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But now a man may be easily deprived of his earthly portion; how many have been deprived of their earthly portions by storms at Sea, and others by force and violence, and others by fraud and deceit, and others by hideous lying ⟨p. 61⟩and hellish swearing? many have lost their earthly portions by treachery, knavery, perjury, subtlety, robbery, &c. Some play away their earthly portions, and others with Esau fool away their earthly portions, and not a few, ¹with the prodigal, sin away their earthly portions. ²Ahab's fingers itched to be a fingering of Naboths Vineyard; a man can no sooner come to enjoy an earthly portion, but other mens fingers itch to be a fingering of his portion, as daily experience doth sufficiently evidence. But God is a portion that the fire cannot burn, nor the floods cannot drown, nor the thief cannot steal, nor the enemy cannot sequester, nor the soldier cannot plunder a Christian of; a man may take away my gold from me, but he cannot take away my God from me. ³The Chaldeans and the Sabeans could take away Jobs estate from him, but they could not take away Jobs God from him. And the Amalekites burnt Ziklag, and ⟨p. 62⟩robbed David of his substance, ⁴and of his wives, but they could not rob him of his God: And those persecutors in the 10. and 11. Chapters of the Hebrews plundered the Saints of their goods, but they could not plunder them of their God: Till weakness can make a breach upon strength, impotency upon omnipotency, the pitcher upon the potter, and the crawling worm upon the Lord of Hosts, a Saints portion is safe and secure. 'Tis true, sicknesses and diseases may take away my health and my strength from me, and death may take away my friends and my relations from me, and enemies may take away my estate, my liberty, my life from me, but none of all these can take away my God from me. I have read of the men of Tyre, how that they chained and nailed their God Apollo to a post, that so they might be sure of him, supposing that all their safety lay in the enjoyment of him. Certainly God is so