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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