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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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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.
4. The intercession of Christ: He is in Heaven […] interceding with his Father for this very thing: when Christ was ready to depart the World, as to his bodily presence, he gave us a specimen of this intercession of his in that mediar••ial Prayer of his, Joh. 17. In which he positively declares that this is one thing which he importunately and without taking of any de••al pleads, vers. •4. Father, I will that they […] then hast given me, be with me where […].
4. The intercession of Christ: He is in Heaven 〈…〉 inte•ceding with his Father for this very thing: when Christ was ready to depart the World, as to his bodily presence, he gave us a specimen of this intercession of his in that mediar••ial Prayer of his, Joh. 17. In which he positively declares that this is one thing which he importunately and without taking of any de••al pleads, vers. •4. Father, I will that they 〈…〉 then hast given me, be with me where 〈…〉.
5. From the condition of the Covenant of Grace: For though there be nothing of merit in it, yet their is certainty, and a promise which cannot be made void: Now this is engaged to those that serve him, Joh. 12.26. Where I am, there shall my servants be. That follow him,