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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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3. The near relation which they have to Jesus Christ: As he is a Son, so are they Sons, and he is not ashamed to call them his Brethren: And from their sonship, Paul argues their Coheirship, Rom. 8. 17. If Sons, then Heirs, Coheirs with Christ. They are the Spouse of Christ, hence called the Bride, the Lambs Wife, Rev. 19• 7, 21, 9. And it is the Wives prerogative to share in her Husbands Honour. They are the members of Christ, he is their head, now the whole man partakes in the honour which the head is adorned withal: they are Christ mystical, 1 Cor. 12. 12. And therefore are not to be ⟨p. 118⟩divided from him in his Glory.
4. The Intercession of Christ: He is in Heaven interceding with his Father for this very thing: when Christ was ready to depart the World, as to his bodily presence, he gave us a specimen of this intercession of his in that mediatorial Prayer of his, Joh. 17. In which he positively declares that this is one thing which he importunately and without taking of any denial pleads, vers. 24. Father, I will that they whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.
5. From the condition of the Covenant of Grace: For though there be nothing of merit in it, yet their is certainty, and a promise which cannot be made void: Now this is engaged to those that serve him,