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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. From the meritorious and procuring cause of this Adoption, viz. the Redemption of Jesus Christ: for although Christ did not merit that God should purpose to Adopt us; Gods Decree being absolutely and every way free, and the Redemption of Christ being a part, and not a meritorious cause of that Decree; yet Christ merited our actual Adoption for us: it is therefore reckoned among the fruits of his Redemption, Gal. 4. 4, 5. God sent his Son to redeem, that we might receive the Adoption of Sons: had man had any desert of his own, yea had he not been laden with indesert, there had not needed the intervention of the great price paid for his ransom from the Law, before he could be actually made a Child.
2. From the meritorious and procuring cause of this Adoption, viz. the Redemption of Jesus Christ: for although Christ did not merit that God should purpose to Adopt us; Gods Decree being absolutely and every way free, and the Redemption of Christ being a part, and not a meritorious cause of that Decree; yet Christ merited our actual Adoption for us: it is therefore reckoned among the fruits of his Redemption, Gal. 4. 4, 5. God sent his Son to redeem, that we might receive the Adoption of Sons: had man had any desert of his own, yea had he not been laden with indesert, there had not needed the intervention of the great price paid for his ransome from the Law, before he could be actually made a Child.
4. From the way in which it comes, viz. by receiving Christ, and believing on him, John 1. 12. As many as received him to them he gave power (or privilege) to become the Sons of God, even to as many as believed on his Name. Now Faith it self is a free gift, and every part of Salvation ⟨p. 10⟩that comes with it,