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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.
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2. That God doth not do it to make them inherit by way of succession, which is the case ⟨p. 7⟩among men; and the ground and design of humane Adoption, being because man is mortal, and must in a short time die, and leave all his earthly possessions and name behind him▪ hence, that they may have one to bear up the their name, and possess their livings, which they can no longer in person enjoy, they substitute one in their room: so that as long as the Adopter lives, the adopted is kept out of possession, and must be content to wait for his portion, till the other goes off, and is often in the mean while put to many and hard shifts: whereas God lives for ever, and yet Believers are not entitled to, but have actual participation in all the good things of God, according to their present state and capacity, immediately after their Adoption, and eternally. Men say, when I die you shall inherit, but Christ saith, because I live you shall live also. I say, although in these things it differs (and evermore the antitype is something more glorious than the Type) yet in the main notions of Adoption they agree: viz.
2. That God doth not do it to make them inherit by way of succession, which is the case ⟨p. 7⟩among men; and the ground and design of humane Adoption, being because man is mortal, and must in a short time die, and leave all his earthly possessions and name behind him▪ hence, that they may have one to bear up the their name, and possess their livings, which they can no longer in person enjoy, they substitute one in their room: so that as long as the Adopter lives, the adopted is kept out of possession, and must be content to wait for his portion, till the other goes off, and is often in the mean while put to many and hard shifts: whereas God lives for ever, and yet Believers are not entituled to, but have actual participation in all the good things of God, according to their present state and capacity, immediately after their Adoption, and eternally. Men say, when I die you shall inherit, but Christ saith, because I live you shall live also. I say, although in these things it differs (and evermore the antitype is something more glorious than the Type) yet in the main notions of Adoption they agree: viz.