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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. Wait patiently for your Glory: though you do not now enjoy it, no nor make a full and through discovery of it at the present, yet be patient and wait, and you have those encouragements so to do.
1. The time is not long: It is but when he shall appear, Context. There is a little work for you to do for God here, and then the reward: And as you have need of patience for this, that when you have done the will of God you may receive the reward, Heb. 10. 36. So there is this given ⟨p. 72⟩to animate you in the cheerful exercise of it, that it is but a little while, and he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry, vers. 47. Christ is but gone to heaven to prepare, and then he will come again for you.
1. The time is not long: It is but when he shall appear, Context. There is a little work for you to do for God here, and then the reward: And as you have need of patience for this, that when you have done the will of God you may receive the reward, Heb. 10. 36. So there is this given ⟨p. 72⟩to animate you in the chearful exercise of it, that it is but a little while, and he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry, vers. 47. Christ is but gone to heaven to prepare, and then he will come again for you.
3. You have mean while good security for it: There are the many precious promises in the Book of God, engaging his faithfulness & truth, and power to the performance of it: you have the seal of the spirit for it, Who hath sealed you to the day of Redemption,