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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.
6. To communicate to them the discoveries of the love of God, and thereby to fill them with spiritual rejoicing, Rom. 5. 5. The Love of God is shed abroad into our hearts, by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us: he applies the precious promises to their souls, he gives them cordials of comfort, communicates unto them the sips and fo•e tastes of glory, fills them with inward joys and refreshings: God by his spirit comes into the heart, and taking possession of it for himself, makes known his love there, which▪ produceth ⟨p. 23⟩joy unexpressible: this benefit is also a part of Glorification, it is something of Heaven, meeting us in our way; it is a bunch of those G•apes which grow in the celestial Canaan, brought us to taste of in the Wilderness: but the application of it is by the spirit of Adoption: and that is that which the Scripture calls the earnest of the inheritance.
6. To communicate to them the discoveries of the love of God, and thereby to fill them with spiritual rejoycing, Rom. 5. 5. The Love of God is shed abroad into our hearts, by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us: he applies the precious promises to their souls, he gives them cordials of comfort, communicates unto them the sips and fo•e tasts of glory, fills them with inward joyes and refreshings: God by his spirit comes into the heart, and taking possession of it for himself, makes known his love there, which▪ produceth ⟨p. 23⟩joy unexpressible: this benefit is also a part of Glorification, it is something of Heaven, meeting us in our way; it is a bunch of those G•apes which grow in the celestial Canaan, brought us to tast of in the Wilderness: but the application of it is by the spirit of Adoption: and that is that which the Scripture calls the earnest of the inheritance.