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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. That he may gain the more glorious triumph over the enemies of his Name and Glory. Hereby God honoured himself upon Pharaoh, by letting him proceed to the height of his rage, before he crusheth him. God will have a wicked world to know how easy a thing it is with him to curb them in, and give check to their rage and fury; and to the discovering of this, he will permit them to arrive at the height and utmost pitch of their hoped advantage, and suffer his own cause hereupon to be most deeply hazarded, that so he may give them the more notable defeat, and make them to know that he is above them in all those things wherein they have dealt most proudly. Hence Jethro's confession, Exod. 18. 11. Now I know the Lord is greater than all Gods, &c.
3. That he may gain the more glorious triumph over the enemies of his Name and Glory. Hereby God honoured himself upon Pharaoh, by letting him proceed to the height of his rage, before he crusheth him. God will have a wicked world to know how easie a thing it is with him to curb them in, and give check to their rage and fury; and to the discovering of this, he will permit them to arrive at the height and utmost pitch of their hoped advantage, and suffer his own cause hereupon to be most deeply hazarded, that so he may give them the more notable defeat, and make them to know that he is above them in all those things wherein they have dealt most proudly. Hence Jethro's confession, Exod. 18. 11. Now I know the Lord is greater than all Gods, &c.
Pro. 7. By all their plots and practi••• against Gods cause wicked men cannot carry their design one hairs breadth beyond the bounds which God hath set them in his Decree. Might we be admitted to look upon those ancient Records, and then compare the doings of the enemies against God, we should find them exactly to agree: Men are in the Scripture compared to many and great waters, and their tumults compared to the roaring waves of the Sea dashing against the Rocks: These waters many times swell into billows, and break with impetuous fury, as if they scorned to be comprehended and