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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.
Doct. As the future Glorious Estate of the Children of God is a thing certain in it self, so it is that whereof they may also have a certain and infallible Knowledge.
Though they cannot tell how well it shall be with them, yet that it shall be well, they may know: That their is a remaining Glory, and that that Glory shall be theirs: Not only that their is a number of the Children of Men who shall be blessed in the eternal enjoyment of God in Christ, but that they also in particular are of that number: And this indeed is a main and essential part of a Believers present inchoative happiness. that now he knows, and is firmly persuaded of it, that he shall be happy for ever.
Though they cannot tell how well it shall be with them, yet that it shall be well, they may know: That their is a remaining Glory, and that that Glory shall be theirs: Not only that their is a number of the Children of Men who shall be blessed in the eternal enjoyment of God in Christ, but that they also in particular are of that number: And this indeed is a main and essential part of a Believers present inchoative happiness. that now he knows, and is firmly perswaded of it, that he shall be happy for ever.
Knowledge is here opposed Negatively, or Privatively to ignorance, disparately to opinion. And in the clearing up of this point, we may, 1. Consider something of the nature of knowledge in general, And then, 2. In particular evidence that our future happiness comes within the reach of it.