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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.
1. As that, so this makes an absolutely free choice of the subject: if men do, much more God may take a liberty to do with his own what he pleaseth: the Adopted could have laid no claim to his Title if it had not been freely conferred upon him, he can give no other reason for it, but the good will of him who chose him unto it: if he had left him out, and named ⟨p. 8⟩another in his will, he could not have charged it as any wrong done unto him. Gods Adoption is an act of free Grace, and a discovery of his greatest love. Context ver. 1. Behold what manner of love, &c. it is said there to be a love given, or bestowed, and how free it is will appear.
1. From the antiquity of the Foundation of it: it was founded in Gods eternal Decree, where we were chosen to this privilege, Eph. 1. 5. Having predestinated us to the Adoption of Children in Jesus Christ, &c. when the creature had no being, and consequently could have no deserving more then the other possible Beings, or his fellow-creatures, who were left out of this Register, then God resolved upon it, and writ it down in his Book of life, who they were that should be his Children and Heirs: then he took down their Names, and wrote them for the inheritance of Glory.
1. From the antiquity of the Foundation of it: it was founded in Gods eternal Decree, where we were chosen to this priviledge, Eph. 1. 5. Having predestinated us to the Adoption of Children in Jesus Christ, &c. when the creature had no being, and consequently could have no deserving more then the other possible Beings, or his fellow-creatures, who were left out of this Register, then God resolved upon it, and writ it down in his Book of life, who they were that should be his Children and Heirs: then he took down their Names, and wrote them for the inheritance of Glory.