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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. To the Souls of Just men made perfect: They are now indeed Comprehensors, and know well enough the happiness they are in possession of, but what discerning or comprehension have they of those complements of Glory, which in the Resurrection, and after the Day of Judgement shall be added to them, we cannot tell: The words after my text seem to speak of the last day, as being a day of some peculiar discovery: We must therefore for the present leave these two and say nothing definitely of them.
2. To the Souls of Just men made perfect: They are now indeed Comprehensors, and know well enough the happiness they are in possession of, but what discerning or comprehension have they of those complements of Glory, which in the Resurrection, and after the Day of Judgement shal be added to them, we cannot tell: The words after my text seem to speak of the last day, as being a day of some peculiar discovery: We must therefore for the present leave these two and say nothing definitely of them.
3. Positively, and here we may truly affirm, and make it appear, that,
3. Positively, and here we may truely affirm, and make it appear, that,
1. None of the Devils know; it doth not appear to them what the Sons of God shall be: They may indeed give shrewd guesses, and understand that it shall be very great: For, being created in the third Heaven, and having seen the Glory of it, they must needs know that the People of God, in so far as they are appointed ⟨p. 61⟩for the place, will be wondrously glorious; and their knowing of so much of it, makes them so extremely envious at them and their happiness: But still, after what manner the Bride, the Lambs Wife, shall be entertained in the great day, when the marriage shall be consummate, & he shall carry her home to his own Palace, they cannot tell, the Angels of Glory cannot know it, but by relation, and we cannot suppose that God will make special discoveries now to the Devils: They may remember what the place was by Creation, but what it shall be when Christ hath further prepared it, is not for them to understand.