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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.
3. That our happiness shall be such as shall serve […] to express the love of God to be like himself. Christ is the Son of his love, and God to […] that he loved him in our nature hath ⟨p. 121⟩made him accordingly glorious: He hath also loved his People in Christ, hence they too must be made to know what that love meaneth: That love with which he loves them is special love, and not common which all his Creatures are made the partakers of, and hence the fruits of it must be special too: It shall be such a Glory, as shall deserve to have a Proclamation made before it, and Angels and Men called to turn their eyes and look upon it, to see what were the everlasting thoughts of good will which God did bear to his chosen Ones in Christ.
3. That our happiness shal be such as shal serve 〈…〉 to express the love of God to be like himself. Christ is the Son of his love, and God to 〈…〉 that he loved him in our nature hath ⟨p. 121⟩made him accordingly glorious: He hath also loved his People in Christ, hence they too must be made to know what that love meaneth: That love with which he loves them is special love, and not common which all his Creatures are made the partakers of, and hence the fruits of it must be special too: It shal be such a Glory, as shal deserve to have a Proclamation made before it, and Angels and Men called to turn their eyes and look upon it, to see what were the everlasting thoughts of good will which God did bear to his chosen Ones in Christ.
4. What can the Disciple desire better than to be as his Master? As he cannot expect to meet with-any thing better here, so he can hope for no better hereafter: To be with Christ where he is, and to be like him in the day of his appearance, is as much as the Soul can desire, and will be found a felicity so great, that his most enlarged reaching will not be able to grasp after more.