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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.
3. They perform filial obedience to God, 1 Pet. 1. 14. As obedient Children; they have not ⟨p. 27⟩only the state and condition of Sons conferred upon them: but also the hearts of Children put into them: Hence Adoption comes in upon Conversion.
5. All the creatures of God, as it were, put under them, being used by him for their service: and that in three respects;
1. They have the service of the good things of God, 1 Cor. 3. 20. All is yours: they are made beneficial to them, they are their own: all that a Believer enjoys in this life he may truly call his own, as he is a child of God: the right using of the Creatures is again enlarged and restored unto them: wicked men indeed have an outward civil right, a providential right, but still they are liable to answer for all they have, and by their misusing of these things, and dishonouring of God by them, they increase their condemnation, and lay up for themselves treasures of wrath, Rom. 2. 4, 5. but they have a spiritual right, and all their enjoyments are theirs by the new Covenant.
1. They have the service of the good things of God, 1 Cor. 3. 20. All is yours: they are made beneficial to them, they are their own: all that a Believer enjoys in this life he may truly call his own, as he is a child of God: the right using of the Creatures is again enlarged and restored unto them: wicked men indeed have an outward civil right, a providential right, but still they are liable to answer for all they have, and by their misusing of these things, and dishonouring of God by them, they encrease their condemnation, and lay up for themselves treasures of wrath,