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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. 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.
2. There is a Relative incommunicable Glory which the humane Nature of Christ by vertue 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.
3. There is a communicable Glory which Christ in his humane nature, as he is the head of the Church, and their representative or surety, is advanced unto; wherein, though he personally hath the preeminence, as Col. 1. 18. That in all things he might have the preeminence. Yet all his Children do share in a Glorious Consimilitude; ⟨p. 114⟩and, though not in like measure yet in like manner they are sharers with him. […] is not to be expected that I should give a full account of this, what it is, for if so, then it woul appear what we shall be, which our Apostle d nyes; but through the Glass of the Scripture we may make a dark discovery of it; and the are two things in which this likeness to Chris doth consist. 1. That state of perfection which the whole man shall be advanced unto. 2. Th additional Glory which shall be conferred o them in that state.