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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.
2. From sin, Rom. 6. 7. For he that is dead is freed▪ from sin: Hence that 1 John 3. 9. Whatsoever is born of God doth not commit sin, not but that there are the remainders of active and stirring corruption to be found in the best of Gods Children as long as they bear about with them a body of Death; and hence Paul's so earnest complaints, Rom. 7. But,
1. Though sin be in him, yet it reigns not, Rom. 6. 12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body: it hath not the full compliance of the heart with it; but whenever it gains upon him, it is by leading of him captive, Rom. 7. 23. he is enthralled by it, and that appears because he is grieved at it, as one that is taken a Prisoner by his Enemy; and hence he sighs and groans for a delivery, ver. 24.
2. Though sin be yet God imputes it not, 2 Cor. 5. 29. Not imputing their trespasses unto them: the sin of Gods Children being set upon the account of Jesus Christ, it is no longer charged upon them; for God having taken full satisfaction for it at his hands, and he having answered for it, we are righteous in his account.