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The child's portion
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. ; [Five lines from Psalms]
printed by Samuel Green, 1684
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1. Show your selves the Children of God by an holy life and conversation, 1 Pet. 1.15, 16. As he that hath called you is holy, so be ye also holy, &c. Live contrary to the worlds filthiness; they love to be wallowing in the mire of fleshly lust, to be polluting themselves with sin; do you abstain from the very appearance of any such thing: God is most holy, and he loves purity, and hates filthiness, and when we do so to, and show that we do so in our practical conversation, then do we show our selves to be like him. It is a very great shame that the Sons of God should have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; that believers should be overtaken with the like excesses of riot, drunkenness, wantonness, &c. with unbelievers; this is a great disgrace to the high and honourable calling of the Children of God; holiness becomes his Saints, let then the shine of his Graces irradiate your loves.
1. Shew your selves the Children of God by an holy life and conversation, 1 Pet. 1.15, 16. As he that hath called you is holy, so be ye also holy, &c. Live contrary to the worlds filthiness; they love to be wallowing in the mire of fleshly lust, to be polluting themselves with sin; do you abstain from the very appearance of any such thing: God is most holy, and he loves purity, and hates filthiness, and when we do so to, and shew that we do so in our practical conversation, then do we shew our selves to be like him. It is a very great shame that the Sons of God should have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; that believers should be overtaken with the like excesses of riot, drunkenness, wantonness, &c. with unbelievers; this is a great disgrace to the high and honourable calling of the Children of God; holiness becomes his Saints, let then the shine of his Graces irradiat your loves.
2. By expressing an holy confidence in God in all the cases and concernments of your lives: In trouble, affliction, Persecution, distress, contrary to those cares and perplexities of the men of the world, which eat them up, and declare that they have no further to rely upon: we then honour God, and bring credit to Religion, when we can at all times cast our care upon him, believing in his power and promise in our sorest