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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.
3. The Day of Judgement is the fittest time for this: it is a day appointed for the setting of things to rights, to clear up all false Judgements and Mistakes which there were here: it is a Day wherein the presence of all the Creation shall be to look on, Heaven and Hell being for the while emptied of all their Inhabitants to come to this meeting and general Assembly; so that it will be the greatest Glory, and most pompous appearance, when a Child of God on such a day, and in such a presence, shall be openly owned and rewarded; when he shall be set to view in all his glorious state, and the proclamation shall be audibly heard from one end of Heaven to another; saying, Behold a Son of God, and so shall it be done to one whom the King of glory delights to honour.
USE I. For Information; learn we hence,
VSE I. For Information; learn we hence,
1. That this Truth may satisfy us in the great reason why the People of God are not now known, nor esteemed by the World; it is because ⟨p. 103⟩the time of their manifestation is not yet come: we are often ready to think in our selves, if we are his Children, why doth he suffer us so little to be taken notice of, and so much contemned? and are hence prone to judge and censure his Providence in this respect: whereas it is his Wisdom and good pleasure that it should be so: Christ had his mean and obscure state upon Earth, and so must his followers: if we would be like him in glory, we must be conformable to him in obscurity: God hath his appointed seasons; Men do not as yet know God nor Christ, how then should they know his Children? but they shall know him, they shall see him and be astonished at him; and they shall see and know his People, and it is our duty to think Gods time the best.