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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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USE. II. For Exhortation to the Children of God: the great Lesson which the Doctrine teacheth you is to live by Faith. All a Believers Consolation is laid up in the promise, and must be thence extracted by Faith: when Paul would strengthen the hearts of his Corinthians with the thoughts of their future Glory, he inserts this necessary parenthesis, 2 Cor. 5.7. For we live by Faith, not by sight. The Saints Life of Glory is an hidden Life at present, Col. 3.3. Your Life is hid with Christ in God. It is hid from the sight of the World, and hid from their own sense, but Faith is the evidence of things not seen, Faith must carry us as far as the great judgement, that day of Christs appearance, and thence we must gather our comforts, and present supports: and there are three things especially unto which we should exercise our Faith ⟨p. 106⟩upon this consideration. Viz.
USE. II. For Exhortation to the Children of God: the great Lesson which the Doctrine teacheth you is to live by Faith. All a Believers Consolation is laid up in the promise, and must be thence extracted by Faith: when Paul would strengthen the hearts of his Corinthians with the thoughts of their future Glory, he inserts this necessary parenthesis, 2 Cor. 5.7. For we live by Faith, not by sight. The Saints Life of Glory is an hidden Life at present, Col. 3.3. Your Life is hid with Christ in God. It is hid from the sight of the World, and hid from their own sence, but Faith is the evidence of things not seen, Faith must carry us as far as the great judgement, that day of Christs appearance, and thence we must gather our comforts, and present supports: and there are three things especially unto which we should exercise our Faith ⟨p. 106⟩upon this consideration. Viz.