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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.
Not to seek far for the coherence of these Words, we may only take notice of thus much; that the Apostle having in the latter part of the foregoing Chapter, warned those he writes to of Antichrist; declared that there were many even at that time in the World, and given such a Character of them, as might serve easily to make them known: describing of them by their defection from the Doctrine of the Gospel, and particularly their denying of Christ: he from thence takes an occasion at ver. 24. to Exhort them to Constancy, in maintaining the Faith which they had received at their first embracing of the Christian Religion: unto which Exhortation ⟨p. 2⟩(further to quicken and encourage them so to do) he adds divers Arguments by way of motive; one of which is taken from the consideration of their Adoption, presented and pressed in the three first verses of this Chapter in the urging of which Argument, he,
NOt to seek far for the coherence of these Words, we may only take notice of thus much; that the Apostle having in the latter part of the foregoing Chapter, warned those he writes to of Antichrist; declared that there were many even at that time in the World, and given such a Character of them, as might serve easily to make them known: describing of them by their defection from the Doctrine of the Gospel, and particularly their denying of Christ: he from thence takes an occasion at ver. 24. to Exhort them to Constancy, in maintaining the Faith which they had received at their first embracing of the Christian Religion: unto which Exhortation ⟨p. 2⟩(further to quicken and encourage them so to do) he adds divers Arguments by way of motive; one of which is taken from the consideration of their Adoption, prefented and pressed in the three first verses of this Chapter in the urging of which Argument, he,
1. […] it to their consideration as an Argument and Demonstration of Gods inexpressible love to them, ver. 1. Behold what manner of love; and such love requires great fidelity in those that partake in it.