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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. Their Souls shall be made like his, and receive all those adornings of every grace in a degree of perfection suitable to the state of Glory. Paul gives us an intimation of such a thing • •or. 13, & 10, 12. When the understanding shall be enlarged to see the glorious truth in its Radiancy, and take in the light of it without dazzling, and be freed from all mistakes, or darkness for ever; when the Will shall be unfettered and at f•ll liberty to act with the highest content and fullest freedom upon the chiefest good; when the affections shall be carried forth with the greatest ardour after God, and enjoying the object of their delight, cannot but be satisfied in it; so it is with Jesus Christ, thus is his soul perfected in all its faculties.
2. Their Souls shall be made like his, and receive all those adornings of every grace in a degree of perfection suitable to the state of Gl•ry. Paul gives us an intimation of such a thing • •or. 13, & 10, 12. When the understanding shall be enlarged to see the glorious truth in its Radiancy, and take in the light of it without dazling, and be freed from all mistakes, or darkness for ever; when the Will shall be unfettered and at f•ll liberty to act with the highest content and fullest freedom upon the chiefest good; when the affections shall be carried forth with the greatest ardour after God, and enjoying the object of their delight, cannot but be satisfied in it; so it is with Jesus Christ, thus is his soul perfected in all its faculties.
2. The additional glory which shall be conferred ⟨p. 116⟩upon them in this state: Herein also they shall be like him, for they shall be fellow-commoners with him in this complemental Glory; they shall not be divided from him, but conjoined in this felicity. They shall enjoy one and the same Heaven; that Kingdom which is prepared for him, is also prepared for them; as he hath a massy Crown of honour given him, so also shall they have each of them Crowns set upon their heads, even an eternal weight of glory,