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A66097	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.	Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.	1684 (1684)	Wing W2271; ESTC R33658	112,015	240

little Children in their minority are to have their whole dependance upon their Parents and so sho●●● Believers upon their God When you are in any stra●● go to him thus did Hezekiah Isa 38. 14. I am oppressed Lord undertake for me Hence 1. When you want any good thing go to God for it and no whither else ask it of him and not of a stranger is it a great disparagement to Parents and they take it so for their Children to go to other houses to beg or steal to supply their wants it is enough for Orphans that have none to care for them to do so Have you a Fath●● in Heaven go then and tell him what it is that you need he will consider of it and if you do indeed need it you shall have it and if you have it not you may certainly conclude it is because his wisdom sees that it is better for you to be without it you would take harm by it if he should gratifie you in it it is for your good to want it and therefore be content and do not seek to supply your selves out of his way for as that would dishonour him so you may be sure it shall not prosper 2. When you suffer and are wronged by any content your selves now to go and tell him of it and do not seek by any indirect course or undue means to right your selves It is the duty of Gods Children to leave all their wrongs and injuries to his righting of them Psal 10. 14. The poor committeth himself unto thee God looks upon the recompence of wrongs to be a pre●ogative of his soveraignty and his Children ●ave no reason to fear but that he will plead their cause and do them right 4. Be alwayes strengthening and encouraging of your Faith in God by the frequent consideration of your Adoption Be much therefore in this contemplation it affords plentiful and soul-satisfying encouragement to a Child of God in every condition that he can be reduced unto Hence improve it 1. When you are wooed and solicited by Satan to look upon the tempting glories of the things of this world when honour and pleasures bid hard for your affections solicite you eagerly to let out your hearts upon them and it may be their seeming splendor and delicacy may begin to dazzle your eyes and allure your minds now consider solemnly with your selves who you are reflect upon your extract and draw such conclusions as naturally result from it Say now these things may indeed seem fine and fair ba●ts to poor beggars and fatherless ones that ly upon the worlds dung-hill let them then take and share them among themselves let them scramble and see who can get most of them they may do it they are not Themistocles they have no better an hope these are things accommodated to their earthly minds Check your rambling affections with these considerations It is below my birth and breeding to take up satisfied with and place my hearts delight upon such sorry despicable things this is fit for none but such miserable sneaks as have nothing else to trust unto I have otherghuess delights riches and honours to feed upon and satiate my Soul withal I have substances I will not therefore rest in shadows nor envy such as do 2. When you are ready to be opprest and overcome with slavish fears of want and distresses here in this world and your minds begin to be distracted about it cares are multiplying upon you now rouse up yourselves and think who are you that you should afflict and torment your selves about such matters Consider 1. Have you not a Father in heaven and will he not take care of you or can he not supply you What is it should give you reason to doubt of it Doth he not take care for things of less value Be often propounding that question to your selves Job 38. ult Who provideth for the Raven his food Doth not God cloath the Lillies Do not all eyes wait for him and he gives them their meat in due season Are not the meanest creatures in his family well provided for And can a Child be neglected Are not the Lillies gorgiously decked by him and do not we see the Fowles of the air get a living God doth all this for them it is his love and care and doth he not love you better Such thoughts as these should quicken our Faith from day to day 2. Have you not enough to live on If not I wish then that you had Have you not Estates enough to maintein you Is there not enough in heaven and earth to supply the wants of one poor creature what if this earth should fail and all these lower springs should be dryed up and indeed they may so do for these are waters that sometimes fail yet still there is enough to be had in heaven Is not an Almighty God sufficient to be your portion Well then draw up this conclusion with yourselves if this World will afford me nothing if I can get no relief here below yet I will go to heaven for it and as long as my God and Father is there I will not dispair 3. When you find in your selves an impotency to the performance of your duty in serving of God Your knees are feeble and your hands hang down and you feel your selves ready to faint in the work of God which you are called 〈◊〉 now gather strength again by musing upon this I can do nothing of my self yet I will go to him and he shall do all for me I will wait upon him and he shall worke all my works in me I cannot Pray as I ought but he shall help all my infirmities he shal make requests in me form Petitions for me and fill the Sails of my Soul with his heavenly Gales and my desires though in themselves they are low and dull shal by his mighty assistance be wasted along to Heaven with the stiff Gales