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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.
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.
But bearing the argument, only with this admonition, to warn us that we deceive not our selves, thinking to see Christ hereafter with joy, and yet abhorring conformity to him in holiness, which will be found a piece of undoing presumption at the last. I come to the Words, as they are an assertion, or point of Doctrine; and here also they have their difficulty: Who this [Him] is we have already heard, viz▪ Jesus Christ, though some interpret it of God, but it intends Jesus Christ God-man; it is he who is to appear▪ and he whom we shall be made like unto whe• he shall appear. Hence,
But bearing the argument, only with this admonition, to warn us that we deceive not our selves, thinking to see Christ hereafter with joy, and yet abhoring conformity to him in holiness, which will be found a piece of undoing presumption at the last. I come to the Words, as they are an assertion, or point of Doctrine; and here also they have their difficulty: Who this [Him] is we have already heard, viz▪ Jesus Christ, though some interpret it of God, but it intends Jesus Christ God-man; it is he who is to appear▪ and he whom we shal be made like unto whe• he shal appear. Hence,