The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…

3. What ground of satisfaction ariseth from hence?

Ans. In sum, if we shall be like Christ, there needs no more to make us fully blessed and conspicuously glorious: He cannot be ought less than unexpressibly happy in the great day of Christs appearance, that shall then be like him, for although we can at present no more know what Christ shall be, then we can what we shall be, yet the consideration that we shall be like him, may afford to us these grounds of satisfaction.

Ans. In summe, if we shall be like Christ, there needs no more to make us fully blessed and conspicuously glorious: He cannot be ought less than unexpressibly happy in the great day of Christs appearance, that shall then be like him, for although we can at present no more know what Christ shall be, then we can what we shall be, yet the consideration that we shall be like him, may afford to us these grounds of satisfaction.

1. That our happiness shall countervail and more than make us amends, for all the sorrows and sufferings of this life. Christ was a Man of sorrows with an Emphasis, he was put to the greatest grief, and yet he hath a full compensation for all; his Exaltation holds a full proportion to his Humiliation, Phil. 2. 7, with 8, 9. He was deeply humbled, so was he highly exalted: Such was it that the very thoughts of it before hand carried him resolutely through all that he was to meet withal, Heb. 12. 2. For the joy that was set before him, he endured the Cross and despised the shame. And if he hath enough to answer his, how then must the People of God needs have that which will dry up their tears, and wash off