of sighs and groans that cannot be uttered I fall sho●t in duty and there is sin and imperfection in every service which I set my self about but his work in me shal give my poor but sincere performances acceptance with God Yea I am a Child and therefore my weak but true endeavours shal never be despised by a Father whose love can over all my frailties 4. When your Sins appear before you with a terrible aspect and Satan would make you affraid to come before God by reason of them When he represents him to your thoughts as a consuming fire as appearing in his wrath and displeasure and would perswade you to believe there is no favour for you that such sins and so circumstanced as yours are will find no remission Now reflect but am I not still a Child and if so then I am sure that though he correct me and I deserve it nor will I refuse to submit my self patiently unto it yet he cannot take away his loving kindness from me I will therefore appear before him

of things and when they have shown us all they can we must now conclude with him Job 26. 14. How little a portion is heard of him but when that day comes we shall then see God in the face of Christ the Glass will be no more needed because Christ himself will then be our light Christ is not only a Mediator of Reconciliation and Intercession but also of Illumination and as he doth it now bȳ his Spirit in the means so then he will do it immediately we read of the new Jerusalem Rev. 21. 22 23. I saw no Temple therein and the City had no need of the Sun c. for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof And Chap 22. 5. They need no Candle nor the light of the Sun for the Lord giveth them Light These things are Allegorical and refer not to the Church Militant but Triumphant and express the nearness we shall there be in unto Christ and those irradiations which we shall receive from him with one Temple Ordinances Ministry 2. 〈◊〉 Degree or Measure the Apostle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in part then I shall know even as I am known i. e. he shall have a better acquaintance with and a more distinct and perfect view of the Object the things which we now rather believe than understand we shall then have a satisfactory discovery of them all Objections shall be answered and Doubts cleared our Knowledge now is most what negative it shall then be more positive we rather see him now as he is not but then as he is there is not only at the present a veil upon the Glass we see in but there are also thick scales upon our eyes these shall be taken off as well as the veil removed the very eyes of our Faith are here sore and tender but then our sight shall be strong and piering Then 1. God shall appear discernably in his glorious Attributes and Perfections and what we have here believed of him we shall then find to be true concerning him God will so reveal himself to the Soul as is to us at present unconceivable it shall then read his perfection of Wisdom and excellency of Holiness see him clothed with Power and Majesty know his greatness and goodness and fee how all these perfections are not divers but one in God God will communicate himself fully to the understanding to the utmost of its capacity of receiving he shall discern the orient brightness and splendour of the great Jehovah ●●●ar as a created intellectual eye can receive●●hout being destroyed as much as shall 〈◊〉 it happy he shall th●n upon knowledge be fully satisfied that God is all and more than all that ever he heard of him 2. They shall see into the mystery of the Trinity Faith now receives it and that which is in Faith now shall then be in sight 2 Cor. 5. 7. One God in three persons without division and three persons in one God without confusion is a flight too high for our reason now this light is truely dazling and our eyes cannot keep open to it but then we shall be able to gaze upon so great a light and contemplate it with satisfaction we shall no more need borrowed expressions or dark similitudes our Communion is now and shall be much more there with all three 2 Cor. 13. 14. 1 Joh. 1. 4. we now give credit to it because God in Scripture testifies it we shall then so know it as to be able to say certainly it is so without any longer doubting how it is 3. They shall be throughly acquainted with the Incarnation and Hypostatical Union of the two natures in the Son of God Joh. 14. 20. At that day you shall know that I am in the Father and you in me and I in you This for the present is a great mystery 1 Tim. 3. 16. and his Name is on this account called Wonderful Isai 9. 6. the clearest 〈…〉 standing on Earth grows giddy at the ●● 〈…〉 ration of it to think how two natures so 〈◊〉 should dwell in one person how the eternal God should Tabernacle in an house of clay the Word be made Flesh an humane nature should be fitted to dwell in the same person with the Son of God that God himself should be seen eating and drinking with Men but then we shall be able to resolve our selves how there can be two natures and not two persons how the Son of Mary was grassed into the eternal Stock of the Son of God how the second person alone could assume notwithstanding there is but one God undivided in Essence these are things familiar to a glorified Soul and he hath no difficulty or doubt about them 4. They shall know the power and vertue of the Redemption wrought out by Christ they shall know the worth and value of a Saviour Paul desired to know it here Phil. 3. 10. That I may know him c. now he hath this desire satisfied the reason why now we love him no more is because we know no more of his worth Isai 53. 