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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.
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.
II. Have you no ambition? How do men account of, and with what aspiring desires do they reach after a claim of kin to great and eminent personages? If some earthly Prince should make such a proffer among his Subjects, yea, the best of them, as the great God doth now among poor and vile men, what welcome, what embraces would it find among them all? How eagerly do you grasp after the worlds honours? How pleasing are high titles to the Children of men? But lo! here is a title, against which if all the honours and glories which the world owns were set, they would weigh no more than the light dust in the balance, and yet how cold and remiss are men in pursuing after it?
II. Have you no ambition? How do men account of, and with what aspiring desires do they reach after a claim of kin to great and eminent personages? If some earthly Prince should make such a proffer among his Subjects, yea, the best of them, as the great God doth now among poor and vile men, what welcome, what embraces would it find among them all? How eagerly do you grasp after the worlds honours? How pleasing are high titles to the Children of men? But lo! here is a title, against which if all the honours and gloryes which the world owns were set, they would weigh no more than the light dust in the ballance, and yet how cold and remiss are men in pursuing after it?
2. Consider how excellent a privilege, how desirable a benefit this is. Believe it to be indeed an advantage; yea, ponder upon it, and see if it be not really so: enquire then, and say whither there be any thing that can come within the reach of your desires, that is not to be found included in it: For,