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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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2. In respect of Persons, it is unrestrained, he doth not say to whom it doth not appear, but only in general affirms, that it appears not. Indefinite propositions are equivalent to universal. Hence we are to understand all men to be here intended: and the word translated, to appear [[Greek or Hebrew]] signifieth, clearly, openly, permanently to appear, to be discerned or seen in open view
2. In respect of Persons, it is unrestrained, he doth not say to whom it doth not appear, but only in general affirms, that it appears not. Indefinit propositions are equivalent to universal. Hence we are to understand all men to be here intended: and the word translated, to appear [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] signifyeth, clearly, openly, permenently to appear, to be discerned or seen in open view
Hence,
Doct. The future happy Estate unto which the Children of God are appointed, is a thing not clearly known by any in this Life.
Those Glorious Beatitudes, which are bound up and reserved for the entertainment of God's Adopted Children in the highest Heavens, are things which be not clearly seen or understood in this World.