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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.
He argues for our whole perfection, for if in one part o• faculty we shall be perfected, by consequence all our whole man shall be rendered perfect, for it is an whole blessedness that we shall have, and that consists in perfect conformity to Christ. But that which seems best to clear the argument, is to look upon him as arguing from the effect or consequent. Paul tells us that without Holiness no Man shall see God, Heb. 12 14. Now Holiness consists in a conform•y to Christ.
He argues for our whole perfection, for if in one part o• faculty we shal be perfected, by consequence all our whole man shal be rendred perfect, for it is an whole blessedness that we shal have, and that consists in perfect conformity to Christ. But that which seems best to clear the argument, is to look upon him as arguing from the effect or consequent. Paul tells us that without Holiness no Man shal see God, Heb. 12 14. Now Holiness consists in a conform•y to Christ.
And hence,
If we shall have such a sight of him, it infers that we are made like to him: If we were not rendered holy, and spiritual, and that perfectly, we then should never thus see him.
If we shal have such a sight of him, it inferrs that we are made like to him: If we were not rendred holy, and spiritual, and that perfectly, we then should never thus see him.