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

2. The fruits of the spirit in them, working in all the graces thereof in their souls, and giving them their free exercise: Their love to God, their faith in Christ, their hope of Glory, their hatred of sin, their delighting of themselves in holiness, &c. The Apostle tells us the fruits of the spirit are manifest, and what they are, Gal. 5, 22, 23. The glory of Gods Children is inward and spiritual, and by the maintenance and increase of this, is a Child of God to apprehend a Fathers love: growing grace is a good confirmation of approaching glory.

3. The testimony of the spirit of God, added to and confirming of the testimony of their own spirits in witnessing to their Sonship, Rom. 8. 16. By virtue of which testimony, at such times as God enables them to read it, they can Triumph in the hopes of glory, trample upon all the scoffs and scorns and persecutions, and despise all the flatteries, and fair promises of the world: He gives them inward consolation, and enables them to call God Father in greatest ⟨p. 34⟩straits, and strengthens them to roll themselves upon him, to commit their ways to him, to cast all their burdens on him, and to wait with holy confidence and boasting for the manifestation of the Sons of God, and in expectation of receiving an immortal and eternal Crown, then, at the hands of the righteous Judge, they love his appearing.

3. The testimony of the spirit of God, added to and confirming of the testimony of their own spirits in witnessing to their Sonship, Rom. 8. 16. By vertue of which testimony, at such times as God enables them to read it, they can Triumph in the hopes of glory, trample upon all the scoffs and scorns and persecutions, and despise all the flatteries, and fair promises of the world: He gives them inward consolation, and enables them to call God Father in greatest