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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. 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⟩leave behind it all those imperfections, which it lay down under, or was visited withal here: When it shall be clothed with Beauty in the room of deformity; when it shall shake off all sickness and pain, and enjoy perfect health and strength, when this Mortal shall put on immortality, and this corruptible incorruptibility; when it shall be sick no more, and dye no more, when it shall need Food and Raiment no more; when the Body shall be made perfectly holy, and filled with Angelical Vigour and Activity for God: When that shall come to pass, 1 Cor. 15. 42, 43.
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 likness to Christ, that when the Body, being raised or changed, shal• ⟨p. 115⟩leave behind it all those imperfections, which it lay down under, or was visited withal here: When it shall be cloathed with Beauty in the room of deformity; when it shall shake off all sickness and pain, and enjoy perfect health and strength, when this Mortal shall put on immortality, and this corruptible incorruptibility; when it shall be sick no more, and dye no more, when it shall need Food and Raiment no more; when the Body shall be made perfectly holy, and filled with Angelical Vigour and Activity for God: When that shall come to pass,