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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
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4. Wait with patience and holy confidence under the outmost extremities, till God's time comes to blast all the counsels of his adversaries, and utterly dissolve hells conclave. Though God be not come as yet visibly, yet believe that h• ⟨p. 225⟩will come seasonably, and there are these two things that may fortify your confidence in this belief, viz.
4. Wait with patience and holy confidence under the outmost extremities, till God's time comes to blast all the counsels of his adversaries, and utterly dissolve hells conclave. Though God be not come as yet visibly, yet believe that h• ⟨p. 225⟩will come seasonably, and there are these two things that may fortifie your confidence in this belief, viz.
1. That all their Counsels as yet have not prevailed, and the reason only is taken from God's Power and Providence. It is said that Rome and Hell have carried on a plot, ever since the Reformation in England, to blow up the Protestant interest there; and this is a ground of comfort, that although God hath not as yet (for holy ends) wholly scattered it, yet he hath wonderfully disappointed it. That Vessel, the Church, hath had many a blustering storm raised against it, but it is not as yet foundered at all, but weathers it out against Tempests,; and this is certain, that he who hath delivered, can deliver, and will deliver.
1. That all their Counsels as yet have not prevailed, and the reason only is taken from God's Power and Providence. It is said that Rome and Hell have carried on a plot, ever since the Reformation in England, to blow up the Protestant interest there; and this is a ground of comfort, that although God hath not as yet (for holy ends) wholly scattered it, yet he hath wonderfully disappointed it. That Vessel, the Church, hath had many a blustring storm raised against it, but it is not as yet foundred at all, but weathers it out against Tempests,; and this is certain, that he who hath delivered, can deliver, and will deliver.