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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. 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, Mat. 13. 43. Then shall the Righteous shine forth as the Sun, in the Kingdom of the Father. The dazzling lustre of the Sun is but a dark shadow of the brightness of the bodies of the Saints in the Resurrection: the Church shall then look like a Bride indeed, when it is trimmed up in all its Ornaments of Soul and Body in a state of shining perfection. Rev. 21. 2. Prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband.
1. The Children of God [the Lambs Wife] shall in the morning of the Resurrection be drest up in glorious Splendor, 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 shal 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 shal then be resplendent: they shal rise in the state of the Sons of God, they shal not look any more like abjects, be like dearly beloved Children, being filled with perfect beauty, comeliness, splendor, Mat. 13. 43. Then shall the Righteous shine forth as the Sun, in the Kingdome of the Father. The dazling lustre of the Sun is but a dark shadow of the brightness of the bodies of the Saints in the Resurrection: the Church shall then look like a Bride indeed, when it is trimmed up in all its Ornaments of Soul and Body in a state of shining perfection.