2 3. then we shall know his unparallel'd value a Believer yet doth know a great deal of it now and hence he is precious to him 1 Pet. 2. 7. To you that believe he is precious pardon of sin peace of Conscience joy in the Holy Ghost and Grace to serve him are fruits of it but alas these are but glimpses a glorified soul looks upon the excellency of Heave● 〈◊〉 and the Crown of Glory and all the 〈◊〉 joyes of which it is possessed yea upon 〈◊〉 and its torments from whence he finds himself delivered and in these he sees the value and vertue of his precious blood we shall have other manner of thoughts of a Redeemer there then those that entertain us now when we find that through him justice is satisfied our persons are justified and adopted our natures sanctified and we our selves are glorified being freed from Hells torments and possessed of eternal Glory when we find our selves shining like the brightest Cherub in the Kingdome of God when thousands and millions are in endless burnings then shall we know him as he is 5. They shall know the meaning and latitude of the promises as of all other Scriptures here they complain how little they know of Gods mind in his word there are such knots as their best skill cannot untie it is but a childish knowledge we have of these Divine Riddles hence all our discourses upon Theological truths are broken imperfect Discourses but then the perfect shall come 1 Cor. 13. 9 10. Alas for the sad complaints which some humbled Souls make of themselves for their dulness and ignorance they know so little of what concerns them so much God and their own Souls Salvation but then the Believer that knew least here shall know i● 〈…〉 ably more than Paul did when upon 〈◊〉 particularly the precious promises 〈◊〉 here misunderstood misinterpreted and hence they were not so

discern it to be of God we shall then discern his holy displeasure enkindled by sin which will tend to humble us and drive us to Repentance Whenever therefore we see the Ax cutting and feel the Rod s●●arting let us say this could not be without an hand to wield them When the wicked persecut● the Righteous say this is the Lord who is holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his wayes and just in all his works 3. Learn hence that the only reason of the Churches safety is because their cause is twisted in with Gods And hence that their only security is in being and standing for God and his interest Could we look upon the people of God separate and by themselves it would readily appear what odds the wicked would have of them there are the politick states men the ripe wits and profound heads men of greatest skill and political observations theirs are the mighty men men of renown skilful in War and valiant for the battle Theirs are the walled Towns with Gates of Brass the high Towers and fortified Castles and invincible Armadoes they have the men and the mony and ammunition and what can carnal reason Judge from all this but that theirs must be the day too And if their wit and power had no other Antagonist to encounter withal but those of the Saints it would certainly be so but here lyes their security whatsoever is undertaken against the Saints of God is undertaken against God himself they that strike at the People of God strike at God in them and so they that touch them touch the Apple of his eye Zech. 2. 8. Christ interprets both kindnesses and injuries done to his as done to himself Gods own Name Honour and Glory are herein sought to be undermined and that rouseth him up kindleth his jealousie and those who but now were such odds to the People of God find God to be much more their odds And are made but as flax and stubble to a devouring fire It is well for the poor Church that God takes himself to be concerned in their cause and for the vindication of his own name and injuries done to himself puts in and takes up the Gantler against his proud enemies and tryes for mastreies with them else had that little Barge the Church of Christ long ago sunk and been swallowed up in the billows of the worlds Sea Psal 124. begin USE II. This truth may by way of Exhortation present some wholsome practical lessons for the People of God to make use of in these times There never was more plotting and counsel 〈◊〉 against God than is at this day in the World●● And hence Never more need of Faith for the upholding of the spirits of the People of God against the thence arising Temptations and no better help than the Doctrine that is before us And the things we are hence to learn are 1. Not to be much moved when we see or hear what is contriving practicing against God in the World It is said Isa 7. 2. It was told the house of David saying Syria is confederate with Ephraim and his heart was moved and the heart of his People as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind Let it not be so with them that fear God It is now a time to pray hard and believe much but it is no time to perplex and distract our selves We may interpret those words as spoken to the Church in way of encouragement Psal 64. 10. Be still and know that I am God What are you afraid of It is against God all that is undertaken and whoever resisted him and prospered do you think that Men or Devils shall ever drive God out of the field and make a triumph upon the Lord of Hosts Be quiet let God alone he will do his own work and that to purpose Tarry a little and you shall see these Bravo's weltering in their own gore and the arrows of the Almighty drunk with their blood It shall not be long ere the field be cleared and not an enemy standing Yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more Psal 37. 10. 