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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 Children of God ought not to value themselves according to what they are at present but what they shall be at Christs▪ appearing. If the present visible condition of the Saints were the only rule of judging themselves by, they might reckon themselves among the most unhappy of mankind; and hence when their judgments have been biassed that way, and they ⟨p. 105⟩have looked with a carnal eye upon themselves, which is bounded on things present, they have been ready to be envious at the wicked and foolish men: but if they could ever keep an eye firmly sixth upon the day of revelation, and contemplate what is providing for them against that day; could they but fetch up the evidence of those unseen things, and feed their hearts with such thoughts, they would soon turn their envy into scorn, at least pity; and confess their former thoughts to have been ignorant, foolish, brutish.
3. The Children of God ought not to value themselves according to what they are at present but what they shall be at Christs▪ appearing. If the present visible condition of the Saints were the only rule of judging themselves by, they might reckon themselves among the most unhappy of mankind; and hence when their judgments have been byassed that way, and they ⟨p. 105⟩have looked with a carnal eye upon themselves, which is bounded on things present, they have been ready to be envious at the wicked and foolish men: but if they could ever keep an eye firmly fixt upon the day of revelation, and contemplate what is providing for them against that day; could they but fetch up the evidence of those unseen things, and feed their hearts with such thoughts, they would soon turn their envy into sco•n, at least pity; and confess their former thoughts to have been ignorant, foolish, bruitish.