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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. 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.
2. The Predicate, or that which is asserted concerning it, viz. It doth not yet appear. The Proposition is limited in respect of time, but unlimited in respect of persons.
1. In respect of time, it is restrained to the present, Not yet, q. d. There is a little time in which me must be content to pass in a disguise, and not look like our selves, but it will not be long: The word [[Greek or Hebrew]] is used only to express some small inconsiderable particle of time, or delay: And when he saith, Not yet, he withal insinuates that it will not be long: It is but during the time that the life lasts, and when that comes to an end there will be a beginning of that discovery, and in the last day a full and perfect.
1. In respect of time, it is restrained to the present, Not yet, q. d. There is a little time in which me must be content to pass in a disguise, and not look like our selves, but it will not be long: The word [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] is used only to express some smal inconsiderable particle of time, or delay: And when he saith, Not yet, he withal insinuates that it will not be long: It is but during the time that the life lasts, and when that comes to an end there will be a beginning of that discovery, and in the last day a full and perfect.