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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

their souls he gives them cordials of comfort communicates unto them the sips and fo●e tasts of glory fills them with inward joyes and refreshings God by his spirit comes into the heart and taking possession of it for himself makes known his love there which produceth joy unexpressible this benefit is also a part of Glorification it is something of Heaven meeting us in our way it is a bunch of those G●apes which grow in the celestial Canaan brought us to tast of in the Wilderness but the application of it is by the spirit of Adoption and that is that which the Scripture calls the earnest of the inheritance 4. They are made to partake in Christian liberty Joh. 8. 36. If the Son therefore shall make you free you are free indeed which liberty is not as vain men would have it a freedome to live as they list a liberty discharging them from holy Obedience to the commanding power of the Law of God and withal bidding them to trust in Christ for life and salvation as Libertines plead but it is an holy spiritual Liberty a Liberty from Bondage or Servitude Gal. 4. 7. viz. 1. From the servitude of the Law not from the regulating power of it for it still remains to be the directory of the People of God in their whole course and hath the strongest tye to obedience that can be from the Gospel Joh. 14. 15. If ye love me keep my Commandment nay whatsoever flesh may plead to the contrary it is certain that so to be losed from the Law were not a priviledge but a misery but it is a freedome from slavish subjection to the Law i. e. 1. From the servitude of the Law or condemning power of it from the thundring curses of it Gal. 3. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law The Law hath doomed all its offenders to eternal death and by the sentence of it they are held under guilt but Gods Adopted are set at liberty from this doom it speaks nothing that needs to appall them there is no spirit of bondage in it to them they are not under the law as a Judge but only as a Guid a Light and a Lamp 2. From any dependance upon the Law for happiness in a way of works or doings Rom. 3. 28. We conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law This is a miserable bondage to fallen man thus to depend upon the Law Because it presents those that are under it every day with that which may assure them th●● after all their labour and pains taken in legal obedience they shall certainly lose all and finally fall short of Blessedness for by the deeds of the Law shall no flesh be justified for by the Law is the knowledge of sin Rom. 3. 20. 3. From servile Obedience to the Law their service is now a service of love for faith worketh by love before this he had the workings and stirrings of his Conscience which by amazing terrors and dismal frights drave him to the performance of known duty and restrained him from the commission of many erronious sins but all this was against his will and glad he would have been might he but have enjoyed some relaxation but now the case is altered and he takes delight in the Law of God and it is a great pleasure to him to be found exercising of himself therein Psal 1. 2. 2. From sin Rom. 6. 7. For he that is dead is freed from sin Hence that 1 John 3. 9. Whatsoever is born of God doth not commit sin not but that there are the remainders of active and stirring corruption to be found in the best of Gods Children as long as they bear about with them a body of Death and hence Paul's so earnest complaints Rom. 7. But 1. Though sin be in him yet it reigns not Rom. 6. 12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body it hath not the full compliance of the heart with it but whenever it gains upon him it is by leading of him captive Rom. 7. 23. he is enthralled by it and that appears because he is grieved at it as one that is taken a Prisoner by his Enemy and hence he sighs and groans for a delivery ver 24. 2. Though sin be yet God imputes it not 2 Cor. 5. 29. Not imputing their trespasses unto them the sin of Gods Children being set upon the account of Jesus Christ it is no longer charged upon them for God having taken full satisfaction for it at his hands and he having answered for it we are righteous in his account 3. Though sin be yet it shall never condemn them Rom. 8. 1. There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus he complains of the presence and oppression of it Cap. 7. but is here comforted against the condemning efficacy of it he is freed from the dominion of that slavish Spirit or spirit of bondage and needs not to go up and down in fear of suffering the eternal weight of Gods wrath 3. From the World 1 Joh. 5. 4. Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the World they are delivered and kept from being drawn away with those snares baits and temptations and terified with those threatnings which the World sets before them hence they have such liberty of spirit granted them that they can both trample in disdain upon the large proffers of the World to seduce them by from their profession and undauntedly hold up their hands against all the menaces that are made against them 4. A liberty to serve God For 1. That opposition which was in their hearts against God is taken down and they are brought under voluntary obedience to his Holy Will their wills that were disordered are set in their right place again 1 Pet. 4. 1 2. 2. They love God and all his wayes yea they dearly love him Psal 18. 1. their whole soul is now devoted to him and his service 3. They perform filial obedience to God 1 Pet. 1. 14. As obedient Children they have not only the state and condition of Sons conferred upon them but also the hearts of Children put into them Hence Adoption comes in upon Conversion 5. All the creatures of God as it were put under them being used by him for their service and that in three respects 1. They have the service of the good things of God 1 Cor. 3. 20. All is yours they are made beneficial to them they are their own all that a Believer enjoys in this life he may truly call his own as he is a child of God the right using of the Creatures is again enlarged and restored unto them wicked men indeed have an outward civil right a providential right but still they are liable to answer for all they have and by their misusing of these things and dishonouring of God by them they encrease their condemnation and lay up for themselves treasures of wrath Rom. 2. 4 5. but they have a