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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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This is the comfort which John applies to them now, when the World hates them, and they walk under a disguise, and what their after estate shall be, neither appears to themselves, nor to the World; yet he would have them take up with this, and rest contented, yea delighted in the meditation of it. It is, q. d. let not your thoughts trouble you, be not over solicitously inquisitive after the secrets of God, and the particularities of your state and glory; but take this for a repast, and let it stay your stomachs till you come to sit down at the great Feast, you shall be like him.
This is the comfort which John applies to them now, when the World hates them, and they walk under a disguise, and what their after estate shall be, neither appears to themselves, nor to the World; yet he would have them take up with this, and rest contented, yea delighted in the meditation of it. It is, q. d. let not your thoughts trouble you, be not over sollicitously inquisitive after the secrets of God, and the particularities of your state and glory; but take this for a repast, and let it stay your stomachs till you come to sit down at the great Feast, you shall be like him.
In the Explication of this Position. we have to consider; 1. Wherein this likeness unto Christ consists? 2. How it appears that we shall then be like him? 3. What ground of satisfaction ariseth from hence?
1. Wherein this likeness consists?