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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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Ans. This truth is of Divine revelation, and must fetch its evidence from Scripture-Testimony, which, as it asserts the truth of it, which is reason enough for our Faith, so it gives divers grounds for it, viz.
1. His taking part with them in their infirmities, that so they might be sharers with him in ⟨p. 117⟩his Glory, Heb. 2. 14, 15. He humbled himself, that he might exalt them; he made his Soul an offering for sin, that he might see his seed; he gave himself for them to that very end that he might make them thus glorious, Eph. 5. 26, 27. And hence, this glory is called a purchased possession, Eph. 1. 14.
2. The good will of God the Father to prepare this Glory for them, and appoint them to be the heirs of it: Hence it is called the Kingdom prepared, Mat. 25. 34. And with this our Saviour encourageth his Disciples, Luk. 12. 32. Fear not little. Flock, it is my Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. Now they are chosen in Christ, and hence they are to be partakers with him in his Glory, Eph. 1. 4. i. e. Christ was to be the procurer of that good they were chosen to.