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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. That God suffers the World to afflict and persecute them, denies not his fatherly care of them; for in this very thing he makes men and devils to serve them: there is no Saint that ever was, or ever shall be a loser by all that Gods and his Enemies shall do against him: and that because what they intend for harm, God evermore, by a powerful over-ruling providence, turns for their good: his Graces are hereby tried, and made to shine forth, and that trial proves to be much better than that of God, 1 Pet. 1. 7. God hereby puts an advantage into his hands to glorify him, and testifying his love and sincerity to him, in cheerfully suffering all ⟨p. 31⟩things for his Name: and Faith at such a time, teacheth him to rejoice that he may be counted worthy for this, so did the Apostles when scourged before the Council, Act. 5. 41. and when wicked men have done their worst to the Children of God, they do but prepare for them a glorious Chariot to ride home in triumph to the City of God.
2. That God suffers the World to afflict and persecute them, denies not his fatherly care of them; for in this very thing he makes men and devils to serve them: there is no Saint that ever was, or ever shall be a loser by all that Gods and his Enemies shall do against him: and that because what they intend for harm, God evermore, by a powerful over-ruling providence, turns for their good: his Graces are hereby tried, and made to shine forth, and that trial proves to be much better than that of God, 1 Pet. 1. 7. God hereby puts an advantage into his hands to glorifie him, and testifying his love and sincerity to him, in chearfully suffering all ⟨p. 31⟩things for his Name: and Faith at such a time, teacheth him to rejoyce that he may be counted worthy for this, so did the Apostles when scourged before the Council, Act. 5. 41. and when wicked men have done their worst to the Children of God, they do but prepare for them a glorious Chariot to ride home in tryumph to the City of God.