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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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It follows now that we consider the general nature of the happiness of the Sons of God, or the discovery which we have of it in this life, We shall be like him: There is enough revealed about our future estate to relieve our Faith, though not to satisfy our curiosity: our Apostle would not have Believers to be discouraged, because they have not a full discovery of what ⟨p. 110⟩they shall be in another World, but to rest content with this general discovery which is made; and though they cannot measure it in all its dimensions, yet to take up with this thought, as having plentiful consolation in it. The Words indeed are but few, but they are full; and though our glory be shadowed to us by another, which is equally obscure and unknown to us as our own, yet from this very darkness there reflects abundant Light of comfort: and be it so that we know nothing at all distinctly of the Glory which Christ is now possessed of, yet there is consolation enough to be picked out of this very consideration, that we shall be like him.
It follows now that we consider the general nature of the happiness of the Sons of God, or the discovery which we have of it in this life, We shall be like him: There is enough revealed about our future estate to relieve our Faith, though not to satisfie our curiosity: our Apostle would not have Believers to be discouraged, because they have not a full discovery of what ⟨p. 110⟩they shall be in another World, but to rest content with this general discovery which is made; and though they cannot measure it in all its dimensions, yet to take up with this thought, as having plentiful consolation in it. The Words indeed are but few, but they are full; and though our glory be shadowed to us by another, which is equally obscure and unknown to us as our own, yet from this very darkness there reflects abundant Light of comfort: and be it so that we know nothing at all distinctly of the Glory which Christ is now possessed of, yet there is consolation enough to be pickt out of this very consideration, that we shall be like him.