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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
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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.
6. They shall have that honour conferred upon them to be assessors with Christ, and to judge the World, 1 Cor. 6. 2, 3. Know ye not that the Saints shall judge the World! after what manner this shall be, is not for us to determine; Christ is the great Judge: their lives, when they ⟨p. 100⟩were upon Earth, did condemn a sinful Generation, Heb. 11. 7. and these may be alleged there: and they shall certainly assent to, and acquiesce and rejoice in the righteous Judgment which Christ shall pass upon his Enemies; and shall in a royal equipage sit and attend, as so many Judges, until that great affair shall be finished.
6. They shall have that honour conferred upon them to be assessors with Christ, and to judge the World, 1 Cor. 6. 2, 3. Know ye not that the Saints shall judge the World! after what manner this shall be, is not for us to determine; Christ is the great Judge: their lives, when they ⟨p. 100⟩were upon Earth, did condemn a sinful Generation, Heb. 11. 7. and these may be alledged there: and they shall certainly assent to, and acquiess and rejoyce in the righteous Judgment which Christ shall pass upon his Enemies; and shall in a royal equipage sit and attend, as so many Judges, until that great affair shall be finished.
7. When the great work of the last Judgement is over, they shall all return with Christ to Heaven: when that great Court shall break up, the Judge (with his retinue) shall go again to his own place, where they shall appear happy indeed: now shall the ungodly World see these Darlings of Christ, and beloved of his Father, to be carried away into everlasting joys, to be taken nearer to Christ than Angels themselves; who shall no sooner be gone, but they shall leave the other in endless Torments with Devils and damned Spirits; where, when they come home to their Kingdom, and every child of God is placed upon his own Throne, and the Man Christ himself,) having resigned up his Mediatorial Kingdom into the hands of his Father) shall solace himself with theirs, and them with his company for ever, recreating and sporting themselves each in the other; when Eternity shall be filled with fresh joys and delights, new and ravishing continually; when they shall ever be with the Lord, and there shall be no tediousness