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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. Neither doth Jesus Christ come under the Negative: our glorified Redeemer hath a full and thorough view of all those happinesses which his Redeemed are to partake in: He knows what it is that he hath purchased and paid for with his own Blood; it is called the purchased Possession: And wise men do not wont to buy and pay at peradventure: Nay, he must needs know it▪ For,
1. He hath taken possession of it: He is entered into Glory, he is exalted into the Throne, and enjoyeth those fullness of joys, and those Rivers of pleasures, Heb. 12. 2. And it is the very same Glory which he now hath, unto which the Children of God shall ere long be brought, Joh. 17. 22. The Glory which thou gavest me, I have given them.
1. He hath taken possession of it: He is entered into Glory, he is exalted into the Throne, and enjoyeth those fulness of joyes, and those Rivers of pleasures, Heb. 12. 2. And it is the very same Glory which he now hath, unto which the Children of God shal ere long be brought, Joh. 17. 22. The Glory which thou gavest me, I have given them.
2. He is gone before to make ready the place of Glory, and prepare for the entertainment of his People, Joh. 14