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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. 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, Rom. 8. 39, 39. I am persuaded that neither height nor depth, &c. shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ. It is possible that they may not always with alike clearness discern it, some cloud or other interposing, but it is ever with an equal certainty therein, inasmuch as it is a gift of God, that is without Repentance.
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, Rom. 8. 39, 39. I am perswaded that neither height nor depth, &c. shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ. It is possible that they may not alwayes with alike clearness discern it, some cloud or other interposing, but it is ever with an equal certainty therein, inasmuch as it is a gift of God, that is without Repentance.
2. The testimony which the spirit of God gives in to their state of Adoption, witnessing in them that God hath numbered them to his Children, and joined them in the inheritance of all blessings with his own Son,