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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.
USE, II. For Exhortation to the Children of God, in two things.
1. Be preparing for this glorious sight. The Apostle mentions it as a great Privilege to be made meet for this glory, Col. 1. 12. And as it is of God to make us worthy through the worthiness of Christ, and to prepare us for it by the Sanctification of the Spirit; so it concerns us to be making ready. It is your Marriage-day, in which your Bride-groom will show himself to you in his glory, you therefore should be diligent in making ready to meet him: Would you then have a full and satisfying sight of Christ, now turn away your eyes from beholding vanity: you ⟨p. 142⟩must labour so to walk as that you may be accepted of him: What manner of persons should they be who look for such an happy sight as that? The more you love Christ now, the more grateful will the sight of him then be: Labour to make sure of your interest in him to see him in all his Royalty, with an appropriating sight, and to be able to challenge a title to him as your Saviour, will be the very happiness of this hap[…] […] to be found in him, adorned […] Righteousness, filled with his Grace, […] for his Kingdom, and so in his light […] light.
1. Be preparing for this glorious sight. The Apostle mentions it as a great Priviledge to be made meet for this glory, Col. 1. 12. And as it is of God to make us worthy through the worthiness of Christ, and to prepare us for it by the Sanctification of the Spirit; so it concerns us to be making ready. It is your Marriage-day, in which your Bride-groom will shew himself to you in his glory, you therefore should be diligent in making ready to meet him: Would you then have a full and satisfying sight of Christ, now turn away your eyes from beholding vanity: you ⟨p. 142⟩