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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. That state of perfection which the whol• Man shall be advanced unto: We labour under manifold imperfections in this life, such as make our present happiness full of infelicity▪ there can be no perfect glory without a perfect state; such Christ enjoyeth in our nature in Heaven, such also shall all the Children of God be made to possess in the Kingdom; in sum they shal• be like him, both in the state of Body and Soul.
1. That state of perfection which the whol• Man shall be advanced unto: We labour unde• manifold imperfections in this life, such as make our present happiness full of infeliaity▪ there can be no perfect glory without a perfect state; such Christ enjoyeth in our nature in Heaven, such also shall all the Children of God be made to possess in the Kingdom; in summe they shal• be like him, both in the state of Body and Soul.
1. Their bodily estate shall be like his: This Paul plainly asserts, Phil. 3. 21. Who shall […] our vile body, that it may be fashioned like to his glorious Body. The Disciples had a glimpse of his bodily glory in the Transfiguration, Mat. 17• begin. And, though this be the least, yet it is no• contemptible part of our likeness to Christ, that when the Body, being raised or changed, shal• ⟨p. 115⟩