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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.
USE, II. For Exhortation to the Children of God: Shall we be like unto Christ at his appearance, and is this consideration so full of Satisfaction.
USE, II. For Exhortation to the Children of God: Shal we be like unto Christ at his appearance, and is this consideration so full of Satisfaction.
Then,
1. Be we exhorted to labour in preparing for that Day, that so we may then be like him. There is a work to be done by the People of God in this life, in order to their glorious likeness to Christ in that other: And our Apostle tells us what endeavours the hopes of it will excite in those that are possessed of them, in the verse following my Text: He that hath this hope, purifieth ⟨p. 124⟩himself as he is pure: It is, q. d. they that expect to be like Christ then, will use means to be like him now: Holiness is the way to happiness, Heb. 12. 14. Christ first sanctifieth his Church before he glorifieth it, Eph. 5. 26, 26. And we must labour in this Work, to get Sin mortified; Paul having put his Colossians in mind of that Glory which they shall have at Christ's appearance, takes argument from thence to press this duty, Col. 3. 4, 5. They that look for such a change hereafter, are under strong ties to an heavenly conversation here, Phil. 3. 20, 21