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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.
3. Learn hence a reason why the present sufferings of God's Children can neither argue against, nor yet prejudice their felicity: for the ⟨p. 69⟩time is not yet come wherein they are to appear like themselves: Joseph's prisoned condition, and prison robes set him never the further off from his preferment in Pharaoh's Court; but were indeed the very harbingers of it: When the appointed time for the manifestation of the Sons of God shall come, he can fetch them out in hast, change them in the twinkling of an eye, and clothe them upon with all that excellency and splendid Glory, whereby, they who were but the other day lying among the pots, shall with their dazzling lustre outshine the Sun in the Firmament. It is the Almighty's good pleasure, that their life, for the present, should be hid with Christ in God: But yet he hath his time, and will take •is opportunity to reveal and make it known.
3. Learn hence a reason why the present sufferings of God's Children can neither argue against, nor yet prejudice their felicity: for the ⟨p. 69⟩time is not yet come wherein they are to appear like themselves: Joseph's prisoned condition, and prison robes set him never the further off from his preferment in Pharaoh's Court; but were indeed the very harbingers of it: When the appointed time for the manifestation of the Sons of God shall come, he can fetch them out in hast, change them in the twinkling of an eye, and cloath them upon with all that excellency and splendid Glory, whereby, they who were but the other day lying among the pots, shall with their dazling lustre outshine the Sun in the Firmament. It is the Almighty's good pleasure, that their life, for the present, should be hid with Christ in God: But yet he hath his time, and will take •is opportunity to reveal and make it known.