2. Not to be put by our profession and faithful service of God by all the menaces of the World against us Let Godly men hold on their way though the wicked be laying snares in it It is a sin and a disgrace for a Child of God to stand still or start aside though utmost perils seem to threaten him Luther being called to Worms for the defence of the truth was diswadded by some friends who advised him that there was a plot laid against his life but with an Heroical resolution he professed that though all the Tiles of their houses were Devils yet go he would Rightly regulated and well tempered zeal is very necessary in times when Religion is stricken at on all sides 'T is the Character and honour of a good Christian to hold fast his own and press forward against opposition yea by an holy Antiperistasis to gather strength and courage from that which is intended to make him faint Job 17. 9. The Righteous also shall hold on his way and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger 3. Not to be discouraged though for a while the wickeds counsels seem to take place It is the Psalmists advice Psal 37. 7. Fret not thy self because of him who prospereth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass When you hear how Gods cause is the present suffering cause and seems to go down the wind so many Churches of Protestants dissipated in Hungary so many thousands abjuring their Religion in France So much bloodshed in one place so much power of the adversary in another be not now dis-spirited The Seas roar and the waves thereof make a tumultuous noise mountains come rolling down into the midst of the Seas still there is a River to make glad the City of God God sits upon the water-floods God sits King for ever 〈◊〉 Glory is concerned in all this and he will not give it away God is not asleep though you are ready to think him so He hath holy ends why he suffers all this and will make a discovery of them seasonably The pit is all this while digging for them the sword is whetting the arrows are preparing for the Persecutours the Scene shall be turned and a tragical end waits upon them For though hand joyn in hand yet shall not the wicked go unpunished 4. Wait with patience and holy confidence under the outmost extremities till God's time comes to blast all the counsels of his adversaries and utterly dissolve hells conclave Though God be not come as yet visibly yet believe that h● will come seasonably and there are these two things that may fortifie your confidence in this belief viz. 1. That all their Counsels as yet have not prevailed and the reason only is taken from God's Power and Providence It is said that Rome and Hell have carried on a plot ever since the Reformation in England to blow up the Protestant interest there and this is a ground of comfort that although God hath not as yet for holy ends wholly scattered it yet he hath wonderfully disappointed it That Vessel the Church hath had many a blustring storm raised against it but it is not as yet foundred at all but weathers it out against Tempests and this is certain that he who hath delivered can deliver and will deliver 2. That God's counsel stands Diametrically opposite to the counsel of wicked men i. e. as to the order and design they are carrying one They consult his dishonour and his Churches disturbance He is mean while consulting his own Glory and his Peoples safety Let God then alone to dash theirs and establish his own hear what he saith for this Isa 14. 24 25 26 27. The Lord of hosts hath sworn saying Surely as I have thought so it shall come to pass and as I have purposed so shall it stand c This is the purpose that is purposed uopn the whole Earth c The Lord of hosts hath purposed and who shall disanul it● Men say it shall be thus but God saith it shall be so whose word shall stand theirs or his When you read bloody decrees the product of humane consultations then read the book of God oppose to them the gracious decrees of Heaven It was Luther's consolation to the Elector of Saxony in a time of great danger Let your Highness know saith he and nothing doubt but that this business is otherwise concluded of in Heaven than it is at Norinberge Where the Emperour and States were met in Counsel God knows what his own thoughts are towards his People even thoughts of peace whatever the thoughts of men may be Jer 29. 10. Wait then the wickeds day is a coming in due time their foot shall slide The Web which they have been for a long while in weaving God will unravel in a moment He will shortly muster up his Forces and draw out his Armies into the Field and call together the Fowls of Heaven to his great Supper which he shall provide for them where he will give them to eat of the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Captains and the flesh of mighty Men c. Rev. 19. 17. 18. This is the work which he hath undertaken to do and will certainly accomplish it throughly who hath written on his Vesture and on his Thigh KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS And since the case stands thus what is there then remaining more for us to do but to be the Lord's Remembrancers Not ceasing day nor night to be earnestly and importunately putting him in mind of his Covenant his Name and Glory and in Faith pray to him in the behalf of his poor despised and abused Church which is as a Lilly among the Thornes that he would remember and not forget or grow unmindful of the Congregation which he hath purchased of old and arise to save those that are as sheep prepared to the slaughter and appointed to dy And when we have thus done and in a way of so doing there is nothing more but to sit still and wait to see the Salvation of the Lord. FINIS