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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.
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.
2. There is a Relative incommunicable Glory which the humane Nature of Christ by virtue of personal union with the Son of God is advanced unto, in consideration of which Union the Man Christ is truly God, or a Divine Person; and in this we shall not be like him; there is indeed a Mystical and Spiritual Union between Christ and Believers whereby they are one, he being the Political Head of the Body, the Church and ruling of it, not by Authority only, but by influence too, his Spirit being sent forth into their hearts: But this is of a far divers nature from that Union which is between the two natures in Christ: The People of God are not to expect to be as nearly related unto the Son of God, as his own particular humanity is.