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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.
That we shall be like Christ; then certainly the more any are like Christ in this World, the more of true happiness they now possess. It is ⟨p. 123⟩true, conformity to Christ in this evil World, procures Men hatred and persecution, and that makes Men (who Judge according to outward appearance) vote them miserable; but still, their inward unseen Glory which proceeds from their consimilitude to Jesus Christ is a preponderating blessedness; and as it is it self a Man's good estate, so also it derives those solid joys to the Soul of him that is so, that render it full of unspeakable Glory in the midst of the greatest outward oppression; because, whiles they are thus hated and persecuted for their conformity unto Jesus Christ, The Spirit of God and of Glory rests upon them, 1 Pet. 4. 14. Begun happiness is founded on holiness here, and perfected holiness shall be found to be true happiness in the Kingdom.
That we shal be like Christ; then certainly the more any are like Christ in this World, the more of true happiness they now possess. It is ⟨p. 123⟩true, conformity to Christ in this evil World, procures Men hatred and persecution, and that makes Men (who Judge according to outward appearance) vote them miserable; but still, their inward unseen Glory which proceeds from their consimilitude to Jesus Christ is a preponderating blessedness; and as it is it self a Man's good estate, so also it derives those solid joyes to the Soul of him that is so, that render it full of unspeakable Glory in the midst of the greatest outward oppression; because, whiles they are thus hated and persecuted for their conformity unto Jesus Christ, The Spirit of God and of Glory rests upon them, 1 Pet. 4. 14. Begun happiness is founded on holiness here, and perfected holiness shal be found to be true happiness in the Kingdom.