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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. By way of Evidence or Demonstration: The Truth may be understood and cleared by an induction of particulars; And that.
1. Negatively; And here,
1. This Indefinite doth not comprehend God under it: For he throughly and perfectly knows what his own thoughts of love and good▪ will are to his Children: He hath predestinated them to their inheritance, and laid out in his everlasting Decree what their portion shall be, Eph. 1. 11, In whom we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated, &c. God cannot be ignorant of his own Counsels, which, have been manifestly known to him from all eternity, Acts▪ […]. 18, Known unto God are all his works from the foundation of the World. He knows what his own ⟨p. 59⟩thoughts are, &c. Those thoughts of peace which he hath for his People, Jer. 29. 11. These things are not under debate with him who is for ever unchangeable.
1. This Indefinit doth not comprehend God under it: For he throughly and perfectly knows what his own thoughts of love and good▪ wil are to his Children: He hath predestinated them to their inheritance, and laid out in his everlasting Decree what their portion shal be,