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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.
5. Be always comforting of your selves with the thoughts of your Adoption: Draw your comforts at this Tap, fetch your Consolations from this relation; be therefore often chewing upon the precious privileges of it, and make them your rejoicing. Hence,
5. Be alwayes comforting of your selves with the thoughts of your Adoption: Draw your comforts at this Tap, fetch your Consolations from this relation; be therefore often chewing upon the precious priviledges of it, and make them your rejoycing. Hence,
1. Let this joy out-strip the verdure of every other joy, let all earthly delights and pleasures, as it were wither before it: There are many things in which it is lawful to take some content, many things which God hath appointed to give us some comfort in this life, but all these delights should like stars disappear before this Sun, Luk. •0. 20. In this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice that your Names are written in Heaven. Count all other things comparatively not deserving the boasting of, Psal. 4. 7.
1. Let this joy out-strip the verdure of every other joy, let all earthly delights and pleasures, as it were wither before it: There are many things in which it is lawful to take some content, many things which God hath appointed to give us some comfort in this life, but all these delights should like starrs disappear before this Sun, Luk. •0. 20. In this rejoyce not, that the spirits are sub••ct to you, but rather rejoyce that your Names are written in Heaven. Count all other things comparatively not deserving the boasting of, Psal. 4. 7.