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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. 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.
3. Though sin be yet it shall never condemn ⟨p. 26⟩them, Rom. 8. 1. There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus: he complains of the presence and oppression of it, Cap. 7. but is here comforted against the condemning efficacy of it: he is freed from the dominion of that slavish Spirit, or spirit of bondage, and needs not to go up and down in fear of suffering the eternal weight of Gods wrath.