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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. See here who they be that enjoy the most of Inchoate▪ felicity in this World, viz. They that see most of God and Christ; if this vision when perfected, be so great a part of eternal Glory, the beginnings, and irradiations of it here must needs have a degree of blessedness in them. There is indeed a knowledge in this life, which is replete with misery, and the increasing of it is but the increase of sorrow; and indeed miserable objects cannot be expected to do any other than to reflect trouble on them that seek acquaintance with them: But could we acquaint our selves with Christ, see him in all, we should be able to pick up crumbs of felicity out of every ⟨p. 141⟩thing: Be therefore much in this study and contemplation; use all helps to get as near unto Ch••st as you can; get acquainted with him and that shall give you quiet in trouble, satisfaction in all changes: And the way to get a sight of Christ, and fellowship with him, is to get amongst the Children of God, get to be such as […] fear him, it is to such that he makes himse•s known, Psal. 25. 14. The secret of the Lord is with those that fear him, and he will show them his Covenant. They are the most unhappy Souls that know not Jesus Christ; every degree of distance from him is a further degree of infelicity: How ignorant then is the World that can content themselves to live estranged from him? Destruction waits on them that are far from him.
2. See here who they be that enjoy the most of Inchoate▪ felicity in this World, viz. They that see most of God and Christ; if this vision when perfected, be so great a part of eternal Glory, the beginnings, and irradictions of it here must needs have a degree of blessedness in them. There is indeed a knowledge in this life, which is repleat with misery, and the encreasing of it is but the encrease of sorrow; and indeed miserable objects cannot be expected to do any other than to reflect trouble on them that seek acquaintance with them: But could we acquaint our selves with Christ, see him in all, we should be able to pick up crumbs of felicity out of every ⟨p. 141⟩