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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. Lest they should be allured by it: All which they hear and enjoy here must therefore be Enigmatical or obscure to them, lest they should be converted; it is an awful word, but Christ himself hath spoken it, who knew his Fathers, and his own mind and purpose, Mar. 4. 11. 12. To them that are without these things are done in parables, &c. Lest at any time they should be Converted.
1. Lest they should be allured by it: All which they hear and enjoy here must therefore be Aenigmatical or obscure to them, lest they should be converted; it is an awful word, but Christ himself hath spoken it, who knew his Fathers, and his own mind and purpose, Mar. 4. 11. 12. To them that are without these things are done in parables, &c. Lest at any time they should be Converted.
2. That they may by Persecutions and oppositions try the Graces of his Children: There is great use and fruit in this trial, it is more precious than that of Gold: And God is pleased to use wicked men as instruments of the trial: And hence they shall not know who these be, nor what their Glory is; for if they did, they would without doubt suspend, if not in love, yet in fear of them: Christ himself must come in a disguise that so the determined Counsel of God might be fulfilled i• him: 1. Cor. 2. 7, 8. They ⟨p. 65⟩would else never have Crucified him.
2. That they may by Persecutions and oppositions try the Graces of his Children: There is great use and fruit in this tryal, it is more precious than that of Gold: And God is pleased to use wicked men as instruments of the tryal: And hence they shall not know who these be, nor what their Glory is; for if they did, they would without doubt suspend, if not in love, yet in fear of them: Christ himself must come in a disguise that so the determined Counsel of God might be fulfilled i him: