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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.
1. If we are Sons, why then are we not known? are not the Children of a Prince acknowledged by the▪ Subjects? but the World tramples us into the dust, and persecutes us unto death, and would God suffer this, if he was our Father? well, saith he, they neither do know you nor him, and a Princes Son is of no repute with him that know him not from a Peasant, but ⟨p. 4⟩for all this you are Sons; and your Father knows you, though the World doth not, and that may satisfy you: But,
1. If we are Sons, why then are we not known? are not the Children of a Prince acknowledged by the▪ Subjects? but the World tramples us into the dust, and persecutes us unto death, and would God suffer this, if he was our Father? well, saith he, they neither do know you nor him, and a Princes Son is of no repute with him that know him not from a Peasant, but ⟨p. 4⟩for all this you are Sons; and your Father knows you, though the World doth not, and that may satisfie you: But,
2. If we were Sons we should be in a more happy condition, whether the World knew it or no: but we live in the midst of sorrows and sufferings both of body and mind; we are encompassed and almost overwhelmed with miseries, and is this the portion of Sons? do Kings wont to neglect their Children, and suffer them to live in misery? well, but still this shakes not the conclusion: for, although the happiness we are entitled unto, appears not as yet, yet now we are Sons, and there shall a time come, when we shall be made to look like such.
2. If we were Sons we should be in a more happy condition, whether the World knew it or no: but we live in the midst of sorrows and sufferings both of body and mind; we are encompassed and almost overwhelmed with miseries, and is this the portion of Sons? do Kings wont to neglect their Children, and suffer them to live in misery? well, but still this shakes not the conclusion: for, although the happiness we are entituled unto, appears not as yet, yet now we are Sons, and there shall a time come, when we shall be made to look like such.