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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. There are many Elect who are chosen to ⟨p. 102⟩be Sons, that must be brought in, and suffer many things so Christ in fu•••••ing the•• testimony, and these w•ll be till that time a gathering in of such, and it is the holy pleasure of God that they that are gone before should wait, that there may be a f•ll and universal discovery made of them all at once, Rev. 6.9, 10, 11. if they should appear sooner, the Wo•ld would be afraid to do to them as is appointed.
2. There are many Elect who are chosen to ⟨p. 102⟩be Sons, that must be brought in, and suffer many things so Ch•ist in fu•••••ing the•• testimony, and these w•ll be till that time a gathering in of such, and it is the holy pleasure of God that they that are gone before should wait, that there may be a f•ll and universal discovery made of them all at once, Rev. 6.9, 10, 11. if they should appear sooner, the Wo•ld would be afraid to do to them as is appointed.
3. The Day of Judgement is the fittest time for this: it is a day appointed for the setting of things to ights, to clear up all false Judgements and Mistakes which there were here: it is a Day wherein the presence of all the Creation shall be to look on, Heaven and Hell being for the while emptied of all their Inhabitants to come to this meeting and general Assembly; so that it will be the greatest Glory, and most pompous appearance, when a Child of God on such a day, and in such a presence, shall be openly owned and rewarded; when he shall be set to view in all his glorious state, and the proclamation shall be audibly heard from one end of Heaven to another; saying, Behold a Son of God, and so shall it be done to one whom the King of glory delights to honour.