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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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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.
2. Labour we to draw consolation and establishment to our Souls from the forethoughts of this great benefit: there are many troubles and discouragements which the Children of God •••t with all here in this life, and their hearts are often born down therewithal; but if we did but truly ponder, and well digest this consideration ⟨p. 125⟩of that glorious condition which we shall be put into at that great Day, it would lift up the hands that hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees; it would make us patient in tribulation, quiet under all the affronts and disgraces that are put upon us; willing to wait, and in the mean while not weary of well doing: could we but know in its dimensions what it is to be like Christ, what an admirable felicity it must needs be to he assimilated to him in that Day, it would set us down with Paul's persuasion, Rom. 8. 18. That the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory that shall be revealed in us. Yea, the very guesses and conjectures which we may make of it affords matter of solid joy and triumph to the Children of God.
2. Labour we to draw consolation and establishment to our Souls from the forethoughts of this great benefit: there are many troubles and discouragements which the Children of God •••t with all here in this life, and their hearts are often born down therewithal; but if we did but truly ponder, and well digest this consideration ⟨p. 125⟩of that glorious condition which we shal be put into at that great Day, it would lift up the hands that hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees; it would make us patient in tribulation, quiet under all the affronts and disgraces that are put upon us; willing to wait, and in the mean while not weary of well doing: could we but know in its dimensions what it is to be like Christ, what an admirable felicity it must needs be to he assimilated to him in that Day, it would set us down with Paul's perswasion, Rom. 8. 18. That the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory that shall be revealed in us. Yea, the very ghuesses and conjectres which we may make of it affords matter of solid joy and triumph to the Children of God.