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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.
2. Wherein the Believers blessedness shall then be made to appear.
2. Wherein the Believers blessedness shal then be made to appear.
Ans. They shall not only themselves know their own happiness nor only their fellow-glorified Saints and Angels be made acquainted with it, but the World shall see and know it; their enemies shall see it and be confounded at it: Wicked men & devils shall behold their glory so far as to know them to be most happy, Mic. 7. 10. Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, viz. When God ⟨p. 97⟩brings her forth to the light as ver. 9. which discovery will be made in these things.
Ans. They shal not only themselves know their own happiness nor only their fellow-glorified Saints and Angels be made acquainted with it, but the World shal see and know it; their enemies shal see it and be confounded at it: Wicked men & devils shal behold their glory so far as to know them to be most happy, Mic. 7. 10. Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, viz. When God ⟨p. 97⟩brings her forth to the light as ver. 9. which discovery will be made in these things.
1. The Children of God [the Lambs Wife] shall in the morning of the Resurrection be dressed up in glorious Splendour, and prepared to meet with Jesus Christ [her Spouse] the Soul (already made perfect in heavenly glory) shall be reunited to its body, which shall leave all imperfections in the Grave, and be adorned with all such perfections as shall render it conspicuously glorious: Paul gives us a very notable description of it, 1 Cor, 15. 42, 43, 44. Its spirituality, immortality, incorruptibility; its power, its glory shall then be resplendent: they shall rise in the state of the Sons of God, they shall not look any more like abjects, be like dearly beloved Children, being filled with perfect beauty, comeliness, splendour,