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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. The People of God have their sips and foretastes, ⟨p. 63⟩and first fruits of this Glory here: They are made to taste of those Grapes of which the Wine is made in Canaan: They have not only their assurances, but also sometimes their ecstasies: They are taken into the Mount, rapt up into the third Heaven, their souls are lifted up above the world, and all that is in it. God is pleased at some times to carry them out so far in their meditations, and reveal so much of himself and his infinite love to their contemplation, that they are loth to come down, or to have any thing more to do with the sink and puddle of this world: They know so much of that after state,, that when they are under these precious discoveries, and the irradiations of the spirit of God upon their souls, they cry out, Who will give me the wings of a Dove, that I might mount up and be▪ gone: And with Paul their hearts are carried forth with a longing desire to depart and be with him in full possession of all this Glory: But,
2. The People of God have their sips and foretastes, ⟨p. 63⟩and first fruits of this Glory here: They are made to tast of those Graps of which the Wine is made in Canaan: They have not only their assurances, but also sometimes their extasies: They are taken into the Mount, rapt up into the third Heaven, their souls are lifted up aboue the world, and all that is in it. God is pleased at some times to carry them out so farr in their meditations, and reveal so much of himself and his infinit love to their contemplation, that they are loth to come down, or to have any thing more to do with the sink and puddle of this world: They know so much of that after state,, that when they are under these precious discoveries, and the irradiations of the spirit of God upon their souls, they cry out, Who will give me the wings of a Dove, that I might mount up and be▪ gone: And with Paul their hearts are carried forth with a longing desire to depart and be with him in full possession of all this Glory: But,