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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.
2. The resemblance which the Children of God shall have to his Glory: we shall be like him: among such comparates between which there is a consentaneity, there is a double reference: For, some things agree in quantity, others in quality: between things agreeing in quantity there is a parity or equality, one is neither bigger nor less than the other; and this is not here to be understood: out of doubt the Man Christ shall enjoy a degree of Glory above all his Saints; this Head of the Church shall wear a Crown more weighty than any of his Members; this Son of righteousness (as he is called […] shine with more orient brightness tha• those fixed Stars; this first born among many brethren, shall have a double portion of Glory in that Glorious Inheritance; but then, between things agreeing in quality, there is a similitude, which is consistent with imparity; things may be unequal, and yet not unlike: lesser things may agree with greater by way of similitude, though they differ in proportion: so the Poet, Parvaque cum magnis componere saepe solebam. For this consists in a near resemblance there is of qualities between one and another, and this is it our Apostle here points at.
2. The resemblance which the Children of God shall have to his Glory: we shall be like him: among such comparates between which there is a consentanety, there is a double reference: For, some things agree in quantity, others in quality: between things agreeing in quantity there is a parity or equality, one is neither bigger nor less than the other; and this is not here to be understood: out of doubt the Man Christ shall enjoy a degree of Glory above all his Saints; this Head of the Church shall wear a Crown more weighty than any of his Members; this Son of righteousness (as he is called 〈…〉 shine with more orient brightness tha• those fixed Stars; this first born among many brethren, shall have a double portion of Glory in that Glorious Inheritance; but then, between things agreeing in quality, there is a similitude, which is consistent with imparity; things may be unequal, and yet not unlike: lesser things may agree with greater by way of similitude, though they differ in proportion: so the Poet, Parvaque cum magnis componere saepe solebam. For this consists in a near resemblance there is of qualities between one and another, and this is it our Apostle here points at.