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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. 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 2 Cor. 11. 2. I have espoused you to one Husband, which Relation of Marriage, brings the party so related ⟨p. 13⟩into actual Communion in all that belongs to the Husband.
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 mee, &c. and 2 Cor. 11. 2. I have espoused you to one Husband, which Relation of Marriage, brings the party so related ⟨p. 13⟩into actual Communion in all that belongs to the Husband.
3. This Union is the fruit and effect of Regeneration: For,