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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.
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 ⟨p. 101⟩in those perfect pleasures, but the Soul shall be always satisfied in them: now shall it appear what it is to be a Son of God. But what are those happy entertainments of that place, none but one that hath been in the third Heaven can know; and did he know, he could not utter, or if he could utter, we could not conceive no• credit: but such things there shall be, and then they shall be known fully to them that enjoy them, and to the wicked they shall appear sufficiently fo• their conviction and confusion.
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 joyes, 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 shal be filled with fresh joyes and delights, new and ravishing continually; when they shal ever be with the Lord, and there shal be no tediousness