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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. The pattern it self, Him ▪ who this is, is not particularly expressed, there being (as I formerly noted) an •••ypsis in the Words: some refer it to God, mentioned in the beginning of the verse whose Sons we are said to be, and it is proper for the Sons to be like the Father: others, and more appositely, apply it to Christ; for it is he that shall appear in glory, and Paul applies it to him in the forementioned parallel place, Col. 3.4. and this is certain, that the Glory to which the Man Christ is exalted, is the proto type of that Glory to which the Saints are appointed, Joh. 17.22. ⟨p. 111⟩The Glory which thou gavest me, I have giv•• them.
1. The pattern it self, Him ▪ who this is, is not particularly exprest, there being (as I formerly noted) an •••ypsis in the Words: some referr it to God, mentioned in the beginning of the verse whose Sons we are said to be, and it is proper for the Sons to be like the Father: others, and more appositely, apply it to Christ; for it is he that shall appear in glory, and Paul applies it to him in the forementioned parallel place, Col. 3.4. and this is certain, that the Glory to which the Man Christ is exalted, is the proto type of that Glory to which the Saints are appointed, Joh. 17.22. ⟨p. 111⟩The Glory which thou gavest me, I have giv•• them.