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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.
1. The Name and Title it self is a great benefit and advantage: it is a dignity, an honour, to be called the Children of God: the Apostle seems to place much weight upon the denomination it self, ver. 1. What manner of love, that we should be called the Sons of God? Jacob honoured Joseph's two eldest Sons, when he willed that his name should be called upon them; so ⟨p. 15⟩doth the great God the Children of Men, w••n he is pleased that his Name should come into their Title; that those who were before by way of Disgrace called Adam's Sons, and Children of Hell, Children of Wrath, Children of the Devil, should rise, and be henceforth called the Children of God: this very Title declares these to be made noble by their new-birth, who by their natural birth were ignoble. It is among men accounted an high thing to be the Son of some King or Emperor, 1 Sam. 18. 23. Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a King• Son in law? what is it then for God to call us his Sons and Daughters, and to give us leave to call him our Father? as 2 Cor. 6. 18, I will be to you a Father, and you shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord God Almighty: and Jer. 14. 9. we are called by thy Name.
1. The Name and Title it self is a great benefit and advantage: it is a dignity, an honour, to be called the Children of God: the Apostle seems to place much weight upon the denomination it self, ver. 1. What manner of love, that we should be called the Sons of God? Jacob honoured Joseph's two eldest Sons, when he willed that his name should be called upon them; so ⟨p. 15⟩doth the great God the Children of Men, w••n he is pleased that his Name should come into their Title; that those who were before by way of Disgrace called Adam's Sons, and Children of Hell, Children of Wrath, Children of the Devil, should rise, and be henceforth called the Children of God: this very Title declares these to be made noble by their new-birth, who by their natural birth were ignoble. It is among men accounted an high thing to be the Son of some King or Emperour,