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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.
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, Eph. 2. 8, 9. By Grace are ye saved through Faith, and that not of your selves, it is the gift of God: yea the very ordaining and ordering of Gospel privileges to be introduced by Faith, is on purpose for the declaration of Gods free Grace, Rom. 4. 4, 5.
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 priviledge) 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, Eph. 2. 8, 9. By Grace are ye saved through Faith, and that not of your selves, it is the gift of God: yea the very ordaining and ordering of Gospel priviledges to be introduced by Faith, is on purpose for the declaration of Gods free Grace, Rom. 4. 4, 5.
2. As that, so this bestows the Relation and Title of a Child: he hath both the denomination and propriety of a Child in respect to the person adopting of him: see the words of Jacob, concerning Manasseh and Ephraim,