A66097:500
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. That by the Saints perseverance under affliction he may be glorified. God is greatly honoured by the patience and constancy of his Children under the opposition and oppression of their adversaries. As he puts an honour upon them, when he counts them worthy to suffer for his name, so the Apostles reckoned it, Act. 5. 41. So is he also honoured by them, when they with an holy resolution, suffer quietly and cheerfully in defence of the truth, and for the sincere profession of the Gospel, 2 Thes. 1. 4, 5.
2. That by the Saints perseverance under affliction he may be glorified. God is greatly honoured by the patience and constancy of his Children under the opposition and oppression of their adversaries. As he puts an honour upon them, when he counts them worthy to suffer for his name, so the Apostles reckoned it, Act. 5. 41. So is he also honoured by them, when they with an holy resolution, suffer quietly and chearfully in defence of the truth, and for the sincere profession of the Gospel, 2 Thes. 1. 4, 5.
3. That he may gain the more glorious triumph over the enemies of his Name and Glory. Hereby God honoured himself upon Pharaoh, by letting him proceed to the height of his rage, before he crusheth him. God will have a wicked world to know how easy a thing it is with him to curb them in, and give check to their rage and fury; and to the discovering of this, he will permit them to arrive at the height and utmost pitch of their hoped advantage, and suffer his own cause hereupon to be most deeply hazarded, that so he may give them the more notable defeat, and make them to know that he is above them in all those things wherein they have dealt most proudly. Hence Jethro's confession,