The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…

Name: The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…
Author: Samuel Willard

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.

Samuel Willard 1640–1707printed by Samuel Green, 1684

[6], 227 p. · 56k words · Wing W2271 · ESTC R33658

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4. They are made to partake in Christian liberty, Joh. 8. 36. If the Son therefore shall make you free, you are free indeed, which liberty is not (as vain men would have it) a freedom to live as they list; a liberty discharging them from holy Obedience to the commanding power of the Law of God, and withal bidding them to trust in Christ for life and salvation, as Libertines plead: but it is an holy, spiritual Liberty; a Liberty from Bondage or Servitude, Gal. 4. 7. viz.

4. They are made to partake in Christian liberty, Joh. 8. 36. If the Son therefore shall make you free, you are free indeed, which liberty is not (as vain men would have it) a freedome to live as they list; a liberty discharging them from holy Obedience to the commanding power of the Law of God, and withal bidding them to trust in Christ for life and salvation, as Libertines plead: but it is an holy, spiritual Liberty; a Liberty from Bondage or Servitude, Gal. 4. 7. viz.

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1. From the servitude of the Law; not from the regulating power of it: for it still remains to be the directory of the People of God in their whole course, and hath the strongest tie to obedience that can be from the Gospel, Joh. 14. 15. If ye love me keep my Commandment; nay, whatsoever flesh may plead to the contrary, it is certain that so to be loosed from the Law, were not a privilege but a misery: but it is a freedom from slavish subjection to the Law. i. e.

1. From the servitude of the Law; not from the regulating power of it: for it still remains to be the directory of the People of God in their whole course, and hath the strongest tye to obedience that can be from the Gospel,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Samuel Willard 1640–1707

Printer

Samuel Green

Year

1684

Size

[6], 227 p.

Words

56,347

Catalogue

Wing W2271 · ESTC R33658

Text

EEBO-TCP A66097

Passages

524

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36