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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. In respect of Persons, it is unrestrained, he doth not say to whom it doth not appear, but only in general affirms, that it appears not. Indefinite propositions are equivalent to universal. Hence we are to understand all men to be here ••••nded: and the word translated, to appear [[Greek or Hebrew]] signifieth, clearly, openly, permanently to appear, to be discerned or seen in open view
2. In respect of Persons, it is unrestrained, he doth not say to whom it doth not appear, but only in general affirms, that it appears not. Indefinit propositions are equivalent to universal. Hence we are to understand all men to be here ••••nded: and the word translated, to appear [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] signifyeth, clearly, openly, permenently to appear, to be discerned or seen in open view
Hence,
Doct. The future happy Estate unto which the Children of God are appointed, is a thing not clearly known by any in this Life.