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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. 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, Eph. 4. 30. And you have all those earnests which are given in the inchoative felicity, which you have found, in those tastes that you have had of the love of God in Christ, and all these are built upon a foundation of God, and in an eternal Decree, which must stand sure, and what would you have more?
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, Eph. 4. 30. And you have all those earnests which are given in the inchoative felicity, which you have found, in those tasts that you have had of the love of God in Christ, and all these are built upon a foundation of God, and in an eternal Decree, which must stand sure, and what would you have more?
3. This glory is worth the waiting for: I am not able to tell you what it is, no, nor, if an Angel should come and declare it to us, are we who dwell in mortal bodies, capable of understanding it: But this we may know, that it will recompense all our Faith and Patience, all our sorrows and sufferings; nay, all the sufferings of this present life are not worthy of the Glory that shall be revealed: If it did appear, and our blear eyes could now look upon it without dazzling, it would not be so great as it now is, which when it shall appear, will transport us with everlasting admiration, that shall echo back in eternal Hallelujahs.
3. This glory is worth the waiting for: I am not able to tell you what it is, no, nor, if an Angel should come and declare it to us, are we who dwell in mortal bodies, capable of understanding it: But this we may know, that it will recompence all our Faith and Patience, all our sorrows and sufferings; nay, all the sufferings of this present life are not worthy of the Glory that shall be revealed: If it did appear, and our blear eyes could now look upon it without dazling, it would not be so great as it now is, which when it shall appear, will transport us with everlasting admiration, that shall eccho back in eternal Hallelujahs.