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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. That the time is not as yet come, for the manifestation of that happiness whereof they are the undoubted Heirs
2. He declares what their glorious estate shall be when that time doth come.
2. He declares what their glorious estate shal be when that time doth come.
It is the first of these we have under our present consideration. These words relate to the foregoing by way of Prolepsis, and hence the copulative [And] is put for the exceptive [but] •s is frequent in that Language: The words ⟨p. 57⟩are a general as••tion, wherein two things are observable.
1. The subject, or that of which the assertion is, What we shall be: By the which he intends that happiness and Glory to which the sons of God are appointed; their future felicity.