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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.
USE, II. This truth may afford potent argument to encourage unbelievers to seek after Faith, and to believe in Jesus Christ: What do you think of it, who have been often invited in the Gospel to embrace him? Will not this present him before you as one worth the entertaining? Receive him by a true Faith, and he will make you, not only Friends, but Children unto God: And, for the further urging of this argument, think seriously of these two motives.
1. Consider what you are at present, to whom God makes this proffer, that you may be the Sons and Daughters of the living God: what are we all, but a company of poor abjects, base born creatures, lying upon the dung-hill, objects of contempt, ignominy and disgrace? Remember your original, your father the Amorite, your ⟨p. 38⟩mother the Hittite, Ezek. 16. begin. Then,
I. Hast thou no shame in thee? Art thou not abashed at thy vile beggarly, disgraced condition? Can you look to your fathers house, the extract of fallen man, without blushing, or think of it without confusion? But now come hither, and here you may have all this shame covered, and removed, by being taken in to this honourable relation to God himself.