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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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Doct. When Jesus Christ shall appear in his Glory, then the Children of God shall also appear in theirs.
Though for the present they walk in a disguise, and lie hid from the knowledge of the World, yet when Christ shall come to make himself known in his Majesty, then shall he also display, and make known the happy estate of all those that have title to his Redemption.
Though for the present they walk in a disguise, and ly hid from the knowledge of the World, yet when Christ shall come to make himself known in his Majesty, then shall he also display, and make known the happy estate of all those that have title to his Redemption.
Here we may Consider, 1. What is this appearing of Christ, of which the Apostle speaks? 2. Wherein the Believers blessedness shall then be made to appear? 3. What appearing of Christ John here intends?
Ans. There hath been an old error, and of which Eusebius makes Cerinthus (that blasphemous Heretic) the Author, who lived in the time of the Apostle John, and against whom he is supposed to have written his Gospel; which is more accommodable to the Turkish▪ Alcoran, then the Christian confession of Faith, which (as the Jews of old, interpreted all old Testament prophesies of the Messiah, of a worldly Kingdom, pomp and glory, and a temporal deliverance from the yoke of the Roman