, to think that though the World despise and reject you, yet God owns you; though they count you abject and base, as the very offscouring of the earth, yet that he looks upon you as his Children, having adopted you as his own, and put his Name upon you; so it may teach you these Lessons.
1. Love God with a filial affection: He deserves your best love, who hath shown you such love as this is: Context, vers. 1. Behold! It calls for attention, observation, and admiration: What manner of love? It is a love which your hearts cannot comprehend, it is so great, so strange, that ever sinners should be taken so near to the great God: Let your love meet it:
1. Love God with a filial affection: He deserves your best love, who hath shewen you such love as this is: Context, vers. 1. Behold! It calls for attention, observation, and admiration: What manner of love? It is a love which your hearts cannot comprehend, it is so great, so strange, that ever sinners should be taken so near to the great God: Let your love meet it:
Hence.