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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.
USE, II. For Exhortation, learn we hence.
1. Not to judge of our selves, or of our own state by our present sense: It is the delight of Satan to be keeping the thoughts of the Children of God looking, and poring upon their present sinful and sorrowful condition, that they may be held under discouragement by thinking themselves miserable, but we live by hope, and Hope that is seen is not hope, Rom. 8. 24. As often then as your sense would dishearten you, now betake your selves to, and stir up your Faith; set your selves to meditate upon the unknown ⟨p. 71⟩Glories which are coming; and think them not less but greater, because they appear not; this being one main reason why they do not as yet appear, because they are too big for our present comprehension.
1. Not to judge of our selves, or of our own state by our present sense: It is the delight of Satan to be keeping the thoughts of the Children of God looking, and poring upon their present sinful and sorrowful condition, that they may be held under discouragement by thinking themselves miserable, but we live by hope, and Hope that is seen is not hope, Rom. 8. 24. As often then as your sense would dishearten you, now betake your selves to, and stirr up your Faith; set your selves to meditate upon the unknown ⟨p. 71⟩Gloryes which are coming; and think them not less but greater, because they appear not; this being one main reason why they do not as yet appear, because they are too big for our present comprehension.