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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.
1. Our Son-ship is properly an act of our Communion or Fellowship with Christ: hence we are said to be joint Heirs with him, Rom. 8. 17. and it must needs be so, for he was firstly appointed by his Father to be Heir of all things, Heb. 1. 2. Now, inasmuch as the whole Inheritance is his by his Fathers donation; hence if we do inherit, it must needs be in partnership with him: the Title of Sons and Heirs doth not pass from him to us, by way of alienation, it ceaseth not to be his by becoming ours, and therefore it must needs be in a way of our Communion with him.
1. Our Son-ship is properly an act of our Communion or Fellowship with Christ: hence we are said to be joynt Heirs with him, Rom. 8. 17. and it must needs be so, for he was firstly appointed by his Father to be Heir of all things, Heb. 1. 2. Now, inasmuch as the whole Inheritance is his by his Fathers donation; hence if we do inherit, it must needs be in partnership with him: the Title of Sons and Heirs doth not pass from him to us, by way of alienation, it ceaseth not to be his by becoming ours, and therefore it must needs be in a way of our Communion with him.
2. Our union with Christ is the true and proper ground of our Communion with him in all his benefits: the Title can in no propriety of Speech be said to be both his and ours too; but as he and we are some way to be looked upon as one: and upon this account it is, that the Scripture also expresseth our Son-ship under the relation of our Marriage to Christ; so that by becoming his Spouse, in that way also we are made the Children of God: Hence that Hos. 2. 19, 20. I will betroth thee to me, &c. and