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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.
3. They receive the spirit of Adoption, Rom. 8. 15. Gal. 4. 5, 6. and here we are to observe, that the Spirit of Adoption doth not decipher any distinct spirit, but that it is one and the same spirit who doth illuminate, convince, humble, engraft▪ the soul into Christ, &c. but it deciphers to us a distinct and peculiar observation of the Spirit of God in us: so that the dignity of this privilege is to be discovered in the effects which are consequent upon it, and they are such as these, viz.
3. They receive the spirit of Adoption, Rom. 8. 15. Gal. 4. 5, 6. and here we are to observe, that the Spirit of Adoption doth not decipher any distinct spirit, but that it is one and the same spirit who doth illuminate, convince, humble, engraft▪ the soul into Christ, &c. but it deciphers to us a distinct and peculiar observation of the Spirit of God in us: so that the dignity of this priviledge is to be discovered in the effects which are consequent upon it, and they are such as these, viz.
1. The obsignation, or sealing up of Believers to the certain and infallible enjoyment of their inheritance, Eph. 1. 13. & 4. 30. when God hath once admitted a poor Soul into the number of his Children, he now confirms and ratifies to him all the promises, and makes them unto him surer than the foundation of the World: yea, so sure that neither outward Enemies, nor inward Evils shall ever be able to deprive them of this Title,