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The child's portion
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. ; [Five lines from Psalms]
printed by Samuel Green, 1684
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3. The Object against whom this conspiracy is made, against the Lord. The word translated against, sometimes signifies before, or in the presence, and so one Translator renders it, q. d. Man's counsel is vain, or to no purpose, whiles God looks on, or because God seeth it. But the word is also frequently used adversatively, to signify against, and so the generality of Translators and interpreters do here carry it. And it is the Lord [Jehovah] against whom men are thus supposed to take counsel: and here we are not only to look upon such as included within the plot, and here intended, who by open and professed hostility do take up Arms directly ⟨p. 202⟩against God, saying with proud Pharaoh, in daring defiance, who is the Lord that I should let Israel go? but it also extends unto all those who do collaterally oppose themselves against him, and such are all they who do.
3. The Object against whom this conspiracy is made, against the Lord. The word translated against, sometimes signifies before, or in the presence, and so one Translatour renders it, q. d. Man's counsel is vain, or to no purpose, whiles God looks on, or because God seeth it. But the word is also frequently used adversatively, to signifie against, and so the generality of Translators and interpreters do here carry it. And it is the Lord [Jehovah] against whom men are thus supposed to take counsel: and here we are not only to look upon such as included within the plot, and here intended, who by open and professed hostility do take up Arms directly ⟨p. 202⟩against God, saying with proud Pharaoh, in daring defiance, who is the Lord that I should let Israel go? but it also extends unto all those who do collaterally oppose themselves against him, and such are all they who do.
1. Seek to overthrow his purposes, & decrees, and by their own counsels to disannul his, hoping to establish them, notwithstanding he hath otherwise determined. Thus did Joseph's brethren seek all courses to frustrate the counsel of God which he had signified, about the advancement of their brother.