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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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1. That the thoughts of the great Day of Judgement ought to be delightful thoughts to the People of God; for this is the very day wherein being made like to him, they shall look like themselves: This thought that then we shall be like him, may make the expectation of it very precious to us: There are many terrible considerations of that day, awful and amazing, which ⟨p. 122⟩may well make the ungodly World to fall a trembling; but the consideration of what they shall be then, may take off all that dread from the hearts of the Children of God: It is the very day wherein Christ comes with great Power and Majesty, and all his Saints shall wait upon him in like Robes of Glory unto them which he shall be adorned withal: Could we but think of these things with a true discerning of our right and title to them, it could not but make us love to be meditating before-hand of that glorious time: Paul loves often to be speaking of it.
1. That the thoughts of the great Day of Judgement ought to be delightful thoughts to the People of God; for this is the very day wherein being made like to him, they shal look like themselves: This thought that then we shal be like him, may make the expectation of it very precious to us: There are many terrible considerations of that day, awful and amazing, which ⟨p. 122⟩may well make the ungodly World to fall a trembling; but the consideration of what they shal be then, may take off all that dread from the hearts of the Children of God: It is the very day wherein Christ comes with great Power and Majesty, and all his Saints shal wait upon him in like Robes of Glory unto them which he shal be adorned withal: Could we but think of these things with a true discerning of our right and title to them, it could not but make us love to be meditating before-hand of that glorious time: Paul loves often to be speaking of it.
2. Learn hence wherein true happiness consists, viz. To be like Christ: The World hath greatly mistaken in its guess-at the nature of true felicity; whiles some have placed it in pleasures, others in profits, others in honours: Some have called the Proud happy, others the Voluptuous happy; whereas that which is the true happiness, namely likeness to Christ they, have reckoned upon as the greatest felicity: But this discovers their mistake; for, if it be so that when we shall attain the highest pitch of created felicity, our happiness will receive its denomination from hence.