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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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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.
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.
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 preheminence, as Col. 1. 18. That in all things he might have the preheminence. 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 likness to Chri• 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.