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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.
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?
Ans. 1. There is an incommunicable Glory which Christ as God possesseth, who is God blessed for evermore: He is one in essence with his Father, He is full possessor of all the Divine Attributes and Perfections; He is the Object of ⟨p. 113⟩of Divine adoration, and all the Angels of God do worship him. In this Glory we ought not to expect to be like him; it would be vain presumption and highest Arrogancy in any of the Children of Men to feed themselves with any such expectation.
Ans. 1. There is an incommunicable Glory which Christ as God possesseth, who is God blessed for evermore: He is one in essence with his Father, He is full possessor of all the Divine Atributes and Perfections; He is the Object of ⟨p. 113⟩of Divine adoration, and all the Angels of God do worship him. In this Glory we ought not to expect to be like him; it would be vain presumption and highest Arrogancy in any of the Children of Men to feed themselves with any such expectation.