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The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…
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.
printed by Samuel Green, 1684
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
3. Contrive how they may subvert, and root the true Religion out of the World, by destroying the sincere fearers of God, and suppressing the true profession of his Name: As Sanballat & Tobijah did against the Jews, when they were weak and feeble.
2. We have the disappointing, defeating, and total routing of this treacherous plot, intimated in that expression, there is none: Which negative particle is three times inculcated in the Original ⟨p. 103⟩Text; insinuating that it is a truth, not dark and dubious, but notorious.
2. We have the disappointing, defeating, and total routing of this treacherous plot, intimated in that expression, there is none: Which negative particle is three times inculcated in the Original ⟨p. 103⟩Text; insinuatiug that it is a truth, not dark and dubious, but notorious.
We are not to interpret the wise man as if he intended to assert that there were no such designs at all, as though he denied the being of such a thing, that cannot be his meaning, the Scripture often asserts the quite contrary, and the Records of the Church tell us, and experience hath proved it too true, that in all ages, there have been such conclaves as these, bandying against the Lord and his anointed. His true intention therefore is, that all such undertakings are wholly successless; that they study and plot […] purpose; that they are so fru[…] •pointed that they become as if they […]. God enjoys himself in as much […] tranquillity, and is as far from being […] by them, as if there had been none at all hey do not so much as disturb him.