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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.
2. They shall see into the mystery of the Trinity: Faith now receives it, and that which is in Faith now, shall then be in sight, 2 Cor. 5. 7. One God in three persons without division, and three persons in one God without confusion, is a flight too high for our reason now; this light is truly dazzling, and our eyes cannot keep open to it; but then we shall be able to gaze upon so great a light, and contemplate it with satisfaction: we shall no more need borrowed expressions or dark similitudes; our Communion ⟨p. 135⟩is now, and shall be much more there with all three: 2 Cor. 13. 14. 1 Joh. 1. 4. we now give credit to it because God in Scripture testifies it, we shall then so know it as to be able to say certainly it is so, without any longer doubting how it is.
2. They shall see into the mystery of the Trinity: Faith now receives it, and that which is in Faith now, shall then be in sight, 2 Cor. 5. 7. One God in three persons without division, and three persons in one God without confusion, is a flight too high for our reason now; this light is truely dazling, and our eyes cannot keep open to it; but then we shall be able to gaze upon so great a light, and contemplate it with satisfaction: we shall no more need borrowed expressions or dark similitudes; our Communion ⟨p. 135⟩is now, and shall be much more there with all three: 2 Cor. 13. 14. 1 Joh. 1. 4. we now give credit to it because God in Scripture testifies it, we shall then so know it as to be able to say certainly it is so, without any longer doubting how it is.