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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.
2. Love fellowship or communion with him: Love to draw near him in all those ways in which he reveals himself, and holds correspondence with his own People: Take delight in Ordinances and spiritual Duties; value one day in the house of God better than a thousand elsewhere; be willing to go through all difficulties, and (if called to it) endure calamities that you may enjoy the presence of God: Get to be able sincerely to make David's profession, Psal. 119 136. Lord, I have loved the habitation of thine House, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
2. Love fellowship or communion with him: Love to draw near him in all those wayes in which he reveales himself, and holds correspondence with his own People: Take delight in Ordinances and spiritual Duties; value one day in the house of God better than a thousand elsewhere; be willing to go through all difficulties, and (if called to it) endure calamities that you may enjoy the presence of God: Get to be able sincerely to make David's profession, Psal. 119 136. Lord, I have loved the habitation of thine House, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
3. Love his Image wheresoever you see it▪ We look often and with great content upon the Pictures of those on whom our hearts are set: There are those here in the World that are more than Pictures; the Saints are living Images of the Lord, we may see in▪ them, not only the likeness to, but the shining reflection of his communicated perfections: Hence we should love the Saints, as they are Gods Children, and our fellow brethren, so did David, Psal. 16. 2. The Saints, in whom is all my delight.
3. Love his Image wheresoever you see it We look often and with great content upon the Pictures of those on whom our hearts are set: There are those here in the World that are more than Pictures; the Saints are living Images of the Lord, we may see in them, not only the likness to, but the shining reflection of his communicated perfections: Hence we should love the Saints, as they are Gods Children, and our fellow brethren, so did David,